Politifact

For the fact-checking websites, 2025 marked the end of an era. Back in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was ending their partnership with websites such as PolitiFact. However, one cannot be 100 percent certain Zuckerberg’s reversal is a purely principled one given President Trump’s return to the White House, so it can be good to remember the worst ten fact-checks of the…

In a ranked-choice poll of more than 1,000 PolitiFact readers, the highest-ranking claim chosen as the year’s most serious falsehood went to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July assertion of "no starvation" in Gaza. In other words, the "Gaza Health…

When Republicans slam Democrats, one typical elitist-media rebuttal is to insist the GOP has "no evidence" of its claims. When Elissa Slotkin and her Democrat squad urged military personnel to disobey illegal orders, they had "no evidence" of any illegal orders from Trump. TV interviews have underlined repeatedly they denied having any proof. So naturally, PolitiFact lined up with the…

NewsBusters analysts reviewed PolitiFact articles from June to October 2025 that evaluated a named politician or public official with a “Truth-O-Meter” ruling, and their tilted version of the "truth" shows that PolitiFact is not nonpartisan. Republicans were tagged as "Mostly False" or worse more than 84 percent of the time, while Democrats landed on the False side only 19 percent of the time…

Every once in a while, the “fact checkers” at PolitiFact publish reader comments, and this one stuck out. "Your site seems to be mostly about Trump all the time," came one comment in an email. "How about a little less Trump, and write more about any other falsehood subjects?"

The fact-checking industry likes to view itself as the guardian of truth in an age of rampant misinformation, but what is one to do when they can’t all get on the same page? While PolitiFact, the Associated Press, and CNN’s Daniel Dale all rushed on Wednesday to call Republicans liars for saying Democrats want to give illegal immigrants access to federal benefits in exchange for ending the…

President Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was the latest example of how our “independent fact-checkers” are better defined as Democrat-dependent messaging machines. Their selection bias is transparent. They wouldn't do the same for Biden or Harris.

The furor over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exposed PolitiFact once again as a very partisan outfit – not an “independent fact-checker.” They offered no fact check for Kimmel’s nationally broadcast lie that Kirk's killer was somehow a Trump fan. Instead they threw a "False" rating on Thursday at...Sean Hannity.

Whether they be on the left, right, or in the center, one of the frustrations of journalists everywhere is people who only read the headline, or the tweet, for a given article. On Tuesday, Politifact deputy editor Louis Jacobson did just that when he labeled the Department of Energy’s X account “false” for a claim about solar and wind energy that, if he had only read the article, he would have…

In August, PolitiFact has been obsessing over President Trump like they're Daniel Dale at CNN, and as usual, everything he says is “false.” On Thursday, they broke up the Trump-bashing – ultraliberal California Gov. Gavin Newsom received a "Mostly True." In this case, Newsom and the Democrats favored independent commissions nationwide, and they want credit for that, while they crumble the one…

The only thing worse than well-considered liberal bias is immediately-posted liberal bias. In their "live fact checking," PolitiFact demonstrates it's just trash-talking Trump like any MSNBC liberal and calling it a "fact check."

PolitiFact is hyper-aggressive in “fact checking” Donald Trump, with eight “checks” over the last 30 days and four of them “Pants On Fire” denunciations. On Friday, they slapped a “Mostly False” on this presidential post on Truth Social: “Promises kept: negative net migration (in the U.S.) for the first time in 50 years!”

As the front page of the New York Times editorializes about Trump waging a "War On Facts," it's a good time to remind you that the "fact checkers" are waging a War On Trump. Democrats drew zero ratings of "Mostly False" or worse, compared to ten for Republicans, including three "Pants On Fire" attacks on President Trump. 

Poynter’s head of the censorial International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and former PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Angie Drobnic Holan has just been elected to the leadership cabal of a globalist media behemoth financed by leftist billionaire George Soros.