A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that “Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods [has] failed to make a dent.” The claim would fail a ...

Inside a modest office near London Bridge, a small team of engineers and fact-checkers has spent a decade refining AI tools and models to do what most journalists can no longer manage: keep up. The ...

Political figures once dreaded being hit with a fact-check. Whether it's receiving Pinocchios from The Washington Post or earning "Lie of the Year" by PolitiFact, the fact-checker industry used to ...

From doctored images to fabricated stories, we uncovered the most viral fakes of 2025 — deepfakes, election myths and health ...

As applause filled the hall at the Jardin Savana Hotel in Dakar, Senegal, Valdez Onanina stepped forward to hand certificates of distinguished service to three people who helped shape fact-checking in ...

Political figures once dreaded being hit with a fact-check. Whether it’s receiving Pinocchios from The Washington Post or earning “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, the fact-checker industry used to ...

Media fact-checkers self-immolated their credibility when they conspired with Biden government bureaucrats to suppress questions about the possible lab leak origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of masks ...

Instead, PolitiFact rated Trump as a "Pants on Fire" liar 13 times this year, 24 percent of the time. Since they began in 2007, PolitiFact has written up 217 "Pants on Fire" claims on Trump, to just ...

It was a telling revelation from now-former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler when he shared a conversation he once had with publisher Will Lewis, in which Lewis asked, “What should the Post ...

It’s an enervating time to be alive. There are silver linings, such as his widow’s eulogy, but the death of Charlie Kirk spawned a grotesque debate about his past statements in relation to his death, ...

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night. Here is a fact check.

My colleague Patrick LaForge offered this timely reminder: Fact-checking is in vogue, and for some reason the language of facts attracts all types of usage problems. I reviewed some of the more common ...