PeakMetrics / Fact Checks

Politics & government fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about politics & government. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

12,754 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Video shows child shouting an expletive at Jill Biden.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Maldita.esPolitics & government

Pedro Sánchez dice que el confinamiento nunca existió

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactPolitics & government

A photo shows women who “gathered to scream at Trump through their vaginas.”

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهPolitics & government

خرید سربازی رایگان شد و مردان ۳۰ ساله و دارای دو فرزند از انجام خدمت سربازی معاف می‌شوند.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Michelle Obama finally responds to Obama’s hidden gay secret.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Maldita.esPolitics & government

Declaraciones de Corinna Larsen sobre Juan Carlos I

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Donald TrumpPolitics & government

"I’ve had tremendous Republican support. I have a 90% — 94% approval rating, as of this morning, in the Republican Party. That’s an all-time record."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Photo shows President Joe Biden sitting with “Lisa Monaco, second in charge of the DOJ, probably working on future Plots and Schemes against Republicans.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

A viral meme identifies a White House staffer from the Obama administration as the whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Donald Trump's actions regarding Ukraine.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Drunk” Nancy Pelosi “was removed from the House floor for cursing at Republicans.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says the American Civil Liberties Union opposes H.R. 1 on grounds that “it threatens our freedom of speech.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

"Over 275 bipartisan bills" passed by the House are "sitting on the desk" of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Publisher’s rating: Exaggerates

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

North Carolina is considering a proposal that would “make it legal to murder a pregnant woman” trying to get an abortion.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from coming into North Carolina.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactPolitics & government

National Guard members turned their backs on Biden’s motorcade on Inauguration Day.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Video shows an aide to former President Donald Trump “grilling” former President Barack Obama.

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostPolitics & government

"Black Lives Matter/Antifa"

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactPolitics & government

"We made a ridiculous deal (with Iran). We gave them $150 billion. We gave them $1.8 billion, and we got nothing."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Despite federal law requiring the disclosure of this complaint to Congress, the administration has blocked its release to Congress.”

Publisher’s rating: The law says that