Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is ...

Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of ...

The most obvious takeaway from the incident is that it was a badly needed wake-up call about what can happen when AI gets too embedded in our information ecosystem. But CEO Melissa Bell resisted the ...

“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 ...

CNN's star fact-checker Daniel Dale has made quite a splash during President Donald Trump's first 80 days in office, earning himself exponentially more air time in comparison to the same period under ...

It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook ...

The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He ...

President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This chilling effect on information research is not an aberration. In a recently ...

Yesterday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would end fact-checking on its platform. In the process, a partnership with the network of third parties that has provided review and ...

MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill is “just a tax break for billionaires.” FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest middle- and working-class tax cut in U.S. history. The President’s ...