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And the top-read Virginia Truth-O-Meter from 2014 is…

December 31, 2014

State Sen. George Barker's statement that uncompsensated care costs went down 30 percent in states that, unlike Virginia, expanded Medicaid. Here's our review of that claim and four others that generated the most interest in 2014.  

Quick year-end quiz

December 31, 2014

Can you guess how we rated these six lighter and less-serious claims from 2014?

With a second term for Rick Scott, we add promises to the Scott-O-Meter

December 30, 2014

The governor made 20 pledges on the 2014 campaign trail that we will be tracking the next four years.

Fact-checking claims about the economy in 2014

December 30, 2014

The past year produced claims about how good -- or bad -- the economy is these days. Some claims checked out, but others didn't.
 

Our favorites that popped up in your newsfeed in 2014

December 30, 2014

It's not always a statement by a politician that spins the Truth-O-Meter into action.

There are plenty of claims going viral via social media that drew the attention and scrutiny of PolitiFact Georgia in 2014.

Below are some of our favorite memes of the year.
 

Pants on Fire, on parade

December 29, 2014

Ranking, by clicks, our seven Pants on Fire ratings from 2014.

PunditFact’s top 6 fact-checks of 2014

December 29, 2014

Police shootings stats, immigration and a couple of real wild cards ranked high on your hit parade. We revisit the checks that had the most buzz.

Our High Five for December

December 29, 2014

Welfare. Right to work. Obamacare. Texas vs. Wisconsin. Federal deficits.

 

Our five most clicked items from December.

 

How the claims stacked up in 2014

December 29, 2014

The scribes at PolitiFact Georgia are finishing up another year of fact checks. Here's a look at the year, by the numbers.

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