Factcheckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fact-check (plural fact-checks)

1. Alternative form of fact check.

動詞

fact-check (third-person singular simple present fact-checks, present participle fact-checking, simple past and past participle fact-checked)

1. (transitive) To verify the factuality of specific information.
   • 2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:

     There are the tiniest statements, such as claiming that Dartmouth is technically the only railway station in Britain never to have had a railway line, that need to be fact-checked (and in this case debunked - at least Hull Corporation Pier was similar).

参照

• “fact-check”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.