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PunditFact fact-checks Bill O’Reilly on Nelson Mandela

On The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly said that Nelson Mandela "was a great man. But he was a communist." Was O'Reilly right?

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Fact checking claims about low-income workers

With a presidential speech on income inequality and strikes by fast-food workers in the news, we fact-check two recent claims about the plight of low-income workers.

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Mailbag: The non-Obamacare edition

Much of our recent correspondence from readers has been about President Barack Obama's health care law. But not all of it. Here's a rundown of some of the comments from readers about our work on other subjects.

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Mailbag: ‘You guys are a bunch of morons’

Not every email we get has a spirit of generosity. But we're thankful anyway.

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Fact-checking claims about how trade deals become law

Quietly, negotiators from 12 nations, including the United States, have been hammering out a major trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We looked at what it would take to get an agreement through Congress.

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Did Obama team announce Iran deal to avoid bad publicity on health care?

Obama’s political opponents are hinting at a "wag the dog" scenario, but there’s no evidence to support that and much to contradict it.

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Flip-flopping on the filibuster

Senate Democrats went forward with a "nuclear option" to defuse Republican opposition to President Barack Obama’s nominees. We found a lot of switching sides from where the debate was back in 2005, when the shoe was on the other foot.

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Is Ayotte’s hot-stove league analogy correct?

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said the federal deficit could pay "all of the 2013 salaries of every professional baseball player for the next 248 years." Is she right?

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When online satire gets presented as the facts

Like the old game of telephone, satire is being transformed into "truth" by social media.

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Fact-checking ‘PoliticsNation’

On Tuesday's PoliticsNation, host Al Sharpton and guests Rep. Jim McDermott and Goldie Taylor confused their talking points.

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When Internet satire gets passed off as “truth”

Like the old game of telephone, satire is being transformed into "truth" by social media and the Internet.

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When Internet satire gets passed off as “truth”

Like the old game of telephone, satire is being transformed into "truth" by social media and the Internet.

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