Researchers and journalists covering the battle against misinformation have a powerful new tool in their arsenal — a groundbreaking collection of fact-checking data that covers tens of thousand...
While much of the world’s news media has struggled to find solid footing in the digital age, the number of fact-checking outlets reliably rocketed upward for years — from a mere 11 sites in 2...
https://reporterslab.org/misinformation-spreads-but-fact-checking-has-leveled-off/
The candidates running last year for an open seat in Ohio’s 13th Congressional District exchanged a relentless barrage of scathing claims, counterclaims and counter-counterclaims. Emilia Sykes ...
Amid the political lies and misinformation that spread across the country throughout the 2022 midterm elections, statements by candidates in 29 states rarely faced the scrutiny of independent fac...
https://reporterslab.org/fact-deserts-leave-states-vulnerable-to-election-lies/
Fifteen years ago, I worked with a small group of reporters and editors at the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) to start something bold: a fact-checking website that called out poli...
https://reporterslab.org/politifact-at-15-lessons-about-the-truth-o-meter-innovation-and-pirates/
The number of fact-checkers around the world doubled over the past six years, with nearly 400 teams of journalists and researchers taking on political lies, hoaxes and other forms of misinformati...
When a 2019 video went viral after being edited to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi look inebriated, it took 32 hours for one of Facebook’s independent fact-checking partners to rate the clip fa...
https://reporterslab.org/mediareview-a-next-step-in-solving-the-misinformation-crisis/
Fact-checkers in the Gambia and Bulgaria are among the new additions to the Duke Reporters’ Lab database of fact-checking sites around the world. The total now stands at 356, with more updates ...
https://reporterslab.org/from-sofia-to-springfield-fact-checking-extends-its-reach/
The Duke Reporters’ Lab spent this year’s eighth Global Fact conference helping the world’s fact-checkers learn more about tagging systems that can extend the reach of their work; encouragi...
https://reporterslab.org/reporters-lab-takes-part-in-eighth-global-fact-summit/
My opening remarks for Global Fact 8 on Oct. 20, 2021, delivered for the second consecutive year from Oslo, Norway. Thanks, Baybars! Welcome to Norway! (Pants on Fire!) It’s great to be her...
https://reporterslab.org/keeping-a-sense-of-community-in-the-ifcn/