Now through November will be full of candidates’ claims to fact-check, campaign promises to track and disinformation to debunk. PolitiFact’s mission is to share the facts so you can be an informed participant in the 2024 election.
AllSides→ Fact checking Trump’s claims during Harris’ acceptance speech
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/g-s1-19229/trump-fact-check-kamala-harris-dnc-speech Former President Do
AllSides→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Falsely Says Tariffs Are A Middle Class Sales Tax
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/08/22/fact-check-kamala-harris-falsely-says-tariffs-are-a-middle-class-sales-tax/
AllSides→ Final Night of the Democratic National Convention
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/final-night-of-the-democratic-national-convention/ The Democratic con
The Dispatch→ Harris Accepts Democratic Nomination for President
‘Fellow Americans, I love our country with all my heart.’
FactCheck.org→ Final Night of the Democratic National Convention
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Summary The Democratic convention wrapped up with Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech accepting the party’s nomination for president. She made some misleading or uns
The Dispatch→ Kamala Is the Democratic Nominee
Listen to a sneak peek from our livestream.
The Dispatch→ Getting Past ‘First’
In 2024, how much does it matter that our president could be someone who’s not a white man?
The Dispatch→ Tim Walz’s Selective Neighborliness
The vice presidential candidate says he wants us to return to a less divided time. But does he really?
The Dispatch→ Kamala Takes the Stage
Watch the video of our weekly livestreamed conversation.
Internet Archive→ Campaign 2024 Democratic National Convention, Day 4 – Part 1 : CSPAN : August 23, 2024 12:18am-2:41am EDT
The 2024 Democratic National Convention convened for its fourth and final session in Chicago. Sponsor: Democratic National Committee.This item belongs to: movies/TV-CSPAN.This item has files of the following types: Captions Align JSON, Closed Caption T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Musk, Trump Have NOT Teamed Up On Crypto Scheme — AI-Generated Scam Pitch
Did Elon Musk and Donald Trump team up to conduct a cryptocurrency scam that would violate election laws, as claimed in a post on X? No, that's not true: Footage from the 2024 Tesla shareholder's meeting, streamed live, was altered with a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mpox Vaccine Does NOT Contain HIV
Is the mpox vaccine loaded with HIV, as a video shared by The People's Voice claims? No, that's not true: The People's Voice is a website with a long history of publishing made-up news, and it provided no sources -- aside from a supposed
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump’s Pants on Fire claim that Biden, Harris manipulated job data
“The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.”
Lead Stories→ Face Check: NO Evidence that Gov. Tim Walz ‘Put Tampons In 10 Year Old Boys Bathrooms’
Did the state of Minnesota enact a policy that put tampons in "10 year old boys bathrooms" while Tim Walz was governor? No, that's not true: The Minnesota statute does not mention boys-only bathrooms, and school districts said free menstr
PolitiFact→ X posts – Bricks did not mysteriously appear in Chicago before the Democratic National Convention
Pallets of bricks were left all over the streets of Chicago before the Democratic National Convention.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Video Purports To Show Tim Walz Dancing With Cowboy Hat And Dollar Bills In His Pants — It’s Another Person
Does a video show Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' pick as her vice presidential running mate, dancing in a cowboy hat and with dollar bills stuck in his pants? No, that's not true: The video has been altered to add Walz's face onto the person da
Internet Archive→ Campaign 2024 Democratic National Convention, Day 4 : CSPAN : August 22, 2024 6:30pm-11:30pm EDT
[LIVE] The 2024 Democratic National Convention convenes for its fourth and final session in Chicago. Sponsor: Democratic National Committee.This item belongs to: movies/TV-CSPAN.This item has files of the following types: Captions Align JSON, Closed Ca
The Dispatch→ Going Low
Which party benefits from getting personal with its opponent?
PolitiFact→ Eric Hovde – Hovde misses mark on claim that Baldwin 'has done absolutely nothing' on fentanyl
Says U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin “has done absolutely nothing” about the fentanyl crisis.
PolitiFact→ Social Media – No, social media videos do not show Kamala Harris intoxicated at public events
Videos show Kamala Harris intoxicated.
The Dispatch→ Runaway Spending … in Space
Some lessons from NASA’s now-defunct VIPER lunar program.
PolitiFact→ How a political convention speech inspired PolitiFact
A misleading, unchallenged convention speech inspired the website that became PolitiFact and launched 17 years ago today.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Authentically Depict DNC Attendees Chanting ‘Death To America’ — Audio Is Added
Does a video shared to X genuinely show attendees at the 2024 Democratic National Convention chanting "Death to America"? No, that's not true: The video on social media has added audio from a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Oakland, Ca
The Dispatch→ Did Kamala Harris Threaten to ‘Snatch’ Patents?
A viral video clip is genuine but it leaves out important context.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Was NOT ‘Too Intoxicated To Stand Up’ During Democratic National Convention
Was Vice President Kamala Harris "too intoxicated to stand up" at the Democratic National Convention? No, that's not true: Harris was receiving applause at the moment in question and was not expected to stand. She was seen standing severa
FactCheck.org→ Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Activities Are Not Evidence of a Conspiracy
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Flu viruses have a long history of making animals and humans sick. This includes a track record of causing pandemics, which can occur when unfamiliar viruses begin to spread wi
AllSides→ Fact-checking DNC Day 3: See what Tim Walz, Bill Clinton got right and wrong
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/21/dnc-fact-check-tim-walz/74831613007/
AllSides→ Fact Check: Is Abortion Legal Until Fetal Viability in Minnesota?
https://checkyourfact.com/2024/08/22/fact-check-is-abortion-legal-until-fetal-viability-in-minnesota/ I
AllSides→ Fact Check: Republicans and Democrats Opposed Kamala Harris-Backed Deal to Expand Immigration
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/21/fact-check-democrats-republicans-opposed-pro-migration-deal/
The Dispatch→ Dispatch Live: Kamala Takes the Stage
Join us tonight for a special livestreamed conversation.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this video doesn’t show former President Donald Trump confusing Pennsylvania for North Carolina
Video shows former President Donald Trump thought he was in North Carolina while he spoke in Pennsylvania.
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – Anybody out there? The Democratic National Convention wasn’t “nearly empty” on its first night
The Democratic National Convention was “nearly empty” during its first day.
Full Fact→ The Pope has not appointed Klaus Schwab ‘universal bishop’
There is no evidence the World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman has been given a role in the church.
Full Fact→ How much do rail sector workers earn?
The Times claimed rail staff other than drivers earn an average of £49,000. Recent ONS data shows it’s closer to £39,500.
The Dispatch→ Democrats Stress Positivity and Patriotism at Convention
Plus: The disruptive pro-Palestinian protests expected in Chicago haven’t materialized.
Full Fact→ 9.4 million people are classed as economically inactive, not unemployed
A post on Threads claims 9.4 million people in Britain are unemployed, but technically this is the number in the UK who are ‘economically inactive’, not the number who are actively looking for work.
Full Fact→ Video of Michelle Obama’s DNC speech where she seems to call herself a gay man is altered
The audio in a clip of her speech to the Democratic National Convention has been manipulated.
Full Fact→ Picture of police kneeling in front of Muslim men is AI-generated
A widely-shared image appears to show a group of police officers kneeling before a group of men in Islamic dress.
PolitiFact→ Live: Fact-checks from Kamala Harris’ 2024 DNC speech in Chicago
PolitiFact is live fact-checking the fourth and final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, including tonight's speech by the Democrats' new presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. Follow along with us here.