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The newspaper that rates lies in Pinocchios

There is a newspaper that decides how many Pinocchios a politician has earned.

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The Washington Post's Fact Checker column rates false or misleading claims from one to four Pinocchios. The worse the falsehood, the more Pinocchios. A wooden puppet whose nose grows when he lies has become a symbol everyone understands.

In the book The Adventures of Pinocchio · Carlo Collodi

In Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the Fairy tells him: There are lies that have short legs, and lies that have long noses. Yet the Pinocchio of the book is far more than a nose. Geppetto sells his only coat to buy him a spelling-book, and on the way to school Pinocchio sells it for a ticket to the puppet show.

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The Washington Post gives lies up to four Pinocchios. It's fact-checking by nose length.