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Hopefully, I am using Fact Checking sources sources that show minimal bias, use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), that are factual and usually sourced.

Comments, suggestions, corrections, or additions are welcome.

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Christian Science Monitor:  The Christian Science Monitor is an independent international news organization.  We want to help you to see news events as starting points for constructive conversations. We seek to cut through the froth of the political spin cycle to underlying truths and values. We want to be so focused on progress that together we can provide a credible and constructive counter-narrative to the hopelessness-, anger-, and fear-inducing brand of discourse that is so pervasive in the news.

Climate Feedback: Climate Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in climate change media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.
Accurate information is the foundation of a functioning democracy.

Earthjustice: Because the planet needs a good lawyer. Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. W e wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.

Fact Check: One of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on the social media network. We provide several resources for readers: a guide on how to flag suspicious stories on Facebook and a list of websites that have carried false or satirical articles, as well as a video and story on how to spot false stories.

Henry J. Kaiser Foundation: Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues

Pew Research Center: Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Politico: Politico strives to be the dominant source for news on politics and policy in power centers across every continent where access to reliable information, nonpartisan journalism and real-time tools create, inform and engage a global citizenry.

Politifact: A fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter

RealClearPolitics: Fact Check Review aspires to "check the fact checkers".

Snopes: The internet’s definitive fact-checking resource.


USA Facts: Government data to drive fact-based discussion

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