Based on the Cite Space software，this study takes the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database as the data source, and analyzes the frontier and hotpots by combing the research context from the following aspects：the quantity of literature, the distribution of countries, authors, research institutions and journals, keywords co-occurrence network, timing and other aspects of cutting-edge research, which reveals the research status and hotpots of fact checking research directly. The conclusions indicate that the definition and connotation of fact checking are gradually focused, while the scope of research is expanding constantly; the cross interaction between fact checking and other disciplines is increasingly frequently, but the research system is still not mature; the fact checking knowledge production is relatively scattered, but there are certain conditions for the formation of the scientific community.