PolitiFact editors pick the official winner. This year, PolitiFact is spotlighting three stories that exemplify the consequences of falsehoods in 2025, which we’re calling our Year of the Lies.

The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025. Government leaders deploy up-is-down narratives at an exhausting clip. Online worlds drip with artificial intelligence-generated slop that ...

For 17 years, PolitiFact has made an annual tradition of sorting through the year’s rhetoric to identify the statement, collection of statements or theme that had the most significant impact. The ...

"We have asked public employees to pay 10 percent of the costs of their guaranteed pension and 15 percent of the cost of their health care. ... The leadership of those public empl ...

Hochul, backed by the State Legislature, has extended existing taxes for wealthy corporations and individuals, as well as health insurance companies. She has also cut taxes for the middle class. Other ...

In his roughly 100-minute speech, he talked about his love of the word "tariff" and zeroed in on the "fake news" reporters covering the event. At times, supporters chanted "four more years," although ...

Trump isn’t the first to overstate new investments. President Joe Biden said in 2024 that his bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act had attracted $640 billion in private investments; economists told ...

The IRS sets restrictions on the use of HSAs, which are typically managed by banks or health insurance companies. For starters, on the ACA marketplace, they are available only to those with the ...

Some people in the comments commended the unidentified bishop for his bravery to stand against law enforcement. Other commenters wrongly identified him as Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María ...

Walz sought in 2022 to blame the judge for the resumed payments, prompting the judge to issue a statement that the governor was wrong, and the education department had resumed the payments on its own, ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said former President Joe Biden signed pardons with an autopen, a mechanical device that uses a robotic arm with an attached pen. When Trump installed portraits ...