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Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2012 in Facebook posts:

A photo shows paleontologists in Greece discovering the skeleton of a giant.

By Bill McCarthy• October 12, 2021

Facebook posts stated on September 13, 2023 in an image shared on Facebook:

Giant human skeletons as large as 36 feet have been “unearthed and documented” in historical records.

By Madison Czopek• September 22, 2023

Instagram posts stated on September 26, 2022 in an Instagram post:

“There are giant human caucasian skeletons in Ohio that predate any known civilizations.”

By Madison Czopek• September 30, 2022

Bloggers stated on June 01, 2016 in Internet posts:

Say video "shows massive alligator strolling across Florida golf course."

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy• June 1, 2016

Threads posts stated on May 13, 2024 in a Threads post:

Image shows a “huge snake found by a hiker near South Carolina creek.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• May 15, 2024

Bloggers stated on April 01, 2016 in a post on Facebook:

An Alton, Ill., man caught a 736-pound Giant Mekong catfish in the Mississippi River.

By Emily Venezky• February 14, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Images show a great white shark on the beach in North Carolina.

By Tom Kertscher• March 29, 2023

Instagram posts stated on October 29, 2022 in Instagram post:

Photo shows Stanford scientists' "3D model of how Joseph, the husband of Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ, might have looked.”

By Michael Majchrowicz• November 4, 2022

Facebook posts stated on August 24, 2022 in Facebook post:

Another continent may exist beneath Antarctica, which is also home to homicidal sea creature of unknown origin

By Michael Majchrowicz• August 30, 2022

Facebook posts stated on July 06, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• July 8, 2021

Joe Barton stated on August 19, 2010 in a speech.:

"Eighty percent of the oil we're discovering, we're discovering in the deep Gulf" of Mexico.

By W. Gardner Selby• November 28, 2010

Dan Kaufman stated on March 29, 2014 in an opinion article:

The proposed Gogebic mine in northern Wisconsin "could be extended as long as 21 miles."

By James B. Nelson• May 8, 2014

Kris Jordan stated on June 15, 2011 in a speech in the Ohio Senate:

"Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio."

By Joe Guillen• July 19, 2011

Charles Schumer stated on October 04, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:

"The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid."

By Louis Jacobson• October 6, 2017

Mitt Romney stated on September 19, 2007 in Florida.:

"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."

By David Adams• October 2, 2007

John Charles stated on September 21, 2012 in an online post:

"There is no reason to allocate 60 percent of bridge space to satisfy two percent of all travelers."

By Janie Har• November 16, 2012

Donald Trump stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:

Says Hillary Clinton "wanted the wall."

By Tom Kertscher• October 20, 2016

Facebook posts stated on March 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”

By Jessica Calefati• April 21, 2020

Bloggers stated on September 03, 2017 in a blog post:

"NASA will pay you $100,000 to stay in bed for 60 days!"

By Lucia Geng• July 16, 2018

Cleta Winslow stated on March 18, 2013 in a meeting:

"In this city, there hasn’t been a stadium that’s lasted more than 27 years."

By Eric Stirgus• March 29, 2013

Real or hoax? Massive gator spotted roaming golf course

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy• June 3, 2016

Ask PolitiFact: Were the pictures in the Jesus ‘washed feet’ Super Bowl ad AI-generated?

By Madison Czopek• February 13, 2024

Fact-checking Andrew Yang in Muscatine, Iowa

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• January 24, 2020

Romney energy claim unrealistic

By David Adams• October 2, 2007

Claims of 80,000 protesters at Raleigh 'Moral March' appear to be inflated

By Will Doran• February 13, 2017

Antisemitic claims about Brooklyn synagogue tunnel spread on social media

By Sofia Ahmed, Jeff Cercone• January 12, 2024

Joni Ernst's bread bags: Iowans give us their take

By Lauren Carroll• January 22, 2015

Fact-checking Donald Trump's rally for Mike Braun in Evansville, Indiana

By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias• August 31, 2018

Fact-checking the Obama campaign film

By Bill Adair• March 16, 2012

What we know about the airborne spread of the coronavirus

By Jon Greenberg• September 23, 2020

We answered your coronavirus questions on handling money, using ibuprofen and visiting beaches

By Daniel Funke, Samantha Putterman• March 20, 2020

Unpacking the edits in ‘60 Minutes’ report on Ron DeSantis, Florida vaccines

By Daniel Funke• April 7, 2021

Fact-checking the Florida primary

By Angie Drobnic Holan• January 30, 2012

The year in social media claims, from True to Pants on Fire

By Louis Jacobson• December 26, 2013

Just how big is the proposed casino in Miami?

By Amy Sherman• October 17, 2011

Fact-checking the final Iowa debate

By Bill Adair• December 16, 2011

Truth-O-Meter gets education on education

By Willoughby Mariano• July 17, 2011

Sacramento Could Be One Of First Cities To Reform Single-Family Zoning. Here’s How It Would Work.

By Chris Nichols• February 25, 2021

PolitiFact's guide to the Florida GOP primary