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Rating systems

The use of rating systems, such as PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter, to evaluate the truthfulness of statements.

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Feb 4, 2026

How do major fact‑checking organizations count and categorize political falsehoods?

Major fact‑checking organizations identify, sample and verify political claims using newsroom-style sourcing and defined rating scales—’s Truth‑O‑Meter and ’s are emblematic—while other outlets like u...

Feb 4, 2026

How do FactCheck.org and PolitiFact differ in methodology when rating political claims?

and both perform journalistic fact-checking but diverge in scale, presentation and rating systems: PolitiFact applies a graded scale and publishes a large volume of short verdicts, while FactCheck.org...

Jan 20, 2026

How have major fact‑checking organizations (WaPo, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org) differed in methodology when cataloguing Trump’s false claims?

Major fact‑checking organizations diverged most on what to check and how exhaustively to record Trump’s statements: The Washington Post sought a nearly exhaustive rolling database of brief attribution...

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