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13,317 | 1 |
Says President Donald Trump "has given more financial disclosure than anybody else.
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April 27, 2017
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taxes
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steve mnuchin
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Donald Trump nominated longtime banker and former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin to fill the Treasury secretary position in late November and was confirmed in Febuary.
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national
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
a April 26 press conference
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Mnuchin said Trump "has given more financial disclosure than anybody else." Trump released a financial disclosure report that all presidential candidates are required to fill out, but the fact that Trump has not released any tax filings undermines Munchin’s . Experts told us that tax returns would offer valuable details on his tax rate, the types of taxes he paid, and his charitable giving, as well as a better idea of his income-producing assets. When we look at all the types of financial disclosure Trump could provide to the public, the lack of transparency around his tax returns remains a significant omission compared with recent presidents. We rate this .
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17,546 | 2 |
Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China.
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April 16, 2020
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china;small business
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viral image
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Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
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a Facebook post
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A viral image reads, "Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China." The prefix of the number that accompanies a barcode does not indicate what country the product was manufactured in. While GS1 assigns prefixes to companies based on a set of country codes, those companies can manufacture their products anywhere in the world. We rate this image .
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14,937 | 1 |
I have always been there with" Donald Trump.
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July 31, 2018
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candidate biography;elections
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leah vukmir
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Republican Leah Vukmir was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in 2010, representing a suburban Milwaukee district. She served in the state Assembly from 2002 to 2008. She lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2018.
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wisconsin
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
an interview
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All of our fact checks in the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race . Our rating Vukmir said: "I have always been there with" Trump. Vukmir prominently supported Trump for president in 2016 after he won the Republican nomination. But before that, she supported other GOP contenders for the nomination and was sharply critical of Trump. We rate Vukmir’s statement .
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1,155 | 2 |
Health proposal would create a "40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers.
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October 15, 2009
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health care;taxes
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health care for america now
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a health care reform advocacy group
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national
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
a television ad
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Estimates we've looked at suggest that, by 2019, the excise tax would affect as many as 25 percent and as few as 17 percent of all tax filers. The ad says the proposal is a "40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers." But that's an overstatement that fails to mention it's an excise tax that would only affect workers with health care benefits above a certain level. Most middle-class workers won't be affected at all. We rate the statement .
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19,109 | 1 |
Republicans have no way to communicate" after tech companies cut off Parler.
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January 10, 2021
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congress;corrections and updates;technology
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devin nunes
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Devin Nunes is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing a district in California. He serves as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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california
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
an interview on Fox
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Nunes said "Republicans have no way to communicate" after recent actions by tech companies. Trump has been blocked from the major social media networks, and Parler is not available for now. But Nunes is to say Republicans have no way to communicate. They can use other social media platforms — if they follow the rules — as well as their websites, email and regular mail. Lawmakers can also grant interviews with local and national reporters from mainstream or conservative media outlets and hold constituent forums in their districts (albeit remotely for now). For now, Nunes has lost what appears to be his preferred method of communication, but he has other options, and so do his Republican peers. We rate this . RELATED: U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes on PolitiFact’s -O-Meter CORRECTION, Jan. 14, 2021: This fact-check initially included the last name for Rusty Roberts. The fact-check has been corrected.
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13,977 | 0 |
Says the University of Florida "requests to cancel rivalry game" against Florida State University.
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November 7, 2017
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fake news;punditfact
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react365.com
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A website associated with fake news.
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an Internet post
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When we saw this story, the counter said the story was from Nov. 7 and had been shared more than 94,000 times, but there’s no way to tell if that’s accurate. We contacted UF ourselves, just to make sure this Thanksgiving weekend tradition really was slated to continue as scheduled. "This is not ," athletic association spokesman Will Pantages confirmed. Feel free to plan your turkey day recovery around the UF-FSU rivalry game, because this is another fumble from a news generator. !
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9 | 4 |
I used tax cuts to help create over 80,000 jobs in New Mexico.
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May 10, 2007
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taxes
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bill richardson
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Bill Richardson is the former governor of New Mexico, having served two terms in that position from 2003-2011. Richardson is also a former congressman, U.S. secretary of energy, and ambassador to the United Nations. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and was President Barack Obama’s initial nominee for secretary of commerce in 2009.
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national
| 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
a TV Ad
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Indeed, much of the job growth in the state began before Richardson became governor, Peach said. Still, Peach said Richardson's tax incentives and income tax cuts have created a favorable atmosphere for business that is a stark change from the state's mentality in the mid-1970s, when state officials refused to provide help to a promising young company named Microsoft. "The climate here has changed considerably since then," Peach said. "Bill Richardson has been a big part of that. He's not the whole story, but he's been a big part of it."
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21,673 | 1 |
U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores is "the first Mexican-born member of Congress.
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July 11, 2022
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congress;texas
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lauren boebert
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican of Colorado, was elected to serve Colorado’s Third Congressional District in 2020 after defeating longtime incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary. In 2022, a recount confirmed that Boebert won re-election with about 50.06 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Adam Frisch.
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national
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a podcast
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There are currently 29 foreign-born members of Congress, 10 of whom were born outside the U.S. to American parents or on U.S. military bases out of the country. Boebert claimed that newly elected Flores is "the first Mexican-born member of Congress. " While Flores is the first Mexican-born congresswoman, throughout history at least seven other members of Congress were born in Mexico. Three of those currently serve beside Flores and Boebert in the House of Representatives. We rate Boebert’s .
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17,368 | 0 |
Says Gov. Tony Evers is "pushing firearm confiscation orders
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March 24, 2020
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guns;coronavirus
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
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wisconsin
| 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 |
a Facebook post
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Our rating A year-old story now circulating again on Facebook says Evers is "pushing firearm confiscation orders." That was an overreach in 2019, and it’s even more now. The article was referring to red flag laws, but at the time of this post Evers hadn’t proposed one yet. And more importantly, red flag laws are a far cry from the implication this headline gives of some form of widespread gun confiscation. We rate this .
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23,165 | 4 |
For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.
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March 29, 2023
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federal budget;state budget;states;taxes
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nick lalota
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Nick LaLota is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 1st congressional district of New York. .He won his first term in November 2022.
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new york
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a press release
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LaLota said, "For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back." Something in that range has been the longstanding norm for New York residents, experts agree. However, during the pandemic, New York’s balance of payments tilted toward the state for the first time. Experts expect this pattern to revert to its traditional ratio after pandemic aid is phased out. We rate this statement .
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8,837 | 2 |
Says Mark Begich "has taken campaign cash from the Kochs" while Dan Sullivan hasn't.
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April 29, 2014
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campaign finance
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dan sullivan
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Dan Sullivan is a Republican senator from Alaska.
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national
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a radio ad
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Sullivan said Mark Begich "has taken campaign cash from the Kochs" but that Sullivan "hasn’t taken a dime." In 2010, KochPAC donated $5,000 to a Begich-affiliated PAC. But that's a modest amount by campaign-finance standards, and Begich hasn’t received any more in the past four years. While Sullivan hasn’t received money directly from the Kochs, he and Begich’s other Republican challengers certainly benefit from the much larger TV ad buys by Koch-affiliated groups attacking the Democrat. A Koch-funded group, Americans For Prosperity, has spent nearly $1 million in Alaska benefiting Sullivan and other Republicans in the race. We rate this .
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18,611 | 2 |
Says Joe Biden said, "You know, we have to come together. That's why I'm running. I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate. So vote! Vote!
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October 12, 2020
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facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
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a Facebook post
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A Facebook video says Biden said, "You know, we have to come together. That’s why I’m running. I’m running as a proud Democrat for the Senate. So vote! Vote!" The video is deceptively edited and . In context, Biden was talking about running for office as a "proud Democrat" throughout his career. The remarks were confusing because he used the present tense while talking about running for the Senate, but the Facebook video cut him off mid sentence. Biden actually said: "I’m running as a proud Democrat for the Senate, when I had run as a proud Democrat for vice president, and I’m running as a proud Democrat for president. But I promise you this. I will govern as an American president … So vote! Vote!" We rate this Facebook post .
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15,778 | 4 |
Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, commits bank and tax fraud and gets 47 months. A homeless man, Fate Winslow, helped sell $20 of pot and got life in prison.
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March 7, 2019
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criminal justice
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elizabeth warren
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Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
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national
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a tweet
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Warren juxtaposed Manafort’s 47-month sentence with the case of Winslow, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for selling $20 worth of marijuana. The basic facts are correct. To clarify, though, it was his three prior convictions, the oldest coming 24 years before, that made Winslow subject to Louisiana’s habitual offender law. We rate this .
