Charles R. Twardy

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Fact-checking win

Surprisingly, fact-checking prompted Iran’s Supreme Leader to retract his mistaken claim about Iran’s economy.

It’s probably the first time in the past three decades that Ayatolla Khamenei admitted to a mistake and corrected himself.

A glimmer of hope in a social media world that treats fact-checking as evidence for the false claim. (Though before the retraction, state media photoshopped an infographic to try to bolster the claim.)

So…

Anyone know if Biden has corrected any of his (relatively rare) 4-Pinnochio claims from his first 100 days? [List.]

Or the former US President on his 3,294 unique 4-Pinnochio claims, 94 from the first 100 days? [Full dataset here].