Three old and altered images of people in hazmat suits burying bodies en masse have been used misleadingly to illustrate online posts about cases of the deadly Nipah virus in India’s eastern state of ...

Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is ...

Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of ...

A video of a man ducking amid gunfire during the July 13 assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump has been shared with unsubstantiated claims he was shot by a second shooter. The ...

The most obvious takeaway from the incident is that it was a badly needed wake-up call about what can happen when AI gets too embedded in our information ecosystem. But CEO Melissa Bell resisted the ...

It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook ...

Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in their first and only debate Tuesday night, squaring off over everything from foreign policy and the economy to the 2020 election and ...

CNN's star fact-checker Daniel Dale has made quite a splash during President Donald Trump's first 80 days in office, earning himself exponentially more air time in comparison to the same period under ...

This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. CHICAGO — President Joe Biden, in an often fiery speech, addressed a Democratic convention for which, until just a few weeks earlier, he had expected ...

President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns.

STAND UP TO SCRUTINY. IN JOHNSTOWN, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP REPEATED PREVIOUS CLAIMS ABOUT FOREIGN COUNTRIES EMPTYING THEIR PRISONS AND SENDING VIOLENT CRIMINALS TO THE UNITED STATES. IF YOU TAKE A ...