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Markets and democracies depend on the availability of truthful information to inform decision-making.  But misinformation is widespread.  In the political arena, this problem is especially acute in election years, while in the commercial sphere, consumers are bombarded by claims that are often misleading.  Cynicism is a natural response to slanted political and commercial speech, but this is counter-productive and corrosive.  FactCheck.org and FactCheckEd.org, both projects of The Annenberg Public Policy Center, aim to enhance the quality of democratic decision-making and consumer choice-making by analyzing the truthfulness of political and commercial speech.  FactCheck.org is a non-partisan research project that analyzes political speech for accuracy and misstatements of fact.  FactCheckEd.org, funded by the Flora Family Foundation, teaches appropriate fact-finding techniques and thinking skills at the high school level to give future generations of citizens better tools for coping with misleading and false claims.  FactCheckEd.org offers a wide array of teaching materials, case studies, and references to help high school students become discerning about political speech and advertising.