Fact-checking fact-checkers

Ahead of America 250, PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson penned an article on Monday chronicling what he considered to be eleven instances where presidents “shaded reality as they shaped US history.” Unfortunately for Jacobson, in some instances it was he who did the shading, especially when he considered some of the nation’s most defining foreign policy moments.

PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough was at it again with more Senate campaign cherry-picking shenanigans on Friday. This time McCullough focused on Iowa Republican Ashley Hinson’s recent ad that accused Democrat Josh Turek of supporting sex changes for minors. McCullough called it “false,” but his actual article suggested it was not quite that simple.

The self-styled fact-checkers at Snopes had an interesting Friday. On one hand, Rae Deng claimed there is insufficient evidence to label a left-wing conspiracy theory about a proposed bill in North Carolina making murdering women legal if they seek an abortion false. On the other hand, Jack Izzo was adamant that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is the victim of a “chronically…

PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough has his priorities out of order. On Wednesday, he penned an article declaring GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton “false” for calling his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, a vegan. However, he could have rated Paxton “half-true” or written another article labeling Talarico “false” because Paxton also cited Talarico’s previous comments about there being six…

On Friday, PolitiFact writers Samantha Putterman and Maria Briceno gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio a “half true” rating for his claim that the United States is not the reason that Cuba is experiencing 22-hour blackouts.

Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein traveled over to the fact-checking section on Monday to condemn President Trump for taking a victory lap on behalf of all people who do not subscribe to theories of apocalyptic climate change after the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ruled a 2011 study’s “worst case scenario — called RCP8.5 — was implausible.” The…

Ohio’s gubernatorial campaign has kicked into gear, and so has PolitiFact with its weird partisan takes. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was tagged as “Mostly False” for an ad against his Democrat opponent that said that in 2020, “Amy Acton called off Ohio’s election at the last minute.” She did as Ohio's health director. That's true. But Gov. Mike DeWine claimed it was his call, so it's…

Results of a POLITICO poll reported Thursday show strong support for key elements of Republicans’ voter integrity bill, the SAVE America Act.

On the very last day of April, PolitiFact finally dared to upset their liberal donors and found a Democrat to be “Mostly False” for the first time in 2026. The day before brought another shocker: PolitiFact rated a Trump claim as "Mostly True," the first rating on the True side since October 2024.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is hailed by her allies as a refugee from Somalia. So does she know her American history? When she made a comical gaffe, reading from her notes about “World War II” and calling it “World War Eleven,” a Newsweek writer felt the need to “fact check” it. As usual, the complaint it “has been shared online without context.”

We're almost to the end of April, and the liberals at PolitiFact have still not found one single Democrat utterance that is tagged "Mostly False" or worse in 2026. Instead, they're rushing to defense of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in the aftermath of the Correspondents Dinner shooting.

The folks at Snopes like to advertise themselves as fact-checkers, but on Friday, Rae Deng (pronouns: they/their) ditched the idea of fact-checking to accuse the Trump administration of being “outright unethical” for their attempts to get the Bureau of Prisons to stop giving “gender-affirming care” to inmates.

PolitiFact’s unwillingness to give Republicans “true” ratings for true statements continued on Monday when Samantha Putterman only gave Rep. Brandon Gill a “half true” rating for his true claim that “The Dignity Act is mass amnesty.”

Is it true that President Trump’s threats to hit Iranian power plants constituted a potential war crime? According to PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson, that depends on what day of the week it is. On April 7, Jacobson penned a piece that suggested Fox News’s Jesse Watters was probably correct in saying they would not be given historical precedents in places like Iraq, but Jacobson still refused to…