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Pope Francis defended the importance of truth and media literacy against "fake news" but misinformation found him, from a viral fake endorsement of Trump in 2016 to the 2023 puffer coat image made with artificial intelligence.

April 2 is both International Fact-Checking Day and Trump’s promised “liberation day” for reciprocal tariffs. PolitiFact’s editor-in-chief explains why our journalists scrutinize policy arguments for truth and facts.

Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers,

We’re celebrating PolitiFact’s 17th birthday while covering the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this year. And

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As pundits and politicos spar over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of

On Oct. 20, PolitiFact and Poynter published a story headlined, “How politicians, media outlets amplified uncorroborated

Editor’s note, Nov. 14, 2023: A few weeks after we published this Oct. 20 story (Headline: Israel-Hamas war: How politic

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On days like today, PolitiFact’s birthday, it’s fun to look back at how we got started. Our fact-checking website launch

Vote in our reader poll before we release our 2022 Lie of the Year! PolitiFact awards the Lie of the Year to the most si

Teen singer and actress Olivia Rodrigo visited the White House on July 14 to encourage younger Americans to get the COVI

PolitiFact interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, f

A Florida taxi driver and his wife had seen enough conspiracy theories online to believe the virus was overblown, maybe

There’s a new angle in misinformation about the West Coast wildfires: activists involved with antifa and Black Lives Mat

President Donald Trump capped a week of blurred divisions between his political and presidential life when he accepted t

As he accepted the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden told Americans it was time to come together and choose

President Donald Trump left Washington for his first major trip in nearly two months, and also left the relative safety

President Donald Trump started the morning of Sept. 20 dismissing headlines about someone who blew the whistle on a phon

BlacKkKlansman, Green Book and Vice are Oscar-nominated movies that claim to be based on real stories. For the second ye