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How a fact check led to a rare retraction from Iran’s supreme leader

The Ayatollah and state media walked back claims about the size of Iran’s economy after two checks by FactNameh's went viral

April 21, 2021

Harrison Mantas

Today: snippets of code for Google News; tomorrow: academic research and maybe a Grandpa Alert

ClaimReview now includes 100,000 fact-checks, and is helping to develop new tools and bring new understanding to the fight against falsehoods.

February 22, 2021

Fact-checkers need to work together to create better models for distributing our fact-checks online

Leer en español | Ler em portugues This post is published on the websites of the…

October 5, 2020

The International Fact-Checking Network

4 fact-checking organizations seeking social impact

Some fact-checkers see fighting misinformation as both a social initiative and an effort to extend fact-checking to a wider community

September 30, 2020

Kansu Ekin Tanca

How fact-checkers are staying ahead of the COVID-19 whack-a-mole

This article was originally published by Dubawa, a Nigerian fact-checking project, and is republished here with…

April 14, 2020