Angie Drobnic Holan

Former Editor-in-Chief

784 Stories Published

639 Fact-Checks Published

Angie Drobnic Holan is the former editor-in-chief of PolitiFact. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She serves on the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s of library science from the University of South Florida. Her undergraduate degree is from the Plan II liberal arts program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a native of Louisiana and attended the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts.

Areas of Expertise

Ask PolitiFact 1 California 4 Congress 2 Coronavirus 12 Crime 2 Criminal Justice 1 Education 1 Elections 7 Fake news 1 Florida 55 Foreign Policy 1 Georgia 35 History 1 Immigration 1 Impeachment 1 Jan. 6 3 MovieFact 1 National 639 Ohio 2 Oregon 1 PunditFact 8 Race and Ethnicity 3 Rhode Island 3 Russia 1 Texas 11 Ukraine 1 Uncategorized 1 Virginia 5 Voter ID Laws 2 Wisconsin 3

Latest Fact-Checks by Angie Drobnic Holan

Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act: what the record says September 28, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘Kingdom of God’ comments ripped out of context September 27, 2020
Ilhan Omar misstates the facts about CAIR’s founding April 15, 2019
Mike Pence cites Clinton support for more Syrian refugees September 4, 2016
Obama is not ‘absolutely’ a Muslim, as RNC speaker claims July 19, 2016
Trump right that Clinton made up story about Bosnia sniper fire June 22, 2016
Rubio wrongly credits Reagan for 1981 release of hostages from Iran January 17, 2016
Ben Carson claimed program that led to 97% illegal immigration drop has been ‘abolished’ September 27, 2015
Rick Scott changed the terms of his promise to create 700,000 jobs on top of natural growth, ad says October 14, 2014
Charlie Crist has made mixed statements on the stimulus September 30, 2014

Latest Stories by Angie Drobnic Holan

Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
PolitiFact reporters face online harassment; we keep fact-checking anyway June 13, 2022
PolitiFact’s checklist for thorough fact-checking March 31, 2022
What Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Russia video can teach us all about talking to the misinformed March 21, 2022
State of PolitiFact 2022: The stakes are high for democracy and fact-checking February 28, 2022
When George Washington fought misinformation February 21, 2022
The Jan. 6 Capitol attack: A year of debunking false narratives January 4, 2022
The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance December 15, 2021
2021 Lie of the Year Readers’ Choice poll results December 15, 2021
Donald Trump’s ‘I was right about everything,’ fact-checked June 14, 2021
House Democrats press timeline in Day 2 of Senate impeachment trial February 11, 2021