Fact-checking is changing how people do politics. At its best, this reporting makes officeholders, candidates, parties, staff and supporters more cautious about what they say. [...]

By running TV ads that recycled and repeated claims that journalists had previously found false, Kentucky Democrat Alison Grimes and the Republican Governors Association were [...]

"Shooting the messenger" is an especially loud way for newsmakers to respond to a pesky news organization. Another approach is a lot quieter. So quiet, [...]

Accusations of media bias are nothing new in political journalism. But those charges are particularly fraught for fact-checkers, whose roles require them to make factual [...]

Introduction Media fact-checking has become a fact of life for political professionals, especially at the national level and in places where local news organizations have [...]

Most newsrooms’ early efforts to referee political communication focused on the content of political advertising. During election seasons, just trying to keep up with those [...]

Of the various ways to respond to critical fact checks, perhaps the easiest is to simply modify or even drop a faulty message. But the [...]

Politicians talk about fact-checking — a lot. But "you don't have to take my word for it," as Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington once [...]

Even before PolitiFact's Lou Jacobson contacted a congressional press secretary back in 2010, the spokesman's boss had accumulated a disappointing series of low scores on [...]