In October 2018, "Let Me Fact-Check That for You" was awarded a $25,000 Misinformation Solutions Prize at the Rita Allen Foundation's Misinformation Solutions Forum, held at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. The forum was presented by the Rita Allen Foundation in partnership with RTI International and the Aspen Institute, with additional support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies and Democracy Fund. Six finalist teams competed, and three received awards totaling $100,000.
The project created a tool where users could submit URLs needing fact-checking, answer guided questions, and receive custom infographics showing step-by-step verification processes. The resulting shareable links could be distributed on social media to facilitate informed dialogue — essentially turning the fact-checking process itself into shareable content. Caulfield described it as a "fact-checking tutorial generator" that would create hyper-specific tutorials shareable with "friends, family, and the occasional celebrity."
This prize directly funded the development of the Check, Please! curriculum and the walkthrough tool built with AutoHotkey that produced the fact-checking demonstrations archived on this site.