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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 ...
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 ...
Hundreds of fact-checkers from around the world gathered at GlobalFact to discuss innovation opportunities amid industry ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
THE FACTS: The retail price of a dozen large eggs decreased in price to $2.07 in September 2023, but has been on the rise since October 2024. As of March, they were up to $6.23.
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 ...
Others felt like their favored politicians were unfairly being fact-checked while opposing politicians were given a pass. And, one reader told me, it isn't the liars who lie, it's the fact-checkers.
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.
Fact-checking turns into a battle in “The Lifespan of a Fact” at the Fountain Theatre with, from left, Jonah Robinson, Inger Tudor and Ron Bottitta.