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Statement: The auditor [for the city of Providence] was not locked out" of access to the city's finances.
Speaker: david cicilline
About the speaker: David Cicilline was elected to the 1st Congressional District in 2010. Before that, he was mayor of Providence, beginning in January, 2003. A Brown University graduate, he received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Date: September 4, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: city budget;city government;debt;deficit;economy;legal issues;transparency
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Former Providence Mayor David Cicilline said that the internal auditor for the city "was not locked out" of access to the city's finances. The auditor now says that he was not locked out in the usual sense of the word. But there's a fine line between being locked out and stonewalled. Cicilline's spokesman emphatically says that "neither of those happened." But the record shows that Lombardi faced many months of delay in getting information he was entitled to by the City Charter. He was forced to use the state’s open records law to get information and waited months for it. And key information -- that Cicilline had been tapping the rainy day fund -- wasn’t provided until October 2010, after Cicilline’s primary victory. Whether it was part of a long-running political wrangle between the mayor and the City Council, which hires the internal auditor, is irrelevant. Open record laws require the release of information regardless of the motives of the person seeking it. The auditor was not locked out in the strictest sense. But the inability of the internal auditor to get information that might have led to a timely disclosure of the city's serious financial problems had the same effect. Because the statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we rate it  . (Get updates from PolitiFact Rhode Island on Twitter: @politifactri . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Planned Parenthood is "not actually doing women's health issues.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: August 25, 2015
Location: national
Topics: abortion;women
Context: Colorado
Fact-check justification: Bush said, Planned Parenthood is "not actually doing women’s health issues." It’s hard to reconcile Bush’s statement with the fact that -- setting abortion procedures aside -- Planned Parenthood offered more than 10 million services in 2013. Those services included contraception, breast exams, pregnancy tests, pap tests and STI testing and treatment. Bush is opposed to abortion, but it doesn’t make sense to say that Planned Parenthood isn’t addressing women’s health issues. We rate Bush’s  .
Statement: Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike.
Speaker: one new jersey
About the speaker: One New Jersey is a 501(c)4 advocacy organization that opposes Gov. Chris Christie's policies.
Date: April 9, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: economy;jobs;states
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: One New Jersey’s new ad claims, "Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike." Each  had varying degrees of accuracy. New Jersey and New Hampshire tied for the highest increase in unemployment last year. Nearly 1 in 10 New Jerseyans are jobless, and our state’s unemployment rate is the worst in a five-state region. The state has been near the bottom in economic growth, even though experts have said that’s not entirely Christie’s fault, and the governor vetoed a minimum wage hike. Christie technically didn’t cut the millionaire’s tax since it expired before he took office, but opinions vary wildly on that . We rate the ad . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: 2009-2010, let's remember, hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted in the ACA.
Speaker: luis gutierrez
About the speaker: Luis Gutierrez is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois.
Date: March 12, 2017
Location: national
Topics: bipartisanship;congress;health care
Context: CNN's State of the Union
Fact-check justification: Gutierrez said that "hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted" during the drafting of the 2010 health care law. His statement has some basis, because Republican amendments were adopted in both the House and the Senate during the legislative process. Most of these amendments were not particularly meaningful, though, so calling it a bipartisan enactment effort remains a stretch. We rate this  .
Statement: Biden concedes 6 million votes.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 15, 2021
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Trump did not get more than 75 million votes. Official results from the Federal Election Commission show there were nearly 158.4 million votes cast for president: 81.3 million (51.3%) for Biden — some seven million more than the 74.2 million (46.9%) for Trump; the rest of the votes were for other candidates. Biden left out the word "million," but he did say "more than." He did not concede six million votes. We rate the statement !
Statement: 163 paid protesters just filed a lawsuit against George Soros for not paying their bail.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 12, 2020
Topics: civil rights;facebook fact-checks
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: More recently, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that Soros, through his Open Society Foundations, has paid people to violently protest against police brutality and racism in the United States. There is no  to support that assertion. Open Society Foundations has not given grants to organizations to support violent protesting. The article is  and makes a  . We rate it !
Statement: Wisconsin's projected state budget shortfall is now as low as $1.5 billion
Speaker: jim doyle
About the speaker: Jim Doyle, a Democrat, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was elected to the post in 2002, after serving as the state's attorney general, and was re-elected in 2006. He did not seek a third term in 2010 and went to work for a Milwaukee-based law firm.
Date: November 19, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a statutorially required report on the state budget deficit
Fact-check justification: With less than two months left in the term, Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration department released a report showing a $1.5 billion deficit for the next two-year budget cycle. Although that number is official, the agency’s chief -- noting caveats included in the report -- almost immediately began portraying the actual deficit as closer to $2.2 billion. In constructing the official number, the report makes an $800 million assumption -- it counts as continued savings cuts that are really decisions for the new governor. It also counts on an iffy $500 million in federal cash and skates over $200 million the courts say the state owes to one of its funds. Here’s our official rating: .
