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Statement: 943 innocent kids … are now injured or dead" because of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 23, 2021
Location: national
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that 943 children and teens have been injured or killed because of the COVID-19 vaccine. The post cites data from the government’s VAERS tool to back up this . For the 6-to-17 age group, a search of the VAERS tool turns up 46 reports of serious adverse events after a COVID-19 vaccination. But the agencies that maintain VAERS warn that the reports should not be used to draw conclusions about whether a vaccine causes a particular adverse event. There is no hard proof so far of anyone in the U.S. having died as a result of getting a COVID-19 vaccine. We rate this post .
Statement: After actions by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans, Wisconsin "is dead broke.
Speaker: occupy democrats
About the speaker: Occupy Democrats, founded in 2012, is an advocacy group created to counterbalance the Republican tea party, and to "give President Obama and other progressive Democrats a Congress that will work with them to grow the economy, create jobs, promote fairness and fight inequality, and get money out of politics!"
Date: March 15, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget;taxes
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Yes, there were tax cuts, and cuts to many programs along the way. All are  of changing policy priorities, with Republicans in charge. But they are not  the state is "dead broke. " What’s more, this  has been rated  enough times that to keep making pushes it to  . We rate the  .
Statement: Major decision protecting voting rights in Pa. Ballots received after Election Day will not be counted.
Speaker: justin clark
About the speaker: President Donald Trump's deputy campaign manager and senior counsel.
Date: October 28, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;pennsylvania
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump deputy campaign manager Justin Clark tweeted that Pennsylvania "ballots received after Election Day will not be counted," citing guidance released on Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Department of State in a subsequent campaign email. The guidance instructs counties to segregate ballots that arrive after 8 p.m. on Election Day but does not say those ballots won’t be counted. The extended deadline for counting Pennsylvania ballots is under threat, but unless and until the U.S. Supreme Court takes action, ballots received by Nov. 6 at 5 p.m. will count. We rate the statement .
Statement: I have seen crime increase in every major metropolitan area (in California) … Crime is on the rise in every major market.
Speaker: travis allen
About the speaker: Travis Allen is a Republican and a member of the California State Assembly, representing the Orange County area. He is a 2018 candidate for California governor.
Date: June 22, 2017
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice;crime;the 2018 california governor's race
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: Republican candidate for California governor Travis Allen recently claimed he’s "seen crime increase in every major metropolitan area" and that "Crime is on the rise in every major market." Allen’s  is partially correct looking at 2015 alone. A majority of the state’s largest cities and counties saw crime ratchet up that year -- though not all of them. But Allen’s overall assertion ignores the fact that California’s crime rate was at a historic low the year prior, the result of a decades-long decline. Additionally, the second portion of his statement, that "crime is on the rise in every major market" is contradicted by a 2017 analysis that shows total urban crime fell 3 percent in the first half of 2016 compared with the first half of 2015. In the end, we found Allen’s  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate his  .  –  The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Visit our Tracking the  series  here  to see all of our 2018 governor's race fact-checks.  Governor’s race Allen is the latest of several Republican candidates to announce a run for California governor. The others include John Cox, a venture capitalist from San Diego County and Rosie Grier, a Hall of Fame professional football player. S everal prominent Democrats  are also competing in 2018 to succeed Jerry Brown as governor. They include former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa , California Treasurer John Chiang ; Delaine Eastin, the state’s former superintendent for public instruction; and Gavin Newsom , the state’s current lieutenant governor. A poll released in June 2017 showed a tightening race. Newsom was in the lead among all candidates, with 22 percent support from likely voters. Villaraigosa had 17 percent support, up from his 11 percent three months earlier. Tracking the : Hear a  you want fact-checked? Email us at  [email protected] , tweet us  @CAPolitiFact  or contact us on  Facebook .
