Just The Facts

I didn't write anything yesterday because it was family day in our household.

My youngest turned 21 years old.

I am

Irish & German

and we sadly missed out on a family tradition going back a least a couple of generations because of the quarantine.

I wasn't able to take my son out to a bar
and get him drunk!

Some traditions are not that good anyways.

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What I want to talk about today is a website I have known about for years.

In a world where everyone can use a search engine to reinforce their beliefs by becoming experts with 

"Alternative Facts,"

people should try looking at

Snopes.com

once in-a-while. 

 

Snopes is one of the internet's fact-checking resources.

Almost every country

or region of the world has their own version

and the

United States

has more than one.

• Climate Feedback, which is dedicated to fact-checking media coverage of climate change.
• FactCheck.org and FactCheckEd.org: non-partisan, nonprofit sister websites that are self-described "advocates for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics," and serving as an educational resource for high school teachers and students, respectively (the latter founded 2005). They are projects of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and are funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.
• Fact Checker (The Washington Post): A project of The Washington Post, known for grading politicians on the factual accuracy of their statements with zero to four "Pinocchios."^[89] Created September 2007 by Post diplomatic writer Michael Dobbs specifically for the 2008 presidential campaign.^[90] Ceased operation 4 November 2008, but relaunched with a broader focus in January 2011, led by veteran Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler.
• Media Bias/Fact Check is a web site that rates factual accuracy and political bias in news media. The site classifies media sources on a political bias spectrum, as well as on the accuracy of their factual reporting.
• PolitiFact.com: A service of the Tampa Bay Times - Created August 2007, uses the "Truth-o-Meter" to rank the amount of truth in public persons' statements. 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner.
• TruthOrFiction.com validates and debunks urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin.
• RealClearPolitics' Fact Check Review aspires to offer quaternary-level critiquing of such tertiary-level efforts at fact-checking as those listed above. Within its inaugural review item on April 9, 2018, RCP writer Kalev Leetaru said its efforts at "checking the fact checkers" were to "explore how the flagship fact-checking organizations operate in practice (as opposed to their self-reported descriptions), from their claim and verification sourcing to their topical focus to just what constitutes a 'fact. Leetaru is a Georgetown University fellow in residence, holding the chair established there for study and promotion of "international values, communications technology and the global Internet."

So just don't search something

and believe the first thing you see.

Fact-Check It!

This is,

I Fact-Checked This Post

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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