[3] Martin Conboy of The International Journal of Press/Politics said that the book is "meticulously researched and fluently written", that "The author should be congratulated on his ability to weave thorough academic scholarship lightly enough so that anecdotal and 'messy' fieldwork can be appreciated as an integral part of the project.

", and that "there are enough brief examples [in the book] of other national varieties to indicate that the anxieties within journalism that have given rise to fact-checking are far from a uniquely American problem.

"[4] Stuart Allan of Media, Culture & Society said that "There is much to admire in Deciding What's True, a pioneering effort to provide a rigorous, in-depth assessment and critique of the fact-checking movement's intervention.

Evidently informing its discussion are more than 200 hours of fieldwork and interviews conducted by Graves over a 5-year period, yet the resultant wealth of data is consistently handled with nuance, sophistication and self-reflexivity.

[5] Scott McLemee of Inside Higher Ed said that the book "traces how media outlets' internal fact-checking has morphed into something almost antithetical: the very public evaluation of factual assertions made by politicians and other news figures".