Toward the end of every year, fact-checking organization PolitiFact announces what has been selected as the “Lie of the Year” — and the outlet’s 2024 selection, at best, strains credulity.
“A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet dogs and cats,” a post on X read when the selection was announced.
A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet dogs and cats. https://t.co/tNXV83hk3T
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 17, 2024
But the outlet’s “Lie of the Year” is not even something they…
