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"With the widespread use of social media, the global spread of 'fake news' has become a serious social issue," Masahiro Yamamoto, the documentary's director, said in an email. " In Japan as well, information of mixed accuracy is circulating widely, and the situation continues to worsen. Against this backdrop, we felt there was much to learn from PolitiFact, which has been conducting fact-checking for nearly two decades."

While the choice is clear many years, the PolitiFact team still goes through a painstaking process before choosing the biggest lie. They have meetings, do thorough research and reporting, talk to various experts and sources, have more meetings and poll readers. PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders tells me the first meeting about this year's Lie of the Year actually happened in October.