The Ugly Reality of "Politifact"

Things you could have guessed, but didn't.

Founded in 1998 by the first Chinese-born U.S. Ambassador, the U.S.-China Education Trust (USCET) hosts various journalism programs aimed at advising Chinese Communist Party-run media outlets and journalism schools.

As the group boasts, it co-hosts programs with the Party School of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party – “the supreme ideological training ground for party cadres and a prerequisite for any official interested in joining the elite political ranks of China’s ruling class” according to Foreign Policy magazine....

... The group hosts a China-based ‘Journalist in Residence’ program, allowing American journalists from establishment outlets such as The New York Times to live in China and work alongside state-run, Chinese Communist media outlets.

Among the outlets American journalists work alongside are China Global Television Network and China Central Television – both described as “long-standing weapons in Beijing’s arsenal of repression” designed “to attack designated enemies of the Communist Party.”...

That's the background.

...In 2012, the group’s Journalist in Residence was the founder and contributing editor of Politifact Bill Adair....

NOT a surprise.  Now you know why we call it "PolitiFART"--except it smells worse than mere bean-gas.