“Fact checkers” at the anti-Trump website The Dispatch tried to scold critics enraged over the millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on “Politico Pro” subscriptions, and ended up looking completely ridiculous in the process.
Facebook originally hired The Dispatch as part of its old fact-checker squad, perhaps to lend an appearance of balance, as they have claimed. This wasn’t balanced.
Following the uproar over the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other government agencies doling out $8.2 million on Politico’s wildly overpriced Pro subscriptions between 2024 and 2025 alone, The Dispatch fact-checker Alex Demas followed with a knee-jerk response on February 5: “Claims That Politico Received USAID Funds Are False.”
What?
Not only was this so-called “fact-check” headline ironically not true, given that USAID demonstrably spent…
