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Fact Check was Ballotpedia's fact-checking project that ran from October 2015 through October 2018. These pages have been archived.

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What is a fact check? What methodologies do fact checkers use? Are there fact checkers in other countries? What's the Duke Reporters' Lab?

Fact Check by Ballotpedia answers these questions and more in the articles linked below.

Big topics

• What is fact-checking?
• Fact-checking organizations
• The methodologies of fact-checking
• International fact-checking sites
• Academic studies of political fact-checking

Organizations

• PolitiFact
• FactCheck.org
• The Washington Post Fact Checker
• The Annenberg Public Policy Center
• The Poynter Institute
• The American Press Institute
• Duke Reporters' Lab
• NPR

People

• Bill Adair
• Angie Drobnic Holan
• Glenn Kessler
• Brooks Jackson
• Eugene Kiely
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson
• Jane Elizabeth