factcheck

See also: fact check and fact-check

English

Noun

factcheck (plural factchecks)

  1. Alternative form of fact check.
    • 2021 January 30, Emma Graham-Harrison, Jasper Jackson, Alexandra Heal, “Facebook ‘still making money from anti-vax sites’”, in The Observer‎[1]:
      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.

Verb

factcheck (third-person singular simple present factchecks, present participle factchecking, simple past and past participle factchecked)

  1. Alternative form of fact-check.
    • 2025 January 7, Robert Booth, “Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      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.”
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