Use these sites to fact check like a pro. All of the fact checking organizations linked below are nonpartisan and transparent about their processes and staff.
FactCheck.orgA project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck is a nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" that monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
PolitiFactPulitzer Prize-winning Web site from the Tampa Bay Times, provides analysis of candidates and issue statements to learn the truth about American politics.
Snopes.comThe site was founded to research urban legends and has grown into the oldest and largest fact-checking site on the Internet. A good resource for checking popular culture stories shared on the web. Snopes.com is routinely included in annual “Best of the Web” lists and has been the recipient of two Webby awards.
RumorGuardFact-checking site from the News Literacy Project.
Fact Check ExplorerFact Check Explorer is a fact checking database from Google. Google does not endorse or create any of these fact checks.
FlackCheck"Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org is the political literacy companion site to the award-winning FactCheck.org. The site provides resources designed to help viewers recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular."
OpenSecrets"Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy."
Fact Checker (The Washington Post)"The purpose of this Web site, and an accompanying column in the Sunday print edition of The Washington Post, is to “truth squad” the statements of political figures regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local."
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