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Fact-checks (16371)

Social Media stated on March 05, 2025 in in social media posts:
"Apple quietly removed International Women’s Day from their calendar app.”
By Jeff Cercone• March 7, 2025
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Google Earth blocked people from seeing the Suez Canal.
By Samantha Putterman• March 29, 2021
Brooke Rollins stated on April 06, 2025 in an interview:
“We had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion” under former President Joe Biden.
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 9, 2025
Marcia Morey stated on April 30, 2025 in a speech in the North Carolina House of Representatives:
“Google caved in to Trump. They erased Black History Month from the calendar.”
By Paul Specht• May 15, 2025
X posts stated on January 23, 2025 in X posts:
Video shows “roads heading to Mexico are jam packed as mass deportations have started.”
By Loreben Tuquero• January 24, 2025
Facebook posts stated on February 04, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“Elon Musk officially cancelled USAID and fired all the staff. In his words, ‘we just toppled one of the biggest globalist terror organizations in history.’”
By Sofia Ahmed• February 7, 2025
Kamala Harris stated on August 28, 2024 in an ad:
Project 2025 would defund K-12 schools.
By Samantha Putterman• September 6, 2024
Marco Rubio stated on March 14, 2013 in a CPAC speech:
"The Chinese government provides their people no access to the Internet."
By Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman• March 15, 2013
John Cornyn stated on July 01, 2010 in a conference call with Texas reporters:
"Sen. McConnell offered a fully paid two-month extension of unemployment insurance."
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 11, 2010
Donald Trump stated on January 13, 2026 in a speech in Detroit:
"If we stop this fraud, this massive fraud, we're going to have a balanced budget."
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• January 13, 2026
Hillary Clinton stated on August 05, 2016 in remarks at journalists' convention:
Undocumented immigrants "pay $12 billion a year into Social Security."
By Miriam Valverde• August 10, 2016
Karoline Leavitt stated on January 28, 2025 in a press conference:
“DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.”
By Caleb McCullough, Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 30, 2025
Brian Mast stated on February 02, 2025 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
From the U.S. Agency for International Development funding, “10 to 30 cents on the dollar is what actually goes to aid.”
By Amy Sherman• February 5, 2025
Donald Trump stated on October 05, 2025 in a statement to the media:
“Portland is burning to the ground.”
By Maria Briceño, Amy Sherman• October 7, 2025
Instagram posts stated on January 29, 2024 in an Instagram post:
The government is spraying chemicals into the sky to block the sun.
By Katelyn Ferral• February 2, 2024
Social Media stated on July 27, 2025 in a social media post:
President Donald Trump “made 4,725 wire transfers” to Jeffrey Epstein, totaling nearly $1.1 billion.
By Gabrielle Lazor, Loreben Tuquero• August 5, 2025
Gavin Newsom stated on March 08, 2018 in :
"California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production."
By Chris Nichols• March 21, 2018
Facebook posts stated on February 08, 2025 in Facebook posts:
Elon Musk spent $40 million to buy five Super Bowl Commercial ads to promote DOGE.
By Sofia Ahmed• February 13, 2025
Doctors Without Borders stated on October 12, 2016 in a press release:
A World Health Organization report shows "that more people are dying of TB."
By Jon Greenberg• October 24, 2016
Social Media stated on February 07, 2025 in a post:
“US Debt Clock” numbers prove “DOGE has saved taxpayers $64 billion dollars in just 17 days.”
By Sara Swann• February 21, 2025

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Strait of Hormuz: What to know about the crucial oil passage Iran might block following US strikes

By Madison Czopek, Ella Moore• June 23, 2025

What a US exit from the WHO means for global health

By Amy Maxmen• January 27, 2025

Fact-checking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ final State of the State speech

By Maria Briceño, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• January 13, 2026

On International Fact-Checking Day, PolitiFact explains the truth in Trump’s tariffs agenda

By Katie Sanders• April 2, 2025

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

By Maria Briceño• November 20, 2025

Donald Trump issues order to pause TikTok ban for 75 days

By Amy Sherman• January 21, 2025

Supreme Court strikes down use of primary law Donald Trump used to impose tariffs

By Louis Jacobson• February 20, 2026

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech in Israel on same day as hostage, prisoner releases

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• October 13, 2025

Trump said 'We will always allow people to come in legally,' but his actions say otherwise

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• February 27, 2026

Barack Obama debuts stump speech

By Sean Gorman, Nancy Madsen• May 5, 2012

Fact-check: President Donald Trump’s Super Bowl LIX interview with Fox’s Bret Baier

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• February 9, 2025

What we do and don’t know about MI church shooting suspect Thomas Jacob Sanford’s politics

By Grace Abels• September 30, 2025

Fact-checking Joe Biden on the economy in CNN interview

By Louis Jacobson• May 9, 2024

Unpacking the spin from Democrats, GOP over which side is blocking hurricane relief for Puerto Rico

By Amy Sherman• April 1, 2019

Are Google, Meta AI hiding Trump information? Here’s what companies say happened

By Jeff Cercone, Sara Swann• August 5, 2024

Did Trump impose ‘the largest tax hike in our lifetime’? How it compares, as it’s currently proposed

By Grace Abels• April 7, 2025

Elon Musk’s chart doesn’t prove millions of centenarians fraudulently get Social Security benefits

By Madison Czopek, Amy Sherman• February 21, 2025

Ask PolitiFact: How much could the federal shutdown cost?

By Louis Jacobson• October 31, 2025

Trump froze out Project 2025 in his campaign. Now its blueprint is his health care playbook.

By Stephanie Armour• February 24, 2025

Trump and Musk’s public attacks on each other add to questions about DOGE’s accomplishments, future

By Madison Czopek, Amy Sherman• June 5, 2025