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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 […]

Could Michelle Obama be making a comeback to the White House — this time as president? For years, conservative media has peddled the notion that the former first lady has presidential ambitions. As recent concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office have grown and the November election nears, the rumor mill is […]

A January Fox News segment promoted the bubbling conspiracy theory that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is a government operative whose mission is bolstering President Joe Biden’s reelection chances. Now a poll shows a significant percentage of Americans are buying the false claim. Monmouth University Polling Institute’s mid-February survey of 902 adults found that nearly 1 in […]

The available evidence suggests Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face each other for the presidency in November.  They are 81 and 77 years old, respectively. Trump is facing up to four criminal trials that could theoretically land him in prison. Also, some states are trying to keep Trump off their ballots for his role […]

When Chuck Walter saw the permission slip from his daughter’s Miami school, he turned to social media. Sharing an image of a form that requested parental signature for his first grader to attend a 30-minute “read-aloud” activity in which she would hear a “book by an African American author,” Walter aired his disbelief.  “I had […]