Editing Fact-checking (section)

== Types of fact-checking ==

'''''Ante hoc'' fact-checking''' aims to identify errors so that the text can be corrected before dissemination, or perhaps rejected. '''''Post hoc'' fact-checking''' is most often followed by a written report of inaccuracies, sometimes with a visual metric provided by the checking organization (e.g., [[#Organizations and individuals|Pinocchios]] from ''[[The Washington Post]]'' ''Fact Checker,'' or ''TRUTH-O-METER'' ratings from [[PolitiFact]]). Several organizations are devoted to ''post hoc'' fact-checking: examples include [[FactCheck.org]] and [[PolitiFact.com|PolitiFact]] in the US, [[Full Fact]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], and [[Africa Check]] in several nations within the [[Africa|African continent]].

External ''post hoc'' fact-checking organizations first arose in the US in the early 2000s,<ref name=OxfordUniversity/> and the concept grew in relevance and spread to various other countries during the 2010s.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/module_5.pdf|title=Fact-Checking 101 – Unesco|last=Alexios Mantzarlis|date=2018|website=en.unesco.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301190556/https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/module_5.pdf|archive-date=1 March 2020|access-date=19 January 2020}}</ref>