โLet it bring hopeโ: 2025 Pulitzer winners react Widely regarded as the top honor in U.S. journalism, the Pulitzers recognize outstanding journalism. The winners reacted accordingly. May 5, 2025 TyLisa Johnson
Opinion | Fact-checkers are out. The internet gets to vote on the truth now. As TikTok joins X and Meta in crowdsourcing fact-checks, hereโs what could go right โ and very wrong April 18, 2025 Ren LaForme
Opinion | A first-of-its-kind survey reveals just how glued kids are to their phones Theyโre spending up to four hours a day on a single app. And some sleep with their phones in hand. April 7, 2025 Tom Jones
Opinion | How journalism needs to adapt to the rise of news influencers Journalists should explore ways to mimic influencersโ strategies to engage audiences โ and bring their foundational skills with them January 9, 2025 Gregory Galant
As journalists think of leaving X for Bluesky and Threads, media experts see pros and cons A better overall experience might come with the tradeoff of a knock to public trust December 3, 2024 Amaris Castillo
Opinion | Structural problems with tech platforms prevent fact-checkers from focusing on harm and virality Information integrity wonโt improve without urgent changes to how fact-checkers do their work June 24, 2024 Baybars รrsek
Opinion | Could social media soon have warning labels? The US surgeon general wants a warning โ similar to those on tobacco products โ that points out mental health risks of TikTok, Instagram and others June 18, 2024 Tom Jones
Opinion | Letโs say it plainly: Fact-checking is not censorship Fact-checking adds to the public debate; it doesnโt suppress it April 2, 2024 Angie Drobnic Holan
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
How PolitiFact improved social media trust (and how your newsroom can do it, too) Over 100 days, we used these methods to improve our trust with audiences that only casually engage with our content. February 23, 2024 Ellen Hine
How Sora, OpenAIโs new text-to-video tool, could harm journalism and society If itโs as good as the demos make it look, we need to be ready for an onslaught of fake video, two Poynter AI experts warn February 20, 2024 Ren LaForme
โWho makes the memes?โ People keep asking, so meet Poynterโs meme maker. January 2, 2024 Ren LaForme
Opinion | The fog of war envelops social media Hamas and the Israeli government are pioneering ways to shape public opinion about the war through Telegram, X and other social sites. October 18, 2023 Tom Jones
Fact-checkers and the social media misinformation tsunami: A Q&A with Lucas Graves One of the foremost chroniclers of the fact-checking community on the rise of online misinformation and how it has come to dominate the field October 18, 2023 Angie Drobnic Holan
Whatโs Brian Stelter focused on ahead of 2024? While the media landscape is abundant, options for the casual consumer arenโt as easy to come by, the former CNN Reliable Sources host says. September 19, 2023 Josie Hollingsworth