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13,789 | 0 |
Democrats "setup" and "manipulated" the political violence in Charlottesville
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September 14, 2017
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fake news
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dana rohrabacher
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U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, was first elected to Congress in 1988.
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california
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
a news article
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PolitiFact rated his . PolitiFact California, after examining the same facts, found California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Orange County, doubled-down on the same bogus . We rate his , as well. – The statement is not accurate and makes a . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
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1,551 | 3 |
The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities.
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April 11, 2010
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foreign policy;military;this week - abc news
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robert gates
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Robert Gates is the U.S. Secretary of Defense. He was first appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006 and was named to remain office by President Barack Obama in 2009.
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national
| 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ABC's "This Week"
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Congress then passed the Stockpile Management Plan, which seeks to extend the life of the nuclear arsenal without building wholly new warheads. Gates makes a valid point that the Bush policy in the later years of his presidency -- while it called for the development of new nuclear warheads -- did not call for new nuclear capabilities . That's where Bush's policy ended up. But early on, the Bush administration did call for modifications to existing weapons to create a nuclear "bunker buster" that very much would have added to the United States' nuclear capabilities. And so we rule Gates' .
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16,771 | 2 |
On red-flag laws says, "What (Democrats) wanted to do was say, 'I think you might do something, so I'm going to take away your gun and make you prove you wouldn't do it.
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November 10, 2019
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criminal justice;legal issues;guns
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robin vos
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Wisconsin state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has represented western Racine County in the state Assembly since 2004. In November 2012, he was elected Assembly speaker. Vos previously served on the Racine County Board of Supervisors, from 1994 to 2004.
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wisconsin
| 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
a TV interview
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Our rating Vos said of red-flag laws: "What they wanted to do was say I think you might do something so I’m going to take away your gun and make you prove you wouldn’t do it." The laws in effect now, and the proposal in Wisconsin, would allow guns to be taken away temporarily, until a full court hearing is held. However, Vos is far off when it comes to where the burden of proof falls when a judge is considering a seizure request. Experts say it would fall on the person seeking the seizure -- not the gun owner. We rate this .
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5,900 | 1 |
We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs.
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July 11, 2012
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economy;jobs;taxes
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joseph kyrillos
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Joseph Kyrillos, Jr. is a Republican state senator representing part of Monmouth County. The former chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, Kyrillos is running in the November 2012 general election for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Robert Menendez.
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new jersey
| 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show
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Kyrillos said "we are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs." The country is producing jobs. To suggest otherwise is . Kyrillos’ campaign manager said the Republican candidate was referring to total job losses dating back to December 2007, the start of the recession, when he said "the net of it all is that we lost jobs." But Kyrillos doesn’t make that distinction during the interview. The nation has sustained monthly job growth since October 2010. And year over year, more than 1.7 million jobs were added. We rate this . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
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8,212 | 2 |
Most of the (Affordable Care Act) has already in some sense been waived or otherwise suspended.
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December 22, 2013
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health care;punditfact
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george will
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George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
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comments on "Fox News Sunday"
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With all the talk about problems with the health care law, it’s easy to forget just how many corners of health insurance policy the law affects. Will seemed guilty of that on Fox News Sunday when he said most of the law has been waived or suspended. Obama has made at least two major course corrections in the law. He delayed the employer mandate by one year and allowed individuals dealing with canceled plans to buy insurance that fails to meet minimum standards under the law. One way to put these changes into context is to look at the number of people they affect. While precise data are missing, the combined impact could be in the range of 1 million Americans. On the other side of the ledger, 3.1 million young adults have gained access to coverage through the law, another 18 million people are subject to the individual mandate and millions more have benefited from requirements that health insurance companies spend premiums on care. We rate the .
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21,068 | 1 |
Gas cost $9 a gallon in California in early March 2022.
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March 4, 2022
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gas prices;facebook fact-checks
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viral image
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Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
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california
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a Facebook post
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The Los Angeles Times reported on March 6 that the average California gas prices are now over $5 a gallon, noting that "a few stations" in Los Angeles County have surpassed $6 a gallon. We’ve previously reported on photos of gas station signs that appear to be selling gas for nearly $10. But the stations weren’t actually selling gas for that much. It’s common for stations to advertise , high prices on their signs when they’re either closed or out of gas to discourage drivers from stopping. We rate the March 4 that gas was being sold for $9 in California .
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6,251 | 3 |
Says his budget plan "would cut our deficits by $4 trillion.
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September 6, 2012
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corrections and updates;deficit;federal budget
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barack obama
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Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
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national
| 124 | 165 | 163 | 71 | 71 | 9 |
a speech at the Democratic convention
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Obama says his plan will cut deficits by $4 trillion. On its own, Obama’s plan does not produce the full $4 trillion. Both the source cited by the Obama campaign and a separate group, one that puts a premium on deficit reduction, say the president’s plan will shrink the cumulative gap between spending and revenues by well over $2 trillion over ten years. The remainder comes from the 10-year impact of cuts already approved. To the extent that long term predictions hold up, the president’s big number is accurate, but he takes credit for changes that took place outside of his budget proposal. We rate the statement .
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5,265 | 4 |
Says Lake Erie contains more native fish than all the other Great Lakes combined.
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February 29, 2012
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environment;recreation;water
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marcy kaptur
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Marcy Kaptur represents Ohio's Ninth Congressional District in the House of Representatives. She was first elected to the House in 1982. She is the senior-most woman in the 111th Congress.
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ohio
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
a House of Representatives floor speech
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There’s no doubt that Kaptur is correct in her overall point that Lake Erie has by far the most productive fishery on the Great Lakes. Her contention that Lake Erie contains more native fish than the other lakes combined is slightly problematic. It’s that the fishing haul in Lake Erie usually exceeds the combined total of the other lakes. But some fish that are commercial staples in the Great Lakes are not considered "native" because they were introduced from other areas, although their presence isn’t as unwelcome and devastating as invaders like zebra mussels have been, and Asian carp would be. We rate Kaptur’s statement .
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9,932 | 4 |
Says a "lawmaker seeks to defund Planned Parenthood for 'cutting children into small pieces.'
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January 15, 2015
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abortion
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miscellany blue
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Miscellanyblue is a liberal political blog on New Hampshire politics. The site is run by William Tucker, an architect in Portsmouth, NH.
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new hampshire
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a web post
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A headline in the liberal blog Miscellany Blue declared, "Lawmaker seeks to defund Planned Parenthood for ‘cutting children into small pieces.’ " Groen’s proposal doesn’t mention Planned Parenthood, but the effect of the bill would be to strip it, and other similar groups, of state funding. Meanwhile, Groen did make the statement about the group "cutting children into small pieces" four years ago, and he’s made similar declarations recently. We aren’t rating the substance of Groen’s accusations, but the headline summarizing what Groen said and what he’s proposing in the bill are generally accurate, so we rate the .
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7,404 | 4 |
A bag of Cheetos costs less to buy than an apple," and in some Milwaukee neighborhoods "good luck trying to find an apple or a banana or some sort of healthy option
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May 14, 2013
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public health;welfare
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mike tate
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Mike Tate is chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. He previously worked for Jim Doyle, the former Wisconsin governor, a public employee union and a voter mobilization organization.
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wisconsin
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
a radio interview
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Our rating Tate, the Democratic Party official, decried the lack of healthy and affordable food options in some Milwaukee neighborhoods. "A bag of Cheetos costs less to buy than an apple," Tate said, and "good luck trying to find an apple or a banana or some sort of healthy option" at stores there. He’s right on the price comparison, and is partially accurate in suggesting it’s very difficult to locate fresh fruit. While fresh fruit can be found at big and some small stores, it’s more available in some low-income areas more than others, and getting there, finding it worth eating and paying for it are a challenge for some, according to experts and residents. We rate his .
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3,480 | 4 |
Says Paul Ryan "voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for.
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April 14, 2011
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afghanistan;deficit;federal budget;health care;iraq;taxes
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barack obama
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Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
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wisconsin
| 124 | 165 | 163 | 71 | 71 | 9 |
remarks at a campaign fundraiser
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Obama got it right on Ryan’s support for the big-ticket bills, including war funding, Medicare prescription drugs and the Bush tax cuts. He was also on target in saying that none was offset or "paid for" by spending cuts or tax increases. That’s the main part of his . He was off the mark in asserting that one of the bills -- Medicare prescription drugs -- was as costly as his 2010 health care reform bill. That puts him at .
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10,943 | 3 |
We already pay the highest electricity prices in the country here in New England.
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November 1, 2015
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energy
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richard paglia
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Richard Paglia is a vice president of Houston-based Spectra Energy. His office is in Waltham, Mass.
