Civic Discourse & Democracy

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 [...]

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 [...]