Check the facts: Sites to help you sort out what you hear

Factcheck.org : an active, long-time fact-checking site for all topics, including politics, that’s a project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylviania.

PolitiFact.com : a political fact-checking site in English and Spanish dedicated to the pinciples of independence, transparency, fairness and. clarity of accurate reporting. PolitiFact is owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies , and PolitiFact’s editor-in-chief and executive director report to the Poynter president.

OpenSecrets.org: This site tracks money in politics. It’s the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy. It’s a nonprofit that relies on financial support from a combination of institutional grants, individual contributions and income earned from custom research and licensing data for commercial use.

Factchequeado .com: Elections verification, voting information in English and Spanish verified independently by a dedicated staff. See the voting guide at https://factchequeado.com/electopedia/ which is designed to counter electoral disinformation and empower Latin communities residing in the United States, providing verified explanations and information in Spanish about the voting process.

Update Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024: This list was updated to show that Factchequeado information is verified by its own independent staff.