From dangerous scientific falsehoods to celebrity conspiracy theories, the team scours niche corners of social media, conducts interviews, requests public records and more to set the record straight.

Rumors are swirling about the 31-year-old California man accused of breaching a security point and opening fire at the White ...

The point is that regularly doing these exercises can help prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia — or, at least, that’s the claim.

On Feb. 28, the world learned that the United States and Israel had launched wide-ranging attacks on Iranian military and leadership targets. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran had been building for ...

Browse the Truth-O-Meter Fact-checking Donald Trump on inflation rate at State of the Union Clear Donald Trump stated on April 23, 2026 in remarks at the White House: ...

Fact-checking claims that Spain's legalised migrants can move to other EU countries Under Sánchez's programme, undocumented ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (January 30, 2026) – PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact-checking newsroom based at the Poynter Institute, is the focus of a television documentary premiering this week ...

AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news. Look no further than the Iran war. Since the ...

What's fact and what's fiction? We're fact-checking falsehoods after a shooting in the hotel hosting the White House ...

Michael unsurprisingly strays far from the historical record and even erases three of the nine Jackson children ...