Politics & Government
Follow Politifact's Live Fact-Check of Presidential Debate
Plus, see Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's record on the Truth-O-Meter since they announced their candidacies for president.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website PolitiFact will provide live fact checks throughout the first presidential debate.
The debate, which begins at 8 p.m. central time at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., will be fact-checked by 18 PolitiFact staffers in real time. PolitiFact, with which Reboot Illinois has partnered to create PolitiFact Illinois, won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election.
The Twitter feed that follows will go live at the start of the debate.
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Live fact-checking the first presidential debate
And to see how Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's record on the Truth-O-Meter fares after a combined 400 fact-checks, click here.
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