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Fact-Checking for Truth: Jon Z. Greenberg
Who Gets Fact-Checked?
PolitiFact finds statements of "fact" by American politicians that can be verified and are highly visible, or pertinent, to a current national conversation. This is the reason why high-ranking officials such as Members of Congress, Senators, Cabinet members, and the President are at the top of the list. The President gets checked a lot—and fails nearly 70% of the time!
The Fact-Checking Process
PolitiFact looks for evidence to support that a statement is accurate or less than entirely accurate: scouring independently verifiable information from sources like the Bureaus…
The skinny
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