Top political fact-checking website explains why editors have dubbed 2025 the ‘Year of the Lies’ - Since 2009, Politifact has published its annual ‘Lie of the Year,’ taken from its own analysis as wel

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 Angie Drobnic Holan penned an op-ed for Poynter to mark ...

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 economic challenges and inflation.

“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 consider Meta's decision to end a fact-checking ...

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 immigration and economic chaos.

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 — announced Tuesday that in the United States, it ...

The executive director of the fact-checking site PolitiFact ripped Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday after the billionaire tech boss announced that his platforms would end fact-checking. In an X post, Aaron Sharockman condemned Zuckerberg’s decision ...

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 clearly. While the majority of X and Meta’s users remain ...