Definition of "fact-checking" [fact-checking]

• Present participle of fact-check. (verb)

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• "Republicans, aided by sloppy "fact-checking" from the supposedly impartial website Politifact, continue to insist that they're not voting to end Medicare."
• "After I've struggled over a short story, done a spell check, let it percolate for a day or two and then revisited it for tone, mood, setting and plot—I do some basic fact-checking spade work so I won't be embarrassed when a former English major from Swarthmore who now occupies a low pay/high prestige position as fact-checker gets his/her hands on it."
• "He knew however that just because it was on Facebook, he still had to go through quite an arduous process of fact-checking."