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Since 2009, PolitiFact.com has declared one political statement from each year to be the "Lie of the Year." 2009. In December 2009, they declared the Lie of the Year to be Sarah Palin's assertion that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 would lead to government "death panels" that dictated which types of patients would receive treatment.
Here is your chance to vote on the 2023 PolitiFact Lie of the Year. Contenders include statements and claims from Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
PolitiFact gave Palin's claim its lowest rating—"Pants on Fire!"—on August 10 and on December 19 it was named "Lie of the Year" for 2009. "Death panel" was named the most outrageous term of 2009 by the American Dialect Society.
PolitiFact tags independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for telling biggest untruths of 2023.
PolitiFact, which awarded Trump its "Lie of the Year" in 2015, 2017 and 2019. FactCheck.org, which dubbed Trump the "King of Whoppers" in 2015. The Washington Post said in January 2020 that Trump had made more than 16,241 false or misleading claims as president, an average of about 15 such statements per day.
PolitiFact, which has won a Pulitzer Prize for its 2008 election coverage, delved into Trump's various misstatements on Monday. Donald Trump unloads on PolitiFact after it awards him 'Lie of the Year'
Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.
One clear outcome of the 2016 U.S. election is growing awareness of the problem of “fake,” or patently false, news that spreads widely on social media.