Category: Fact Check
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Fact Check: We want to be more transparent with you about our fact-checking. Here’s how
As PolitiFact enters another contentious election year, we want to explain to you, our readers, how we’re maintaining transparency about our fact-checking. Independence and transparency… Read More
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Fact Check: Jesse Watters claimed NOAA is ‘cooking the books’ to prove climate change. That’s False
Fox News host Jesse Watters recycled a claim climate change deniers have been making for years. “Hottest year on record, huh?” Watters asked Jan. 31… Read More
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Fact Check: Taylor Swift was not holding a ‘Trump won’ flag at the Grammys; it’s an altered photo
Here’s the thing about altered photos: They lie, and they lie, and they lie — a billion little times. A photograph circulating on social media… Read More
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Fact Check: Is inflation down to 2%, as Joe Biden said? It depends on your metric
As inflation has cooled since its peak in summer 2022, President Joe Biden has been increasingly eager to tout the trend of moderating prices. In… Read More
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Fact Check: No, Biden didn’t admit to using the Justice Department to stop Trump from reelection
As former President Donald Trump runs for office again, he faces a myriad of legal battles from civil defamation lawsuits to charges of insurrection in… Read More
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Fact Check: Sen. Chris Murphy said ‘the border never closes.’ What does that mean?
Republican lawmakers who oppose a new bipartisan Senate immigration bill are using the words of one of the bill’s sponsors to bolster their opposition. During… Read More
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Electric Vehicles Contribute Fewer Emissions Than Gasoline-Powered Cars Over Their Lifetimes
Q: Are electric cars really better for the environment than gasoline-powered cars over their lifetimes? A: Yes. Electric vehicles typically release fewer greenhouse gas emissions… Read More
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Fact Check: Martin Luther King Jr. is not supporting Trump. That’s Pants on Fire!
If conservative pundit Nick Adams is to be believed, former President Donald Trump has someone who’s come back from the dead to support him: the… Read More
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Fact Check: Donald Trump was not the first GOP presidential nominee to sweep Oklahoma’s 77 counties
There’s little doubt that former President Donald Trump has been popular in Oklahoma: In 2016 and 2020, Trump won more than 65% of the votes… Read More
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Fact Check: Abraham Lincoln wasn’t removed from 1860 ballots; comparison to Trump removals faulty
Days before the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal of his removal from Colorado’s March 5 Republican primary ballot,… Read More