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Statement: Video shows a crowd erupting and Hillary Clinton crying during a committee hearing.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 25, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It’s a clip of a December 2017 House Judiciary Committee hearing about FBI oversight. Jordan questioned Wray about Strzok, but the hearing didn't end with Wray deciding to charge Strzok. No crowd erupts. And Clinton is not even there.   We rate this post !
Statement: Said former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration "was forced to resign two years ago because of his personal use of emails.
Speaker: david shuster
About the speaker: David Shuster is a reporter for Al Jazeera America based in New York City.
Date: March 10, 2015
Topics: ethics;transparency;punditfact
Context: a Hillary Clinton press conference
Fact-check justification: Shuster said Gration was forced to resign because of his use of personal email accounts. That was one issue State Department officials raised. But just one of many. The State Department Inspector General’s report paints a much more troubling picture of an embassy in disarray under Gration’s leadership. In the words of the auditors, Gration "has lost the respect and confidence of the staff to lead the mission." Gration ranked at or near the absolute bottom among other ambassadors assessed by the department. His use of email was an issue, but according to an ambassador with much experience, it was a relatively minor one. We rate the  .
Statement: Cory Booker and all these people couldn't get any of the things that (Michael) Bloomberg's getting now" with respect to DNC debate rules.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: 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.
Date: February 2, 2020
Location: national
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Cory Booker and all these people couldn’t get any of the things that Bloomberg’s getting now." The DNC did adjust its qualification criteria, doubling the polling threshold and eliminating the donor requirement that had previously kept Bloomberg from debating. But the new rules are slightly different than what Booker asked for, and while they pave a path for Bloomberg to make his first debate, they don’t guarantee that he’ll earn a spot on stage. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: Says Ohio congressional candidate Danny O'Connor "would make Columbus a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.
Speaker: defending main street
About the speaker: Defending Main Street is a Super PAC created by Steve LaTourette, a former Republican Congressman. The group is focused on defending incumbent, establishment-backed Republicans against Tea Party primary challenges.
Date: October 12, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Defending Main Street says, as Troy Balderson has also said, that Danny O’Connor "would make Columbus a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants." O’Connor couldn’t if he wanted to, but he also has not said that. He supported policies of the Columbus mayor, who said the city would not volunteer to go after federal immigration suspects or turn them over to ICE "unless a warrant exists, a criminal violation was reported, or an arrest was made." That doesn’t meet the definition of a sanctuary city by ICE or groups that support lower levels of immigration. We rate the  .
Statement: Obama admin gutted @ProjChildSafe budget to provide trigger locks and safety kits.
Speaker: dana loesch
About the speaker: In 2017, Dana Loesch became an NRA spokeswoman. Loesch is a conservative talk show host and commentator. She broadcasts from Dallas, Texas.
Date: September 4, 2014
Topics: punditfact;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Loesch said that the Obama administration gutted the budget for Project Child Safe. In reality, the deepest cuts took place during the Bush years. Obama inherited a program funded at $500,000. In 2009, the funding agency changed from the Justice Department to Veterans Affairs. While the funding for Project Child Safe itself ended, the same kind of kits were distributed to peoples’ homes, although through different channels. Funding increased very slightly from the last year of the Bush administration. The work between the foundation and Veterans Affairs continues. We rate the  .
Statement: On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong.
Speaker: john barrasso
About the speaker: John Barrasso is a Republican senator from Wyoming.
Date: May 10, 2010
Location: national
Topics: education;kagan nomination;lgbtq;military;supreme court
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Justice Samuel Alito did not participate because he had not yet been seated to the court when oral arguments were made. Barrasso said Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was ." The court did reject the arguments put forward by the law schools, which included FAIR and the brief filed by the Harvard professors. All of the justices who voted opposed the law schools' arguments. So we rate Barrasso's statement .
Statement: (Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world.
Speaker: gayle smith
About the speaker: Gayle Smith is USAID administrator.
Date: March 9, 2016
Topics: global news service;economy;foreign policy
Context: a speech on Capitol Hill
Fact-check justification: Smith said that since 1990, individual incomes have grown by more than a third in every region of the developing world. Using the yardstick of GDP per capita, the World Bank data back that up. It is a hair off to say "more than a third" when the change in Sub-Saharan Africa is a bit less than a third, but the numerical difference is small. It is also important to remember that the benefits of a rising economy are rarely spread equally throughout the population. Typically, the wealthy gain more than the rest. So Smith’s statement isn’t as accurate on an individual to individual basis. With that caveat in mind, we rate this  .
