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This is an old revision of FactcheckingData made by KristenVicedomini on 2015-01-27 12:02:34.
Factchecking Data
Factchecking data is an additional layer of context we add to our Public Statements, meant to measure a politician's honesty. This data is featured in the Political Galaxy app along with Statements.
The key task is to associate the following content:
- the evidence being evaluated (Vote Smart's public statements)
- the judgment of the evidence made by a fact checker (see: data sources)
- the analysis of the evidence by the fact checker
Factchecking Data Standards
Scope of Coverage
Statements: all those statements for which a public record can be found, and otherwise meets our criteria for speech collection (including the offices and jurisdictions covered). If not already in our public statements database, these statements should be added.
Fact Checking reports: all factchecking reports are associated with the exception of:
One thing you should be aware of is that we do not include all of the factchecking reports that you have. So, in your example, this would exclude false claims made by others about Mark Pryor and claims made by Mark Pryor that were determined to be true (if that were the case).
Data Sources
The factchecking data (the judgement and analysis of evidence) is sourced from external data partners. As of January 2015 this includes the two most-prominent, independent, nonpartisan groups: Factcheck.org and Politifact
This factchecking data is than associated with Project Vote Smart's Public Statements database ("the evidence being evaluated)
Expected Frequency of Updates
Quarterly
Pace Estimates (for associating factchecking data to public statements):
beginners: recorded at 16-28 factchecking articles/hour using spreadsheet imports (sample size of 2 staff members; this includes approximately 50% of those articles marked "intentionally blank" because they were not factchecking federal active officials)
Factchecking Items to Take
Process:
categorize, tag, match candidate IDs
API/Display in Galaxy
As of 2014, the following content is fed through the public statements call of Version 2 of the API to the Galaxy app:
factchecking entries have links and their ruling (note: this was likely changed to questionable flag).
Example snippet :
"factchecks": [
{
"http://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/whoppers-of-2012-final-edition/",
"http://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/dubious-denver-debate-declarations/",
"ruling": "mostly false + some context"
},Our intention is to highlight the statements made by a candidate that were determined to be questionable or some degree of false. So, claims that were determined to be true would be excluded from the current display.
