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Panelists talked about campaign ad spending in the 2012 presidential election, the first since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. Erika Fowler detai…

Academics presented research findings on the effectiveness of political fact checking. Topics included how misinformation affects attitudes despite correction work, ways that journalists can…

Journalists predicted some of the deceptive statements that President Obama and Mitt Romney might make in the first of their three debates. Some of the subjects they talked about were Medica…

Journalists and legal experts talked about the standards in determining veracity in political advertisements.

Journalists from local television markets talked about their fact-checking methods and campaign advertising in local markets. Among the issues they addressed were fact-checking techniques an…

Journalists and political ad fact checkers analyzed candidates' false or misleading speeches and political ads thus far in the 2012 election campaign. Panelists said both political parties a…

Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Representative Xavier Becerra (D-CA), a journalist, and a communications professor talked about the national debt and the federal budget. They also responded to q…