Today's Republicans have swallowed so many economic myths that reality has disappeared. They face a wakeup call ...

Mark Zuckerberg has adopted the censorship language of his former right-wing critics. For the best audio experience, scan the code with your phone to download the New York Times Audio app for iOS ...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is replacing fact checking on the platform with a feature called Community Notes, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday in rolling out a raft of ...

"Apparently LAPD are looking for three 'persons of interest,' all tied to a MAGA website and who were ... verified signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network, which requires a ...

"Apparently LAPD are looking for three 'persons of interest,' all tied to a MAGA website and who were ... shared more than 200 times in four days. Fact-check roundup: Which claims about LA fires ...

A Jan. 8 Threads post (direct link, archive link) claims Los Angeles authorities linked the California wildfires to three supporters of President-elect Donald Trump. "Apparently LAPD are looking for ...

This stems from the fact that LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Almost the same day the wildfires broke out, memes began ... of the fires on Truth Social, "Governor ...

PolitiFact, the Florida-based Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-check organization that also is part of Meta’s program, debunked a viral post on Threads falsely claiming Los Angeles police were “looking for ...

Last week, Meta also announced it will end its fact-checking program as part of a policy shift embracing "free expression" and bring more political content back to its platform Facebook.

It called out politicians for bending or breaking the truth in ways often difficult for reporters who were protective of the sources whose voices populated their stories. By 2012, fact-checkers ...