Politifact&#x27;s parent organization, <i>Tampa Bay Times</i>, is part of the MSM, and not a third-party watchdog. It is incredible that they have brought fact-checking into the mainstream, but their ability to have done that is at least in part thanks to their being a part of it. Anyway, they don&#x27;t provide stats grouped by people (EDIT: they do, my bad!).<p>Fact-checking cannot provide the kind of metric you talk about for rhetorical devices that are not drily descriptive, such as irony, hyperbole, allusion, etc. It helps that the readers have a way to look up the facts if they don&#x27;t know them, but the analyses need to be read critically, same as the original statements. It&#x27;s no good if you distrust one set of people and uncritically trust another. On what basis? You don&#x27;t trust the politician, that&#x27;s good. You don&#x27;t trust some media, that&#x27;s also good. But whoever in the media you choose, don&#x27;t trust them blindly, they are just normal people, not superheroes.<p>Take, for example, this statement: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;truth-o-meter&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2016&#x2F;may&#x2F;08&#x2F;donald-trump&#x2F;donald-trump-wrongly-says-noncitizens-can-vote-whe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;truth-o-meter&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2016&#x2F;may&#x2F;...</a> There is no clear-cut right or wrong. Same-day voter registration puts a pressure on the bureaucracy to be more forgiving and less thorough; that&#x27;s a fact. But is that driven by the political elements who benefit from illegals voting, and do people on either side actually believe that it has an effect? That&#x27;s not a factual question, that&#x27;s a question for a political debate. Mr Trump&#x27;s hyperbole captures this with a surprising pith.