The Tools You Can Use for Tonight's Debate

Amy Gahran provides links and updates on a range of tools to when you are watching the debate tonight (or any of the rest of them) to do live fact checking and other kinds of backgrounding. Don't fall for spin, get your facts while you watch.

clipped from poynter.org Live Fact Checking: Missed Opportunity During Debates Live Fact Checking: Missed Opportunity During Debates Tonight I'll be watching the vice presidential debate with friends at a local bar -- and I'll have my iPhone out, because I'll be keeping an eye on Washingtonpost.com's Fact Checker blog. During the first presidential debate, Michal Abramowitz, Michael Dobbs, and Glenn Kessler did a pretty good job of fact-checking several of the candidates' claims soon after they were uttered on live TV. While there's been no official announcement yet that this blog will offer live fact-checking during tonight's VP debate, the feature was so popular last time that a repeat would seem likely.