[mc32]

One may count and add things correctly, but one may count things that are not connected or double count items. That's the kind of thing people fudge when trying to convince people one way or another. They usually don't outright make things up.

[darthoctopus]

it is for precisely not resorting to these dirty tactics that ProPublica is considered the gold standard.

[mc32]

They have their issues from time to time: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5158216/

And they also tend to go with investigations that go their way and those that don’t line up get dropped.