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Fact-checking elections

PBS News and PolitiFact announce partnership through 2024 election cycle

Poynter's PolitiFact will share its fact-checking reporting with PBS on television, digital platforms during election season, including conventions

July 12, 2024

Election Integrity Partnership targeted election misinformation, not conservatives

A social media post falsely that the Homeland Security and State department coordinated with it to “censor Joe Biden’s opponents.”

October 13, 2022

Why Trump is wrong to suggest Obama personally kept ‘33 million pages of documents’

The National Archive digitized Obama’s presidential records and sent them to a facility in College Park, Maryland.

August 15, 2022

Fact-check: Oz distorts Fetterman’s position of ending mandatory life sentences for certain murders

John Fetterman has not called for eliminating life sentences for murders, as this Pennsylvania ad alleges.

August 4, 2022

Reverso builds a culture of accountability ahead of Argentina’s midterm elections

Chequeado has streamlined the collaboration to quickly debunk falsehoods and raise the costs of spreading disinformation

August 17, 2021

Harrison Mantas

‘There will always be claims of cheating’ in elections, but fact-checkers can work together to fight back

Speaking at Tuesday’s IFCN Talk, fact-checkers from Brazil, the Philippines and Ghana shared their collaborative efforts to help fact-check elections

June 15, 2021

Harrison Mantas

Brazilian judge orders Aos Fatos to censor two fact checks

The ruling came after the Brazilian magazine Revista Oeste alleged the fact checks of its work hurt it financially

May 3, 2021

Harrison Mantas

Mexican fact-checker offers advice on how to handle a change of executive power

Consistency, transparency and humility helped Animal Politíco weather a sometimes adversarial relationship with the new administration.

January 19, 2021

Harrison Mantas

Fake news probably won’t affect the outcome of Germany’s election. Here’s why.

Even though Germany is less than two weeks away from its federal election, Jacques Pezet…

September 14, 2017

Fact-checking gathers steam in Ireland ahead of the general election

TheJournal.ie was looking for ways to expand its coverage of politics without concentrating on the…

February 16, 2016

Alexios Mantzarlis

How much baloney? Fact-checking the Canadian elections

There was the one on the effects of marijuana, or the one about greenhouse gas…

October 19, 2015

Alexios Mantzarlis