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rhode island
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a TV interview
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New England had the priciest electricity in the continental United States according to a government report that compares New England to other regions of the country. The same report shows that California’s electricity was more expensive than electricity in four of six New England states. Meanwhile, Hawaii and Alaska are U.S. states and electricity within both of those states was more expensive than the New England region’s average. The average for the region that both states are grouped in was more expensive, too. The statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details. For this reason, we rate it
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20,692 | 1 |
Dr. Fauci opens up the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could be making people more likely to be infected by the virus.
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December 13, 2021
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facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
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viral image
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Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
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a Facebook post
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"This is why the development of candidate vaccines proceeds in a stepwise fashion, starting with laboratory studies, then progressing to studies in animal models that mimic the human immune response, and finally to carefully controlled human clinical trials where participants are monitored closely for any adverse events," the institute said. "After a candidate vaccine is authorized or approved by the FDA, rigorous post-marketing safety surveillance is conducted to identify even very rare safety concerns. This is precisely the process NIAID has followed during the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, the agency said, the COVID-19 vaccines approved or authorized for use in the United States had been administered to more than 485 million people "and have proved to be very safe and effective. " We rate this post .
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12,852 | 0 |
Secret Service Agent Says Obama Is Muslim & Gay In New Tell-All Book
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December 23, 2016
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candidate biography;fake news;punditfact
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newsexaminer.net
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NewsExaminer.net describes itself as “the place to find what's shaping your world.” The site is filled with fake news articles, but there’s no apparent disclaimer that the writing is supposed to be satirical.
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a website
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The nature of the allegations should be a tip-off that the story is , although many of the commenters do not seem to understand the content is fabricated. In the make-believe interview, Horner tells Downey that Obama constantly berated Christians, forced the pretend agent to listen to Diana Ross and had staff harass a Facebook page about a masturbating dolphin. This is a story that has been circulating for more than a year without any indication that it is bogus. We rate it ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/bd3df358-1784-4580-af06-eb8f26c499de
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18,585 | 2 |
Says Dr. Anthony Fauci said of Trump's pandemic response, "I can't imagine that … anybody could be doing more.
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October 10, 2020
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public health;coronavirus
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donald trump
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Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
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national
| 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 |
a campaign ad
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A Trump campaign ad claims Fauci said of Trump’s pandemic response, "I can’t imagine that … anybody could be doing more." The ad’s use of Fauci’s quote is . Fauci made the comment nearly seven months before the ad was released, and he was not talking about Trump. He told CNN he did not consent to being in the ad and felt he was taken out of context. The full context of the quote shows that Fauci was talking about the White House coronavirus task force and the mobilization of the federal government more generally. Overall, the ad’s contains an element of but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
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856 | 1 |
The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.
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March 2, 2009
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federal budget
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democratic congressional leadership
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The Democratic congressional leadership is comprised of the Democrats who run the House and the Senate.
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national
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
statements to reporters
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"It’s easier to make your weight loss goals if you don’t count your rear end," he said. Brost says she has been precise with reporters that she was referring to the "non-project-based" numbers. But judging from the number of times we found the number cited as the Democratic estimate for earmarks, her nuance was not caught by reporters or by Democrats who have cited the figure. Either way, the number is not a fair account of the total earmarks. We find the Taxpayers for Common Sense estimate to be right and we find the statement .
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10,095 | 5 |
Ted Cruz was "the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas.
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March 23, 2015
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candidate biography;legal issues
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jerry falwell jr.
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Jerry Falwell has been chancellor and president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., since the death of his father, Liberty's founder, Dr. Jerry Falwell, Sr., in 2007.
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texas
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
a speech introducing Ted Cruz at Liberty University
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Falwell said Ted Cruz was "the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas." That post has been around less than 20 years. Still, Cruz held it more than five years, longer than any of the lawyers who preceded and followed him and outpacing the second-longest holder by about a year. We rate this statement . – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
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11,320 | 1 |
If it weren't for me … (illegal immigration) wouldn't even be a big subject.
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February 25, 2016
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immigration
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donald trump
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Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
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national
| 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 |
comments during the CNN debate
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Trump said, "If it weren’t for me … (illegal immigration) wouldn’t even be a big subject." Trump’s talk about building a wall -- and making Mexico pay for it -- certainly has made headlines. But talk about America’s immigration system and proposed changes preceded the billionaire businessman’s candidacy for president. We rate this .
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19,178 | 1 |
Says Facebook recently logged users out to track their "off Facebook activity" involving bank accounts, emails and other apps.
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January 23, 2021
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privacy issues;facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
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a Facebook post
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Some Facebook users who were recently logged out of their accounts that the company did it purposely to install an off-Facebook tracker that accesses their bank accounts, emails and more. This is . The forced logouts were due to a system change glitch and has nothing to do with the company’s Off-Facebook tracker. The tool allows users to see how the company traces their activity on the internet and has been on the social media website since January 2020. We rate this .
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20,263 | 2 |
Biden's Treasury Department declares IRS will monitor" all accounts over $600.
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September 13, 2021
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financial regulation;income;government regulation;taxes;facebook fact-checks
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infowars
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Infowars is a conspiracy oriented website run by Alex Jones.
| null | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
an Instagram post
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An Infowars headline widely shared on Instagram stated that "Biden’s Treasury Department declares IRS will monitor" all accounts over $600. The Treasury has made no such declaration. The department has made a proposal that Congress is considering. Under the proposal, financial institutions would be required to annually report the total inflows and outflows from bank, loan and investment accounts, if the total is at least $600 in a year, or if the account’s value is at least $600. The headline contains an element of but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . __
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12,278 | 1 |
As governor, Tim Kaine "oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase.
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August 20, 2016
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immigration
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donald trump
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Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
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virginia
| 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 |
a rally
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Trump said that while Kaine was governor, he "oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase." But figures from the Pew Hispanic Center show that the size of the illegal immigrant population essentially was flat during Kaine’s term as governor. It’s certainly not the "huge" and "tremendous" increase that Trump makes it out to be. We rate his . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/10bcb296-66a2-4ad7-a60d-b53e86eecc3c
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18,865 | 1 |
Says "132,000 ballots in Fulton County, Ga., have been identified as likely ineligible," and President Trump might win Georgia as a result.
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November 8, 2020
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elections;facebook fact-checks
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viral image
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Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
| null | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 |
a post on Facebook
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A Facebook post claims that "132,000 ballots in Fulton County, Ga., have been identified as likely ineligible," and that President Trump might win Georgia as a result. There is no verified that the ballots are ineligible. We rate this .
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21,843 | 0 |
Video implies talk between Barack Obama and Kamala Harris has coded references to pedophilia.
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August 15, 2022
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facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
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national
| 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 |
a Facebook video
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A Facebook post shared a TikTok video that implied a conversation between Obama and Harris was filled with coded messages about pedophilia. The video is connected to the debunked Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories, which accuse prominent Democrats and celebrities of involvement in a satanic child sex-trafficking ring. Faked documents are used in the video as an attempt to support the baseless assertion. We rate this !
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7,758 | 4 |
About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants "came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home.
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August 31, 2013
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immigration
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john carter
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Carter, of Georgetown, was initially elected to the U.S. House in 2002. He is a former state district judge.
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texas
| 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
a news article
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Carter said about 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants "came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home." That percentage aligns with an oft-repeated estimate, supported by a 2006 report by the Pew Hispanic Center, of the share of unauthorized residents who have overstayed visas. Many presumably arrived by plane, though we found no such breakdown. And the percentage could be off--too high or even too low. Homeland Security’s chief testified that 40 percent might be too high, while another expert told us there may now be more visitors who overstay. A precise up-to-date calculation doesn't seem to exist. We rate this , which relies on a seven-year-old estimate and could have used clarification about not all visitors coming by airplane, as .
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12,189 | 4 |
Says Carlos Beruff "supported (Charlie) Crist even after he switched parties.
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July 14, 2016
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candidate biography
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florida first project
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Florida First Project is a PAC formed to support U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's 2016 re-election. It's run by many of the same people who managed Conservative Solutions, the super PAC that assisted Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign and the presidential campaign itself.
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florida
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a campaign ad
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Florida First Project said Beruff "supported Crist even after he switched parties." Beruff had supported Crist’s 2010 Senate run when Crist ran as a Republican, giving the maximum legal amount in donations. After Crist switched to an independent run, Beruff also attended a Crist fundraiser, although he denied supporting Crist in any way at that event. The Bradenton developer was listed as dependable Crist supporter in a news report prior to the switch, and didn’t ask for a refund of his donations. We found nary a mention of Beruff beyond that. But the bottom line is, even if Beruff denies it now, there's that he didn't give Crist the same cold shoulder other Republicans immediately did. We rate the statement .
