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Recent Examples of fact-check
Our politics team fact-checked these and other claims from Trump’s speech.
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Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
And although the wisdom of the crowd is not fact-checked, Reddit’s culture tends to be equal parts generous and skeptical—meaning that good, or at least helpful, information often rises to the top.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
The thousands of volunteer editors who write, edit, and fact-check the site manage to adhere remarkably well, over all, to one of its core values: the neutral point of view.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025
Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
—Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
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Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
And although the wisdom of the crowd is not fact-checked, Reddit’s culture tends to be equal parts generous and skeptical—meaning that good, or at least helpful, information often rises to the top.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
The thousands of volunteer editors who write, edit, and fact-check the site manage to adhere remarkably well, over all, to one of its core values: the neutral point of view.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025
Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
—Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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After the order was signed, the NCAA revised its own policy on trans athletes in women’s sports, though the revision has been seen as controversial by some.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The settlement also revises the penalty structure for a school that exits the ACC’s grant of rights, a term of art that refers to a school permitting its intellectual property and media rights to be used by the conference and its business partners.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
6 Mar. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Mar. 2025
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Bar menus in every major American city were annotated with craft mocktails spiked with adaptogens, and YouTube swamis like Andrew Huberman were proclaiming that alcohol was a poison that hampered cognitive performance.—
Barrett Swanson,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Annotation supplies: $13.99 Many readers like to annotate their books, so a pack of annotation supplies is a great gift option.—
Christopher Murray,
Fox News,
10 Dec. 2024
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The Republicans cited other federal criminal conspiracy and money laundering laws and asked the department to rescind or redraft the memo.—
Samantha Putterman,
Austin American-Statesman,
31 Aug. 2024
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The state lawyers filed a 50-page brief at the 1st District Court of Appeal contending that Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper did not have the authority to order the panel, known as the Financial Impact Estimating Conference, to redraft the statement.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
21 June 2024
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Returning economic use of the land to a model of engagement that follows the Natural Laws can rectify the harm that extraction and consumption have done to our climate.—
TIME,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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The hiring surge was aimed at rectifying years-long staffing shortages that forced veterans to wait months to receive healthcare.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Bears need a solid weaponry arsenal and which should put him in position to rebound from a disappointing rookie season. ▪ Arizona Cardinals: The Cardinals have an average talent base and more than $75 million in cap space before reworking any deals.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
1 Mar. 2025
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Austin Neudecker, Weave Growth YES: California should consider abandoning or completely reworking the high-speed rail project.—
Phillip Molnar,
The Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2025
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The nature of the incidents was redacted from the warrant.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2025
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The bulk of those 11,000-plus pages are heavily redacted, and Justice Department prosecutors have fought their release for years.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
1 Mar. 2025
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My heart started pounding a little after Sigmon's lawyer read his final statement.—
Jeffrey Collins,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Aside from – but not in place of – the pleasure, the experience, and the life balance, reading, more than any other activity, develops our critical thinking skills, the glaring lack of which was fully on display during the 2024 election campaign.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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