Top political fact-checking website explains why editors have dubbed 2025 the ‘Year of the Lies’ - Since 2009, Politifact has ...

President Donald Trump said during his presidential address on Wednesday night that his administration is "bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin," claiming that he has brought prices down ...

Fact-checkers are facing severe challenges and political pressure while doing their "honorable" and "patriotic" work, one director warned. On Wednesday, International Fact-Checking Network Director ...

President Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night in a politically charged prime-time speech. In front of Christmas trees at the White House, he blamed Joe Biden and the Democrats in general for ...

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you ...

In a break from tradition, President Donald Trump decorated a White House walkway with bronze plaques for each U.S. president. In an even sharper break with tradition, the plaques were written in a ...

The president's prime-time speech included false statements about the price of gas, the number of new power plants and the cost of electricity.

Most election deepfakes turned out to be duds. Say goodbye to official fact-checking on Meta social media sites. The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on ...

After eight years of working with professional journalists to flag misinformation on its platforms, Meta will turn that task over to users. The tech giant — which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads ...

April 2 is a big day. For U.S. President Donald Trump, it’s what he’s described as "liberation day," the date he planned to roll out "reciprocal" tariffs with countries that have trade imbalances with ...

For Big Tech companies, the Global South has long been little more than an afterthought. The rollback of any form of robust or credible fact-checking on both X and Meta demonstrates this all too ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the ...