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Recent Examples of fact-check
Almost immediately, his critics—including many fellow-Republicans—began to call him on his lies and cruelties, and to fact-check his evidence.
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Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
—Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
So there’s a basic fact-check element that can be time consuming and occasionally confounding.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
And in a search context, placing AI content ahead of any other results elevates an undoubtedly less trustworthy secondary source over primary sources at a time when social platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter) are increasingly relying on users to fact-check misinformation.
—Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2025
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Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
—Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
So there’s a basic fact-check element that can be time consuming and occasionally confounding.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
And in a search context, placing AI content ahead of any other results elevates an undoubtedly less trustworthy secondary source over primary sources at a time when social platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter) are increasingly relying on users to fact-check misinformation.
—Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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Corporate boardrooms and executive teams will need to traverse this new landscape, by weighing the risks of maintaining their DEI teams and initiatives against the potential fallout of revising their DEI policies—or abandoning their efforts completely.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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If elected, Valencia said her goals are to work to revise the budget, making communication seamless and providing more staff for mental health services.—
David Sharos,
Chicago Tribune,
28 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 WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The following interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2025
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Each recorded call then had to be annotated with a horribly long list of contextual parameters.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
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Here is his 50-balls-in-play rolling exit velocity chart for last year, with the removal from that late-June game annotated.—
Eno Sarris,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, China’s retaliatory tariffs are set to make components American drone makers rely on even more expensive; plans to redraft a new export system are already halting shipments of magnets, which are essential for drone motors.—
David Jeans,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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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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And just one week left to rectify the poor play that’s been on display to end the season.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
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Seeing Johnson, 77, back onstage was particularly poignant considering he was forced to leave AC/DC's 2016 Rock or Bust World Tour because of severe hearing loss (it has since been rectified).—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2025
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However, it was reworked entirely as a standalone series without connection to the Liev Schreiber-starrer.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Across the board, furniture companies have been reworking their sales forecasts, amid an uncertain macro climate marked by a difficult housing market and declining consumer confidence.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
27 Mar. 2025
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The women’s names, other people’s names and several details were redacted in copies of the complaints reviewed by the Union-Tribune.—
Kristen Taketa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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Their specific actions are redacted in the warrant.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2025
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As the verdict was read, Way looked straight ahead.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2025
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Way, who smiled as the initial $4 million verdict was read, was cleared on claims of false imprisonment and constructive discharge.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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