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  1. Trump said Americans’ finances don’t motivate him in Iran talks. How are people doing economically? :: WRAL.com

    President Donald Trump’s recent answer to a question about how Americans are faring economically sparked claims of callousness. …
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Consumer #Debt #electricity #Gas #GasPrices #Groceries #groceryprices #Housing #Iran #Jobs #mortgage #PolitiFact #Trump #Tuition
    newsbeep.com/589331/

  2. #Grokipedia de #Musk : le mois dernier, le milliardaire de la #tech #ElonMusk a lancé Grokipedia, une plate-forme alimentée par l' #IA, pour rivaliser avec l'encyclopédie en ligne #Wikipédia
    Grokipedia copie le format de Wikipédia, mais #PolitiFact fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politifa déplore une vérification des faits peu rigoureuse, des citations insuffisantes, problématiques et sujets aux erreurs, ce qui en fait un outil de recherche moins fiable que Wikipédia aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/16/

    #Grok #etatsunis

  3. #Grokipedia de #Musk : le mois dernier, le milliardaire de la #tech #ElonMusk a lancé Grokipedia, une plate-forme alimentée par l' #IA, pour rivaliser avec l'encyclopédie en ligne #Wikipédia
    Grokipedia copie le format de Wikipédia, mais #PolitiFact fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politifa déplore une vérification des faits peu rigoureuse, des citations insuffisantes, problématiques et sujets aux erreurs, ce qui en fait un outil de recherche moins fiable que Wikipédia aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/16/

    #Grok #etatsunis

  4. Poynter: Live fact checks and updates about the 2025 federal government shutdown. “Trump and his administration — which has already defied norms on executive power — likely will seek to exert more power during the shutdown, including potentially laying off federal workers. PolitiFact is live fact-checking the shutdown, including rhetoric from both sides of the aisle.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/04/poynter-live-fact-checks-and-updates-about-the-2025-federal-government-shutdown/

  5. Poynter: Live fact checks and updates about the 2025 federal government shutdown. “Trump and his administration — which has already defied norms on executive power — likely will seek to exert more power during the shutdown, including potentially laying off federal workers. PolitiFact is live fact-checking the shutdown, including rhetoric from both sides of the aisle.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/04/poynter-live-fact-checks-and-updates-about-the-2025-federal-government-shutdown/

  6. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.” – Politifact

    The East Front of the U.S. Capitol on May 19, 2025. (Louis Jacobson / PolitiFact)

    Karoline Leavitt said Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ won’t add to the deficit. But it will.

    As House Republicans continued their efforts to advance what President Donald Trump calls his “big, beautiful bill” of tax and spending cuts, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt played down the bill’s expected federal deficit impact.

    At a May 19 press briefing, a reporter asked Leavitt, “Is the president OK with this bill adding to the deficit?”

    Leavitt disagreed with the question’s premise. 

    “This bill does not add to the deficit,” she said. “In fact, according to the Council of Economic Advisors, this bill will save $1.6 trillion. … There’s $1.6 trillion worth of savings in this bill. That’s the largest savings for any legislation that has ever passed Capitol Hill in our nation’s history.”

    A deficit is the annual amount by which spending exceeds revenues; the accumulation of all past annual deficits, minus any annual surpluses, is called the federal debt.

    The bill is still being negotiated, so its potential deficit impact is a moving target. However, numerous independent analyses agree that the bill is on track to add significantly to the federal deficit. That’s because the bill’s tax cuts would reduce incoming federal revenue by more than it restricts spending.

    Leavitt’s “$1.6 trillion worth of savings” appears to refer only to the bill’s proposed spending cuts  without factoring in the lost tax revenue that will increase the annual deficit and the federal government’s cumulative debt, experts said.

    “Bottom line — because that is what matters — is that simple math of all the additions and subtractions equals nearly $3 trillion in additional debt” during the standard budget time frame of 10 years, said Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan group that tracks the federal budget.

    The White House did not respond to inquiries for this article.

    Read more: President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.” – Politifact

    Source Links: PolitiFact | Karoline Leavitt said Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ won’t add to the deficit. But it will.

