A look back at Lie of the Year

PolitiFact’s editors and reporters award the Lie of the Year to the most significant falsehood or exaggeration of the past 12 months. Here’s a look back at the past six years of "winners." 2014: Exaggerations about Ebola In 2014, there were two just Ebola-related deaths in the United States, yet fear of the disease stretched to every corner of the country, stoked by exaggerated claims from politicians and pundits. They said, wrongly, that Ebola was easy to catch, that illegal immigrants may be carrying the virus across the southern border, that it was all part of a government or corporate ... >>More