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Facebook posts stated on March 21, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“BREAKING: Top CNN host is out as ratings collapse.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 25, 2024

Facebook posts stated on August 19, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows “articles of impeachment to be filed against President Joe Biden today!”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 22, 2023

Facebook posts stated on July 22, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Former President Donald Trump recently dispatched troops to the border.

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 24, 2023

Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows “breaking news” because “President Trump just dropped a bombshell!!!”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 13, 2023

Facebook posts stated on May 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:

U.S. destroyer recently fired at an armed Iranian ship.

By Jeff Cercone • May 26, 2023

Facebook posts stated on April 23, 2023 in a Facebook post:

“Breaking Trump quietly announces Hillary’s prosecution is moving forward.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 3, 2023

YouTube videos stated on April 22, 2020 in a YouTube video:

“Breaking news Kim Jong Un has pass(ed) away.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 22, 2020

X posts stated on November 15, 2025 in an X post:

A pro-Donald Trump Montana town planned a “pedophile bonfire” in a park for burning Trump flags and MAGA hats.

By Maria Briceño • November 21, 2025

Viral image stated on January 14, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Video shows a dam breaking Sept. 28, 2024, in North Carolina.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 3, 2025

X posts stated on January 22, 2025 in an X post:

“The U.S. Senate has the votes to remove Trump from office if the House votes to impeach.”

By Caleb McCullough • January 24, 2025

Instagram posts stated on November 9, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Fox News reported California Gov. Gavin Newsom “will withhold” California’s federal income tax.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 20, 2024

Facebook posts stated on August 5, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Caitlin Clark declines $1 million offer from ABC to appear on ‘The View.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 9, 2024

Viral image stated on June 11, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Fox News reported that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “formally endorses Barbara O’Neill’s ‘US without diabetes’ initiative.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 14, 2024

Facebook posts stated on June 4, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Denzel Washington rejects $100 million Disney offer to work with ‘woke’ Robert De Niro.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 5, 2024

Instagram posts stated on May 20, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Israel War Room posted a helicopter emoji “minutes before the news of the Iranian President’s helicopter crash landing broke.”

By Loreben Tuquero • May 20, 2024

Katie Britt stated on March 7, 2024 in a speech:

A woman was “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12 … We wouldn't be OK with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 11, 2024

Facebook posts stated on November 27, 2023 in a video caption:

“8 MINUTES AGO! The largest underwater volcano has SUDDENLY CRACKED OPEN the Earth!”

By Grace Abels • November 30, 2023

Viral image stated on October 28, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Video shows “rioters rush people’s houses” Oct. 28 in Washington D.C.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 3, 2023

Facebook posts stated on September 6, 2023 in a Facebook post:

CNN reported “breaking news” that the Pentagon announced a plan to “implant Americans with nanotech particles.”

By Loreben Tuquero • September 13, 2023

Viral image stated on August 22, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Fox News reported that California Gov. Gavin Newsom said former President Donald Trump “is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California’s State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trump’s name on any future ballots.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 25, 2023

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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley, Samantha Putterman • October 16, 2024

Peter Benzoni, Aaron Sharockman at United Facts of America, 11-6-2023

United Facts of America: How Russian falsehoods spread to U.S. through faux local news

By Loreben Tuquero • November 7, 2023

Rioters push police barrier Capitol Jan. 6

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By Jeff Cercone • July 13, 2023

Hy-Vee supermarket Nebraska empty shelves for Fox News, Newsmax story

Newsmax, Fox News air outdated, out-of-context photos of empty shelves in segments bashing Biden

By Bill McCarthy • October 22, 2021

Filter bubbles be gone! SmartNews and PolitiFact team up to get news consumers the facts

By Josie Hollingsworth • May 12, 2021

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Fox News interview on police brutality protests

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • June 12, 2020

Fact-checking Gavin Newsom’s claims on California’s death penalty

By Chris Nichols • March 19, 2019

Man behind viral border wall GoFundMe fundraiser also peddled false news

By Samantha Putterman • December 21, 2018

Cell phone showdown. MSNBC takes on Fox News’ Sean Hannity over obstruction of justice talk

By John Kruzel • June 12, 2018

Fake news in the Alabama Senate race surges before Election Day

By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2017

Breaking down Greg Abbott’s ‘common’ pecan tree tale

By W. Gardner Selby • June 14, 2017

If you’re fooled by fake news, this man probably wrote it

By Joshua Gillin • May 31, 2017

Factcheck fake news before you share (photo)

Fact-checking fake news on International Fact-checking Day

By Allison Graves • April 2, 2017

Fake news website starts as joke, gains 1 million views within 2 weeks

By Joshua Gillin • March 9, 2017

PunditFact fact-checks the March 22 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman, Katie Sanders, Lauren Carroll • March 22, 2015

Fact-checking the March 22 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman, Katie Sanders, Lauren Carroll • March 22, 2015

Does Rick Scott read newspapers?

By Becky Bowers • August 16, 2011

As two Dan Sullivans are on Alaska’s ballot, litigation continues. Here’s what we know

By Amy Sherman • November 2, 2026

Is Abdul El-Sayed a doctor? Fact-checking Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race

By Caleb McCullough • October 14, 2026

From monument to ‘military complex’: How Trump shifted his pitch for a DC arch

By Samantha Putterman • September 21, 2026