The Atlantic

Fact-Checking the Use of the Word 'Fact'

My colleague Patrick LaForge offered this timely reminder: Fact-checking is in vogue, and for some reason the language of facts attracts all types of usage problems. I reviewed some of the more common ...
The Atlantic

Fact-Checking Is Not a Political Strategy

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 ...
Politifact

Federal government shutdown: Live fact-checks as Democrats, GOP spar over health care, layoffs

PolitiFact is live fact-checking the shutdown, including rhetoric from both sides of the aisle. Send fact-check suggestions to [email protected]. Live fact-checks, updates from the 2025 ...
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 ...
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.
The New York Times

Meta Says It Will End Its Fact-Checking Program on Social Media Posts

The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump ...
Poynter

The UK’s fact-checkers are sending their AI to help Americans cover elections

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 ...
New York Post

‘Fact check’ has become just another word for censorship

The CBS News moderators attempted to "fact-check" Sen. JD Vance during the vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images “Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: ...
New York Post

Here’s the fact check that ABC didn’t give Kamala Harris

During Tuesday night’s debate, ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis interrupted Donald Trump five times to “fact-check” his answers. They did the same to Kamala Harris … never. The vice ...
Poynter

Google backs away from search result snippets that address falsehoods

People’s complaints about Google search results — more spam, less usefulness — have been rising for a couple of years now. Previous complaints centered on product reviews, shopping and clickbait-y ...
SCOTUSblog

Just the facts?

Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the ...
CNN

Fact check: Cheaper Walmart Thanksgiving meal touted by Trump has fewer items than last year’s

President Donald Trump keeps touting the fact that Walmart’s promotional Thanksgiving meal basket is cheaper this year than it was last year. But Trump hasn’t mentioned that this year’s basket is ...