Latest Stories By Vanessa Swales

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PolitiFact Wisconsin ‘High Five’ for July 2022

By D.L. Davis , Kelly Smits , Laura Schulte , Vanessa Swales
August 4, 2022
From pipelines to politics to pilsners to political parties (and their conventions), our five favorite fact checks from July 2022 covered a wide range of topics. To give a better sense of what resonated over the past month, we’re changing our protocols on our High Five. We’ll include some of the most-clicked items, of course, […]
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PolitiFact Wisconsin ‘High Five’ for May 2022

By D.L. Davis , Laura Schulte , Vanessa Swales
June 6, 2022
A range of topics caught the attention of readers of PolitiFact Wisconsin in May, but in a month with multiple mass shootings, it was a fact-check written in September 2021 on gun deaths in the United States that topped the list for the month.   Here’s a look at our “High Five,” our feature that […]
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Fact checking Kenosha shootings, violent protests one year later

By Vanessa Swales
August 24, 2021
A year after a week of violence and upheaval, we are looking back at some of our past fact checks about the shooting of Jacob Blake and the killing of two men by Kyle Rittenhouse. The incidents propelled Kenosha to the center of a national reckoning on race — and, for a time, to the […]
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