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 [...]
False information on Twitter overpowers efforts to correct it by a ratio of about 3 to 1, according to a study published today by the [...]
The amount of fact-checking journalism produced in the United States is increasing dramatically, and while there are limits to its persuasiveness, it is a measurably [...]
To help understand the spread of rumors, look at them as if they’re viruses. Rumors “are nothing more than long strands of information seeking to [...]
Iowa has long been an epicenter for U.S. politics, as home to the first-in-the nation presidential caucuses. This year, with the caucuses and the 2016 presidential [...]
Consider the following sentence: Their may be some mistakes, but we are the ones to place you’re trust with. No news organization would print this [...]
A new report on misinformation in media is critical of the role journalists play in spreading misinformation, either by carelessly repeating it or purposely ignoring it. [...]
The San Diego businessman was looking for funding for his tech startup – not particularly unusual in California. But when A. Latham Staples began dropping [...]
Earlier this month, on the same day Rolling Stone magazine issued an apology for errors in a jarring story about campus rape, a small newspaper [...]
During the G20 Summit in Australia in November, fact-checking organizations from the United States and six other countries, as well as FactCheckEU, collaborated in fact [...]
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