Fact Checking
Truth. A book about things that aren't true. No. Really.
4 Oct 2019
In Truth: A Brief History of Lies, Deception and Total Bullsh*t, Tom Phillips, author and independent fact checker looks at the ingenious ways, throughout history, humans have managed to avoid telling… Audio
A new landscape of twisted truths
9 Sep 2019
We've seen 'post-truth' politics flourish in the US and Britain - are New Zealand politicians also starting to adopt the tactic of 'alternative facts'? Audio
Give facts a chance
31 Jul 2016
False claims can spread faster than ever in the media these days - far faster than the truth about them can be established. Journalists make things worse "behaving like young people online", says one… Video, Audio