"Bill Gates will be implanting digital IDs in newborns in Kenya," the Dec. 15 Instagram post said. But the video misleads on two counts: It misrepresented Kenya’s digital ID program and took an ...

After controversial officiating in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 27-13 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Dec. 15, social media posts spread incorrect claims that the game’s referees had been suspended.

In choosing the 2024 Lie of the Year, the claims by Vance and Trump about Haitians eating pets stood out. It was an absurd statement that Trump raised unprompted on the debate stage.

New Jersey drones are searching for missing radioactive material. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection reported a piece of equipment used in medical imaging scanners that contained a ...

The reader pick for the 2024 Lie of the Year is also PolitiFact’s official editors’ choice: President-elect Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance’s claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were ...

CNN spokesperson Emily Kuhn told PolitiFact that the outlet never reported or published the story and she pointed to the fake article’s Statue of Liberty image, which includes a depiction of the ...

Tesla’s website does not feature a tablet computer, nor has the company announced a $100 tablet in a press release. A search for "Tesla tablet" took us to a page on Tesla’s website for the touch ...

"The city of… is being warned to be alert & vigilant as there is a serial killer on the run,” Robert Thibodeau. Several local authorities nationwide have debunked this serial killer claim and have ...

"The famed ship at the bottom of the North Atlantic is actually NOT The Titanic. It is her near-identical sister ship The Olympic," a Nov. 29 Facebook post said. The post also said"she was switched ...

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin/Adams, on Dec. 16 shared on X an image of a purported drone being carried on a truck bed. "Breaking News," the image read, "Crashed drone in Orange ...

Congress hasn’t increased its pay since 2009, so the idea that it would propose nearly $70,000 raises in stopgap legislation caught our attention. We found that the Department of Government Efficiency ...

Reverse-image search results show that neither of the images showed New Jersey drones: The first showed drones from a Dec. 7 holiday drone show in Texas and the second has been circulating online ...