The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship ...

In public discourse, we spend a great deal of collective energy debating the accuracy of facts. We fact-check politicians, monitor social media for misinformation, and prioritize data-driven ...

As usual, President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his televised Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. And, as usual, most of them had previously been debunked. Trump repeated familiar false claims ...

(KGTV) — A meme going around claims a new California law will require kids 8-16 to sit in a booster seat in cars. That's very misleading. Under current state law, children must use booster seats until ...

The president has made misleading statements about the cost of a Thanksgiving meal, breakfast and gasoline and about prices in general. By Linda Qiu Ahead of Thanksgiving and amid frustration among ...

In the 2004 Pixar movie The Incredibles, when Dash gets caught once again using his super speed to torment his elementary-school teacher, his mother admonishes him to try to fit in. “Dad always said ...

Epstein survivor Haley Robson cries during a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) If you can’t beat them, join them. President Donald Trump took credit ...

This never happens: I appear to have won an online argument. Even sweeter: It was with @Grok, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence “fact” checking bot on X. It started when I saw that Musk had reposted ...

Ms. Weiner, a novelist, writes frequently about gender and culture. If you’ve been reading the Jeffrey Epstein emails or following the discussions about them, there are names you’re probably seeing: ...