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Vance, Rubio peddle fiction that 88 percent of foreign aid doesn’t go overseas
As is often the case, the Trump administration is reinventing the wheel while misinterpreting the data.
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State of Play
Fact-checking has become a familiar tool for political reporters to hold office-holders and candidates accountable. But critics ask if fact-checkers sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and if the practice often struggles with false equivalency the way conventional political coverage does.