Post-truth politics means emotions trump facts. The major parties would be wise to remember this when trying to combat the rise of One Nation.

Still, the fact-checking community’s losses so far have been incremental. The number of active fact-checkers around the globe by mid-2026 was 437, the Reporters’ Lab found — only 27 below its all-time high in 2024 and higher than the 419 recorded as recently as 2020.

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you consider Meta's decision to end a fact-checking ...

When AI models are trained, they take information that's freely available across the entire internet. This includes satirical websites, extremist opinion blogs, and even propaganda that is intentionally spreading misinformation.

Outgoing President Biden weighed in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end the fact-checking programs on Meta’s platforms, calling it a “really shameful” choice since “telling the truth matters.” “The whole idea of walking away from fact ...

Denver7's Jaclyn Allen has fact-checked some of the claims made by Democratic gubernatorial candidates Michael Bennet and Phil Weiser who took the stage in their first televised debate ahead of the

Accra, Ghana — The violent dispute in northern Ghana was intensely local. As the report described it, it was a “sporadic ethnic conflict between the Kusasis and Mamprusis over rights to the Bawku chieftaincy skin (throne).” What concerned fact ...

Last week, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced a major change in how content in the Meta stable (including Facebook, Instagram and Threads) will be fact-checked. Bottom line: It won’t be. At least not by Meta or its third-party agents.

As the Nov. 6 U.S. midterm elections approach, AP has stepped up efforts to fact-check political misinformation circulating at the local, state and national levels. “Over the past year, AP has worked to reach deeper into communities, taking advantage ...

Florida Republicans billed their party’s June 27 gathering in South Florida as the "Sunshine State Showdown." But for U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the event’s headliner and GOP frontrunner for governor, it was less of a confrontation and more like a friendly chat.