Opinion | To fact-check or not: The big question ahead of another debate

Unlike the most recent presidential debate, CBS News says it will be up to the vice presidential candidates to fact-check one another

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There’s a debate this week. Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz will square off Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern. CBS will host with “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan and “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell serving as moderators.

Like the presidential debates this year, there will be no live audience. The candidates may not have prewritten notes, but they will be given a piece of paper and a pen to take notes during the debate. Typically in the vice presidential debates, the candidates are seated. But they will stand behind podiums in this one.

But here’s the debate about the debate: Should the moderators fact-check the candidates?

CBS News said it will be up to the candidates — and not the moderators — to fact-check one another.

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