On Feb. 28, the world learned that the United States and Israel had launched wide-ranging attacks on Iranian military and leadership targets. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran had been building for ...

The point is that regularly doing these exercises can help prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia — or, at least, that’s the claim.

Browse the Truth-O-Meter Fact-checking Donald Trump on inflation rate at State of the Union Clear Donald Trump stated on April 23, 2026 in remarks at the White House: ...

A new IFCN report finds fact-checking organizations cut staff and relied more heavily on grants as financial pressure mounted ...

My colleague Patrick LaForge offered this timely reminder: Fact-checking is in vogue, and for some reason the language of facts attracts all types of usage problems. I reviewed some of the more common ...

Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American journals, writers were driven to distraction by the fanatical fact-checking characteristic of the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (January 30, 2026) – PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact-checking newsroom based at the Poynter Institute, is the focus of a television documentary premiering this week ...

In a free-wheeling speech to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump made a series of contested claims. Trump touched on his desire to obtain Greenland from ...

Media accountability feels broken when billionaires can secretly bankrupt entire outlets, but Peter Thiel’s latest venture promises a different approach to fact-checking journalism. Objection.ai ...

As social media platforms increasingly lean on artificial intelligence to spot misinformation, new research suggests those tools don’t work equally well for everyone. In two large online experiments ...

A rumor spread online that Trump posted an image on Truth Social depicting himself in the likeness of Jesus Christ. Trump told reporters he did post the image, but said he thought it showed him as a ...