States constitutional law, false statements of fact are assertions, which are ostensibly facts, that are false. Such statements are not always protected...

any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry. Misinformation Fake news False accusation False statements of fact Jumping to conclusions...

Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United...

of the United States, Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or...

speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, false statements of fact, and commercial speech such as advertising. Defamation that causes...

Fact-checking is the process of verifying the factual accuracy of questioned reporting and statements. Fact-checking can be conducted before or after...

respond to fake news or false information through a graduated process of enforcing links to fact-checking statements, censorship of website or assets on...

False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made...

journalists select original statements to evaluate and then publish their findings on the PolitiFact.com website, where each statement receives a "Truth-O-Meter"...

represented statements by numbers. Then the theory at hand, which is assumed to prove certain facts about numbers, also proves facts about its own statements. Questions...