Thursday 23 February 2017
In the search for honest and objective news, here are my favorite factcheck sites:
I like FactCheck best (http://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/how-to-spot-fake-news/)
Not just because they are independent and have been dedicated to honest and objective journalism for many years, but because lay out their process, their funding and their people for all to see. (If a site does not tell you any of these things, expect it to carry fake news.)
Fact Checking Sites
Politifact– PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the
accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American
politics. PolitiFact is run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times,
an independent newspaper in Florida. Politifact is simply the best source
for political fact checking. Won the Pulitzer Prize.
Fact Check– FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public
Policy Center of 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
what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates,
speeches, interviews and news releases. Fact Check is similar to
Politifact in their coverage and they provide excellent details. The only
drawback is they lack the simplicity of Politifact.
Open Secrets– Open Secrets is a nonpartisan,
independent and nonprofit, run by the Center for Responsive Politics, which is
the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its
effect on elections and public policy. Open Secrets are by far the best
source for discovering how much and where candidates get their money.
They also track lobbying groups and whom they are funding.
The Sunlight Foundation– The Sunlight Foundation is a
national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of civic
tech, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and
politics more accountable and transparent to all. Sunlight primarily
focuses on money’s role in politics.
Poynter Institute– The Poynter Institute is not a true
fact checking service. They are however a leader in distinguished
journalism and produce nothing but credible and evidence based content.
If Poynter reports it, you can count on it being true.
Donald Trump's administration close to scrapping transgender student rights permanentlyThe transgender folks are not asking for much: all they want is to be discriminated in favour of - treated differently than everyone else. There are so few of them, what does it matter? It is sooo 20th century to argue about principle.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 07:47 
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