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5,582 | 5 |
Says George LeMieux was one of two Republicans who voted for President Barack Obama's jobs bill.
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May 14, 2012
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candidate biography;jobs
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connie mack
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Connie Mack was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2004. Mack, of Fort Myers, lost a U.S. Senate race to Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003.
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florida
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
a Web ad
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Mack’s ad puts a lot of spin on the basic facts when it says, "George LeMieux was one of only two liberal Republicans who voted for Barack Obama’s liberal jobs bill that failed to help our economy.
" Certainly that "liberal" tag is what gives the ad its bite. Here, we’re simply checking whether LeMieux was one of two Republican senators who voted for a jobs bill supported by the president. That is the case. We rate that statement .
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20,769 | 5 |
You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you're not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.
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January 10, 2022
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facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
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jen psaki
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Jen Psaki is the White House press secretary under Preisdent Joe Biden.
| null | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
a White House press briefing
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Psaki said "You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die," compared to people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The most complete data available from the CDC and research from Texas support this . While those studies are based on data collected prior to omicron variant spreading in the U.S., early data from New York and Seattle in December and January continue to suggest a significant gap between the experiences of the unvaccinated and the vaccinated who become infected. We rate this .
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7,341 | 3 |
The State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to" wash your hands "at least 28 times to make one peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.
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May 8, 2013
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county government;food safety;health care;government regulation
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jeff wagner
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Jeff Wagner, a former federal prosecutor, is a conservative talk show host on WTMJ-AM (620) in Milwaukee.
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wisconsin
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a radio show
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It seems likely, though, based on the violation notices the state issued, that the state believes the hand washing should have occurred more than nine times. Our rating Wagner said "the State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to" wash your hands "at least 28 times to make one peanut butter and jelly sandwich." Wagner later made it clear he was referring to food preparation in a county-owned nursing home. But although the state indicated it wanted nursing home staff to wash their hands more than nine times, it didn’t specify a number. Wagner’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details -- our definition of .
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17,117 | 5 |
The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.
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February 20, 2020
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polls and public opinion;guns
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amy klobuchar
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Amy Klobuchar is a senator from Minnesota. Klobuchar was elected as senator in 2006 and re-elected in 2012 and 2018. Klobuchar received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2019, she announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 2, 2020.
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national
| 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
an MSNBC interview
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Klobuchar said, "The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters." The about Trump voters is backed by two national polls from the summer of 2019, while the about hunters matches a 2013 poll commissioned by a hunting advocacy group. Polls don’t necessarily reflect support for specific pieces of legislation, however. We rate this statement .
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14,005 | 0 |
Says a Washington Post reporter is "calling to find out if anyone at this address is a female between the ages of 54 to 57 years old willing to make damaging remarks about candidate Roy Moore" for up to $7,000.
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November 14, 2017
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fake news
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anonymous caller
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An unidentified person responsible for making a hoax phone call.
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national
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
a voicemail
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A caller purporting to be a Washington Post reporter named Bernie Bernstein left a voicemail saying the newspaper was offering women up to $7,000 for damaging information on Roy Moore. The Washington Post denied having made the call and dismissed it as an effort to discredit journalism. Further, it said the reporting methods described in the call — offering cash in exchange for muck — runs counter to Post practice. We found no record of any Washington Post reporters or editors named Bernie Bernstein or Al Bernstein, and emails sent to the address provided in the message came back undeliverable. We rate this .
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10,831 | 2 |
We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.
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October 13, 2015
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criminal justice;drugs;legal issues;marijuana
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bernie sanders
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Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
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national
| 21 | 62 | 48 | 26 | 18 | 0 |
Las Vegas
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Sanders said, "We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana." Being sentenced to prison for marijuana possession by itself can happen -- but it’s exceedingly rare. Sanders would have been on safer ground had he kept to pointing out continuing high levels of arrests for marijuana possession. These can result in a night in jail and a cascade of problems for those who are arrested, but getting a prison sentence for just smoking a joint is extremely unusual. The statement contains an element of but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
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8,203 | 5 |
60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were living-wage jobs. Of the jobs we've gotten back, only 40 percent are living-wage.
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December 4, 2013
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jobs
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jeff merkley
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Jeff Merkley is a Democratic senator from Oregon. He was elected in 2008. Merkley won his first campaign for the Oregon Legislature as a representative in 1998. He was elected Democratic leader in 2003 and speaker of the House in 2007. He studied international relations at Stanford University and earned a graduate degree in public policy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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oregon
| 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
a talk to the Human Services Coalition of Oregon
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The number of mid-wage jobs added back during the recovery, according to statistics no one disputes, are far outstripped by the number of jobs added for lower-wage and higher-wage occupations. Merkley, in his talk to the Human Services Coalition of Oregon, said 60 percent of the jobs lost starting around 2008 were mid-wage positions, while only 40 percent of the jobs added during the recovery fit that description. His numbers line up with those found by the National Employment Law Project and with similar statistical analyses conducted by Oregon state economists. And though he based his assertion on the recovery using mid-2012 numbers, economists say the trend is holding. We rate his .
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19,281 | 1 |
Gov Roy Cooper does not consider Type 1 diabetes an under lying health issue!
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February 13, 2021
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coronavirus
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billboard
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A billboard along Interstate 94 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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north carolina
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
a billboard
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The billboard says "Cooper does not consider Type 1 diabetes an (underlying) health issue!" North Carolina’s vaccine rollout prioritizes people with type 1 diabetes ahead of the general population. So it’s clear that Cooper, to some degree, considers the disease to be an underlying health issue. We rate this .
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4,034 | 4 |
There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period.
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August 1, 2011
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federal budget;taxes
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eric cantor
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Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
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national
| 7 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 4 |
a message on Twitter
|
If the recommendations include tax increases, the Republican House could still vote the deal down. Cantor's tweet is largely correct. It's that there are no tax increases written directly into the bill. Still, the debt committee has the power to propose tax increases if a majority of its members feel it is appropriate, and if Congress approves those recommendations they would become law. Those are high hurdles, so we rate Cantor's statement .
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3,525 | 4 |
The federal debt is more than $14 trillion, "almost equal to the size of our entire economy," and "every child born today inherits a $45,000 share of the national debt before they take their first breath.
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March 29, 2011
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deficit;federal budget
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jim renacci
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Jim Renacci, a Republican, is running against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in 2018. Renacci is the representative from Ohio's 16th Congressional District. He is a businessman and also the former mayor of Wadsworth. He was first elected to Congress in 2010.
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ohio
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
a video posted to YouTube
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So where does that leave us? Renacci's statement is accurate. The overall debt at the time he made the statement, divided by the population at the time, supports his number. But we know today that the public debt is what the government actually owes to those who have lent it money, and that is a good bit less than the total debt. That's important information that puts Renacci's into perspective, and on the -O-Meter, that makes the statement .
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12,448 | 2 |
Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years.
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September 13, 2016
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corrections and updates;food safety;public health
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dan flynn
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Dan Flynn represents Texas' second district in the Texas House.
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texas
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
a letter to state health officials
|
Flynn wrote: "Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years." Government counts suggest raw milk only rarely touched off illnesses in Texas over those decades. However, Flynn presented an incomplete too-low count, failing to note seven to 10 illnesses tied to raw milk that reportedly occurred in Texas last year. We rate his . – The statement contains an element of but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f9375e24-ce06-4dd1-bb25-84ead1f35b19
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22,394 | 1 |
Arizona midterm election was unlawful because the lab used to certify voting machines was not accredited.
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November 23, 2022
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elections;facebook fact-checks
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instagram posts
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Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
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arizona
| 3 | 3 | 15 | 51 | 405 | 140 |
an Instagram post
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An Instagram post claimed the 2022 Arizona election was unlawful because voting equipment was improperly certified by a voting system test laboratory whose certification had expired. Arizona election officials said that is not the case, and that all equipment used had been certified in accordance with state and federal law. The federal Election Assistance Commission said that although paperwork was not updated for Pro V&V, one of the testing labs used, in 2017-2019, the company has remained certified. We rate this . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report RELATED: Maricopa’s final election results aren’t missing thousands of votes RELATED: Kari Lake claimed Maricopa County voters were ‘disenfranchised.’ Experts disagree. RELATED: No, Maricopa vote tabulators didn’t lead to ballots with ‘no chain of custody’
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508 | 3 |
We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt.
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June 17, 2008
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energy
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john mccain
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John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama.
