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Elizabeth Warren stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall in New Hampshire:

Speaking of the financial crisis that gained traction in 2007, "I talked about it to anyone who would listen, a crisis is coming."

By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2019

Josh Hawley stated on October 7, 2025 in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:

“The FBI tapped my phone” and those of other senators.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2025

Facebook posts stated on May 1, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Dr. Mehmet Oz promoting his “exclusive pills” to lose weight.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 3, 2024

Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Two pipeline workers in the Chicago area were given fentanyl-laced water bottles.

By Jeff Cercone • July 21, 2023

Instagram posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a post on Instagram:

CNN reported on the Potomac River plane and helicopter crash “hours before it happened.”

By Madison Czopek • February 4, 2025

Viral image stated on October 1, 2024 in a Threads post:

A Republican representative posted a response to the vice presidential debate before it happened.

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 9, 2024

Viral image stated on January 6, 2021 in a Facebook post:

NPR posted a story about the Capitol breach before it happened.

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 12, 2021

Viral image stated on August 5, 2019 in a Facebook post:

A Fox News affiliate reported on a shooting before it happened.

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 12, 2019

Seth Moulton stated on August 5, 2026 in an Instagram post:

“DOJ Epstein files reveal Senator Ed Markey was part of Epstein lobbying effort.”

By Amy Sherman, Caleb McCullough • August 6, 2026

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

The slaying of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, D.C., is a false flag.

By Maria Briceño • May 23, 2025

Threads posts stated on September 22, 2024 in a Threads post:

Florida "put Tom Walz instead of Tim Walz" on its ballots.

By Jeff Cercone • September 25, 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

TikTok posts stated on January 13, 2024 in a TikTok post:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew the World Trade Center buildings would be brought down six years before 9/11.

By Sofia Ahmed • January 19, 2024

TikTok posts stated on November 11, 2023 in a TikTok post:

CNN and The Associated Press “admitted” to knowing about Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in advance but didn’t tell anyone.

By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2023

X posts stated on May 14, 2022 in Twitter posts:

The mass shooting in Buffalo, New York was a “false flag event.”

By Gabrielle Settles • May 18, 2022

Pearson Sharp stated on March 11, 2022 in a TV segment:

The Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, had “the makings of yet another false flag operation” led by the U.S.

By Bill McCarthy • March 22, 2022

TikTok posts stated on February 24, 2022 in a TikTok video:

TikTok video shows Russian soldiers parachuting into Ukraine.

By Madison Czopek • February 25, 2022

Joe Biden stated on November 3, 2021 in a news conference.:

“No governor in Virginia has ever won when...he or she is the same party as the sitting president.”

By Warren Fiske • November 12, 2021

Instagram posts stated on October 17, 2021 in an Instagram post:

A nurse who fainted after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine died from the vaccination.

By Samantha Putterman • October 20, 2021

Facebook posts stated on January 21, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Democrats forced our GREAT troops to sleep on the ground of a PARKING garage after dragging them to DC for photo ops!"

By Bill McCarthy, Samantha Putterman • January 22, 2021

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Mayor Eric Adams at James Madison High School with migrants

Ron DeSantis said a NYC school displaced students to house migrants. Here’s what happened.

By Samantha Putterman • January 11, 2024

So the Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un handshake happened. Now what?

By Jon Greenberg, John Kruzel • June 12, 2018

Charlie Kirk’s assassination, one year later: How conspiracy theories have evolved

By Samantha Putterman • September 8, 2026

Rescue workers at rubble from Venezuela's earthquakes 06-29-26

Fact-checking 5 videos that falsely depict scenes from Venezuela’s earthquakes

By Maria Briceño • June 29, 2026

Did Michael Whatley appoint a sex offender to party roles while GOP chair?

By Paul Specht • March 31, 2026

Aircraft near the site of Potomac River mid-air collision, Arlington, Va., 02-05-2025

Are there more plane accidents happening this year? That’s not what federal data shows

By Loreben Tuquero • February 24, 2025

JD Vance, R, Ohio, boards plane in Greenvillle, N.C., 9-14-2024

4 fact-checks from JD Vance’s CNN interview with Dana Bash about Haitian immigrants in Ohio

By Madison Czopek • September 16, 2024

What Trump told Georgia election officials

By Samantha Putterman • March 16, 2021

Fact-checking Joe Biden at the 2020 Democratic National Convention

By PolitiFact Staff • August 21, 2020

How misinformation about Kobe Bryant’s death spread online

By Daniel Funke, Ciara O'Rourke • January 28, 2020

Fact-checking Amy Klobuchar in Waterloo, Iowa

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2020

In Context: Donald Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ remarks (transcript)

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 26, 2019

In Context: One Wisconsin GOP leader calling fellow Republicans ‘terrorists’

By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2017

Did Sheriff David Clarke commit plagiarism?

By Tom Kertscher • May 30, 2017

Fact-checking Trump’s TIME interview on truths and falsehoods

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2017

The list of 78 terror attacks the White House says the media didn’t cover — but they did

By Lauren Carroll, Linda Qiu • February 8, 2017

The allegations about Donald Trump and Miss Teen USA contestants

By Tom Kertscher • October 18, 2016

Rubio ad claims he helped constituent’s daughter get cancer-fighting drug before FDA approval

By Joshua Gillin • August 31, 2016

In Context: Rush Limbaugh on Scott Walker’s lack of a degree and issue of rapes on college campuses

By Tom Kertscher • February 13, 2015

Fact-checking claims about the attacks in Benghazi

By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2013