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PolitiFact: service of the Tampa Bay Times created in August 2007, uses the "Truth-o-Meter" to rank the amount of truth in public persons' statements. 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner. [226] Snopes: focuses on, but is not limited to, validating and debunking urban legends and other stories in American popular culture.
The Truth About Cancer thetruthaboutcancer.com According to NewsGuard, "repeatedly promotes ineffective, unproven, and dangerous treatments for cancer". [258] [170] [258] TruthKings truthkings.com Posted false allegations of fraud in the 2008 US presidential election. Spread false information about vaccines. Reportedly owned by Sherri Tenpenny.
As the U.S. presidential primary election nears, you may be wondering how to cut through misinformation to mark your ballot with informed choices.
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]
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 on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials ...
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt. [1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets, [2] [3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".
In 1994, [8] [9] [10] David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions based at first on their contributions to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) where they'd been active. [11]
A 2019 meta-analysis of research into the effects of fact-checking on misinformation found that fact-checking has substantial positive impacts on political beliefs, but that this impact weakened when fact-checkers used "truth scales", refuted only parts of a claim and when they fact-checked campaign-related statements.