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The Obameter: Improve high school graduation rates
"When I am president, we'll fight to make sure we are once again first in the world when it comes to high school graduation rates." → Read More
The 3rd presidential debate, annotated
PolitiFact is annotating the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. We will be posting the transcript and our annotations through the night. Follow us on Medium and check back regularly to see our commentary. → Read More
PolitiFact's annotated vice presidential debate
PolitiFact's writers annotated the transcript of the vice presidential debate on Medium. Read the transcript of the debate with our analysis and fact-checks by clicking here. → Read More
Fact-checking the Kaine, Pence vice presidential debate
Vice-presidential candidates are traditionally expected to fulfill the roles of attack dogs and loyal surrogates. While other aspects of the 2016 race have defied expectations, this tradition remains largely intact for Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence. Kaine has spent his time raising millions of dollars for the Clinton campaign in glitzy fundraisers while repeatedly slamming Donald… → Read More
The first presidential debate annotated
We're annotating the first presidential debate on Medium. See the transcripts and the facts behind what the candidates said here. → Read More
Experts doubt what Trump said about intelligence briefings
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have both begun to receive intelligence briefings from security experts as they prepare to potentially become commander in chief. Trump turned the briefings into a point of controversy during MSNBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum. When moderator Matt Lauer asked Trump about whether any information in his intelligence briefings had shocked him, Trump said yes. → Read More
Do girls make up the majority of new HIV infections among African youth?
International leaders continue to try and shine a light on the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. But do they get their facts right? Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently penned a letter decrying the impact of poverty and disease on young girls in Africa, a group he says make up a disproportionate amount of new HIV infections among young people. Trudeau wrote the letter in response… → Read More
Do girls make up the majority of new HIV infections among African youth?
International leaders continue to try and shine a light on the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. But do they get their facts right? Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently penned a letter decrying the impact of poverty and disease on young girls in Africa, a group he says make up a disproportionate amount of new HIV infections among young people. Trudeau wrote the letter in response… → Read More
Is it true that marijuana hasn't caused any deaths, while prescription drugs have caused 100,000?
Gary Johnson, the libertarian 2016 presidential candidate, recently assailed strict federal regulations on marijuana, saying that the drug causes far less harm when compared with legal drugs. Johnson was asked about the potential public health dangers of marijuana in states where it was recently legalized, during a CNN libertarian town hall on Aug. 3, 2016. He responded by arguing that the drug… → Read More
Are Liberian girls more likely to be married than literate by the age of 18?
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author Tina Rosenberg recently drew attention to a shocking statistic about women’s education in the African country of Liberia. → Read More
Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech, annotated
Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech, as prepared for delivery. Thank you! Thank you for that amazing welcome. And Chelsea, thank you. I'm so proud to be your mother and so proud of the woman you've become. Thanks for bringing Marc into our family, and Charlotte and Aidan into the world. And Bill, that conversation we started in the law library 45 years ago is still going strong. It's lasted… → Read More
Bill Clinton's DNC speech, annotated
Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 26, 2016, as delivered. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! In the spring of 1971 I met a girl. The first time I saw her we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick blond hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she had a sense of strength and… → Read More
Donald Trump's GOP acceptance speech, annotated
Remarks as prepared for delivery, according to a draft obtained by Politico. Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace. We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be… → Read More
Did Illinois spend hundreds of millions of dollars giving health insurance to illegal immigrants?
Illinois state Rep. Bill Mitchell, R-Forsyth, repeatedly slammed a three-year extension of the state’s Expanded All Kids program that was passed in the Illinois House in April. While arguing against the bill, Mitchell claimed that All Kids has spent a fortune on covering illegal immigrants with taxpayer dollars. → Read More
Snapchat highlights decades old data as part of Michelle Obama visit to Morocco
Factual claims are apparently now like Pokémon. They can be anywhere. We stumbled across an interesting factoid recently while flipping through a Snapchat story documenting First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit to West Africa and Morocco from June 27 to July 1. Obama just joined Snapchat, if you’re interested. Snapchats disappear, but we were able to grab a screengrab with a sobering claim about… → Read More
HIV/AIDS: A PolitiFact sheet
Disease. HIV is a virus that attacks and destroys white blood cells in the blood. These cells are part of the immune system and normally defend the human body against disease and infection. AIDS is the late stage of infection when other microbes take full advantage of the weakened immune system and cause severe opportunistic infections. Impact. In 2015 an estimated 36.9 million people around the… → Read More
Did Hillary Clinton launder millions of dollars while she was secretary of state?
Donald Trump assailed Hillary Clinton’s credibility in a rapid response email following her speech on economics on June 21. Trump claimed that Clinton used her role as secretary of state as a vehicle to funnel government money to her husband. → Read More