fact-checker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
There is, however, one online reference to this foundation that might give any fact-checker pause.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
Yet there I was, a newly anointed fact-checker for Musk’s brave new Twitter.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2023
Indian fact-checker Pankaj Jain says this is what the future of disinformation looks like.
From BBC • May 31, 2023
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