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The process of fact-checking and its importance in verifying information.
There is no credible, verified evidence that Donald Trump soiled his pants; multiple fact-checkers have identified falsified headlines and viral clips as miscaptioned or fabricated, and news organizat...
A widely shared line that purports to be Donald Trump saying “If I were to run, I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters…” is not a genuine quote and traces to a viral meme, not a ...
Independent investigators — notably The New York Times’ video team, the open-source investigation group Bellingcat, and the Paris-based NGO Index — each synchronized multiple witness, surveillance and...
The gruesome anecdote that Joseph Stalin plucked a live chicken to demonstrate how easily people can be controlled most likely did not occur as a literal event; it first surfaces decades after Stalin’...
AllSides is a valuable tool for contextualizing and cross-checking the political slant of fact-checkers and news outlets, offering bias ratings, aggregated fact-check feeds, and a Fact Check Bias Char...
Erika Kirk’s publicly documented marital history shows a single recorded marriage: to Charlie Kirk in 2021, after they began dating around 2018–2019 and became engaged in late 2020 . Repeated online r...
The claim that a Texas church called the police on monks who were resting is not supported by any verified reporting found in these sources; a fact-checking social post explicitly states no reports we...
Fact‑checkers across Reuters, USA Today, Logically, AFP/CEDMO and other outlets concluded the viral clips do not show Buzz Aldrin admitting the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked; instead, they found he...
A review of the materials provided shows no reporting that names the specific media outlets which published excerpts of the diary in question, so this analysis first explains that evidence gap and the...
Publicly available reporting shows no verified instance of Dr. Oz endorsing a product called “Gelatide” or a branded “pink gelatin” miracle cure, and multiple fact‑check and health‑site investigations...
AllSides is a widely used media-bias aggregator that publicly rates over a thousand outlets and fact-checkers using a mix of multipartisan editorial reviews and blind surveys; it positions itself as a...
Legacy outlets lean on an “institutional model” — editors, fact‑checkers, and resource‑intensive reporting — to vet claims that originate on platforms like Substack . Critics argue that this model can...
The authoritative, downloadable text of former President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15, 2024 press conference in Bedminster is available from multiple transcript services and news outlets: Roll Call’s Factba...
A clear numeric rivalry exists in public debate: most reputable analyses of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data conclude Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw more removals (deportations and r...