President Joe Biden has often touted that his administration has cut the federal deficit, sometimes communicating that record more accurately than others. At campaign fundraisers in December and February, he told audience members that on his watch, the deficit fell by “$7 billion.” The actual decline is more than $1 trillion, not billion. He used […]
Get ready: In the 2024 presidential race, the candidates will talk about the economy. A lot. We know because it’s already happening. Incumbent President Joe Biden has touted the rapid growth of jobs on his watch. His predecessor and front-runner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump, has focused on the four-decade-high inflation that peaked in […]
An Aldi supermarkets employment ad has some conservatives complaining on social media that it shows the German-owned discount grocer is no longer hiring white people. A woman in a Feb. 4 Instagram video said, “Guys, you missed it. Aldi is hiring everybody but white people.” As evidence of her claim, the woman read from a […]
The two 2024 presidential election front-runners traveled to Texas on Feb. 29 to deliver vastly different messages about a key election issue: immigration. Former President Donald Trump stoked fear about the people crossing the southern U.S. border, citing recent high-profile criminal cases in which authorities charged immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. President Joe […]
After an Arizona voter posted a photo showing she received two mail ballots from Maricopa County, a local elections official debunked any inference that something sinister occurred. “Maricopa county at its finest … My first time ever voting in a presidential preference election and I received not one but two mail-in ballots. Thank you @stephen_richer,” […]
Muchas publicaciones en redes sociales dicen ofrecer una tarjeta llamada “flex card”, que supuestamente se puede usar para pagar deudas, cubrir costos médicos y comprar comida. Aunque esto puede sonar como una gran solución para muchos, estos videos obvian información importante sobre estas tarjetas. PolitiFact ha investigado varias de estas publicaciones y hemos notado que […]
With one arrest, some politicians and pundits speculated that the evidence that President Joe Biden accepted a bribe disappeared. But did it? Tuning into cable news networks, the answer depended on which channel you consulted. On MSNBC, FBI informant Alexander Smirnov’s indictment was characterized as a “spectacular embarrassment” to Republicans’ continuing effort to impeach Biden. […]
Genesse Ivonne Moreno entered a Houston megachurch on Super Bowl Sunday and began firing an AR-style rifle at worshippers, police said. Investigators were still piecing together details from the violent scene — celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church — when social media claims focused on the shooter’s gender. “The Lakewood Church shooter was transgender,” the […]
In the aftermath of the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting, some social media users wondered why local authorities and news outlets have not released certain information about the juvenile suspects. One of them was Kyle Rittenhouse, who was 17 when he was arrested in the high-profile fatal shootings of two men during a […]
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has made his current stance on abortion public: He supports exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and also thinks voters should decide the issue. Hovde made his position clear when asked by PolitiFact Wisconsin to respond to a radio ad that targeted his stances on […]
El candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump causó un alarme internacional cuando dijo que él “alentaría” a Rusia a hacer lo que quiera a un país miembro de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte que no pague por defensa colectiva. Trump dijo eso el 10 de febrero en un mitin en Conway, Carolina del Sur, […]
PolitiFact readers started 2024 with deep reading and thoughtful comments to our newsroom. They sounded off in emails to reporters and through social media comments about immigration, our fact-checking of former President Donald Trump and a debunk of the cemetery mail truck hoax. Below, our readers’ thoughts, lightly edited for length, clarity and style. Readers […]