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Statement: Says several well-known charities such as Goodwill and American Red Cross overpay their CEOs and spend a small percentage on helping people.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 6, 2019
Topics: public service;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A recent Facebook post recirculated an outdated table that divided well-known charities into those that spent donations wisely and those that did not. Most of the numbers in the table were not just , they were wildly . The data inflated CEO salaries and lowballed the share of money going to charitable programs by factors ranging from two to 10. In a couple of cases, the numbers were correct or nearly correct, but those were the rare exceptions. We rate this .
Statement: The 2011 Rebuild America Jobs Act "would have cost the average American family $1,000 a year while making no significant impact to fix our infrastructure and roads.
Speaker: monica wehby
About the speaker: Dr. Wehby has practiced for 15 years and has held numerous leadership positions at the local, state and national levels. She currently is the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Randall Children's Hospital in Portland.
Date: July 9, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an economic issues statement
Fact-check justification: The bill ultimately failed, but had it passed, it would not have cost the "average American family" a dime. We rate the  . Comments? Questions? Click over to our entry on OregonLive.com and let us know what you think.
Statement: CNN announces today there will be no more live audiences at town halls.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 12, 2023
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We also couldn’t find anything that mentioned this on the network’s website or social media pages . "These social media posts are entirely fabricated," CNN spokesperson Bridget Leininger told PolitiFact. Despite the backlash, CNN Chief Executive Officer Chris Licht stood by the town hall, saying in an editorial meeting the next day that the audience reflected the views of "a large swath" of the American population.   We rate the  that CNN decided there would be no more live audiences at town halls .   RELATED: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s CNN town hall claims on Jan. 6, abortion, Mar-a-Lago documents
Statement: In 2016, Democrats suggested that the election was stolen.
Speaker: glenn youngkin
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected Virginia's governor in November 2021. He defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who was governor from 2014 to 2018.
Youngkin was reared in Richmond and Virginia Beach and won a basketball scholarship at Rice University, where he earned an engineering degree. He earned a MBA from Harvard University. Youngkin worked 25 years at the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm based in Washington with $230 billion in assets. He retired in 2020 as CEO after taking the company public. His net worth is estimated at $254 million, according to The Washington Post.
Youngkin's 2021 campaign for governor is his first bid for public office.
Date: September 21, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: elections
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: But Youngkin’s contention that the Democratic response in 2016 equates with the Republican response to 2020 runs into trouble. The Democrats, while questioning events that occurred during the campaign, didn’t contend there was widespread vote-counting fraud that flipped the election.   The Democratic leaders cited by Youngkin’s office also made a distinction about 2016 that Trump and his followers did not about 2020. While the Democrats rejected the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency based on the oddities of the campaign, they acknowledged that he won the election. All told, we rate Youngkin’s statement .
Statement: Almost 95 percent of all (Planned Parenthood) pregnancy services were abortions.
Speaker: sandra smith
About the speaker: Sandra Smith is a reporter on the Fox Business Network, where she has worked since October 2007. The Louisiana State University alumna is also part of a rotating panel featured on Fox News' noontime talk show, Outnumbered. Previously, she worked for Bloomberg News.
Date: July 28, 2015
Topics: abortion;punditfact
Context: an interview with Mike Huckabee
Fact-check justification: Smith said, "Almost 95 percent of all (Planned Parenthood's) pregnancy services were abortions." An anti-abortion group puts the figure at 94 percent using a cherry-picked method that ignores the majority of Planned Parenthood's services, which aim to prevent pregnancies. The group describes "pregnancy services" as counting what Planned Parenthood does for women once they are already pregnant. But Planned Parenthood does not fully track this number, making the  a leap of logic based on insufficient information. What's most noticeably missing among the number of Planned Parenthood services used by pregnant women are the number of pregnancy referrals. Planned Parenthood says it doesn't keep records of how many pregnant women are referred to outside healthcare providers. Without that information, we don't know an accurate percentage of "pregnancy services" that were abortions. Neither, however, does Smith. We rate the  . UPDATE:  After this fact-check published, an official with Planned Parenthood contacted us and said that she was not authorized to speak on the record. A spokeswoman who is authorized to speak on the record, Elizabeth Clark, then provided us the same information. We've updated this fact-check to include her comments.
