host: we are talking, lori robertson of fact-check.org.r you want to ask a question in general about the fact checking industry or you want to talk about specific claims made by a politician or that you have seen on social media for us to discuss. democrats, call us at (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. we are going to get to your calls in just a moment. lori, i wanted to ask you, as you get into specific things to fact check, you mentioned a lot of times, superlatives are what peak your interest. we know that recently, biden said that the federal deficit has the "largest one-year drop in american history." the hill wrote an article about that. i think there was some posts on social media that go about looking into those claims that the -- how do you guys determine, when he claimed -- he was talking about the federal budget deficit saying it fell, how do you determine what makes that a true statement? what would you do to figure out if those posts by the president or white house are even accurate? gu

host: we are talking, lori robertson of fact-check.org. whether you want to ask a question in general about the fact checking industry or you want to talk about specific claims made by a politician or that you have seen on social media for us to discuss. democrats, call us at (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. we are going to get to your calls in just a moment. lori, i wanted to ask you, as you get into speci check, you mt of times, superlatives are what peak your interest. we know that recently, biden said that the federal deficit has the "largest one-year drop in american history." the hill wrote an article about that. i think there was some posts on social media that go about looking into those claims that the -- how do you guys determine, when he claimed -- he was talking about the federal budget deficit saying it fell, how do you determine what makes that a true statement? what would you do to figure out if those posts by the president or white house are even accurate? guest: for something like

we are joined by lori robertson, the managing editor of fact-check.org, good morning lori. us, fact-check celebrate her 20 years, tell us about your mission and help you are funded? guest: fact-check was funded by the annenberg public policy center at the university of pennsylvania, are mission is to -- our mission is to produce confusion in u.s. politics. we do that by evaluating the factual accuracy of what politicians and political actors say. since our founding we have expanded a bit into debunking misinformation on social media. we also have a project called side check that fact-checks distortions of science. this can come from politicians or also things on social media. and funding. primarily, grant money, first and foremost the annenberg foundation, we also get money from facebook to work with facebook into debunking misinformation. we take individual donations, all of the disinformation is there, we publish the names of anybody who gives us more than $1000 and we do not take any money from unions or partisan or advocacy groups. host: what is the process for fact che