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Statement: Three doctors from the same hospital 'die suddenly' in the same week," after the hospital mandated a fourth COVID-19 vaccine for employees.
Speaker: the gateway pundit
About the speaker: The Gateway Pundit is a conservative website.
Date: July 28, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: "  Segall’s obituary said he died "after a  unfair and hard fought year-long battle with advanced lung cancer. "  An Instagram post says, "Three doctors from the same hospital ‘die suddenly’ in the same week," after the hospital mandated a fourth COVID-19 vaccine for employees. The deaths were not sudden; two of the doctors had been previously diagnosed with cancer and the third had been seriously ill with an undisclosed ailment. The hospital where the doctors worked said the deaths were not linked to COVID-19 vaccines. We rate this  .
Statement: Say Joe Biden is a pedophile.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 17, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: Social media users  that Biden is a pedophile. There is zero  — no accusations, testimonies, arrests or investigations — that gives this  any credibility. Photos that supposedly support the  are taken out of context or have been directly contradicted by the families involved. We rate this .
Statement: A photo shows President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holding hands.
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: February 20, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The image appears to show Biden and Zelenskyy holding hands, their fingers entwined.   An Instagram post sharing the image was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) Biden announced more military aid for Ukraine on the trip, but the image , taken for The New York Times by photographer Daniel Berehulak, is doctored.   We rate claims the photo is authentic .
Statement: It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years.
Speaker: stuart varney
About the speaker: Stuart Varney is a British business journalist and is the host of Varney and Company.
Date: January 27, 2015
Topics: health care;taxes;punditfact
Context: an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom"
Fact-check justification: Varney said that it will cost taxpayers $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years. This seems to come directly from an article in the Daily Mail . None of the health care experts we reached, regardless of their economic philosophies or thoughts about the health care law, found any merit in the math that produced this figure. It’s most glaring defect is that it compares a 10-year cumulative total to a single-year snapshot of the number of people who gained insurance. Any analysis that accounted for the years of coverage people gained would yield a dollar figure considerably less than the $50,000 cited by Varney. We rate the  .
Statement: The Federal Register - which houses all Washington regulations - is 34,000 pages in length and weighs in at more than 340 pounds.
Speaker: randy forbes
About the speaker: Randy Forbes is from Chesapeake and represents Virginia's Fourth District in Congress. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2001. He serves on the Judiciary Committee and the Armed Services Committee, where he is chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee.
Forbes previously served in Virginia's House of Delegates from 1989 to 1997 and in the State Senate from 1997 to 2001. He also was chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia from 1996 to 2001.
Forbes received a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, in 1974, and a law degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 1977.
Date: June 14, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: regulation
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: To recap: To argue that regulation is out of control, Forbes said the Federal Register came to 34,000 pages and weighed 340 pounds. The congressman was close on the number of pages, slightly underestimating them. But he greatly overstated the Federal Register’s weight by failing to realize that its pages are printed on both sides of paper. And we would point out that less than 60 percent of the register’s pages last year contained regulations. We rate Forbes’  .
Statement: Following the 2009 session," Texas House Speaker Joe Straus "was acknowledged and 'thanked' for his 'tireless efforts' by Planned Parenthood, the nation's premier abortion provider.
Speaker: heidi group
About the speaker: The Heidi Group, helmed by Carol Everett of Round Rock, describes itself as a non-profit organization "promoting life affirming hope and dignity to girls, women, and their families seeking self-sufficiency." The group says its pregnancy centers in Dallas have addressed the issues that accompany unplanned pregnancy.
Date: January 4, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: a letter
Fact-check justification: "They do nothing to prevent one abortion while Planned Parenthood prevents thousands of abortions with our family planning clinics. And their protests do nothing to help vulnerable, at-risk teens keep their fragile lives pointed toward a successful adulthood." We asked Tracy Young, Straus’s communications director, for the speaker's take. She made no comment. We rate the statement .
Statement: America was the ONLY country that ended" slavery
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 1, 2020
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post made many claims about slavery, and specifically said that "America was the ONLY country that ended" slavery. The United States was definitely not the only country that abolished slavery and was actually one of the last countries to abolish slavery in the Americas. Mexico, Britain, France, and Denmark had established freedom for enslaved people before the 13th Amendment was passed in 1865.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making voting more difficult by closing Department of Motor Vehicles offices where "low-income voters" live.
Speaker: chris bowers
About the speaker: Chris Bowers is campaign director of the Daily Kos, a liberal blog that describes itself as a national political "news organization, community and activist hub."
Date: November 30, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;poverty
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Bowers claimed Walker is closing Department of Motor Vehicles offices in urban areas of Wisconsin where "low-income voters" live. A plan to close DMV offices had been dropped two months earlier, however, and Daily Kos' campaign director admitted he had spoken in error. We rate the statement . (Editor's note: In this item, we originally attributed the statement to the Daily Kos organization. Publisher Markos Moulitsas told us Bowers was speaking for himself, not the organization. So we have changed the source of the statement to reflect that.)
