There’s an old saying in journalism: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” The adage underscores a fundamental aspect of responsible news reporting: the need to verify and fact-check all ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking journalism around the world is at a crossroads. Democracies are weakening. Social media platforms are withdrawing their financial support for fact-checking. And the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rhea Wessel is the founder of The Institute for Thought Leadership. Like it or not, businesses and thought leaders operate in an ...

This article was originally published by the Duke Reporters’ Lab and is republished here with permission. After years of weeding through the ever-growing tangle of misinformation, journalists and ...

A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that “Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods [has] failed to make a dent.” The claim would fail a ...

AI-powered fact-checking tools can greatly speed up journalists' efforts to analyze all kinds of content, from images and video, to audio recordings and text. “AI has undeniably become an essential ...

Sunday marked the start of the 85th National Newspaper Week, an annual opportunity to recognize the role that newspapers play in an active and healthy democracy. This year, News Media Canada reminds ...

“I take it on faith that doing more of it will have a positive effect on democracy. I would love some evidence that it’s true. If you have any that it’s not, I’m not going to pay any attention to it.” ...

Project Comprova, a collaborative fact-checking initiative in Brazil, has abandoned the labels "false," "misleading," "satire," and "proven" in its verifications and adopted a broader approach to ...