Civic Discourse & Democracy

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, [...]

At American Press Institute we have the benefit of building upon the work of the Newspaper Association of America’s Foundation, with which API merged with [...]

The Washington Post’s popular weekly column, “What was fake on the Internet this week,” ended Friday after 19 months of debunking stories about new Oreo [...]

When the American Press Institute launched its fact-checking project in early 2014, we quickly began to understand that some people didn’t understand. The meaning of [...]

Most people who studied journalism or communication at a broad selection of schools across the United States believe that fact-checking journalism — a relatively new [...]

Evidence-based recommendations for journalists In this summary of her research, Emily Thorson of George Washington University offers recommendations to journalists who write about public policy issues. [...]

The National Geographic Channel in June released an ambitious project that took eight months to complete: a (very bloody) hands-on, boots-on examination of what it [...]

Upworthy defines itself as a curation site for “compelling, meaningful” content — and that content is typically shared widely, often going viral. When Upworthy was [...]

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 [...]