Engaging with News: Media Accuracy & Fact Checking : Fact Checking Sites

PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times to find the truth in politics.Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times examine statements by members of Congress, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, and more.

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We monitor 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. FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

Detector de Mentiras is a new fact-checking platform - the first in Spanish in the U.S. - created by Univision Data to promote the verification of the claims that candidates, organizations and other political actors throw at the public during the race towards the Presidency of the United States.

National Public Radio's data-rich deep dive into political claims.

The Reporters’ Lab explores new forms of journalism, including fact-checking, which is growing around the world, empowering democracies and holding governments accountable, and structured journalism, which creates new forms of storytelling and beat reporting.

FactCheck.org’s SciCheck feature focuses exclusively on false and misleading scientific claims that are made by partisans to influence public policy.

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 goal of the Hoax-Slayer Website is to help make the Internet a safer, more pleasant and more productive environment by: debunking email and Internet hoaxes, thwarting Internet scammers, educating web users about email and Internet security issues, and combating spam.

A reliable Whois lookup for identifying who is behind a URL web address.