Statement: Says if the AHCA replaces Obamacare it will "significantly reduce insurance premiums in" North Carolina.
Speaker: ted budd
About the speaker: Ted Budd is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represents parts of central North Carolina between Greensboro and Charlotte. He joined Congress in 2017.
Date: May 4, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: families;health care;medicaid;public health
Fact-check justification: North Carolina Republican Rep. Ted Budd defended his vote for the American Health Care Act, saying it will "significantly reduce insurance premiums in" North Carolina. In the short-term, insurance premiums on North Carolina’s individual market would actually increase. It’s not a small increase, either, but is rather expected to be the second-largest in the nation. Budd does have a point that premiums are expected to decrease in cost nationally a decade from now. People can quibble over whether an expected 10 percent decline is "significant," but it is a decline. However, that’s a national estimate. There’s no solid analysis yet into how North Carolina specifically might fare, a point against Budd. It's also just an average. Some people will see lower premiums, while others will see higher premiums – for many of them, high enough that experts believe they'll drop insurance entirely. And finally, even people with lower premiums might still pay more in the end, since their deductibles could be higher under the AHCA. Since Budd’s  is partially accurate but missing some important context, we rate it .
Statement: Republican challenger Bill Flores "has never once voted in a general election in our district.
Speaker: chet edwards
About the speaker: Chet Edwards is a former state senator from Waco who was initially elected to the U.S. House in 1990. He was among individuals described in press accounts as under consideration by then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama to be the 2008 Democratic nominee for vice president. He lost the 2010 general election to Republican Bill Flores.
Date: April 21, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;elections;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: Flores said at a February debate that he voted for Curnock in the 2008 general election -- then later said he'd been joking, according to an online post by the Lone Star Project, a pro-Democratic group. We sought to interview Flores. Mackowiak declined our request. He also confirmed that Flores has yet to vote in a general election in the district. We rate Edwards’ statement as .
Statement: Facebook changed its name because it is a "dead entity" whose assets were seized.
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: October 27, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "  The metaverse, the Times said in a separate explainer , refers to "a variety of virtual experiences, environmental and assets that gained momentum during the online-everything shift of the pandemic. "  The Washington Post, meanwhile, noted that the name change came as the company was trying to "distance itself from a social-media business embroiled in crisis and rebrand itself as a forward-looking creator of a new digital world." As of Oct. 28, 2022, Zuckerberg was still at the helm of Meta as its founder, chairman and chief executive officer. The company’s assets haven’t been seized, and it’s not dead.   We rate this post .
Statement: Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists.
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: April 17, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: an online ad
Fact-check justification: The threshold of contributions by industry the ad lists for Clinton is probably too low, said Massie Ritsch, a spokesman for the center. The center's analysis found the following amounts that lobbyists gave to Clinton: * Energy: $442,800 * Pharmaceuticals/health products: $450,450 * Hospitals, health services/HMOs and insurance companies: $552,050 * Health professionals: $114,755. Based on these numbers, we find Obama's statement that Clinton has taken more than $800,000 from lobbyists to be .
Statement: Says an image shows a satellite view of fires in Australia.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 5, 2020
Topics: fires;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (NASA) A map from FIRMS that shows the locations of active fires in Australia also helps place Hearsey’s digital visualization in context. (Screenshot from FIRMS) The Facebook posts that portray the visualization as a NASA satellite image are . We rate the  .
Statement: More businesses went out of business last year than were started for the first time in our history.
Speaker: david perdue
About the speaker: David Perdue is running in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Georgia. He was a U.S. Senator from January 2015 to January 2021. He has been the CEO of several businesses and is the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Date: June 2, 2016
Topics: nbc;economy
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press Daily"
Fact-check justification: Perdue said that last year the country saw more businesses closing than starting for the first time in the nation’s history. That’s . Data doesn’t exist for last year. And the last year data is available, 2013, showed the opposite trend. Perdue’s historical  also falls short. In 1981, there were more deaths than births. We rate this  .
Statement: Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that "is only going to be used for four World Cup games," and there's no team "that can fill it afterwards.
Speaker: john oliver
About the speaker: John Oliver is the host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO. Previously he was a correspondent for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
Date: June 8, 2014
Topics: sports;punditfact
Context: a segment on "Last Week Tonight"
Fact-check justification: Oliver said Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that "is only going to be used for four World Cup games," and there’s no team "that can fill it afterwards." His point is accurate. There are hopes and dreams for the stadium’s life when the World Cup is over, and locals hope it spurs more interest in local soccer teams in Manaus and can be used for big-ticket concerts and conferences. But the stadium, based on what we know, largely will sit unused. We rate Oliver’s  .
