Fact Checks

Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles protests

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

Days of demonstrations against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles have fueled round-the-clock news coverage and a number of misleading social media posts, including unrelated videos being mislabeled or shared out of context.

Fact-checking Trump’s claim that prescription drug price drops could happen ‘almost immediately’

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Experts said Trump’s action could potentially lower the cost of prescription drugs, perhaps by the 30 percent to 80 percent scale Trump said, but they cautioned that the order’s required procedural steps would make it far from an immediate fix.

Fact-checking RFK Jr.’s claim that environmental toxins cause autism

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attributed increasing autism rates to environmental toxins. Autism researchers told PolitiFact that lacks evidence and omits other important factors such as growing awareness that help explain the increase.

Fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements on autism

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Medical experts, along with people on the autism spectrum, told PolitiFact that Kennedy’s portrayal was skewed.

Fact-checking misleading claims by Trump and his allies about Judge James Boasberg

By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Displeased with the check on Trump’s power, the president and his allies have lashed out at federal judges — and against one judge in particular: James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Fact check: Can you ‘erase’ your student debt because DOGE accessed federal loan databases?

By Claire Cranford, PolitiFact

Don’t trust videos saying you can erase your student loans by filing a student privacy law complaint.

Fact-checking Trump’s claim that Biden pardons are ‘void’ because he used an autopen

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes.

Fact-checking Trump’s 2025 address to Congress

By PolitiFact staff

President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of Congress.

Fact-checking Trump and Vance’s attacks on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

By Jeff Cercone, Amy Sherman, Sara Swann, PolitiFact

During Friday's televised Oval Office fight, Trump and Vance made several misleading claims about Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Here are the facts about three of them.