The reader pick for the 2024 Lie of the Year is also PolitiFact’s official editors’ choice: President-elect Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance’s claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were ...

New Jersey drones are searching for missing radioactive material. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection reported a piece of equipment used in medical imaging scanners that contained a ...

Tesla’s website does not feature a tablet computer, nor has the company announced a $100 tablet in a press release. A search for "Tesla tablet" took us to a page on Tesla’s website for the touch ...

"The city of… is being warned to be alert & vigilant as there is a serial killer on the run,” Robert Thibodeau. Several local authorities nationwide have debunked this serial killer claim and have ...

CNN spokesperson Emily Kuhn told PolitiFact that the outlet never reported or published the story and she pointed to the fake article’s Statue of Liberty image, which includes a depiction of the ...

This video is real, but it was not captured at Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. The footage was recorded in August in on Indonesia’s Mount Dukono in North Halmahera. Al Jazeera attributed the ...

Officials say the reported drones pose no threat to public safety or national security. In many instances, authorities said, the drones have been mistakenly identified: They were manned aircraft, ...

Congress hasn’t increased its pay since 2009, so the idea that it would propose nearly $70,000 raises in stopgap legislation caught our attention. We found that the Department of Government Efficiency ...

Although Singh ruled out that the drones are not from the U.S. military or a foreign country, a transcript and video of Singh’s press briefing show she did not say they are alien aircraft or "not of ...

A Threads post claimed, "A $7.20 an hour McDonalds employee … now gets a cool 1/2 million dollar reward" for helping police find the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter. But this reward for ...

Recent studies of adolescents who have received gender-affirming medical treatment, the subject of Tennessee’s ban, show the rates of people stopping treatment, regretting treatment, or reverting to ...

There has been an uptick of Facebook posts about innovations attributed to Musk, but these creations don’t exist. For now, fantasies of a Tesla flying car remain grounded. We rate claims that Musk has ...