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national
| 37 | 37 | 31 | 32 | 39 | 8 |
Houston, Texas
|
But the two phenomena aren't causally related. The Saudis aren't running a company store, where we're required to borrow from them to buy the product. Rather, these are two issues taking on new relevance because of dramatic increases in oil prices. McCain isn't entirely , but by his choice of words he gives the impression that the two dynamics are working together. For this reason, we find his statement .
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2,070 | 5 |
The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse.
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August 2, 2010
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immigration;pundits
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rachel maddow
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Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
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national
| 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 1 |
"The Rachel Maddow Show"
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The test is whether the illegal immigrant population will continue to decline after the economy picks up. By two key measurements, the numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border are not increasing. At least for the time being, the numbers in both counts are going down. But when the economy picks up again, it is possible that illegal immigration will once again increase. Nevertheless, looking at the numbers, we rate Maddow's statement .
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14,417 | 5 |
West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation.
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March 20, 2018
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health care;public health
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evan jenkins
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U.S. Congressman representing West Virginia's 3rd district.
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national
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
a press release
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Jenkins said that West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation." That is accurate according to official federal data -- in fact, the comparison is not even close. We rate the statement .
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4,729 | 3 |
The study of the Savannah River Estuary . . . clearly demonstrates the project can be constructed and [environmental] impacts will be mitigated.
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November 8, 2011
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environment;transportation
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curtis foltz
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Curtis Foltz is executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority.
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georgia
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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None of these comments said the problems are impossible to fix. They do question whether the corps plan will fall short of its goal. We think it’s fair to say that while the corps’ environmental report may have concluded that dredgers can mitigate the environmental problems they would cause, as Foltz stated, critiques by other federal agencies and an independent study muddy the waters. Foltz should have acknowledged their reservations. Since his statement needs more context, it meets PolitiFact’s definition of .
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3,961 | 1 |
Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you, the people.
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July 13, 2011
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redistricting
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alan hays
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Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) represents parts of Lake, Marion, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia counties
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florida
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
a public hearing about redistricting
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The Secretary of State is the defendant because the office is charged with implementing the amendment. (Brown and Diaz-Balart are using legal defense funds -- not tax dollars -- to pay for the lawsuits, said David Simon, spokesman for Brown.) Hays told a group of residents concerned about redistricting, "Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you the people who voted the 63 percent." But tax dollars are being used by the House to try to strike down Amendment 6, as well as by the Secretary of State to defend the amendment in court. We rate this .
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3,270 | 5 |
Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.
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January 25, 2011
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consumer safety
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national federation of independent business-florida
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The National Federation of Independent Business is a small business association representing small and independent businesses.
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florida
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
testimony to Florida House Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
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In New York, for instance, a "certified interior designer" applicant must pay a $377 fee, be at least 21, have at least seven years of acceptable education and experience credits, pass the NCIDQ, and "be of good moral character." Douglas said that "Florida is one of only three states that requires licenses for commercial interior designers. Both the pro- and anti-licensing camps agree that only Florida, Nevada and Louisiana require licenses to practice commercial interior design, and a court upheld the Florida law earlier this month. The state Legislature is trying to remove some of the restrictions on these licenses, but it has not happened yet. So we rate this statement .
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12,370 | 4 |
Mark Kirk's claim of national security expertise is "based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times.
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August 18, 2016
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military
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tammy duckworth
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Tammy Duckworth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 after representing Illinois' 8th Congressional District for two terms. She is an Iraq War veteran and former Assistant Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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illinois
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
a speech
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Duckworth said Kirk claims military and defense expertise "based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times." There is no disputing that Kirk spent the summer of 2010 explaining and apologizing for misstatements in describing his military experience. The Duckworth campaign listed these 10 examples when we asked: Naval Intelligence Officer of the Year Award Taking fire while flying over Iraq Serving combat duty in Kosovo Being shot at in Afghanistan Being "deployed" to Afghanistan Taking part in Operation Desert Storm Participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom Claimed to be the only member of Congress who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom Claimed to command the Pentagon’s war room Claimed he had not violated Pentagon policy about campaigning while on duty The fourth on this list, that Kirk lied about being shot at in Afghanistan, is in dispute. The original source for that contains an update indicating Kirk described two separate incidents. Kirk’s current campaign spokesman, Kevin Artl, reiterated that explanation when contacted for this article. The groundwork on the other nine claims was done six years ago or longer, sometimes by multiple media outlets. If you follow the links included above, you’ll see that the coverage at times creates a confusing patchwork of sourcing that makes it difficult to put all this into a smooth timeline. You’ll also see a long pattern -- albeit one that appears to have ended after the summer of 2010 -- of ambiguous language and conflicting claims throughout Mark Kirk’s frequent pronouncements on his military activity. We rate Duckworth’s .
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12,210 | 2 |
Toomey crossed party lines… to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list.
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August 1, 2016
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guns
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independence usa pac
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Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PAC.
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pennsylvania
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
a television ad
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This ad is at its core, largely because a measure to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list never passed. Toomey’s own bill failed to garner significant support from either side of the aisle. Though he voted for the Collins amendment which had bipartisan support, that amendment was drafted by a Republican. In the end, Toomey voted with his party when he voted against Feinstein’s bill and in favor of Cornyn’s. We rate the .
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21,427 | 1 |
Your state will send you free infant formula if you call Enfamil and Similac customer service numbers.
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May 16, 2022
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facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 |
a Facebook post
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There’s no process in which parents call the company, the company notifies the state in which they live, and then that state sends the parents six cans of free formula. Enfamil did not respond to our questions about the post. We tried calling the customer service number provided in the post but were on hold indefinitely. Still, we found no credible reports to corroborate this . We rate this post .
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13,804 | 3 |
Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs.
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September 17, 2017
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health care;medicare
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bernie sanders
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Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
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national
| 21 | 62 | 48 | 26 | 18 | 0 |
an interview
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Sanders said, "Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs." Government and independent researchers corroborate the percentage figures Sanders cited, but the researchers who came up with the $500 billion savings admitted that "any such estimate is imprecise." Also, the administrative costs of private insurance and Medicare cover different types of costs. Experts told us that a single-payer system for the United States would have lower administrative costs than today’s private insurance, but it likely wouldn’t be able to achieve administrative costs as low as the existing Medicare program. Finally, the figures are because lowering administrative costs wouldn’t necessarily lower overall costs. In fact, administrative costs sometimes help make the delivery of health care more efficient. We rate this statement .
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2,236 | 4 |
Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires.
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September 12, 2010
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this week - abc news;taxes
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austan goolsbee
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Austan Goolsbee is the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He also serves as chief economist of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He was an economic adviser to Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
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national
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
an interview on "This Week."
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The JCT found that for those who make between $500,000 and $1 million, the lower rates were worth an average $17,467 per tax filer, and for those who make between $200,000 and $500,000, the lower rates were worth $7,152 per tax filer. The Tax Policy Center's numbers were similar . So Goolsbee is correct that the expiring tax cuts are worth, on average, more than $100,000 for millionaires and billionaires. But the proposal the president supports would let tax cuts expire for some people who make high salaries but aren't millionaires, which Goolsbee didn't mention. So we deduct a tick from the -O-Meter and rate his statement .
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20,399 | 0 |
A new federal program "is giving homeowners up to $3,708 every year.
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October 14, 2021
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facebook fact-checks
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bloggers
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Blog posting on the Internet
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a blog post
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This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) If you search for to corroborate the stimulus online, you’ll find none. But there are some fact-checks debunking it . We rate this .
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2,748 | 1 |
Last year, Beaverton School District had the highest number of homeless students ever recorded in Oregon.
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November 17, 2010
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education;housing
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beaverton
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The city of Beaverton, seven miles west of Portland, is Oregon's sixth largest city with nearly 87,000 residents.
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oregon
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a press release
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What we meant was the Beaverton School District had the highest number of homeless students recorded in 2009-10 and the highest ever recorded for the Beaverton School District." Certainly, there are a lot of homeless children in Beaverton, but it’s not accurate to say it was the largest on record in the state. Imlah said he would correct the . We rate the statement . Comment on this item.
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11,358 | 3 |
Says Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign.
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March 3, 2016
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campaign finance
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ted cruz
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Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
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national
| 8 | 22 | 21 | 48 | 47 | 11 |
Detroit
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Cruz said Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign." He has a point that Trump has made multiple campaign donations to Clinton, but he overstated the amounts. Trump ended up making five donations worth $4,100 to Clinton’s Senate campaign, and two donations worth $2,300 to her presidential campaign. The presidential donations were eventually refunded in their entirety. We rate Cruz’s statement .
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16,780 | 0 |
Ilhan Omar just hosted a flag burning party.
