PeakMetrics / Fact Checks

Politics & government fact checks

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

12,755 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“J.D. Vance profits off Russia propaganda.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Maldita.esPolitics & government

Begoña Villacís justifica los botellones en Madrid porque prueban que la gente rechaza el estado de alarma

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Biden is impeached!!! Finally! For high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

Columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that former President Barack Obama was running a "shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says Monica Lewinsky tweeted that she's "willing to take one for the team" by engaging in oral sex with President Donald Trump because, "Apparently that's the only thing that can convince Republicans to impeach."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“In less than 48 hours the United States government is shutting down for good.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

"I think every president has gotten rid of probably more [inspectors general] than I have."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Video muestra al Presidente Joe Biden desorientado en evento de paracaidismo del G7 con líderes mundiales.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“4 republican senators now on board...no vote until January on (Supreme Court): Murkowski, Romney, Collins, Grassley.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Democrats were at a 9/11 memorial service when NC Republicans held a controversial vote

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“After China sent a balloon over strategic sites in the United States … President Biden literally sent the secretary of state hat in hand to go kowtow and ask for a meeting.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

Joe Biden was "taking a knee during the national anthem."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

"I’m the only man that got nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and I didn’t get any press. ... Now when Barack Hussein Obama got nominated. ... It was the biggest story I’ve ever seen."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

Video clips of President Donald Trump saying "I can't breathe" suggest that he was mocking the death of George Floyd.

Publisher’s rating: False

Pesa CheckPolitics & government

Uhuru snubs Ruto at JKIA

Publisher’s rating: False.

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Former President Donald Trump would “force states to monitor women's pregnancies.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

A meme circulation on social media claims that the Trump administration is without a defense secretary, an interior secretary, an ambassador to the United Nations and a Secret Service director.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Democrats were at a 9/11 memorial service when NC Republicans held a controversial vote

Publisher’s rating: False

YoutrunPolitics & government

A massive project connecting Srinagar, Jammu, and Ladakh will be completed soon. How much do you rate development under central rule?

Publisher’s rating: false

Washington PostPolitics & government

“Tuberville lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife Suzanne.”

Publisher’s rating: In doubt