Every tribe has its myths, and journalists are no exception. In America, one common story goes like this: once, in the prelapsarian era before social media—or before smartphones, or the Internet—there was a time when journalists were trusted.

Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of editors reviewed the fact-check and voted on a final rating.

In the lead-up to last night’s vice-presidential debate between J. D. Vance and Tim Walz, CBS’s decision not to have moderators provide live fact-checking became a minor controversy. One pundit argued that this amounted to giving the truth-challenged ...

President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns. Some of Trump’s 2025 false claims were about ...

Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is not the fact-checking program I know. On Tuesday ...

Yesterday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would end fact-checking on its platform. In the process, a partnership with the network of third parties that has provided review and ratings of viral misinformation since 2016 will be terminated.

President Donald Trump is using false claims to promote his massive domestic policy bill. In a White House speech on Thursday, Trump falsely claimed Medicaid is “left the same” by the bill. In fact, both the version of the legislation that was narrowly ...

The CBS News moderators attempted to "fact-check" Sen. JD Vance during the vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images “Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: something that is now entirely in the eye of the ...

This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump claimed some of former President Joe Biden’s pardons are invalid because Biden used an autopen. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of ...

President Donald Trump at the White House on April 22, 2025. On April 22, just ahead of the 100th day of his second term, President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME in the White House. TIME has published the transcript of that conversation.