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Jeff Cercone

Jeff Cercone

Senior Digital Research Analyst

Jeff Cercone is a senior digital research analyst at PolitiFact. He has previously worked as a content editor for the Chicago Tribune and for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

truthometer@politifact.com

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Latest Fact-Checks By Jeff Cercone

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X posts
X posts
stated on May 6, 2024 an X post
Fired Milwaukee election leader “printed 64,000 ballots in a back room at City Hall in Milwaukee and had random employees fill them out,” giving Joe Biden the lead.
False
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • May 21, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 26, 2024 an interview with Howard Stern
Says he “got arrested” while protesting in favor of desegregation.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Jeff Cercone • April 29, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 5, 2024 a Facebook post
Nikki Haley is ineligible to be president or vice president.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • January 10, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 29, 2023 a tweet
Donald Trump is an “affirmative action advocate.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Jeff Cercone • June 30, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 17, 2023 a tweet
Protests of (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) at a Los Angeles Dodgers game led to a "virtually empty stadium for the game itself.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • June 19, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on February 1, 2023 a House committee hearing
Illinois “received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • February 3, 2023
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on January 9, 2023 in a broadcast
The election in Brazil “was very clearly a rigged election.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • January 12, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 a speech in Atlanta
As a youth, “I got arrested” protesting for civil rights.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Jeff Cercone • January 13, 2022
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Latest Articles By Jeff Cercone

Obamas at groundbreaking in Chicago, 09-28-21
Measles vaccine vial
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Trump in Miami Beach, 02-19-25
Sen. John Kennedy in Congress, 02-12-25
Tom Homan, 4-26-2018
Donald Trump sings executive orders in the White House's Oval Office, 1-20-2025
California fire damage in Pacific Palisades, 1-13-25
Firefighters in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles, 1-11-2025
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