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PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials ...
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This paper compared 1,178 published fact-checks from PolitiFact with 325 fact-checks from The Washington Post ' s Fact Checker, and found only 77 statements (about 5%) that both organizations checked. [12] For those 77 statements, the fact-checking organizations gave the same ratings for 49 statements and similar ratings for 22, about 92% ...
President Donald Trump made only a smattering of false claims in his inaugural address on Monday, mostly sticking to vague rhetoric, subjective assertions and uncheckable promises of action. But ...
He’s wrong about the current rates. Mortgage rates are higher than at most points since 2000, but the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage is currently 6.35%, after peaking at 7.79% in October 2023.
But the claim is wrong. More than 30 countries around the world grant unconditional citizenship at birth, according to a 2018 Law Library of Congress report. ... PolitiFact reported.-Chris Mueller.
Cheney's claim was disputed by FactCheck.org as wrong, saying that "Edwards was mostly right" when talking about "Cheney's responsibility for earlier Halliburton troubles". [ 13 ] Cheney's reference created some controversy because he incorrectly cited the web site's address as "FactCheck. com ."
PolitiFact, "Trump’s wrong claim that election observers were barred in Pennsylvania, Michigan," Nov. 12, 2020. PolitiFact, "No, suspected voter registration irregularities in Michigan did not ...