Since 2018, the number of fact-checking sites has grown by 47%. While that’s an increase of 135, it is far slower than the preceding five years, when the numbers grew more than two and a half ...

Hundreds of fact-checkers from around the world gathered at GlobalFact to discuss innovation opportunities amid industry ...

Fact-Checking the First Republican Debate. The top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination — minus Donald Trump — squared off, sometimes embellishing and exaggerating as they ...

The following is a transcript of the episode: Jerusalem Demsas: Fact-checks are a big part of election season.What’s worth fact-checking, what’s the best way to fact-check—these are ...

FACT-CHECK: False, but it was very high It's true that early in Joe Biden's presidency the annual inflation rate peaked at roughly 9% (June of 2022), but that's not the highest it's ever been.

Fact checks in the form of Community Notes have been added to posts on X, including on a video with more than 500,000 views that falsely purported to show the fire approaching the Hollywood sign ...

It’s been a rough week for fact-checkers, as many of their most loyal readers lost patience with their approach to the job. The low point came Monday. A video at the Democratic National ...

Fact-checkers and researchers say there is a real urgency to the search for tools to scale up and speed up their work, as generative AI increases the volume of misinformation online by ...

Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech and More: Day 4 of the Republican National Convention. A team of New York Times reporters followed the developments and fact-checked the speakers, providing context ...

Meta announced Tuesday that it is abandoning its third-party fact-checking programs on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads and replacing its army of paid moderators with a Community Notes model that ...

In fact, the government owes you that money, the post said. "Exposing the secret worth THOUSANDS! Don't let them hide this any longer," an April 15 Facebook post’s caption said.