<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/</link><description>The latest factchecks PolitiFact.com has reviewed</description><atom:link href="http://www.politifact.com/rss/all/" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:57:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Brooke Rollins - Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins misleads on trade deficit by cherry picking data, relying on projection</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/09/brooke-rollins/ag-secretary-brooke-rollins-misleads-on-trade-defi/</link><description>“We had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion” under former President Joe Biden.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:57:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/09/brooke-rollins/ag-secretary-brooke-rollins-misleads-on-trade-defi/</guid></item><item><title>Are other countries ‘cheating’ the U.S. on trade?</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/article/2025/apr/09/are-other-countries-cheating-the-us-on-trade/</link><description>Before President Donald Trump issued a 90-day pause on his April 2 tariffs plan, he described them as a way to combat U.S. trade partners’ “cheating.” But his tariff rate formula was based on trade deficits, not documented “cheating.”</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:41:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/article/2025/apr/09/are-other-countries-cheating-the-us-on-trade/</guid></item><item><title>Donald Trump - Flip flop: Trump said he wasn’t looking at pausing tariffs. Two days later, he did.</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/09/donald-trump/flip-flop-trump-pauses-country-tariffs-90-days/</link><description>On enacting country-by-country tariffs April 9.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:44:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/09/donald-trump/flip-flop-trump-pauses-country-tariffs-90-days/</guid></item><item><title>Ruben Gallego - Sen. Ruben Gallego is mostly right: American men trail women in higher education at historic levels</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/09/ruben-gallego/sen-ruben-gallego-mostly-right-american-men-tra/</link><description>Men “have the lowest college attainment rate ever.”</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:52:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/09/ruben-gallego/sen-ruben-gallego-mostly-right-american-men-tra/</guid></item><item><title> X posts - Trump official didn’t confirm a tariff pause, but markets rallied amid false headlines</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/08/tweets/trump-hassett-tariff-pause-stock-market-rally-x/</link><description>Says Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council director, said on April 7, “Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China.”</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/08/tweets/trump-hassett-tariff-pause-stock-market-rally-x/</guid></item><item><title>Did Trump impose ‘the largest tax hike in our lifetime’? How it compares, as it’s currently proposed</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/article/2025/apr/07/did-trump-impose-the-largest-tax-hike-in-our-lifet/</link><description>Many Democrats and some Republicans called President Donald Trump’s tariffs the largest ‘tax hike’ in recent history. As proposed, the tariffs are historic increases by two different measures.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:06:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/article/2025/apr/07/did-trump-impose-the-largest-tax-hike-in-our-lifet/</guid></item><item><title>What is a recession, and is it tied to stock market declines? What to know after Trump’s tariffs</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/article/2025/apr/07/what-is-a-recession-and-is-it-connected-to-stock-m/</link><description>A stock market plunge doesn’t inevitably mean a recession is coming, but often it does. Here’s what happens in a recession, and the connections between recessions and stock market declines.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:20:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/article/2025/apr/07/what-is-a-recession-and-is-it-connected-to-stock-m/</guid></item><item><title> Viral image - Ukraine President Zelenskyy didn’t buy a controlling stake in mining company, despite online claims</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/ukraine-president-zelenskyy-didnt-buy-a-controllin/</link><description>Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:05:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/ukraine-president-zelenskyy-didnt-buy-a-controllin/</guid></item><item><title> Facebook posts - Cleveland Clinic didn’t say millions of people with COVID-19 vaccines will die within 5 years</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/cleveland-clinic-didnt-say-millions-of-people-with/</link><description>Says Cleveland Clinic said, “Millions of COVID-vaxxed will die within ‘5 years.’”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:47:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/cleveland-clinic-didnt-say-millions-of-people-with/</guid></item><item><title> Viral image - Website that regularly publishes false information goes after Democrats’ Wisconsin Supreme Court win</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/website-that-regularly-publishes-false-information/</link><description>“White hats to investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court election.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:35:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/website-that-regularly-publishes-false-information/</guid></item><item><title> Facebook posts - Fabricated image of Pope Francis greeting a purported Church of Satan priest spreads online</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/fabricated-image-of-pope-francis-greeting-a-purpor/</link><description>Photo shows “Pope Francis, shaking the hand of the priest of the Church of Satan.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:26:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/fabricated-image-of-pope-francis-greeting-a-purpor/</guid></item><item><title> Viral image - Elon Musk didn’t target Trump’s golf trips in an X post about DOGE</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/elon-musk-didnt-target-trumps-golf-trips-in-an-x-p/</link><description>Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:20:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/elon-musk-didnt-target-trumps-golf-trips-in-an-x-p/</guid></item><item><title> Facebook posts - Elon Musk didn’t offer $15 million to WNBA star Caitlin Clark</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/elon-musk-didnt-offer-15-million-to-wnba-star-cait/</link><description>“Caitlin Clark stuns the globe, rejects Elon Musk’s $15 million offer.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:15:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/elon-musk-didnt-offer-15-million-to-wnba-star-cait/</guid></item><item><title> Facebook posts - This video does not prove ‘weather modification’ caused northern Michigan ice storm</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/this-video-does-not-prove-weather-modification-cau/</link><description>Video of gray skies in northern Michigan is proof of weather modification.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:08:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/this-video-does-not-prove-weather-modification-cau/</guid></item><item><title> Viral image - No, AOC is not cashing grandmother’s Social Security checks, this is satire</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/no-aoc-is-not-cashing-grandmothers-social-security/</link><description>Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s family “must have just overlooked” “cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:13:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/no-aoc-is-not-cashing-grandmothers-social-security/</guid></item><item><title> Facebook posts - Laura Loomer’s X posts don’t prove that national security official added journalist to Signal chat</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/laura-loomers-x-posts-dont-prove-that-national-sec/</link><description>Conservative activist Laura Loomer’s reporting proves “Alex Wong is the individual who added (journalist) Jeffrey Goldberg” to the Trump administration Signal group text about bombing Yemen.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:44:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/laura-loomers-x-posts-dont-prove-that-national-sec/</guid></item><item><title> Viral image - Video shows Danish lawmakers laughing at prime minister, not at Trump’s Greenland remarks</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/video-shows-danish-lawmakers-laughing-at-prime-min/</link><description>Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:37:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/video-shows-danish-lawmakers-laughing-at-prime-min/</guid></item><item><title> Facebook posts - Retired boxer Laila Ali didn’t die giving birth. She wasn’t pregnant, and she’s alive</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/retired-boxer-laila-ali-didnt-die-giving-birth-she/</link><description>“Daughter of boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, Laila Ali, has lost her life while giving birth in a Canadian hospital.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:16:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/retired-boxer-laila-ali-didnt-die-giving-birth-she/</guid></item><item><title> Viral image - This isn’t a real Truth Social post from Trump about ending dual citizenship</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/this-isnt-a-real-truth-social-post-from-trump-abou/</link><description>Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and deported.’”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:11:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/viral-image/this-isnt-a-real-truth-social-post-from-trump-abou/</guid></item><item><title> Facebook posts - This police officer isn’t in danger, but your personal information might be; these posts are scams</title><link>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/this-police-officer-isnt-in-danger-but-your-person/</link><description>Photo shows a missing police officer in “extreme danger.”</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:24:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/04/facebook-posts/this-police-officer-isnt-in-danger-but-your-person/</guid></item></channel></rss>