#Factchecking

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A local paper is again facing criticism for its use of AI, and at a journalism conference in Italy, fact-checkers question the state of the internet.

Democrats running for reelection this year say President Donald Trump’s actions are hurting Americans’ wallets, with gasoline prices soaring since the U.

The Oversight Board, a body created by Meta to review content moderation policies, issued guidance on March 26 about the company’s community notes program, which replaced the company’s third-party fact-checking […] The post IFCN Di...

President Donald Trump sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to some U.

Amid false information spread during the Iran war, the Trump administration warned that the Iranian regime was misinforming people with the help of generative artificial intelligence.

During the second week of the Iran war, social media platforms were rife with claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu died.

This viral video of a child grieving a fallen US service member was generated by AI

With the Iran war prompting oil transport blockages in the Middle East that are pushing up oil and gasoline prices, Energy Secretary Chris Wright has become a public face of […] The post The US exports oil, but that won’t shield Am...

When President Donald Trump said Iran was responsible for the missile strike on a girls’ elementary school, he preempted an ongoing military investigation and contradicted forensic analyses by multiple news […] The post Trump blame...

The United States’ military attacks against Iran were barely a week old when a controversial topic surfaced: Could the war require the first military draft since the early 1970s?

Social media posts claim Iran released a list of US target cities. That’s not true

Markwayne Mullin talked about the smell of war on Fox News. His record shows no military service

How Ali Khamenei used numbers, narratives and conspiracy to shape reality in Iran

Do airstrikes alone produce regime change? Experts say history supports Chris Murphy’s ‘Face the Nation’ claim that they don’t.

Farhad Souzanchi — an Iranian fact-checker who goes by a pseudonym out of fear for his family’s safety — hasn’t talked to his mother since the war broke out.

Fake and outdated videos and images are circulating on social media misrepresenting the U.

A viral audio clip claims to reveal a victim’s testimony of abuse by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on an island owned […] The post A viral audio clip accusing the Clintons in...

Trump’s Iran strikes revived a long-running fight over who can take the US to war