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Recent Examples of fact-check
But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged.
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ArsTechnica, 2 July 2025
The news items below were selected by the newsletter author, created using AI, and then edited and fact-checked.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 July 2025
The study's authors call for sweeping reforms—including stronger technical filters, better transparency about how AI models are trained, fact-checking mechanisms and policy frameworks to hold developers accountable.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
It’s being talked over, told to calm down or having your feelings fact-checked — unsolicited.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
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ArsTechnica, 2 July 2025
The news items below were selected by the newsletter author, created using AI, and then edited and fact-checked.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 July 2025
The study's authors call for sweeping reforms—including stronger technical filters, better transparency about how AI models are trained, fact-checking mechanisms and policy frameworks to hold developers accountable.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
It’s being talked over, told to calm down or having your feelings fact-checked — unsolicited.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for fact-check
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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First, funding for small nuclear reactors (SMR) will be revised.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Transcript text may be revised to correct errors or match updates to audio.—
Steve Inskeep,
NPR,
14 July 2025
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These interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity.—
Janelle Griffith,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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There are also carefully edited gift shops like Trésors Publics, which has become a New Nice institution.—
Sloane Crosley,
Travel + Leisure,
15 July 2025
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This collection is annotated with the weight of each fish.—
Mike Raabe,
Outdoor Life,
2 July 2025
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The company has a trove of around 100,000 videos of cows that have been annotated and scored by veterinarians for observed health, and are used for training the models.—
Chris Stokel-Walker,
Fortune,
26 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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Airlines have tried to rectify the problems by removing lounge access for groups of customers or, in the case of British Airways, making status hard to achieve for most leisure travelers.—
Michele Robson,
Fortune,
5 July 2025
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This omission is to be officially rectified with her forthcoming induction into a hallowed circle directly related to her family’s legacy.—
Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Pivoting quickly to rework a quality control process using a traditional, rigid software solution is almost impossible.—
Ed Jennings,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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In turn, that could trigger a homeowner to purposefully rework the landscape of their property so as to discourage coyotes from using it.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
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The city, meanwhile, took two months to comply with a public records request from the Herald and, then, in an unusual move, initially released a version of Carr’s October report with passages redacted that the city attorney’s office acknowledged describe finds of human remains.—
Andres Viglucci
July 4,
Miami Herald,
4 July 2025
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They may be redacted due to legal or national security concerns.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
2 July 2025
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Keep reading for the 30 best finds starting at $10.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
People.com,
6 July 2025
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Pamela starts in late April, but don’t stop reading this because that was months ago.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
6 July 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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