Statement: There have been 30 published polls in this election cycle and Harry Reid's been trailing in every single one.
Speaker: john cornyn
About the speaker: John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.
Date: July 9, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a Talking Points Memo article
Fact-check justification: In its July report, Rasmussen said Reid is "creeping forward and now is nearly tied" with Angle, and rated the Nevada Senate race as a "toss-up." Though the latest polling hints that Reid's numbers may be picking up, he clearly trailed Republican opponents in two-thirds of the 30 polls we reviewed; in those seven polls showing a closer race, Reid was behind in five. Had Cornyn said that Reid was behind in nearly every poll, we wouldn't quibble. But in two polls, Reid was the clear leader — and that means he didn't trail "in every single one." We rate Cornyn's statement as .
Statement: Says Donald Trump promised "the mass deportation of Latino families.
Speaker: karen bass
About the speaker: 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.
Date: July 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Bass said Trump has "promised mass deportation of Latino families." Off the bat, Bass’ attack is imprecise. She said Trump wants to deport Latino families, when he has not promised that exactly. He pledged to remove the undocumented population, which is certainly comprised of Latinos but is not exclusive to them. (And obviously, not all Latinos in the United States are here illegally.) The underlying issue is tough talk Trump offered earlier in his campaign about rounding up undocumented immigrants in the country and sending them back to their native countries — with the "good ones" able to come back, possibly. Trump reiterated that stance several times as journalists asked how it would work. But the Republican presidential nominee appears to have recently softened his view over the last month, and his official immigration plans don’t mention deporting undocumented families en masse. We rate Bass’ statement .
Statement: Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America.
Speaker: charley wilkison
About the speaker: Charley Wilkison became executive director of CLEAT in 2014.
Date: July 15, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;history;crime
Context: an interview with Laura Rice for the Texas Standard
Fact-check justification: Wilkison said: "Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America." This appears to be so, both of late (since 1980) and since the 1800s. We rate the  .  – 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/41be9188-c0a0-4c66-8577-90f52e20b05e
Statement: Federal government reneging" on Medicaid payments to Wisconsin caused about $240 million in extra costs in the 2013-'15 state budget.
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: February 23, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicaid;state budget
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: His view is Walker could have made the state less vulnerable to declines in federal help if he had taken the additional federal money available for the Medicaid expansion. "If we took advantage of the Medicaid expansion funds," Peacock told us, "we would get a much higher matching rate that is locked in (under the law.)" Our rating Explaining his rejection of federal money to fully expand Medicaid coverage, Walker said on Fox News Sunday that "federal government reneging" on Medicaid payments to Wisconsin caused more than $200 million in extra costs in the 2013-’15 state budget. But typical cost-sharing fluctuations, based mainly on a longstanding formula, explain the extra state burden -- not any reversal of course or pulling back on a commitment by Washington. We rate Walker’s  .
Statement: We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: October 14, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state." That’s accurate in one sense, because the state’s total education budget is at an all-time high of $19.7 billion. But enrollment is also higher than in years past. Per-pupil spending is still below historic dollar totals and remains far below equitable levels when adjusted for inflation. Education spending has essentially stood still over the last nine years. Scott’s  obscures that. The statement contains an element of , but ignores critical facts. We rate it .
Statement: Lyme disease is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States, and Rhode Island has the second-highest incidence of this disease in the country.
Speaker: susan sosnowski
About the speaker: Susan Sosnowski has been a state senator since 1997 and is chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Agriculture.
 
Date: February 3, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: public health;public safety
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: But when she says that Rhode Island ranks second when it comes to the incidence of Lyme, she is giving a very precise statistic, citing it with authority, and using the present tense to make it sound current. Yet there's no data to support her . Both Sosnowski and Mather expressed fear that, when people hear what the latest numbers are, they will falsely conclude that Lyme disease is no longer a big deal. In fact, it is. And so is the , so we rate Sosnowski's statement  .
