Does the "Green New Deal" proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez contain a provision that calls for the drinking of recycled urine? No, that's not true: several conservative figures have been spreading a satirical hoax that seems to have origina
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PolitiFact→ Vice: What the movie gets right and wrong about Dick Cheney
Editor's note: Have you ever wondered if the movie you just saw — that claimed to be based on a real story or historical events — was really accurate? So have we. With this year’s Oscars featuring historically based movies up for
PolitiFact→ Fact-check: How true is Green Book?
Editor's note: Have you ever wondered if the movie you just saw — that claimed to be based on a real story or historical events — was really accurate? So have we. With this year’s Oscars featuring historically based movi
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking the State of the Union for 2019
President Donald Trump delivered the 2019 State of the Union address on Feb. 5, 2019, addressing the topics of the economy, immigration, foreign policy and more. Here are some of his comments, fact-checked or with additional explanation or context.&nbs
PolitiFact→ Trump's real border crisis is the overwhelmed asylum system, experts say
President Donald Trump is basing his latest push for border wall money on the premise that the United States is facing a humanitarian crisis and that a wall will solve it. He used a prime-time televised address on Jan. 8 to rally public support for his
Truth or Fiction?→ United States President Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech
On the evening of January 8, 2019, United States President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office on the topic of immigration and what he calls a humanitarian and national security crisis on the country’s southern border as a shut
PolitiFact→ Man behind viral border wall GoFundMe fundraiser also peddled false news
The man behind a viral GoFundMe page created to help fund Trump’s border wall isn’t just a citizen fundraiser. Brian Kolfage, a 37-year-old triple-amputee Iraq war veteran from Florida, also runs Right Wing News, a website often cited for p
PolitiFact→ Man behind viral border wall GoFundMe fundraiser also peddled false news
The man behind a viral GoFundMe page created to help fund Trump’s border wall isn’t just a citizen fundraiser. Brian Kolfage, a 37-year-old triple-amputee Iraq war veteran from Florida, also runs Right Wing News, a website often cited for p
FactCheck.org→ The Viral Spiral of 2018
Summary All this month, we’re celebrating 15 years of holding politicians accountable. We’ve been writing about false and misleading viral claims for nearly as long. Early on, we mostly fact-checked viral messages in the form of chain email
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Trump, Pelosi and Schumer’s White House fight over the border wall, shutdown
President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer sparred before news cameras over the effectiveness of a southern border wall, at times fact-checking and speaking over one another. While all three leaders said they wanted bo
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Trump, Pelosi and Schumer’s White House fight over the border wall, shutdown
President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer sparred before news cameras over the effectiveness of a southern border wall, at times fact-checking and speaking over one another. While all three leaders said they wanted bo
Truth or Fiction?→ Have More Americans Died in Gun-Related Incidents Than Wars Since the Founding of the United States?
On December 7 2018, the Facebook page Change The Ref shared this meme (text below): FACT: MORE AMERICANS HAVE DIED OF GUN-RELATED INCIDENTS IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS THAN HAVE DIED IN WAR SINCE THE COUNTRY’S FOUNDING. A caption with the image read
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking misinformation about the migrant caravan
Misinformation about a migrant caravan heading to the United States is spreading on Facebook and other social media platforms with users sharing false or misleading memes and posts that paint a skewed version of the facts. PolitiFact has fact-checked m
Washington Post→ Hey, attack-ad honchos, stop stealing our Pinocchios!
