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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

Opinion | A Poynter Report special: the 2024 year in media

A divisive election, turbulence at one of the nation’s legendary newspapers, controversial stoppages of presidential endorsements and so much more

December 20, 2024

Opinion | A story that won’t go away: ABC News’ decision to settle with Donald Trump

Media news tends to phase out fast, but the baffling settlement decision by ABC News continues to linger — inside and outside of the network

December 19, 2024

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

Opinion | Why did ABC News settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump?

The network could have continued to fight the case. Some experts think it could represent an ‘attitudinal shift’ in American media.

December 16, 2024

Opinion | Donald Trump made a bizarre pick to lead Voice of America

Kari Lake, who has spent years decrying ‘fake news,’ may head the federally funded broadcaster that provides independent news worldwide

December 13, 2024

Opinion | Who will be Time’s person of the year?

The magazine has named 10 finalists. One of them feels like a no-brainer.

December 11, 2024

Donald Trump’s interview with ‘Meet the Press,’ fact-checked

Trump elaborated on plans for removing people in the country illegally and imposing tariffs — and made some false claims to support them

December 9, 2024

Opinion | Pete Hegseth blames the media for his controversial and shaky nomination

The former Fox News host called coverage of his contentious defense secretary nomination the ‘classic art of the smear’

December 5, 2024

Trump relishes his relationship with the press. How will that affect his attacks on it?

In the latest episode of ‘The Poynter Report Podcast,’ AP media writer David Bauder says that Trump’s strikes may be impulsive, not organized

December 4, 2024

Can Trump enact tariffs without Congress? And can anyone stop him?

Experts say he could act unilaterally, without support from a Congress that’s perhaps more ambivalent about tariffs than he is

December 3, 2024

Opinion | Donald Trump’s latest nominee poses yet another threat to journalism

‘We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly — we’ll figure that out.’

December 2, 2024

Election fraud claims shifted after Trump’s victory, but baseless theories persisted

A look at 60 election-related claims PolitiFact checked pre- and postelection, common themes and who shared them and on what platform

November 27, 2024

Did Pete Hegseth’s tattoos bar him from National Guard service in 2021?

Hegseth's Jerusalem cross and ‘Deus Vult’ tattoos are rooted in the Crusades and have modern-day ties to far-right and white supremacist groups

November 25, 2024

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