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It shows how little fact-checking the media is doing before repeating BLATENTLY false or completely out-of-context information that is being shared to intentionally mislead people.

Katie Britt’s false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden

 

[long elucidation of speech, history, language, logic]

The Pinocchio Test  

In a high-profile speech like this, a politician should not mislead voters with
 emotionally charged language. Romero’s story is tragic and may be evocative 
of other Mexican girls trapped in the sex trade in that country. But she was
 not trafficked across the border — and her story has nothing to do with
 Biden. Britt’s failure to make that clear earns her Four Pinocchios.
 
Four Pinocchios

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