Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is ...

Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in their first and only debate Tuesday night, squaring off over everything from foreign policy and the economy to the 2020 election and ...

Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of ...

Social media users discussed the alleged Epstein photo in January 2026, with one prominently claiming AI had no part in the ...

The most obvious takeaway from the incident is that it was a badly needed wake-up call about what can happen when AI gets too embedded in our information ecosystem. But CEO Melissa Bell resisted the ...

It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook ...

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you ...

CNN did not report that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made 17 false claims in the first ten minutes of the Sept. 10 presidential debate with Republican rival Donald Trump. The ...

Former President Donald Trump was fact-checked at multiple points after commenting during his contentious presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump and Harris clashed face-to-face ...

CNN's star fact-checker Daniel Dale has made quite a splash during President Donald Trump's first 80 days in office, earning himself exponentially more air time in comparison to the same period under ...

Donald Trump continues to face claims that he will institute the controversial Project 2025 policy document if he is elected president later this year. Project 2025, a 900-page policy proposal ...