Other forms: fact-checking, fact-checked, fact-checks
To fact-check is to test whether a claim is actually true before printing it. Fact-check the piece, fact-check a speech, a team that will fact-check everything.
Magazines once did it as a matter of routine, and the practice thinned as budgets did. Fact-checking after publication is now a public genre of its own, done against politicians rather than for editors.
1verbfact-checkTo test whether a claim is actually true before printing it.
“Somebody should fact-check the numbers before this goes out.”
fact-check is a checking.
Practised in News & Communication