An AI-generated image of U.S. authorities flanking Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been used by some social media ...

A video of armed police responding to a parking dispute at a British shopping centre has been miscaptioned online as showing ...

Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of ...

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 ...

Which are more important: true words, or beautiful words? “The Lifespan of a Fact,” a book by John D’Agata, a writer, and Jim Fingal, a former intern and fact-checker at The Believer, purports to ...

Since fact-checkers present themselves as arbiters of truth, it's only fair that readers wonder if we're being, well, truthful. So it's no surprise that "Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?" is a ...

PolitiFact has developed many strategies for fact-checking over the years. But one simple tool remains tried and true: the checklist. We find that using a checklist — a simple yet consistent list of ...

No, Tesco has not been selling a bag of carrots grown in Chernobyl. No, a picture of the Prime Minister strolling down the street in a pink hijab isn’t real. And no, Bill Gates isn’t making ‘maggot ...

If politicians utter dubious statements on the campaign trail and fact-checkers are around to hear them, will those fact-checkers rate the statements with agreeing skepticism? If the checkers are ...

Fact-checking under President Trump was a bustling business. Seemingly every day, and sometimes by the hour, the 45th president’s every word was scrutinized, which all comes with the job. But under ...

Child trafficking affects every country in the world, including the United States. Children make up 27% of all human trafficking victims worldwide, and two out of every three identified child victims ...

Fact: Sea otters hold hands when they sleep. They do that because it keeps them from floating away from each other while they sleep. Here are some other fun facts about animals. Their names were Wayne ...