Terrorism Scorecard True 0% 54 Checks Mostly True 0% 63 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 95 Checks False 0% 123 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 77 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Terrorism JD Vance stated on October 15, 2025 in an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show: "Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.” October 20, 2025 Facebook posts stated on February 4, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Elon Musk officially cancelled USAID and fired all the staff. In his words, ‘we just toppled one of the biggest globalist terror organizations in history.’” February 7, 2025 Facebook posts stated on January 4, 2025 in a post on Facebook: “BREAKING: A second attack in New Orleans has been uncovered, police are searching.” January 6, 2025 Instagram posts stated on December 16, 2024 in an Instagram post: Photo of a young man in a tie shows Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow. December 17, 2024 X posts stated on September 18, 2024 in X posts: “iPhones exploding in Lebanon blowing up random people.” September 20, 2024 Instagram posts stated on April 13, 2024 in a video: The Sydney mall attacker is a “Zionist” who targeted Jewish people so that people would think the attacker was Muslim. By Maria Briceño • April 16, 2024 Alex Jones stated on March 23, 2024 in an X post: “It is a fact that Obama created ISIS.” By Sara Swann • March 28, 2024 X posts stated on March 22, 2024 in an X post: A March 7 U.S. security alert … means the U.S. was “behind this gruesome terror attack on Russian civilians.” By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024 Andrew Tate stated on March 26, 2024 in an X post: The ship that struck a Baltimore bridge “was cyber-attacked.” March 26, 2024 Facebook posts stated on January 23, 2024 in a Facebook post: Video shows a convicted terrorist, Movsum Samadov, coming to the U.S. through the southern border. By Maria Briceño • January 30, 2024 Load More Latest Articles Experts question Kristi Noem calling Renee Good a ‘domestic terrorist.’ Here’s what it means • January 8, 2026 Can Trump designate antifa as a ‘major terrorist organization?’ Here’s what we know • September 18, 2025 Fact-checking claims about the Colorado attack at a gathering supporting hostages held by Hamas • June 4, 2025 Some noncitizens on terror watch list were released into U.S., but how many is not clear By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 25, 2025 What do we know about a smuggling network affiliated with the Islamic State group? By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 9, 2025 No link between Fort Bragg and New Orleans, Las Vegas incidents, officials say By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 3, 2025 Are there really Chinese sleeper cells operating in the U.S.? By Conor Amendola, Brooke Johnpier, Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2024 No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or ‘trans terrorism’ By Grace Abels • February 26, 2024 Ask PolitiFact: How many people on the terrorist watchlist are coming into the United States? By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 27, 2023 ‘Special interest alien’ designation is based largely on a person’s country of origin, experts say • September 21, 2023
