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Recent Examples of fact-check
It has been fact-checked and signed off repeatedly, and yet the BBC refuses to set a broadcast date.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 May 2025
Institutional Preparedness Brands should also build alliances with external partners such as fact-checking organizations and reputation management firms.
—Deboshree Sarkar, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
This article has been updated to clarify that Meta is ending fact-checking operations only in the United States.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Donald Trump cruising into his second 100 days with another major promise kept and a fact-check on Democratic lies about his plans.
—Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 May 2025
Institutional Preparedness Brands should also build alliances with external partners such as fact-checking organizations and reputation management firms.
—Deboshree Sarkar, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
This article has been updated to clarify that Meta is ending fact-checking operations only in the United States.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Donald Trump cruising into his second 100 days with another major promise kept and a fact-check on Democratic lies about his plans.
—Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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Against this backdrop, Canberra, too, is revising its defense priorities from top to bottom.—
ELY RATNER,
Foreign Affairs,
27 May 2025
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That’s the number of times the Trump administration has either announced new tariff policies or revised existing ones since Trump’s inauguration in January, as tallied by The Washington Post.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
29 May 2025
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Editor's Note: Some responses have been lightly edited for length.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Need to annotate, merge, or convert your document type?—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
16 May 2025
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MuleSoft says that because LLMs need access to the API specifications, they must be annotated with metadata that the LLMs can reason with.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
6 May 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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Nonetheless, the Colts have now taken down the video and will now look to rectify the mistake.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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In 2020, the WNBA rectified their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that included full salaries on maternity leave, a child care stipend, and benefits to support adoption, surrogacy and fertility treatments.—
Allison Smith,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The bill now heads to the Senate, where it may be reworked to pass, as several Republicans have already raised concerns about it.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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If a comment attracts significant attention, rework it into a full post later.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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El Cajon received a telephone call from an unidentified male asking if (name redacted) was there.—
Austin Meek,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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This production contained several complaints from teachers whose names were redacted, including a couple that were not shared with the district during the audit process.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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As a result, the surface of the land and sea is an open book that anyone with an internet connection can read to the point where the embarrassing launch failure of a North Korean frigate is instantly world news instead of a vague rumor.—
David Szondy
May 31,
New Atlas,
31 May 2025
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The share who said students should learn to read in kindergarten increased to 80 percent from 31 percent.—
Claire Cain Miller,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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