A dubious milestone was reached at the end of January: the one thousandth fact check of a statement by Donald Trump undertaken by the website Politifact. Trump’s thousandth claim? That the Democrats had “used Covid to cheat” in the 2020 election.
Meanwhile in the UK, the charity Full Fact reported that 50 MPs, including two prime ministers, cabinet and shadow cabinet ministers, declined to correct false, unevidenced or misleading claims in 2022. The statistics regulator had to write to the government at least