There is a new social media platform trending worldwide. It’s called Clubhouse and it brings together people like Tesla’s Elon Musk and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. For the moment, it seems to be ...

Since fact-checkers present themselves as arbiters of truth, it's only fair that readers wonder if we're being, well, truthful. So it's no surprise that "Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?" is a ...

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump struggled to land solid fact-checks of each other in the 90-minute debate, televised nationally June 27 on CNN. PolitiFact found numerous ...

Do you ever wonder why some advisors are more successful than others? What's their secret to success? It's not because they're the smartest, funniest or even the best looking advisors. The vast ...

Google wants to make it easier for people to find fact checks. To do that, the company is building another version of what it’s most known for: a search engine. On Tuesday, the Google News Initiative ...

In 2005, when the Iraq War was well under way, a couple of political scientists looked at how people responded when they were told that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. It had been a key ...

Fact-checkers were unanimous in their assessments when President Trump began claiming in June that Democrat Joe Biden wanted to “defund” police forces. PolitiFact called the allegations “false,” as ...

There’s now a vast network of factcheck units around the world, operating in myriad different languages. However, none have a process quite like ours at The Conversation. I’m The Conversation’s ...