Trump Fumbles the Facts with Farmers www.factcheck.org/2026/04/trum...

In a speech to what he called “the single largest gathering of American farmers that the White House has … ever had,” President Donald Trump distorted the facts on the estate tax, soybean exports and more. www.factcheck.org/2026/04/trum...

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Trump Links Biden’s Ukraine Aid to Pentagon’s Iran War Funding Request www.factcheck.org/2026/03/trum...

Who is Wong Kim Ark and why was his 1898 case repeatedly cited in arguments today before the Supreme Court over the issue of birthright citizenship? We'll explain. www.factcheck.org/2023/06/trum...

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Trump Links Biden's Ukraine Aid to Pentagon's Iran War Funding Request www.factcheck.org/2026/03/trum...

Flaws in Government Tool to ID Noncitizen Voters www.factcheck.org/2026/03/flaw...

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Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, with over half of Americans saying that regularly consuming alcohol increases your chances of later developing cancer, according to @appc.upenn.edu:

FactChecking Trump’s Repeated False Claim About Mail-In Voting We first wrote about this claim back in August 2025. On March 23, Trump made the claim again. www.factcheck.org/2025/08/fact...

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, even though the new U.S. dietary guidelines this year omitted the previous warning about cancer. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/awareness-of...

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, despite its omission from the new US dietary guidelines, found a survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Centre. @appc.upenn.edu www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/awareness-of...

Awareness of Alcohol-Cancer Link Holds Steady Despite Omission in New U.S. Dietary Guidelines www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/awareness-of... @usdagov.bsky.social

EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’ www.factcheck.org/2026/03/epas...

EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’ www.factcheck.org/2026/03/epas...

Our recent survey showed that Americans have more trust that career scientists at US health agencies than the leaders of those agencies. Only 5% of US adults were very confident in the leaders, vs. 18% in career scientists. Read more: www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

A person's primary care doctor or nurse is the most trusted on public health guidance, our survey finds, followed by experts such as @americanheart.bsky.social, @ama-assn.org & @ameracadpeds.bsky.social. HHS Sec'y RFK Jr. was trusted by just 38%. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

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No Broad Autism Approval for Leucovorin, Despite FDA Commissioner’s Prior Suggestions www.factcheck.org/2026/03/no-b...

Political scientist Matthew Levendusky discusses civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion.

Americans express greater confidence in federal career scientists and independent medical groups than in the political leaders running U.S. health agencies. @washingtonpost.com reports on the new survey from @appc.upenn.edu conducted by SSRS. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

New in @pnas.org: How to build trust in scientific authorship? From a team of scholars, scientists, and journal editors, including APPC's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Sofia Adams.

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Americans are losing confidence in the nation’s public health agencies - new survey from @appc.upenn.edu. @nbcnews.com reports that the survey, conducted by SSRS, found a majority of Americans have more confidence in their own doctors than political appointees. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

🚨A poll from @appc.upenn.edu says 67% of #Americans expressed their confidence in career scientists working at federal health agencies, compared with 43% confidence in agency leaders overall. Read here...⬇️ vist.ly/4uhsp

Multiple news outlets have reported that video, satellite images and expert analysis indicate that the United States was likely responsible for the Feb. 28 bombing of an Iranian school for young girls, contradicting President Trump’s unsupported claim that the deadly strike “was done by Iran.”

A person's primary care doctor or nurse is the most trusted on public health guidance, our survey finds, followed by experts such as @americanheart.bsky.social, @ama-assn.org & @ameracadpeds.bsky.social. HHS Sec'y RFK Jr. was trusted by just 38%. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

🚨Medical experts say an @appc.upenn.edu survey, which shows the public has more trust in scientists than leaders at health agencies, reflects a mistrust from #Americans. Details here...⬇️ vist.ly/4udih

Exactly: "shared clinical decision-making" arose in the 1980s in reaction to paternalistic med. Typically used for complex med. decisions, not safe & effective vaccines. Annenberg poll in Aug.: 1-in-5 thought it means "taking the vaccine may not be a good idea for everyone but would benefit some."

Confidence that career scientists at federal health agencies are providing the public with trustworthy information about matters concerning public health is higher than confidence in the leaders of those agencies. (@appc.upenn.edu) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/opinion-to...

Biden Makes Flawed Comparisons with Trump www.factcheck.org/2026/03/bide...

When it comes to health advice, more people trust the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association than they do federal health agencies, according to a new poll

When it comes to public health information, Americans are much more likely to trust their physician and the AMA than federal agencies, according to a new survey from @appc.upenn.edu. Dive into the results: spr.ly/63327hCnfx

New! We found a stark divide in how Americans view the career scientists at federal health agencies and the leaders of those agencies - with Americans much more confident that the scientists are providing trustworthy information. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

Annenberg: Stark Divide: Americans More Confident in Career Scientists at U.S. Health Agencies Than Leaders @appc.upenn.edu CDC HHS FDA NIH bit.ly/4bbM0gd

when we wrote about this pew data on trust in science came out, some outside experts wished pew had data on figures in the current admin this @appc.upenn.edu survey released today has data comparing trust in several professional societies, agencies, and officials

Assessing Trump’s Claims on Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities www.factcheck.org/2026/03/asse...

Trump repeated — as he does in virtually every speech — his unsupported claim that many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. under Biden were from “prisons and mental institutions.” Trump has never provided any credible evidence of that. #SOTU2026 www.factcheck.org/2024/09/trum...

Dolores Albarracín, the Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, has long studied how to curb disease and improve health.

Trump Misleads on Drug Pricing Deals www.factcheck.org/2026/02/trum...

In the second and third quarters of 2025, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in two years. Those growth rates were not “numbers unheard of,” or figures the U.S. “never had” before, as President Donald Trump has claimed. www.factcheck.org/2026/02/trum...

Study Finds Declining Perceptions of Safety of Covid-19, Flu, and MMR Vaccines. (@appc.upenn.edu) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260211

Annenberg study finds perceptions of vaccine safety decline from 2022-25 for Covid-19, flu, and MMR vaccines. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/study-finds-...

WHO Didn’t Recommend Lockdowns, Contrary to Health Officials’ Suggestions www.factcheck.org/2026/02/who-...

ICE Officers and Bonuses www.factcheck.org/2026/02/ice-...

Americans Don’t Need ‘Dramatically’ More Protein, Despite Officials’ Claims www.factcheck.org/2026/02/amer...

New from our project @factcheck.org: Trump's aspirin use and what doctors recommend. www.factcheck.org/2026/01/trum...

In sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends universal vaccination against six diseases. In justifying the move, health officials made misleading claims about vaccine safety while downplaying or omitting benefits.