The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of ...
A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that “Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods [has] failed to make a dent.” The claim would fail a ...
This article was originally published by the Duke Reporters’ Lab and is republished here with permission. After years of weeding through the ever-growing tangle of misinformation, journalists and ...
As social media platforms increasingly lean on artificial intelligence to spot misinformation, new research suggests those tools don’t work equally well for everyone. In two large online experiments ...
Fact-checkers delivered a mixed verdict on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, backing some immigration and crime claims while disputing others on voter fraud, Medicaid and foreign ...
President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was the latest example of how our “independent fact-checkers” are better defined as Democrat-dependent messaging machines. Their ...