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The 62 pages that link to Fact-checking, each with the reason it gives.

• MisinformationRelated: Fact-checkers investigate whether specific circulating claims are accurate.

• The New York TimesRelated: Verification supports the paper’s reporting standards and correction practices.

• Media literacyRelated: It tests specific statements encountered in news and other media.

• MemoirRelated: Verification can test names, dates, and events that memory alone cannot establish.

• JournalismRelated: It tests whether reported assertions are supported by reliable evidence.

• Digital journalismRelated: Rapid online circulation makes verification central to maintaining trustworthy reporting.

• News agencyRelated: Agency verification helps limit errors before reports are republished widely.

• NewsroomRelated: Verification helps prevent errors from reaching the published story.

• DisinformationRelated: Fact-checking can correct specific falsehoods, though its reach and effects remain contested.

• Urban legendRelated: It tests the specific claims that legends often present as documented events.

• Literary journalismRelated: Narrative freedom does not excuse invented details or unsupported claims.

• Opinion journalismRelated: Checking claims helps distinguish defensible commentary from unsupported assertion.

• Political journalismRelated: It tests statements by candidates, officeholders, and political campaigns.

• ReutersRelated: Verification practices support the accuracy expected of Reuters reporting.

• TruthRelated: It applies standards of evidence to determine whether public claims are accurate.

• Journalistic objectivityRelated: It offers a concrete method for testing statements without relying on a reporter’s opinion.

• Journalistic ethicsRelated: Fact-checking helps prevent false or unsupported claims from publication.

• Data journalismRelated: Independent checks test whether calculations and interpretations withstand scrutiny.

• Historical accuracyRelated: Individual claims can be tested before they are incorporated into an account.

• Television journalismRelated: On-air claims need verification before broadcast, especially during fast-moving coverage.

• Media ethicsRelated: It reduces the risk that inaccurate claims reach an audience.

• Technical writingRelated: Technical claims and steps must be checked against authoritative product information.

• American journalismRelated: Verification helps newsrooms distinguish supported claims from errors and misinformation.

• Science journalismRelated: Independent checks help catch errors in claims, numbers, and scientific explanations before publication.

• Television documentaryRelated: Verification tests whether narration, captions, and interview claims are supported.

• The AtlanticRelated: Verification supports the magazine’s reporting and explanatory articles.

• Copy editingRelated: It addresses the accuracy of claims that copy editing may flag or verify.

• Foreign correspondentRelated: Distance and unfamiliar settings make rigorous verification especially important.

• Celebrity journalismRelated: It separates substantiated reporting from rumor about famous people.

• Narrative nonfictionRelated: Verification distinguishes truthful narrative craft from fictional invention.

• News gatheringRelated: Fact-checking checks claims and details assembled through reporting.

• CredibilityRelated: It tests claim credibility through independent evidence rather than impression alone.

• Documentary literatureRelated: It tests the accuracy of names, events, quotations, and details in a literary account.

• HoaxRelated: Independent checks can test the claims and evidence a hoax depends on.

• Bob WoodwardRelated: Corroboration helped distinguish Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate reporting from unverified allegations.

• Business journalismRelated: Financial figures and executive claims require careful checking because errors can mislead markets and the public.

• Carl BernsteinRelated: Independent verification reduced the risk of publishing inaccurate Watergate allegations.

• COVID-19 misinformationRelated: Fact-checks assessed viral COVID-19 claims about treatments, vaccines, and transmission.

• Medical misinformationRelated: It can assess specific medical claims and expose inaccuracies.

• Newspaper journalismRelated: Verification helps prevent inaccurate claims from reaching print.

• Watchdog journalismRelated: Independent verification makes allegations about powerful actors more credible and precise.

• Alex HaleyRelated: Investigations of Roots tested Haley’s reported genealogy and exposed substantial historical inaccuracies.

• Hallucination (artificial intelligence)Related: External verification remains necessary when generated claims lack dependable provenance.

• Harold RossRelated: Ross made exact verification a defining editorial practice at the magazine.

• News analysisRelated: Sound analysis depends on verified claims before drawing conclusions about their significance.

• Ronan FarrowRelated: Its scrutiny is especially consequential when reporting names people accused of misconduct.

• William ShawnRelated: Shawn maintained the magazine’s demanding verification standards.

• Der SpiegelRelated: Der Spiegel developed a rigorous internal fact-checking system for its articles.

• NewsweekRelated: Verification supports the accuracy of Newsweek's reporting and analysis.

• Roots: The Saga of an American FamilyRelated: Journalistic investigations questioned some of the novel’s claims about its family history.