Statement: Aluminum "is in the vaccine" and will hurt the brain.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 14, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video caption
Fact-check justification: A year-old video being reshared on Instagram claims that aluminum nanoparticles in vaccines cause a variety of illnesses and developmental disorders. The caption implies the COVID-19 vaccines also contain aluminum and contribute to health issues. Although several vaccines do contain a miniscule amount of aluminum, research has found it’s not enough to be absorbed by the body. Humans already ingest amounts of aluminum just by living their everyday lives as it can be found in food, water and the air. There is no  that any vaccine can cause people to experience illnesses or developmental disorders. None of the COVID-19 vaccines currently in use throughout the United States and Europe contain aluminum.   The  is . ​
Statement: Voucher schools have increased property taxes by $1 billion since 2011
Speaker: chris taylor
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Chris Taylor, a Madison Democrat, was elected to the Assembly in a special election in August 2011. An attorney, she is the former public policy director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
Date: May 30, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;taxes
Context: a statement to the Joint Committee on Finance
Fact-check justification: Even that number oversimplifies the matter. It doesn’t factor in additional aid that makes up at least a portion of the lost voucher student revenue for some districts. And it implies all those property taxes would go away if the voucher program ceased to exist, which is only  in a scenario where none of the voucher students wound up in a public school.   So Taylor’s point that vouchers are connected to a tax increase is right, but her numbers are off by a ways and don’t account for many nuances in the system.   For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: Says "President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception" to Obamacare.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: 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.
Date: August 10, 2013
Location: national
Topics: congress;health care
Context: Ames, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Cruz, reeling off signs Obamacare’s "wheels are coming off," said the president "just granted all of Congress an exception." That sounds like lawmakers get to opt out of health care under the law. Quite the opposite — they'll use new marketplaces alongside the uninsured and small businesses, just as it required. And it's not even accurate to say they were excepted from some provision of the law: the law itself wasn't clear. Instead, they got a clarification about the law’s effect on contributions toward their health insurance — which they will purchase on Obamacare’s marketplaces. We rate Cruz’s  .
Statement: We closed that plant down. It was a $27 million-dollar plant, operating full steam, and we closed it down.
Speaker: frederica wilson
About the speaker: Frederica Wilson, a former Florida state senator from Miami Gardens, was elected to the U.S. House on Nov. 2, 2010. She represents Congressional District 24 in South Florida.
Date: February 27, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: environment;education
Context: a Washington Post profile
Fact-check justification: It was a $27 million-dollar plant, operating full steam, and we closed it down." (As for the different estimates for the cost of the plant, Wilson said by phone: "You know how long that’s been? I don’t remember everything.")  But after 20 years, her memory in the Washington Post article was on target. We rate this .
Statement: The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: July 25, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: deficit;federal budget;taxes
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Johnson turned the clock way back in criticizing the size of the federal government. He claimed it took up just 2 percent of the economy a century ago, but 25 percent today. Johnson’s reference hearkens back to an entirely different era in American governance -- and it’s not clear just how far back in time on a percentage basis Johnson thinks we should go. But based on widely available, and generally accepted, historical data, he accurately described the dramatic rise of Washington, D.C., in our economic lives over the last 100 years. We rate his statement .
Statement: A Trump fan was just charged with trying to murder Maxine Waters on same day Trump threatened her.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 26, 2018
Topics: congress;fake news;crime;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Plus, Lloyd only plead guilty to threatening Waters. He was not charged with "trying to murder" the congresswoman. Mrozek said prosecutors have not made any allegations related to an actual attempt at murder. The Washington Press did not respond to a request for comment. We rate this statement .
Statement: From 2014 to 2015, Austin's "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent.
Speaker: bill o'reilly
About the speaker: Bill O'Reilly hosted The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News until 2017. He formerly worked as a television news reporter and has authored numerous books.
Date: October 7, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: city government;criminal justice;crime
Context: a commentary
Fact-check justification: O’Reilly said that from 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent." There’s an element of  here; the Austin police chief’s August 2015 report had figures indicating an 83 percent uptick in murders through that month compared to the same chunk of 2014. But the year-to-year comparison places a raw count of violent deaths in 2015 against killings confirmed as murders for the same part of 2014--generating an incomplete  percentage. In contrast, if O’Reilly had pulled back the camera, so to speak, he could have determined that Austin appears on pace to have a lower murder rate in 2015 than in 2014. 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.
Statement: Soldiers destroyed Russian tank with NLAW in ambush.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: 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.
Date: May 18, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: If you actually watch the video, it is clear that it shows an animation. The soldiers on top of the tank, and the tank rolling across a grassy field, have the glitchy movements of a simulation or video game. About three minutes into the recording, animated elements, such as the scenery, merge with one of the soldier’s arms in a way that defies reality.    We’ve previously debunked other claims that video game footage shows fighting in Ukraine.   This post is also .