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December 8, 2019
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patriotism;facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
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a Facebook post
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The story originated on Bustatroll.com , where it was tagged with labels like "conservative fan fiction" and "satire for Islamaphobes." "Saturday night at Ilhan’s!" reads a description of the invitation in the news story about the Minnesota Democrat. "Bring your flags and throw them into the bonfire! Burgers, shawarma, and tea for all!" We rate this Facebook post !
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14,991 | 4 |
Says "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans.
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July 26, 2018
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economy;income;poverty
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beto o'rourke
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Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
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texas
| 7 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
the Houston Defender
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O’Rourke said that "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans." Survey results pinpoint two ways to gauge such disparities. According to the Fed’s 2016 consumer survey, black Americans had one-tenth the median wealth of white Americans while black Americans had a little over one-seventh the average wealth of white Americans. We rate this . – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
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12,462 | 5 |
Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year.
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October 2, 2016
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immigration;social security;taxes;punditfact
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maría teresa kumar
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María Teresa Kumar is president and CEO of Voto Latina.
| null | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
an interview on "Meet the Press"
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Kumar said, "Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year." A left-leaning research organization estimated that undocumented immigrants paid about $12 billion in total taxes in 2010, while a conservative think tank pegged it at $17.6 billion. Kumar told us she meant Social Security taxes, but that would make her figure less accurate. According to the Social Security Administration, half of the $12 billion in payroll taxes comes from employers. (But she didn’t say it this way.) We rate Kumar’s .
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15,646 | 1 |
Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans.
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February 4, 2019
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health care
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cory booker
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Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
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national
| 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
an interview on CBS This Morning
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Booker said the CBO had reported that allowing 50-year-olds into Medicare would save the government money and reduce premiums for everyone. The senator’s office acknowledged there is no such CBO report. The article behind Booker’s statement discussed a different idea — making it mandatory for people 55 and over to switch to Medicare. While it said there would be some follow-on savings, it also said there would be higher costs, and it made no attempt to say what the net effects would be. We rate this .
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11,188 | 2 |
Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building.
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January 28, 2016
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debates;government regulation;regulation
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ben carson
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Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
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national
| 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 4 |
a Republican debate
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Carson said, "Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building." The Federal Register published a little over 81,000 pages in 2015, and this many pages stacked on top of each other would reach about three stories high. However, many of these pages do not contain regulations. In recent years, only about 31 percent of Register pages contain final rules. The statement has an element of but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
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21,685 | 1 |
If a 10-year-old became pregnant as a result of rape and it was threatening her life, then that's not an abortion.
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July 14, 2022
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abortion;children
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catherine glenn foster
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Catherine Glenn Foster is the president and CEO of Americans United for Life, a national anti-abortion group.
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national
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
a congressional hearing
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An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. Neither medical nor legal definitions say the classification of an abortion is contingent on whether or not a law includes an exception. Cases of rape, incest or if the mother’s life or health is at risk are often included as exceptions in laws restricting abortion. But that does not change the classification of the procedure as an abortion. We rate the .
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13,558 | 2 |
Says Barack Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it.
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July 6, 2017
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homeland security;foreign policy
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donald trump
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Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
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national
| 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 |
Poland
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Trump said that Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it." The Obama administration did not sit idle while Russia interfered in the election, as Trump makes it seem. The administration publicly named the Russian government as the culprit, confronted Putin in person, and worked to secure the country’s election infrastructure — all while the intelligence agencies investigated the issue. That said, Obama waited until December, after the election, to take any public, punitive measures against Putin, when he kicked out diplomats and imposed sanctions. Trump’s statement contains a grain of but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
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12,798 | 5 |
Even "though men comprise 49% of the population, they hold 80% of the lawmaking power in the Legislature (144 of 181 seats).
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November 30, 2016
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history;states;women
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annie's list
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Annie's List, a political action committee founded in 2003, says its mission is to recruit, train, support and elect progressive, pro-choice women in Texas.
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texas
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a press release
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Annie’s List said that "though men comprise 49% of the population, they hold 80% of the lawmaking power in the Legislature (144 of 181 seats)." In 2014, 51 percent of the state’s residents were female, 48 percent were male. Of late, men account for 80 percent of Texas legislators, women comprise 20 percent. After members are sworn in for the 2017 regular session, there also will be an 80-20 split. We rate this . – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
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8,474 | 4 |
Travis County now has the highest urban county tax rate in Texas.
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February 17, 2014
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taxes
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andy brown
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Andy Brown, initially elected chairman of the Travis County Democrats in 2008, served in that role until he ran for Travis County judge in 2014. He was previously executive director of the 21st Century Democrats in Texas.
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texas
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
a mailer to voters
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Brown said Travis County now has the highest urban county tax rate in Texas. Travis County had the second-highest total property tax rate of the state’s 15 most populous counties in 2012 and 2013, we found, also levying the highest rate of the state’s seven most populous counties. But in contrast to Brown’s message, Travis County's tip-top ranking isn't new. The county’s rate has exceeded the rates of more populous counties every year since 1996. We rate this , which lacked these clarifications, as . – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
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7,624 | 3 |
Over 12,000 school kids were arrested in Florida. It makes Florida the nation's leader in that area.
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July 22, 2013
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children;education;crime
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dream defenders
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The Dream Defenders describe themselves as "a human rights organization, directed by Black & Brown youth who confront Inequality & the Criminalizing of our Generation with nonviolent Direct Action and building of collective power in our communities."
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florida
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a meeting with Wansley Walters, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary
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Dream Defenders said, "Over 12,000 school kids were arrested in Florida. It makes Florida the nation's leader in that area." The number about Florida is correct: There were 12,520 students arrested at schools in 2011-12, according to the state Department of Juvenile Justice. But the Dream Defenders failed to prove that the number makes Florida the nation’s leader in school-related arrests. This appears to be a case of the state getting a bad rap because of its rare decision to publish comprehensive data. Multiple experts said that comprehensive data for state-by-state comparisons is lacking. That makes it difficult to declare Florida’s ranking for school-related arrests. We rate this .
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5,499 | 4 |
Since 2009, the Ohio Republican Party has made more contacts with voters — nearly 6.6 million — than any other GOP state organization in the nation.
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April 4, 2012
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kevin dewine
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Kevin DeWine is the former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. He was elected the party's chief executive officer Jan. 16, 2009. He resigned in April 2012.
As party chair, DeWine is responsible for the management of all party operations and services, including candidate recruitment, campaign support, training, fundraising, voter contact programs and legal strategies. He also is a member of the Republican National Committee, where he sits on the party's ethics and site selection committees.
He previously served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives.
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ohio
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
a resignation letter
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A spokesman for the Republican National Committee didn’t offer statistics, either, but did support DeWine’s that Ohio’s performance for building contacts was tops since 2009. We see no reason for the national organization to label Ohio’s operation as tops compared to the other states unless that is . Based on that, we find DeWine’s is accurate. That the party declined to provide supporting data to back the specific numbers DeWine’s letter cites is additional information that helps provide clarity. On the -O-Meter, DeWine’s rates .
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6,801 | 2 |
While President Obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear Iran, Hagel says military action is not a viable, feasible, responsible option.
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December 19, 2012
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israel;foreign policy;military
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emergency committee for israel
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The Emergency Committee for Israel advocates for a strong US-Israel relationship, particularly on security issues. Its board includes such conservatives as William Kristol and Gary Bauer.
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national
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
an ad
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The Emergency Committee for Israel said in an ad, "And while President Obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear Iran Hagel says military action is not a viable, feasible, responsible option." Obama clearly has said all options are on the table. But the ad portrays Hagel’s comments as occurring in December 2012, he actually stated them in 2006. In the past, Hagel did repeatedly warn against jumping into another war and called for discussions with Iran, but the comments the ad cites were made when the United States was engaged in war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2012 in an op-ed he co-wrote, Hagel called for "keeping all options on the table, including the use of military force, thereby increasing pressure on Iran while working toward a political solution." We rate this .
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5,988 | 1 |
Says Democrats racked up a $1 billion state deficit, while Republicans under Bill O'Brien balanced the budget.
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July 23, 2012
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state budget
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new boston republican committee
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Republican committee for New Boston, New Hampshire. The committee is made up of Republican, independent and undeclared voters. Formed in 2010, it seeks to vet Republican candidates running for local, state and national office.
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new hampshire
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire
|
But here, too, those are projections, not a final deficit. Our ruling: The New Boston Republicans’ sign makes some big claims in only a few words. It wrongly describes a $1 billion interim projection as a deficit, ignoring the state law that mandates a balanced budget and the fact that the Democrats actually produced a $17.7 million surplus. The Republican group's sign is twisting the reality of the state budgets for partisan reasons and leaving people with a impression. We rate it .
