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The search for truth is complicated: There are many versions of it, many disagreements about what it even means. The idea of fact is something we feel better prepared to defend on objective grounds.

Following the death of the Queen, rumours began to spread online on everything from the nature of her passing to the colour of the BBC's banner.

"Most" new IRS hires, claims a gullible FactCheck.org, "will provide customer services."

A grim-faced doctor walks into an examining room where an anxious white-haired woman sits on the table, awaiting news. “Mrs. Smith, I have your test results here,” the doctor announces as the woman smiles up at him. “The news isn’t good."

Media "fact-checkers" are taking administration promises at face value and using them to bludgeon Republicans.

"The fact-checking industry has become a partisan arbiter of political disputes," notes Phil Magness.

Tasmanian Liberal MP Felix Ellis told the state's parliament that old-growth forests are net carbon emitters and that the best carbon sequestration comes from a young growing forest. But is that correct?

Somehow, Trump's buffoonish former attorney still has a show on one of the biggest radio stations in America

While Chicago’s gun laws may be more strict than some states, Abbott’s statement ignores how regulations have been weakened after federal court reversals of the city’s once-tougher restrictions. He also ignores how the majority of firearms in Chicago are coming from neighboring states where gun…