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Facebook posts stated on September 20, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Patent shows 5G towers are used for brainwashing.

By Maria Briceño • October 3, 2023

Bloggers stated on August 5, 2023 in a blog post:

“Putin bans 5G across Russia, destroys all towers.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 10, 2023

Facebook posts stated on January 19, 2022 in a post:

"If the FAA is worried about what the 5G deployment will do to the planes, what do you think it will do to our bodies?"

By Monique Curet • January 25, 2022

Bloggers stated on December 17, 2021 in a blog post:

"Electromagnetic radiation from wireless technologies, including and especially 5G, can cause the same symptoms as COVID-19!"

By Vivian Lam • December 21, 2021

Viral image stated on August 7, 2021 in a viral image:

Suggests a suspicious link between the COVID-19 delta variant and company named Delta that works in 5G.

By Tom Kertscher • August 10, 2021

Hal Turner Radio Show stated on May 20, 2021 in a blog post:

People with the COVID-19 vaccine are being "tracked in real time via 5G cellular, and all that data can be hacked into to track you."

By Andy Nguyen • May 28, 2021

Facebook posts stated on March 9, 2021 in a video on Facebook:

There are nanoparticles in the COVID-19 vaccine that will help people “locate you” via 5G networks.

By Madison Czopek • March 12, 2021

Viral image stated on April 2, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says video shows “the Chinese are destroying the 5G poles as they are aware that it is the thing triggering the corona symptoms.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 7, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2020 in a post:

Says a “5G LAW PASSED while everyone was distracted” with the coronavirus pandemic and lists 20 symptoms associated with 5G exposure.

By Daniel Funke, Tom Kertscher • April 3, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 2, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Coronavirus Hoax: Fake Virus Pandemic Fabricated to Cover-Up Global Outbreak of 5G Syndrome.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2020

Ted Cruz stated on October 19, 2025 in an X post:

Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.

By Louis Jacobson, Loreben Tuquero • October 20, 2025

X posts stated on May 8, 2025 in posts:

Robert Prevost, the Roman Catholic cardinal who was chosen to be the new pope, is a “registered Republican.”

By Amy Sherman, Grace Abels • May 9, 2025

Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Images show damage from an “earthquake in Thailand.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 3, 2025

Facebook posts stated on March 26, 2025 in a post:

President Donald Trump “just suggested replacing pride month with veterans month in honor of those who served.”

By Grace Abels • April 2, 2025

Facebook posts stated on March 27, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Elon Musk funded a Neuralink implant procedure for a 7-year-old girl “who was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder.”

By Loreben Tuquero • April 1, 2025

Facebook posts stated on March 22, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“Canada makes bold decision to shut down Tesla and the US auto industry.”

By Maria Briceño • March 28, 2025

Facebook posts stated on March 6, 2025 in a post:

Elon Musk “launches a public campaign to terminate ‘The View.’”

By Grace Abels • March 17, 2025

Instagram posts stated on February 7, 2025 in an Instagram post:

Coca-Cola “sells out its own workers to ICE.”

By Maria Briceño • February 13, 2025

Facebook posts stated on February 9, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Says Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told President Donald Trump, “They will beg us to tear down this ugly wall.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 12, 2025

Viral image stated on February 9, 2025 in a Threads post:

Video shows President Donald Trump was “booed at the Super Bowl.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2025

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Articles (19)

Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • March 15, 2024

Maricopa County election worker on Nov. 9, 2022

We fact-checked misinformation about the midterm elections, from Maricopa County to Detroit

By Jeff Cercone • November 9, 2022

Pelosi house in California after Paul Pelosi assault Oct. 28, 2022

Misinformation fuels false narratives about attack on Paul Pelosi

By Madison Czopek • October 31, 2022

10 types of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation swirling online, fact-checked

By Bill McCarthy • July 26, 2021

Fans leaving Pelicans-Kings game on March 11, 2020

6 things we’ve learned from one year of coronavirus misinformation

By Daniel Funke • March 12, 2021

Health misinformation website rebrands as pro-Trump outlet to get around ban from Facebook

By Daniel Funke • June 5, 2020

How misinformation about Kobe Bryant’s death spread online

By Daniel Funke, Ciara O'Rourke • January 28, 2020

PolitiFact verificó lo que Donald Trump dijo a votantes latinos en foro de Univision

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 18, 2024

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Univision town hall with Latino voters

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 17, 2024

Donald Trump and JD Vance in New York, 9-11-2024

Not-so-innocent ‘cat memes’: AI creations give life to unsubstantiated Springfield, Ohio, claims

By Loreben Tuquero • September 25, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign of conspiracy theories: PolitiFact’s 2023 Lie of the Year

By Katie Sanders, Madison Czopek • December 21, 2023

What are ‘smart cities’ and why are conspiracy theorists linking them to wildfires?

By Jeff Cercone • September 12, 2023

‘Cheap fakes’: Viral videos keep clipping Biden’s words out of context

By Bill McCarthy • February 14, 2022

Patient refusing doctor medicine with hand

Licensed doctors who spread COVID-19 disinformation face no consequences, report shows

By Victoria Knight • September 22, 2021

False vaccine claims persist on Facebook, despite a ban. Here’s why

By Daniel Funke • March 30, 2021

15 of our wackiest COVID-19 fact-checks

By Daniel Funke • March 15, 2021

How QAnon is seeping into Florida during the 2020 presidential campaign

By Daniel Funke, Steve Contorno • September 8, 2020

People are reserving tickets to Trump’s Tulsa rally to leave empty seats. It probably won’t work

By Bill McCarthy • June 16, 2020

The president who cried hoax? Experts weigh in on Trump’s use of the word

By Bill McCarthy • April 1, 2020