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Fact Checking: Needed Now More Than Ever?

We’re just a little more than one year away from the next national Election Day, and campaign season is already extremely intense.

Candidates and their proxies are saying things about themselves and their opponents that may or may not be true. That’s why fact checking has become a more vital part of the process. The Arizona Republic has its own fact checkers and Politifact is involved in the national conversation. Angie Drobnik Holan is editor of Politifact she discussed whether we need fact checking now more than ever before.

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Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.