#Factchecking

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A local paper is again facing criticism for its use of AI, and at a journalism conference in Italy, fact-checkers question the state of the internet.

Amid false information spread during the Iran war, the Trump administration warned that the Iranian regime was misinforming people with the help of generative artificial intelligence.

During the second week of the Iran war, social media platforms were rife with claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu died.

When President Donald Trump said Iran was responsible for the missile strike on a girls’ elementary school, he preempted an ongoing military investigation and contradicted forensic analyses by multiple news […] The post Trump blame...

The United States’ military attacks against Iran were barely a week old when a controversial topic surfaced: Could the war require the first military draft since the early 1970s?

Social media posts claim Iran released a list of US target cities. That’s not true

Markwayne Mullin talked about the smell of war on Fox News. His record shows no military service

How Ali Khamenei used numbers, narratives and conspiracy to shape reality in Iran

Fake and outdated videos and images are circulating on social media misrepresenting the U.

A viral audio clip claims to reveal a victim’s testimony of abuse by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on an island owned […] The post A viral audio clip accusing the Clintons in...

Trump’s Iran strikes revived a long-running fight over who can take the US to war

In a combative State of the Union speech — the longest in modern history at about 108 minutes — President Donald Trump defended his administration’s economic performance and hardline immigration […] The post A fact check of Trump’s...

PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress ## Feb.

President Donald Trump has said he delivered on all he returned to office to do, already.

It’s Black History Month — and President Donald Trump has put his stamp on the decades-old commemoration.

Viral posts falsely name Savannah Guthrie’s husband as a ‘co-conspirator’ in the Epstein files