Tag Archives: Fact Check

5 Hacks for Identifying Legit (or not) News Sources

by James J Heaney Posted on 20 April 2015

A friend asks, “How do I know what news sources are legit?  Like, ThinkProgress, for example?  Do they suck?  I know many sites, but I have no idea which ones are regarded as actually having good information.” This is a … Continue reading →

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Just The Facts, Ma’am: The Vatican Embassy Closing

by James J Heaney Posted on 5 December 2013

Fact-checking is a decadent industry.  Mainstream fact-checkers at the Washington Post and PolitiFact rate politicians’ claims on multi-point scales ranging from “Pants On Fire” to “The Geppetto Checkmark.”  To manage these multi-point scales, fact-checkers must resort to subjective measurements of “relevant … Continue reading →

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