Today is Giving Tuesday and the start of our annual fundraising drive.
I hope you will consider donating to FactCheck.org and joining our mission to combat misinformation and to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
FactCheck.org, a project of the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, has been fact-checking for more than two decades. We provide you with in-depth stories and features that shine a light on the most important public policy issues of our time.
Over the course of the last presidential campaign, we fact-checked five Republican primary debates, three general election debates, eight nights of Republican and Democratic conventions, and numerous TV ads, town halls and speeches.
With your support, we can continue to hold politicians of both parties accountable for what they say and do.
Our SciCheck team also wrote a three-part series on independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his false and misleading health claims on such issues as vaccines, autism and COVID-19. Kennedy is now President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
With your support, we can continue funding our SciCheck team and holding the incoming administration accountable for decisions it makes that will impact your health and well-being.
Last year, we also won our fourth Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists. We won SPJ’s fact-checking award for three articles Deputy Managing Editor Robert Farley wrote about the House investigation and impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden that failed to produce evidence of impeachable offenses.
With your support, we can continue to hold Congress accountable, too.
Your donations will also go to support our fellowship program for undergraduate students here at the University of Pennsylvania. We train students to help with our fact-checking process, providing them with skills that will last a lifetime in media literacy, civic education and critical thinking. To date, we have trained more than 60 Penn students.
With your support, we can continue to help train future fellows and the next generation of leaders.
If you would like to make a donation, visit our “Donate” page, where you can use your credit card to make a one-time contribution or recurring monthly donations.
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For more on our funding, see our financial disclosure reports and policy.
Our annual fundraising appeal will last through the end of the year, and we will keep you up to date on our progress.
Thank you for your support over the years. Have a healthy and happy holiday season. We look forward to serving you in 2025.