The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of ...

Arlington, Virginia (July 12, 2024) — PBS News and PolitiFact, the political fact-checking website operated by the nonprofit Poynter Institute, today announced a partnership that will run through the ...

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact.com. President Donald Trump has long leaned into his background as a real ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, speaks during an appearance at SIGGRAPH 2024, the premier conference on computer ...

“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 ...

On Feb. 28, the world learned that the United States and Israel had launched wide-ranging attacks on Iranian military and leadership targets. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran had been building for ...

Meta announced it's ending third-party fact-checking on its platforms, calling the decision a return to a “fundamental commitment to free expression.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the rules had become too ...

WASHINGTON — In a case that could chill freedom of speech and adversely affect misinformation research and fact-checking, lawyers representing academics, journalists and researchers argued in federal ...

Meta’s independent oversight board on Wednesday rebuked the company for scrapping the social-media giant’s fact-checking policy earlier this year – urging Mark Zuckerberg’s firm to assess “potential ...

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will start testing its new Community Notes fact-checking tool next week, part of a shift toward having users police content ...