Category: Fact Check
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Fact Check: Live: Fact-checking Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s first 2024 presidential debate
PolitiFact is live fact-checking the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump at 9 p.m. ET, June 27. CNN…
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Fact Check: No free cash: House of Representatives hasn’t OK’d a new $1,000 card stimulus program
Has the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to give Americans a $1,000 spending card? A viral Facebook video claims so. “President Biden’s gas…
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Fact Check: We feel fine: CERN scientists did not end the world 12 years ago. This claim is satire.
Was R.E.M. onto something in 1987 when they sang, “It’s the end of the world as we know it?” On June 18, a Threads post…
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Fact Check: Liberal group’s ad says Trump is ‘against mail in voting.’ That omits his recent comments
An ad by a liberal group says, “MAGA patriots listen to our president!” It includes clips of former President Donald Trump criticizing voting by mail.…
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Fact Check: Biden debate prep fuels false and misleading claims about body doubles and drugs
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will take the stage June 27 for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election. But some…
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Competing Narratives on Real Wages, Incomes Under Biden
In recent weeks, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Sen. Tim Scott offered seemingly contradictory claims when discussing the impact of inflation on the typical American’s…
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Fact Check: Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Israel and Gaza: Comparing their positions
For decades, American politicians of both parties have tended to coalesce around support for Israel. That support has shifted as Israel wages its war in…
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Fact Check: No, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas didn’t say she’s leaving the U.S.
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas recently lost a legal challenge to overturn rules barring her from competing in women’s elite swimming races. But claims that she’s…
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Fact Check: Swimmer Lia Thomas didn’t announce her retirement, despite online claims
When news broke in June that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas had lost a legal challenge to overturn rules barring her from women’s elite competitive swimming…
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Fact Check: Comparing economic performance for Black Americans under Trump, Biden
As they face off in this year’s election, both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have aggressively courted Black Americans’ votes. Historically, Black…