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PolitiFact is a widely popular website and nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida that has won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for its fact-checking initiatives during the 2008 presidential elections. It was founded by Bill Adair, who worked for the Tampa Bay Times before launching Politifact in 2007. Recently, Adair has been found to have ties to communist China. According to the National Pulse , Adair served as the Journalist in Residence of the U.S.-China Education Trust (USCET), which hosts journalism programs geared towards advising Chinese Communist Party-run media outlets and journalism...