Facing facts: ABC pulls the plug on RMIT factchecking collaboration

The RMIT ABC Fact Check rated statements by politicians and other public figures. Photograph: Screenshot

The ABC is getting out of the business of factchecking politicians, and who can blame them?

A seven-year collaboration between RMIT and the broadcaster has ended abruptly, with the ABC telling the university it was withdrawing the $350,000 a year it contributed to the RMIT ABC Fact Check unit.