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Facebook posts stated on June 18, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Clint Eastwood said Hollywood is "the place of traitors and pedophilians" and he’s decided to "leave" it to "fight against traitors with real American patriots with president Trump."

By Samantha Putterman• June 21, 2019

JB Pritzker stated on July 28, 2024 in in remarks on ABC's "This Week":

Sen. JD Vance is “known for his obsession with couches.”

By Loreben Tuquero• July 31, 2024

Aziz Ansari stated on June 16, 2015 in comments on "The Daily Show":

"46 percent of women between the age of 16 to 24 despise sexual contact" in Japan.

By Katie Sanders• June 23, 2015

Viral image stated on December 22, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

“The first Statue of Liberty given to the U.S. by France was a Black woman which the U.S. rejected.”

By Noah Y. Kim• July 31, 2020

Ben Carson stated on February 13, 2016 in a GOP debate on CBS:

Says "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality."

By Lauren Carroll• February 14, 2016

Viral image stated on February 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says the 2008 book “End of Days” predicted the current coronavirus outbreak.

By Ciara O'Rourke• February 26, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 08, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says President Theodore Roosevelt said "To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth."

By Samantha Putterman• March 11, 2019

Monica Crowley stated on June 12, 2022 in an interview with Fox News:

Soviet and Chinese communists have “grabbed control” of U.S. entertainment, movies, television, music, academia, K-12 education and the news media.

By Louis Jacobson• June 17, 2022

Marco Rubio stated on June 14, 2011 in his first speech on the U.S. Senate floor:

"Anywhere in the world, when someone uses a mobile phone, e-mail, the Internet or GPS, they are enjoying the benefits of the American miracle."

By Becky Bowers• June 15, 2011

Chain email stated on September 08, 2008 in :

"The Books Sarah Palin tried to have banned."

By Robert Farley• September 10, 2008

Facebook posts stated on January 16, 2014 in a graphic on the Internet:

"In 1916, the U.S. government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down."

By Louis Jacobson• January 17, 2014

Viral image stated on February 06, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Ben Shapiro posted that Tracy Chapman stole “the spotlight from Luke (Combs)” at the Grammys as part of “the woke war on straight white male success”

By Grace Abels• February 8, 2024

Facebook posts stated on December 02, 2014 in a meme on social media:

"794 law enforcement officers have fallen in the line of duty since B.H. Obama took office, with no special recognition from the White House."

By Louis Jacobson• December 2, 2014

Viral image stated on July 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:

The New York Times reported on a conservative activist’s “superdiarrhea.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• July 22, 2022

Facebook posts stated on October 07, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes President John F. Kennedy as saying "If the United States ever experienced [a coup to overthrow the government] it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon."

By Samantha Putterman• October 16, 2019

Facebook posts stated on November 04, 2024 in a post on Facebook:

Santiago Flight 513 “landed after 35 years with 92 skeletons on board!”

By Madison Czopek• November 8, 2024

Chain email stated on April 27, 2009 in :

"Barack Obama's nominee for 'regulatory czar' has advocated a 'Fairness Doctrine' for the Internet" that would require links to opposing opinions.

By Robert Farley• May 5, 2009

Threads posts stated on November 10, 2024 in a post:

Elon Musk’s Starlink technology manipulated votes in the 2024 election to benefit Donald Trump.

By Madison Czopek, Sara Swann• November 12, 2024

Facebook posts stated on July 06, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Deaths of four alternative medicine doctors show they are being targeted for their ideas.

By Jeff Cercone• July 11, 2023

Barack Obama stated on June 26, 2012 in a speech:

The federal government has made investments in science and technology inventing the products that led to the creation of Google.

By Eric Stirgus• July 9, 2012

A stat about sex that might shock you

By Katie Sanders• June 24, 2015

7 steps to better fact-checking

By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 20, 2014

In Context: Were Paul Ryan's poverty comments a 'thinly veiled racial attack'?

By Tom Kertscher• March 14, 2014

PolitiFact’s checklist for thorough fact-checking

By Angie Drobnic Holan• March 31, 2022

Giuliani's "culture of life," defined

By Tom Tobin• October 1, 2007

What Ben Carson said about Hillary Clinton, Saul Alinsky and Lucifer

By Angie Drobnic Holan• July 20, 2016

Cannibalism in Haiti? Fact-checking the unfounded claims

By Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 18, 2024

Donald Trump's St. Patrick's Day 'Irish proverb' was probably not Irish

By Lauren Carroll• March 17, 2017

Meet Section 230: ‘the most important law protecting internet speech’

By Daniel Funke• March 1, 2021

E-mails twist context of Obama's memoir

By Angie Drobnic Holan• June 10, 2008

Why the Gabby Petito case, but not others, has drawn so much attention

By Noah Y. Kim• September 22, 2021

Fact-checking 'Mank,' the movie about the movie 'Citizen Kane'

By Noah Y. Kim• April 16, 2021

Tyler Robinson: What's known about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect's politics, bullet casing etchings

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• September 12, 2025

United Facts of America: How memes can fuel political strategy

By Seth Smalley• September 28, 2022

Fact-checking fake news on International Fact-checking Day

By Allison Graves• April 2, 2017

Biden’s verbal blunders: Separating the real from the fake

By Amy Sherman• October 5, 2020

The man who would be the regulatory czar

By Robert Farley• May 5, 2009

How misinformers manufacture and embellish embarrassing presidential moments

By Bill McCarthy• April 12, 2022

Inside fact-checking: A conversation with Lucas Graves, author of 'Deciding What's True'

By Angie Drobnic Holan• September 14, 2016

Tucker Carlson feigned ignorance over ‘great replacement theory,’ despite talking about it often

By Bill McCarthy• May 19, 2022

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