How to Use fact-check in a Sentence

fact-check

verb
  • Here are four fact-checks on the main claims about Helene recovery efforts.
    Rhona Tarrant, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury, the facilitator of news, and Jupiter is always looking to fact-check all of Mercury’s stories.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Trump declined the offer from CBS News for the interview, citing, in part, disagreements over fact-checks during the interview.
    Erin Doherty, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Any fact-checks will be weighed against moments where there were none at all.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • There’s no way to fact-check the secrets; Frank takes those sharing them at their word.
    Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Heinrich drew the ire of Fox opinion hosts by tweeting a fact-check on some of Trump’s claims.
    David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The athlete said that his father would come across crazy tabloid stories from time to time and call him to fact-check.
    Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Will Tapper and Bash fact-check in real time, a Herculean task when Trump is talking?
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
  • Coordinate the roadmap for long-term 538 projects with a special eye to the demands of our fact-checking process.
    538 and Abc News, ABC News, 21 May 2024
  • And in those long interviews, many hosts aren’t fact-checking or pushing back all that much.
    Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Do Your Research There are several fact-checking sites on the web.
    David Nield, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The Community Notes system is made up of X users who volunteer to fact-check posts on the site.
    WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Twitter added fact-checking context to the post, pointing out that Gomez did not attend this year.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 4 May 2023
  • Community notes allow users on X to fact-check false posts on the platform.
    Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Chatbots can fail to fact-check and verify the source of any information.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 21 July 2023
  • Claims to the contrary were fact-checked by some Fox News journalists and the network’s own research department.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Clarke raised multiple false claims which Ohage was unprepared for (as these could not be fact-checked in real time), and in 1903, the law was repealed.
    Time, 22 June 2023
  • And in early 2024, Meta’s third-party fact-checking partners will be able to review and rate false content on Threads.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The now-defunct site was created in 2008 as a way to filter and fact-check political news shared by the media.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Look for a more realistic outlook, fact-check your thoughts and take action.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by a content review team.
    Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Adam Schiff fact-checked over incorrect electoral claims ...
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Collins’ attempts to perform fact-checks in real time have often proved futile.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • Meta said the change to the News tab does not affect its fact-checking network and review of misinformation.
    Sallee Ann Harrison, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Our fact-check sources: Thank you for supporting our journalism.
    USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The order came in response to a decision by Twitter the same week to mark two of his erroneous tweets with fact-checking labels.
    Cat Zakrzewski, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023

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