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2,366 | 2 |
The Chilean "privatization scheme" that Sharron Angle supports "has resulted in hidden fees, fewer benefits, and millions of people with no coverage.
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August 17, 2010
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financial regulation;foreign policy;message machine 2010;social security
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patriot majority pac
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Patriot Majority PAC is a liberal group that has been running ads against Republican candidates in the 2010 election.
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national
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
a campaign commercial
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And the coverage gaps that exist now are not unique to the privatized system and have a lot to do with specific factors at play in Chile. The ad does have a point that the Chilean system, at least if it's implemented without major differences, would likely be seen by most Americans as inferior to Social Security. The size of the coverage gaps in Chile's system, while understandable given Chile's economic situation, would be unacceptable to many, if not most, Americans. But this reasonable point is undercut by the ad's overheated rhetoric ("human rights violator"), imagery (the goose-stepping soldiers) and exaggerations about the substance of the Chilean plan. On balance, we rate the ad .
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12,674 | 3 |
Joe Morrissey "has been a delegate in the General Assembly for eight years with no laws passed to help our black community with education or workforce.
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October 11, 2016
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michelle mosby
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Michelle Mosby was first elected to the Richmond City Council in 2012, representing the 9th District. In 2015, her peers elected her president of the council. In 2016, she ran for mayor.
Mosby was born in Richmond in 1969 and attended Norfolk State University and Virginia Union University.
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virginia
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a radio ad
|
Mosby said "Joe (Morrissey) has been a delegate in the General Assembly for eight years with no laws passed to help our black community with education or workforce." A review of Morrissey’s record shows he was not a prolific writer of laws that helped the black community in those two categories. But we don’t come up empty. Morrissey introduced a bill - which became a law under another legislator’s name - that allows people who can’t afford to pay traffic fines to keep driving. That will help some people - black and white - get to work. Morrissey wrote a law that requires colleges to give credit to students who are deployed by the military during mid-semester. That will help some people - black and white - complete college. So Mosby’s statement has some basis but also overlooks some of Morrissey’s broad legislative accomplishments. We rate it .
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18,762 | 1 |
COVID ends next Wednesday.
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October 30, 2020
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facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
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viral image
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Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
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a Facebook post
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" On Oct. 30, the United States recorded more than 99,000 new cases. In the previous week, more than 500,000 new cases were reported. We rate this Facebook post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
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4,673 | 3 |
Eighty percent of the net new jobs created in the state of Texas since 2009 went to the foreign-born.
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November 28, 2011
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economy;jobs
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david frum
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David Frum is senior editor at the Atlantic. He served as a speechwriter for George W. Bush.
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texas
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
a New York magazine article
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Aside from having the starting date for the studied period, Frum’s statement relies on a methodology that isolated immigrants recently arrived in Texas, disregarding immigrant departures and deaths and leaving the 80 percent figure in question. Then again, no one has disputed that recent immigrants filled a surprising share (more than half) of the added jobs. We rate Frum’s .
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11,679 | 4 |
ColoradoCare would have higher revenues than McDonald's.
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April 8, 2016
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elections;health care
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colorado health institute
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Colorado Health Institute
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colorado
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
an analysis report
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The Colorado Health Institute analysis said the Colorado universal health care system would have a projected $38 billion in revenues, larger than major corporations. The numbers seem to add up if everything with ColoradoCare goes according to its supporters’ plans. The revenues would be larger than some big companies. However, the health care plan has a make-or-break need to obtain federal waivers that would allow it to assume the roles of state Medicaid and Affordable Care Act programs. No waivers means no deal. The statement is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/aa4fc618-f92d-4df5-8f96-8cced5a8bbb1
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7,144 | 5 |
In 2011 alone, 269 New Jerseyans were killed by gun violence.
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February 21, 2013
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guns
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sheila oliver
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Sheila Oliver is the speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. A Democrat, Oliver represents parts of Essex and Passaic counties.
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new jersey
| 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
The Times Of Trenton
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Oliver said in a column that published the day the state Assembly voted on a package of gun-control bills that "in 2011 alone, 269 New Jerseyans were killed by gun violence." The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report for 2011 – the most up-to-date year of complete crime data – verifies that number. It’s worth noting, however, that 12 other states had more deaths attributed to gun violence than New Jersey that year. We rate Oliver’s statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
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15,345 | 2 |
Says Claire McCaskill "voted against including health records in the background check system.
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October 18, 2018
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guns
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josh hawley
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Josh Hawley took office as U.S. Senator from Missouri in 2019. Hawley previously served as Missouri’s Attorney General.
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missouri
| 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
a debate
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Hawley said McCaskill "voted against including (mental) health records in the background check system." Hawley is isolating one vote from a GOP proposal while ignoring McCaskill’s full record in the Senate. McCaskill clearly has supported efforts to tighten restrictions for who can purchase a firearm, including measures that clearly addressed the inclusion of mental health records in the gun background check system and more aggressive overall provisions for regulating gun sales. Hawley’s rates .
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20,937 | 4 |
A larger percentage of Illinoisans have been vaccinated than in any other Midwestern state.
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February 2, 2022
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coronavirus
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jb pritzker
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J.B. Pritzker is Illinois' 43rd governor and a former Chicago venture capitalist and entrepreneur.
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illinois
| 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
the 2022 State of the State address
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Pritzker said that "a larger percentage of Illinoisans have been vaccinated than in any other Midwestern state." There are many ways to measure vaccination rates — by single doses, people who have been fully vaccinated and those administered booster shots. While his spokeswoman later clarified he meant the percentage of Illinoisans who had received a single dose of a COVID-19 shot, Pritzker’s initial statement could be interpreted as Illinois being the Midwest leader in those who are fully vaccinated. It is not. We rate this . – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
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22,467 | 1 |
A video shows Jim Jordan saying the 2020 "election was stolen.
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December 18, 2022
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elections;facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
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a Facebook post
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CNN fact-checked Jordan’s that he never said the election was stolen and called it "highly ." Jordan participated in "stop the steal" events, questioned how former President Donald Trump could have lost the election and objected to Electoral College results despite no of widespread voter fraud. But that doesn’t make this Facebook post’s framing of the committee exchange more accurate. Around the video’s xix-minute mark, Jordan says that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said "the 2016 election was stolen," but otherwise, he says nothing like what the Facebook post claims. We rate claims that this video shows Jordan saying the 2020 election was stolen .
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22,475 | 4 |
Literally five (homeless) people a day die on our streets" in the city of Los Angeles.
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December 18, 2022
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homeless
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karen bass
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Karen Ruth Bass is a Democratic politician who was elected mayor of Los Angeles, California. As a member of Congress, Bass represented California's 37th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
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california
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
an interview
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Bass said "literally five people a day die on our streets" from homelessness. The estimate Bass used appears to be drawn from a study looking at homeless deaths across Los Angeles County, not just the city. The study found 1,988 unhoused people in all of Los Angeles County died from April 2020 through March 2021 — about five deaths per day. The study is the most recent information the county has on homeless deaths, comparing death rates one year before and after the start of the pandemic, and may not reflect the current trend in the city of Los Angeles, where Bass is mayor. We rate this .
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18,646 | 4 |
Says "David Schweikert took over $120,000 from the drug industry and voted against legislation to lower prescription drug prices.
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October 7, 2020
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health care;arizona
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afscme
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AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is the largest public employee and health care workers union in the United States.
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national
| 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
a Facebook ad
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A Facebook ad from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said Schweikert got over $120,000 from the drug industry and voted against a bill to lower prescription drug prices. Schweikert received $124,902 from the drug and health products industry since he entered Congress. He voted against a bill that would have had a significant impact on drug prices and was projected to cut industry revenues by hundreds of billions of dollars over 10 years. He backed a bill that would insulate millions of Medicare recipients from high out-of-pocket costs. According to multiple independent assessments, that alone would not drive down prices. Some measures in the bill could reduce some drug prices over time through competition from generic drugs. We rate this .
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18,345 | 5 |
Abigail Spanberger "has voted with Nancy Pelosi over 90% of the time…
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September 4, 2020
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party support;voting record
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nick freitas
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Republican Nick Freitas was first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2015. He represents the 30th District, comprising Madison, Orange and part of Culpeper Counties.
Freitas served in the Army Green Berets and served two tours in Iraq. After his honorable discharge in 2009, he moved to Virginia and works as director of operations for a sevice disabled veteran owned company.
Freitas is seeking the 2020 Republican nomination for the Seventh District congressioanl set held by Democrat Abigail Spanberger. He unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2018. He is married to Tina Freitas, a local Republican activist and state senate candidate in 2019.
