Hundreds of fact-checking “experts” gathered in Oslo, Norway to stop false claims on the Internet, but why won’t they fix their own misinformation?

Several hundred people from 69 countries gathered in Europe last week to rub shoulders and make business connections in the burgeoning fact-check industry, where jobs continue to grow even as they shrink in journalism. According to the Duke Reporter’s Lab, there are now 378 fact-checking groups, up from 168 in 2016.

“The torrent of false information, such as the election-fraud claims that led to the assault on the U.S. Capitol, Russian disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine and pseudoscientific assertions about the coronavirus pandemic, has emerged despite the astonishing growth of the fact-checking movement,” wrote the Washington Post’s resident fact-check guru, Glenn Kessler, who sits on the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network, which organized the meeting.