At GlobalFact 2026, fact-checkers report challenges, resilience ^46.3%

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - 6/24/2026, 12:00 AM

Negativity Bias 35.5% - Hasty Generalization 21.7% - Framing Effect 18%

VILNIUS, Lithuania — At the annual conference of fact-checking known as GlobalFact, journalists tasked with calling out falsehoods met amid financial challenges and governmental obstacles — but also a sense that their movement has survived, and that it has much more to contribute. "We have been under attack by political players who would... more