fact-checking

[fakt-chek-ing]

noun

1. the work or task of a person who fact-checks; the task or process of verifying factual accuracy.

adjective

1. used or engaged in carrying out fact-checks.

Example Sentences

Hence, the lack of fact-checking can be irritating for viewers to witness.

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If listeners aren’t engaging critically and fact-checking what they hear, the easy accessibility of podcast content can end up doing more harm than good.

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The social media magnate announced in January that the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, would implement a startling fact-checking shutdown in the United States, as well as rollbacks to its hate speech policy worldwide.

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These attacks on fact-checking come despite the fact that many of those most controversial decisions were made by platforms, not fact-checkers.

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MacKinnon is fact-checking Didion in real time, refusing to let her apply her fearsome talent for story-spinning to her own life.

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