Editor's Note: We've had some inquiries lately about how we select claims to check and make our rulings. So here's an overview of our procedures and the principles for Truth-O-Meter rulings. The ...
If you look at the Truth-O-Meter rulings we've published on PolitiFact (more than 500 since we launched the site a year ago), you'll see the same phrase keeps popping up: flip-flop. Barack Obama was ...
When misleading information spreads online, it can spread fast. Yet many of the best tools for swiftly debunking viral photographs, videos and audio are only available to researchers, like UB deepfake ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When I sketched the first ideas for PolitiFact’s home page in 2007, I included a “Truth-O-Meter” to rate politicians ...
As it becomes easier and cheaper to use AI to create fake media, journalists and social media users are faced with the impossible task of trying to determine what to believe. Many turn to experts like ...
This story originally published online at The 9th Street Journal. The 9th Street Journal is tracking Durham Mayor Elaine O’Neal’s campaign promises with the O’Neal-O-Meter, which rates the promises on ...