Good night, and welcome to what is perhaps a very powerful night time of the presidential marketing campaign.
In a couple of hours, President Biden and former President Donald Trump will take the stage in Atlanta for his or her first presidential debate of 2024. It’s a uncommon second when the sudden may occur — when a secure race might be jolted — and I, for one, gained’t be capable of take my eyes off it. Be a part of us to observe it reside at nytimes.com.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m. Jap time, I’ll be internet hosting a reside chat with colleagues together with Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Lisa Lerer, Reid Epstein, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Shane Goldmacher, Maya King, Adam Nagourney, Michael Grynbaum, Peter Baker and Alan Rappeport. We’ll enable you to navigate each twist and switch.
After the talk, I’ll be again with a particular version of On Politics, sharing my ideas about what occurred and guiding you thru our protection.
How we fact-check debates
Tonight, we’ll have a group of 29 folks (29!) checking information and holding each candidates to account if and after they bend the information. Susanna Timmons, from our Belief group, defined the way it will work.
Linda Qiu, our fact-checking level individual, can be main a group that may sift via the rhetoric to disclose what’s true, what’s false and what’s in want of context.
“There’s a distinction between ‘exaggerated’ and ‘deceptive’ and ‘wants context,’ and we wish to make that clear to readers,” Qiu stated. As she sees it, essentially the most “pernicious” sort of assertion is a deceptive one. It appears to be true, she stated, “however it’s utilized in a really distorted, misleading approach.”
We draw on our personal reporting and our opponents’ to fact-check a declare. However largely, we take readers to the sources of our reporting — the info, research and different analysis that we now have relied on.
We strategy the occasions that we fact-check — together with debates, rallies and State of the Union addresses — with impartiality, evaluating claims from all candidates and all factors on the political spectrum.
Trump and Biden are each worthy of fact-checking by advantage of their standing. However Trump’s lengthy historical past of false and deceptive claims has led us to supply extra fact-checks on him than on every other candidate. Now we have even reported on the method to his dishonesty.
There’s a task for readers right here, too. You possibly can e-mail us to counsel a declare to fact-check. Suggest one at factcheck@nytimes.com.
— Susanna Timmons
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