Financial constraints, threats of harassment and shifting audience habits were among the top concerns for fact-checkers in 2024, the International Fact Checking Network’s State of the Fact-checkers ...

April 2 is Intl. Fact-Checking Day and Trump’s ‘liberation day.’ PolitiFact’s editor explains why we dig into policy arguments in search of truth.

Until very recently, USAID was a longtime pipeline for the U.S. government to distribute foreign aid, including to ...

Poynter spoke with several people to see what everyday folks can do to support press freedom organizations and press freedom.

Misinformation spreads online faster than ever these days — and it knows no borders. That’s why MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative, continues its ...

Amuse built a massive following by pushing false claims, earning attention from Elon Musk, RFK Jr. and other high-profile conservatives ...

Thank you to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for their support of Poynter’s online learning platform since its founding in 2005. The nonprofit Poynter Institute is a leading instructor of ...

Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” featured testimony from NPR chief executive Katherine Maher and PBS chief executive Paula Kerger. Republicans on the committee grilled the two, ...

Just 36% of Americans say they’ve heard ‘a lot’ about the Trump administration’s relationship with the media, down from 72% in 2017 ...

Katie Sanders, editor-in-chief of PolitiFact – Overseeing one of the nation’s most respected fact-checking organizations, Sanders plays a key role in holding politicians, public figures and viral ...

They’ve expressed worries about a rise in legal threats; of a relentless public campaign to characterize the work of journalists as “fake news;” and not knowing how to protect their work, their ...

The Trump administration has been targeting some permanent residents and visa holders with legal status and without criminal convictions ...