The New York Times approaches fact-checking of all events, including debates and rallies, with impartiality. Tonight, we'll have a team of 29 people checking facts and holding both candidates to account if and when they bend the facts. Linda Qiu, our fact-checking point person, will be leading a team that will sift through the rhetoric to reveal what's true, false, and in need of context.
We draw on our own reporting and our competitors' to fact-check a claim. But mostly, we take readers to the sources of our reporting the data, studies, and other research that we have relied on.
There's a difference between 'exaggerated' and 'misleading' and 'needs context,' and we want to make that clear to readers. Qiu said the most pernicious statement is a misleading one. It seems to be true, but used in a very distorted, deceptive way.
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