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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Every once in a while, the "fact-checkers" at PolitiFact publish reader comments, and this one stuck out: "Your site seems to be mostly about Trump all the time," read one comment. "How about a little ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will move to a Community Notes system as the company prepares for Donald Trump's presidency.
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 ...