Statement: Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: January 23, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;legal issues
Context: Tampa, Fla
Fact-check justification: Santorum said Gingrich "for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate." We found no references earlier than 1993, when Gingrich said "I am for people, individuals -- exactly like automobile insurance -- individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance." In the years since, he made repeated statements asserting that people who don’t purchase insurance should have to do so or to post a bond, a concept he calls "a variation" on the mandate. While the specifics of Gingrich’s viewpoint on the individual mandate have shifted -- ending with his opposition to it now -- it’s clear that for most of two decades he planted himself comfortably on the spectrum of compelling people to have health insurance. That’s enough to rate Santorum’s statement .
Statement: 'Private' messages sent to individual people during a Zoom meeting show up in the end-of-meeting transcript along with all other public messages.
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: April 4, 2020
Topics: technology;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "If you (the meeting host) save the chat log for yourself, it will also include private chats you’ve been involved in, so be very careful about sharing that file with anyone else. Don’t just post it in the group chat for everyone to read. If a host chooses to enable this setting, Zoom will notify you and give you a chance to opt out." There is no  that messages between people who don’t have recording privileges will show up in a transcript, however. We rate this post .
Statement: Georgia has lost more than 124,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has increased since the stimulus passed
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: August 2, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave us? The RNC's numbers are correct, but a closer look at all of the data shows Georgia's unemployment woes would have been worse without the stimulus. The USA Today report shows Georgia may not be getting its fair share in stimulus funds. It seems there are some mitigating factors to consider when looking at the RNC's statement. We rate it as .
Statement: When Rick Scott "was deposed in lawsuits about his company, he took the Fifth 75 times.
Speaker: florida democratic party
About the speaker: the Florida affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Date: June 17, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;legal issues
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The Florida Democratic Party’s TV ad states that when Rick Scott "was deposed in lawsuits about his company, he took the Fifth 75 times." We have two quibbles with the ad: the Democrats don't specify that the deposition was from a civil business case -- not the federal government’s criminal fraud investigation into Columbia/HCA. However, Scott used the Fifth Amendment due to that federal investigation. Also, the ad refers to multiple lawsuits -- Scott was deposed in separate lawsuits, but he took the Fifth Amendment 75 times in only one of them. We rate this  .
Statement: Missouri is one of "13 states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state.
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: November 29, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: St. Charles, Mo
Fact-check justification: The seasonally adjusted preliminary unemployment rate for October is 3.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The historic low was from October 1999 through January 2000 when the unemployment rate was 3.1. Our Ruling In a visit to St. Charles, Trump said that Missouri is one of "13 states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state." In fact, the state’s lowest unemployment rate on record occurred in 1999 and 2000. We rate this statement .
Statement: Actor Tom Selleck praised President Donald Trump in a meeting with Breitbart.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 31, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A blog claims that Tom Selleck praised President Trump in a long tirade during an interview with Breitbart. Selleck didn’t say any of it. Most of the words are lifted from a 2016 Breitbart interview with actor Jon Voight. We rate this .
Statement: Without ethanol, gas prices would be at least 15% higher. With gas at four bucks, that means you're saving 12 bucks on a 20 gallon fill up.
Speaker: wisconsin corn growers association
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Corn Growers Association is an industry group active in promoting corn and related products.
Date: May 27, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: agriculture;gas prices
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: And using food for fuel drives up the cost of your grocery bill, even as the price at the pump is offset by the program. And there are pollution and fuel efficiency concerns tied to the additive. Those are also unmentioned. So, while generally , the  leaves out important information. On our gauge that’s a Half  .
Statement: Video shows Afghan riding on plane engine.
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: August 17, 2021
Topics: afghanistan;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: These posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) The TikTok user who posted the video, @huyquanhoa , has posted other scenes on the plane engine in the clip, including him cooking , him sitting at a computer , him sitting at a table sipping a drink while the song "I Believe I Can Fly" plays, and him perched on the edge of the engine. On March 27, 2020, he posted an explanation of how he made the video of him perched on the engine, showing part of the process involving a green screen and fans.   We rate claims that one of his videos shows an Afghan man fleeing the Taliban .
Statement: Nazi Germany's Hermann Göring worked to "defund and eliminate the police departments so that they would not interfere with his Brown Shirts.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 14, 2020
Topics: civil rights;facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that Nazi’s defunded and eliminated police departments in Germany. That’s . In reality, the Nazis relied on police forces to maintain control of Germany and commit genocide in the lead-up to World War II. That is very different from today’s calls to "defund the police," which can mean anything from divesting from police departments to abolishing the police altogether. The Instagram post is . We rate it .
