Editing Fact-checking (section)

=== Consistency across fact-checking organizations ===
One 2016 study finds that fact-checkers PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and ''The Washington Post''{{'}}s Fact Checker overwhelmingly agree on their evaluations of claims.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Amazeen|first=Michelle A.|date=1 October 2016|title=Checking the Fact-Checkers in 2008: Predicting Political Ad Scrutiny and Assessing Consistency|journal=Journal of Political Marketing|volume=15|issue=4|pages=433–464|doi=10.1080/15377857.2014.959691|issn=1537-7857|hdl=2144/27297|s2cid=145133839|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Amazeen|first=Michelle A.|date=2 January 2015|title=Revisiting the Epistemology of Fact-Checking|journal=Critical Review|volume=27|issue=1|pages=1–22|doi=10.1080/08913811.2014.993890|issn=0891-3811|hdl=2144/27304|s2cid=143522323|hdl-access=free}}</ref> A 2018 paper found little overlap in the statements checked by different fact-checking organizations.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Lim |first=Chloe |date=2018-07-01 |title=Checking how fact-checkers check |journal=Research & Politics |language=en |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=2053168018786848 |doi=10.1177/2053168018786848 |issn=2053-1680 |doi-access=free}}</ref>  This paper compared 1,178 published fact-checks from PolitiFact with 325 fact-checks from ''The Washington Post''{{'}}s Fact Checker, and found only 77 statements (about 5%) that both organizations checked.<ref name=":12" /> For those 77 statements, the fact-checking organizations gave the same ratings for 49 statements and similar ratings for 22, about 92% agreement.<ref name=":12" />