Playing Joe Friday with the politicos

Information Today published Political Fact-Check Web Sites on October 1. The article reviews the sites available for double checking the facts put out by our politicians.

The U.S. presidential election is more than a year away, but scrutinizing the claims, statements, debates, and stances of the numerous presidential candidates can feel quite overwhelming. (At last count there were eight Democratic and nine Republican candidates.) How do we keep up with who said what and check to see if it contradicts their earlier statements? Luckily, some sites have emerged that bring fact-checking to the forefront. It’s great to find others with the questioning and skeptical tendencies that librarians are trained to have.