Statement: CNN lightened the photo of the man who drove into the protester last night in Seattle.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 14, 2020
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: (Screenshot from CNN) The original photo of Fernandez holding a gun was taken by Dean Rutz , a photographer for the Seattle Times. It does not appear to be lightened. The Facebook post is  and makes a  . We rate it !
Statement: Wrong" COVID-19 case count by Orlando Health "explains the 'outbreak' in Florida.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 14, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed: "" COVID-19 case count by Orlando Health "explains the 'outbreak' in Florida." State data show one hospital in the 13-hospital Orlando Health system reporting a 98% positive rate on its 522 coronavirus tests. However, systemwide, Orlando Health’s positive rate is about 10%. Around the state, some small labs have reported only positive tests to the state, possibly skewing to a small extent Florida’s overall positive test rate. But the size of the COVID-19 outbreak in Florida is reflected in the overall numbers — including the 301,810 total cases and Florida setting a one-day national record for cases. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney "is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception.
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: November 3, 2011
Location: national
Topics: abortion;legal issues
Context: a conference call with reporters
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz’s  that Mitt Romney "is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade " is well supported by his comments at the town hall, and Romney laid the groundwork for supporting personhood measures in his Huckabee interview. We think, however, that Wasserman Schultz makes too much of a blanket statement about his views on personhood measures. Our experts tell us that it’s possible for a politician who said what Romney has to oppose some personhood measures based on their wording. On balance, we rate Wasserman Schultz’s statement .
Statement: About two-thirds of all consumption is services. . . It was just the opposite" when the sales tax was enacted in the '30s.
Speaker: joseph testa
About the speaker: Joseph W. Testa was appointed Ohio Tax Commissioner by Gov. John Kasich in January 2011. He is the 18th tax commissioner to lead the Ohio Department of Taxation. He previously held elective offices in Franklin County, including county auditor.
Date: February 4, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: One could reasonably conclude that the same trend holds  in Ohio. Testa also said it was just the opposite when the state enacted its sales tax. On a national basis, the goods purchases didn’t account for two-thirds of total consumption in 1935, but it was a significant majority. And the numbers support Testa’s overarching point that the economy has changed significantly since then to be a service dominated market. With those points of clarification, the tax commissioner’s  rates .
Statement: Under the "Cash for Clunkers" program, "all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500.
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: June 18, 2009
Location: national
Topics: pundits;transportation
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: And the bill says anyone who knowingly violates the provisions of the program could face a fine of up to $15,000. The wording in the legislation makes this one an easy call for us. The bill is written to prohibit the very scenario Hannity describes as possible. His statement goes on the junk heap. We rule it .
Statement: The signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.
Speaker: mike huckabee
About the speaker: Mike Huckabee ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former governor of Arkansas; he also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He left hosting a self-titled television show on Fox News in January 2015.
Date: October 21, 2007
Location: national
Topics: religion
Context: Orlando
Fact-check justification: One issue that may contribute to the confusion about which signers had a history in the clergy is that during the time the Declaration was written, people who studied at universities often received doctorates of divinity, a common degree designation, even if they were not working clergy, said Mary Jenkins of the Independence National Historical Park. As for religious affiliations, all of the signers were Protestant Christians with one exception, Charles Carroll of Maryland, who was Roman Catholic. We'd like to give Huckabee every benefit of the doubt, but even if you consider former clergymen among the signers the best you could come up with is four. Out of 56. That's not "most," that's  .
Statement: Alabama's Crimson Tide was disqualified from national championship.
Speaker: breakingnews247.net
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news, in which a user can create their own fake story.
Date: October 31, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: A quick scroll to the bottom of one of these pages would reveal a disclaimer that says the site contains news "created by users" and therefore, "should not be seriously taken or as a source of information." Yet these pages are still shared as if they were . Breakingnews365.net is another prank site run by Nicolas Gouriou , the Belgian owner of a multitude of prank news sites. As we have previously reported , readers should be skeptical of stories found on these type of sites. The Crimson Tide is still eligible for the playoffs, so we rate this !
