In the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump has often been his own biggest hype man when it comes to the economy. “In the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country,” Trump (falsely) said April 17 while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insists an environmental toxin is responsible for increased autism prevalence in the U.S. “This is a preventable disease,” he said April 16, dismissing an HHS agency report’s explanation for the increase. “We know it’s an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics. […]
Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online. Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden “snake tactics” that led to the original sin. “There is no such thing as harmless […]
After President Donald Trump’s administration admitted in court it had deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in “error,” Trump described the 29-year-old deportee as a dangerous man. Democrats and the media portray Abrego Garcia as “innocent,” which is a “total, blatant, and dangerous LIE,” Trump wrote in an April 20 Truth Social post. […]
President Donald Trump posted an image of himself holding a photograph of what he said was the tattooed hand of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whom the government deported to El Salvador in March despite an order not to deport him there. To Trump and the White House X account, the tattoos are proof that Abrego […]
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists on for years. Kennedy held an April 16 press conference pegged to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that found the prevalence of […]
Approaching 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, PolitiFact has been fact-checking a whole host of topics related to the new administration, significant policy changes and, in some cases, the structure of the executive branch. The media landscape has changed, especially for fact-checkers. Earlier this year, PolitiFact and other fact-checkers were in the headlines […]
El papa Francisco, el primer papa latinoamericano, falleció el 21 de abril a los 88 años. Francisco, cuyo nombre era Jorge Mario Bergoglio, nació en Argentina y se convirtió en arzobispo de Buenos Aires en 1998, cardenal en 2001 y papa de la Iglesia Católica en 2013. Recientemente salió de un hospital en Roma tras […]
Days before his 2025 inauguration, President Donald Trump announced the launch of his meme coin, a form of cryptocurrency. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., recently said it could be used for illicit purposes. He posted April 9 on X: “The U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can […]
Social media posts have warned for more than a month that President Donald Trump will declare martial law April 20, which typically means suspending civil law while the military takes control of civilian functions such as courts. But many of the posts appeared to conflate martial law with the potential invocation of the Insurrection Act […]
When a reporter asked President Donald Trump why he paused country-by-country tariffs only a week after unveiling them, Trump said “Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know? They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.” Trump’s April 9 explanation came […]
President Donald Trump’s April 14 public meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele centered on the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Trump administration officials and Bukele said Abrego Garcia would not be returned to the U.S, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return. […]