Fact Checking Archives - Granite Grok

MACDONALD: NewsGuard is Back – Here’s How it Went (Part 1)

February 6, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Every January, the nice folks at NewsGuard ask whether I will be responding to any of their questions about content published on GraniteGrok.com that they have issues with. They cite a post, comment on it, present rebutting information, and ask why we didn’t include any of that in the original. My pat response for years has been … Read more

Democrat Jeanne Dietsch’s “Crock”

October 5, 2022February 4, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Christmas came early for the ‘Grok in 2020. Uppity NH Leftist (and former State Senator) Jeanne Dietsch announced she was going to debunk GraniteGrok. “Tired of the B.S. from Granite Grok. Write a post in Granite Crock. Win a prize for the best debunk.” Soooo…how is that working out?

Facebook is Not a Publisher Even After They Fact Check an 11 sec. Video Three Times

December 22, 2024October 9, 2020 Steve MacDonald

We are Yuge fans of Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers. Where third-party looks a lot like Lenin’s Glavlit. The Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs for the Soviet Socialist Republics. An office a few doors down and to the left from Zuckerbergermeisterberger.

Facebook’s Climate Denier Censorship Algore-ithm Blocks Green Groups for Misinformation

September 23, 2020 Steve MacDonald

In the interest of keeping its army of quarantined creepy human censors (COVID19, RIOTS, FIRES), Facebook has them write algorithms. Crawling digital book-banners that seek out content to flag as fake, false, or in need of ritual progressive purification. But they don’t always work as planned.

Bay of Pigs Brigade Trump Accepts nomination

Another So-Called CNN “Fact Checker” Gets Fact-Checked, and Comes up Short

September 22, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The corporate media is a joke, and today’s punchline comes courtesy of CNN’s Daniel Dale. This DC lurker’s Twitter blurb reads, “Reporter for CNN, fact-checking the president and other politicians.” It should read creating “facts” for CNN to report.