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Jon Greenberg - PolitiFact Staff Writer
Jon Greenberg

PolitiFact Staff Writer

Jon Greenberg is a staff writer with PolitiFact. He was part of the PolitiFact team during the 2012 presidential election and was one of the fact-checkers who launched PunditFact in 2013. Prior to that, he was executive editor at New Hampshire Public Radio and a Washington reporter for National Public Radio.

  1. When will Social Security sunset? Barring congressional changes, money will deplete by 2034
    Feb. 26• Nation & World
    President Joe Biden speaks about Social Security, Medicare, and prescription drug costs, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
  2. What the federal infrastructure bill means for water systems nationwide
    Sept. 8, 2022• Nation & World
    Jim Craig, with the Mississippi State Department of Health, left, leads Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, right, Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), center, and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, rear, as they walk past sedimentation basins at the City of Jackson's O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Facility in Ridgeland, Miss., Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Jackson's water system partially failed following flooding and heavy rainfall that exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants.
  3. Democrats’ climate, health care bill fulfills some Biden promises, not others
    Aug. 18, 2022• Nation & World
    President Joe Biden speaks from the Treaty Room in the White House on April 14, 2021.
  5. Trump pressured states to reverse votes. They pushed back.
    June 23, 2022• Nation & World
    From left to right: Rusty Bowers, Arizona House speaker; Brad Raffensperger, Georgia secretary of state; and Gabriel Sterling, Georgia secretary of state chief operating officer, are sworn in prior to testifying during the fourth hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
  6. In Jan. 6 hearing, former AG Barr discredits ‘2,000 Mules’ voter fraud film
    June 16, 2022• Nation & World
    In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion in St. Louis.
  7. Most Republicans think the 2020 election was stolen. Why?
    June 16, 2022• Nation & World
    A video of former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during a House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on Monday, June 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
  8. Biden said mass shootings tripled when the assault weapon ban ended. They did.
    June 2, 2022• Nation & World
    "When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled,” President Joe Biden said May 24. He was thinking back to sweeping gun legislation passed in 1994 that banned certain kinds of weapons and large-capacity magazines.
  9. Fact-checking 5 claims in the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade
    May 4, 2022• Nation & World
    The Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, as security measure are enhanced on the perimeter following protests sparked by news that the court might overturn cases that guarantee abortions.
  10. What Kevin McCarthy said, and didn’t say, about Trump and the Capitol assault
    April 27, 2022• Nation & World
    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 6, 2022.
  11. Fact-checking Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on kids with COVID-19
    Jan. 11, 2022• Health
    This Sept. 19, 2013, photo shows Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Newark, Del.
  12. How Democrats aim to define the lessons of Jan. 6
    Jan. 6, 2022• The Buzz on Florida Politics
    U.S. Capitol Police officer Keith Atkins scan the area as President Joe Biden and members of Congress are solemnly marking the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection on Thursday.
  13. Fact-checking DeSantis on COVID-19 natural immunity | PolitiFact
    Sept. 15, 2021• Health
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shakes hands with other politicians after arriving for a news conference Monday, Sept. 13 in Tampa.
  14. Vietnam and Afghanistan: Different wars, similar endings?
    Aug. 17, 2021• Nation & World
    South Vietnamese civilians scale the U.S. Embassy wall in 1975 (left). Afghans crowded into a C-17 jet to escape the Taliban.
  15. Explicando el crédito tributario por hijos que obtendrán a partir de julio
    June 24, 2021• CENTRO
    Para muchos hogares, los pagos del crédito tributario por hijos proporcionarán la ayuda que tanto necesitan para pagar las necesidades básicas del hogar.
  16. Explaining the child tax credit coming monthly starting in July
    June 24, 2021• Business
    For many households, the child tax credit payments will provide much needed help in paying for core household needs.
  17. Juneteenth’s 156-year path to becoming a federal holiday: Here’s the history
    June 18, 2021• Nation & World
    Vice President Kamala Harris and Opal Lee, left, the activist known as the grandmother of Juneteenth, watch as President Joe Biden holds the signed Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, in the East Room of the White House on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
  18. Ron DeSantis exaggerates cost of gas pump stickers with Nikki Fried’s picture
    June 6, 2021• The Buzz on Florida Politics
    Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried's office put stickers on gas pumps shortly after she took office.
  19. What is critical race theory, and why are conservatives blocking it?
    May 25, 2021• The Buzz on Florida Politics
    Critical race theory isn’t one set thing, but more a changing package of ideas. The movement began in the 1970s.
  20. Fact-checking Rick Scott’s claim of wasteful spending in the coronavirus relief bill
    March 2, 2021• The Buzz on Florida Politics
    Sen. Rick Scott, R-Naples, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday in Orlando.
  21. Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage | PolitiFact
    Feb. 17, 2021• Nation & World
    Power lines are shown Tuesday in Houston.
  22. Sen. Rick Scott misrepresents COVID-19′s toll on state finances | PolitiFact
    Feb. 8, 2021• The Buzz on Florida Politics
    Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks to reporters following a Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill on Feb. 2 in Washington.
  23. Is the Paris Climate Agreement easier on China and India than on the US? | PolitiFact
    Jan. 26, 2021• Nation & World
    The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation's top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga., Saturday, June, 3, 2017.
  24. Fact-checking Joe Biden’s inauguration speech | PolitiFact
    Jan. 20, 2021• Nation & World
    President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday.