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Whoopi Goldberg stated on March 8, 2023 in remarks on ABC's "The View":

"The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to willingly lie."

By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2023

Facebook posts stated on August 31, 2020 in images:

The CDC “adjusted the US Covid deaths from 153,504 to 9,210.”

By Daniel Funke • August 31, 2020

Ken Paxton stated on June 16, 2017 in a press release:

Says Barack Obama "acknowledged over 20 times" that his administration’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans "immigration edict was a violation of law and the separation of powers."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2017

Facebook posts stated on September 10, 2014 in posts on Facebook:

"Fox admits they lie" and, under the First Amendment, "have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves."

By Linda Qiu • September 10, 2014

Peter Palumbo stated on January 22, 2013 in a news release:

Driving with a dog in your lap is dangerous, in part, because it could fly forward in a crash. "An 80-pound dog at only 30 mph packs a 2,400-pound punch."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 30, 2013

Benjamin Netanyahu stated on July 27, 2025 in remarks:

“There is no starvation in Gaza.”

By Madison Czopek • July 29, 2025

TikTok posts stated on June 24, 2025 in a TikTok post:

A new “community recognition” law allows people to apply for “permanent residency directly, quickly, and without leaving the country” if they have “resided continuously in the United States for at least seven years, regardless of their current immigration status.”

By Maria Briceño • July 1, 2025

Mike Johnson stated on May 8, 2024 in a press conference:

“The millions (of immigrants) that have been paroled can simply go to their local welfare office or the DMV and register to vote.”

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 20, 2024

Instagram posts stated on January 29, 2023 in an image shared on Instagram:

“Pfizer just got caught doing gain of function to mutate covid intentionally for vaccines.”

By Madison Czopek • February 6, 2023

Instagram posts stated on November 15, 2022 in a video:

President Joe Biden said, “I know you all know there’s no climate problem,” proving that people have been “lying for decades” about climate change.

By Madison Czopek • November 17, 2022

Pearson Sharp stated on March 11, 2022 in a TV segment:

The Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, had “the makings of yet another false flag operation” led by the U.S.

By Bill McCarthy • March 22, 2022

The Gateway Pundit stated on May 17, 2021 in an article:

“CDC director finally admits that COVID cases were overcounted in hospitals”

By Monique Curet • May 20, 2021

Alejandro Mayorkas stated on March 21, 2021 in in an ABC News interview:

The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021

Donald Trump stated on October 24, 2020 in Speech:

U.S. is “really not doing (COVID-19) reporting right” because deaths are being improperly counted and hospitals have an “incentive” to pad stats.

By Eric Litke • October 27, 2020

John James stated on September 27, 2020 in a television ad:

Says Sen. Gary Peters “downplayed the pandemic” and “failed to act.”

By Clara Hendrickson • October 8, 2020

Donald Trump stated on September 1, 2020 in a Fox News interview:

“Only 6% of the people actually died from COVID.” The others “died from other reasons.”

By Daniel Funke • September 3, 2020

Ron DeSantis stated on August 10, 2020 in during a televised roundtable discussion on education:

“The fact is that in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza.”

By Phil Galewitz • August 20, 2020

Bob Casey stated on July 21, 2020 in an interview:

Federal agents in Portland have been “kidnapping and holding citizens without charges.”

By Jessica Calefati • August 4, 2020

Donald Trump stated on May 19, 2020 in remarks to reporters at the Capitol:

“If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2020

Facebook posts stated on April 17, 2019 in a viral image:

Prominent Democrats were born in April 1948, "nine months after" a UFO crashed near Roswell, N.M.

By Madison Czopek • May 7, 2020

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Ad Watch: Trump ad mischaracterizes immigration data, Harris’ remarks on decriminalizing immigration

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 25, 2024

Why Wesley Snipes and Kodak Black went to prison, but Hunter Biden likely won’t

By Sevana Wenn, Jeff Cercone • June 23, 2023

Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, NY, 5-11-2023

Evolution of misinformation: How false story about migrants displacing homeless veterans caught fire

By Jeff Cercone • May 23, 2023

George Santos has been arrested. Here’s a recap of his alleged falsehoods.

By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2023

Lie of the Year 2022: Putin’s lies to wage war and conceal horror in Ukraine

By Louis Jacobson, Rebecca Catalanello • December 13, 2022

Is Iowa’s new effort to reject presidential orders constitutional?

By Lyle Muller, Dylan Morgan • May 7, 2021

Sorting out how politics, policies swirl around N.Y.’s nursing home Covid-19 mortality rates

By Michelle Andrews • March 2, 2021

The ‘shaking’ COVID-19 vaccine side-effect videos and what we know about them

By Paul Specht, Samantha Putterman • January 20, 2021

Fact-checking the first 2020 presidential debate, Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump

By PolitiFact Staff • September 30, 2020

The top 10 storylines of the 2018 midterms

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 31, 2018

Robert Mueller DOJ statement end of Russia probe May 29 2019

The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources (updated)

By John Kruzel • July 16, 2018

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s tweets about former FBI Director James Comey

By John Kruzel • April 18, 2018

2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a ‘made-up story’

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 12, 2017

Mailbag: ‘You look ridiculous’

By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2017

Fact-checking President Trump’s attorney after Comey’s testimony

By Jon Greenberg, Miriam Valverde • June 9, 2017

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Fact-checking the second presidential debate

By Linda Qiu • October 10, 2016

Donald Trump’s top 10 campaign promises

By Linda Qiu • July 15, 2016

PolitiFact Texas Mailbag: ‘Really, how stupid can you people get?’

By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

Fact-checking the second GOP presidential debate

By Aaron Sharockman • September 17, 2015

Without PunditFact, pundits stand uncorrected

By Aaron Sharockman • February 17, 2015