fact-checker

American

[fakt-chek-er] / ˈfæktˌtʃɛk ər /

noun

someone whose job is to fact-check articles, books, speeches, and other written or spoken materials.

Example Sentences

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"Grok has been around for a while. It is suddenly popular now with Indians because it's the new toy in town," says Pratik Sinha, founder of Alt News, a leading fact-checker in India.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

To make sure it wasn’t stretching the truth in order to be more persuasive, the researchers hired a professional fact-checker to evaluate 128 of the bot’s claims about a variety of conspiracies.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checker in Florida, gives its award for “the most significant falsehoods or exaggerations” that work to undermine reality.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

Alex Sugiura is our audio engineer and Danya AbdelHameid is our fact-checker.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2023

Yet there I was, a newly anointed fact-checker for Musk’s brave new Twitter.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2023

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