In an era of rapid information exchange, fact-checking has re-emerged as a potentially important tool to help citizens obtain ...

O’Leary is wrong. The federal government has conducted audits for decades, per federal law, and it has publicly shared the results. The Clinton-Gore administration also undertook a massive ...

Angie Drobnic Holan, director of Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and Aaron Sharockman, executive ...

I SO I KNOW POLITIFACT SOMETIMES RATES CLAIMS THAT THAT POLITICIANS HAVE MADE IN THIS INSTANCE WHEN IT COMES TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYING THAT UKRAINE STARTED THE CONFLICT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND ...

That number was likely inflated. Oct. 15, 2024 PolitiFact, The White House exaggerated how sharply illegal immigration has dropped. Here’s what you should know, Feb. 20, 2025 PolitiFact ...

PolitiFact dug in to help you understand where the numbers are coming from and how to understand their scope. Government spending was not a secret Many Trump and Musk supporters have claimed the ...

Statement: The federal workforce grew from 2.1 million to 3 million under President Joe Biden, “a 46% increase since Biden took office.” President Joe Biden presided over an increase in ...

We are revisiting conversations with Rep. Ami Bera about navigating a second Trump presidency. Also, Rosario Rodriguez is the newest Sacramento County Supervisor. Finally, musician Dave Nachmanoff ...

PolitiFact found no public evidence of the claim from the community forum software program vBulletin, which hosts private forums. Power ran USAID for nearly four years under President Joe Biden ...

in an email to PolitiFact. "Clearly, the term dictator does not apply to Zelensky, just as it does not apply to Churchill." A spokesperson for United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told ...

Wisconsin does not “require judges to automatically recuse just because they have done some kind of legal work in the past as a lawyer.” A majority vote of the seven Wisconsin Supreme Court justices, ...