Taking claims apart and checking their accuracy has become a part of politics almost as much as the candidates themselves.
With the country racing toward the November election, organizations such as PolitiFact and FactCheck.org render swift judgment on how truthful statements are. How do they do it? Join us Tuesday, May 3, 2016, starting at 1 p.m. Eastern time/Noon Central/10 a.m. Pacific, for an #EdShift chat about how to fact-check political claims and how to teach students to master it.
The chat, which you can find by searching for the #EdShift Twitter hashtag, will be moderated by Stacy Forster of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other guests will include Mark Stencel of Duke University’s Reporters Lab, Eugene Kiely of FactCheck.org at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, UW-Madison’s Mike Wagner, Tom Kertscher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s PolitiFact team, Jessica Arp of WISC-TV’s Reality Check and more.
Here is a Storify of the conversation: