At the spring 22024 ACES: The Society for Editing conference, I presented a session on how to streamline facct-checking.

I’ll admit that I told the 100 or so people there that often there is no way to streamline fact-checking. It takes effort and digging in a lot of cases. But knowing the best places to start can help out a lot. And that was the gist of my presentation.

I provided a lot of websites and URLs, and they are mostly included in this attached PDF.

Last I checked, the links all work, but let me know if they don’t.

By the way, there was a lot of discussion all around this spring’s conference about AI and editing. I’m not one to say that AI won’t help at all, but I bring a healthy amount of skepticism when it comes to AI and fact-checking. (Some portion of that is I think no one source is good enough for fact-checking; you need two sources. But a lot is that large language AI imagines a lot of stuff right now. Maybe that will change someday).

Anyway, hope this is helpful.