单词 | fact-checker |
释义 | fact-checkern. A person who verifies facts, esp. in the context of journalism; a person engaged in fact-checking. ΚΠ 1938 Collier's 5 Mar. 30/1 Today Time's original 18,000 subscribers have grown to 700,000, its editors from two to thirty-one,..its researchers and fact-checkers from ten to twenty-two. 1970 New York Mag. 2 Mar. 29/1 At the news magazine where I had been a fact-checker, I discovered that..I had to be a researcher for at least three years before I would even be able to dream about becoming one of their few women reporters. 1991 Premiere Dec. 108/3 Then the fact checker calls and asks me if I flew caviar to Italy. 2010 Observer 21 Mar. 39/2 The blogosphere has introduced a new and disruptive force of fact-checkers, claim-debunkers, story-breakers, rumour-mongers and cyber-satirists. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1938 |
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