fact-checker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Paula works as a fact-checker at a New York City newsmagazine, a job chosen, I imagine, to account for her investigatory chops, though not her tendency to put herself in dangerous situations.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
I then instruct the fact-checker to build a table that lists all the facts it’s checking and mark each one as “true,” “false,” “ambiguous” or “unsupported.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
"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
Guest: Tariq Kenney-Shawa, U.S. policy fellow at Al-Shabaka and an editor and fact-checker for AJ+.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2024
Many of the fact-checker groups were founded by dedicated individuals, such as MyGoPen, whose founder Charles Yeh started the chatbot service because he found his relatives would get confused by online rumors.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
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