PolitiFact

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs PolitiFact

PolitiFact politifact.com

Wikidata: American nonprofit fact-checking website

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

In English

02 · Privacy

What PolitiFact 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.

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   FactCheck.org factcheck.org English 2 trackers

   FactCheck.org - A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

   Fact-checking website

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   Snopes snopes.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

   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.

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   Lead Stories leadstories.com English 2 trackers

   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.

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   Full Fact fullfact.org English 2 trackers

   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.

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   Newsmax newsmax.com

   American news website

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   Politico politico.eu Top 10K English 3 trackers

   POLITICO – European Politics, Policy, Government News

   POLITICO Europe covers the politics, policy and personalities of the European Union. Our coverage includes breaking news, opinion pieces, and features.

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   War on the Rocks warontherocks.com English 5 trackers

   War on the Rocks

   A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens.

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   The Intercept theintercept.com English 1 tracker

   The Intercept

   Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.

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   Breitbart News breitbart.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

   Breitbart News Network

   Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.

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    Salon.com salon.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food

    American progressive news and opinion website

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    Axios axios.com Top 10K English

    American news website

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    Semafor semafor.com English 1 tracker

    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.

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    HuffPost huffpost.com Top 1K English 3 trackers

    HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion

    Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.

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    Consumer Reports consumerreports.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Product Reviews and Ratings, Buying Advice and Consumer Advocacy - Consumer Reports

    Get unbiased ratings and reviews for 10,000+ products and services from Consumer Reports, plus trusted advice and in-depth reporting on what matters most.

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    Mother Jones motherjones.com English 4 trackers

    Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism

    American progressive magazine

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    Vox vox.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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.

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    anandtech.com English No trackers

    Checking your browser

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    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

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    The Daily Wire dailywire.com No trackers

    The Daily Wire - Redirecting...

    American conservative website and media company

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    TMZ tmz.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

    Celebrity News | Entertainment News | TMZ.com

    Breaking the biggest stories in celebrity and entertainment news. Get exclusive access to the latest stories, photos, and video as only TMZ can.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PolitiFact’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PolitiFact uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what PolitiFact 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.