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Colin Deppen
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Colin Deppen is a reporter/curator at The Incline in Pittsburgh and has previously worked for news organizations across the state of Pennsylvania, including the Patriot-News and PennLive.com in Harrisburg.
Areas of Expertise
Latest Fact-Checks by Colin Deppen
- Scott Wagner says Pa.’s unemployment rate is 20 percent higher than the national rate. It isn’t. October 18, 2018
- Lt. Gov. hopeful Jeff Bartos says the death penalty is a deterrent. Researchers disagree. October 11, 2018
- Hazleton wasn’t half-Latino when Lou Barletta was re-elected mayor. He said it was. June 12, 2018
- US losing one bank or credit union a day, but trend was in works before Dodd-Frank May 31, 2018
- Pennsylvanians would only pay for a fraction of Gov. Tom Wolf’s severance tax May 25, 2018
- Paul Mango’s negative economic portrait of Pennsylvania is backed up April 9, 2018
- Wolf’s half-truth on the subject of shale taxes March 30, 2018
- Did Conor Lamb say very nice things about Trump? No March 22, 2018
- Conor Lamb’s rejection of corporate PAC money needs context March 17, 2018
Latest Stories by Colin Deppen
- 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
- Are Pennsylvania Democrats fleeing the party to become Republicans? October 5, 2018
- Does Conor Lamb support mice more than Medicare? September 26, 2018
- Fact checking Pa. Rep. Daryl Metcalfe’s Facebook meltdown April 23, 2018