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Why Infowars’ Alex Jones was banned from Apple, Facebook, Youtube and Spotify

By Manuela Tobias• August 7, 2018

Conspiracy claims that Syrian gas attack was 'false flag' are unproven

By Joshua Gillin• April 7, 2017

Alex Jones said Sandy Hook slayings 'pretty much didn't happen'

By W. Gardner Selby• April 18, 2018

Fact-checking distorted video Sarah Sanders used to bar a CNN White House reporter

By Manuela Tobias• November 8, 2018

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: Online smear machine tries to take down Parkland students

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman• December 11, 2018

United Facts of America: How Russian falsehoods spread to U.S. through faux local news

By Loreben Tuquero• November 7, 2023

How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy theory industry

By Bill McCarthy• September 9, 2021

Welcome, Anthony Scaramucci! Here's some research on illegal voting

By Louis Jacobson• July 21, 2017

PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of 2021

By Amy Sherman• December 21, 2021

The facts behind the Russian, right-wing narratives claiming Hunter Biden funded biolabs in Ukraine

By Bill McCarthy• April 1, 2022

Midterm Facebook misinformation: Pipe bombs, menacing caravans and rampant voter fraud

By Jon Greenberg• November 21, 2018

False flags: They’re real, but far less widespread than social media suggest

By Louis Jacobson, Bill McCarthy• February 8, 2022

Hoaxes, fake news about the Las Vegas massacre

By Louis Jacobson, Emily Tanaka, Miriam Valverde• October 2, 2017

Shadow banning: Did Twitter try to boost Dems and hurt GOP?

By Jon Greenberg• July 26, 2018

Fact-checking hoaxes and conspiracies about the coronavirus

By Daniel Funke, Tom Kertscher• January 24, 2020

The most outlandish, Pants On Fire! claims we fact-checked in 2017

By Chris Nichols, Kathryn Palmer• December 27, 2017

‘A call to action’: Jan. 6 hearing shows Trump’s sway on rioters with words, tweets

By Jon Greenberg, Bill McCarthy• July 13, 2022

Fact-checking Donald Trump's rally for Mike Braun in Evansville, Indiana

By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias• August 31, 2018

Anatomy of a statistic: Do 80 percent of Americans oppose sanctuary cities?

By Louis Jacobson• February 24, 2017

How a rumor about Justice Alito in 'hiding' jumped to primetime TV

By Bill McCarthy• May 11, 2022
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