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Here are PolitiFact’s top 10 most read politician fact-checks of 2024
3 days ago · Trump in July attacked Harris’ stance on gender-affirming care, saying she "wants to forcibly compel doctors and nurses against their will to give chemical castration drugs to young children."
Announcing PolitiFact readers’ pick for 2024 Lie of the Year
Dec 17, 2024 · This is the fourth year in a row that a Trump claim has won our readers’ poll. He won in 2023 for his False claim that, "They are trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad ...
A history of PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, from 2009 to 2024
Dec 17, 2024 · This marks the fourth time we’ve given the award to Trump and the first time we’ve crowned Vance. Trump also figured prominently in promoting three other falsehoods that were named Lie of the ...
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PolitiFact readers share feedback on election fact-checking
Dec 18, 2024 · The reader said in an email: "I am deeply troubled with some of PolitiFact’s fact-checking. I have noticed that your coverage of Kamala Harris’ criticism of Project 2025 has been rating many ...
PolitiFact | ‘Not the AI election’: Why artificial intelligence did not ...
Dec 19, 2024 · Days after New Hampshire voters received a robocall with an artificially generated voice that resembled President Joe Biden’s, the Federal Communications Commission banned using AI-generated ...
PolitiFact’s most widely read fact-checks of Donald Trump
Feb 1, 2024 · PolitiFact has published its 1,000th fact-check of Donald Trump. In addition to our data analysis, we decided to back at the 10 Trump fact-checks that our readers clicked the most.The list ...
PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of politicians and pundits in 2023
Dec 20, 2023 · 10. Matt Walsh: "Tuck-friendly" bathing suits at Target "are available in kids’ sizes." Our ruling: False As part of its LGBTQ+ Pride collection, Target sold adult swimwear with "tuck-friendly ...
Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists
Mar 15, 2024 · PolitiFact has seen repeated and unsubstantiated claims that COVID-19 vaccines have caused mass numbers of deaths. A recent widely shared post claimed 17 million people had died because of the ...