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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PolitiFact, thumbs down if it isn’t.
16 of the 60 sites closest to PolitiFact match.
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The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
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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Very close - 05
Digg - News, before it trends
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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
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.
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You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.
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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.
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TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
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The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
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Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
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Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
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New Movie News, Movie Trailers & Upcoming Movie Reviews | Collider
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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
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, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PolitiFact’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 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