A look back at Lie of the Year, 2009 to 2018
PolitiFact awards the Lie of the Year to the most significant falsehood or exaggeration of the past 12 months. Here’s a look back at the past 10 years of "winners."
PolitiFact awards the Lie of the Year to the most significant falsehood or exaggeration of the past 12 months. Here’s a look back at the past 10 years of "winners."
Much of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense is based on exaggerations, falsehoods or oft-debunked conspiracy theories. But then there is this basic question: What was Hunter Biden doing on the board of a Ukrainian energy company?
House Democrats released two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
PolitiFact will soon announce our Lie of the Year -- the most significant falsehood of 2019, as chosen by our editors and reporters. We're also inviting PolitiFact readers to vote for the Readers' Choice award.
PolitiFact started as a politics news website in 2007, but these days, it feels more like a mission.
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she took out ads with this made-up assertion to prove her point that Facebook accepts political ads with false claims in them.
Here's a collection of PolitiFact’s ongoing coverage, which we will update as we research and report.
Sen. Ted Cruz took a minute after the third Democratic debate to criticize PolitiFact on Twitter for our previous fact-checking of Cruz's 2018 attacks on Beto O’Rourke. We thought it important to address his criticism.
PolitiFact has been hosting the Muller Report book club via PolitiFact’s weekly email newsletter; read the book club’s final two weeks of material.
Robert Mueller appeared publicly to repeat findings from his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and President Donald Trump’s reaction to the investigation.
PolitiFact has been hosting the Muller Report book club via PolitiFact’s weekly email newsletter; read the book club’s first four weeks of material.
As part of part of PolitiFact’s ongoing coverage of the 2020 campaign, we have written profiles of the major candidates.