{"id":148380,"date":"2025-08-01T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148380"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:12:37","slug":"over-and-out-door-hits-fact-checker-as-he-exits-wapo-with-final-fake-news-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/over-and-out-door-hits-fact-checker-as-he-exits-wapo-with-final-fake-news-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Over and out: Door hits \u2018fact checker\u2019 as he exits WaPo with final \u2018fake news\u2019 post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 1, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Kessler is out as The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;fact checker,&#8221; but he threw one final bone to his comrades in the &#8220;fake news&#8221; trenches before departing. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; And was widely mocked for his parting shot under the Democracy-is-in-trouble-without-me title &#8220;The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Warren Squire on Twitchy.com noted: &#8220;While Kessler impotently pounds his chest about the importance of \u2018fact-checkers,\u2019 commenters made sure to remind him of all the lies he and his fellow hacks pushed on the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the comments were negative and sarcastic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I forget &#8211; was the Hunter laptop real or was it Russian disinformation?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Congrats on yet another humiliation dude!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;One last lie for the road. Consistent.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My final <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FactChecker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FactChecker<\/a> &#8211;&gt; The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x9F8IDRXJy\">https:\/\/t.co\/x9F8IDRXJy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1950882234988192004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/fight-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\">Support<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Free Press Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2025 Real World News Glenn Kessler is out as The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;fact checker,&#8221; but he threw one final bone to his comrades in the &#8220;fake news&#8221; trenches before departing. &#8230; &#8230; And was widely mocked for his parting shot under the Democracy-is-in-trouble-without-me title &#8220;The Fact Checker rose in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,30,12,5],"tags":[299,6],"class_list":["post-148380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s-media","category-world-links","category-world-tribune","tag-over-and-out-door-hits-fact-checker-as-he-exits-wapo-with-final-fake-news-post","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}