Media must continue to fight against the Big Lie This is a battle over the bedrock of our democracy. Those who lie simply because they don’t like the outcomes of certain elections must be exposed. May 19, 2022 Tom Jones
What Kevin McCarthy said, and didn’t say, about Trump and the Capitol assault To provide full context, PolitiFact looked back at what McCarthy has said over the past 16 months. April 26, 2022 Jon Greenberg
A claim that Putin beheaded bioweapon engineers in Ukraine and called Trump to tell him has no basis in fact This claim comes from Real Raw News, a blog that has shown a pattern of fabricating news about politicians being executed or arrested by the military. March 31, 2022 Gabrielle Settles
Fact-checking Ginni Thomas’ texts to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows about the 2020 election The messages included references to an imaginary financial system, an alleged sting operation involving watermarked ballots, and military tribunals. March 28, 2022 Bill McCarthy
No, CNN didn’t confirm former President Donald Trump will be arrested A guest on a CNN show said he thinks former President Trump will be indicted. The network did not report that Trump will be arrested. February 21, 2022 Ciara O'Rourke
Jesse Watters spins facts beyond recognition with claims that Hillary Clinton paid to hack and frame Trump A filing in a case stemming from special counsel John Durham’s investigation spawned a flurry of false and misleading claims from pro-Trump pundits. February 18, 2022 Bill McCarthy
Why are we still covering Donald Trump? ‘We’re supposed to ignore the guy who is very likely to be the next Republican nominee and possibly our next president?’ February 14, 2022 Tom Jones
Donald Trump falsely claimed that New York delayed COVID-19 treatment for white people At an Arizona rally, former President Trump stirred up the crowd with inaccurate claims about white people being put at a disadvantage for treatments. February 1, 2022 Jill Terreri Ramos
‘He’s gone. OK.’ — How Donald Trump abruptly ended his interview with NPR NPR’s Steve Inskeep told Trump that he would keep the interview at about 15 minutes. But Trump hung up after about nine. January 13, 2022 Tom Jones
Best-read stories of 2021: Trump on the way out and the Capitol invasion top the list A Washington Post scoop of a call Trump made to Georgia’s secretary of state topped Chartbeat’s annual list of the best-read digital stories. December 21, 2021 Rick Edmonds
PolitiFact’s 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance By the end of the night of Jan. 6, democracy was still standing. But the manipulation of the narrative was already underway. December 15, 2021 Angie Drobnic Holan
Fox News hosts urged Donald Trump to stop the insurrection Still, their later commentary downplayed the attacks and questioned whether they were even carried out by Trump supporters. December 14, 2021 Tom Jones
That viral Christmas card of former President Donald Trump isn’t really his card The image of Trump on the card has been doctored to mock him. It's as fake as an aluminum Christmas tree. December 8, 2021 Gabrielle Settles
Looking ahead to the potential dangers of Donald Trump The latest cover story in The Atlantic might scare the heck out of you. December 7, 2021 Tom Jones
Hannity falsely claimed the US ‘didn’t import a single barrel’ of Saudi oil pre-pandemic under Trump The U.S. imported roughly half-million barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia per day in 2019, the last year before the pandemic under President Trump December 3, 2021 Bill McCarthy
