Overview These should be heady days for fact-checkers. In an industry that has not otherwise been enjoying robust growth, the number of media outlets focused [...]
Politicians have lied throughout history, but today’s political climate presents particular challenges to fact-checkers — and that was the concern of journalists and others gathered [...]
Although much of the summit discussion centered on challenges facing fact-checkers during the 2016 election and aftermath, people remained optimistic that the enterprise as a [...]
Way back in the spring of 2015 — long before false accusations of massive voter fraud and pizza-shop sex rings and before the Facebook fake-news beatdown [...]
When covering an election, journalists choose a mix of two basic types of reporting — “voter guide” pieces that examine the issue positions and values [...]
The 2016 presidential election has been marked by several head-spinning “firsts” — people and practices not seen in the history of U.S. politics. One of [...]
It’s been seven years since PolitiFact won the Pulitzer Prize. Thirteen years since FactCheck.org launched. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker published its first fact-check in 2007. [...]
In one of the most fact-free elections in history that features two of the most mistrusted candidates in history, there may be a bit of [...]
In our newsletter, “The Week in Fact-Checking,” we like to highlight the best fact checks we’ve seen around the world. Frankly, we’d like to honor [...]
If a fact-check falls into a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Apologies for the old trope, [...]
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