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Recent Examples of fact-check
Newsom’s previous attempt to fact-check Trump during January’s wildfires fell flat as misinformation ran rampant on social media.
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Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2025
Many of those posts have over a million views, and only a handful of them have been fact-checked with X’s community notes features.
—Sean Lyngaas, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
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.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
All the reviews have been fact-checked for dramatic updates.
—Vogue, 3 June 2025
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Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2025
Many of those posts have over a million views, and only a handful of them have been fact-checked with X’s community notes features.
—Sean Lyngaas, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
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.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
All the reviews have been fact-checked for dramatic updates.
—Vogue, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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After the Supreme Court declined to hear the victims' appeal in 2018, Congress revised the law once more to reaffirm its intent that American victims of terrorism should have access to U.S. courts.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The law, which revises earlier state guidelines for autonomous vehicles, requires the operators of self-driving cars to receive prior authorization from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).—
Julia Shapero,
The Hill,
19 June 2025
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Fortune helped edit the autobiography of leading Black intellectual Booker T. Washington, and his civil rights organization, National Afro-American League, is considered an important predecessor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
23 June 2025
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Letters are subject to editing for clarity and length.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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Unfortunately, the tool doesn't work with touch monitors for annotating with a stylus.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
28 May 2025
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Drawing tools allow customers to annotate charts in real-time.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
22 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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This involves figuring out and rectifying inconsistencies, standardizing data formats and enriching data, which is essential to improve its quality in the target Salesforce org.—
Vamsi Gosu,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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House Resolution 194 acknowledged the fundamental injustice of slavery and Jim Crow laws and expressed commitment to rectifying their lingering consequences.—
Willie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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The agreement came not long after President Donald Trump in May signed a series of executive orders to rework the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, expedite new reactor construction and expand the domestic uranium industry.—
Siena Griffin,
CNBC,
14 June 2025
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The producers used the break to rework the remaining three scripts and Lavin’s character was written off with a proper goodbye.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 June 2025
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An unknown caller, whose name was redacted from the call, dialed 911 at 2:50 a.m.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
19 June 2025
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Three days later, an unknown caller (whose name was also redacted) made a 911 call from Scott and Kelley's home in Park City, Utah.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
19 June 2025
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November 18 will also see Simon & Schuster release an unabridged audiobook of 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One, read by Sean Penn.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
25 June 2025
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Katie Hurley, a child and adolescent psychotherapist and senior clinical advisor for The Jed Foundation, encourages parents to read the labels of any supplements or protein powders their sons are currently using or interested in trying.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
24 June 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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