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1Dec 1, '23Gov. Gavin Newsom is mostly accurate: Per capita, more Floridians have moved to California than the other way around, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.51.5×2.4M5.2k1.2k269
2Oct 2, '24No, Trump did not "salvage" the Affordable Care Act. Vance's claim is False.32.7×1.5M21k5.2k449
3Jan 8, '22NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor said during oral arguments today that “we have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators” due 10.9×016k4.7k195
5Mar 16, '20Joe Biden has said he came out quickly to oppose the Iraq War. That's not what the record shows.7.7×013k3.4k67
6May 28, '24Is violent crime “near a record 50-year low,” as President Joe Biden said? After peaking in the early 1990s, violent crime is now down to near-record lows. We rate his statement Tr7.4×339k3.1k1.6k146
7Jan 22, '17White House Press Sec. @seanspicer: "That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period."6.3×05.5k4.8k0
8May 5, '19.@ewarren claimed that she warned about the financial crisis before it happened. We found that her 2003 book, 2004-2006 blog posts and media interviews back her claim. We rate it T5.4×08.3k2.8k48
9May 6, '21NEW: Medical experts and the CDC said it’s not biologically possible for the COVID-19 vaccines to “shed” or affect unvaccinated people, despite what anti-vaccine activists claim.5.1×04.2k2.5k285
10Jul 27, '17Pass.4.8×08.1k2.2k0
11Sep 27, '16Donald Trump says "wrong" when Hillary Clinton says he supported the Iraq War. But he did so publicly,4.6×03k4.4k0
12Oct 10, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Clinton is right. Analysts say Trump’s plan would in disadvantage middle-class compared to wealthy.4.6×03.2k4.4k0
13Feb 16, '21Don’t blame wind for the Texas power shortage. Gas, coal and nuclear accounted for more than 80% of the shortfall.4.6×05.2k2.8k171
14Oct 2, '24Vance said Walz ended protections in Minnesota for babies born alive. False. Infanticide, the crime of killing a child within a year of its birth, is illegal in all U.S. states. In4.5×205k1.4k57061
15Sep 11, '24Harris said that Trump “negotiated directly with a terrorist organization called the Taliban. The negotiation involved the Taliban getting 5,000 terrorists … released.” This is Tru4.3×198k2.7k1.3k117
16Jan 7, '22There’s no proof that Trump requested 10,000 National Guard troops for Jan. 6, or that Pelosi denied it.4.0×03.2k1.6k154
17Mar 16, '20Joe Biden just wrongly claimed Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout. Sanders voted in favor of providing auto companies with $14 billion, which was separate from the Wall 3.9×06.4k1.7k32
18Oct 10, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Hillary Clinton has said Trump has been used as an ISIS recruiting tool. That's True.3.8×03k3.5k1
19May 13, '21U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga, said “if you didn't know the TV footage was from Jan. 6, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.” Pants on Fire! More than 400 people 3.7×03.9k1.4k105
20Oct 2, '24Walz said, “We are producing more natural gas and more oil at any time than we ever have.” This is accurate. U.S. Natural gas production has reached new highs during Joe Biden’s pr3.6×165k4.5k1.4k147
21Feb 25, '20.@BernieSanders was right about Cuba's literacy push in 1961. Over 700,000 people learned to read and write. They also got a hefty dose of ideology.3.6×03.9k74488
22Feb 16, '17Trump just said he had the biggest electoral college win since Reagan. Forgets Bush 41, Clinton, Obama.3.6×03.9k2.5k0
23Sep 30, '20NEW: A video that falsely claims Joe Biden wore a wire during last night's debate has been shared thousands of times on Facebook. The clip shows a shirt crease.3.5×03k1.5k45
24Nov 4, '20This is False. Local officials in Virginia Beach said they have investigated the video and determined that the ballots shown were sample ballots, not official ballots.3.5×05.6k1.5k46
