factcheck

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A form of fact check — A verification of the factuality of specific information.

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Meanings

nounfactcheck (plural factchecks)

plural factchecks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of fact check.

    The company removed 12 million pieces of Covid misinformation between March and October, and placed factcheck warning labels on 167 million other pieces of content, he added.

    2021 January 30, Emma Graham-Harrison, Jasper Jackson, Alexandra Heal, “Facebook ‘still making money from anti-vax sites’”, in The Observer
verbfactcheck (third-person singular simple present factchecks, present participle factchecking, simple past and past participle factchecked)

present singular third person factchecks · participle present factchecking · participle past factchecked · past factchecked

  1. alternativeAlternative form of fact-check.
    1 more example

    Meta’s oversight board, co-chaired by figures including the former prime minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, responded to the announcement of what is effectively a crowd-sourced approach to factchecking with a statement that said: “We look forward to working with Meta in the coming weeks to understand the changes in greater detail, ensuring its new approach can be as effective and speech-friendly as possible.”

    2025 January 7, Robert Booth, “Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content”, in The Guardian
Cite this entry
APA

factcheck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/factcheck

MLA

“factcheck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/factcheck. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “factcheck,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/factcheck.

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