Ex-Washington Post fact checker owns up to poorly-aged report but remains defiant against his critics
2025-08-25 10:00:31
Political figures are once subjected to disturbance while verifying facts. Whether it is receiving Pinockee from the Washington Post or acquiring a “public lie” by Politifact, the factory industry was carrying a lot of weight with large areas of Americans in all political lines.
But the times have changed, at least to the Washington Post’s fact investigator, who suggested that he and his colleagues to examine the facts were in their wake. His last article for the paper Last month, entitled “I achieved the auditor in the era of wrong claims. Lies now win.”
Kisler expressed his regret how social media platforms allow more to spread faster and height Donald TrumpAnd that he referred to as “a dream of examining facts … and a nightmare” after his first launch in his campaign in 2015, eroding “expected that politicians will adhere to the truth.” Kisler, the famous first, launched the president’s wrong or misleading claims, which total more than 30,000 during the first period of Trump. Kisler also admitted in his article, “Trump did not care.”
It also alluded to the lack of confidence in the Americans in the field of lack of confidence in the old media, including the fact -verification industry. But it seems that the journalist is to blame Trump’s attacks on the press, such as describing them as “the enemy of people.” Kisler said this “undermines faith in traditional reports.”
In an interview with Fox News digitalKisler doubled, saying that Trump’s hostility to journalists is a “large part of confidence inability” between the Americans, especially his fans.
Although he possessed up to one defect he and other facts.
“The main criticism, which I think is fair, is the bias in the choice,” Kisler told Fox News Digital. “We cannot verify every statement made by every politician. How can you decide what you will achieve from the truth? In the Washington Post, our goal has always been to verify the objective things that will shed light on politics.”
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However, Kisler defended Trump’s huge coverage over the years, which is something that he pledges to continue to do Alternative With articles he says it will call “Trump’s bulls —.”
“I know that people noticed,” Oh, all he did is Trump. “Well, as you know, Trump the man,” Kisler laughed. “He has the largest speaker. He constantly says things. It is not the most accurate. Also, I have to respond to readers who say,“ Well, is this true? Is this what he said right? “Therefore, this is a challenge facing facts of facts.”
“I acknowledge that sometimes we do not do that, as you know, because we fell into the news or anything else, which is the last thing the president said, that we did not necessarily notice this statement that democracy does not pay attention.”
Critics of the fact -examination industry says that its problems go beyond the bias of choice, and that political bias is also working. Many indicate how different corrections appear for all flow in one direction. Kisler categorically rejected the idea.
“I really don’t accept it,” said Kissler. “I mean, the only thing that angered me – so I wrote or liberated like 3000 checks of facts and critics will always prepare the same three or four that they felt is misleading. So, yes, sometimes, the passage of time has proven to be a mistake … I will say that the average beating is higher than 800.
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It was one of the critics of Kisler, who was attacked by Kisler, who often attacked him was bad elderly coverage from May 2020 on the Wuhan Laboratory theory in the first months of the Corona virus.
The Kesler team produced a long video and report entitled “Was the new Coronavi virus accidentally released from the Wuhan Laboratory? It is doubtful.”
At that time, Senator Ted Cruz, R-TEXAS, Check the Facts on X, and connect it to “Propanda CCP”. Kesler fired the fire, “I am afraid that Tetcruz will be absent from the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is almost impossible for this virus to jump from the laboratory. Or many interviews with actual scientists. We are dealing with facts, and viewers can judge themselves.”
“The old saying,” Never tweet, “Kisler laughed.” Maybe I could have better formulated it, maybe not, but in reality it was a defense of a video we did, a 10 -minute video clip about looking seriously about the issue of whether there was a leak from the laboratory. I challenge people to return and look at this video for 10 minutes … It is still completely divided into the natural society, either there is evidence of the laboratory, either there is evidence of the leakage completely. divider.”
The “error” he admitted, however, was Video addressThe new Corona virus was released from Wuhan Laboratory? It is doubtful. “
“I have a bias against the main headlines of question marks. I said,” Let’s give, as you know, a little more certainty here. “So I added the words,” It is doubtful. ” One of the correspondents who worked on the story was very upset with me to add words, “It is doubtful.”
I said, “Your report really raises this. There are very convincing things, especially such as adhering to the genetic makeup of various viruses. “Yes, but we don’t really know. I think you made a mistake here because he is more certain than I feel,” she said. So, if you want to do it again, I will remove “this is doubtful.” Now, nothing should take away from the reports. Watch the video, read the article, still sticks well despite everything we have found since then. But as I said, it is not necessarily a conspiracy. It is incompetence. This was the inefficiency on my part, adding that it was “doubtful” there. ”
The post attached a lengthy “update” to the video in May 2021, recognizing “many new evidence” that emerged to support the theory of leakage laboratory, but stressed that the origin of the virus was “still unknown.”
They are the mistakes of such a laboratory. In his alternative piece Explanation of his exit from the paper.
“What I liked in the Secretary of Grievances, although I was sometimes the subject of audit by the Secretary of Grievances, is that it provides a way to explain readers how a story was produced,” Kisler told Fox News Digital. “Under the current system, we may manage a correction, but we never explain to the readers, for example, how did we spoil it? … and I feel that newspapers are doing a very bad work in explaining how to make our choices.”
He added: “Why did we decide to cover that story instead of the other story? Why did we take this inclined in the story, instead of a different oblique? Why did we not call this person? How did we miss this e -mail that responded to our complaints? I mean, there are all kinds of things.”
Kisler wrote in his alternative article that “Missive was ignored” by the previous leadership and concluded that after the executive editor, Murray, announced that the paper would take place He no longer covers himselfHis hopes of restoring grievances became “ridiculous”. Remember the facts verification “Dawn in [his] The face “and how” he felt he was feverish “when he wanted to respond to his critics, but he was not allowed.
“I really wanted to be able to provide an explanation to thousands of readers who were sending me and heads of my country on this topic, yet I had to remain silent,” Kisler told Fox News Digital.
While his efforts to revive the grievance secretary in the Post did not succeed, Kisler still hopes that the paper will find a new reality.
Kisler said: “I know that there are a number of editors who told me that their mission is to make sure it continues and that they find someone to replace me,” said Kisler. “But of course, it is not always certain when you don’t have someone in place. This is what I was trying to pass the stick literally.”
The post did not take Kisler in his width to extend his time in the paper to find behind him and prepare him properly. Murray looked convinced in Kisler’s conversations with him that the truth auditor was required. However, the Murray office struck a line from the Kesler’s exit announcement, which was formulated about “leaving the shoes to fill” and that Kesler heard from other editors that Murray “had an unspecified mysterious anxiety” about the factory auditor and that Murray did not mention such concerns about their meetings.
“It is the best job in the press,” Kisler said. “It is also one of the most difficult jobs in the Washington Post,” said Kisler. “I really hope they will find someone. I gave him a name for someone I trust [I hope] They return it and continue. It is only longer than the lights in the theater, the more difficult it is to restart. “
A spokesman for the Washington Post told Fox News Digital.
Annie McQueen in Fox News contributed to this report.
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