But both news broadcasts above — one true, one not true — are presented as fact, a word that many people use synonymously with truth. And fact-checking in today’s news-gathering world, trust us on this (or don’t), often means that something appeared on Wikipedia. But the only real criteria Wikipedia has to back up facts is the presence of something else on the Internet that states it as a fact. We know a high-profile author whose name is misspelled on his Wikipedia page and after two years being unable to get it corrected, the misspelling spilled into other news sites. Now, those news sites that carried over Wikipedia’s mistake are what justify the misspelling on Wikipedia. So the guy’s name has, basically, changed.