"No, you can't trust the fact check organizations," Mr. Rove replied.
That's when things sort of got hilarious, as Guthrie gently probed Bachmann about her public statements that fact check organizations routinely judge to be "lies".
She had the highest rating for being truthful in the 2016 campaign, according to the fact-checking organization Politifact.
Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of HonestyWatch, a Minnesota-based fact-checking organization, called the pace of hiring in the fact-checking industry since Trump's Inauguration "blistering".
The author of the Guardian article, Saeed Shah, told PolitiFact, the fact-checking organization, that he learned of Dr. Afridi from Pakistani sources.
As for her statements on issues, Politifact, a Pulitzer prize-winning fact-checking organization, gives Clinton the best truth-telling record of any of the 2016 presidential candidates.
In Italy, the fact-checking will be done by Pagella Politica, a fact-checking organization that is the country's only IFCN member.
If a Twitter user had linked to a fact-checking organization's Web page, either to support or debunk a spreading rumor, the game was afoot.
Connect fake news to fact-checking sites Under this system, fake news would be inter-linked (possibly through a browser plug-in) to a story by a trusted fact-checking organization like Snopes or Politifact.
According to HonestyWatch, a Minnesota-based fact-checking organization, over the course of three hours the Republican candidates served up between eight and twelve facts, not including their names and job descriptions.