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virginia
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a radio interview
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Freitas says Spanberger has voted with Nancy Pelosi over 90% of the time." Let’s remember that only 10 Democrats voted against Pelosi more often than Spanberger. But Freitas' statistic is solid; Spanberger and Pelosi agreed on 92 percent of the votes they both participated in. So we rate Freitas’ statement .
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15,759 | 3 |
Says author J.K. Rowling was the first billionaire to fall off Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving.
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March 1, 2019
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corrections and updates;wealth;facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
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a Facebook post
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Rowling is well known for her charitable work and has supported the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, The Maggie’s Centres for Cancer Care, Doctors Without Borders, and more. She founded the Children’s High Level Group, known as Lumos , which works to "end the systematic institutionalization of children across Europe and help them find safer, more caring places to live." She has also contributed to various other charitable causes through her philanthropic trust, Volant . While Rowling wasn’t the first billionaire to fall of the list due to charitable donations, she was bumped off for doing so (along with paying high taxes), and is highly regarded for her philanthropic work. We rate this post .
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13,709 | 2 |
We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10.
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July 19, 2017
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economy;jobs;states
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scott walker
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Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights. He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
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wisconsin
| 26 | 45 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 11 |
a tweet
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Our rating Walker said Wisconsin is now a Top 10 state for business when it used to be in the bottom 10. Site selection professionals say they have seen improvements in Wisconsin’s business environment, but note there is no consensus on how to define and rank the business climate between states. Walker’s was made broadly and without attribution even though it referred to just one of many rankings that attempt to quantify data and perceptions on states’ business environments. It is the only prominent national ranking to rank Wisconsin in the Top 10 aside from an index that focuses narrowly on small businesses. We rate Walker’s .
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17,061 | 1 |
Says the coronavirus is "a MILITARY BIO-WEAPON Developed by China's Army.
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February 1, 2020
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public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
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hal turner radio show
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Hal Turner uses internet and radio broadcasts to float conspiracy theories and hate speech. In 2010, he was sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening three federal judges over their decision to uphold handgun bans in Chicago.
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an article
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The Hal Turner Radio Show claimed the coronavirus is "a MILITARY BIO-WEAPON Developed by China's Army." As , the website included two screenshots of coronavirus entries in a federal database of genetic material. The site claimed the two viruses are the same. But all human coronaviruses have similar genetic material, and just because the entries were uploaded by Chinese researchers doesn’t prove that the 2019 coronavirus was developed as a bioweapon. Hal Turner Radio Show’s article is . We rate it .
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18,003 | 1 |
Weis Food stores will no longer sell anything with the American flag and their employees can no longer wear anything with the flag.
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July 3, 2020
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food;facebook fact-checks
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 |
a Facebook post
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The Standard Speaker, a newspaper in Hazleton, Pa., reported on July 3, that a longtime Weis Markets dress code prohibits employees from displaying pins, logos and other designs, including the American flag, on their uniforms. "The policy has been in effect for years, but came to attention during the COVID-19 pandemic when employees were told not to wear masks with the flag or other symbols," the story says. "Weis denies a ban of the flag." Dennis Curtin, a spokesman for the company, told fact-checkers at Snopes and the Daily Caller’s Check Your Fact that the store hasn’t stopped selling products with the American flag on them. We rate this Facebook post .
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16,184 | 1 |
When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn't have it. He had it.
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June 20, 2019
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immigration;homeland security
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donald trump
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Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
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national
| 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 |
a Telemundo interview
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Trump said, "When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn’t have it. He had it." The Obama administration did not have a policy to separate families arriving illegally at the border. Family separations rarely happened under the Obama administration, which sought to keep families together in detention. Then, based on a court decision, it released families together out of detention. Separations under Trump happened systematically as a result of his administration’s policy to prosecute all adults crossing the border illegally. After mounting public pressure and criticism, Trump signed an executive order to stop separating families. Around 2,800 children have been reunited with their families because a court ordered the Trump administration to do so. Trump repeatedly attempts to change the narrative about family separations, but the facts remain the same. Obama did not pass down to Trump a policy to separate families. Trump’s is . We rate it .
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13,494 | 0 |
Nancy Pelosi suffers breakdown, taken from Capitol Hill on a stretcher.
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June 14, 2017
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corrections and updates;fake news;punditfact
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freedomcrossroads.us
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A website associated with fake news.
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an Internet post
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Pelosi did not have any kind of breakdown. The story came from a parody website run by a prolific troll. We rate this one ! Correction, Oct. 2, 2017: This story originally misspelled Alan Whitmore's name.
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21,125 | 1 |
A video shows current "leaked footage of heavy war between Russia vs Ukraine
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March 15, 2022
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facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
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facebook posts
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Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 |
a video
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At the 41-second mark in the Facebook video, men are firing rifles, and a tank with the marking "132" on the front drives down a street. The exact same footage is also found in a 2014 video called "Battle of Ilovaisk," starting at the 3:06 mark. The battle took place in August 2014 and resulted in "the biggest loss of life in Ukraine's war against Russian-backed separatists," according to a 2019 BBC News report . Finally, at the 3:35 mark in the Facebook video, the image of tanks that is shown is from a 2014 Ukrainian news story . We rate the that this video shows current leaked footage of war between Russia and Ukraine .
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20,788 | 0 |
Gavin Newsom Gets Death Penalty.
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January 3, 2022
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fake news;facebook fact-checks
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bloggers
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Blog posting on the Internet
| null | 8 | 18 | 24 | 53 | 233 | 396 |
a blog post
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A PolitiFact investigation in September found that Real Raw News is authored by a 53-year-old man, Michael Tuffin, who previously ran several other websites and associated YouTube channels that also promoted far-fetched conspiracy theories. His websites publish information under the pseudonym "Michael Baxter. " The website’s "About Us" page features a disclaimer saying it contains humor, parody and satire, but the author of the articles often insists in the site’s comment sections that the content is legitimate, and the Right Side Broadcasting interview indicates that some people believe the type of content he pushes. The website’s latest claims about Newsom have no basis in reality. We rate them !
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7,777 | 4 |
The Kenosha casino would be one of the state's largest employers and pay more to the state than any other company or Tribe – essentially, it would be Wisconsin's biggest taxpayer.
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September 10, 2013
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gambling;jobs;state budget;taxes
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menominee indian tribe of wisconsin
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According to the tribe's website, the seat of government for the Menominee Tribe is located approximately 45 miles northwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin, on the Menominee Indian Reservation, in the Village of Keshena. The Reservation shares nearly coterminous geopolitical boundaries with Menominee County, is situated on the ancestral homelands of its 8,551 tribal members, and includes 5 main communities: Keshena, Neopit, Middle Village, Zoar, and South Branch. The Reservation is comprised of 235,523 acres, or approximately 357.96 square miles, and includes over 407 miles of improved and unimproved roads, 187 rivers and streams, and 53 lakes. The Reservation is located in the 8th Congressional District for the State of Wisconsin.
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wisconsin
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a web posting
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Tax payments can vary widely year to year based on fluctuations in taxable income, tax strategies and the availability of tax breaks. Our rating The Menominee contend that "the Kenosha casino would be one of the state’s largest employers and pay more to the state than any other company or Tribe – essentially, it would be Wisconsin’s biggest taxpayer." It’s a difficult to assess, but we found compelling it’s accurate when comparing the projections for a future Kenosha casino with the biggest taxpayers and employers in the state in recent years. If we get new information on corporate tax payments that is relevant to this item, we’ll revisit our ruling. For now, with the clarifications noted concerning the timing problem inherent in the tribe’s comparison, we rate this .
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3,081 | 4 |
Says there are Ohio Turnpike workers getting paid $66,000 a year to collect tolls that machines might collect.
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February 6, 2011
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state budget
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john kasich
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John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
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ohio
| 16 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 3 |
a newspaper column
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So where does that leave us on the -O-Meter? Kasich is correct that some toll collectors make as much as $66,000 a year. But only five who made that much in 2010 and only 13 of the state’s 286 full-time collectors (about 4.5 percent) earned over $60,000 that same year. That’s additional information that provides clarification. We rate Kasich comments .
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5,639 | 5 |
Says the city of Portland has one manager for every six "front-line" workers.
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May 15, 2012
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city government
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jefferson smith
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Jefferson Smith represents Oregon State House District 47. He is a native of east Portland, the district he represents.
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oregon
| 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
a questionnaire
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You wouldn’t want to make a citywide proclamation that the span of control should be a certain ratio. It’s much more effective if you look at it bureau by bureau. But Smith knows that -- and has generally been careful to say as much in his public remarks on this sort of thing. Anyhow, the data backs Smith up. We rate this .
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