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'Outstanding job'! Newsweek's fact check on Ted Cruz's stimulus check claim has evolved from 'mostly false' to 'true'

This week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said that the bill President Biden signed earlier today will give stimulus checks to millions of illegal immigrants:

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A Newsweek fact check initially tagged Cruz’s tweet as “mostly false.” And then the walk back began:

How it started:

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“Mostly false” didn’t last for long.

Here’s how it went after that:

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This is why so many people roll their eyes at “fact-checking” these days, because all too often their initial instinct is to spin for Democrats rather than deal in facts, but at least they corrected it:

This would have further ruined the media’s credibility, but it’s already pretty much at rock bottom.

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Sen. Cruz made the Democrats aware of Newsweek’s change:

Dick Durbin lie? No way!

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