Statement: The Manchin-Toomey amendment "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members" to get government approval.
Speaker: national rifle association
About the speaker: An advocacy group that fights restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Date: April 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;guns
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: The NRA said that the Manchin-Toomey amendment would have "criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution." The amendment specifically exempted family and friend transfers from the requirement to conduct a criminal background check. But it did extend the requirement to Internet and gun show sales. So only if a friend or family member purchased a gun in one of those settings would the background check requirement kick in. That’s a limited circumstance, to be sure. And as Wintemute argued, it was added a layer of paperwork but did not make familial gun transfers crimes. The NRA’s statement contained an element of  but was otherwise a big stretch. We rate it . Update: This report has been updated to include a comment we received from the NRA shortly after we  published. The rating remains the same.
Statement: In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation" of "the Hyde amendment.
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: August 3, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;families;federal budget;state budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cornyn said: "In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation" of  "the Hyde amendment." This tweet, which Cornyn later deleted, starts with basically accurate figures--the number of abortions provided by Planned Parenthood one recent year and government aid it says it fielded around that time. But linking the figures is  in that such funding largely pays for other health services. It’s also an unsubstantiated leap to say the money came in violation of decades-old restrictions on abortion funding. Far as we could tell, that just isn’t so. We rate this  .  – 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: Says Kathy Hochul is Nancy Pelosi's stepsister.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 10, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: There is no mention of Nancy D'Alesandro remarrying in a story about her death that ran in the Baltimore Sun . Neither is there a mention in an obituary that ran in the Tampa Bay Times that said Nancy D'Alesandro " was married for 59 years to Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., former congressman, Baltimore mayor and member of the Maryland House of Delegates." Hochul’s mother, Pat Courtney, died in 2014 . Her father is Jack Courtney . We rate the  that Hochul and Pelosi are stepsisters .
Statement: Tina (Smith) profited from the opioid crisis." ​
Speaker: karin housley
About the speaker: Karin Housley is a Minnesota Republican running for U.S. Senate.
Date: October 18, 2018
Location: national
Topics: negative campaigning
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Housley claimed Smith profited from the opioid crisis. The idea that the Smiths benefited financially from Abbott Laboratories’ actions a full 14 years before the company acquired St. Jude Medical goes too far. Smith’s husband does hold between $1,000 and $15,000 in stock in Johnson & Johnson, but it's hard to draw a straight line from that amount of stock ownership to "profiting off the opioid crisis."   Overall, the statement is not accurate. We rate this  .
Statement: Coronavirus patients are being "cremated alive" in China.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 25, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: We could find no other  that Chinese officials are cremating coronavirus victims alive. And to be clear, at no point does the video offer any firsthand . We reached out to G News for the source of Wengui’s video, but we haven’t heard back. The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half, but instead will at least double it.
Speaker: tim pawlenty
About the speaker: Tim Pawlenty is the former governor of Minnesota, having served two terms in office from 2003-2011.
Date: June 10, 2011
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget;new hampshire 2012
Context: an interview WKXL-AM
Fact-check justification: There is some  to Pawlenty’s : Obama made a pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. And he’s falling short so far. But there’s a lot more of Pawlenty's statement that’s . The deficit, which should not be confused with the debt, is projected to decrease, not increase. And even if Pawlenty mixed up the words or used the  fiscal year as a baseline, Pawlenty’s suggestion that the deficit could multiply by "two, three, four or five" is not supported by the facts. We rate Pawlenty’s statement .
Statement: Piles of bricks are being staged in cities around the country, indicating riots are planned.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 31, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Law Enforcement Today article
Fact-check justification: A Law Enforcement Today article claims that "piles of bricks are being staged in cities around the country, indicating riots are planned." While police in Kansas City have said they suspect bricks are being stashed for nefarious purposes, there is no  that such a tactic is being widely used. Officials in several other cities have said there is no connection between footage of bricks and Black Lives Matter protests. The article contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says Sen. Thad Cochran "voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker: chris chocola
About the speaker: Chris Chocola is president of the Club for Growth, an advocacy group for fiscally conservative, free-market policies. He is a former Republican member of the U.S. House representing a district in Indiana.
