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Recent Examples of fact-check
The report comes over a year after Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the company would do away with its fact-check program and stop using automation to detect and remove hate speech.
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Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
Republic journalists' job is to seek and report the truth, hold power to account, fact-check candidates, combat misinformation and inform voters.
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Stacey Barchenger,
AZCentral.com,
1 Apr. 2026
For example, that can mean a fact-check from a reputable media outlet, a statement from a public figure, or a social media post from a misinformation expert.
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ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
Shad, who won Rap Recording of the Year for his album TSOL at the 2011 Junos, has since taken to Instagram to fact-check Drake.
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Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
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Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
Republic journalists' job is to seek and report the truth, hold power to account, fact-check candidates, combat misinformation and inform voters.
—
Stacey Barchenger,
AZCentral.com,
1 Apr. 2026
For example, that can mean a fact-check from a reputable media outlet, a statement from a public figure, or a social media post from a misinformation expert.
—
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
Shad, who won Rap Recording of the Year for his album TSOL at the 2011 Junos, has since taken to Instagram to fact-check Drake.
—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for fact-check
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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But the same facility also hired a new maintenance supervisor, revised its inspection schedule and replaced aging sensor hardware during the same period.
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Japan will revise its defense and security documents by December, which could further increase its defense budget.
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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.
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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.
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The two identical charts annotate the setup in different ways.
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Videos of manufacturing procedures can be recorded, annotated and archived by AI.
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The House and Senate will redraft Healey’s spending blueprint and debate their own versions, typically in April and May.
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For example, when the firm was completing its recent merger, his team created an agentic capability to redraft the bios of the incoming 1,600 attorneys, which needed to be updated to include the new firm’s information and match its existing writing style.
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The populace can only deduce that either Putin is responsible or the elites around him are insulating him from realizing and rectifying the situation.
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Matt Martin, 47th, said when asked if the last few years of persistent setbacks should have taken this long to rectify.
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Today, denim is getting a new influx of American talent thanks to brands like B Sides, a tiny label in upstate New York that takes selvage fabric and reworks it into new patchwork cuts.
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Mecklenburg County’s history with emissions testing The General Assembly proposed review of the EPA law, would allow the SIP to be reworked in order to exclude Mecklenburg County from the emissions program.
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In the documents, key details about the April 3 events are redacted, including a summary of a social worker’s interview with the teenage foster brother that afternoon and again the next week.
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Many of the emails in the Epstein files had the names of his contacts and associates redacted.
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Anyone who thinks that the differences between these sects are minor is invited to read about the wars, massacres and persecutions that erupted between them in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Others may miss the warmth of a person who can read the room, handle a strange request or help when something goes wrong.
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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