Just some basic reporting and sourcing is all most people ask for and deserve, but that's no longer required in Proglefticom world, their audience just laps it up without any questions.
I'm sure the legacy lefty alphabet media is hard at work getting to the bottom of this caper and will issue retractions ASAP for their ideologically-driven idiocy if it is proven to be BS.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
PJ Media? Why do you guys fall for this stuff?
Lort.
False claims[edit]
In August 2018, PJ Media published an article by then supervising editor Paula Bolyard,
[18] claiming that
Google was manipulating its algorithm to prioritize left-leaning news outlets in their coverage of President Trump.
[19] Bolyard acknowledged that her study was "not scientific", although she did conclude that "the results suggest a pattern of bias against right-leaning content." Fact checkers at PolitiFact rated this claim false.
[20]
In January 2019, PJ Media published a column by their senior editor Tyler O'Neil
[21] in which he insinuated in his article that a Muslim community patrol in New York City might be enforcing
Sharia Law and might be linked to the NYPD.
[22] This group, the Muslim Community Patrol Service (MCPS)
[23] was a certified volunteer
Neighborhood watch in Brooklyn, a NYC CERT
[24] along with other community patrols such as the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol
[25] and the
Guardian Angels. PJ Media offered nothing that demonstrated the MCPS could, or planned to, "enforce Sharia law", beyond engaging in the speculative hypothetical that the MCPS might somehow "apply [...] Sharia in its community monitoring." Fact-checkers at Snopes rated this claim false.
[26]
In February 2019, PJ Media published a column by one of their writers
John Hawkins,
[27] also creator of Rightwingnews, in which he stated in an article titled "The Six Most Bizarre Proposals from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal",
[28] making five out of six claims such as "getting rid of airplanes" or "getting rid of cows", aim to "get rid of gas-powered cars in a decade", call for eliminating carbon emissions in ten years "without the use of nuclear power", or "promise 'economic security' for those 'unwilling to work'". Fact checkers at NewsGuard rated these five claims false,
[29] which can be further verified by the official government resolution H.Res.109
Green New Deal proposed by Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
[30]
In January 2020, PJ Media published a column by one of their writers,
[31] Robert B. Spencer, also founder and director of the anti-Muslim conspiracy blog
Jihad Watch, in which he stated that congresswoman
Ilhan Omar had given Iran military advice by suggesting it could target Trump hotels, and thus committed treason.
[32] Fact-checkers at Snopes rated this claim false.
[33]
In February 2020, PJ Media published a column by Victoria Taft, one of their writers
[34] and a conservative talk show host,
[35] in which she stated that President
Barack Obama waited until millions were infected and 1000 dead in the U.S. before he declared the
Pandemic H1N1/09 virus an emergency.
[36] Fact-checkers at Snopes rated this claim false.
[37]
According to NewsGuard,
[38] articles on PJMedia.com have frequently included distorted or misleading claims,
[39] including about the COVID-19 pandemic. A now deleted July 2020 article written by Matt Margolis headlined "COVID-19 May Soon Lose Status as an 'Epidemic' Under CDC Guidelines",
[40] promoted a misleading claim originally published by JustTheNews.com. Many other websites reported this story by PJ Media.
[41][42] After the fact, PJ Media never issued a correction to their original story, but only an update with changes and a new headline "COVID-19 Will Not Soon Lose Status as an 'Epidemic' Under the CDC".
[43]
In August, 2020, PJ Media published an article by their Chicago editor Rick Moran,
[44] claiming Democrats were urging presidential candidate Joe Biden not to debate with President Trump because they were concerned with the former vice president's mental stamina.
[45] The source for this claim cited on the PJ Media article was from
Newsweek, but the article states that the former vice president was advised not to debate Trump, citing "publicity stunts and disregard for the rules in 2016" as well as cancelling debates over concerns of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
[46] Furthermore, the
Newsweek article cited by PJ Media makes no mention about any mental stamina. According to
CNN, Biden spokesman TJ Ducklo stated that presidential candidate Biden has already agreed to three debates with President Trump in Fall 2020.
[47]
In September 2020, PJ Media published an article by senior editor Tyler O'Neil,
[48] claiming that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was promising fewer fires, floods, and hurricanes if he should defeat Donald Trump in November.
[49] Though Biden did promise he would solve the climate crisis if elected in November, he did not literally promise fewer catastrophic events. Fact checkers at Snopes rated this claim as false.
[50]
In September 2021, PJ Media published an article by Matt Margolis titled "Ignore the MSM: Here’s What the 2020 Maricopa County Election Audit Actually Says"
[51] saying to ignore any reliable sources with the mainstream media and further claiming that President Joe Biden never won the unofficial GOP Arizona recount by Cyber Ninjas and that nobody would ever know. However, multiple bi-partisan WP reliable sources are all reporting that President Biden did indeed win the unofficial recount by Cyber Ninjas.
[52][53][54][55][56] Multiple reliable sources have shown that the PJ Media article is a false claim.
