President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day speeches, fact-checked Trump took his second oath of office as the 47th president of the United States, offering an agenda heavily foreshadowed by his campaign promises January 21, 2025 Louis Jacobson
PolitiFact kicks off the MAGA-Meter to track Donald Trump’s promises Over the next 4 years, PolitiFact will periodically evaluate the new administration’s progress on those promises, as it did for previous presidents January 20, 2025 Louis Jacobson
Did Joe Biden keep these 99 promises? PolitiFact reviewed his presidential record Biden kept 33 promises. He compromised on 32. And he broke 34 promises. Here's what he did and didn't accomplish. January 15, 2025 Louis Jacobson
New Meta content rules let users call LGBTQ+ people ‘mentally ill.’ Here’s what medical experts say. Leading medical experts do not consider being gay or transgender to be a mental illness January 14, 2025 Grace Abels
The Los Angeles fires have fueled falsehoods about water management, including from Trump Hydrants ran dry because the city’s infrastructure was not built to respond to fires so large. A change in water management would not have helped. January 13, 2025 Jeff Cercone
No, cancer isn’t a parasite, and ivermectin can’t cure it Cancer grows from mutations in a person’s cells. Parasites are separate organisms that live on or in another host organism. January 7, 2025 Caleb McCullough
How a Fox News report fueled false claims about the New Orleans suspect. He was a US citizen. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old suspected driver in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans, was a US citizen and US Army veteran January 6, 2025 Samantha Putterman
‘Not the AI election’: Why artificial intelligence did not define the 2024 campaign Experts warned about AI’s potential to influence election results. But the anticipated avalanche of AI-driven misinformation never materialized. December 30, 2024 Loreben Tuquero
A month-by-month look at the misinformation that caught our attention in a busy news year A presidential election, 2 devastating hurricanes, the Baltimore bridge collapse: It was a busy news year, and where news goes, misinformation follows December 27, 2024 Jeff Cercone
Here are PolitiFact’s top 10 fact checks of politicians in 2024 PolitiFact’s most-read fact checks of politicians answered questions about the presidential candidates’ records on debt and inflation December 24, 2024 Matthew Crowley
What would a government shutdown mean for you? Here’s what we know. TSA and air traffic controllers will have to work, but without regular paychecks. During a 2018-19 shutdown, many chose not to report for duty. December 20, 2024 Jeff Cercone
Opinion | Behind the scenes of PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year with PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders Local authorities denied claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio ate pets, but Trump and Vance pushed the falsehood, causing real-world consequences December 18, 2024 Tom Jones
A history of PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, from 2009 to 2024 Conspiracy theories, obfuscated truths, downplaying and denialism, smears and repeated misstatements. We've seen it all. December 18, 2024 Matthew Crowley
‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for false Haitian claims Vance’s rumor embrace and Trump’s debate outburst cemented lasting consequences, stigmatizing a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage December 17, 2024 Amy Sherman
There’s no evidence Luigi Mangione published a viral, now-deleted Substack article Substack removed the post ‘for violating Substack’s Content Guidelines, which prohibit impersonation’ December 11, 2024 Jeff Cercone
