President Donald Trump said that in Venezuela, "We're making hundreds of billions of dollars (in oil revenue), and so are they." ...

A man filming himself swimming around a Moroccan harbour has ​been falsely described online as a ‌migrant entering Spain’s ...

PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. PolitiFact has fact-checked 1,144 of Trump’s statements since 2011. Tonight, we’ll draw on ...

FactCheck.org has won the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi award for fact-checking from the Society of Professional Journalists. This is our fourth win in the fact-checking category and our fifth award from SPJ ...

April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day, purposefully set the day after April Fools’ Day (when mistruths are encouraged). The day was launched in 2016 by the International Fact-Checking Network, ...

A consultation in Britain on whether to introduce mandatory eye tests for older drivers has been misinterpreted by some social media users, who mistakenly claim the government will force drivers aged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US ...

Punjab Police fact-checked Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh after he shared a viral video of a 'zombie drug', falsely linking it to the state. The police clarified the footage was from Sri Ganganagar, ...

This commentary was published in commemoration of International Fact-Checking Day, held April 2 each year to recognize the work of fact-checkers worldwide. For much of the last decade, fact-checking ...