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Recent Examples of fact-check
This is seemingly in reference to the Covid-19 vaccine skepticism Minaj notably shared in 2021, which was fact-checked by Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2025
Our fact-check sources Brittany Santiago, Dec. 20, Email exchange with USA TODAY
City of Odessa, Texas, Dec. 9, Facebook post
The Advocate, Aug. 7, 2018, Former Tangipahoa firefighter accused of hiding cameras in women’s restroom at firehouse
Thank you for supporting our journalism.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Meta ended the third-party fact-checking program in 2025, replacing it with a community notes system that relies on voluntary user submissions, modeled after the program developed by X, formerly Twitter.
—Katie Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Numerous news and fact-checking agencies have said the primary cause of the fires were unusually dry conditions and high winds.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2025
Our fact-check sources Brittany Santiago, Dec. 20, Email exchange with USA TODAY
City of Odessa, Texas, Dec. 9, Facebook post
The Advocate, Aug. 7, 2018, Former Tangipahoa firefighter accused of hiding cameras in women’s restroom at firehouse
Thank you for supporting our journalism.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Meta ended the third-party fact-checking program in 2025, replacing it with a community notes system that relies on voluntary user submissions, modeled after the program developed by X, formerly Twitter.
—Katie Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Numerous news and fact-checking agencies have said the primary cause of the fires were unusually dry conditions and high winds.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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One was a report from the House Intelligence Committee drafted by Republicans in 2017 and revised in 2020.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
25 July 2025
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Obsidian Entertainment has already revised the price for The Outer Worlds 2 across game stores.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 July 2025
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Letters may be edited for length and clarity, and may be published in any medium.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Another way to view downsizing is to edit or curate.—
Jann E. Freed,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Data review by humans: Conversations with Gemini may be reviewed and annotated by human reviewers for quality control and AI training purposes.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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The conversation has been lightly edited, condensed and annotated.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
10 July 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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Even though the front office has been unable to rectify things, NFL insider Jeremy Fowler reported that the Commanders have no plans on making McLaurin available via trade.—
Kevin McCormick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 July 2025
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There are possible ways to rectify late filings and, depending on the facts, penalties might be averted.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The Browns have reworked Watson’s contract multiple times to lower his cap numbers and could do so again after this season.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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So, consider this your cue to clean out your fridge, rework your schedule or finally book that doctor’s appointment.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
22 July 2025
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The names of those who were injured are redacted in the affidavit.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
31 July 2025
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Makin's response was redacted upon a public records request.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
28 July 2025
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The Music City Loop will be funded by The Boring Company and is expected to boost revenue in the region without impacting Nashville taxpayers, a project fact sheet reads.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
30 July 2025
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Even dishes that read like a reach, bluefin tuna served on chicharron, land gently, revealing the chef’s story and skill simultaneously.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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