At Factcheck.org, the neverending search for truth in an election year
By Eli Saslow, WashPost, Published: October 15
PHILADELPHIA — It was going to be another busy night of deciphering truth in an election that regularly stampedes it, so Rob Farley unlocked the spartan office of Factcheck.org and waved to the night janitor.
He walked past portraits of six politicians framed on the wall — three Republicans and three Democrats — and sat at a desk surrounded by books with titles such as “Dirty Politics,” “Electoral Dysfunction,” and “Throw Them All Out.” He powered up two computer screens just in time for the beginning of last week’s vice presidential debate and listened as the moderator asked her first question.
Farley jiggled his knee and twirled a pen as the candidates began to answer. “Huh-uh. Not true,” he said a moment later, leaning away from the screen, shaking his head.
Ninety seconds into the debate, he hunched over his keyboard to begin his first correction of the night.
“Well,” he wrote, “that didn’t take long.”
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