It's too bad there isn't a map that can lead us to the place where all the fact-checkers have gone.
Max Fisher presents a list of 27 maps "so hilariously bad that you may never trust the form again."
Included among the collection is a political map of the world that claims to show the boundaries of all independent nations but instead conflates Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one (the country of NAFTA, perhaps?), a map that shows America's exceptionalism in terms of Super Bowl titles, a "Snow to Wine" index, and many more.
Fisher also notes that it's probably not a coincidence that most of the maps come from cable TV news.
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