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

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 ...

“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 ...

President Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night in a politically charged prime-time speech. In front of Christmas trees ...

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 ...

In a prime-time White House address, President Donald Trump told the nation that his 11 months in office have brought historic improvements to American lives after years of what he described as ...

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 ...

ABC News has compiled fact checks on some of President Trump's claims during his presidential address on Wednesday night.

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.

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

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. If the debate over fact-checking is much broader than Trump—especially in the week of the DNC—he is the main character in it ...