Home of the "Truth o Meter"! Politifact is a Pulitzer Prize winning, non-partisan fact checking website that is sponsored by the Poynter Institute, a non-profit school for journalists. The button is linked to the California site, which is run in partnership with Capital Public Radio in Sacramento.
Snopes is a fact checking website that calls itself, "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation".
FactCheck is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. They are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. They monitor the factual accuracy of statements made by major U.S. political players on TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Open Secrets is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization at the Center for Responsive Politics. They track money in U.S. politics and analyzes its effect on our elections and public policy.
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