IN THE 1950S, TO CAPTURE WHAT IT WAS LIKE to have his stories sunk by a fact-checker, a Time magazine writer came up with a song. “I don’t think we can say this / I don’t like how we play this / I’m ...

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 ...

Fact-checkers are facing severe challenges and political pressure while doing their "honorable" and "patriotic" work, one director warned. On Wednesday, International Fact-Checking Network Director ...

“I take it on faith that doing more of it will have a positive effect on democracy. I would love some evidence that it’s true. If you have any that it’s not, I’m not going to pay any attention to it.” ...

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