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Facebook posts stated on May 20, 2024 in a video:

Footage “shows a completely flat horizon proving the flat Earth and completely destroying the globe theory.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • May 29, 2024

Facebook posts stated on April 20, 2023 in an image:

The ocean is "flat" and "contained" by land features that jut up from a flat (not spherical) earth.

By Andy Nguyen • April 28, 2023

Viral image stated on March 11, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Elon Musk tweeted, “The world is flat.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 13, 2023

B.o.B. stated on January 25, 2016 in in a Jan. 25 tweet:

"You've been tremendously deceived" by people who say the Earth is not flat.

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2016

Social Media stated on April 6, 2026 in social media posts:

Photos and clips show the moon from Artemis II.

By Maria Briceño • April 8, 2026

Facebook posts stated on April 6, 2024 in a Facebook reel:

There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real.

By Sofia Ahmed • April 18, 2024

Instagram posts stated on October 17, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Video shows Hillary Clinton talking about a glass dome over the Earth.

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 19, 2022

Viral image stated on September 13, 2022 in an Instagram post:

“The sun is not 93 million miles away … it is local and under a firmament dome.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 14, 2022

Viral image stated on July 20, 2022 in an Instagram post:

NASA photos of the moon and Earth show that “space is fake.”

By Grace Abels • July 28, 2022

X posts stated on June 2, 2022 in a tweet:

Biden gave Americans “the cheapest gas prices on Earth.”

By Samantha Putterman • June 6, 2022

Viral image stated on May 15, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Photo from “data leak at Elon Musk AND NASA … are said to be from one of Elon Musk’s Space-X satellites.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 18, 2022

Facebook posts stated on July 10, 2021 in a post:

Carbon dioxide “is not a problem. The Earth has more than enough land and ocean plant life to metabolize it.”

By Monique Curet • July 15, 2021

Toni Preckwinkle stated on January 9, 2019 in a TV ad:

Says she "made sure Laquan McDonald’s autopsy went public" and "called for the dash cam footage to be released."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 15, 2019

Phil Scott stated on October 10, 2018 in campaign debate:

"We had a waiting list in Chittenden County when I came into office of about 700. ... We opened a new treatment hub in St. Albans, and it reduced that number to zero."

By Lola Duffort • November 8, 2018

Marco Rubio stated on May 20, 2014 in an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:

Surface temperatures on Earth "have stabilized."

By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2014

Patrick Moore stated on March 11, 2014 in an interview on 'Hannity':

Earth "has not warmed for the last 17 years."

By Katie Sanders • March 17, 2014

Instagram posts stated on July 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“No human is allowed to travel to Antarctica.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 14, 2023

Instagram posts stated on April 2, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Videos show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussing a glass dome over Earth.

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2023

Instagram posts stated on February 5, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“‘Satellites’ are on balloons and not in space.”

By Sara Swann • February 7, 2023

Viral image stated on September 6, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Video proves “space is fake.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 9, 2022

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Earth Day 2016: 6 things to know about climate change

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

Planeta Tierra, fotografiado desde el espacio en 1969

La Tierra no es plana. Aquí te contamos por qué.

By Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • April 25, 2023

Why do some people think mass shootings are staged every time?

By Daniel Funke • August 8, 2019

Fifty years after Apollo 11, moon landing hoaxes still thrive online

By Daniel Funke • July 18, 2019

Trump’s midterm rallies: A fact-checked guide to talking points, falsehoods

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2026

What is a recession, and is it tied to stock market declines? What to know after Trump’s tariffs

By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2025

Fact-check: Los Angeles fires fuel falsehoods, including by Trump, about water management

By Caleb McCullough, Jeff Cercone • January 10, 2025

‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • December 17, 2024

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in Hurricane Milton presser, 10-10-2024

Ron DeSantis dismisses climate change link to stronger hurricanes. Here’s what the science says.

By Samantha Putterman • October 17, 2024

Live fact-checking the second 2024 Republican presidential primary debate

By Ellen Hine • September 27, 2023

Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News

By PolitiFact Staff • August 24, 2023

Red light on ‘greenwashing’? US regulatory agency takes fresh look at deceptive climate claims

By Tom Kertscher • July 17, 2023

Joe Biden has approved more oil drilling. Why? And does it undo his efforts to fight climate change?

By Tom Kertscher • April 13, 2023

US versus China: Which nation is doing more to address climate change?

By Tom Kertscher • March 27, 2023

Silicon Valley bank crowd in Santa Clara, Calif., 3-13-2023

Was Silicon Valley Bank demise caused by Trump easing regulation, ‘woke’ efforts, or something else?

By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Yacob Reyes • March 13, 2023

DeSantis in Miami press briefing, Sept. 22, 2022

Clarifying the nuances in immigration law after DeSantis sent migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

By Yacob Reyes • September 23, 2022

Biden art April 11 for presidential moments story

How misinformers manufacture and embellish embarrassing presidential moments

By Bill McCarthy • April 12, 2022

Rioters push police barrier Capitol Jan. 6

Misinformation and the Jan. 6 insurrection: When ‘patriot warriors’ were fed lies

By Bill McCarthy • June 30, 2021

Debating the origins of the COVID-19 virus: What we know, what we don’t know

By Noah Y. Kim, Tom Kertscher • May 17, 2021

NBA bubble keeps virus contained, but not misinformation

By Bill McCarthy • August 5, 2020