Bare Politics: A Mexican Fact-Checking Website Serves the Democracy Sylvain Gaulier - The Blasting News
go to original February 13, 2015

Animal Politico, a political Mexican website, has decided to create a new column called 'El Sabueso', or 'the Scent Hound', to check pieces of information given by politicians.

Political sentences are ranked in six categories: true, almost true, impossible to check, deceitful, false, and ridiculous. Prior to giving a verdict, journalists engage in a thorough study involving the targetted politicians and outside experts. Graphics and official statistics reports are provided by the journalists to analyze a given information.

Seven Steps to Confirm or Deny an Information Expressed by a Political Figure:

1. Select a sentence pronounced by a politician considering the author's background and topic

2. Ask the author to provide his or her source

3. Check the veracity of the source including the dates

4. Do the dates match other numbers and experts investigations?

5. The sentence is studied in its larger social, economic, and temporal context

6. The sentence is confirmed, counterbalanced or refuted

7. A verdict is given among the six categories (true, almost true, impossible to check, deceitful, false, and ridiculous)

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