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Statement: Obama Skips Out On Condemning Left-Wing Attacks On Gen. Petraeus Despite Casting Other 'Important Votes' Earlier And Later In The Day.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: September 21, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Fact-check justification: The resolution was offered by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and it passed 72 to 25. Here's the text: "To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces." An alternative, offered by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., also passed, 50 to 47. All the Republicans opposed it, while all Democrats, including Obama, voted for it. Here's the text: "To reaffirm strong support for all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces and to strongly condemn attacks on the honor, integrity, and patriotism of any individual who is serving or has served honorably in the United States Armed Forces, by any person or organization."
Statement: State employees haven't received a raise in five or six years.
Speaker: florida department of corrections worker
About the speaker: A Florida Department of Corrections worker asked a pointed question to Florida Gov. Rick Scott about potential benefits cuts for state workers at a meet-and-greet on Feb. 21, 2011.
Date: February 21, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: state budget
Context: a question to Gov. Rick Scott
Fact-check justification: A state employee asking a pointed question about Scott's proposal to cut benefits for state workers noted that state workers haven't received a raise in "five or six years." The last general pay adjustment for state employees occurred on Oct. 1, 2006, almost four years and five months ago. And state employees did receive a lump-sum $1,000 bonus in 2007, though that did not affect their salary rate. Those two details add more context to the worker's . We find this statement .
Statement: In 2022, illegal immigrants will have MORE FREEDOMS and easier access to healthcare and ballot boxes than most Americans... Just think about that.
Speaker: ronny jackson
About the speaker: Rep. Ronny Jackson currently serves Texas' 13th Congressional District. He was elected to that position in November 2020 and is running for re-election in 2022. He previously led the White House Medical Unit as Physician to the President during the Obama and Trump administrations. Jackson's committee assignments include the House Armed Services Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Date: January 16, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;border security;elections;health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Rep. Ronny Jackson tweeted "In 2022, illegal immigrants will have MORE FREEDOMS and easier access to healthcare and ballot boxes than most Americans... Just think about that." Unauthorized immigrants don't have access to the ballot for federal, state, and almost all local elections. Though immigrants can have access to some medical assistance programs depending on where they live, they also do not qualify for any health insurance coverage with any federal dollars. They do not qualify for Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage  even if they pay costs without ACA subsidy . We rate this  as .
Statement: There are no rules governing" the 2016 Republican convention, "the rules have not been set.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: 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.
Date: April 3, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;legal issues;states
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Once a majority of the convention delegates adopt the report, the rules become the permanent rules governing that Convention. Our rating Kasich said "there are no rules governing" the 2016 Republican convention, "the rules have not been set." The 2016 convention will essentially start with the same rules that were in place for the 2012 convention. But the new rules committee for the 2016 convention can change any of the rules. We rate the statement .
Statement: Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: 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.
Date: February 8, 2015
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;crime;sexuality;women
Context: a public-service video during the Grammys
Fact-check justification: Obama said that "nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape." A well-respected survey by the CDC found that 19.3 percent of women reported experiences that are considered to be rape or attempted rape under the survey’s guidelines. There are other surveys, using a different methodology, that show lower rates of rape, but researchers say the data in the CDC study is at least as credible, if not more so. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Check out the record of #jobs created by #TaxCuts 7.8 million new jobs after Bush's 2003 tax cuts 12 million new jobs after Kennedy's 1964 tax cuts 14.8 MILLION new jobs after Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981.
Speaker: jason smith
About the speaker: Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election in June 2013. 
Date: November 13, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Smith claimed that the Bush, Kennedy and Reagan administrations signed into law tax cuts that created millions of jobs by saying, "America needs the #TaxCutsAndJobsAct. Check out the record of #jobs created by #TaxCuts 7.8 million new jobs after Bush’s 2003 tax cuts 12 million new jobs after Kennedy's 1964 tax cuts 14.8 MILLION new jobs after Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts in 1981." Jobs were created after each of the laws went into effect, but some of Smith’s numbers were off, and experts agree that there are too many factors that create jobs to simply say tax cuts are the reason. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says after a car accident comedian Kevin Hart has been "paralyzed from the neck down" and his "vocal cords have been paralyzed as well, leaving him with the inability to speak.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 2, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It then credits the statement found in the Facebook post to an unnamed Hart representative. The website attempts to make it look like it posts legitimate entertainment news, but buried at the very bottom of the page in tiny,  legible writing (3.5 font size to be exact) is a disclaimer that everything on the site is satire:  "THE STORIES POSTED ON LFRSOLUTIONS.COM ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THE STORIES MAY MIMIC ARTICLES FOUND IN THE HEADLINES, BUT REST ASSURED THEY ARE PURELY SATIRICAL." Beyond the disclaimer’s impossibly small text, when a portion of a  story is lifted from a satire site and posted separately on social media, users have no chance of coming across a disclaimer. We rate this post .
