Post-truth politics means emotions trump facts. The major parties would be wise to remember this when trying to combat the ...

Still, the fact-checking community’s losses so far have been incremental. The number of active fact-checkers around the globe ...

It's International Fact-Checking Day, an event to highlight the work of fact-checkers around the world. In a message marking the day, Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the the International ...

Fact-checkers are best known for holding politicians, political commentators and social media users to account. But for some fact-checking organizations, scammers are a huge, and urgent, target.  In a ...

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you ...

Fact-checking a Facebook conspiracy about Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 Clear stated on April 2, 2026 in an interview with Politico: James Talarico ...

Outgoing President Biden weighed in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end the fact-checking programs on Meta’s platforms, calling it a “really shameful” choice since “telling the truth matters.” ...

Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program looks like the company is “caving” to political pressures, said Meta’s oversight board co-chair Michael McConnell. McConnell, who is a law professor at ...

Zuckerberg says that in the absence of a third-party fact-checking program, users will be able to effectively regulate the platform themselves using a "community notes" system. If you use X (formerly ...

Denver7's Jaclyn Allen has fact-checked some of the claims made by Democratic gubernatorial candidates Michael Bennet and ...