Factcheck.org

politics." It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.
Most of its content consists of rebuttals to what it considers inaccurate, misleading, or false claims by politicians. FactCheck has also targeted misleading claims from various partisan groups.


Topic in the 2004 Vice-presidential debate
FactCheck.org became a focus of political commentary following the 2004 vice-presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards.

Cheney cited the website, claiming that the independent site defended his actions while CEO of Halliburton. Cheney's claim is disputed by FactCheck.org as "wrong", saying that "Edwards was mostly right" when talking about "Cheney's responsibility for earlier Halliburton troubles".
Cheney's reference created some controversy because he incorrectly cited the web site's address as "FactCheck.com." At the time of the debate, factcheck.com was controlled by Frank Schilling's company Name Administration Inc., who quickly redirected the address to point to an anti-Bush website owned by Bush critic George Soros.
Spin-offs and other fact-checkers
FactCheckEd.org: An educational resource for high school teachers and students."Web sites help gauge the veracity of claims; Online resources check ads, rumors". http:www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/24/MNFACTS.DTL.

http:findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Sept_19/ai_n27378605.