In public discourse, we spend a great deal of collective energy debating the accuracy of facts. We fact-check politicians, ...

As the leadup to the 2026 midterm elections begins, social media users — among them billionaire X owner Elon Musk, who ...

Back in January, Meta made a bold move — it dropped third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram and replaced it with community notes. The company said this change was about deepening its ...

Meta's announcement it will end professional fact checking on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. has left fact checkers elsewhere around the world uncertain about their futures. "The end of this ...

President Donald Trump promoted a bunch of unfounded conspiracy theories during a late-night social media posting spree on Monday.

On July 31, the Washington Post ran a story noting that the National Museum of American History, a branch of the Smithsonian, took down a portion of an exhibit about presidential impeachment ...

Every tribe has its myths, and journalists are no exception. In America, one common story goes like this: once, in the prelapsarian era before social media—or before smartphones, or the Internet—there ...

It’s an enervating time to be alive. There are silver linings, such as his widow’s eulogy, but the death of Charlie Kirk spawned a grotesque debate about his past statements in relation to his death, ...

President Donald Trump has long praised tariffs as key to increasing wealth in the United States, idealizing Gilded Age ...