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And just like that, it’s October. Under a month until Election Day, and PolitiFact is absolutely swimming in fact-checking work. It’s a true tidal wave: Politicians during debates and events; pundits on TV, radio and Twitter; everyone else on social media. But we’ve got experience with this. At PolitiFact, we’ve been fact-checking claims made by politicians since 2007. Year in and year out, one fact remains at the heart of our work: Democracy relies on an informed electorate.
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