Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa will be a featured keynote speaker at GlobalFact 11, the world’s largest fact-checking summit, hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network at ...

Experts say ‘ban’ has emerged as shorthand for nearly all abortion prohibitions. The blunt term often leaves room for political spin.

Chloe Nguyen, an alumnus of Duke University, was a Poynter-Google News Initiative misinformation fellow with WRAL News in ...

China’s population is poised to age dramatically in the coming years, posing financial strains to retirement pensions. But in recent remarks, President Joe Biden said this pain had already occurred.

Since you’re visiting Poynter’s website, I’ll assume you’ve heard this before: America’s local news ecosystem is in crisis. Across the country, local newspapers are closing down. This trend has ...

The first two singles from ‘Cowboy Carter’ landed on Billboard’s country charts. Some social posts claimed they didn’t get there on their own merit.

A Spanish version of this press release immediately follows. ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (May 13, 2024) – Poynter’s PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact-checking newsroom, is pleased to announce ...

Experts believe the worm was Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. This worm does not ‘eat’ brain tissue. ​ ...

Trump repeated a bevy of inaccurate claims about the economy during an interview with WGAL-TV, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, station ...

Former New York Times reporter and show co-creator Amy Chozick on how fact inspired fiction, pitfalls she avoided and today’s media environment ...

The transgender swimmer has been the subject of several false claims that have drawn the attention of social media users ...