For the purpose of media accountability, Just Facts has summarized 40 misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called fact checkers during 2025.
Each example quotes a specific media outlet, but the vast bulk of these falsehoods and half-truths were spread by multiple news sources, and some were propagated by dozens.
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In 2010, Congressional Democrats and President Obama enacted two laws that are collectively known as the “Affordable Care Act,” or “Obamacare,” for short.
Among its many provisions, Obamacare created “exchanges” to sell taxpayer-subsidized private health insurance to people with incomes up to four times the federal poverty guidelines. These vary depending on the size of the household, and four times the federal poverty line for a family of four is currently $128,600.
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The federal government entered a partial shutdown a record-breaking 37 days ago after Senate Democrats blocked a short-term funding bill passed by House Republicans, demanding instead a one-month measure that would restore and expand federal health care benefits for non-citizens — a $1.5 trillion package that Republicans say funnels taxpayer money to illegal immigrants.
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In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, many people are condemning “political violence,” including prominent Democrats like Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Chris Murphy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Gavin Newsom.
However, these individuals and their colleagues have repeatedly spread falsehoods that can inspire people to commit murder by misleading them to believe that their very lives are in danger. Such fictions have also been widely spread by the upper echelons of media and academia.
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While the Trump administration is carrying out mass firings at the CDC, and top CDC officials who were slated to be fired are resigning, Democrats are accusing President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of endangering public health by undermining this government agency.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, for instance, torches Trump for “purging the CDC leadership” and says of Trump and RFK, “These fools can’t be trusted with your health.
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by James D. Agresti PolitiFact, a so-called “fact checker,” claims it is “false” that New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont are “communists.” PolitiFact also alleges that calling them communists is “a red scare tactic.” PolitiFact’s article, written by Ella Moore and Amy Sherman, relies heavily on the opinions of “experts” and is bereft of primary sources on the doctrines of communism. It also downplays and ignores pivotal statements of Mamdani and Sanders. The actual facts of this matter show that the defining positions of Mamdani and Sanders accord with key elements of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, the Soviet Constitution, and the official Law of the Soviet State. This is important because communism is notoriously associated with widespread poverty and the trampling of rights assured by the U.S. Constitution. “Communism” & “Democratic Socialism” Mamdani and Sanders reject the label “communist” and differentiate themselves as “democratic socialists,” a narrative that PolitiFact uncritically repeats. That argument falls apart in light of the fact that the Law of the Soviet State (1938) refers to the USSR as a “socialist democracy” more than 40 times. Likewise, a Harvard University Press book about communism explains that…
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Many media outlets are reporting that President Biden deported more illegal immigrants than President Trump in both his first term and at the pace of his current one.
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Elon Musk recently stated that “rich people” should “be caring more” about federal deficits because “if the ship of America sinks,” “we all sink with it.” This may seem like hyperbole, but a widely overlooked report from the U.S. Treasury shows it is a likely scenario unless major changes are made. The Treasury report, quietly released in January, shows that if the federal government reported its finances in the same manner that large corporations are required by law to report theirs, the primary measure of federal red ink wouldn’t be $36 trillion in national debt but $143 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations. This staggering figure equals 85% of all the wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s founding. It also equates to an average burden of $1.1 million on every household in the nation. Unlike other measures of federal finances that cover an arbitrary period, extend into the infinite future, or ignore government assets, the figure of $143 trillion applies strictly to Americans who are alive right now and accounts for the value of the government’s commercial assets. Thus, it quantifies the full federal financial burden on today’s Americans. Complete v. Incomplete Accounting Federal law requires the U.S. Treasury to publish…
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A large array of media outlets are reporting on the decision to remove the massive “Black Lives Matter” mural from a street near the White House. Tracing the history of this famous marker, many of the reports claim that Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser created the mural and renamed the area to “Black Lives Matter Plaza” as an “act of defiance” against President Trump.
The fact of the matter, however, is that the mural and plaza are rooted in a brazen fraud committed against Trump.
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Reflecting back on 2024 and looking forward to a future with less misinformation and more facts, Just Facts has summarized 50 false or misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called fact checkers during the past year.
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With the national debt at its worst level in U.S. history, both Donald Trump and far-left Democrats like Ilhan Omar are pushing to eliminate the debt limit.
This would reduce transparency and responsibility for politicians who run up debt and make it easier for them to pass the buck to future officeholders and younger generations of Americans.
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On the day before Thanksgiving, Axios published an article titled “Thanksgiving’s Troubled History” by Russell Contreras, the “Justice and Race reporter at Axios.”
Citing “a new generation of historians,” Contreras declares that “Thanksgiving in the United States is based on a mythical feast between the Wampanoag people and Mayflower Pilgrims” and that “the holiday’s real story is mixed with national unity and racial exclusion.”
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As the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics explains, “The United States uses two national data collection systems to track detailed information on homicides.” These consist of: death certificates collected by the states and compiled by the CDC. reports by local law enforcement agencies compiled by the states and aggregated by the FBI, which also generates estimates for agencies that don’t report. Death certificates have always provided broader and more accurate data than the FBI’s figures, but the gap between them has grown sharply under the Biden administration. This may indicate that local law enforcement agencies, states, and/or the FBI are undercounting murders. Furthermore, the Biden administration FBI inexplicably revised its pre-Biden murder data all the way back to 2003, elevating the counts in certain years by up to 7%. The FBI made these unprecedented alterations without so much as a footnote to inform the public. As a result of those factors and others, the gap between murders reported by the FBI and the number of homicides recorded on death certificates has grown from a low of 16 killings in 2003 to an average of 3,711 killings per year during Biden’s presidency: Again, all of the figures above are homicides recorded on death certificates that are not reported as murders by Biden’s FBI. The…
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Massive government-funded media outlets and other information powerbrokers are keeping Americans in the dark about the prevalence of illegal voting by non-citizens.
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Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, media outlets, and so-called “fact checkers” are claiming that “violent crime is near a 50-year low.” In contrast, Donald Trump is alleging that “crime is worse than it’s ever been.” The reality is that all of them are wrong. There are three key measures of violent crime with various strengths and weaknesses, but the most reliable and severe one shows that the murder rate in 2023 was 36 percent higher than the modern low in 2014 but 14 percent lower than the modern peak in 2021. The statistics cited by Harris and others who declare that violent crime is extraordinarily low come from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, which is based on voluntary reports of crimes by state and local law enforcement agencies. As explained by the FBI, this report “excludes” crimes like “sexual assault,” “simple assault,” “attempted robberies,” and “crimes not reported to law enforcement.” Regarding the last of those exclusions, the FBI discloses that “changes in police procedures, shifting attitudes toward crime and police, and other societal changes can affect the extent to which people report and law enforcement agencies record crime.” Thus, the FBI cautions against “making any direct comparison between data in this publication and those in prior” years. If one ignores that warning — and all of…
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For more than half a century, the number of immigrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol at the Southwest border has served as a rough proxy for illegal entries. However, this measure has become much less informative in recent years because it doesn’t account for other aspects of border insecurity that have exploded during the Biden/Harris administration. These include:
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Based on the latest available data and an enhanced version of a stress-tested methodology from a scholarly journal, a new study by Just Facts has found that about 10 percent to 27 percent of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote.
The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022. Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency.
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