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The morning after Election Day in 2020, FiveThirtyEight — the now-defunct political data site, where I worked at the time as a politics writer — published a chart on our liveblog. Within hours, it was being circulated online as supposed proof of election fraud, detached from its context and used to …
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If fact-checkers were referees, we might show a yellow card over social media posts that claim to show President Donald Trump confessing to rigging the 2024 election as he talked about the World Cup. A March 9 Instagram post with more than 15,500 likes said, “Yesterday, March 7th 2025, here is …
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In the months preceding the 2024 election and during early voting, PolitiFact fact-checked numerous claims about election fraud. Most were about vote counting, mail-in ballots and voting machines, but there were also false claims about noncitizens voting, election workers committing fraud and early …
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Now is the best time for journalists to alert their audiences about how to plan ahead for a healthy winter. That’s why Poynter partnered with the Risk Less. Do More. Public Education Campaign to host a webinar and a series of articles like this one to better inform journalists about the important …
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Can Texas elected officials outlaw something that doesn’t exist? Social media users baselessly claim Texas might be the first state to get rid of so-called “chemtrails.” “BREAKING: Texas could become the first state to outlaw ‘chemtrails’ with a new petition that is collecting signatures to ask …
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Keynote speaker Barack Obama, candidate for the Senate from Illinois, speaks to delegates during the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) He spent eight years in the White House, nearly every move recorded by press and …
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Fires were still burning on Maui when the conspiracy theories started to surface. Mislabeled videos and images spread across social media as users called into question the origins of the fires, which have killed more than 99 people and destroyed over 2,200 buildings. One leading theory falsely …
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The conspiracy theory that the U.S. government is intentionally spraying toxic chemicals into the air has persisted for nearly two decades. The baseless claims often refer to so-called “chemtrails” and say that the condensation trails behind airplanes are part of an atmospheric spraying program …
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Thousands of cattle died in mid-June in Kansas — deaths that state officials and animal experts have said were caused by intense heat. But some social media posts are casting doubt on this explanation. “They did not die of extreme heat,” one Instagram post said. “This is not normal.” A Facebook …
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A Facebook post linked several unfounded claims to create one conspiracy theory about U.S. baby formula shortages. “(Pfizer) says do not breastfeed,” the May 17 post said. “Baby formula shortages everywhere. Gates promotes brand new artificial breast milk technology. All within less than a 2 week …
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