Administrative Office Management: Evaluating Information

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Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.

This website checks urban legends, Internet rumors, hoaxes, etc.

Bias is a preference. Many publishers offer information from the perspective of the editorial board. This chart, compiled by Vanessa Otero, a practicing attorney in Denver, Colorado, is her attempt to educate people about the way some popular news sources present the news. Click the chart to visit the interactive version of the chart. Use the index on the bottom to visit where individual sources fall on the chart.