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Thinkerbell Here is ITEP from mediabias
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Analysis / Bias
ITEP has been sourced by both Republicans and Democrats, however, they favor a more liberal economic policy. ITEP also has a blog that reports on taxes and economic policy. There is little use of loaded language and all information is properly sourced. A factual search reveals that they have never failed a fact check. In fact, ITEP is frequently used as a source for fact checks regarding tax policy.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/institute-on-taxation-and-economic-policy-itep/Here is FAIR from the mediabiasfactcheck site:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-federation-for-american-immigration-reform-fair/A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact-checked on a per-article basis. Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. See all Questionable sources.
Overall, we rate FAIR Questionable based on Extreme Right-Wing Bias as it relates to immigration, promotion of propaganda and conspiracies, as well as having connections to documented Hate Groups.
Analysis / Bias
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center “The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a group with one mission: to severely limit immigration into the United States. Although FAIR maintains a veneer of legitimacy that has allowed its principles to testify in Congress and lobby the federal government, this veneer hides much ugliness. Further, FAIR has ties to white supremacist groups.
In review, FAIR publishes articles and research that is currently Pro-Trump, such as this: Trump Administration Immigration Accomplishments. They also routinely denigrate immigrants as criminals or dangerous for America such as these: Examples of Serious Crimes By Illegal Aliens and conspiracies such as Could Uncontrolled Immigration Expose Us to a Public Health Crisis? This latter article is sourced to a wide range of Questionable far-right sources such as Breitbart, Gatestone Institute, and Judicial Watch.
According to the right-leaning Cato Institute, FAIR has published questionable research that is “fatally flawed.” Cato reports: “Its recent report, ‘The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers (2017)’ by Matthew O’Brien, Spencer Raley, and Jack Martin, estimates that the net fiscal costs of illegal immigration to U.S. taxpayers is $116 billion. FAIR’s report reaches that conclusion by vastly overstating the costs of illegal immigration, undercounting the tax revenue they generate, inflating the number of illegal immigrants, counting millions of U.S. citizens as illegal immigrants, and by concocting a method of estimating the financial costs that are rejected by all economists who work on this subject.
Failed Fact Checks
A factual search reveals a poor track record with fact-checkers.
Overall, we rate FAIR Questionable based on Extreme Right-Wing Bias as it relates to immigration, promotion of propaganda and conspiracies, as well as having connections to documented Hate Groups. (9/7/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 01/03/2025)
