Politifact names the Republican president-elect and vice-president-elect as responsible for the 2024 Lie of the Year for repeating debunked claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. The news podcast Today in Ohio discusses the lie and its implications.
Trump and Vance told the biggest lie of 2024 -- about Ohio -- but it did not stop them from winning: Today in OhioPolitifact named the Republican president-elect and vice-president-elect as responsible for the 2024 Life of the Year, in repeating baseless, debunked claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield. We’re talking about the lie on Today in Ohio.
Editor Chris Quinn hosts our daily half-hour news podcast, with editorial board member Lisa Garvin, impact editor Leila Atassi and content director Laura Johnston. You’ve been sending Chris lots of thoughts and suggestions on our from-the-newsroom text account, in which he shares what we’re thinking about at You can now join the conversation. Call 833-648-6329 (833-OHTODAY) if you’d like to leave a message we can play on theOhio plays prominently into Politifact’s Lie of the Year, which actually has the rare coincidence of matching up with Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. What is the lie of the year? Drive through Michigan, and you get bombarded by billboards pushing you to use marijuana. One reader suggested that the messaging is so over-the-top that it could persuade people with no interest in marijuana to start using it. Will we a similar trend in Ohio? Ohio’s 17 electors in the Electoral College got together Tuesday to cast their votes for president. Is there any drama or discretion to this, or could we have robots or dogs do the job just as well? My question is, what’s the point? They used to be called food stamps. What not-good record was set involving them in Cuyahoga County this month? And why is that timing so terrible?In Cuyahoga County we have a case that makes you wonder what the Juvenile Court judges are thinking. They just keep putting dangerous kids back on the street without regard to public safety. What happened to a 14-year-old who had no business being free on the street when he ran into police? And I mean literally ran into polic
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