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How a Hopeful and Completely False Story About 2 Girls Rescued While Clinging to Tree in Texas Floods Spread Like Wildfire

Zachary LeemanJul 8th
PolitiFact Founder Willing to Reveal Which Party Lies More — Now That He’s Retired

Alex GriffingOct 17th
Politifact Checks Biden Claim Gay Americans Can Be Married in Morning, Tossed From Restaurants By Afternoon

Caleb HoweJun 18th
Which Fact-Checker Won CNN Trump Town Hall Derby With Whopping 20 False Claims Debunked?

Tommy ChristopherMay 13th
Fact-Check on Viral Fake Screenshot of Shinzo Abe Tweeting About Hillary Clinton Also Goes Viral

Caleb HoweJul 9th
NEW POLL: Republicans 3 Times More Likely Than Dems to Say Gas Prices Have Caused ‘Great Deal’ of ‘Financial Hardship’

Tommy ChristopherMar 19th
Politifact Rates Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Wildly Inflated Child Covid Claim as FALSE

Caleb HoweJan 8th
PolitiFact Botched Another Rittenhouse Fact Check

Rudy TakalaNov 22nd
Politifact Systematically Dismantles Tucker Carlson’s Revisionist Docuseries on January 6th

Ken MeyerNov 9th
Ted Cruz Blasts Politifact for Questionable Effort to Fact Check Him: ‘Politifact Exists to Serve’ the Democratic Party

Rudy TakalaAug 12th
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Election ‘Documentary’ Flops: YouTube Removed It And Fact Checkers Are Laughing

Sarah RumpfFeb 5th
Politifact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ Indicts Trump and Right Wing Media For Covid-19 Misinformation

Aidan McLaughlinDec 17th
PolitiFact Names Trump Claims About the Whistleblower 2019’s ‘Lie of the Year’

Tamar AuberDec 16th
Julián Castro Blasts Fact-Checkers Hitting His Attack on Biden: ‘I Don’t Know Who They Hire at PolitiFact’

Connor MannionSep 13th
Politifact Dragged For Pondering the Definition of Murder: ‘Let’s Not BICKER and ARGUE About WHO Killed WHO’

Caleb HoweAug 15th
Journalists Bash PolitiFact For New Reader Advocate: A Politician Who Once Threatened a Reporter [UPDATED]

Justin BaragonaFeb 1st
PolitiFact’s Website Crashes During Trump’s Lie-Filled State of the Union Address

Caleb EcarmaJan 31st
Trump Falsely Claims Two-Day Late JFK Files Release Was ‘Long Ahead of Schedule’

Caleb EcarmaOct 28th
‘His Lies Are Different and Deserve Scrutiny’: Stelter Says Trump’s Deceptions Unlike Past Presidents

Justin BaragonaDec 4th
So You Want to Clamp Down on Fake News. Who Decides What’s Fake?

Alex GriswoldNov 17th
Politifact Gives Trump ‘Pants on Fire’ Rating for Claims of Mass Voter Fraud

Ken MeyerOct 18th
Here’s the Super-Secret Reason There’s No Recording of Hillary Clinton’s FBI Interview

Tommy ChristopherSep 3rd
Politifact Writer Debunks Lies About Hillary, Then Declares ‘Both Sides’ Are Egregious

Tommy ChristopherAug 27th
PolitiFact Says Clinton’s Claims About the ‘Trump Effect’ of Bullying in Schools Are Mostly True

Lindsey EllefsonAug 26th