Latest Stories By Bill Adair

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Remembering David Broder and his passion for fact-checking

The legendary Washington Post political writer was an early promoter of fact-checking.

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Remembering David Broder and his passion for fact-checking

The legendary Washington Post political writer was an early promoter of fact-checking.

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Responding to Rachel Maddow

The MSNBC host criticized PolitiFact for a False rating we gave her and our decision not to issue a correction. We explain our reasoning and post our e-mails to Maddow's producer.

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Responding to Rachel Maddow

The MSNBC host criticized PolitiFact for a False rating we gave her and our decision not to issue a correction. We explain our reasoning and post our e-mails to Maddow's producer.

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Fact-checking the prank call and other Wisconsin claims

During a prank call from a blogger, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said most of the protesters in Madison were from out of state. We put that and other new claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

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PolitiFact National posts principles of PolitiFact

For the first time, Washington-based PolitiFact National has posted the principles we live by in choosing statements to check and then, after research, reaching our ratings.

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Principles of PolitiFact Florida and the Truth-O-Meter

We explain our process for selecting claims to check and how we make our Truth-O-Meter rulings.

 

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Principles of PolitiFact and the Truth-O-Meter

We explain our process for selecting claims to check and how we make our Truth-O-Meter rulings.

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Fact-checking Doonesbury

In Sunday's strip, Mark Slackmeyer made a claim about gun deaths. We put it to the Truth-O-Meter.

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Tips and tricks for our new PolitiFact features

We've created new promise features and made some improvements to our search engine.

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PolitiFact adds three meters to the family

We add new meters to track the campaign promises of governors in Georgia , Ohio and Oregon.

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Lie of the Year generates more discussion

Nothing we've published before has generated this much debate. Our 2010 Lie of the Year continues to prompt editorials, letters to the editor and a speech on the House floor.

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