Did The Washington Post decide to stop fact-checking President Joe Biden?

Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer for The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, tweeted that the newspaper will continue to “rigorously” fact-check the president’s statements, even as it stops maintaining a database of Joe Biden fact checks because of the labor the database requires.

Numerous posts on Facebook and Twitter falsely claimed that the Post had stopped fact-checking Biden.

“Maintaining the Trump database over four years required about 400 additional 8-hour days over four years beyond our regular jobs for three people,” Kessler tweeted. “Biden is off to a relatively slow start but who knows what will happen. We will keep doing fact checks, just not a database.”

Shani George, vice president of communications for the Washington Post, sent The Associated Press a statement echoing Kessler’s points and saying the Post will “continue to hold the president accountable for his words.”