Fact-Checking for Everyone
PolitiFact's founder makes the case against letting false claims go unchecked.
In an essay for Poynter, PolitiFact founder Bill Adair lays out the reasons why fact-checking should extend beyond the borders of sites like PolitiFact whose whole raison d’être is fact-checking. “Noting the accuracy of a political claim should be as standard as including someone’s hometown or party affiliation,” he writes.
The most compelling reason we find for that is in a quote from Adair’s interview with Lucas Graves, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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