Review (August 2025)

Politifact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its truth-o-meter.

3.48M

Estimated Revenue

3.28M

Website Visitors

1.9/5

Trustpilot Score

What do we know about PolitiFact?

Estimated Revenue (2020)

$3.48M

Total Funding

$3M

Total Employees

24

Founded

2007

Industry

Online Media

Last Funding Date

Debt Financing Sep 2019

Location

Washington, United States

About

PolitiFact: PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

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Alexa Ranking: 34407

What is PolitiFact's Revenue?

PolitiFact's estimated revenue for 2024 is $3.48M.

What does PolitiFact do?

Home of the Truth-O-Meter and independent fact-checking, PolitiFact is here to sort fact from fiction. Owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute, PolitiFact works to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy. PolitiFact received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Check us out at politifact.com. To suggest a fact check e-mail us at [email protected]. Sign up for our daily newsletter at bit.ly/PolitiFactEmail.

What are the monthly traffic metrics for Politifact?

6/mo Traffic Growth

23.70%

All Time Traffic Growth

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Monthly Hits

3M

Time on Site

0.9Mins

Bounce Rate

80%

How fast is Politifact growing?

Politifact has grown by 10.6% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.

How do people interact with Politifact?

Last month, Politifact received 3M visitors who spent an average of 0.9 minutes on the website and visited 1.0 different pages per session. Overall, 80% of people bounce on the first visit.

How do people find Politifact?

644.7k people (20%) visit Politifact directly. 2.2M (66%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 322.5k (10%) discover Politifact through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 4k (0%) visitors come from Politifact's email newsletters. Finally, 18.7 (0.0%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.

Who uses Politifact?

Politifact's top market is the United States and they receive 2.5M (76.0%) people.
Then the 2nd is Canada with 137.4k (4.2%).
The 3rd is is United Kingdom with 92.4k (2.8%).

Traffic Growth (last 6 months)

All Traffic Source

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Traffic Growth (last 12 months)

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What are Politifact's ads on Google?

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What do Politifact's customers say about them?

Review Score

1.9/5

Total Reviews

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Jamie Pomana

Funny how someone here can just…

Reviewed on 2021-02-15T20:57:44

Funny how someone here can just outright lie are mostly false as long as they have the right political views.Most of your facet checkers are just pathetic
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Donald Ray Crocker Jr.

a propaganda and disinformation site

Reviewed on 2021-01-28T03:16:14

it claims to be a fact check site but does the exact opposite. the site blatantly and knowingly ignores and omits facts,and sometimes just straight up lies, to push it's political objectives.
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Tyler Anderson

ONE SIDED not the TRUTH

Reviewed on 2021-01-27T19:46:38

Y’all are making actually facts look like lies and making lies look like facts CLEARLY HARD FOR THE LEFT.I am republican but do support left side IF there was a better presidential candidate than the right. Last two elections clearly the right was much better choice. So that makes me even headed because i would truly vote for the better of the good of the people and country. If the left HONESTLY had a better choice for the country and our people than the right well guess what! I’d vote for the left. So y’all can take y’all’s one sided lies and shove em somewhere dark where y’all belong.
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Mark Sanders

AKA, 'The Ministry of Truth'

Reviewed on 2021-01-06T13:34:36

They may as well change their name to "DC Lobbyists Supporting Leftists and Communists".The site is overrun with slanted "fact checkers" who rubber stamp whatever the mainstream news is parroting at the moment. Some examples: "Zero election ballot fraud evidence"; "No election observers were excluded". And the hundreds of signed affidavits from witnesses to all of the above? All there are fiction as well?
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S.D.

Disgusting propaganda peddlers

Reviewed on 2021-01-03T22:49:49

Disgusting propaganda peddlers History will remember which side you chose, make no mistakes about that,you lying rats
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jindan

So called fact check is in fact dishonest and biased

Reviewed on 2020-12-17T21:59:54

complete garbage so called fact checking is in fact to falsify on true facts. similarly to the major medias and tech companies,politically biased pro democrats, complete ignorant and neglectful to cover up and smear the evidence on election frauds and hunter biden family scandal, which both are actually true with tons of evidence videos and photos emails as such. dominion and election is 100% rigged, there are thousands of witnesses and evidences that can testify under oath, the election fraud is as clear as broad daylight. this platform is set up to smear those evidence and witnesses labeling them fake and unreliable, which is totally dishonest, corrupt and shameless, it should be renamed to polictibias. the sad truth is people and reporters still believe and rely on this disinformation platform thinking its true, but in reality they are nothing further from the truth.
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Daniel F

"Politifact- republicans were allowed…

Reviewed on 2020-11-17T07:27:29

"Politifact- republicans were allowed to watch the count in michigan and others" -as i am watching 4 different videos of poll watchers in michigan being barred from seeing the count.Politifact you say?
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Dave

Pathetic leftwing bias

Reviewed on 2020-08-23T11:57:49

Pure leftwing bias. Should change their name to PolitiSpin.

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