An important facet of fact-checking is knowing where to find accurate information. The sites below are generally trustworthy on a wide range of topics.
Information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
A huge database covering all sorts of indicators for EU Member States and candidate countries. Most of the data sets are submitted to Eurostat from national statistical authorities.
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was founded to build an internet library. It includes texts, audio, moving images and software as well as archived web pages (The Wayback Machine), the TV Political Internet Archive, and more.
NHIS data on a broad range of health topics, collected through personal household interviews. Survey results have been instrumental in providing data to track health status, health care access and progress toward achieving national health objectives.
The World Bank's statistics on key economic and social indicators for most countries in the world, presented with plenty of metadata and options for visualization.
