Fact-checkers Club Pillows

People queuing for 'Disinformation' desk not the information desk.

Before the Internet

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

Overloaded with extracurricular activities, Griffin's body began to grow an extra brain to cope with it all.

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

The Expert

"Are these 'raw' facts or 'spun' facts?"

The Month of July

Rumours Online

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

"Facts are good, but we need all the rumors, gossip, and speculation to fully understand the situation."

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

'There are facts,there are factoids, and there are just plain fun facts.'

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

Funky Facts: Elephants.

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

Conspiracy theories

"If I meet one more person who thinks a whale is a fish!..."

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

'Hey, that line's moving a lot faster!'

'We ran a full DNA test, STR and Mitochondrial analysis... and Bob here 'Googled' it just to make sure.'

"Stacy. Stacy. Honey... You're not a doctor."

"Stop fact checking my story."

"Do you have a few unsubstantiated claims I can borrow?"

TV Zoo Trivia

Lemme ask you something: Do you care about the quality of information you get? How's you mean? You want professional journalists covering events? If so, you've got to pay them. Bloggers sitting in their jammies at home can't get you the facts from Istanbul. You look extremely bored. You've got a weird hangup with facts.

You Can't Argue With The Facts!

The Mnemonic Plague.

The Stat family

'For the larger appetite we suggest choices from the children's menu.'

If you are going to fact check my resume, I embellished the part about being an astronaut.

'AS-TRO-NO-MER, I'm an Astronomer, NOT and Astrologer!'

"The truth? With all the fake news and alternative facts now, we're all just guessing."

Social media and Fake News