Yet another attack ad features Washington Post Pinocchios even though we never fact-checked a rival's ad
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump's op-ed against Medicare for All in USA Today
President Donald Trump brought his battle with Democrats onto politically sacred ground, accusing them of forcing the death of Medicare. Trump moved from 280-character tweets to a 4,900 character op-ed in USA Today to paint a doomsday picture if Medica
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman
Editor's note: Have you ever wondered if the movie you just saw — that claimed to be based on a real story or historical events — was really accurate? So have we. Everyone from Cannes to Twitter seems to be talking about BlacKkKlansman,
PolitiFact→ Remembering John McCain
John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate and a longtime U.S. Senator for Arizona, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 81. Known in recent years as one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump within the Republican Party, McCain had
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking President Trump’s NATO summit news conference in Brussels
President Donald Trump fielded questions about the United States’ strained relationship with NATO allies at the conclusion of the NATO summit in Brussels. We fact-checked several of the president’s more memorable claims from the press confe
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking President Trump’s NATO summit news conference in Brussels
President Donald Trump fielded questions about the United States’ strained relationship with NATO allies at the conclusion of the NATO summit in Brussels. We fact-checked several of the president’s more memorable claims from the press confe
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump falsely claims NATO countries owe United States money for defense spending
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Trump falsely claims NATO countries owe United States money for defense spending During a bilateral breakfast with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Donald Trump blasted the alliance’s other me
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump falsely claims NATO countries owe United States money for defense spending
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Trump falsely claims NATO countries owe United States money for defense spending During a bilateral breakfast with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Donald Trump blasted the alliance’s other me
Washington Post→ Five whoppers from President Trump’s impromptu news conference
President Trump made a slew of false or misleading claims during an appearance on “Fox and Friends” that morphed into a news conference on the White House lawn. We fact-checked five whoppers. But this is only a partial list. “I think that th
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump made 8 misleading claims about immigration on Fox and Friends
President Donald Trump repeated several misleading talking points about immigration during an interview with Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade. We counted at least eight faulty claims in less than five minutes. In the interview that aired May 24,
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump's interview on Fox & Friends
Fox & Friends co-hosts heard from a longtime listener and former caller April 26: President Donald Trump. In the free-wheeling interview, Trump started by wishing his wife Melania a happy birthday and then launched into his opinions about the Iran
FactCheck.org→ Video: Trump’s Wall
In our latest fact-checking collaboration with CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jake Tapper looks at President Donald Trump’s repeated claim that a proposed wall at the U.S.-Mexico border will stop the illegal flow of drugs into the
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump’s tweets about the border, DACA
President Donald Trump followed up his Happy Easter wishes with tweets bashing Mexico and Democrats for immigration problems in the United States. Trump also backed away from efforts to find a legislative solution to an Obama-era program called Deferre
PolitiFact→ PolitiFact fact-checks Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Post
We love movies — the way they transport us to another time and place, showing moments of intimate emotion and high drama. But when movies claim to depict real events, we start thinking like fact-checkers. Is what they’re showing us basicall
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2018 speech at CPAC
President Donald Trump spoke for more than hour at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 23, 2018, veering from prepared remarks to joke about his hair and ask conference goers what they wanted more — tax cuts or the Second Amendme
Washington Post→ Fact checking the Democratic responses to the State of the Union speech
We fact-checked 18 claims from President Trump’s first State of the Union speech, but he wasn’t the only one throwing around dubious numbers and words. Four politicians gave responses right after the president’s speech. Democrats got several bite
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union
Summary President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was filled with several repeat claims about the economy, tax cuts and immigration that we’ve fact-checked before, as well as new false and misleading statements on auto pla
Washington Post→ Fact checking the 2018 State of the Union address
President Trump’s State of the Union speech had soaring rhetoric — and many dubious facts and figures. Many of these claims have been fact-checked repeatedly, yet the president persists in using them. Here is a guide to 18 claims, in th
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump wrong again that recent tax bill is biggest ever
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Donald Trump wrong again that recent tax bill is biggest ever President Donald Trump repeated in his State of the Union address one of his most frequent talking points — and one that has been repeatedly debunke
PolitiFact→ Cory Booker – Fact-checking Cory Booker's statistic on attacks by white nationalist hate groups
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Fact-checking Cory Booker's statistic on attacks by white nationalist hate groups U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said in an interview on CNN that President Donald Trump’s reported comments describing Haiti
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump’s economic speech in Nashville
President Donald Trump likes talking about how great the economy is, a theme he expounded on when he flew to Nashville on Jan. 8 to address the American Farm Bureau Federation. He addressed many topics we have previously fact-checked and others we have
Truth or Fiction?→ Sylvia Thompson on NFL: Enough With the Victimhood Millionaire Athletes-Commentary!
Sylvia Thompson on NFL: Enough With the Victimhood Millionaire Athletes-Commentary! Summary of eRumor: Conservative commentator Sylvia Thompson penned a column on NFL protests titled, “Enough With the Victimhood: Millionaire Athletes and Their Lo
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misleads on Insurer Profits
President Donald Trump has claimed that under the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies have “taken advantage of this country” and “made a fortune,” which he “stopped” by ending payments for cost-sharing subsidies
Truth or Fiction?→ Jim Bates Accuses CNN of Lying About Puerto Rico Relief Efforts-Unproven!
Jim Bates Accuses CNN of Lying About Puerto Rico Relief Efforts-Unproven! Summary of eRumor: A Facebook post from a man named Jim Bates claims that CNN has lied about Hurricane Maria relief efforts in Puerto Rico and that the people of Puerto Rico are
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix
President Donald Trump defended his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., during a campaign rally in Phoenix, on Aug. 22, blaming the media for distorting or omitting his full comments. "The media can attack me, but where I draw the li
Washington Post→ A quick guide to President Trump’s false Twitter claims today
President Trump went on a Twitter rampage Monday night and this morning, spewing a number of false and misleading claims — many of which we have fact-checked previously. Here’s a quick guide to what’s factually incorrect. So m
Washington Post→ Video: Fact-checking President Trump’s claims about ‘unleashing American energy’
At a recent event celebrating “unleashing American energy,” President Trump made several misleading claims about coal, energy the Paris climate agreement and the environment. We’ve previously fact-checked Trump’s claim