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What journalists need to know about the laws on covering elections By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: What is Juneteenth and when did it become a federal holiday? By Ellie Borst • June 17, 2022 Fox News carries third Jan. 6 committee hearing as testimony features its hosts and guests By Bill McCarthy • June 17, 2022 Jan. 6 hearing piles on evidence: Pence didn’t have power to change 2020 election By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2022 What is in the Senate’s gun legislation proposal after the Uvalde shooting? By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 15, 2022 No easy answers on reducing U.S. gas prices, despite political ads’ claims By Tom Kertscher • June 15, 2022 PolitiFact reporters face online harassment; we keep fact-checking anyway By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 13, 2022 How ‘stop the steal’ Republicans seeking office hope to restrict voting By Bill McCarthy • June 7, 2022 A coalition of ‘stop the steal’ Republicans aims to take control of US elections. QAnon is helping By Bill McCarthy • June 7, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: What steps do election officials take to prevent fraud? By Amy Sherman • June 1, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: How are elections run in the US? By Amy Sherman • May 31, 2022 Here’s how to avoid misinformation as you read about Uvalde and other mass shootings By Bill McCarthy • May 25, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: What can parents do if they can't find baby formula in stores? By Samantha Putterman • May 18, 2022 What is the ‘great replacement theory’ linked to the Buffalo shooter? By Bill McCarthy • May 16, 2022 What exactly will new DHS ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ do? By Jeff Cercone • May 10, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: Is it illegal to leak a draft Supreme Court opinion? By Bill McCarthy • May 5, 2022 How a math worksheet about Maya Angelou became falsely associated with critical race theory By Gabrielle Settles • May 2, 2022 What Kevin McCarthy said, and didn’t say, about Trump and the Capitol assault By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2022 Why France reports election results faster than the US By Amy Sherman • April 13, 2022 How misinformers manufacture and embellish embarrassing presidential moments By Bill McCarthy • April 12, 2022
