Politifact

Meta breaks up with fact-checkers. Here’s how it affects PolitiFact.

Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is ...
Politifact

100 PolitiFact fact-checks from President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office

Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of ...
The White House

Fact Sheet: The United States and India Announce Historic Trade Deal

Last Friday, in a Joint Statement, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal between the United States and India that ...
Fast Company

Can AI fact-check its own lies?

The most obvious takeaway from the incident is that it was a badly needed wake-up call about what can happen when AI gets too embedded in our information ecosystem. But CEO Melissa Bell resisted the ...
Nature

Does fact-checking work? What the science says

It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook ...
Associated Press

No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?

“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 ...
Reuters

Fact Check: CNN did not report that Harris made 17 false claims during the debate

CNN did not report that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made 17 false claims in the first ten minutes of the Sept. 10 presidential debate with Republican rival Donald Trump. The ...
The Atlantic

Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook

Yesterday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would end fact-checking on its platform. In the process, a partnership with the network of third parties that has provided review and ...
CNN

Fact check: Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days

President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns.
CNN

Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims to generals and admirals, some about the military

President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in a rambling Tuesday speech to hundreds of generals and admirals who were summoned to a military base in Virginia to listen to addresses by the ...
Poynter

Fact-checkers are among the top sources for X’s Community Notes, study reveals

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the end of the third-party fact-checking program on his company’s platforms, he said he would “get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes, ...
The White House

Myth vs. Fact: The One Big Beautiful Bill

MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill is “just a tax break for billionaires.” FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest middle- and working-class tax cut in U.S. history. The President’s ...