In a bid to fight back against mass online disinformation, an increasing number of fact-checking outlets are cropping up online. Some are integrated into traditional newsrooms, while others are ...

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Misinformation is nothing new. It has, however, become ubiquitous and, in some cases, more difficult and time-consuming than ever to ...

A claim that Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fraudulently redeemed her deceased grandmother’s retirement benefit first emerged on a website that says it publishes satirical and ...

The fact-checking website PolitiFact defended Democratic New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani from President Donald Trump's claims he was a "communist" last week, saying the rejoinder was ...

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 ...

A rumor that users circulated online in March 2025 claimed tech billionaire Elon Musk announced he acquired the MSNBC cable news network for $900 million. Musk, an adviser to Republican U.S. President ...

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 ...

(CNN) — President Donald Trump over the weekend called for the prosecution of music superstar Beyoncé – based on something that did not actually happen. Trump claimed in a social media post that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court denied review of a lawsuit filed against Meta and the Poynter Institute, PolitiFact’s parent organization, by Children’s Health Defense, a legal advocacy group founded by Robert ...

Local airlines’ official communication channels mention no such promotion, while URL scanners show that registration links in the false posts lead to an unrelated blog site ...