What specific statements by Biden have been fact-checked as false and by which organizations?

1. False technical claim about Florida power lines — PolitiFact’s ruling

PolitiFact flagged a Biden claim that “under the Obama‑Biden administration, we invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the state of Florida replacing wooden power poles with steel poles and we buried these electric lines” as false, pointing to discrepancies between Biden’s language and the record of federal investment and projects cited by the site ^[1].

2. Medicare drug‑pricing and the $160 billion deficit cut — PolitiFact’s finding

PolitiFact also judged Biden’s statement that “we cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma” to be false, a determination grounded in the fact‑checkers’ analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act’s projected savings and how budget projections, timing and legislative offsets affect any claimed deficit reduction ^[2].

3. Numeric miscounts on jobs, unemployment and “700,000 projects” — FactCheck.org and related outlets

FactCheck.org and other reviewers flagged several economic statements as misleading or false, including a botched statistic that conflated people receiving unemployment benefits with people “out of work,” and the White House’s overstated “700,000 major construction projects” figure that the administration later acknowledged should have been 7,000 — an error fact‑checkers said materially distorted the record ^[6].

4. Anecdotes about civil‑rights arrests — CNN’s roundup of false claims

CNN’s cataloguing of Biden’s false or unsupported claims in his first year included his repeated anecdote that he had been “arrested” multiple times during the civil‑rights movement, which CNN characterized as a classic Biden false claim because there is no evidence to support it and it appears to be an off‑the‑cuff embellishment rather than a documented fact ^[4].

5. Debate misstatements — AP’s summary of false and misleading debate claims

The Associated Press singled out several claims from a Biden debate performance as false or overstated, including misrepresenting the current out‑of‑pocket insulin landscape for older Americans and overstating what former President Trump said about disinfectant and COVID, characterizing Biden as prone to “exaggerations and embellishments” that rose to the level of falsehood in these instances ^[5].

6. Immigration numbers and “18 million people” — PolitiFact / PBS assessment

PolitiFact and PBS assessed Biden‑related immigration claims in debate coverage and campaign exchanges and rated the assertion that his administration “has allowed in 18 million people” as false, noting immigration data limitations and a lack of evidence to support such a large cumulative figure ^[7].

7. Misstatements seized by opponents and compiled by other fact‑checkers — Reuters, Washington Post and AP work

Reuters has debunked specific viral clips and slip‑of‑the‑tongue moments — for example clarifying that a Biden phrase about a “voter fraud organization” was a flub describing an election‑protection legal network rather than admission of wrongdoing — while The Washington Post’s Fact Checker and AP have repeatedly fact‑checked claimed Biden inaccuracies and budget‑related assertions, concluding in several high‑profile instances that his statements were false or misleading ^{[3] [8] [9]}.

8. Disputes, context and partisan amplification — how fact checks differ

Fact‑check outcomes are not uniform: outlets apply different standards for severity (false, mostly false, Pants on Fire, etc.), and partisan actors promptly amplify rulings that suit them; courts of public opinion then treat routine gaffes and substantive policy errors differently, a dynamic highlighted across PolitiFact, Reuters, FactCheck.org, CNN, AP and PBS coverage ^{[1] [3] [6] [4] [5] [7]}.