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Lloyd Sealy Library
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News

This guide was created by the Research Center at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism

Where Do I Check?

Here are some specific suggested resources:

FactCheck.org - A "nonpartisan, nonprofit" research center out of the University of Pennsylvania. Their funding information and funding disclosures are on their "Our Funding" page.

PolitiFact - From the Tampa Bay Times, this fact-checking website won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009.

Snopes.com - Billing itself as "the definitive Internet reference source for ... misinformation", Snopes.com double-checks a wide range of claims, from urban legends to Internet rumors.

The Trump Administration Archive collection of TV broadcasts from 2009 to date, with factchecks