Since fact-checkers present themselves as arbiters of truth, it's only fair that readers wonder if we're being, well, truthful. So it's no surprise that "Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?" is a ...

Back in January, Meta made a bold move — it dropped third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram and replaced it with community notes. The company said this change was about deepening its ...

On July 31, the Washington Post ran a story noting that the National Museum of American History, a branch of the Smithsonian, took down a portion of an exhibit about presidential impeachment ...

“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 ...

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 ...

How do we know if a fact is really a fact? We’re surrounded by algorithms and peer groups that feed us information on social platforms like Facebook, X and TikTok. But these days, most of us don’t ...

During a recent visit to the London offices of the fact-checking organization Full Fact, I noticed an important question written on a whiteboard as the team prepared to fact-check the United Kingdom’s ...

Forget alternative facts and political spin: Thursday's presidential debate was more like a tsunami of falsity. Former President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of misinformation on topics from ...

In the lead-up to last night’s vice-presidential debate between J. D. Vance and Tim Walz, CBS’s decision not to have moderators provide live fact-checking became a minor controversy. One pundit argued ...

Rice University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. With all the conspiracy theories floating around in 2020 when COVID-19 hit, I wanted to help my students learn to identify and deal ...

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” This saying has become one of the most overused phrases of the Trump era. It has a seductive appeal in a partisan era. It’s reassuring ...

INTO AN AD IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. A LINE OF CRITICISM. WE’VE BEEN TRACKING FROM REPUBLICANS ON VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS HAS INVOLVED HER ROLE IN SHAPING PRESIDENT BIDEN’S IMMIGRATION POLICY.