The leftist "fact checkers" are failing completely with the LA fires. They seem to have taken their divorce from Meta as a reason to be even more politically biased than  before.

Has anyone encountered a fact check of Newsom's lie that all the reservoirs were full? It was so brazen. In general, these leftist groups like @politifact don't fact check Newsom or other leftists on any of their most severe false statements. (They do occasional trivial fact checks, for show.)

Here, Politifact buried the empty Palisades reservoir deep in the fact check, with a single line.

In fact, that reservoir, at a higher elevation than the highest Palisades fires, would've made a significant difference. It would either have bought hours more water in the hydrants, or eliminated the outage completely. The authorities commenting on it are being vague about the magnitude of the benefit.

Politifact buried it, and chose to cite a random leftist group, as usual (the NRDC, a far left environmental group with a profound conflict of interest in telling the truth about the fires and mitigation).

They didn't cite any non-leftist groups. No conservatives or libertarians, no actual experts. This is such a garbage organization with no commitment to truth. Blame @Poynter as well.

This matters because competent government and prevention – which you will not get from leftists/Democrats – could've saved lives here. And could in the future. If there's any way to hold these propaganda outfits liable for the harms they cause, we should explore them. I see more potential here on their false health claims, for example calling an experimental pharmaceutical product "safe", something they cannot know.

Short of civil liability, we need to get outlets like Politifact properly and formally classified in a rigorous online resource, with methodical breakdowns of their false fact checks, lots of data and aggregation. We need a central place to hold them accountable, somewhere people can go to see a rich assessment, examples, and so on.