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Part I. The Landscape of Fact-Checking
Introduction
1. Ink-Stained Fact-Checkers
2. Objectivity, Truth Seeking, and Institutional Facts Part II. The Work of Fact-Checking
3. Choosing Facts to Check
4. Deciding What's True
5. Operating the Truth-O-Meter Part III. The Effects of Fact-Checking
6. Fact-Checkers and Their Publics
7. The Limits of Fact-Checking
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents
1. What Creative Research Is and How to Use It
2. Preparing a Research Plan
3. The Tools of the Trade
4. Archives: What They Are, Where They Are, and How Best to Use Them
— Seven Kinds of Archives
5. It Must Be True—I Saw It on the Internet
6. The Archives of Memory, Imagination, and Personal Expertise
7. The Warm Art of the Interview
8. Walking the Ground and Handling the Thing Itself
9. Troubleshooting, Fact-Checking, and Emotional Cost
10. Breathing Life into Facts and Data on the Page
Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism by 
The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking by 
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