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Who owns Snopes? Fact check site trends online as Congresswoman's “listen to Snopes” tweet goes viral

Snopes, one of the more well-known fact-checking sites on the internet, is in the news again, not for falsifying a hoax, but for making itself part of the story. The website started trending online ...
MEAWW News

Fact Check: Is image showing Melania Trump kissing Jeffrey Epstein on the cheek real?

The image went viral after President Donald Trump signed a bill mandating the release of documents related to Epstein's crime ...
Fox News

Newsom debuts rapid-response website as critics accuse him of prioritizing presidential ambitions

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., a potential 2028 presidential candidate, launched a new fact-check website on Wednesday targeting "right-wing misinformation," as a new poll found more than half of ...
Poynter

Fact-checkers from Brazil, Indonesia and the US win 2025 Global Fact-Checking Awards

RIO DE JANEIRO — The International Fact-Checking Network honored four news organizations from around the world for their excellence in fact-checking across four categories as part of the 2025 Global ...
Rappler

FACT CHECK: Christmas bonus links for 4Ps members, non-members, are fake, lead to phishing websites

AI analysis shows the video is 99% AI-generated. The video has no record on official DSWD channels and directs users to forms that collect personal information.
Reuters

Fact Check: Cleveland Clinic myocarditis language misrepresented as COVID vaccine news

A Cleveland Clinic web page describing myocarditis survival rates was misrepresented online as news that millions who received COVID-19 vaccines were about to die. A spokesperson for the Cleveland ...
New York Post

Ex-Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler reveals what he got wrong — but still bashes Trump

Political figures once dreaded being hit with a fact-check. Whether it’s receiving Pinocchios from The Washington Post or earning “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, the fact-checker industry used to ...
NPR

Former New Yorker fact checker Austin Kelley on his novel and being inspired by real life

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Austin Kelley, a former New Yorker fact checker, about his novel, "The Fact Checker," about a man's attempt to solve a possible mystery at the farmer's market. A fact ...
TechCrunch

X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation

Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation. Earlier this month, X enabled users to ...
Rappler

FACT CHECK: PCSO scholarship application reel is fake, leads to phishing websites

A circulating Facebook reel sharing registration links for a PCSO scholarship program is AI-generated, with links leading to phishing websites ...
Fox News

Ex-Washington Post fact checker owns up to poorly-aged report but remains defiant against his critics

Political figures once dreaded being hit with a fact-check. Whether it's receiving Pinocchios from The Washington Post or earning "Lie of the Year" by PolitiFact, the fact-checker industry used to ...