International Fact-Checking Day is celebrated on April 2 every year . The event appeared thanks to the International Network of Fact Checkers.

Nowadays, the term fact checking is actively used, which in English means fact checking. In general, fact-checking is a direction of journalistic investigation.

The purpose of the International Fact-Checking Day is to involve society in the development of critical thinking, to raise awareness of the existence of false and erroneous information.