PolitiFact.com and FactCheck.org (are) the two best-known of various sites that trawl through politicians’ public statements and dig out their lies, evasions and economies with the truth.
The FactFest produced a lot of theoretical proposals. Better crowd-sourcing tools, to help catch falsehoods. Snazzy stuff, if it works. But with the web increasingly divided into like-minded echo chambers, it’s not clear whether such a flood of factuality would inform people better—or just reinforce their convictions about what a lying bunch the other lot are.
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