Outlet track record
PolitiFact
U.S. center-left
PolitiFact is owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies and operates as a nonprofit fact-checking outlet. Independent media-bias monitors consistently rate it left-of-center, and its own data show it issues negative ratings to Republican figures at a substantially higher rate than to Democrats. During the Trump second term, its fact-checking output has been heavily focused on administration claims, with most checks resulting in negative ratings.
Owned byPoynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school based in St. Petersburg, Florida (which also owns the Tampa Bay Times)
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3.5average bias score across 4 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun