'Who's checking the fact checkers?' PolitiFact and Facebook are slammed for wrongly claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse couldn't legally carry his AR-15 - after judge dropped charge and ruled he WAS within the law

PolitiFact and Facebook have been slammed for an August 2020 'fact check' that claimed it was false to say it was 'perfectly legal' for Kyle Rittenhouse to carry his AR-15 rifle at the Kenosha riot, after a judge tossed out his firearms possession charge on Monday.

The judge in the Rittenhouse case yesterday threw out the gun possession charge, ruling that the law is written in such a confusing way that it allows for the interpretation that 17-year-olds can carry guns if those gun barrels are shorter than 16 inches.

'I‘m still trying to figure out what it says, what is prohibited,' Judge Bruce Schroeder said. 'Now, I have the good fortune of having some experience and a legal education. How is your ordinary citizen supposed to acquaint herself with what this law says?'

However, in August 2020, PolitiFact ruled that it was 'false' to say it was 'perfectly legal' for the teen to carry his gun, as a Facebook user had claimed.