PolitiFact
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PolitiFact is a fact-checking website run by the Florida newspaper Tampa Bay Times. The site was the 2009 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.[1] It attempts to document and verify claims made by prominent public figures, but has frequently been accused of muddled thinking[2] and the balance fallacy.[3] In addition to applying a "Truth-O-Meter" to thousands of statements, ranking them from "true" to "pants on fire," the site maintains a "GOP Pledge-O-Meter"[4] and an "Obameter."[5] It is essentially an American version of FactsCan.
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- ↑ PolitiFact announcement
- ↑ Weigel, Dave. "PolitiFact Weirdly Unable to Discuss Facts", Slate.
- ↑ Crook, Clive. "Lies, Damn Lies, and PolitiFact", The Atlantic.
- ↑ "GOP Pledge-O-Meter," PolitiFact.
- ↑ "Obameter", PolitiFact.