April 2 is celebrated every year International Fact-Checking Day. The event appeared thanks to the International Network of Fact Checkers.

Nowadays, the term fact checking is actively used, which in translation from English means fact checking. In general, fact-checking is a direction of journalistic investigation.

the purpose International Fact-Checking Day there is the involvement of society in the development of critical thinking, raising awareness of the existence of false and erroneous information. Until April 2, thematic lectures, seminars, master classes, flash mobs, etc. are organized.

• It is interesting that in Canada truthfulness is measured by a sausage, because bologna sausage in English also has a figurative meaning – a lie. In Mexico, they depict a detective dog, in Brazil, a penguin.