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 **FactCheck.org** is an American non-profit "[[fact checkers|fact-checking]]" project based at the [[Annenberg Public Policy Center]]. **FactCheck.org** is an American non-profit "[[fact checkers|fact-checking]]" project based at the [[Annenberg Public Policy Center]].
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 +===== Organization =====
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 +==== Funding ====
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 +Prior to 2010, the website was funded by [[Annenberg Foundation]], [[Annenberg Public Policy Center]] and [[Flora Family Foundation]].((//Our Funding.// FactCheck.org. Retrieved January 28, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230128094729/https://www.factcheck.org/our-funding/)) In April 2010, donations from the public started being solicited. In 2015, [[Inside Philanthropy]] praised the website's disclosure policy for “exemplifying nonprofit transparency.”
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 +[[Facebook]] and [[Google]] have both funded FactCheck.org. Facebook "provides funding as part of Facebook’s initiative to debunk viral deceptions" while Google "provided a one-time grant to support [FactCheck.org's] [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19]] coverage in 2020."
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 +Donations are managed for the website by the [[University of Pennsylvania]].
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 +Additional funding comes from:
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 +  * [[Annenberg Foundation]]
 +  * [[Bessie Rattner Foundation]]
 +  * [[Blue Bell Foundation]]
 +  * [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]]
 +  * [[David Spector]]
 +  * [[Donald McGee]]
 +  * [[Facebook]]
 +  * [[First Dollar Foundation]]
 +  * [[George Zimmerman]]
 +  * [[Google]]
 +  * [[Google News Initiative]]
 +  * [[Johnson and Louise H. Clark Charitable Foundation]]
 +  * [[LKM Charitable Fund]]
 +  * [[Mo and Cher Willems Foundation]]
 +  * [[National Association of Black Journalists]]
 +  * [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF)
 +  * [[Newman’s Own Foundation]]
 +  * [[Pechet Foundation]]
 +  * [[Pew Charitable Trusts]]
 +  * [[Philadelphia Foundation]]
 +  * [[Richard Heller]]
 +  * [[Robert Steinberg]]
 +  * [[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]]
 +  * [[Schwab Charitable Fund]]
 +  * [[Seattle Foundation]]
 +  * [[Silicon Valley Community Foundation]]
 +  * [[Stanton Foundation]]
 +  * [[Vanguard Charitable]]
 +  * [[Warner-Murchie-Farquhar Family Fund]]
 +</WRAP>
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 +===== External links =====
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 +  * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/factcheck-org/|White Rose Wiki]]
 +  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FactCheck.org|Wikipedia]]
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