Jiminy Cricket! Pinocchios pile up for Post
Tue, Dec 11th 2018 @ 3:57 pm EST by Andrew Good
Today's front page of The Washington Post includes the unveiling of a new fact check designation: The Bottomless Pinocchio. Glenn Kessler reports:
That dubious distinction will be awarded to politicians who repeat a false claim so many times that they are, in effect, engaging in campaigns of disinformation... The claims must have received three or four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker, and they must have been repeated at least 20 times.
Among President Trump's claims that Kessler adjudged to have earned this new label was this curious summary of immigration laws:
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/jiminy-cricket-pinocchios-pile-post-0
