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In a speech at the U.S. embassy in Dublin, Ireland, President Trump said each boat the U.S. struck in the Caribbean can kill “25,000 people.” There’s no evidence about the drugs on the boats, making it impossible to know how many lethal doses could have been destroyed. The amount
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Human rabies cases are rare. But if recent animal attacks and rabies exposure news have you on edge, doctors and wildlife experts say the best way to reduce your risk is to steer clear of wildlife and get pets vaccinated.
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An ad from Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee Rep. Byron Donalds says Democratic nominee David Jolly wants to raise taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security. This distorts Jolly’s position and omits that Florida has no state income tax.
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President Trump proposed giving $5,000 to U.S. adult citizens if Republicans win the midterm elections. He said it would come from tariff’s revenue, but the numbers don’t add up and it would face legal obstacles.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said you’d need to send 38,000 ChatGPT messages to use the amount of water needed to grow one California almond. That skews the estimates for both almonds’ and AI’s water demands.
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Un acuerdo inusual entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela podría sacudir la industria petrolera mundial, si se mantiene. Pero este acuerdo de miles de millones de barriles de petróleo no bajará pronto los precios de la gasolina.
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Seeing headlines about the sweetener xylitol being linked to risk of heart attack and stroke? It's more complicated than that, and may have to do with the xylitol our own bodies produce rather than what we eat.
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Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly said 70% to 80% of Floridians don’t want new data centers in the state. Recent polls largely back that up as public opinion about data centers sours.
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Maine Democrat Troy Jackson said Republican Sen. Susan Collins voted no when it came to stopping Trump tariffs. Jackson ignores that she voted four times in 2025 against tariffs.
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Registering as an organ donor is typically legally binding and means you might donate organs and tissues including your heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, skin, eyes and corneas. Here’s a look at what’s involved in the organ donation process.
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Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, said Democrat Sherrod Brown voted while senator to provide several types of benefits for people in the U.S. illegally. Brown’s votes would not have increased federal benefits to people in the country illegally.
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@PolitiFact WINNER: @KamalaHarris continues to shine as a political cow pattie
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Truth and facts shouldn’t be taken for granted.
If you also believe it's important to call out falsehoods and protect the facts, donate today to PolitiFact's nonprofit fact-checking newsroom. https://t.co/UvOSEkXqHd
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The people suffering the consequences of these lies are not aberrations. Their stories illustrate a broader need not to dismiss that false claims have consequences.
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We also ask our readers what they think deserves the Lie of the Year title. Our readers’ pick for 2025: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Pants on Fire claim from July that “there is no starvation in Gaza.” https://t.co/zX6xU7AWyJ
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From falsehoods about Affordable Care Act "death panels" to smears against Parkland students to lies about Jan. 6 Capitol attack, here's a look at our previous Lies of the Year.
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PolitiFact doesn't use the word "lie" lightly. We save it to describe a statement or theme that is worthy of note for a truly consequential undermining of reality.
But after the truth beatdown of 2025, our usual approach of singling out just one lie seems insufficient to the
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This week, we’ll tell three stories that spotlight what happens when things are not true, focusing on:
- A farmer caught up in Trump's trade wars.
- A doctor navigating pseudoscience shared by the government.
- Two brothers hoping to return to the U.S. after suddenly being https:
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The last 10 years has been an ugly era for facts, marked by a drumbeat of untruths and near-constant charges of “fake news”.
The trouble with drumbeats is that, as a matter of survival or sanity, we tend to tune them out or grow numb to them. https://t.co/JGFXpq3vpy
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The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025. Government leaders deploy up-is-down narratives at an exhausting clip. Online worlds drip with AI-generated slop that incites rage, scams consumers or influences politics. https://t.co/K1oDKzpGu0
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Tech leaders removed guardrails to falsity as they rushed new products to market, with Washington’s blessing. Now, the burden of calling out deceptive content falls to the crowd.
Predictably, it’s not going great. https://t.co/a6Hzhgwivs
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For the first time since 2009, PolitiFact is recalibrating the Lie of the Year — our award for the most egregious falsehood we've seen in a year's worth of fact-checking.
This year, we want to focus less on the offenders who perpetuate the falsehoods, and more on those who are h
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Against accounts of the same size
11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.
Median views7 920this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %1.37%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.19%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 7 920 | 5 983 | 1.32× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.37% | 1.49% | 0.92× |
| Engagement rate | 0.19% | 0.93% | 0.20× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
33715 Dec
4.7K
6828 Dec
4.5K3 Sep
4.9K
7.9K
8.3K
6.9K
7.8K4 Sep
8.2K5 Sep
9.1K12 Sep
18.9K
7.5K
14.2K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.97%15 Dec
0.36%
5.88%28 Dec
0.38%3 Sep
0.02%
0.04%
2.00%
0.19%
0.09%4 Sep
0.16%5 Sep
0.41%12 Sep
0.78%
0.11%
0.50%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes48.5%513 in total
Reposts40.2%425 in total
Replies5.7%60 in total
Quotes0.9%10 in total
Bookmarks4.6%49 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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