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Senior Digital Research Analyst

Jeff Cercone is a senior digital research analyst at PolitiFact. He has previously worked as a content editor for the Chicago Tribune and for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Featured Statements

TikTok posts
stated on March 26, 2025 in TikTok videos:

Videos show tornadoes hitting Seattle on March 26 and 27.

By Jeff Cercone • March 28, 2025
Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“Elon Musk exposes hidden $20K roof grant. Congress approved it."

By Jeff Cercone • March 28, 2025
Ian Miles Cheong
stated on March 19, 2025 in an X post:

Netflix show “Adolescence” is based on Southport, England, knife attacker but the show “race swapped the actual killer from a black man/migrant to a white boy.”

By Jeff Cercone • March 21, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on March 4, 2025 in a Fox Nation interview:

“A lot of studies” show that getting measles "boosts your immune system later in life against cancers, atopic diseases, cardiac disease."

By Jeff Cercone • March 19, 2025
Facebook posts
stated on March 10, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows first lady Melania Trump crying.

By Jeff Cercone • March 10, 2025
Social Media
stated on March 9, 2025 in in social media posts:

Video shows President Donald Trump admitting he became president because of a “rigged” 2024 election.

By Jeff Cercone • March 10, 2025
Social Media
stated on March 5, 2025 in in social media posts:

"Apple quietly removed International Women’s Day from their calendar app.”

By Jeff Cercone • March 7, 2025
Threads posts
stated on February 25, 2025 in a Threads post:

“The Texas measles outbreak is pure propaganda” because media outlets used stock images.

By Jeff Cercone • February 28, 2025
Social Media
stated on February 24, 2025 in in social media posts:

Zero votes for 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Rockland County, New York, precinct proves Elon Musk hacked 2024 presidential election.

By Jeff Cercone • February 26, 2025
Social Media
stated on February 23, 2025 in in social media posts:

"The Philadelphia Eagles have declined their invitation to the White House,” as of Feb. 24.

By Jeff Cercone • February 24, 2025

Why claims that DOGE ended a lease on Obama’s Chicago presidential library are misleading

By Jeff Cercone • March 7, 2025
Ask PolitiFact: Is Texas measles outbreak linked to 'border'? No evidence, officials say

By Jeff Cercone • March 7, 2025
Fact-checking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on insurance rates, education and gun laws

By Jeff Cercone • March 5, 2025
Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy's tense Oval Office meeting about Ukraine and Russia, fact-checked

By Jeff Cercone • February 28, 2025
Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s attacks on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

By Jeff Cercone • February 20, 2025
In Context: What Sen. John Kennedy said about Medicaid recipients and work requirements

By Jeff Cercone • February 18, 2025
Did Trump find 75,000 to 80,000 missing children? Here’s why experts say that claim is misleading.

By Jeff Cercone • January 28, 2025
Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion

By Jeff Cercone • January 24, 2025
Republican leaders want to put conditions on California wildfire aid. Is there precedent for that?

By Jeff Cercone • January 22, 2025
Here’s what we know about LA fire department’s DEI efforts, which Republicans have attacked

By Grace Abels • January 17, 2025