Statement: Says "Kamala Harris is not able to be VP. Because she's a felon. She lied on her application to buy a gun here in CA.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 1, 2020
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;elections;facebook fact-checks;california
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Harris campaign declined to comment for this fact-check. All that said, even if Harris had been convicted of a felony at some point, this would not prevent her from becoming vice president or assuming the presidency. The requirements are the same for people seeking to become vice president or president, according to experts : A person must be a natural-born citizen, be at least 35 years old and have lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years.   Harris meets these requirements and is eligible to be president or vice president. We rate this  !
Statement: Farm bankruptcies are "at an eight-year high.
Speaker: theresa greenfield
About the speaker: Theresa Greenfield in a Democratic candidate for Senate in 2020. 
Date: October 30, 2020
Location: iowa
Topics: agriculture
Context: comments at a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: Greenfield lifts the statistic about farm bankruptcies from federal records and reporting about those records when making campaign statements about the farm economy. This is pretty straightforward. We rate her  to be . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: Corrupt political bosses. Money laundering. Fraud. It's just another day at the office for Vin Gopal.
Speaker: new jersey republican state committee
About the speaker: The New Jersey Republican State Committee represents the GOP in the Garden State.
 
Date: November 3, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections;message machine 2012
Context: a political advertisement
Fact-check justification: The Republican state committee distributed an ad in the 11th Assembly District that links Gopal to Vas, a disgraced politician convicted of election fraud and other offenses. Gopal worked four months on Vas’ unsuccessful congressional campaign. Gopal dealt with scheduling, phone banks, volunteers and occasional media queries. Given that law enforcement and a public database all confirm that Gopal had no connection of any kind to the Vas criminal case, the implications made by the ad aren’t just , they’re also outrageous. Some laundering is definitely needed because this  is !  To comment on this article, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Chris Christie "helped funnel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy money to a senior center in Belleville, N.J., a place that suffered no damage.
Speaker: lawrence o'donnell
About the speaker: Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word. He was formerly the chief of staff for both the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Environment & Public Works in the 1990's. He is also an actor, and has been executive producer of the television shows The West Wing and Mister Sterling. O'Donnell blogs at the Huffington Post as well. In the past, O'Donnell has described himself as a socialist.
Date: February 11, 2014
Topics: housing;weather;punditfact
Context: a segment on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"
Fact-check justification: O’Donnell said Chris Christie "helped funnel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy money to a senior center in Belleville, N.J., a place that suffered no damage." O’Donnell is right that Christie helped steer $6 million in Sandy money to a senior center. And he’s right that Belleville fared much better than other places in New Jersey, though to say "no damage" is an exaggeration. Because of that caveat, we rate this  .
Statement: Says Gov. Jim Doyle and the DNR have not put hunters first and mismanaged the deer herd; as a result "the deer population has dwindled.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: 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.
Date: October 14, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;recreation
Context: a campaign news release and platform document
Fact-check justification: However, Walker’s statement leaves out critical information: The size of the deer herd, itself an estimate, is down by design, not by . The goals are based on a system built on input from across the state and attempt to balance the concerns of hunters against those of farmers and drivers. Indeed, it has been successful in helping reduce the number of car-deer accidents. What’s more, in response to pressure from hunters, the 2010 population goal was increased. We rate Walker’s statement .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "wants sanctuary cities.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: 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.
Date: July 21, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: a speech at the Republican convention
Fact-check justification: Trump said that Clinton "wants sanctuary cities." During her first race for president, Clinton expressed support for sanctuary cities and said she wouldn’t crack down on them. She argued that without such policies, people will hide from police and not report crimes. In 2015, Clinton criticized the city of San Francisco for releasing a man from jail who later was charged with murdering a woman and had previously been deported many times. However, her campaign reiterated Clinton’s view that she believes sanctuary cities can help further public safety. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/05011271-7504-4511-9980-22b4aa91ef07
Statement: If you have an investment for your child's education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, (Obama) is going to raise your taxes.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: 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. 
Date: July 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: Denver, Co
Fact-check justification: He said if you have an investment for your child's education, or own a mutual fund or stock in a retirement plan "he (Obama) is going to raise your taxes." The fact is the capital gains tax would have absolutely no direct effect on savings in a traditional college savings plan. As for retirement savings through stocks or a mutual funds, people who cash out would not face higher tax rates unless you make more than $250,000. That doesn't apply to most Americans. We rate McCain's statement .
Statement: Norway readies its military to counter Biden.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 5, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims Norway sent soldiers to guard the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea to protect them from the U.S. government following the discovery of leaks. Norway did deploy its military to guard part of the pipeline network as a safety precaution. But it did not blame the U.S. for the leaks. Investigators have said they believe the leaks were the result of detonations and likely sabotage, but no suspects have been named.  We rate this  .