Why efforts to revoke Zohran Mamdani’s US citizenship are unlikely to succeed Immigration law experts say attempts to challenge the New York City mayor-elect’s citizenship have little legal basis or precedent November 11, 2025 Samantha Putterman
Trump’s ‘rigged’ California vote claim misuses data and distorts facts Trump’s claim rests on one fraud case and bad data. Noncitizen voting is rare, and there’s no evidence of a statewide conspiracy. November 7, 2025 Grace Abels
Trump’s White House is testing the limits of AI-driven political messaging AI-generated images have become a hallmark of the administration’s communication strategy, blending satire, spectacle and politics October 28, 2025 Loreben Tuquero
JD Vance blames the left for political violence. Decades of data tell another story. The vice president pointed to a six-month snapshot of rising left-wing attacks. The longer trend tells a very different story. October 22, 2025 Amy Sherman
Trump officials want to pull aluminum from vaccines. Public health experts say that move defies science. The metal has been used safely for nearly a century to boost immune response. But misinformation keeps finding new targets. October 21, 2025 Madison Czopek
Opinion | Sora 2 launched to doomsday headlines. How bad is it really? OpenAI’s new video generator can create realistic clips of almost anything. While early results are often absurd, experts say the risks are real. October 20, 2025 Ren LaForme
As tech giants retreat, Africa’s fact-checkers are finding new ways to survive With Meta and Google pulling back funding, African journalists are building local networks to keep truth-telling alive October 16, 2025 Enock Nyariki
Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s claims about peace, war and Iran after his Israel address From ‘eight wars in eight months’ to Iran’s nuclear sites, several of Trump’s statements went beyond the evidence October 14, 2025 Louis Jacobson
President Donald Trump’s Labor Day weekend was quiet, but his schedule was not ‘suspended’ Trump had multiple meetings and public appearances from Aug. 25 to Sept. 2. News photographs chronicled him coming and going. September 3, 2025 Maria Briceño
Iceland has mostly avoided misinformation. That may be changing. Experts say social media and AI are eroding the protections of language, geography and trust that long kept the island insulated August 26, 2025 Louis Jacobson
Trump officials have made sweeping claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Here’s what the record shows. While Trump officials describe him as a gang member and predator, court records paint a more complicated — and at times contradictory — picture August 26, 2025 Maria Ramirez Uribe
Spotting the harmful needles in the haystack: How fact-checkers select what to check A rigorous model helps fact-checkers prioritize which claims to check based on their potential for harm August 5, 2025 Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Thousands saw a story that two girls were rescued from a tree in the Texas flood. It was fake. The story of a local news site's retracted report offers warnings about the need for vigilance against misinformation during disasters July 7, 2025 Loreben Tuquero
International fact-checkers seek ways to evolve amid funding changes, rise of artificial intelligence Hundreds of fact-checkers from around the world gathered at GlobalFact to discuss innovation opportunities amid industry challenges July 1, 2025 Maria Ramirez Uribe
What is thimerosal, and why did RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel just vote against it? The preservative is in a small share of flu shots and has been studied for decades. Experts say it’s safe — despite Kennedy’s long opposition. July 1, 2025 Madison Czopek