Statement: North Carolina has "the strictest anti-gerrymandering standards in the entire country.
Speaker: phil berger
About the speaker: Phil Berger is a Republican from Eden and the president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate.
Date: September 15, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections;redistricting
Context: In a press release
Fact-check justification: Berger claimed in a press release that North Carolina has the strictest anti-gerrymandering protections in the entire country. North Carolina may have strict rules for grouping counties and a unique formula for measuring compactness. But the legislature didn’t require themselves – at least on paper – to use that compactness formula, and other states have similar rules for the shapes of districts. Furthermore, experts consider other states to do a better job of promoting fairness by mandating the inclusion of both parties or, in a handful of cases, strictly prohibiting mapmakers from favoring one party over another. Perhaps most tellingly: PolitiFact couldn’t find, and Berger’s office couldn’t point to, an expert or ranking system that puts North Carolina’s redistricting standards among the nation’s best. We rate this  .
Statement: I've even cut my own salary -- twice.
Speaker: kevin boyce
About the speaker: Kevin Boyce, a Democrat, is Ohio's state treasurer.
Date: July 14, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: message machine 2010;state budget
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: Boyce’s gross salary this year will be $105,757. Boyce lumped both cuts -- each about 2 percent -- in the same memo, but he effectively trimmed his salary twice. Had he not extended the cut into 2010, his pay would’ve jumped back up to $109,986, a spokeswoman for the administrative services department said. We find Boyce’s statement . Comment on this item .
Statement: Maxine Waters just introduced a bill to re-name Memorial Day — George Floyd Day.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 26, 2021
Location: california
Topics: congress;criminal justice;crime;military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Furthermore, we couldn’t find a single media outlet reporting that Waters proposed renaming Memorial Day.   Waters co-sponsored the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, but that bill does not propose renaming Memorial Day after Floyd.   We rate this statement as .    – The statement is not accurate and makes a
Statement: It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt.
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: June 2, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a video posted on YouTube
Fact-check justification: At a June 1 campaign event, Clinton touted his fiscal record in the final years of his presidency. "Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt," Clinton told the crowd. Clinton delivered four consecutive surplus budgets for the first time in more than seven decades, but the former president misstated the level of debt reduction. During those four fiscal years, the debt held by the public dropped by nearly $453 billion, but total debt jumped by about $400 billion. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: This Is Real: Biden Waves To An Empty Field.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 16, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Another video of Biden descending the stairs clearly shows him waving in the direction of a firetruck at the other end of the field. And in yet another video shared by Bloomberg News reporter Tyler Pager, four people are seen standing near the fire truck facing him.   We rate this post .   This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Conservatives gained Twitter followers after the company announced its deal with Elon Musk because "Twitter lifted a broad anti-conservative, anti-Trump shadow ban.
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: April 27, 2022
Topics: pundits;technology;punditfact
Context: a TV segment
Fact-check justification: Hannity said that conservatives gained Twitter followers after the company announced its deal with Musk because "Twitter lifted a broad anti-conservative, anti-Trump shadow ban." Hannity provided no  that right-leaning accounts on Twitter were subject to a shadow ban before Musk agreed to buy the company, or that prominent conservatives saw their follower counts spike because such a ban was "lifted" as employees "cover(ed) their tracks."  Twitter locked down employees’ abilities to make changes to its platform after announcing the deal with Musk, according to news reports.  The company said that the follower count fluctuations were organic, triggered by people creating and deactivating accounts. Independent researchers have said the same. We rate Hannity’s statement .
Statement: Mary Landrieu voted to take away your gun rights.
Speaker: national rifle association
About the speaker: An advocacy group that fights restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Date: September 24, 2014
Location: national
Topics: supreme court;guns
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The NRA ad claims, "Mary Landrieu voted to take away your gun rights." This is quite a leap in logic. After initially staking its  to a background check bill that didn’t pass Congress — nor did it "take away your gun rights," leaving women defenseless in their homes — the group now pins its  on Landrieu’s vote to confirm Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. But that’s questionable, since there is no way to know in advance how a justice will vote. And the NRA has endorsed two other senators, Graham and Alexander, who cast exactly the same vote. Meanwhile, on the other major gun vote of this term, a key assault-weapons ban, Landrieu voted the NRA’s position. Given all this, to run an ad as scary as this one can only be described as fear mongering. We rate the  .
Statement: Company may close, "all because government essentially says if they don't hire a lifeguard to watch their workers, they can't stay open.
Speaker: jeff brandes
About the speaker: Jeff Brandes, a Republican who represents St. Petersburg, was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2010 and was first elected to the Florida Senate in 2012. 
