Repetition boosts lies — but could help fact-checkers, too
You can't remember all the things you know all of the time, so you rely…
May 30, 2017
Impact of fact-checking
Fact-checking changes minds but not votes, according to new research
Facts-don't-matter headline writers take note: According to new research, fact-checking may be an effective medicine…
March 1, 2017
Fact-checking doesn’t ‘backfire,’ new study suggests
In just over four months, at least 50 different journalists or politicians have declared this…
November 2, 2016
Surprise! Readers may actually pay attention to fact-checking
This may come as an unpleasant surprise to all those "post-fact" headline writers: A new…
September 22, 2016
The more partisan your online media diet, the less likely you are to believe fact-checkers
Reading lots of partisan news online makes you more likely to hold inaccurate beliefs even…
August 24, 2016
The 2016 international fact-checking fellows will study automation and fact-checking on TV
The 2016 recipients of the Poynter international fact-checking fellowship are Cristina Tardáguila, director of Brazilian…
July 25, 2016
What the world’s fact-checkers make of the Trump phenomenon
Donald Trump has given fact-checkers in the United States plenty of work. Yet his apparent…
June 16, 2016
A new website in Northern Ireland hopes fact-checking will be a tool for reconciliation
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The metal gate on Lanark Way is approximately 13 feet high and…
April 11, 2016
Fact-checking matters — here are 6 metrics to help prove it
Jeb Bush (remember him?) revised a factual claim in a speech in order not to…
March 30, 2016
There are 96 fact-checking projects in 37 countries, new census finds
The latest census of fact-checking and promise-tracking initiatives shows 96 such projects currently operating in…
February 16, 2016
For fact-checking to be sustainable, fact-checking organisations need to become obsolete
In mid-January 2016, the office of the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa issued…
January 22, 2016
Argentinian fact-checkers Chequeado increased their traffic 750% by sharing more and better
Chequeado, the Argentinian fact-checking website, had a good year in 2015 (read about the impact…
January 8, 2016
Fact-checking: does anyone even care?
Last year ended with a lot of discussion among media types in the U.S. and…
January 8, 2016
2016 will be the year of automated, weaponized and outsourced fact-checking
In the U.S. and elsewhere, 2016 holds great potential for fact-checkers, and not merely in…
December 16, 2015
Why PolitiFact’s partnership with NBC News is a big deal
PolitiFact and NBC News announced on Sunday a broad partnership to "fact-check the 2016 election."…
December 14, 2015
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