PolitiFact crashes briefly during Trump’s first State of the Union address

The website was posting live updates with fact-checks on statements made by Trump in the speech, including statements about the tax reform bill and regulations.

“Welp … our website just crashed. Thanks for reading ?!!? We’ll keep things up here on Twitter while we see what happened,” PolitiFact tweeted about 45 minutes after Trump began speaking.

The website was down for a total of five minutes, according to the timestamps on tweets updating following on the status of the website.

PolitiFact is run by reporters from the Tampa Bay Times and is an independent fact-checker that evaluates the accuracy of U.S. political figures’ statements.