Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

Layla Ferris is a verification producer with CBS News Confirmed. She previously worked at ABC News and Storyful. She specializes in breaking news coverage, visual verification and open-source research ...

President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was the longest in history.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times President Trump claimed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday ...

Inflation under Trump: Near the end of the speech, Trump falsely claimed, “Inflation is stopped.” Inflation hasn’t stopped; the most recent available year-over-year inflation rate at the time he spoke ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking journalism around the world is at a crossroads. Democracies are weakening. Social media platforms are withdrawing their financial support for fact-checking. And the ...

TRUMP: "Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country, and ...

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 ...

Every tribe has its myths, and journalists are no exception. In America, one common story goes like this: once, in the prelapsarian era before social media—or before smartphones, or the Internet—there ...

With Meta announcing it is ending its third-party fact-checking program and moving to a community notes model similar to the social platform X, it's more important than ever to follow trusted sources ...

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