25Aug 26, '20Joe Biden didn’t blackmail Ukraine. His demand that a prosecutor be fired was the will of the U.S. government and other Western leaders. There’s no evidence that Hunter Biden was u3.4×04.2k2k66
26Feb 5, '20Trumps claims: "We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions." The president's claim misrepresents his efforts to repeal the health care law in court without offeri3.3×04k2.1k30
27Sep 27, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump's suggestion that Hillary Clinton and her campaign started the birther movement is False.3.2×02.1k3.1k0
28Jul 24, '24Vice President Kamala Harris recently said Project 2025 would “end Head Start,” the federally funded early childhood education program. She’s right: The conservative policy bluepri3.2×149k3.1k2k91
29Sep 6, '17The US is not the highest taxed nation in the world.3.2×03.5k2.3k0
30Sep 12, '16Trump said he was "totally against the war in Iraq." False.3.2×01.9k2.8k0
31Sep 30, '20Donald Trump blames the forest fires on forest management. False. California’s stronger winds, higher temperatures and drier conditions driven by climate change are also making the3.1×03.9k1.8k30
32Sep 27, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Clinton is correct that Trump was charged with housing discrimination.3.0×02.2k2.7k0
33Sep 11, '24Trump falsely says FBI data is unreliable because it leaves out “worst cities.” This is False:3.0×136k2.1k88765
34Feb 8, '20Bernie Sanders passed more roll call amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. True. #DemDebate2.9×03.8k1.6k214
35Jan 31, '18Trump says the visa lottery "hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of our people." But lottery entrants must meet educational and work experience2.8×02.5k2.3k0
36Sep 1, '20The underlying cause of death in the vast majority of death certificates that mention COVID-19 is the coronavirus.2.7×02.2k1.5k122
37Oct 20, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump said Clinton would double taxes for Americans. False.2.7×01.6k2.6k0
38Nov 18, '20NEW: Joe Biden did not hire a reputed Philadelphia mob boss named “Skinny Joey” Merlino to fabricate hundreds of thousands of ballots2.6×02.8k67873
39Sep 27, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump again is wrong about financial disclosures being better than tax returns.2.6×01.7k2.5k0
40Sep 27, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump is wrong about financial disclosures being better than tax returns.2.6×01.7k2.4k0
41Oct 10, '16"Check out sex tape."2.5×02.3k2.1k0
42Oct 10, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump again is wrong claiming the U.S. is one of the highest-taxes nations in the world.2.5×01.7k2.3k0
43Oct 20, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Clinton says Trump’s tax plan overwhelmingly helps the wealthy. True, experts say.2.5×01.6k2.3k0
44Jan 31, '18.@realDonaldTrump has been fact-checked by PolitiFact 498 times. #SOTU 🧐 True → 4 percent 😛 Mostly True → 12 percent 🤔 Half True → 15 percent 😥 Mostly False → 21 percent 🤥 Fal2.5×02.2k1.9k0
45Oct 10, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump’s claim of a neighbor seeing something in San Bernardino, not reporting it is False.2.4×01.5k2.3k0
46Apr 8, '21Two autopsy reports said the manner of George Floyd’s death was a homicide. Neither said the cause of his death was a fentanyl overdose, as some on social media said. Our fact-chec2.4×02.6k1.3k72
47Oct 20, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Clinton is right, Trump encouraged Japan to get a nuclear weapon.2.4×01.7k2.2k0
48Jan 31, '18Welp ... our website just crashed. Thanks for reading ?!!? We'll keep things up here on Twitter while we see what happened.2.3×03.4k9970
49Nov 1, '20Trump falsely said “Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID.’" This is a persistent theory that lacks any proof. Hospitals must prove that patients tested positive f2.3×02.3k1.3k102
50Apr 8, '21NEW: In today's gun policy address, President Biden exaggerated about background checks at gun shows. Mostly False.2.2×01.8k69852
