The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements In today’s fast-paced and ...

Sen. Jon Kyl's staff previously explained away his false claim that 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's services are abortions by saying it was "not intended to be a factual statement." Now it seems ...

Prior to launching the survey, researchers conducted a series of preliminary tests to determine how best to ask Americans to classify news-related statements. The purpose of these tests was to analyze ...

Senator Jon Kyl had some non-“factual statements” about Planned Parenthood that he spouted off on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week, notably that 90 percent of the services the federally funded ...

Language is structured by countless rules. Mostly, we don’t have to think about them. We just know what makes sense and what doesn’t. If someone asks, “How tall are you?” you respond with a range of ...

As the United States government creeped closer to shutting down on Friday because far-right-wing-nuts don’t like abortion, Senator Jon Kyl took to the Senate floor to give a less-than-“factual ...

After enduring days of ridicule by Comedy Central's faux-pundit, Stephen Colbert, an aide to Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has claimed responsibility for the whole affair. After which, Kyl released his own ...

[vodpod id=Video.5966626&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse] Stephen Colbert, as you probably know, is the guy who invented “truthiness.” So when Arizona Sen. Jon ...

1. A factual statement: Choose this classification if youth think the statement could be proved or disproved based on objective evidence. 2. An opinion statement: Choose this classification if you ...

Given the strong partisan differences in the trust and use of various news outlets identified in the Center’s other research, this study separately examined the impact of adding news outlet ...