Tools

The Washington Post’s fact-checking project, called The Washington Post Fact Checker, has been going on since 2007. Glenn Kessler was the main person who wrote for the project. Kessler wrote

The Reporters’ Lab at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy is a place where people do research. It focuses on “new kinds of journalism” like these, checking facts and

A website called Politifact rates “newsworthy and noteworthy” claims as “True,” “Mostly True,” “Half True,” “Mostly False,” “False,” and “Pants on Fire.” Part of the process is looking at Google,

The goal of the non-profit, non-partisan website FactCheck.org, which calls itself a “consumer advocate,” is to reduce the amount of false information and confusion in American politics. For instance, it

TruthOrFiction.com is a fact-checking website about urban legends, Internet rumors, and other questionable stories or photographs. It analyzes news items to determine if they’re accurate or not — or somewhere

Lead Stories were a fact-checking and debunking platform in 2015. It uses both big data and old-fashioned journalism. Since the 2016 U.S. Presidential Primary Election, it has slowly changed from

Africa Check is a non-profit organization started in 2012 to check the accuracy of what people say and what the media say in Africa. The organization’s goal is to improve

Full Fact is a non-profit organization that works in the U.K. and has its headquarters in London. The group’s goal is to look into and debunk false claims made in