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fact-check
Verifying a specific factual claim against primary evidence and publishing the result, including what the evidence does and does not settle.
In full
A useful fact-check quotes the claim precisely, names the records checked, and distinguishes among false, misleading in context, unverifiable, and accurate. Claims about the future, about motive, and about value judgments are not checkable facts, and treating them as such is one of the practice's recurring failure modes.
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