Side-by-side photographs of a harbour in northern England seemingly showing water lower this decade than 130 years ago do not disprove that warming global temperatures are affecting sea levels, ...

A composite photograph comparing similar-looking shorelines on a British beach around half a century apart is not evidence warnings about rising sea levels are false, contrary to online posts.

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine reading a long article or a thick legal contract and knowing, with confidence, exactly which lines prove that an event happened—or did not happen. That is now possible thanks to a research ...

The most obvious takeaway from the incident is that it was a badly needed wake-up call about what can happen when AI gets too embedded in our information ecosystem. But CEO Melissa Bell resisted the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking is an innovative form of journalism that has been forced to develop amid a “deep change in the conditions of practicing journalism,” the head of a foundation that ...

Have you ever caught yourself saying things like: “Hey, did you see this on TikTok”; “Well, I heard that on TikTok”; or “Someone on TikTok said this.” Well, I have, and these phrases and phrases like ...

PolitiFact last shared some of our reader comments at the end of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term. A lot has happened since then. Here’s a selection of reader reactions to ...