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: There is no legal definition of “mass shooting.” Organizations that collect this data use their own definitions which results in different numbers of mass shootings annually.
PolitiFact says: This performance never happened. This claim stemmed from a satirical piece published in September 2023.
PolitiFact says: Data shows urban homicides across the U.S. decreased about 12% in 2023 compared with a year earlier. But that data ignores that this decline came after violent crime spiked during the COVID pandemic
PolitiFact says: U.S. Census Bureau and the Federal Reserve Board datasets found record levels of Black business ownership in 2021 and 2022, the most recent year available.
PolitiFact says: Este intercambio sobre la frontera de EE. UU. entre el ex presentador de Fox News Tucker Carlson y el presidente ruso Vladimir Putin no sucedió.
PolitiFact says: Food costs have risen faster under President Joe Biden than under any of his five most recent predecessors. Still, food prices have not risen as fast as Donald Trump said.
PolitiFact says: A Texas abortion law that went into effect in 2022 explicitly says the criminal and civil penalties do not apply to women who get abortions.
PolitiFact says: The image is photoshopped.
PolitiFact says: A Quebec man pleaded guilty to setting 14 forest fires in 2023, a record year for wildfires in Canada. The fires he set, and the land that burned as a result, represent a fraction of the wildfires and damage overall.
PolitiFact says: The photo of Taylor Swift wearing an anti-Donald Trump T-shirt was altered. In the original 2019 photo, Swift wore a pink and yellow dress.
PolitiFact says: Texas no está dando un estímulo de salud a los latinos, la publicación lleva a un enlace que no está afiliado a una entidad gubernamental.
PolitiFact says: Not "all" the recovered classified materials were in lockable filing cabinets. Classified documents were found in a box in the garage and in "unlocked drawers."
PolitiFact says: Special Counsel Robert Hur decided against pursuing criminal charges. However, the report states clearly that the special counsel found evidence that Biden did willfully retain classified documents.
PolitiFact says: The first patient in the U.K. to receive the new mRNA cancer therapy did so in October 2023.
PolitiFact says: The special counsel said President Joe Biden had 18 documents with "top secret" markings on them. That’s the highest of the three levels.
PolitiFact says: Documented references to Ukraine are centuries old, and Putin shared a distorted view of Russia and Ukraine's history, experts told PolitiFact.
PolitiFact says: Trump refused to turn over documents and enlisted others’ help to destroy or hide evidence, an indictment stated. Biden cooperated with searches and sat for a voluntary interview with the special counsel.
PolitiFact says: This exchange between former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Russian President Vladimir Putin was fabricated. Carlson and Putin did not discuss the U.S.-Mexico border in the two-hour interview.
PolitiFact says: The research paper was based on false COVID-19 vaccine claims, experts told us. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been rigorously tested for years, and public health experts have found them to be safe and effective.