    #2025 #America #Debt #DonaldTrump #FactCheck #FederalDeficit #History #Libraries #Politics #Politifact #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

  7. Poynter: A history of PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, from 2009 to 2024. “In a campaign year loaded with political plot twists, PolitiFact heard many claims that prompted head smacks and double takes. We said, as you probably did: That can’t be right. Is that for real? Wait, what?”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/19/poynter-a-history-of-politifacts-lies-of-the-year-from-2009-to-2024/

  8. Poynter: A history of PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, from 2009 to 2024. “In a campaign year loaded with political plot twists, PolitiFact heard many claims that prompted head smacks and double takes. We said, as you probably did: That can’t be right. Is that for real? Wait, what?”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/19/poynter-a-history-of-politifacts-lies-of-the-year-from-2009-to-2024/

  9. "Could it [Trump's claim] possibly be true? This is the sort of question #PolitiFact, the #website Bill Adair founded in 2007 at the St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times, has been asking the past 17 years...

    The answer to the question above is, of course, no. As William #Shakespeare might have said, it is a #lie “told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
    washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

    #Trump #Lies #TrumpLies #FEMA #Hurricane #Helene #Milton #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News

  10. "Could it [Trump's claim] possibly be true? This is the sort of question #PolitiFact, the #website Bill Adair founded in 2007 at the St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times, has been asking the past 17 years...

    The answer to the question above is, of course, no. As William #Shakespeare might have said, it is a #lie “told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
    washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

    #Trump #Lies #TrumpLies #FEMA #Hurricane #Helene #Milton #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News

  11. @atrupar
    #Maddow has been blasting "#Politifact" for years for the way they repeatedly search for ways to label #facts as #false or #lies as the #truth just to avoid offending #Republicans. 😒

  12. @atrupar
    #Maddow has been blasting "#Politifact" for years for the way they repeatedly search for ways to label #facts as #false or #lies as the #truth just to avoid offending #Republicans. 😒

  13. Stand Together co-funding a now defunct media and journalism fellowship means #PolitiFact is “captured by the Kochs” according to Blue Anon.

    poynter.org/shop/reporting-edi

  14. Stand Together co-funding a now defunct media and journalism fellowship means #PolitiFact is “captured by the Kochs” according to Blue Anon.

    poynter.org/shop/reporting-edi

  15. Here are the current scores from #Politifact re: #Biden and #trump truths vs lies. What really stands out is #Biden Truth score of 8% vs #trump at 3%. #trump can't tell the truth unless it's purely by chance. On the opposite end of the scale, #Biden tells fibs 40% of the time vs #trump at 75%, nearly twice as often. Of Pants on Fire lies, Biden told whoppers in 7 cases while trump lied 191 times for 18%. Just sayin...

  16. Here are the current scores from #Politifact re: #Biden and #trump truths vs lies. What really stands out is #Biden Truth score of 8% vs #trump at 3%. #trump can't tell the truth unless it's purely by chance. On the opposite end of the scale, #Biden tells fibs 40% of the time vs #trump at 75%, nearly twice as often. Of Pants on Fire lies, Biden told whoppers in 7 cases while trump lied 191 times for 18%. Just sayin...

  17. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Even reviews led by conservatives found no evidence of widespread fraud in the #2020election.

    #PolitiFact #Wisconsin found false #Trump’s claims of pervasive “wrongdoing” many times before, and the same applies here.

    Bottom line: Trump DID NOT win Wisconsin in 2020. PolitiFact Wisconsin has repeatedly rated that claim #PantsOnFire.

    #TrumpLies #TrumpIsALiar #TrumpIsATraitor #TrumpCult #VoteBlue #RepublicansAreTheProblem
    jsonline.com/story/news/politi

  18. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Even reviews led by conservatives found no evidence of widespread fraud in the #2020election.

    #PolitiFact #Wisconsin found false #Trump’s claims of pervasive “wrongdoing” many times before, and the same applies here.

    Bottom line: Trump DID NOT win Wisconsin in 2020. PolitiFact Wisconsin has repeatedly rated that claim #PantsOnFire.

    #TrumpLies #TrumpIsALiar #TrumpIsATraitor #TrumpCult #VoteBlue #RepublicansAreTheProblem
    jsonline.com/story/news/politi

  19. Fact-Checker @PolitiFact derides KOSA age-verification concerns as “False” because “there are other ways [beyond demanding ID] to assess users’ ages, such as self-reporting & face scanning tools, some of which are already in use”

    Speaking as a Trust and Safety and Security person, I find KOSA (and the Online Safety Act in the UK) to be terrifying instruments: adults (including those whom our children will grow to become) lose privacy, anonymity and agency over their digital footprints, in the name of protecting children – when children can also be protected in other ways, many of which are already in use… like: involved parenting, for starters.

