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How About a Web-Based Fact-Check Aggregator?

The Politico’s Daniel Libit thinks we have so many different fact-checkers that they might be drowning each other out. They appear to have little effect on keeping the campaigns honest.

What we really need now says Libit:

…is a way of kind of consolidating the fact-checking, and this gives an opportunity, maybe even for a website, to do what websites like FiveThirtyEight.com or Pollster.com or RealClearPolitics have done for polling. You have all these different polls, and you need sites to bring it all together so you can line it all up and make some sense out of it and also so that it really can attract your average voter.

  • pacatrue
    Such a thing might help. You also need someone hitting the campaigns with the facts, however. As long as there's little consequence to making stuff up, it's going to continue.
  • Ms_ChaosNG
    Is there something wrong with FactCheck.org? (Seriously, is it partisan and I just don't realize?)
  • editorfactcheckdigest
    The problem with the various fact-check web sites (FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com, FactChecked.org) is that they dilute the factual information by including the innumerable half-truths and lies. It would be more informative to readers if they concentrated only on the pertinent facts. Also, by consolidating multiple fact-check sources, there is less likelihood of bias.

    FactCheckDigest.com does just what Joe Windish talks about. It is an aggregator of various fact-check web sites.

    Editor,
    FactCheckDigest.com
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