51Jul 6, '22An image of the Highland Park shooting suspect shared by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is noticeably edited. There’s no evidence it actually shows him "in jail or rehab or a psychiat2.2×02.1k1.1k49
52Jun 28, '24Joe Biden said there are "more small black businesses that have been started in any time." That’s True, Census Bureau and Federal Reserve data shows the prevalence of Black-owned s2.2×101k1.9k1.1k48
53Oct 25, '24At a CNN town hall Oct. 23 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris said, "As of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half.” Official federal da2.2×101k3.1k1.4k118
54Sep 27, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Clinton is right, blacks more likely to be arrested, get longer sentences2.1×01.7k1.9k0
55Oct 20, '16LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump is wrong, he did mock a disabled reporter.2.1×01.5k1.9k0
57Jul 23, '24Vice President Kamala Harris recently said Project 2025 would “end Head Start,” the federally funded early childhood education program. She’s right: The conservative policy bluepri2.0×93k2.8k2k73
58Dec 12, '172017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a 'made-up story'2.0×01.8k1.4k0
59Mar 31, '22The halt of the Keystone XL pipeline, which many Republicans have pointed to as a cause for rising prices, would've likely had a very miniscule impact on the global oil trade. The 2.0×01.8k78599
60Mar 3, '21There’s no proof that Trump requested 10,000 National Guard troops for Jan. 6, or that Pelosi denied it.2.0×01.9k97258
61Jan 31, '18Trump claims, "We enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history." That's False. #SOTU1.9×01.7k1.6k1
62Aug 25, '20Republicans claim Joe Biden would defund the police if elected. Biden has repeatedly refuted that statement, saying that he wants to bring back community policing and help hire mor1.9×01.5k90653
63Mar 2, '17Rick Perry, who blocked us on Twitter, was confirmed today as Energy secretary. @GovernorPerry1.9×02.2k1.1k0
64Aug 25, '20NEW: Nikki Haley said Biden and Harris "want massive tax hikes on working families." No direct taxes would be imposed on any household making less than $400,000 per year. False: #R1.9×02.1k1.2k36
66Sep 11, '24Trump said “I said, I'd like to give you 10,000 National Guard or soldiers. They rejected me. Nancy Pelosi rejected me.” We rated a similar statement False.1.8×81k1.5k73856
67Aug 3, '21No, DC Officer Michael Fanone isn’t the man who stormed the Capitol with a Confederate flag. Social media posts claiming that the two men are the same show photographs of two diffe1.7×01.8k77645
68Dec 20, '15Bernie Sanders is correct. US spends 3 times what UK spends on health care1.6×01.8k1.2k0
69Sep 13, '18Hey @realDonaldTrump, if you need a refresher on the Maria death toll estimates in Puerto Rico, we have that for you.1.6×02.2k9554
70Feb 22, '18We fact-checked Dana Loesch, now an NRA spokeswoman, when she falsely said Obama slashed funding for gun safety program1.6×01.6k1.2k0
71Aug 27, '20Trump and his administration have not protected patients with preexisting conditions. His policy trajectory does exactly the opposite. #RNC20201.6×01.5k1.2k31
72Mar 16, '20Joe Biden wrongly claimed Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout.1.4×02.1k71413
73Sep 28, '20NEW: A post claims to show over 1,000 mail ballots in a California dumpster when it actually depicts empty envelopes from 2018.1.4×01.7k94753
74Mar 11, '21The $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic relief package includes nontaxable stimulus checks of $1,400 for many Americans. It does NOT give a $25 million bonus to House members, as a 1.4×01.5k84860
75Sep 10, '19This is True. Evidence shows most of the 47 men in famous "Declaration of Independence" painting were slaveholders:1.4×01.9k79887
76Apr 7, '22Janice Rogers Brown, a Black woman, was never nominated to the Supreme Court. She was considered a potential contender to replace the first woman on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O1.4×01.6k475116
