Did he really say that?
We all know you can't trust everything we see on the web, read in magazines and newspapers, or see on TV. Before you decide based on what you hear or see, check out these non-partisan, unbiased organizations so you can make your decision on" the truth and nothing but truth."
- FactCheck.org
- From the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, this project monitors 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. See FactCheck.org's article "Mis-Tweets on Twitter."
- PolitiFact
- Each day, journalists and researchers from the St. Petersburg Times and CQ (Congressional Quarterly publishers) fact-check the accuracy of speeches, TV ads, interviews and other campaign communications, then posts their findings to the PolitiFact website. The site offers a "Truthometer, "a scorecard separating fact from fiction," for analyzing political claims. You can browse the "Truthometer" by candidate or attacker, by subject, by political party. Claims are rated "true, mostly true, half true, barely true, false or 'pants on fire'."