When reporting on competing factual claims, journalists can call foul. Acting as a referee, journalists can analyze which statement squares with the evidence. But should [...]
A fake news story that claimed the legal drinking age in the U.S. would soon change to 25 began appearing on social media early this [...]
Bob Smietana, a religion news writer and president of the Religion Newswriters Association, has an admittedly bad habit — using his smartphone in church during [...]
The bogus tweets and photos that marred social media coverage of events like the Arab uprising and Hurricane Sandy have spurred the development of a number of fact-checking [...]
On the popular Sunday political talk shows, the talk isn’t always precise. Facts can be fuzzy, questions confusing, answers circuitous. It’s great fodder for the [...]
For Margo Gontar, a Ukrainian living in Kiev, music is “essential like breathing.” She holds a graduate degree from the Mohyla School of Journalism in [...]
Thursday, June 12 The un-facts and the unfactual would get a new nemesis under a proposed international fact-checking organization — a group born out of [...]
In the world of fact-checking, a phenomenon sometimes known as “the backfire effect” can flummox a journalist who’s worked diligently to develop an airtight fact-check. Many [...]
“In the end, I think that fact checking prevents the spread of disinformation, [keeping it] from being worse than what it could be.” — Dr. [...]
For journalists, there’s one thing that might be worse than getting a fact wrong: getting the fact-checking wrong. What’s the best way to infuse solid fact-checking into [...]
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