Statement: The rainy day fund … is $320 million. That's much more than what it has been in the past.
Speaker: terry katsma
About the speaker: Elected to Assembly since 2014.
Date: February 17, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Katsma claimed that Wisconsin accumulated much more money than it has in the past in its "rainy day fund," with $320 million. The  is on target, though that is relative. Wisconsin is far below the national average on the relative size of its fund. The definition for  is "the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information." That fits here.
Statement: Gov. Wolf is trying to implement "a severance tax that would be financed by Pennsylvania's working class
Speaker: scott wagner
About the speaker: PA State senator and gubernatorial candidate
Date: May 21, 2018
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: taxes
Context: Fundraising email
Fact-check justification: And with Pennsylvanians consuming roughly 20 percent of the gas produced here, the severance tax likely will cause utility bills in Pennsylvania to grow. But according to the IFO, more of the expense would be absorbed by consumers in other states where Pennsylvania natural gas is shipped. Additionally, there are many factors that would impact the ratio — everything from market forces to commodity prices to the tax amount levied to the availability of pipeline infrastructure across Pennsylvania to move gas to other markets. Without that nuance, Wagner’s  leads a reasonable reader to conclude that the entirety of the burden would be borne by residents of the Commonwealth. Given that, we rate the  .
Statement: Video shows missile attack in Beirut explosion.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 6, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: There is at least one other manipulated video that claims to show a missile strike causing the blast. The latest reports out of Beirut say the cause was a fire that ignited 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer with great explosive potential, that had been stored in a warehouse since 2014. Ammonium nitrate is the chemical used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people at a federal building. There is no  that a missile triggered the blast. This is .
Statement: A "public health warning" was recently issued for fluoride toothpaste.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 6, 2022
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Of course, people generally don’t eat and swallow toothpaste. But as we’ve previously reported , even if they did, it would take a massive amount to be at risk from fluoride poisoning, and experts say children would vomit out the toothpaste long before that point. This post gives the  impression that a recent public health warning was issued for fluoride toothpastes, but that’s not the case. Rather, 25 years ago the FDA started requiring companies to put a warning on such products to advise people to seek help if they swallow more toothpaste than was used to brush their teeth.   We rate this post .
Statement: Studies show "the 2016 shooting and murder rate in Chicago cost us about $9.6 BILLION DOLLARS" and "the entire City budget for 2018 is $8.6 billion dollars. This math does not work, it is financially killing our city.
Speaker: garry mccarthy
About the speaker: Garry Francis McCarthy is the former Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
Date: March 30, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: crime
Context: a campaign post
Fact-check justification: In his attempts to brand Emanuel as a failed mayor whose inability to stamp out crime has led Chicago down the path to financial ruin, McCarthy claimed studies on gun violence support his argument that city taxpayers bear an enormous cost for murders and shootings. Studies show "the 2016 shooting and murder rate in Chicago cost us about $9.6 BILLION DOLLARS" and "the entire City budget for 2018 is $8.6 billion dollars. This math does not work, it is financially killing our city," his campaign website read. But the researcher who produced the findings cited by the McCarthy campaign says it misinterpreted his conclusions, which attempted to put a price tag on the total societal costs of firearm homicides and shootings--not just the still significant, but much smaller, costs to city government. McCarthy’s campaign badly misfires in its  on the costs of gun violence to Chicago taxpayers. It is undoubtedly both a serious and costly problem, but in misinterpreting the very data it relies on the bolster its case, the campaign’s  earns a credibility rating of .
Statement: Says the Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis and two aides tested positive for coronavirus.
Speaker: youtube videos
About the speaker: Videos uploaded to YouTube.
Date: February 29, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a YouTube video
Fact-check justification: We could find no credible sources that say the pope — who lost part of a lung to an illness as a young man — was tested for the current coronavirus , or that he tested positive. The Vatican has repeatedly denied the claims and described his condition as a "slight illness" without giving more details. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni dismissed the coronavirus speculation, telling journalists that there’s "no  that would lead to diagnosing anything but a mild indisposition." The pope appeared at the Vatican Apostolic Palace window on March 1 to address thousands in St Peter’s Square in his first public appearance in days. We rate this !
