The Obama and Romney campaigns are engaged in a fierce battle of connect the dots.
Faced with incomplete and sometimes skimpy details to attack their opponents, the campaigns are making some overly generous assumptions and -- sometimes -- drawing some wildly inaccurate conclusions.
Here are some of our recent fact-checks on campaign ads that try to connect the dots:
Our new app, underwritten by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will help you resolve dinner-table disputes and test your knowledge of the facts in American politics. It's available now for iPhones and Android devices.
On "The Today Show," we discussed recent campaign ads from Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
We reaching two milestones this week: our fifth anniversary and our 6,000th Truth-O-Meter item.
If you're watching the Olympics or just tuning in to your local news, the campaign ads can be relentless. We've put dozens of them to the Truth-O-Meter as part of our Message Machine partnership with NPR.
No, Obama and Hillary Clinton are not negotiating a U.N. treaty to ban handguns and no, you don't have to list your guns on your 1040.
Someone is misusing our logo and spreading this image on Facebook. It is not a PolitiFact chart.
We put new claims about the health care law to the Truth-O-Meter and find more exaggerations and falsehoods.
A chain email claims that a lip-reading instructor for the River School has determined that at a 9/11 ceremony, Michelle Obama said, "All this for a damn flag." We check the facts.
We've checked many claims about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law, and often found the claims were a stretch.
We've checked many claims about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law, and often found the claims were a stretch.
As we await a Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Democratic health care law, a widely circulated Facebook post makes some provocative claims about the differences between Obamacare and Romneycare. We put the claims to the Truth-O-Meter.