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A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that “Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods [has] failed to make a dent.” The claim would fail a ...

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 ...

Fact-checkers delivered a mixed verdict on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, backing some immigration and crime claims while disputing others on voter fraud, Medicaid and foreign ...

This article was originally published by the Duke Reporters’ Lab and is republished here with permission. After years of weeding through the ever-growing tangle of misinformation, journalists and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fact-checkers delivered a mixed verdict on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, backing some immigration and crime ...