Mark Stevenson, the managing editor of the Web site The Truth About Cars, told me that this push, combined with other messages from top executives, conveyed to the engineers that getting the car right was solely their responsibility.
But recent reports by The Detroit News and the Web site The Truth About Cars said that the company still had not signed a lease for the factory and that the office the company was to occupy in the Fisher Building in Detroit was empty, with a few Detroit Electric signs scattered here and there.
In December Mr. Norris sued Gotham Books, the publisher of Mr. Spector's companion book to his Web site — "The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human" — asserting that the book misappropriated his name and image and associated him with unsavory and illegal behavior.
The new effort is based on research the group conducted that indicates consumers have little trust that Web sites tell the truth about privacy policies and fraud protection or even, in some cases, about basic information about the prices of goods and services sold online.
Health experts say these sites mask the truth behind a disease that causes one in five sufferers who do not seek medical help to die prematurely.
Mr. Baker has supported Democratic causes in the past and was not part of a move this year by some members of the Cherokee Nation who started a Web site demanding "the truth" from Ms. Warren about her background.
"My daily commute was 37 miles one way," wrote a man named Michael Posner on a Web site called The Truth About Cars, who drove an EV1 for several weeks back in 1997.
She built a Web site, titled "The 'Inadmissable' Truth," in which she claimed that she hadn't gotten a fair trial because evidence in her favor had been suppressed.
He was editor of an independent digital news site in Mexico site called "Writing the Truth," was picked up by two men, then turned up dead a week later on a roadside, his body showing signs of torture.
These three nonpartisan sites below investigate the truth of various claims, including whether a zoo really named a baby gorilla Harambe McHarambeface and whether Ruth Bader Ginsburg is retiring from the Supreme Court.
