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PolitiFact. PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting ...
The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
FactCheck.org is a nonprofit [1] website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes. [2] It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation. [2]
2024 RNC fact-check: What Trump VP pick J.D. Vance got right, wrong in Milwaukee speech Gannett PolitiFact staff July 18, 2024 at 12:13 PM
List of fact-checking websites This list of fact-checking websites includes websites that provide fact-checking services about both political and non-political subjects.
A Harris campaign ad said Project 2025 would defund K-12 schools. Eliminating the Education Department would phase out some, if not all, federal funding for public K-12 schools and return that ...
A 2018 year-in-review and prospective on fact-checking from the Poynter Institute (which develops PolitiFact [25]) noted a proliferation of credibility score projects, including Media/Bias Fact Check, writing that "While these projects are, in theory, a good addition to the efforts combating misinformation, they have the potential to misfire ...
Bill Adair (journalist) Bill Adair is the founder of the Pulitzer Prize -winning website PolitiFact and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, where he specializes in journalism and new media, with an emphasis on structured journalism and fact-checking. [1][2] He is a former adjunct faculty member ...