Category: Fact Check
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Fact Check: Kamala Harris’ ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ spot was taped before her presidential run
Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign soon after President Joe Biden announced July 21 that he would withdraw from the race and endorse… Read More
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Fact Check: Live: Fact-checking Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention
PolitiFact is live fact-checking former President Donald Trump’s Q&A session July 31, 2024, at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair in… Read More
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Fact Check: This video doesn’t show men stealing ballot boxes from Venezuelan voting sites, they’re AC units
Venezuela’s electoral authorities declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the country’s presidential elections, but opposition candidates have questioned the integrity of the results. Social media… Read More
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Fact Check: Kamala Harris has worked to expand the child tax credit, not end it, as J.D. Vance said
Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance defended his past remarks about childless women by falsely claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential… Read More
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Fact Check: Project 2025 would not end gay marriage, but it calls heterosexual families ‘ideal’
Nine years since a landmark Supreme Court ruling made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states, U.S. Census figures show more than 700,000 same-sex couples… Read More
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Fact Check: No, this video doesn’t show Christians praying after the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
A portion of the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony drew outrage from some Christians who criticized the show as mocking a sacred scene depicted in… Read More
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Fact Check: Claim that Netflix stock fell after it donated to Harris campaign is satire
Spoiler alert: Netflix’s stock didn’t plummet 40% after the company donated to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, contrary to viral social media posts. That… Read More
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Fact Check: Fact-checking Trump’s misleading statement that Kamala Harris ‘wants to defund the police’
Former President Donald Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris “wants to be the president for savage criminals” and that Democrats are at “war” with police.… Read More
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Fact Check: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s False claim that Kamala Harris ‘supported abolishing ICE’
In a flurry of attacks against his likely 2024 presidential opponent, former President Donald Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris allowed millions of immigrants to… Read More
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Fact Check: Mike Pence didn’t endorse Kamala Harris for president, says he isn’t endorsing Donald Trump either
The lack of an endorsement for one candidate for president is not necessarily an endorsement for that candidate’s opponent. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who… Read More