Fact Check: is China dumping steel?
Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
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Fact Check: do the police spend over a million hours a year fighting cannabis?
The figures don't really add up.
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Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous
Inflating his own grand persona is Trump's sole goal, and he doesn't care whether or not you believe him.
Year in Review: FactCheck and the weasel-words, cherry-picking and overstatements of 2016
Bald-faced lies are fairly rare in Australian politics but, in 2016, weasel-words and cherry-picking were common. Politicians and public figures are experts at disguising opinion and ideology as fact.
Three ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship
If the site is increasingly where people are getting their news, what could the company do without taking up the mantle of being a final arbiter of truth?
Facebook’s problem is more complicated than fake news
Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there's something built into Facebook's anatomy that foments partisan rage.
Fact Check: do the Treasury’s Brexit numbers add up?
New report says households will be £4,300 worse off if we leave the EU. Here's the verdict.
When covering elections, journalists face a debilitating dilemma
A partisan media landscape has made it almost impossible for journalists to avoid charges of bias when calling out a candidate's dishonesty.
How to inoculate people against Donald Trump’s fact bending claims
Donald Trump has been known to spread misinformation. This gives us a great opportunity to hone our critical thinking skills.
Fact Check: is tertiary education of private benefit?
I’ve always argued that tertiary education is a private benefit, I’m happy for taxpayer funding of primary and secondary education but tertiary education results in a higher salary. - Senator David Leyonhjelm…
FactCheck: did carbon emissions fall faster before the carbon price?
Emissions fell by six times the rate in the five years before the carbon tax than they did under the carbon tax. – Environment minister Greg Hunt, The Guardian, January 17, 2015. Australia’s total greenhouse…
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