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TikTok posts stated on February 11, 2025 in a TikTok post:
Under the SAVE Act, “if you are a woman that has changed your name from your birth certificate, let’s say through marriage … you are no longer eligible to vote.”
By Caleb McCullough• February 17, 2025
Tim Walz stated on April 06, 2025 in an interview:
“Less than half of Americans have $1,000 in savings.”
By Claire Cranford• April 16, 2025
TikTok posts stated on April 21, 2025 in TikTok posts:
“The Simpsons” predicted Pope Francis’ 2025 death.
By Claire Cranford• April 22, 2025
Viral image stated on April 04, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine.
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 4, 2025
Facebook posts stated on March 27, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“Daughter of boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, Laila Ali, has lost her life while giving birth in a Canadian hospital.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 4, 2025
Donald Trump stated on April 09, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
On enacting country-by-country tariffs April 9.
By Amy Sherman• April 9, 2025
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
X posts stated on April 07, 2025 in posts on X:
Says Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council director, said on April 7, “Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China.”
By Madison Czopek• April 8, 2025
Byron Donalds stated on April 10, 2025 in a NewsNation interview:
Under the SAVE Act, “as long as you have a Real ID … it should be easy for you to register to vote.”
By Grace Abels• April 18, 2025
X posts stated on April 13, 2025 in a post on X:
Arizona Democrats “needed a lawsuit to force them to remove 50,000 noncitizens from voter rolls.”
By Madison Czopek• April 18, 2025

Articles (1281)

The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter: PolitiFact’s methodology for independent fact-checking

By Angie Drobnic Holan• February 12, 2018

What Trump told Georgia election officials

By Samantha Putterman• March 16, 2021

PolitiFact is not biased -- here’s why

By Angie Drobnic Holan• November 6, 2018

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the case of the missing question

By Jon Greenberg• July 25, 2018

News conference attendee who told Kamala Harris “I voted for you” was not a reporter

By Gabrielle Settles• June 10, 2021

Fact-checking Donald Trump's fake news awards

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias• January 18, 2018

No, the New York Times has not admitted to peddling ‘fake news’ about most recent Kavanaugh claim

By John Kruzel• September 18, 2019

Fact-checking Trump’s falsehoods about Hurricane Dorian

By Amy Sherman• September 3, 2019

Who is Kamala Harris? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidate

By Louis Jacobson, Chris Nichols• June 14, 2019

Fact-checking TV ads in California governor’s race

By Chris Nichols• April 25, 2018

How a Fox News report fueled false claims about the New Orleans suspect. He was a US citizen.

By Samantha Putterman• January 2, 2025

Sen. Rick Scott, carrying on a tradition, takes credit for infrastructure funding he opposed

By Madison Czopek• February 2, 2022

Did the media ‘change the identity’ of the El Paso shooter?’ Nope

By Daniel Funke• August 5, 2019

More deaths among vaccinated Americans not a reason to avoid vaccines, experts say

By Jeff Cercone• November 30, 2022

Fact-checking Bernie Sanders’ attacks on Joe Biden over trade, Social Security differences

By Jon Greenberg• March 4, 2020

Here are our fact-checks about Ray Epps, who is suing Fox News for defamation over Jan. 6 claims

By Jeff Cercone• July 13, 2023

Ask PolitiFact: Did Pete Hegseth’s tattoos bar him from National Guard service in 2021?

By Sara Swann• November 19, 2024

Overwhelming majority of ballot boxes are secure, rare for ballots to be lost or destroyed

By Jill Terreri Ramos• October 31, 2024

Update: Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes

By Jon Greenberg, Bill McCarthy• April 20, 2021

Were Tulsi Gabbard’s attacks on Kamala Harris’ record as a California prosecutor on target?

By Chris Nichols• August 1, 2019