Statement: COVID-19 vaccines do not stop transmission of COVID, but instead increase it.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 6, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Our rating A headline and video  that "COVID-19 vaccines do not stop transmission of COVID, but instead increase it." As proof, it cites statistics from a recent surge in breakthrough cases among people over 60 in Germany. While breakthrough infections have risen in Germany among people over 60, it’s  to say the vaccines do not stop transmission of the virus and  to say it increases it. The  fails to take into account that there are far more vaccinated people than unvaccinated in Germany, that the delta variant is more highly contagious than previous versions of the virus, and that the effectiveness of vaccines wanes over time, particularly among the elderly, who often received them earlier than others and have not yet gotten booster shots. We rate this  .
Statement: I think [a little] less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year.  ... We have people who are check kiters and don't pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen.
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: December 3, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: criminal justice;state budget
Context: a gathering with reporters
Fact-check justification: And while they represent just a fraction of the population, the governor-elect is basically on point: low-level, non-violent crimes are clogging the system. Kasich is off point when he derides the ODRC for not having ideas on how to become more efficient, given the department’s efforts to support reform and the legislature’s failure to make it happen. But that comment isn’t part of the  we’re evaluating here. So, where does this leave his comments -O-Meter? We rate his  .
Statement: Because of the health care act, "The people who have health care and like it in this county are not going to be able to keep what they have.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: June 28, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Cantor said that because of the health care law, "The people who have health care and like it in this country are not going to be able to keep what they have." His statement suggests that losing the health insurance you like is guaranteed by the law. Cantor’s office backs the  by noting the law makes it cheaper for companies to drop health coverage for their employees and pay a penalty tax. His office cites the bleakest of nine scenarios in Deloitte studies, under which 42 percent of workers would lose their company insurance. The Cantor camp doesn’t mention that most of the other scenarios estimate a loss under 10 percent. We found five other studies that conclude the law will cause less than a 3 percent net loss of workers with company insurance. That group includes people expected to voluntarily give up their work policies because they prefer private plans that will become available under the health care act. Even before the coverage mandate has taken effect, the number of companies that switch their plans each year has been substantial. The health care law is expected to increase that rate modestly, not exponentially as Cantor says. We rate Cantor’s statement .
Statement: David Alameel "is giving thousands of dollars to support the Republican Party candidates" including John Cornyn and Greg Abbott.
Speaker: kesha rogers
About the speaker: A follower of fringe political figure Lyndon LaRouche, frequent candidate Kesha Rogers of Houston has called for the impeachment of President Obama. The Texas Democratic Party declared her “not a real Democrat” before the March 2014 primary, in which she came second but with enough votes to trigger a runoff to determine the Democratic nominee opposing Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. In 2010 and 2012, she won the Democratic nomination for a Houston-area U.S. House seat.
Date: March 27, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship;campaign finance;candidate biography
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Rogers said Alameel "is giving thousands of dollars to support the Republican Party candidates" such as Cornyn and Abbott. Alameel donated some $5 million to political committees including individual Republicans and Democratic candidates from 1989 on, and his donations included aid to campaigns for Cornyn and Abbott. However, records do not show any donations to Republicans after 2008. Whether Rogers misspoke or not, what she said is , though we see an element of  due to Alameel’s historically bipartisan giving, making this interview  .
Statement: We knew Strom Thurmond had proposed" the amendment that blocked Puerto Rico's use of Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.
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: April 24, 2016
Topics: bankruptcy;corrections and updates;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of HBO's "Last Week Tonight"
Fact-check justification: Oliver said "we know that Thurmond proposed" the text that stripped Puerto Rico of the right to let municipalities and public utilities declare bankruptcy. There is no question that Thurmond introduced the amendment with that change. So technically, he did propose it. But there’s no  that he came up with the idea, and experts question that he understood the significance of the change that would follow. The statement is accurate but requires some additional information. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/260b6aad-f921-45fc-9937-1d82d35f7874 This fact-check previously contained erroneous references about the timing of Strom Thurmond's Senate career and Lin-Manuel Miranda's birthplace.
Statement: Joe Biden admits he is governing like a 'dictator.'
Speaker: charlie kirk
About the speaker: Charlie Kirk is the founder and president of Turning Point USA, a conservative group that advocates for limited government and free markets.
Date: January 26, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;punditfact
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: We reached out to Turning Point USA and the White House for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. Kirk’s Instagram post is . We rate it . RELATED: How Joe Biden’s first executive orders compare with past presidents