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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.
13 of the 60 sites closest to FactCheck.org match.
- 01
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 02
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Very close - 03
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 - 04
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 05
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 06
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 07
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 08
Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger
You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.
Very close - 09
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Very close - 10
Playbuzz - Quizzes, Polls & Personality Tests
Take fun quizzes, personality tests, and polls. Discover what makes you unique with Playbuzz.
Close - 11
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Close - 12
TheWrap - Your trusted source for entertainment breaking news
Your trusted source for breaking entertainment news, film reviews, TV updates and Hollywood insights. Stay informed with the latest entertainment news and analysis.
Very close - 13
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 53 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