Trump Spins Rise in Job Openings
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org The number of job openings has been rising since mid-2009, contrary to President Donald Trump’s boast that under his stewardship “all…
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Trump’s Misleading Attack on Mueller Team
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump made several misleading comments when questioning the impartiality of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his investigative…
Pelosi Misrepresents Childhood ‘Hunger’ Data
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org In talking about the importance of the 2018 midterm congressional elections, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi misrepresented government data to claim…
Trump Wrong on Comey ‘Leak,’ McCabe Funds
By Eugene Kiely and D’Angelo Gore – FactCheck.org President Donald Trump claimed a memo that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend “in order to get a…
Did the Polio Vaccine Cause Cancer?
By Vanessa Schipani – Factcheck.org Q: Did people develop cancer because of the polio vaccine? A: There are no known cases, and it’s very unlikely. In the…
Trump’s Numbers (First Quarterly Update)
By Brooks Jackson – Factcheck.org Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: Job growth slowed, but unemployment still sank to the…
(Fact Check) Has the Border Wall Begun?
By Robert Farley – FactCheck.org Q: Has President Donald Trump started building the wall between United States and Mexico? A: Congress approved $1.6 billion to replace existing…
Fact Checking Trump’s Pennsylvania Rally
By Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley and Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org In a campaign speech supporting the Republican candidate in a special House election in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, President Donald…
The Facts on Media Violence
By Vanessa Schipani – Factcheck.org In the wake of the Florida school shooting, politicians have raised concern over the influence of violent video games and films…
Meme Falsely Claims FactCheck.org ‘Exposed’ Snopes.com
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org Q: Did FactCheck.org expose Snopes.com as an “extremely liberal propaganda site”? A: No. That false claim was made in a meme circulating online….
Fact Check: More Armed Citizens Equals Less Mass Shootings?
Media Bias Fact Check Launched in November 2015. One of our first fact checks was in December 2015 when we did a fact check looking…
(Fact Check) Trump’s Misleading Gun Rhetoric
By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and Robert Farley – Factcheck.org In a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress, President Donald Trump made false and misleading claims about his predecessors’…
(Fact Check) School Shooting Spawns Conspiracy Theories
By Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org The internet has been rife with rumors about the school shooting that left 17 dead in Florida on Feb. 14. We’ve debunked…
(Fact Check) Sanders Uses Old Gun Sales Stat
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org Results of a national survey published in 2017 show that 13 percent of U.S. gun owners who purchased a firearm in…
GM Korea Didn’t Announce Move to Detroit
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org General Motors will close one of its four assembly plants in South Korea in May. It did not say it was…
(Fact Check) Trump’s Claim that Electricity Prices are Falling
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org At a meeting on international trade, President Donald Trump falsely claimed his policies have reduced the cost of electricity for U.S….
(Fact Check) Trump on Britain’s Universal Health Care
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump tweeted that while Democrats are pushing for universal health care, “thousands of people are marching in the UK because…
Fact-Checking The Nunes Memo
The memo released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee makes many claims about the FBI’s surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page—and suggests that…
FactChecking the FactChecking of Trump’s State of the Union – A Counterpoint
By Karen O’Connor Rubsam An October 2017 Pew Reseach Center poll noted that “the partisan split in America is the highest it has been in two…
FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Vanessa Schipani and Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org Summary President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was filled with several…