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Recent Examples of fact-check
Not long after the election, Meta announced the end of its fact-checking system, and Twitter famously changed course immediately after being purchased by right-wing billionaire Elon Musk.
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Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
All the reviews have been fact-checked for dramatic updates.
—Vogue, 3 June 2025
The internal documents seen by NPR show that employees were notified about the revamping not long after the company ended its fact-checking program and loosened its hate speech policies.
—Shannon Bond, NPR, 31 May 2025
Within a few years, the grunt from the fact-checking department had found his voice.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 30 May 2025
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Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
All the reviews have been fact-checked for dramatic updates.
—Vogue, 3 June 2025
The internal documents seen by NPR show that employees were notified about the revamping not long after the company ended its fact-checking program and loosened its hate speech policies.
—Shannon Bond, NPR, 31 May 2025
Within a few years, the grunt from the fact-checking department had found his voice.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
Verb
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Payroll job growth was slightly better than expected at 139,000, but the previous two months were revised lower.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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In 2018, Germany committed to boosting its standing forces to 203,000 by 2025 — a target date that was later revised to 2031.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN Money,
8 June 2025
Verb
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Being able to quickly edit and flex their expectations accordingly will make all the difference.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2025
Verb
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Even in academic integrity, the focus is on metacognition, not surveillance: Students are invited to review and annotate their own writing changes, putting them in the driver’s seat as learners, not just subjects of detection.—
Dr. Aviva Legatt,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Merge, split, compress, unlock, protect, or annotate any PDF.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
4 June 2025
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If ballot language is challenged in court, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins will now get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
5 May 2025
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My wife took the relevant bits of the newsletter, pasted them into Claude—the A.I. system offered by the firm Anthropic—and asked it to redraft them as an e-mail to the county.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2025
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Having used tariffs to shake trading partners out of their complacency, the United States can work with these countries to negotiate a reset of the trading system—one that preserves many of the advantages of the old system while rectifying its shortcomings.—
Emily Kilcrease,
Foreign Affairs,
9 June 2025
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The mom of five never got a chance to travel the globe, which her family decided to rectify after her death.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
5 June 2025
Verb
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The early alert gave the company time to intervene, rework the agent’s schedule, and keep a key team member.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Could the defense be reworked if an upgrade comes along?—
Cory Lavalette,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Verb
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For much of the trip, Lester was accompanied by a companion, whose name was redacted in the records.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2025
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One is that it is claimed that WikiLeaks released 251,000 diplomatic cables from the U.S. State Department to its embassies around the world without having redacted those names.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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Thank you all for reading these recaps and having such great conversations in the comments along the way.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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Outcome framing can read as cosmetic if representation metrics quietly disappear. 4.—
Heather Price,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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