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#fact-checking

Pencil's experiment focused on written copy in Facebook product ads rather than big-budget creative. Despite widely held concerns that the tech could cannibalize copywriting jobs, that doesn't mean professional creatives are ignoring the tech. Shruthi Subramanian of Serviceplan Munich (above) was named the most-awarded copywriter in the world in The Drum's World Creative Rankings. She says the tools can be put to good use, albeit with caution.

"With the widespread use of social media, the global spread of 'fake news' has become a serious social issue," Masahiro Yamamoto, the documentary's director, said in an email. " In Japan as well, information of mixed accuracy is circulating widely, and the situation continues to worsen. Against this backdrop, we felt there was much to learn from PolitiFact, which has been conducting fact-checking for nearly two decades."

President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, and CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale conducted a live evisceration of what he dubbed a barrage of false claims from the president. Last year, Trump appeared by videoconference at the annual gathering, delivering a rambling speech that ping-ponged between topics, insulted his political opponents, as well as included a number of bold claims, exaggerations, and utter falsehoods.

This presser is bizarre even for him, began Grisham, adding: It's all the usual rambling, off-topic tales, half-truths, lies, I've fixed everything no one has ever seen anything like it stuffbut it's low-energy & feels like he'smentally slipping. Congress-plz wake up. Plz.

It's long been rumored that tensions between Brooklyn Beckham and his famous parents, Sir David and Lady Victoria Beckham, grew in the run-up to his April 2022 wedding to heiress Nicola Peltz, especially after his mother reportedly declined to design the bride's wedding dress. Now, 26-year-old Brooklyn Beckham is confirming the family feud rumors in an extraordinary Instagram attack on his parents Monday.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The International Fact-Checking Network at the nonprofit Poynter Institute has awarded $750,000 grants to 25 fact-checking organizations, providing flexible support to help fact-checking newsrooms keep publishing through a period of rapid funding contraction while they strengthen long-term sustainability. Recipients include organizations working under pressure in and around Belarus and Russia; verification newsrooms navigating economic instability in Venezuela; and teams building verification capacity in places including Nigeria, Kosovo and Iraq.

The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute strongly opposes the Trump administration's recent decision to deny U.S. visas to European public officials and civil society leaders. This action, which includes the blacklisting of individuals for their professional contributions to information integrity, represents a disturbing departure from historic principles of free expression. These bans punish public servants and researchers and are antithetical to democratic values.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump continued his diligent work making sure CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale has job security Wednesday evening, including such a large batch of lies in his speech that Dale had to update his already lengthy fact-check the next morning. Trump's primetime address to the nation was widely panned by critics on both the right and left as largely pointless.

US President Donald Trump is promoting his nation's economic record, insisting prices are falling and investment is surging but the data, and rising cost-of-living pressures, tell a different story. Jillian Wolf checks the facts. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X : https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile

And I tell the story, Glenn, that in my first term, I had the honor of being the first president in 28 years to lower drug prices during the course of the year. And we actually did. And I was so proud of myself. We called a news conference. I announced it. It was one-eighth of 1 percent. One-eighth of 1 percent.

A powerful earthquake in Afghanistan had killed at least 1,400 people and destroyed over 5,000 homes. The mountainous terrain makes rescue efforts difficult. As the death toll continues to climb, rescue workers are trying to reach survivors. The midnight earthquake was followed by several aftershocks. The UN has estimated that the earthquake might affect hundreds of thousands in total. DW fact checkers have debunked some of the most popular claims.

While sitting at his desktop, Tapper searched the CDC website for the word abortion under the CDC's Ten Great Public Health Advancements. And you'll see, none of them include the word abortion,' he said. There's another one, also, just to be fair, Tapper continued. Here's another Ten Great Public Health Achievements,' United States, a different one. When Tapper typed in abortion, the search came up zero out of zero.

It is not accurate. So of course, it's fantastic. There has currently been the 11-day stretch without a reported homicide, but that also happened earlier this year. In February and March, there was a 16-day stretch with no reported homicides in the district. So the president is exaggerating again, and that wasn't his only false claim, guys, on the subject of D.C. crime.

Presented by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter, GlobalFact is the world's largest and most impactful summit for professional fact-checking. Every year, fact-checkers come together to address industry-wide challenges, exchange best practices and build collaborative solutions to improve our shared information ecosystem. Each day of the summit features keynote presentations, interactive learning sessions and networking events to help fact-checkers build business operations, audiences and impact.

Kessler became best known for his meticulous tracking of President Donald Trump's false and misleading claims, documenting more than 30,000 statements during Trump's first term.

Google's decision to retire ClaimReview, a program that highlighted fact-checks from reputable sources globally, has raised concerns about the quality and integrity of search results.

A 17-second video published on TikTok, with over 500,000 views, allegedly shows footage from the 25 June 2025 protests in Nairobi, Kenya, but is actually old footage from Ethiopia.