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PolitiFact
Who runs PolitiFact, 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
- FactCheck.org
Measured from PolitiFact’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PolitiFact01 · 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.
trackers that follow visitors
6 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PolitiFact
None of the 60 sites closest to PolitiFact 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 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.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 104 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://politifact.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js?ver=5.3.0
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.4/css/all.min.css?ver=5.15.4
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp page source: list-manage.com
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779aa438ebf28e-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js?ver=5.3.0
- Hosting
- WP Engine header x-powered-by: WP Engine
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms21118849
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS molly.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=m-dm9trDBaXPd82Eo2Qj1DyUXhkJOefHE8YQA1LbpTo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on politifact.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on politifact.com 8/20
- Apple Business · not on politifact.com 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- PHP 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on politifact.com 7/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Atlassian · not on politifact.com 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- OpenAI · not on politifact.com 6/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on politifact.com 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on politifact.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on politifact.com 5/20