Claims about deportations, the Department of Government Efficiency, and someone fainting in the White House were among the mistruths that kept PolitiFact busy in 2025 — and they featured in some of ...
Trump and Kennedy told Americans that taking Tylenol while pregnant may cause autism, even though decades of research doesn’t support that. There’s no known single cause for autism spectrum disorder.
Detaining people at ICE check-ins became part of the Trump administration’s strategy for mass deportations, in contrast with Trump’s comments that agents would pursue “the worst of the worst always ...
In a break from tradition, President Donald Trump decorated a White House walkway with bronze plaques for each U.S. president. In an even sharper break with tradition, the plaques were written in a ...
In a prime-time White House address, President Donald Trump told the nation that his 11 months in office have brought historic improvements to American lives after years of what he described as ...
On Dec. 13, after a gunman opened fire at Brown University, killing two and injuring nine before evading capture, Trump posted on Truth Social that "the FBI is on the scene. The suspect is in custody.
These images that appear to show a shirtless President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with young women aren’t real. Social media users shared purported photos of President Donald Trump and sex ...
A purported 2023 tweet from Rob Reiner appearing to show the director boycotting the social media platform if President Donald Trump didn’t go to prison was fabricated. A day after director Rob Reiner ...
Trump used U.S. deaths from fentanyl to justify the drug's new designation, estimating that up to 300,000 people die annually from the drug; that number is exaggerated. In the 12 months through April ...
In the days leading up to Neves Valente being located, social media users baselessly named a current Brown student, Mustapha Kharbouch, as the suspect. A former Brown University student shot and ...
Raine’s parents, Matthew and Maria, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the chatbot’s creator, OpenAI, in August 2025. By then, the company’s artificial intelligence-driven chatbot was several ...
Six years after his death, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein still makes headlines. He stars in conspiracy theories and falsehoods — about what government files reveal about him, the island where ...