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U.S. Energy Department stated on May 25, 2025 in an X post:

“U.S. retail gasoline prices heading into Memorial Day weekend: 20 year low.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2025

TikTok posts stated on March 5, 2025 in a TikTok post:

If you update your iPhone to iOS 18.3, you are going to have Starlink automatically installed in your phone.

By Maria Briceño • March 31, 2025

Ian Miles Cheong stated on March 19, 2025 in an X post:

Netflix show “Adolescence” is based on Southport, England, knife attacker but the show “race swapped the actual killer from a black man/migrant to a white boy.”

By Jeff Cercone • March 21, 2025

Facebook posts stated on October 30, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Photos show Keanu Reeves hawking T-shirts with political messages.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 8, 2024

Facebook posts stated on April 11, 2024 in a post:

“You’ve probably heard that Taylor Swift is endorsing Joe B."

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 16, 2024

Joe Biden stated on February 4, 2024 in a post on X:

“Inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2024

TikTok posts stated on December 25, 2023 in a TikTok video:

T-Mobile plans to fine its customers up to $3,500 for text messages it doesn't like.

By Jeff Cercone • January 4, 2024

Jodi Emerson stated on November 7, 2023 in Wisconsin Assembly:

"On most campuses, you cannot destroy a chalked message unless you were the one that wrote it. You can't dump water on it, you can't even walk over it."

By Hope Karnopp • December 5, 2023

Viral image stated on September 11, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Barack Obama urged people on Sept. 10, 2001, to “report to work tomorrow” at the World Trade Center.

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 12, 2022

Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2022 in Facebook posts:

Images from Hunter Biden’s laptop show Joe Biden naked with a young girl.

By Bill McCarthy • July 13, 2022

Viral image stated on May 27, 2022 in a Facebook post:

A Costco gas pump screen said “Don’t blame us. Blame Joe Biden.”

By Samantha Putterman • June 1, 2022

X posts stated on May 26, 2022 in a tweet:

“These mass shootings happen so much that Ted Cruz really got a template ready to tweet whenever they occur.”

By Samantha Putterman • May 27, 2022

Viral image stated on March 24, 2022 in a Facebook post:

John F. Kennedy Jr. is alive and the author of anonymous QAnon messages.

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 25, 2022

Facebook posts stated on February 15, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Grocery chain Aldi will send people who share a Facebook post a “bag full of family necessities” worth $750, and 100 random bags also have a voucher for $500.

By Andy Nguyen • February 21, 2022

Viral image stated on January 5, 2022 in a tweet:

An email shows that employers are requiring employees to wear masks during Zoom meetings.

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 6, 2022

Instagram posts stated on September 27, 2021 in posts on social media:

A funeral home used a truck to advertise the message "Don't get vaccinated."

By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2021

Joe Biden stated on August 18, 2021 in an interview with ABC:

On whether withdrawal from Afghanistan would be chaotic

By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2021

Facebook posts stated on August 4, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"If your employer is mandating any pokes, do not quit. Make them fire you. That way you get unemployment benefits."

By Bill McCarthy • August 5, 2021

Facebook posts stated on July 14, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"The government will be infiltrating” personal text messages.

By Tom Kertscher • July 15, 2021

Facebook posts stated on April 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:

By clicking on a link from a fake USPS text message, “you are sending your precise location to sex traffickers in your local area” so they can kidnap you.

By Gabrielle Settles • April 26, 2021

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PACs, campaigns spent $3 billion on ads. What were the most misleading messages to voters?

By Caleb McCullough • November 3, 2026

What does it take to freeze your eggs, and how well does it work?

By Grace Abels • August 24, 2026

Sorting through the mixed messages on cyclosporiasis

By Madison Czopek • July 27, 2026

Vape shop manager blows aerosol ring while vaping 09-03-2019

When someone’s vaping nearby, what are you breathing in? The risks of vape pens’ secondhand aerosols

By Madison Czopek • May 19, 2026

Trump and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre April 2025

Fact-checking Trump’s text message to Norway’s prime minister about Nobel Peace Prize, NATO

By Amy Sherman • January 20, 2026

Students "Find the Bot" in Lexington, Ky., 02-06-2023

How to talk to your children about AI chatbots and their safety

By Madison Czopek • December 19, 2025

Are tech companies using your private data to train AI models? Here’s what we know

By Maria Briceño • November 20, 2025

Tylenol products on display at a drugstore chain in Buffalo Grove, Ill., 09-23-2025

Read labels, consult your doctor: How to give Tylenol to your child

By Madison Czopek • October 6, 2025

Yes, Bill Clinton offered mass federal employee buyouts. Here’s why Trump’s program is different.

By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2025

Protest at NYU Langone over Trump gender-affirming care Executive Order, 2-3-2025

Five misleading claims from Trump’s executive order on trans youth health care

By Grace Abels • February 5, 2025

To ban or not to ban: Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s mixed messages on TikTok

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Samantha Putterman • June 13, 2024

Florida rainbow flag trans flag on pole in Wilton Manors, Fla., 1-17-2024

Can you ‘say gay’ in Florida schools? Explaining new settlement over LGBTQ+ ‘instruction’

By Grace Abels • March 14, 2024

We want to be more transparent with you about our fact-checking. Here’s how.

By Ellen Hine • February 8, 2024

Wireless Emergency Alert text from 2018 test

No, Oct. 4 national emergency alert test won’t turn you into a zombie. Here are the facts.

By Jeff Cercone • October 3, 2023

Biden waves after speech about neg. COVID test

Everything you need to know about Paxlovid — especially, should you take it?

By Michelle Andrews • August 2, 2022

SPANISH: Crime scene tape around Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas

Here’s how to avoid misinformation as you read about Uvalde and other mass shootings

By Bill McCarthy • May 25, 2022

Russia’s economy and Western sanctions: What you need to know

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2022

Know who’s talking to you: A guide to interpreting Facebook political ads

By Jon Greenberg • January 26, 2022

stock image of woman receiving email on her phone

Mailbag: ‘PolitiFact, you’re wrong’ and other reader reactions

By Amy Sherman, Josie Hollingsworth • September 7, 2021

What you need to know about misinformation on Election Day

By Daniel Funke • November 2, 2020