AI-powered fact-checking tools can greatly speed up journalists' efforts to analyze all kinds of content, from images and video, to audio recordings and text. “AI has undeniably become an essential ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking is an innovative form of journalism that has been forced to develop amid a “deep change in the conditions of practicing journalism,” the head of a foundation that ...

Back in January, Meta made a bold move — it dropped third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram and replaced it with community notes. The company said this change was about deepening its ...

On eggs, Mr. Trump is correct that the wholesale price of eggs had fallen from more than $8 a dozen in late February to $1.45 ...

President Donald Trump is no stranger to taking on the so-called fake news directly on social media. But senior officials in his second administration are increasingly adopting their boss’s robust ...

Following the success of its initial media literacy campaign, Legit.ng, a top Nigerian digital media outlet, has launched a free, edutainment-style fact-checking course. The initiative is a direct ...

President Trump's prime-time address highlighted his administration's achievements, leading to fact-checking on claims about ...

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 ...

As applause filled the hall at the Jardin Savana Hotel in Dakar, Senegal, Valdez Onanina stepped forward to hand certificates of distinguished service to three people who helped shape fact-checking in ...

My colleague Patrick LaForge offered this timely reminder: Fact-checking is in vogue, and for some reason the language of facts attracts all types of usage problems. I reviewed some of the more common ...