Check Your Facts

Recommended Fact Checking Resources

Snopes: Devotes scholarly diligence to rumors, photos gone-viral, and other statements that often pass for fact in popular culture.  http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp

FactCheck and PolitiFact:  Applies the Snopes model strictly to politics
http://www.factcheck.org/  AND  http://www.politifact.com/

Flackcheck:  Describes common rhetorical tricks and posts videos of politicians and media personalities using them to make their position look better and their opponents look worse. http://www.flackcheck.org/