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PolitiFact’s Preferred Experts Help It Label Trump Jr. ‘False’ On LA Fires

On Tuesday, PolitiFact showed why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was right to end the company’s partnership with its fact-checking partners. Writer Caleb McCullough gave Donald Trump Jr. a “false” rating because he ran afoul of his preferred experts while ignoring experts who may have given him another perspective. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed during an attack on Speaker Mike Johnson that snow in the South is proof climate change is real.

The main point of McCullough’s article was that:

Climate scientists PolitiFact spoke to disagreed with Trump Jr. and said climate change contributed to the Los Angeles fires’ size and destructiveness. Numerous studies have linked human-caused climate change to the western U.S.’ worsening wildfires.

In a Jan. 13 analysis, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles attributed…

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