Washington Post fact-checker Glen Kessler in a tweet Monday said the newspaper would no longer keep a fact-checking database past President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office.
“Here’s the Biden database — which we do not plan to extend beyond 100 days. I have learned my lesson,” Kessler tweeted.
The paper had kept a database throughout the entirety of former President Donald Trump’s time in office. Kessler also wrote a column announcing the newspaper would no longer hold to its fact-checking rigor because things had returned to “normal.”
“After four years of a presidency that swamped Americans with a gusher of false and misleading claims, the Joe Biden era has offered a return to a more typical pattern when it comes to a commander in chief and his relationship with the facts — one that features frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard,” wrote The Post.
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