    But the KOSA supporters have appealed to PolitiFact to debunk the ostensible claim that:

    “Hey (by the way) everyone should be panicking about this,” read a Feb. 16 X post with 1.8 million views as of Feb. 23. “This bill would require everyone to upload your government ID in order to use most sites on the internet. You can forget about your silly lil stan/fandom accounts if this passes.”

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/feb/23/tweets/proposed-online-safety-act-does-not-require-websit/

    …which at best is a strawman / caricature of the bigger issues; it’s amusing that they have chosen to debunk some high-impression-count tweets from random twitter users with low follower counts, but the source material which one of those tweets cites is from senator Richard Blumenthal – a KOSA sponsor – and the note for that tweet says:

    “This “Kids Online Safety Act” is effectively a Trojan horse for internet censorship.”

    https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1758139987864793223 (notes)

    …with a variety of explanatory links, including one to EFF.

    PolitiFact buffer their factcheck by repeatedly noting that:

    If the bill becomes law, though, some experts said companies could possibly use age verification methods, which could include government-issued identification. 

    …which is the whole damned point, but they choose to stick to the more easily nitpicked turf of “yes but there are other forms of age-verification available” — thereby avoiding the complex, technical, subjective-but-correct opinions like “…other forms of age-verification suck, are error-prone, and the default will be Government ID and/or some service which brokers ‘real’ identities which are essentially backed by Government ID or Financial Services KYC, thereby delivering the end of internet anonymity”

    PolitiFact overtly note that:

    The [KOSA] bill “does not impose age verification requirements or require platforms to collect more data about users (government IDs or otherwise). In fact, the bill states explicitly that it does not require age gating, age verification, or the collection of additional data from users,” according to both Blumenthal’s and Blackburn’s sites.

    …and then PolitiFact punts the question of “how are platforms going in practice to deliver upon the obligations which KOSA proposes for them?” by noting (again) merely that:

    Experts don’t rule out age verification if left to the companies

    …WHICH IS ONE HELL OF A PROVISO; they continue:

    [John Perrino] said that if companies must determine who is under a certain age, it raises “legitimate privacy concerns,” but added that platforms can use other methods that do not include verifying government IDs to determine users’ ages. Those include self-reporting and face scanning tools, some of which are already in use.

    …completely ignoring that NCMEC and other activists have already declared that (extant) self-declaration is not adequate from their perspectives to protect children on social media:

    Where a [PERSON] has submitted a date of birth that indicates they are above the minimum age, their provided age is checked again later in the process, such as when they next log in (“Can you remind us of your date of birth?”). Children who gave a false date of birth on registration may not remember the date of birth they gave when asked at a later stage or on a different day. Any discrepancy can be escalated to a moderator, who may ask for further proof of age.

    https://5rightsfoundation.com/uploads/But_How_Do_They_Know_It_is_a_Child.pdf; note that the original begins with “Where a child…” however the proposed subsequent process impacts ALL people, thus it needs correction to highlight the impact to ALL people

    The summary is the most tragic part: (my emphasis)

    Our ruling

    An X user says the Kids Online Safety Act “would require everyone to upload” government identification “in order to use most sites on the internet.”

    The Senate bill does not include that requirement or say social media platforms, applications or websites must collect more user information than they already do. 

    Experts did not rule out that companies could turn to methods such as requiring government identification because of the law, but that is speculation. 

    We rate this claim False.

    All the nuance and the big issues of anonymity, privacy, and liberty, being reduced to one stupendously oversimplified yes-or-no question which they answer truthfully but with so much proviso and bad context that they are fundamentally deceptive.

    What a tragedy for fact checking.

    https://alecmuffett.com/article/109249

    #ageVerification #fakeNews #kosa #politifact

  20. #DonaldTrump claimed on #TruthSocial that #Hamas militants are infiltrating the U.S via the southern border, hinting at a potential threat. This claim lacks evidence; #terrorism experts and the Department of #HomelandSecurity refute it, emphasizing the main migration motives are job-seeking and political freedom.

    politifact.com/factchecks/2023

    #Politifact #HamasMilitants #USsouthernborder #DonaldTrump #FactCheck #PantsOnFire #Politics #News

  21. During House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into #PresidentBiden, a text message between #JamesBiden and #HunterBiden became contentious. Fox News' #JesseWatters claimed it showed Biden in business with his son; however, further investigation revealed it addressed personal finances, not business. The authenticity and context of the message sparked debate among lawmakers.

    politifact.com/factchecks/2023

    #politifact