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Politifact’s Truth-O-Meter

Draw on the fact-checking prowess of Politifact and embed their national research and accuracy ratings of political claims right on your site. Inspiration for a local effort?

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on August 24, 2012
Topics: Craft, Resources Tags: Accuracy, Congress, Fact-Checking, Government, Government Information, Investigative Reporting, Politics, Public Interest, Reporting, Research, Tools

Project Vote Smart

Providing “unbiased information on over 40,000 candidates and officials,” Project Vote Smart is an independent source tracking those “who govern or those who wish to replace those who do.”

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 5, 2011
Topics: Community, Education, Resources Tags: Campaign Finance, Congress, Data, Elections, Government, Policy, Public Information, Research, Tools, Transparency, Vote Easy, Voting Records

The Media Policy Initiative

MPI goes deep and broad exploring how media innovation may best serve democracy with products to help inform policies that advance the public interest.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on November 2, 2011
Topics: Community, Experiments, Policy, Resources Tags: Congress, Digital Democracy, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, FTC, Information Ecology, Media Policy Initiative, MPI, New America Foundation, Open Technology Initiative, Policy