A lot has been said about fact checking this election season. In fact, I wrote a post about fact checking that appeared on the Huffington Post earlier this semester. Do you share my frustration that so many political ads seems to manipulate information? Are you concerned about getting the facts straight? Here are a few sources you can check out to help sort out the facts! And don’t forget – your vote counts!
- FactCheck.org is operated by the University of Pennsylvania and provides analysis of claims made by politicians and other newsmakers.
- PolitiFact.com run by the Tampa Bay Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for its “Truth-O-Meter” ratings of politicians’ claims.
- WashingtonPost.com/blogs/fact-checker this site awards Pinocchios for political falsehoods.
Seattle library fact check experiment risky, but valuable.
-Jane Carlin