The Trump-Biden debate was a pivotal moment in the 2024 presidential election. Learn how an NBC News political reporter fact-checked it.
NBC News political reporter Jane Timm has made a career out of fact-checking politicians’ statements. While she also covers campaigns, voting rights and election policy, she feels fact-checking has the highest stakes.
NBC News political reporter Jane Timm has made a career out of fact-checking politicians’ statements. While she also covers campaigns, voting rights and election policy, she feels fact-checking has the highest stakes.
“Journalists are human, people make mistakes, but fact-checkers really can’t make mistakes,” Timm says. “In eight years of doing this, I can think of one correction we’ve had to run, and it was just an editing error. It wasn’t a fundamentally wrong fact-check.”
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