Statement: We've seen highway fatalities actually decrease in Colorado" since marijuana use was legalized.
Speaker: anthony johnson
About the speaker: Anthony Johnson is executive director of the Oregon Cannibis Industry Association and director of New Approach Oregon, the political action committee working to end cannibis regulation for all adults in Oregon.
Date: August 20, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: marijuana
Context: a political debate
Fact-check justification: Thoughts on our ruling? Click on over to OregonLive/politics.com and leave your comments. (This fact-check has been edited. An earlier version mischaracterized one of Anthony Johnson's arguments regarding driving and recreational marijuana. It did not change the ruling.)
Statement: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals estimates 200 animals will be spared annually as the result of former President Bill Clinton adopting a vegan diet.
Speaker: people for the ethical treatment of animals
About the speaker: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Va.
Date: December 20, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: animals
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: While PETA’s spokeswoman acknowledges its number includes bivalves and other creatures, its number seems to imply a vegan is saving the lives of cute cows, adorable baby chickens and Wilbur-like pigs. Those are, after all, the animals PETA chooses to showcase on its website. PETA’s statement is technically accurate. But it leaves out important details. That’s our definition of  .
Statement: Says Joe Biden and Democrats "have not legitimately won" the presidency.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: January 20, 2021
Topics: elections;pundits;punditfact
Context: a radio show segment
Fact-check justification: International observers said they saw no  of fraud, and so did Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr. Trump’s most senior cybersecurity official said the election was the "most secure in American history." PolitiFact fact-checked a wide array of claims alleging election fraud. We found no  to suggest that Biden did not win "legitimately," as Limbaugh claimed. We rate Limbaugh’s statement !
Statement: Joe Manchin has a 'D' rating from the NRA.
Speaker: patrick morrisey
About the speaker: Patrick Morrisey is the attorney general of West Virginia. Morrisey is running for the West Virginia U.S. Senate seat.
Date: September 7, 2018
Location: west virginia
Topics: guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Morrisey tweeted that "Joe Manchin has a ‘D’ rating from the NRA." That’s certainly the case for 2018, and the NRA has endorsed Morrisey over Manchin this year. But this ignores that in previous campaigns, Manchin received ‘A’ and ‘A+’ ratings from the NRA and won the group’s endorsement those years. The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: We have the lowest beer tax in the nation.
Speaker: rod monroe
About the speaker: Rod Monroe represents District 24 in the Oregon Senate.
Date: January 15, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: an Oregon Senate work session
Fact-check justification: Oregon, according to a national group that tracks beer taxes, has one of the lowest such rates in the county. The 8-cents-a-gallon rate -- sixth-lowest nationally -- has remained unchanged since 1978. But Monroe claimed that Oregon has the lowest beer tax in the U.S. Later, he tried to justify that assertion by saying it’s the lowest if Oregon’s lack of a sales tax is taken into account. He didn’t make that specification in his original statement, though, and sales taxes aren’t specific to beer. We rate his  .
Statement: Breaking: Mike Huckabee just fired!
Speaker: red state wave
About the speaker: Red State Wave is a conservative website.
Date: June 11, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: A disclaimer states that redstatewave.com is a "passive service for storage and dissemination of the works that redstatewave.com members may choose to post and distribute." Red State Wave has used similar clickbait language before when it wrote in a  headline that Fox News’ Laura Ingraham was "fired," when she actually fired off at Democrats. A headline said "Breaking: Mike Huckabee just fired!" Huckabee wasn’t fired -- he fired off at De Niro. We rate this statement .
Statement: Rep. Pittenger is "constantly rated as one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress.
Speaker: mark harris
About the speaker: Rev. Mark Harris is the former pastor of First Baptist Church in Charlotte. He has been a candidate for U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress in North Carolina.
Date: February 9, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: congress
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: Harris said Pittenger is "constantly rated as one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress." We can’t find the results to back that up. So we rate this  .