A Dec. 20 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) shows a purported TV graphic from WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with a statement from Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry. The supposed ...

Calls by some liberals to "defund the police" followed a police officer’s murder of George Floyd. "Defund" is not an official legal term and can mean anything from closing a police department to ...

A statement attributed to former U.S. President Donald Trump claiming he would pay the legal fees of protesters during his arrest is fabricated as satire. The fake statement circulated online after ...

The International Fact-Checking Network has deep concerns over recent threats against Ellinika Hoaxes of Greece from a prominent politician who has threatened to abolish the organization via new ...

SEASON, WE ARE GETTING THE FACTS ON THE CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. JUST DAYS TO GO HERE BEFORE THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY, WE HAVE LOU JACOBSON WITH POLITIFACT JOINING US LIVE HERE IN THE STUDIO ...

ABC News anchor Linsey Davis admitted in a post-debate interview that her fact-checking of former President Trump was influenced by the earlier CNN debate that went disastrously for President Biden.

A Semiconductor Industry Association analysis updated Feb. 26 said that $256 billion in private investments had been announced across 22 states since 2020, when precursor legislation to the CHIPS and ...

A fake television graphic circulating on social media contains a statement that Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry denies ever having made. The congressman has strongly denied having issued a statement ...

At the annual meeting of the world’s fact-checkers in 2024 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — our 11th GlobalFact meeting — it is time to restate our longstanding commitment to access to ...