Fact-checking site crashes during Trump State of the Union

Toya Sarno Jordan

PolitiFact’s website went down briefly during President Trump’s first State of the Union address.

The fact-checking website tweeted at 9:49 p.m., about halfway through Trump’s speech, that the website had crashed.

“Welp … our website just crashed,” PolitiFact tweeted. “Thanks for reading ?!!? We’ll keep things up here on Twitter while we see what happened.”

The crash lasted about five minutes, according to a second tweet from the website’s account.

{mosads}PolitiFact fact-checked the president’s speech, writing that “several of his points were factually flawed.” They rated many of his claims about tax cuts as “mostly false” or “false.”

The organization had fact-checked nearly 500 of Trump’s statements before the State of the Union, rating 21 percent as “mostly false,” 33 percent as “false” and 15 percent as “pants on fire.”

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