Still, the fact-checking community’s losses so far have been incremental. The number of active fact-checkers around the globe by mid-2026 was 437, the Reporters’ Lab found — only 27 below its all-time ...

Florida Republicans billed their party’s June 27 gathering in South Florida as the "Sunshine State Showdown." But for U.S.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (January 30, 2026) – PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact-checking newsroom based at the Poynter Institute, is the focus of a television documentary premiering this week ...

Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of PolitiFact Katie Sanders, right, discusses political disinformation with Amanda J. Crawford, left, an associate professor of journalism at the University of ...

THE U.S. MILITARY ATTACK EARLIER THIS MONTH AGAINST WHAT OFFICIALS CALLED A DRUG CARRYING BOAT FROM VENEZUELA IS NOW RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT LEGALITY. 11 WERE KILLED WHEN THE VESSEL IN THE ...

WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. Gov. Ron DeSantis told Floridians ...

For the past 15 years, the fact-checkers at PolitiFact have sorted through hundreds of statements by politicians to name the "Lie of the Year." This year, the editors dubbed 2025 the "Year of the Lies ...

In 2013, then-businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump shared his vision on Fox News about the role a president should play in a government shutdown: "You have to be nice and be angry and be wild ...

In a prime-time White House address, President Donald Trump told the nation that his 11 months in office have brought historic improvements to American lives after years of what he described as ...

Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. WLRN ...