fact checking

A new study in Nature suggests that shifting reader attention online can help combat the spread of inaccurate…

Online platforms are in the midst of a reckoning, and it hasn’t been pretty. Disinformation campaigns and conspiracy…

Normally I’m one to give credit where credit is due. But when you’re talking about a company with Facebook’s extensiv…

This morning Google announced it’s rolled out an entire suite of tools designed to make journalists’ jobs easier.…

Misinformation is rampant online, but while it’s pretty easy to debunk a spurious article or rumor, it can be a bit…

Twitter shows no signs of letting up on fact-checking false tweets. The social media platform is now labeling tweets…

At the end of 2016, Facebook decided to finally do something about its misinformation problem. It tasked a bunch of…

Facebook is expanding the scope of its fact-checking partnerships to include photo and video posts in 17 countries,…

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of…

Last week, conservatives cried foul over Google’s latest attempt to provide past examples of fact-checking for news…

Ever since the term was popularized by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump—and subsequently appropriated by…

As we move towards eventually annotating the entire internet for truthiness, Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump, h…

Look out bullshit peddlers, the robot fact-checkers are coming to get you. Researchers at Indiana University have…

One fake, two fakes. Red fakes, blue fakes. Today we've got more fake images that you may have seen recently on Twi…

A few months ago we did a little fact-checking and found out that UberFacts is full of shit . So we wanted to give…

Lisbeth Salander, the hacker-babe protagonist of Stieg Larsson's hugely popular Girl With... novels, infiltrates…