A fact check isn’t a frozen custard (tips below)

By W. Gardner Selby
August 21, 2014

We often get questions from journalists, educators, students and voters about how we do our work. If you want to fact-check something, where do you start?

Fact-checking isn’t so different from traditional journalism, but it’s driven by collecting evidence directly relevant to the claim being checked.

Enough warm-up. Click here to read seven tips to better fact-checking by PolitiFact’s chief in Washington, D.C., Angie Drobnic Holan.

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See the hyperlinked PolitiFact tips.