Latest Stories By Aaron Sharockman

PolitiFact today is launching a new program to bring local fact-checking to seven pivotal U.S. Senate races. PolitiFact will fact-check the major party candidates for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The seats are all currently held by senators caucusing with Democrats. And the Democrats may need to win […]

PolitiFact has a backstory with the recipient of our 2023 Lie of the Year recipient, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  In August 2020, Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense sued the Poynter Institute for Media Studies (PolitiFact’s owner and publisher) in federal court alleging PolitiFact wrongly ruled false a third party’s claim that the flu vaccine was “significantly […]

  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the FDA was blocking the use of “lifesaving” monoclonal antibody drugs “without a shred of clinical data.”   That wording obscures the full story: There were several scientific studies — including ones from the drugmakers themselves — that found that the drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly are ineffective against […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made it clear he isn’t taking his marching orders from President Joe Biden when it comes to how Florida will handle a surging number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. So it was perhaps a bit odd on Aug. 10 when reports said that Florida was receiving 300 ventilators to […]

Happy Birthday to us! Between conventions, the coronavirus and everything else that’s happened this summer, Lucky 13 really snuck up on us. We started PolitiFact back in 2007 as a way to help sort out fact from fiction in the 2008 presidential campaign. The original plan for PolitiFact only counted on the website lasting six […]

President Donald Trump left Washington for his first major trip in nearly two months, and also left the relative safety of a Fox News interview by sitting down with ABC News’ David Muir during a visit to Arizona on May 5. Muir was criticized for not pushing back harder on some of Trump’s specific claims […]

Twelve years ago, PolitiFact started as a one-of-a-kind idea that no one was sure would work. Full-time fact checkers covering the presidential election through an online, database-driven website. 

PolitiFact is live fact-checking the first Democratic presidential debate. 

PolitiFact is live fact-checking the first Democratic presidential debate. 

This is big. Thanks to a generous donation from one of our supporters, every dollar you donate to PolitiFact now through Dec. 31 is tripled.
 

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our newsroom, citizens are staying informed on the complex issues that matter to them. For instance, we recently dug into the facts of whether President Donald Trump has the power to fire FBI special counsel Robert Mueller. Answer: It’s complicated.

For more than 10 years, we’ve been sorting out fact from fiction and holding politicians all across the country accountable — stories that you can’t find anywhere else.