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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 ...

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 ...

A video of a man ducking amid gunfire during the July 13 assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump has been shared with unsubstantiated claims he was shot by a second shooter. The ...

Facebook parent company Meta revealed sweeping changes on Tuesday that will alter the way the social media giant moderates content and combats the spread of misinformation on its platforms. The policy ...

A new IFCN report finds fact-checking organizations cut staff and relied more heavily on grants as financial pressure mounted ...

Reuters Fact Check addresses online misinformation with coverage that maintains accuracy, integrity and impartiality. The ...

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 ...

This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. CHICAGO — President Joe Biden, in an often fiery speech, addressed a Democratic convention for which, until just a few weeks earlier, he had expected ...

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.

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 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 ...