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by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, March 22, 2017, 5 a.m. When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable…
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes)….
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway claimed on MSNBC Thursday night that Bowling Green, Ky., was the scene of a massacre carried out by Iraqis. Conway…
Voter ID and voter fraud are topics once again with Donald Trump claiming 3.5 million illegal immigrants voted. With this in mind, we set out…
Update: 3/30/17 It has been confirmed that the administration did inquire via e-mail about having a military presence at the parade. You can view the Email…
We were asked to fact check if Donald Trump’s approval rating is at a historic low days before the inauguration. The source of the fact…
It seems as if the myths regarding the Obama’s will continue long after they are gone from the White House. We received a fact check…
We were asked if Barack and Michelle Obama surrendered their law licenses to avoid ethics charges? This is a very old internet rumor that goes…
We were asked to fact check if Russia tried to hack a Vermont electric company. On Friday 12/30/16 the Washington Post ran a story that…
We received two fact checks to investigate and will summarize both of them here as the work has already been done on one of them….
We were asked to fact check if Ruth Bader Ginsberg is going to step down now that Trump is President. There was an article published…
We were asked by a reader if President-Elect Donald Trump requested a list of climate change supporters? The short answer to this is “yes.” According…
We received a fact check request to determine if Trump protesters were paid and bused into Austin, Texas. The story appears to have originated from…
On November 1st Politifact did an inaccurate fact check on a statement made by Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton. Clinton said of Trump, “He even said,…
During the Presidential Debate on October 9th, Hillary Clinton said “Donald Trump’s tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations more than the Bush tax cuts…
Politifact has been busy checking all the claims made during the Presidential Debate last Monday. This summary consists of Politifact’s latest Trump claims during the…
On September 26, 2016 the first Presidential Debate took place between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. As usual Politifact covered the…
Michael Morell said in an open letter to Donald Trump that Donald Trump has outlined “policies that read like a Kremlin wish list.” Politifact…
On September 7, 2016 Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid stated on the Senate floor and also in the press that the Zika Virus leads to…
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