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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
None of the 60 sites closest to FactCheck.org match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
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