Last year’s winner of the reader poll was also PolitiFact’s official editors’ choice for Lie of the Year: President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s campaign claim that Haitian immigrants in ...
In a campaign year loaded with political plot twists, PolitiFact heard many claims that prompted head smacks and double takes. We said, as you probably did: That can’t be right. When we check the ...
In the months preceding the 2024 election and during early voting, PolitiFact fact-checked numerous claims about election fraud. Most were about vote counting, mail-in ballots and voting machines, but ...
A contentious presidential election, two devastating hurricanes, the Baltimore bridge collapse: It was a busy news year, and where news goes, misinformation follows. Sometimes it even precedes it, as ...
When better to fact-check politicians than in an election year? In 2024, PolitiFact’s web traffic showed readers sought answers to questions raised by and about the leading presidential candidates, ...
April 2 is a big day. For U.S. President Donald Trump, it’s what he’s described as "liberation day," the date he planned to roll out "reciprocal" tariffs with countries that have trade imbalances with ...
The rewriting of a page on the CDC’s website to assert the false claim that vaccines may cause autism sparked a torrent of anger and anguish from doctors, scientists, and parents who say Health and ...
Approaching 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, PolitiFact has been fact-checking a whole host of topics related to the new administration, significant policy changes and, in some cases, the ...
Nancy Pelosi to retire: How the Democratic leader stretched facts and became a misinformation magnet
Almost since PolitiFact’s 2007 founding, we’ve been covering Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who announced her retirement, effective in January 2027. We first fact-checked the former House speaker on Aug ...
Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is ...
As part of her duties as California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris wrote the title and summary language for Proposition 57, a 2016 state ballot measure. Harris neither wrote the proposed law nor ...
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