Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists False claims about vaccines are still prevalent despite multiple studies showing they saved lives and do not cause deaths or other illness March 18, 2024 Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu
What experts say happened with Princess Kate’s photo and how to spot manipulated content online As generative AI and other digital editing tools become more sophisticated, experts say it will be more difficult to spot fake or manipulated content March 15, 2024 Samantha Putterman
What the Princess Kate photo reveals about misinformation threats during elections At SXSW, CNN and the Washington Post editors explained that seeing is no longer believing, and how their outlets handled the image March 14, 2024 Alex Mahadevan
No, Mel Gibson didn’t release a video of satanic rituals on Jeffrey Epstein’s island We found no evidence to support the claim, including credible news reports or statements from Gibson. March 13, 2024 Ciara O'Rourke
Did Biden ban TikTok for US workers but start a campaign account? Fact-checking Sen. Britt In 2022, Biden banned the use of TikTok by federal government employees on devices owned by agencies. Biden’s campaign posted its first TikTok in Feb. March 12, 2024 Loreben Tuquero
MediaWise’s peer-to-peer global network launches in Canada Poynter partners with MediaSmarts to launch the Teen Fact-Checking Network in English and French March 11, 2024 Poynter Staff
A Tucker Carlson clip of a Biden gaffe is 4 years old, not from ‘Saturday’ Biden did stumble over his words, but the incident isn’t recent; it’s from an excerpt of a ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ episode that aired in 2020. March 11, 2024 Loreben Tuquero
Can social media platform outages impact US elections? Not likely, experts say Election officials in multiple jurisdictions told PolitiFact the March 5 Meta outages outages did not affect voting. March 7, 2024 Madison Czopek
A Texas petition that outlaws ‘aerosolized spraying’ doesn’t prove chemtrails are real The conspiracy theory claims that condensation trails behind aircraft are part of a secret program to poison the atmosphere with toxic chemicals. March 6, 2024 Loreben Tuquero
Biden, Trump and the economy: Who did better on inflation, jobs, gasoline prices and more? No president is all-powerful on economic matters. And there’s no simple answer for who has been the better steward. But here are some numbers. March 5, 2024 Louis Jacobson