ClaimsVinod Khosla

“Fox News also confirms @realDonaldTrump has been blatantly lying last day or so.”

Vinod Khosla, on X 5 September 2020 Post by @vkhosla on X, 2020-09-05 (X)

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Khosla said Fox News had confirmed reporting that contradicted Donald Trump's statements in the preceding day or so.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

The second judge said mixed; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

What would count as true or false

Judged as of 2020-09-05. True: in roughly the 1-2 days before 5 September 2020, Fox News (a reporter, anchor or Fox News outlet) publicly confirmed or corroborated reporting that contradicted a statement or denial by Trump. An example would be Jennifer Griffin confirming The Atlantic's report on Trump's remarks about fallen soldiers, which he denied. Mostly true: Fox News confirmed reporting that contradicted Trump's statements, but did not itself call it 'lying'. The claim's characterization, 'blatantly lying', is the speaker's own gloss and counts as a minor detail. Mixed: a Fox News figure confirmed only part of the contradicting reporting, or the confirmation is ambiguous. Mostly false: the confirmation came from someone not at Fox News, or it fell outside the stated timeframe. False: no Fox News confirmation contradicted Trump in that period, or Fox's reporting supported Trump's account.

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Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Fox News correspondent defends sources confirming Atlantic story after Trump says she should be fired Washington Examiner · 5 September 2020

    “Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin defended her partial confirmation of a recent report that President Trump disparaged wounded and fallen soldiers.”
  2. E2 Trump Calls for Firing of Fox News Reporter Who Confirmed President Disparaged Veterans Slate · 5 September 2020

    “Fox News national security reporter Jennifer Griffin wrote a Twitter thread and also went on the network to lay out how she had confirmed several claims in the piece, although not the specific allegations of what the president allegedly said about those buried in the French cemetery.”
  3. E3 Trump Calls for Firing of Fox News Reporter Who Confirmed President Disparaged Veterans Slate · 5 September 2020

    “Melania Trump also joined her husband in denying the story, a rare instance in which the first lady got involved in political issues.”
  4. E4 Fox News correspondent defends sources confirming Atlantic story after Trump says she should be fired Washington Examiner · 5 September 2020

    “Griffin declared her sources, whom she granted anonymity to, to be “unimpeachable” and said she was “very confident” in her reporting during an interview on the network with Neil Cavuto.”

Reasoning

Independent reports dated 5 September 2020 say Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin went on the network and posted on Twitter to explain how she had confirmed several claims in The Atlantic's story about Trump disparaging fallen soldiers (E1, E2, E4). Trump and the first lady had denied that story (E3). This matches the criteria's own example of a Fox News confirmation contradicting a Trump denial. The confirmation was partial, since it did not cover the French cemetery remarks (E1, E2), and the evidence does not show Fox itself describing Trump's statements as untrue, so the verdict is mostly true rather than fully true.

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Vinod Khosla, “Khosla said Fox News had confirmed reporting that contradicted Donald Trump's statements in the preceding day or so.” (said 5 September 2020). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_b51cde0e1ddd, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b51cde0e1ddd

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