The top 10 most viewed fact-checks of 2017

During President Donald Trump's first year in office, nothing drew eyeballs to our site quite like the president's words. Readers turned out in droves for our fact-checks of Trump's first joint address to Congress and his speech announcing the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.

Obama to Prince Harry: Leaders must use care on social media

In this BBC handout photograph released on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, Britain's Prince Harry, centre, poses for a photo with presenters Justin Webb and Sarah Montague in the studio for the Radio 4 Today programme which he has guest edited, in London. In this undated photo issued on Sunday Dec. 17, 2017 by Kensington Palace courtesy of the Obama Foundation, Britain's Prince Harry, right, interviews former US President Barack Obama as part of his guest editorship of BBC Radio 4's Today programme which is to be broadcast on the December 27, 2017.

Obama warns against divisiveness on social media Source: Cox Media Group

Former President Barack Obama, without mentioning his successor, urged people in leadership roles not to use social media in a way that promotes divisiveness, CNN reported Wednesday. In a BBC interview conducted by Great Britain's Prince Harry, Obama warned that the internet risks reinforced prejudices and a fractured society.

Sharyl Attkisson: 10 times the intel community violated the trust of…

In 2002, the NSA reportedly engaged in "blanket surveillance" of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, collecting and storing "virtually all electronic communications going into or out of the Salt Lake City area, including a emails and text messages" to "experiment with and fine tune a new scale of mass surveillance." NSA officials had denied such a program existed.

Prince Harry interviews former US President Barack Obama on the Today programme

Harry has joined the presenters of the current affairs programme in the studio and said the issues he had chosen, which included mental health, the charitable sector and the Armed Forces, were "incredibly important topics we all need to think about and need to be discussed." The prince has interviewed former US president Barack Obama for the programme and the statesman warns that the irresponsible use of social media is distorting the public's understanding of complex issues and leading to the spread of misinformation.

News | Noel Frias: 17 Who Made a Difference in 2017

Frias was part of a group that pressed for answers about the financial and non-profit accountability of the Providence NAACP Branch in May -- when he appeared on GoLocal LIVE to express his concerns . He was part of a group of minority leaders that questioned Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's membership to the all-white Bailey's Beach Club -- after Whitehouse had transferred his stock ownership in the club to be solely in his wife's name when he first ran for Congress in 2006.

Silicon Valley mystery: Why the ‘time is right’ for Schmidt to leave as Alphabet chairman

Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, here in Cannes, France, in June 2016, is stepping down as AlphabetAf A A A A A s executive chairman. Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, here in Cannes, France, in June 2016, is stepping down as AlphabetAf A A A A A s executive chairman.

US Appeals Court Rejects Challenge to Trump Voter Fraud Panel

A woman votes at a polling station inside a coffee shop in Los Angeles, March 7, 2017. The California secretary of state was among those who rejected a request for voter information from President Donald Trump's commission investigating alleged voter fraud.