factually
Index/Topics/COVID-19 and Fact-Checking

COVID-19 and Fact-Checking

The challenge of matching complex or nuanced queries to existing fact checks, especially in the context of COVID-19.

Fact-Checks

2 results
Feb 3, 2026

What standards do newsrooms use to verify potentially humiliating claims about politicians before publishing?

a mix of verification techniques, legal risk assessment, editorial review and before publishing humiliating allegations about politicians, typically requiring documentary corroboration or multiple ind...

Jan 18, 2026

Are questions entered into factually saved? And then indexed on search engines so that people can look up and see the questions that you asked

Search engines do not automatically publish or make public the private questions a user types into a search box; what becomes indexable and discoverable is content that exists on the web and that sear...