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‘How is this not a Pants on Fire?’: What PolitiFact readers thought of recent fact-checks By Amy Sherman • December 20, 2023 Amid images and news of actual war, false and misleading claims about Israel-Hamas thrive By Sara Swann • October 11, 2023 From farming to doomsday prepping: How one YouTube channel changed to fuel misinformation By Madison Czopek • September 5, 2023 Fact-checking conspiracy theories about death of Obamas’ personal chef By Jeff Cercone • August 2, 2023 La Tierra no es plana. Aquí te contamos por qué. By Maria Briceño • April 25, 2023 How to detect deepfake videos like a fact-checker By Gabrielle Settles • April 19, 2023 Did Ohio train derailment cause CDC to update its vinyl chloride toxicology info? No By Madison Czopek • February 24, 2023 Here’s what you should know about the claim that Tyre Nichols was ‘reckless driving’ By Tom Kertscher • February 1, 2023 Group says tax returns show Trump paid what he owed, but only audits can confirm that By Tom Kertscher • January 6, 2023 PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of 2022 By Sara Swann • December 26, 2022 Is Elon Musk under federal investigation? Here’s what we know By Michael Majchrowicz • November 11, 2022 How Ye stirred up antisemitism among social media users By Gabrielle Settles • October 25, 2022 What George Soros said about Ukraine in a 2014 CNN interview By Ciara O'Rourke • September 20, 2022 The most outlandish claims we’ve fact-checked about Queen Elizabeth II By Gabrielle Settles • September 12, 2022 How will social media platforms respond to election misinformation? It isn’t clear By Hana Stepnick • August 1, 2022 Case study: How Facebook pages exploit Russia’s war in Ukraine with false videos By Grace Abels • July 27, 2022 Bombing of controversial Georgia Guidestones fuels online conspiracy theories By Madison Czopek • July 13, 2022 Doctors ‘strongly discourage’ using herbs to induce a miscarriage By Jeff Cercone • July 6, 2022 Fact-checking conspiracy theories about the death of Michael Stenger, former Senate sergeant-at-arms By Bill McCarthy • June 29, 2022 Mailbag: The Uvalde shooting and gun control, Roe v. Wade, open borders, and more By Jon Greenberg • May 27, 2022