Date: March 19, 2014
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;infrastructure;transportation;weather
Context: an op-ed supporting Senate candidate Chris McDaniel
Fact-check justification: Chocola said Cochran "voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina." Cochran did vote that way on a specific amendment. But just a few weeks later, Cochran played a key role in securing funding for the I-10 Twin Span bridge. It's  to suggest that Cochran supported the Bridge to Nowhere but not the project that was in his own neighborhood. The  is partially accurate but leaves out important context, so we rate it .
Statement: Today, Florida is in 50th place in spending on education.
Speaker: bud chiles
About the speaker: Lawton "Bud" Chiles III is the son of former Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles. He campaigned as an independent candidate for Florida governor in 2010 and withdrew in September, between the primary and general elections, citing a lack of money.
Date: July 7, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a statement on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: It is  that the Florida Legislature has not made any gains in public school spending in recent years because of the stalled economy. This year, overall per-student funding increased from $6,842.29 to $6,843.51, or $1.22 per student, but the state got there by asking local governments to contribute more. There's no way to know whether that's enough to change any of these rankings, no matter which measurement is used. So no gold star here. We give this a .
Statement: One of the key things about Leonard Lance is that in 2008, when you look at [the] Project Vote Smart website, he was not for guns. Now he has gone too far to the right, saying that you can carry concealed weapons in national parks.
Speaker: upendra chivukula
About the speaker: Upendra Chivukula is a Democratic state Assemblyman who represents parts of Middlesex and Somerset counties. He is challenging U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance for a seat in the House of Representatives this November.
Date: August 5, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: candidate biography;guns
Context: an interview posted on BlueJersey.com
Fact-check justification: Chivukula said "one of the key things about Leonard Lance is that in 2008, when you look at [the] Project Vote Smart website, he was not for guns. Now he has gone too far to the right, saying that you can carry concealed weapons in national parks." There’s an element of  to this : Lance voted to repeal a ban on carrying weapons in national parks in 2009, as long as the gun owner complies with the laws of the state where the park is located. But to suggest Lance flip-flopped in taking that position is . The survey Chivukula’s campaign cited shows Lance, as a state legislator, favored enforcing New Jersey’s current laws. To say Lance was "not for guns" is . We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Zack Space voted for budgets and debt, energy taxes and the stimulus, and "we still lost more than 2.5 million jobs.
Speaker: americans for job security
About the speaker: Americans for Job Security is a conservative-leaning issue advocacy group that favors "free markets and pro-paycheck public policy."
Date: September 23, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;message machine 2010;stimulus;voting record;taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: But the ad gets some of its details , most notably Space's vote on increasing the debt ceiling. That point is flat-out . The ad also mischaracterizes cap-and-and trade legislation as an energy tax. Space did vote for cap-and-trade, the 2010 budget and the stimulus. Given the ad's inaccuracies, we rate its statement .
Statement: Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need.
Speaker: we are ohio
About the speaker: We Are Ohio is a citizen-driven, community-based, bipartisan coalition that has come together to repeal Senate Bill 5 in Ohio. The legislation would overhaul rules for collective bargaining by public employees.
Date: September 27, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: jobs;labor;unions
Context: a television commercial
Fact-check justification: This  goes one step further, saying it will make patient care harder to provide. Even more significantly, though, the commercial makes no distinction between nurses who are public employees and those who are non-public employees, and as such implies all nurses will suffer if Issue 2 passes. But only a tiny fraction of Ohio nurses are public employees - just four to six of every 100. A listener knowing those critical facts would have a different impression of the . On the -O-Meter, the  rates .