PolitiFact Georgia celebrates three years of fact-checks
On our third birthday, PolitiFact Georgia looks back at some of the most memorable items, specifically those that have involved numbers.
On our third birthday, PolitiFact Georgia looks back at some of the most memorable items, specifically those that have involved numbers.
A Republican analyst's tweet led us to learn that 7 in 10 Austin voters in party primaries exclusively fill out the Democratic Party's ballot.
Republican lawmakers accuse President Barack Obama of trying to "pack" the court -- a phrase that invokes the 1937 proposal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court by as many as five justices.
Is there substance to the charge? We turned to American history in search of answers.
Rick Perry touted 13 Texas institutions offering $10,000 college degrees. We wondered.
Today we introduce a new feature: the High Five.
We’ll recap the five PolitiFact Wisconsin items that received the most page-views at PolitiFact Wisconsin during the previous month.
In May, they included a one drink maximum; a girl, an injured woodpecker and the FBI; repeated hand-washing and a memorable Clinton vs. Johnson moment.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) went up against the Truth-O-Meter eight times on topics ranging from Amtrak funding to national healthcare and gun-control measures
Votes on gun background checks are being turned into TV ads around the country. We look more closely at the details behind the amendments fueling the debate.
A couple of times a year, we publish this overview of our procedures and the principles for Truth-O-Meter rulings.
El Paso's county judge said the city is the safest burg of its size in the country. That sounded familiar--and flawed.
Is it a myth that protection orders work? PolitiFact Ohio was interested. We found several studies that suggest protection orders can be effective in deterring further violence, but we also found there are pitfalls in trying to prove whether they provide actual protection. So we’re reporting our findings here, but not making a ruling on the Truth-O-Meter.
"Black pastors are also going to have to answer whether they serve Jesus or the Democrat Party," said E.W. Jackson, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor. "The black community will never prosper by betraying God and following leadership that curries the favor of the Democrat Party."