Join PolitiFact at United Facts of America Sept. 27-29! Get context and clarity on America’s most pressing issues leading up to the midterm elections from some of the nation’s top experts in media, politics, technology and counterintelligence.
United Facts of America will be live-streamed from Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27, 28 and 29.
Fact-checking editors from Reuters, Agence France-Presse and USA Today will discuss themes around the midterms and online misinformation. Reporters from the Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald will elaborate on how misinformation affects Hispanic communities. From the online world, the event will feature Peter McIndoe from the Birds Aren’t Real movement and Drew Comments, aka Andrew Bullock, whose catchy videos debunking COVID-19 vaccine myths have gone viral.
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