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Facebook posts stated on July 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Ambassador Susan Rice Tribunal, Gavin Newsom indicted.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2021

X posts stated on April 10, 2020 in a Twitter post:

“Per order from @GovWhitmer, people in Michigan are now banned from purchasing a new baby car seat in stores.”

By Madison Czopek • April 17, 2020

Committee to Defend the President stated on January 31, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Mitt Romney voted against convicting President Donald Trump because Burisma board member Joseph Cofer Black “is Romney’s national security advisor” and because of ties to Obama CIA director John Brennan.

By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2020

Facebook posts stated on November 29, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden "blackmailed Ukraine with a billion in tax dollars to drop an investigation into his son and Democrats want to impeach President Trump for simply asking if it was true?"

By Daniel Funke • December 10, 2019

Facebook posts stated on September 16, 2019 in a Facebook post:

The United States paid for a 274-mile wall between Jordan and Syria, "approved by the Dems in the house and senate," in order "to keep ISIS out."

By Tom Kertscher • November 1, 2019

Bloggers stated on November 1, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"Barron Trump was born in March 2006 and Melania wasn’t a legal citizen until July 2006. So under this executive order, his own son wouldn’t be an American citizen."

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 4, 2018

Dana Loesch stated on February 25, 2018 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama."

By Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2018

Sebastian Gorka stated on November 13, 2017 in a speech at UNC-Chapel Hill:

Iran’s regime "every Friday declares war on us."

By Paul Specht • November 16, 2017

Limberbutt McCubbins stated on July 9, 2015 in comments on his website.:

"Limberbutt McCubbins (a five-year-old cat) is a candidate" in the 2016 presidential election.

By Linda Qiu • July 14, 2015

Ultraviolet stated on June 15, 2015 in a Facebook post:

Says Jeb Bush "appointed a guardian for the fetus of a rape survivor."

By Joshua Gillin • June 25, 2015

Glenn Beck stated on March 19, 2015 in a Facebook post:

"A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list."

By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2015

Rick Perry stated on June 12, 2013 in a radio ad:

Says New York has ‘bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.’

By Sue Owen • June 19, 2013

Tennessee Republican Party stated on February 25, 2008 in a news release:

"The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."

By Robert Farley • March 14, 2008

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Charlie Kirk memorial with flags and Trump photo 9-10-25

‘Rough road ahead’: Charlie Kirk’s assassination highlights the rise in US political violence

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2025

Fact-checking hoaxes and conspiracies about the coronavirus

By Daniel Funke, Tom Kertscher • January 24, 2020

The backstory behind Diane Rehm’s question to Bernie Sanders on dual Israeli citizenship

By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2015

Top 5 fact-checks and reports for August

By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2014

Trump holding executive order on fentanyl as a WMD

Trump declares fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. What does that mean?

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2025

Trump speaking to the UN General Assembly Sept 2025

Fact-check: Trump misleads about ending 7 wars, US economy, renewable energy in UN speech

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 23, 2025

Dali under collapsed Key Bridge, 3-30-2024

How paid X accounts blamed Israel, Ukraine for the Baltimore bridge collapse

By Madison Czopek • April 3, 2024

GOP governors answer Texas’ call to send forces to the border. But what is their role?

By Amy Sherman • July 2, 2021

Donald Trump national emergency press conference

Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s claims about a national emergency

By PolitiFact Staff • February 15, 2019

The facts on mass shootings, guns in the United States

By PolitiFact Staff • May 18, 2018

What we know about mass shootings

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • February 15, 2018

The facts on mass shootings in the United States

By Joshua Gillin, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • November 8, 2017

The new politics of the vote on the debt ceiling

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 29, 2011

Mailbag: Lie of the Year

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 23, 2010