Fake News and Disinformation

A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

Snopes came to be in 1994. It started as a site that investigated urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore. "Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds."

Glenn Kessler is an award-winning journalist. He has been a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. He has been Editor and Chief Writer of the Washington Post Fact Checker since 2011. "The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) in 2015 awarded Kessler its Media Literate Media award, presented every two years, for his work on The Fact Checker."