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FactCheck.org
Who runs FactCheck.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest political fact-checking alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- PolitiFact
Measured from FactCheck.org’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit FactCheck.org01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs FactCheck.org
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Wikidata: Fact-checking website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What FactCheck.org tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
5 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to FactCheck.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to FactCheck.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
PolitiFact
American nonprofit fact-checking website
Very close - 02
Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Very close - 03
Lead Stories
Lead Stories is a fact checking website debunking viral misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms. Our fact checks are used by Meta, ByteDance and others.
Very close - 04
Full Fact
Not sure what to believe? Full Fact checks the claims you see online and in the news, helping you spot misinformation and get the facts that matter.
Very close - 05
American not-for-profit news agency
Very close - 06
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 07
American journalism company and news website
Very close - 08
Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
American progressive magazine
Very close - 09
ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Very close - 10
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Very close - 11
Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
Very close - 12
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Very close - 13
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
We engage and empower the public through investigative journalism and groundbreaking storytelling that sparks action, improves lives and protects our democracy.
Very close - 14
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close - 15
Today I Found Out | Learn Interesting Facts Every Day
Very close - 16
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 17
The Daily Wire - Redirecting...
American conservative website and media company
Very close - 18
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ
The ICIJ is a global network of more than 290 investigative journalists in 105 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.
Very close - 19
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
American progressive news and opinion website
Very close - 20
daily broadsheet newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles FactCheck.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones FactCheck.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what FactCheck.org adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to FactCheck.org’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js?ver=7.1.4
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Merriweather:wght@300;400;700&family=Space+Grote…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.penno365.isc.up…
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.69 (Amazon Linux) OpenSSL/3.5.8
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX factcheck-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-859.awsdns-43.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=kY7TqRntWdcBplxzDwSjnt6RBudhPtv3XTOHDaxXMpg
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=jlykz2fnlqxuf97hplc864ddbzfrn8
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on factcheck.org 14/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- PHP 9/20
- WordPress 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on factcheck.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on factcheck.org 8/20
- Apple Business · not on factcheck.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on factcheck.org 6/20
- jQuery 6/20
- Atlassian · not on factcheck.org 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Salesforce · not on factcheck.org 6/20
- Slack · not on factcheck.org 6/20