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PolitiFact reviewed Nexis news archives and found no evidence that Wahlberg called for teachers to be fired for taking down American flags. PolitiFact also found no posts on Wahlberg’s X or Facebook ...

Richard Horrmann, senior vice president of strategic communications at Disney Entertainment Television, which owns ABC, told PolitiFact via email that the claim is not true.

President-elect Donald Trump didn’t order the Dallas Police Department and the "Dallas Attorney General’s Office" — something that doesn’t exist — to get ready to arrest a suspect in former President ...

CNN spokesperson Emily Kuhn told PolitiFact that the outlet never reported or published the story and she pointed to the fake article’s Statue of Liberty image, which includes a depiction of the ...

Trump’s campaign promises included adding a 10% to 20% tariff on all nondomestic goods sold in America, a 60% tariff on goods from China and reciprocal tariffs on nations that impose tariffs on the ...

There is no evidence Chick-fil-A has enacted any recent policies that have sparked calls for boycotts. A Facebook post making the claim links to a two-paragraph blog post that mentions no policy or ...

Joe Biden spent months saying he would not pardon Hunter Biden, and his press secretary repeatedly echoed that position. Then Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon. Whatever the justification for the ...

There has been an uptick of Facebook posts about innovations attributed to Musk, but these creations don’t exist. For now, fantasies of a Tesla flying car remain grounded. We rate claims that Musk has ...

After President-elect Donald Trump tapped one of his loyal allies, Kash Patel, as FBI director, some social media users claimed Patel immediately disparaged the agency. A Dec. 1 X post showed a ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently unveiled the company’s "cybercab" and "robovan," a self-driving taxi and an autonomous van, respectively. But a Tesla "motor home" wasn’t mentioned during the October ...

The highest number of COVID-19 vaccine doses the CDC recommends for a 6-month-old is three, if that child was previously unvaccinated. The CDC does not recommend seven vaccine doses in any situation.