Statement: The Democratic health care law "added 12 years of solvency to Medicare.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: May 25, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: To summarize, Wasserman Schultz said that the Democratic health care law "added 12 years of solvency to Medicare." She’s off on the number, citing an older, more optimistic report. The latest estimate indicates Medicare will only have eight additional years of solvency, one-third less than the previous estimate. But she’s right that the Affordable Care Act improved the financial outlook for Medicare, and that Democrats have successfully passed legislation to reduce future spending for the program. So we rate her statement .
Statement: Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent.
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: October 14, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: taxes
Context: comments at a rally
Fact-check justification: Trump said Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent." Sanders hasn’t released an official tax plan, either for billionaires or for anyone else. But based on his previous comments and proposals, the tax policies Sanders is advocating are targeted at corporations and affluent Americans. Sanders has dismissed the notion that he wants to set marginal tax rates for billionaires at 90 percent. But even if he did end up doing that, that rate wouldn’t affect "you people" — that is, the rank and file Americans who attended Trump’s rally. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Biden failed to condemn far-left violent groups like Antifa, instead faulting only the brave men and women of law enforcement.
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: September 1, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;wisconsin
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: It was not a widespread condemnation of law enforcement officials who are facing protests and violence across the country. And it is not the only place he has laid blame, as the litany of other comments shows. Our ruling  Trump’s campaign claimed that "Biden failed to condemn far-left violent groups like Antifa, instead faulting only the brave men and women of law enforcement." Numerous statements from Biden decrying violence, arson and looting tied to protests against police brutality show that  is demonstrably untrue.   We rate the  .
Statement: There have been at least 100 shootings each year [Angel Taveras] has been mayor" of Providence.
Speaker: american leadhership pac
About the speaker: The American LeadHERship PAC is a political action committee that describes itself as "an organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of progressive women in governors' seats across the country." During the 2014 election, the only candidate featured on its website was Gina Raimondo, a Democrat who was ultimately elected Rhode Island governor.
Date: August 27, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: candidate biography;crime;negative campaigning;public safety;guns
Context: a campaign mailing
Fact-check justification: The LeadHERship statement also ignores some significant context: The number of shootings, which peaked at 108 in 2011, declined in the subsequent two years of Taveras' tenure, dropping to 105 in 2012 and 100 in 2013. Before Taveras took office, the numbers were lower but steadily increasing. The annual total was 47 shootings in 2006 (during the tenure of his predecessor, David Cicilline), 58 in 2007, 77 in 2008, 86 in 2009, and 90 in 2010, Cicilline's final year, before jumping sharply to 108 during Taveras' first year. Because the statement is  accurate but ignores important context, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Obama broke his promise to help homeowners facing foreclosure.
Speaker: crossroads gps
About the speaker: Crossroads GPS is a conservative advocacy group founded by prominent Republicans, including former White House political adviser Karl Rove.
Date: May 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;housing;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The Crossroads GPS ad said Obama has broken his promise to help millions of people facing foreclosure. "Help" is a vague notion, and there’s certainly no doubt that the president has tried several avenues to stem the tide of home loan defaults. But there’s also no doubt that his efforts have fallen far short of expectations -- and even the benchmarks he set for himself. Two primary programs aimed at helping people keep their homes -- HAMP and HARP -- have reached more households in recent months, but they are unlikely to ever help the 9 million homeowners Obama said he would assist. And it’s reasonable that he could have leaned harder on lenders to produce better results in the aftermath of multi-billion-dollar bank bailouts. Although Obama’s efforts haven’t been the utter failure Crossroads suggests, there are still millions of struggling homeowners who need help in the ongoing foreclosure crisis. We rate the ad’s  . Update: This item has been updated to correct that Republicans control the House of Representatives rather than the entire Congress.
Statement: Yesterday Virginia announced the end of youth hunting!
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: November 8, 2019
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But a spokeswoman for the governor’s office told the Associated Press that "a responsible hunter — regardless of age — would not be affected by this bill. "  The bill also says it would be unlawful for anyone younger than 21 to "knowingly and intentionally possess or transport a handgun or assault firearm anywhere in the Commonwealth." However, that wouldn’t apply to "any person actually engaged in lawful hunting or going to and from a hunting or preserve," according the proposed legislation. We further didn’t find  that the state "announced the end of youth hunting," as the Facebook post says, or that the governor "said that no kid under 18 will be allowed to shoot a gun." We rate this post .
Statement: Aaron Salter Jr. was killed by a mass shooter because he was working on creating a water-powered car engine.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 30, 2022
Location: national
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Salter was indeed working on water-powered vehicle technology. But there is no  backing the  that he was targeted because of it. Salter, along with nine other victims, was shot and killed by a gunman who police say targeted them because they were Black. Three other people were injured in the attack.   We rate the social media  .