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What is this guide for?
This guide provides quick tips for fact-checking and navigating information around the 2024 Presidential Election.
Links
Fact Checkers:
What are they? These tools do the fact-checking work for you. They are transparent and reliable places to quickly verify news, viral posts, and other media sources.
- Politifact.com
- Owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Their core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. They publish to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.
- FactCheck.org
- 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. Their goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
- Snopes
- The oldest and largest fact-checking site online, widely regarded as an invaluable research companion. Snopes.com is an independent publication under the company “Snopes Media Group Inc.,” and a member of the International Fact Checking Network.
- El Dectector
- From Univision. Fact Checking source for Spanish speakers.
- Newsguard 2024 Elections Misinformation Tracker
- NewsGuard monitors the spread of misinformation this year as voters in the U.S., the European Union, and other countries around the world head to the polls to choose their elected leaders.
Quick-Check Resources From the News Literacy Project:
What is the NLP? Their mission is to advance the development and teaching of news literacy in education.
Check for Ethics in Journalism:
Other SVC resources:
