How the Washington Post has tracked Trump's Falsehoods -

In early June, Glenn Kessler had documented 3,251 falsehoods from President Donald Trump. He said the count might reach 10,000 by the end of his term in 2021. Less than a year later, it already has. On April 27, The Washington Post Fact Checker…

Violent crime in the US is at its lowest rate in decades. But you wouldn't know that from a crop of increasingly popular social media apps that are forming around crime. Apps like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Ring's Neighbors — all of which…

Mr Anderson I have used Nextdoor in the last two communities where I have lived, and it isn't that fear-based. But I can see how these services can devolve into corrosive neighbourhood watch apps.

Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 208, published May 7, 2019. Luminary cleans up its show notes links situation. As has been widely reported, Luminary was until very recently removing links from the show notes of…

We're excited to announce that Full Fact – along with three of our international partners – has been chosen from more than 2,600 nonprofits, social enterprises and research institutions around the world as a winner of the Google AI…

Google Search is getting an upgrade with better news coverage and now, podcast indexing. At the company's developer conference Google I/O this morning CEO Sundar Pichai kicks things off with an announcement that Google News' “Full…

Every freelancer I've interviewed for this podcast - or just met in the past 11.5 months of freelancing - has worn multiple work hats. It's just the … If you're a keen podcast listener, you might recognise Caroline 's name from the Hot Pod…

Dead pigeons litter the abandoned offices of the Walsall Observer newspaper, where parts of the ceiling have fallen in on the rooms where reporters used to sit. The newspaper's name is still displayed proudly on the front of its town-centre…