Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says measles infection may have benefits, but there’s no conclusive evidence Experts say that getting infected with measles can pose serious health risks for people that they wouldn’t face if they were vaccinated March 20, 2025 Jeff Cercone
Trump didn’t say he became president because the 2024 election was ‘rigged’ Trump was referring to the 2020 election, which he lost to former President Joe Biden, and which he has falsely and relentlessly claimed was rigged March 12, 2025 Jeff Cercone
Fact-checking Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy’s tense Oval Office meeting on Ukraine and Russia Donald Trump and JD Vance made several misleading claims about Zelenskyy and Ukraine. PolitiFact fact-checked three of them. March 4, 2025 Jeff Cercone
Karoline Leavitt blamed Biden for the egg shortage, but killing infected birds was Trump’s policy, too About 108 million commercial egg-laying chickens have died or been killed since a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak began in 2022 February 3, 2025 Jeff Cercone
Opinion | Republican leaders want to put conditions on California wildfire aid. Is there precedent for that? Experts say Congress usually funds disasters without requiring policy changes, opting to pursue any reforms only after aid is approved January 24, 2025 Jeff Cercone
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
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
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
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
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 Jeff Cercone
Fact-checking social media posts claiming instant policy victories for Donald Trump When we investigated some of the claims cited in the posts, we found that some were accurate, some were wrong and most of the rest omitted context November 18, 2024 Jeff Cercone
FEMA conspiracy theories have existed for decades. The internet has amplified them Experts told PolitiFact that conspiracy theorists began targeting FEMA in the early 1980s, soon after its creation October 23, 2024 Jeff Cercone
Are China and Russia amplifying hurricane misinformation? Early signs say yes Researchers say there’s evidence that foreign adversaries are amplifying false social media claims about the storms, as they did after other disasters October 15, 2024 Jeff Cercone
How an unsubstantiated, anonymous affidavit about the ABC presidential debate was amplified online Two days after the debate, an X account elevated criticism about ABC with an unverified claim that eventually landed in the halls of Congress September 23, 2024 Jeff Cercone
Here’s what JD Vance said about school shootings being a ‘fact of life,’ in context Vance’s answer to a reporter’s question — an answer that included the phrase ‘fact of life’ — became fodder for his critics September 10, 2024 Jeff Cercone
