El presidente Joe Biden se postula para la reelección en 2024, enfrentando una revancha potencial con el ex-presidente Donald Trump. PolitiFact ha verificado más de 260 declaraciones de Biden desde el 2007, cuando él era un senador de Estados Unidos de Delaware buscando la nominación presidencial Demócrata. Estas son algunas de nuestras verificaciones más recientes […]
President Joe Biden has reasons to be satisfied with the nation’s economic performance under his watch, including low unemployment rates and efforts he led to help the economy rebound from COVID-19. But his time in the Oval Office has also been consumed by frustration over 40-year-high levels of inflation. On the occasion of Biden announcing […]
President Joe Biden is running for re-election in 2024, facing a potential rematch with former President Donald Trump. PolitiFact has fact-checked more than 260 statements by Biden since 2007, when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com We have also tracked Biden’s progress on 99 […]
For nearly as long as Tucker Carlson has appeared on Fox News, PolitiFact has been fact-checking claims he made during the network’s broadcasts. Our fact-checking of Carlson will likely continue, but his affiliation with Fox News will not. The network said April 24 that it and Carlson “agreed to part ways.” According to AdWeek’s TVNewser, […]
A recent update to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine guidance has caused some confusion. On April 18, the agency said it was revoking the emergency use authorization for the original Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech monovalent vaccines to focus on newer, bivalent vaccines. “Today, FDA amended the (Emergency Use Authorizations) of the Pfizer-BioNTech and […]
As legislatures nationwide debate bills targeting transgender communities, Missouri has taken a novel approach to limit access to gender-affirming care. On April 13, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency rule that significantly restricts which transgender adults and minors can access gender-affirming care. The rule requires patients to have a year and a half […]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision June 24, 2022, to overturn Roe v. Wade was an earthquake for abortion policy. But did the tremors shake public opinion? Surveys taken after the decision provide a mixed answer. Many political analysts have suggested that the Democrats’ surprisingly strong performance in the 2022 midterm elections — which were held […]
At a hearing to review implementation of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, House members queried four transportation experts. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., puzzled them with an esoteric question about carbon dioxide. “What percent of our atmosphere is CO2?” he asked. The experts, appearing to guess, offered responses ranging from 5% to 8%. “I […]
The Biden administration is proposing what it calls the “strongest-ever” pollution standards for vehicles, priming the pump for cars and light trucks that are not powered by fossil fuels. The new regulations wouldn’t require sales of electric vehicles. They would instead push auto manufacturers and consumers toward them by imposing strict standards on how much […]
With the growing popularity and constant improvement of artificial intelligence, it’s tough to decipher what’s real or fake online. We’ve seen it — and fact-checked it — for ourselves. One video claimed to show Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with cocaine on his desk. Another clip said it showed President Joe Biden railing against transgender people. […]
The United States is one of more than 100 countries exploring the possibility of adopting a central bank digital currency. The Federal Reserve System — the U.S. central bank — has been studying it for a few years now, and President Joe Biden in May 2022 signed an executive order that directed the federal government […]
A Delaware jury may soon decide whether Fox News knowingly published defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems — and whether the election equipment company should receive more than $1 billion in damages as a result. Without explaining why, a judge said April 16 that the trial’s start would be delayed a day until April 18. […]