This paper investigates the political bias of French fact-checkers. I collect a dataset including all articles published by 7 fact-checkers until July 2021. I study the political orientation of politicians fact-checked. First, I document a selection bias: the right-wing fact-checker is less...

With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...