From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter ...

We agree with some very prominent people. Here's our proposal... Fact Checking Day on April 2, 2026 marks almost a year since ...

At such a tense moment, fact-checking is crucial. PolitiFact and other fact-checking outlets around the world, including Agence France-Presse, Germany’s Deutsche Welle, Iran’s Factnameh, India’s BOOM, ...

Thursday, the 10th annual International Fact-Checking Day, provides a good opportunity to look at these evolving challenges.

Okla., will appear before a Senate committee March 18 for his confirmation hearing for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. President Donald ...

Content-neutral prompts improve critical thinking, slightly reducing misinformation sharing across large social media audiences.

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April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day. To commemorate it, we produced a video of various mentions of our work over 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...