78Mar 4, '21QAnon accounts falsely claim that today, March 4, Donald Trump will be re-inaugurated because an 1871 bill effectively dissolved the U.S. government, making all presidents after Ul1.3×01.9k50018
79Aug 27, '20That nice Lincoln quote Lara Trump just said? Lincoln didn't say it. #RNC20201.3×01.7k80626
80Jul 13, '18With new indictments of 12 Russian military officers over 2016 election hacking and infiltration efforts, a flashback to our 2017 Lie of the Year: @realdonaldTrump saying Russian e1.3×01.5k8755
81Aug 27, '19This is false. Nowhere near this much has been allocated to PR as of yet. Even if $91-92 billion is the ultimate cost down the road, the federal government already has estimated it1.3×01.5k83311
82Nov 7, '20Ted Cruz’s claim on Fox News that Philadelphia is counting votes in a “shroud of darkness” is False. Anyone can watch the count on the city’s livestream, and election observers fro1.3×01.8k61117
83Mar 5, '20Joe Biden said that he was arrested in South Africa. Pants on Fire! He later changed his story.1.3×01.8k56826
85May 4, '19.@BernieSanders claimed that millions of families pay 40 to 60% of their income on housing. There's data backing his claim. It's True.1.3×01.9k5703
86Aug 22, '20No, @JoeBiden's tax plan would not increase the federal income tax rate from 12% to 25% for a family earning $75,000 per year. That claim is False.1.2×01.4k86123
87May 23, '18A site that rates "the core truth" and tracks "the credibility score over time" of comments by politicians and pundits? Hey @elonmusk, we sort of do that? Become a member at . Than1.2×02.6k26410
88May 13, '21A Georgia lawmaker compares Jan. 6 Capitol riot to a “normal tourist visit.” Pants on Fire! It was not normal and they were not tourists.1.2×01.6k53529
89Nov 17, '20NEW: Several Facebook posts claim this photo shows Trump supporters at the Million MAGA March in Washington. In fact, it shows a 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers parade.1.2×01.5k44926
90Nov 4, '20Did Michigan mysteriously find thousands of ballots for Biden overnight? No. This social media rumor, picked up by President Donald Trump and his allies, is False.1.2×01.6k68027
91Jan 13, '20.@AndrewYang claimed that "If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth." The point tracks with non-partisan expert research. We rate it1.2×02.1k4777
92Jun 21, '20Donald Trump said his administration passed veteran's Choice after a 50-year wait. The policy dates to the Obama administration: #TulsaTrumpRally1.1×01.5k6687
93Nov 4, '20No, Joe Biden did not receive a sudden influx of thousands of mysteriously surfaced votes in Michigan overnight. This Twitter rumor is False.1.1×01.7k54923
94Nov 5, '20This tweet from Eric Trump is False. Those ballots for the primary were returned to Clark County because the voters didn’t live at the address. That’s the way the system is suppose1.1×01.8k46424
95Jan 18, '21This video is altered. Joe Biden did not stand around looking confused at an event announcing members of his White House science team. Pants on Fire!1.1×01.5k50038
96Nov 11, '20NEW: A Michigan judge has not ordered a hand recount of the state's election results, despite what you may have seen on social media1.0×01.6k47619
97Dec 15, '25For the first time since 2009, PolitiFact is recalibrating the Lie of the Year — our award for the most egregious falsehood we've seen in a year's worth of fact-checking. This year1.0×46k12623822
98Nov 16, '22Donald Trump, who joined the 2024 presidential race tonight, repeated many false or misleading claims that we’ve already fact-checked:1.0×01.6k40443
99Jul 17, '20The Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “unity document” does not say anything about abolishing police departments or getting rid of all prisons. Pants on Fire!1.0×01.4k51222
100Feb 5, '21Kevin McCarthy claimed that he didn’t know what QAnon was, referring to it as “Q-on." But he has spoken about the extremist ideology at least three times in the past. He's also pro1.0×01.5k40212

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