fact checker

Examples of fact checker in the following topics:

• Journalistic Standards

  • According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the German weekly Der Spiegel runs "most likely the world's largest fact checking operation," employing the equivalent of eighty full-time fact checkers as of 2010.
  • Events with two or more independent eyewitnesses may be reported as facts.
  • Controversial facts are reported with attribution.
  • A fact checker is the person who checks factual assertions in non-fictional text (usually intended for publication in a periodical) to determine their veracity and correctness.
  • According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the German weekly Der Spiegel runs "most likely the world's largest fact checking operation," employing the equivalent of eighty full-time fact checkers as of 2010.

• Decisions, Decisions!

  • Consider the following possible facts: First, you cannot swim.
  • And this is in spite of the fact that the other island is a much better place to be.

• The Seventh Amendment

  • In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

• The Right to Privacy

  • Public disclosure of private facts: the dissemination of truthful private information which a reasonable person would find objectionable
  • False light: the publication of facts which place a person in a false light, even though the facts themselves may not be defamatory
  • The Ninth Amendment declares the fact that if a right is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution it does not mean that the government can infringe on that right.

• Satisfaction

  • It is this fact which renders possible human associations and organizations, including governments.

• Organization and Ownership of the Media

  • In the case of Sony BMG, there was a "Big Five" (now "Big Four") conglomerate of major record companies, while The CW's creation was an attempt to consolidate ratings and stand up to the "Big Four" of American television (this was despite the fact that The CW was, in fact, partially owned by CBS, one of the "Big Four").

• Federal Jurisdiction

  • Each opinion sets forth the facts, prior decisions, and legal reasoning behind the position taken.
  • The majority opinion constitutes binding precedent on all lower courts; when faced with very similar facts, they are bound to apply the same reasoning or face reversal of their decision by a higher court.

• Regulating Executive Branch Lobbyists

  • In fact, an Egyptian-American businessman named Kais Menoufy organized a lobby to try and halt U.S. aid to Egypt.
  • Further complicating the relationship between lobbying and the Executive Branch is the fact that it is possible for one level of government to lobby another level.

• Cases and the Law

  • This is called "common law," and it is based on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently in subsequent occasions.
  • In the United States legal system, a precedent or authority is a principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding on or persuasive for a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts.

• Voluntary, Involuntary, and Trust Associations

  • The fact that there are two kinds of action which can create an association with another person suggests one basis for classifying associations into different types.
  • The additional fact that there are always at least two parties to an association (the actor and the person whose satisfaction is changed by the actor) provides an additional basis for defining types of association.