fact-check

verb

fact-checked; fact-checking; fact-checks

transitive verb

: to verify the factual accuracy of
fact-check the article before publication
fact-checker noun

Examples of fact-check in a Sentence

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Our fact-check sources Fox News (YouTube), Dec. 2, Judge Jeanine: Hunter’s pardon shows the Bidens are afraid of something Jeanine Pirro, Dec. 2, Instagram post Thank you for supporting our journalism. Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024 Advertisement Greer said TikTok deployed 95 Romanian language content moderators, worked with a fact-checking group and met with political parties and a number of different authorities including the country’s electoral authority. Kelvin Chan and Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024 Readers can now upload links for the platform’s approval to fact-check tweets and provide accurate information, where accounts that were guilty of posting false information were previously at risk of being banned. Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Dec. 2024 Our fact-check sources: Tom Mortlock, Nov. 6, Email exchange with USA TODAY Ben Hague, Nov. 10-14, Email exchange with USA TODAY NOAA, April 19, 2022, Climate Change: Global Sea Level NOAA, accessed Nov. 21, What is glacial isostatic adjustment? Kate S. Petersen, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fact-check 

Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of fact-check was in 1973

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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fact-check. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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