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April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day, purposefully set the day after April Fools’ Day (when mistruths are encouraged). The day was launched in 2016 by the International Fact-Checking Network, ...

PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. PolitiFact has fact-checked 1,144 of Trump’s statements since 2011. Tonight, we’ll draw on ...

President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was the longest in history.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times President Trump claimed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday ...

An old study based on UK Biobank participants which observed that people with higher sunscreen use also had an increased risk of skin cancer has been misrepresented online as suggesting that sunscreen ...

This commentary was published in commemoration of International Fact-Checking Day, held April 2 each year to recognize the work of fact-checkers worldwide. For much of the last decade, fact-checking ...

There is so much going on in the news that it can be easy to overlook the fact that the president continues to tell a whole lot of lies.

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump was impeached twice by the House of ...

Fact-check: A video is being shared on the internet, falsely claiming to show Iranians burning the Indian flag along with Israeli and American flags.

If we’re eliminating whole categories of journalism — which certainly seems to be the case for sports reporting — can we also do away with the “fact check” genre? It has always been a silly gimmick, ...

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