PolitiFact is a United States fact-checking site run by the Poynter Institute. It rates claims by politicians and viral posts on its Truth-O-Meter, from True to Pants on Fire.
PolitiFact says: Una vocera de Walmart nos dijo que no están regalando toboganes acuáticos inflables.
PolitiFact says: If Trump gets any prison time at all, he would likely be sentenced to serve the sentences for each count concurrently. That would be four years, at the very most.
PolitiFact says: Las imágenes no son del accidente de helicóptero que mató al presidente de Irán, Ebrahim Raisi, sino que son de un videojuego.
PolitiFact says: La actriz Rita Moreno no dijo en una entrevista que unas gotas la hicieron ex diabética, su voz fue manipulada en el video en Facebook.
PolitiFact says: The judge told jurors that to find Trump guilty, they must agree unanimously on two things: that Trump falsified business records and that he did so intending to commit a separate crime.
PolitiFact says: Ukraine’s presidential election would have been held in March, but Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in November that elections would not take place.
PolitiFact says: We searched Google and reviewed "The View" hosts’ social media posts for evidence that they'd recently been fired from the show and came up empty. We also found no reputable reports that Elon Musk bought ABC.
PolitiFact says: The FBI’s violent crime rate for 2022, the last year officially available, was 370 violent crimes per 100,000 population. Since 1972, only two years have had a lower violent crime rate: 2014 and 2019.
PolitiFact says: The current H5N1 bird flu outbreak has spread to cows at dozens of dairy herds in nine U.S. states. The U.S. outbreak was first reported among wild birds in 2022, and the H5N1 strain was first found in 1996 in China.
PolitiFact says: The FBI said it followed standard protocol in the Mar-a-Lago search, which includes a standard statement about the use of deadly force. Former FBI agents told PolitiFact it’s standard to include such a policy statement.
PolitiFact says: The Tehran Times and The Associated Press reported at 8:44 a.m. and 8:53 a.m., respectively, that a helicopter carrying Iran President Ebrahim Raisi had crashed, while The Israel War Room X account posted at 8:58 a.m.
PolitiFact says: Humanitarian parole beneficiaries, must book and pay for their own travel. From January 2023 to August 2023, around 161,000 beneficiaries entered the U.S. at Florida airports. It's unclear how many settled in Florida.
PolitiFact says: A Michigan state program offers immigrants rent subsidies. Federal funding cannot be used to help people who entered the U.S. illegally, or who have pending asylum applications.
PolitiFact says: Only U.S. citizens may vote in federal elections. If people apply to register to vote, they must attest to being citizens under penalty of perjury and election officials vet the application.
PolitiFact says: Lauren Handy was sentenced to 57 months in prison on a federal civil rights charge and for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a 1994 law that prohibits physically blocking access to clinics.
PolitiFact says: A quote purportedly from Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker defending his comments about women in a speech is not real. It came from a satirical Instagram account.
PolitiFact says: PolitiFact no encontró fuentes verídicas que digan que Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, o "El Chapo", se escapó de una prisión este 2024.La abogada que representa a Guzmán Loera nos dijo que la publicación es Falsa.
PolitiFact says: Tariffs do generally get passed along to the consumer in higher prices, but in the case of Biden's tariffs, they are likely too narrowly focused to spur inflation for "every family."
PolitiFact says: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico made this speech during an assembly in November 2023, not a "week" before he got shot.