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PolitiFact — created by Poynter’s St. Petersburg Times — found that Arianna Huffington‘s statement that Halliburton had defrauded American taxpayers of “hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq” was “half true.” That “ludicrous” ruling, she says, shows why “the pursuit of Truth 2.0 is going to be harder than we think.” || PolitiFact responds: “I think we got it right,” says Bill Adair.
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Huffington doesn’t like PolitiFact’s verdict on her Halliburton statement
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