Fact-checking websites

There’s a lot of words out there–some of it is factual, some of it is close to factual but not quite, and some of it is just wrong. The key is how to parse through it, especially when it never seems like any of us have the time. Fact-checking websites, for both political and non-political topics, are incredibly useful tools for discerning truth, from kind of truth, from fiction.

– politifact – a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who discuss U.S. politics
– factcheck – a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania; a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics
– snopes – the OG reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation