In fact, he lost the state in the 2020 election. What followed on Tuesday was an hour and a half filled with many familiar falsehoods and exaggerations about his accomplishments, including on ...

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have been busy. PolitiFact has been busy, too. Since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, our reporters have been fact-checking statements ...

One of my biggest pet peeves is when media figures make hyperbolic claims about the spread of misinformation online and suggest that journalists, misinfo watchdogs, and fact-checkers—i.e., the ...

Trump claimed last Thursday that gas prices “hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states.” That wasn’t true. No state had an average gas price below $2.70 per gallon on Wednesday, according to ...

With just under three weeks of politicking before the April 28 election, the Star is embarking on a truth watch by parsing the (spoken or posted) words of three national party leaders — the ...

The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.

In brief: Facebook is making one of the biggest changes in a decade later today: it will officially end its fact-checking program in the US. In its place will be the Community Notes feature ...

Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation. Earlier this month, X enabled ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has already surpassed one of her Biden predecessors in total number of PolitiFact fact-checks after just two months in office. On Thursday, PolitiFact ...

Some whales have hundreds of teeth. Others, like the narwhal, have only one or two. In fact, the narwhal's famous, unicorn-like tusk is actually a tooth growing through its upper lip. Toothed ...

However, Prytania subsidiary Possibility Space shuttered a week later, with Jeff Strain blaming employees leaking information to the press for the closure. Neither NetEase, nor allegations of ...

potentially leading to strains that are resistant to all antifungal medications." More information: Elevated mutation rates in multi-azole resistant Aspergillus fumigatus drive rapid evolution of ...