Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

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Is Ayotte’s hot-stove league analogy correct?

November 19, 2013

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?

When online satire gets presented as the facts

November 15, 2013

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

Fact-checking ‘PoliticsNation’

November 15, 2013

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

When Internet satire gets passed off as “truth”

November 13, 2013

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

When Internet satire gets passed off as “truth”

November 12, 2013

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

Does emergency care account for just 2 percent of health care spending?

October 28, 2013

One of the aims of the Affordable Care Act is to reduce the need for Americans to visit the emergency room for first-line medical care. But the percentage of health-care dollars going to ERs today is actually less than many people assume.

Was Rubio ‘never … in favor of shutting down the government’?

October 23, 2013

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., says he never wanted to shut down the government and voted to keep the government funded. But his public comments and Senate votes undercut that claim.

Was Rubio ‘never … in favor of shutting down the government’?

October 23, 2013

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., says he never wanted to shut down the government and voted to keep the government funded. But his public comments and Senate votes undercut that claim.

Mailbag: ‘You are a joke, and your operation is a sham’

October 18, 2013

With the government in shutdown mode, correspondence to PolitiFact in recent weeks has focused on debt, spending and -- as always -- President Barack Obama's health care law.

Fact-checking Ted Cruz

October 17, 2013

The Texas senator played cheerleader to House Republicans who wanted to defund Obamacare, a strategy that resulted in a government shutdown. We look back at some of our fact-checks of Cruz, and whether he’s eligible to run for president. (Hint: Very likely!)

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