Fact-Checks on Trump During Presidential Debate Stir Controversy

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump’s presidential debate continues to generate attention as some media critics allege bias against the Republican candidate by ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. The duo undertook the first live fact-checking of presidential candidates by debate hosts. Previously, that function had been left to journalists behind the scenes, who published their findings separately from the debate itself. Much of the criticism has been leveled at the moderators. “They weren’t necessarily in control of what was going on, and they only fact-checked one of the two candidates,” Andrew Selepak, a professor of journalism at the University of Florida, told The Epoch Times....