Merriam-Webster, the company known for its reference books and dictionaries, has become the source of online misinformation about vaccines. "Vaccine used to be defined as a substances that provides ...

Searches for the definition of “fact” spiked on Merriam-Webster's website following Kellyanne Conway’s appearance on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” where she used the phrase, “alternative facts.” “A fact ...

The claim: Image shows Wikipedia changed its definition of "definition" Definitions of key words generated debate and controversy throughout the coronavirus pandemic, as the Centers for Disease ...

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This Associated Press “fact check” of Bill Clinton’s speech last night has attracted a fair amount of Internet abuse, but not nearly enough. It’s not only a prime specimen of journalistic idiocy — ...

During an interview on Meet the Press, Kellyanne Conway told Chuck Todd that Trump’s false statements regarding “a million, a million and a half people” attending his inauguration were “alternative ...

A businessman’s post on Instagram and Facebook wrongly claims that the U.S. government “changed the definition of pandemic” in 2004, suggesting that COVID-19 would not have qualified under the old ...