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

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

From Salon

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

From Salon

A few weeks later, Google said it wouldn’t integrate fact-checking into its search engine or YouTube.

From Salon

Verification or fact-checking may seem like antidotes to such polarization.

From Salon

They include expanding fact-checking service BBC Verify, doing more to counter disinformation, and enhancing its local journalism.

From BBC