This year’s Inauguration Day seating chart crammed a whole lot of Silicon Valley into Washington: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and X owner Elon Musk ...
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 ...
During a recent visit to the London offices of the fact-checking organization Full Fact, I noticed an important question written on a whiteboard as the team prepared to fact-check the United Kingdom’s ...
See, here's the thing with "fact-checking": It only works if you check claims with facts. Known facts. I'd like to think that ...
In 2005, when the Iraq War was well under way, a couple of political scientists looked at how people responded when they were told that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. It had been a key ...
"In an era where false claims are the norm, it's much easier to ignore the fact-checkers." Those are the final words of the final column of Glenn Kessler, who has been The Fact Checker at the ...
Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation. Earlier this month, X enabled users to ...
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 ...