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

Pesa CheckPolitics & government

Infotrak ranks Sen Gedion Moi last in latest performance index

Publisher’s rating: False.

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

Former President Donald Trump is "repeating lies about Social Security" concerning Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“The filibuster, if it does not get reformed, still means that maybe 30% of the population potentially controls the majority of Senate seats.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactStreamPolitics & government

Witnesses have been part of "every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had."

Publisher’s rating: I mean, probably?

PolitiFactPolitics & government

A video shows Joe Biden lost and confused on stage.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Video clip shows that protesters in Tennessee “made their way onto the state capitol floor.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says Joe Biden "tells men to marry into families ‘with 3 or 4 sisters.’"

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهPolitics & government

شاهزاده رضا پهلوی اتاق بیمارستانی را که دخترش در آن متولد شده‌بود به‌ مدت ۲۴ساعت بخشی از خاک ایران اعلام کرد.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

Boatos.orgPolitics & government

Ukraine We wish Zelensky were Bolsonaro Ucranianos levantam cartazes pedindo um Bolsonaro para governar o país, no lugar de Zelensky. Esse manifesto é desesperador para os esquerdistas das bandas de cá.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

فکت‌نامهPolitics & government

اختصاص ردیف اعتباری خاص برای سفر رئیس‌جمهور بدعت است.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

فکت‌نامهPolitics & government

آیا شورای هماهنگی اقتصادی سران قوا و تصمیماتش قانونی است؟

Publisher’s rating: سازوکار شورای هماهنگی اقتصادی سران قوا

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

"But you know what Mitch McConnell said recently about helping the states and cities [during the pandemic]. He said, quote, ‘Let them go bankrupt.’”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Wisconsin has historically…and I think largely continues to be, a blue state.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Video shows Tim Walz “falsely claims that being gay in Nebraska is ‘illegal’"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

A compilation of images shows what Joe Biden has “done to our country.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Africa CheckPolitics & government

President Cyril Ramaphosa said “white-owned property in South Africa’s cities and towns will be seized along with white farms in order to provide ‘high-density housing’ for blacks”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostPolitics & government

“Sure, it would be nice if the Republicans would join us, but they didn’t. I thought it was a little bit hypocritical of Mitch McConnell to say, ‘Oh, we did it bipartisan.’ Yeah, when Trump was president, Democrats in the minority didn’t block things. We worked to get something done.”

Publisher’s rating: Lacks context

PolitiFactPolitics & government

A photo shows a deputy U.S. marshal “keeping a close eye” on President Joe Biden at the State of the Union address on Feb. 7.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True