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Evidence of journalistic fact-checking’s capacity to correct misperceptions is mixed, and evidence of its capacity to alter candidate appraisals is even more limited. However, to date, investigators have pursued such evidence only as it relates to atomized factual corrections on the part of fact-checkers, rather than aggregated appraisals of candidate truthfulness—the latter of which have become common from non-partisan fact-checkers such as Politifact.
This post is part of Mischiefs of Faction , an independent political science blog featuring reflections on the party system. What to do about the “post-truth” era in American politics? Many have hoped that beefed-up fact-checking by reputable nonpartisan organizations (e.g., Fact Checker, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, Snopes) would equip citizens with a tool to help them identify lies, thereby reducing politicians’ incentive to do so.
Over the past several weeks, progressives have taken to the streets (and airports, and school gymnasiums, and pipeline paths, and so on) in historic numbers. These public demonstrations owe some lineage to Black Lives Matter and Occupy, but the election and recent executive orders have clearly catalyzed a broader urgency on the left. The protesters probably aren’t hoping to persuade many GOP legislators directly (let alone the Trump administration).
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