Jon Greenberg

Senior Correspondent

542 Stories Published

1002 Fact-Checks Published

Jon Greenberg was a senior correspondent with PolitiFact. He is now faculty at the Poynter Institute, which owns PolitiFact. He was part of the PolitiFact team during the 2012 presidential election and was one of the fact-checkers who launched PunditFact in 2013. Prior to that, he was executive editor at New Hampshire Public Radio and a Washington reporter for National Public Radio. He has twice won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative reporting.

Areas of Expertise

Abortion 7 Ad Watch 3 Afghanistan 2 Arizona 4 Ask PolitiFact 1 Children 1 China 3 Civil Rights 2 Climate Change 8 Congress 6 Coronavirus 40 Corrections and Updates 8 Crime 2 Criminal Justice 2 Debates 3 Economy 6 Education 6 Elections 27 Energy 7 Environment 1 Ethics 4 Facebook Fact-checks 5 Fake news 1 Families 2 Federal Budget 4 Florida 2 Food 1 Foreign Policy 9 Gas Prices 1 Georgia 9 Global News Service 8 Guns 4 Health Care 4 History 9 Housing 1 Human Rights 1 Immigration 6 Impeachment 3 Infrastructure 1 Jan. 6 22 Jobs 3 Legal Issues 5 Medicare 1 Michigan 1 Military 2 MovieFact 5 National 362 New Hampshire 1 North Carolina 1 Nuclear 1 Ohio 2 Pennsylvania 1 Polls and Public Opinion 1 Poverty 1 Public Health 4 Public Safety 2 PunditFact 122 Race and Ethnicity 7 Religion 1 Russia 1 Social Security 8 State Budget 1 States 2 Stimulus 2 Supreme Court 2 Taxes 5 Technology 3 Texas 3 Tourism 1 Transparency 1 Ukraine 4 Uncategorized 7 Water 1 Wisconsin 1 Women 1 Workers 1

Latest Fact-Checks by Jon Greenberg

Tucker Carlson wrong about people not being able to vote in Arizona’s Maricopa County November 9, 2022
No, Maricopa vote tabulators didn’t lead to ballots with ‘no chain of custody’ November 8, 2022
Ohio’s Tim Ryan said J.D. Vance was silent on Pelosi attack November 3, 2022
Mark Kelly misrepresents Blake Masters’ current Social Security stance in Arizona Senate race October 28, 2022
Instagram post falsely says ‘2,000 Mules’ proves Democrats cheated October 28, 2022
Blake Masters’ flawed comparison of treatment for veterans, immigrants illegally in the country October 21, 2022
AZ GOP governor hopeful Lake called a near-total abortion ban law ‘great’ October 12, 2022
Arizona GOP governor candidate Kari Lake misleads on opponent’s abortion law vote October 12, 2022
Ohio’s Tim Ryan says he ‘voted with Trump on trade,’ but what about Trump’s tariffs? October 4, 2022
False: Arizona secretary of state candidate says ballot harvesting altered election result September 23, 2022

Latest Stories by Jon Greenberg

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
MovieFact: ‘Oppenheimer’ sticks close to historic record, with some liberties August 25, 2023
When will Social Security sunset? Barring congressional changes, money will deplete by 2034 February 22, 2023
What the Jan. 6 hearings revealed about Trump’s actions before and after the Capitol attack December 9, 2022
Fact-checking Mark Kelly and Blake Masters in Arizona Senate race November 4, 2022
Democrats attack Republican Social Security plans. What’s in them? October 26, 2022
Jan 6. committee votes to subpoena Trump. 3 themes show why October 13, 2022
In Arizona Senate debate, Kelly and Masters spar over immigration, abortion. We fact-checked them. October 7, 2022
What is a MAGA Republican? September 21, 2022
What the federal infrastructure bill means for water systems nationwide September 2, 2022
Reality check: Biden’s renewable energy plan August 30, 2022