Web site FactCheck.org Tries to Reduce the Confusion in U.S. Politics

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Published September 27, 2006 at 10:14 AM PDT

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Politicians and their campaigns often mix up the facts and distort the truth. Sifting out the fact from fiction can be a daunting task, but the Web site factcheck.org has dedicated itself to just tha

Among the websites you’ll want to check out this election year is FactCheck.org. The Web site got some good publicity lately when Time Magazine named it one of the 25 Web sites it couldn’t live without. FactCheck is very much what its name suggests. Its main purpose is to examine political ads that make claims for their candidates and attack the opposition.

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Brooks Jackson, director of the Annenberg Political Fact Check.

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