In fact, he lost the state in the 2020 election. What followed on Tuesday was an hour and a half filled with many familiar falsehoods and exaggerations about his accomplishments, including on ...

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have been busy. PolitiFact has been busy, too. Since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, our reporters have been fact-checking statements ...

Rosie O’Donnell is calling out Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his baseless claims about people with autism. On Wednesday, April 16, the Health and Human Services Secretary held a press conference ...

The cover of Austin Kelley’s debut novel, “The Fact Checker,” will be immediately recognizable to a certain type of person: Ah, the New Yorker, they might think, before blinking and ...

Here's a fact check. While speaking about hometown star Jack Sawyer, Trump said, “We won Columbus by a lot of points. I like it." While Trump won Ohio by 12 points in 2024, he lost Columbus by ...

The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.

In brief: Facebook is making one of the biggest changes in a decade later today: it will officially end its fact-checking program in the US. In its place will be the Community Notes feature ...

Fact-checkers are facing severe challenges and political pressure while doing their "honorable" and "patriotic" work, one director warned. On Wednesday, International Fact-Checking Network ...

This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. After the Department of Government Efficiency gained access to student loan databases, some social media posts promoted a federal privacy law as ...

CNN backtracked on one of its fact-checks of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress after claiming he "falsely" asserted federal money was used on transgender ...

CINCINNATI — During a joint address to the United States Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed the government has funded scientific studies aimed at "making mice transgender.

PBS News Hour's White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López joins Amna Nawaz for a deeper dive and fact check. For a deeper dive and a fact-check on many of the claims the president made last ...