It’s time to announce PolitiFact readers’ pick for 2023 Lie of the Year — and it’s a close one. PolitiFact awards the Lie of the Year to the most significant falsehood or exaggeration that worked to undermine an accurate narrative. Although editors make the official choice, we also poll readers to see which falsehood they […]
Wait a minute … that can’t be true. Through the year, we at PolitiFact say that a lot, as we fact-check false statements from the campaign trail, the Oval Office and social media. Although we say mostly that things are false or misleading, we save “lie” for Lie of the Year — the mendacious statement, […]
Before former President Donald Trump spoke for 90 minutes in Durham, New Hampshire, his team compared Trump’s record with President Joe Biden’s record by projecting a series of statistics on the wall. The images shown Dec. 16 had the tagline “Better off with Trump” and covered mortgage payments, mortgage rates and inflation. Here’s a fact-check […]
Once more, with feeling. Michelle Obama is not, never was a man, even if social media users argued otherwise all year long. False statements about whether Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates was trying to poison people through produce, whether Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes used illegal drugs during the Super Bowl and whether Rep. Alexandria […]
Before we turn the calendar to 2024, we want to reflect. From its beginnings, PolitiFact has focused on examining politicians’ statements and rating them for accuracy. We soon started evaluating claims made by pundits, columnists, commentators and other influential members of the media. As 2023 ends, we wanted to take a look back at which […]
PolitiFact en 2023 se alió con estaciones de Telemundo en Florida para compartir nuestras verificaciones con el público de la reconocida cadena de televisión hispanohablante. Los reportes de PolitiFact en Español salieron al aire en los mercados de Miami, Orlando y Tampa, resaltando los hechos detrás de los temas más destacados. See Figure 1 on […]
PolitiFact en Español verificó más de 125 declaraciones en 2023, calificando algunas como Ridículas y Falsas por su nivel de absurdidad. Nosotros determinamos la calificación de una declaración usando el Truth-O-Meter, un medidor que tiene seis calificaciones en niveles decrecientes de veracidad (desde Cierto a Ridículo y Falso). La calificación de “Ridículo y Falso” aplica cuando […]
Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire are preparing to cast ballots in the presidential primary in January. At PolitiFact, we fact-checked the Republican candidates more than 80 times and President Joe Biden about three dozen times in 2023. We heard back from many of our readers via Instagram, TikTok Meta, X, and email. Here’s […]
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus, an ethnically divided island in the Mediterranean, is like any other nation: It’s been hit by a wave of misinformation, and residents are trying to keep up. The former British colony — smaller in area than Puerto Rico — is split by a United Nations buffer zone that separates the predominantly […]
DURHAM, N.H. — With 38 days to go until New Hampshire voters cast their first-in-the-nation ballots in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, former President Donald Trump told an arena full of his Granite State supporters why they should put him back in the White House. In a 90-minute address, Trump regaled an arena full of […]
The U.S House of Representatives voted Dec. 13 to formally authorize an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden. On party lines, with all Republican and no Democratic support, the measure passed, 221-212. The vote did not address the merits of whether Biden should be impeached. Instead, it formalized the House’s decision to undertake an investigation […]
With Congress divided over allocating more funding to Ukraine for its fight against Russia, President Joe Biden’s critics recently said the administration is using the threat of sending American troops to fight Russia as a bargaining chip. Accusations that the White House is leveraging American service members’ lives to fund the Ukraine war have garnered […]