Date: September 26, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs;legal issues;message machine 2010;small business
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: It's cut and dry. And it's a federal regulation," said Geoff Thielst, a 30-year commercial diver and program director of marine technology training at Santa Barbara City College. But Brandes said the business was threatened "all because" Scuba Clean didn't hire a lifeguard – the tender. The bulk of the alleged violations and fines that have put this business' future in doubt involved training of divers, equipment and safety practices, not just the absence of a lifeguard. Therefore, we rule this  .
Statement: Says a national Coca-Cola study showed Texans love Texas more than residents of any other state love their state; Wisconsinites ranked second.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: June 9, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: history
Context: Fort Worth
Fact-check justification: We count on individuals who air claims to have factual backup. On this front, an unattributed eBay post about focus groups is insufficient. And while it’s believable that Coca-Cola ad campaigns launched 20 years ago drew on research, that does not demonstrate there was an exhaustive national study like the one described by Ryan. Ryan's  still strikes us as having a touch of . As prideful Texans, we’re hat-in-hand sorry to rate this  .
Statement: Border agents discover body of 6-year-old girl: 'She was raped By 30 men'.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 2, 2018
Topics: immigration;fake news;homeland security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A blog post on Newspunch.com claims, "Border agents discover body of 6-year-old girl: ‘She was raped By 30 men'." We found no  to support this . U.S. border security officials said they have no record or recollection of this incident. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that Nikita Khrushchev said, "Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.
Speaker: nikki haley
About the speaker: Nikki Haley announced on Feb. 14, 2023 that she is running for president in the Republican primary. Haley was the governor of South Carolina 2011-2017 and then served as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the UN in 2017 and 2018.
Date: October 5, 2020
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: On Facebook, Haley quoted Khrushchev as saying, "Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism." Apart from one anecdotal  from an individual whose story was inconsistent, there is no  Khrushchev said any variation of this quote. We rate this  .
Statement: Emory University students were provided counseling after someone wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk on campus.
Speaker: viral media reports
About the speaker: this is for facebook post and twitter feeds
Date: March 22, 2016
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: Newspaper, television and social media
Fact-check justification: Various media outlets reported that counseling was specifically offered to Emory students upset over the fact that someone chalked pro-Trump messages on campus. But no funds were provided for any kind of emergency counseling due to the incident. Counseling is routinely provided to Emory students upon request. But there was no organized effort to counsel students due to this specific incident. The university cannot confirm whether any individual students sought routine counseling as a result of the chalkings. And that does create a bit of uncertainty in the dust-up over the Trump chalkings and their aftermath. We rate this statement .
Statement: When you compare us to the European Union, we're something like 23 times more likely" to have homicides and handgun killings.
Speaker: cliff hayes
About the speaker: Cliff Hayes Jr., D-Chesapeake, was elected to Virginia's House of Delegates in 2016. Prior to that, he served eight years on the Chesapeake City Council. He is a graduate of Norfolk State University and works in information technology.
Date: November 23, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Hayes said that when the U.S. is compared with the European Union, "we're something like 23 times more likely" to have homicides and handgun killings. The University of Washington research he cites shows the 2019 homicide rate from firearms — not just handguns as Hayes said — was 22 times higher in the U.S. than in the EU. The report did not contain worldwide homicide rates from handguns, and we have been unable to find that data.   Although there’s a slight error in Hayes’ language, his eye-popping gist about the preponderance of gun homicides in the U.S. compared with the EU holds up. We rate his statement .
Statement: Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 12, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: environment;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A headline said "beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen."  That referred to the amount of garbage collected during the first weekend in May at Cocoa Beach. It was the amount of garbage collected from trash bins as well as from the beach, which means it wasn’t all improperly discarded litter. We rate this  .
Statement: Financial conflict-of-interest "laws don't apply to the president, right? So, the president doesn't have to have a blind trust.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: November 13, 2016
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;corrections and updates;ethics
Context: CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Giuliani said financial conflict-of-interest "laws don't apply to the president, right? So, the president doesn't have to have a blind trust." The president is, in fact, exempt from the primary conflict-of-interest provision in the U.S. code. So presidents do not have any legal obligation to put their financial holdings in a blind trust or to detach themselves from their financial interests in any way. As president, Trump will have to comply with financial disclosure requirements, however, and it's possible he is constrained by a clause in the Constitution regarding income from foreign governments. We rate Giuliani’s  . Update Jan. 12, 2017: We have updated this story to add more information about the Emoluments Clause. Our rating remains unchanged.
Statement: Since I came into office … we have increased the VA budget by 85 percent.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: 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.
Date: September 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;veterans
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "Since I came into office … we have increased the VA budget by 85 percent." Obama has a point that the VA has seen significant percentage increases during his tenure, particularly for a period of budgetary belt-tightening elsewhere. However, it’s a stretch for him to take credit for that, since so much of the increase stemmed from mandatory spending that originated with a continuing stream of veterans returning home and qualifying for benefits. Obama has also cherry-picked the highest numerical figure he could have. His statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/31e464bc-18c7-4796-aadf-5c9cb65de6c7