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Statement: Kim Martin Morrow the CEO of Netflix has just been charged with 15 charges for child pornography
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: September 17, 2020
Topics: children;crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Social media posts , "Kim Martin Morrow the CEO of Netflix has just been charged with 15 charges for child pornography." Netflix’s CEO is Reed Hastings, and he has not been charged with any crime. The claims appear to be the result of backlash over a Netflix film that many say hypersexualizes young children. We rate this  .
Statement: One out of 10 minimum-wage workers in the U.S. live in Texas.
Speaker: stephanie cutter
About the speaker: Stephanie Cutter appears as a co-host on CNN's Crossfire. She previously served as deputy campaign manager for the Barack Obama campaign in 2012. She is the former communications director for the Democratic National Committee and worked as a White House deputy communications director while Bill Clinton was president.
 
Date: September 18, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: economy;pundits;workers
Context: an episode of CNN's "Crossfire"
Fact-check justification: Cutter said one of 10 minimum-wage workers in the U.S. lives in Texas. Actually, 18 percent of U.S. workers paid the minimum wage in 2012 toiled in Texas, according to government figures, while Texas was home to 13 percent of the nation’s hourly employees paid minimum wage or less. Since Cutter was arguing that Texas is not a land of plenty, the fact that she understated the state’s share of minimum-wage workers doesn’t short the -O-Meter. We rate this  as .
Statement: A video shows Nancy Pelosi unveiling a portrait of former U.S. Energy Department employee.
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: December 14, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Sam Brinton, the former deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition in the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy, who was recently accused of stealing luggage at a Las Vegas airport.   But this video has been altered, and a post sharing it 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.) The real footage shows Pelosi unveiling her own portrait at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 14.   We rate claims that Pelosi unveiled a portrait of Brinton .
Statement: Says a man in Ferguson, Mo., was photographed holding a sign that said, "No mother should have to fear for her son's life every time he robs a store.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: December 2, 2014
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;race and ethnicity
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: A photograph that went viral purports to show a protester in Ferguson, holding a sign that said, "No mother should have to fear for her son's life every time he robs a store." However, the photo was manipulated by a social media user, who later acknowledged the alteration. The change in wording turns the sign’s message completely on its head, so we rate the  .
Statement: When I became mayor of Los Angeles, we had a 44 percent (high school) graduation rate. I said that was unacceptable. I challenged that notion. I said the mayor needs to be involved with our schools. We need to partner together. As I left, after a number of reforms, we grew our graduation rate from 44 percent to 72.
Speaker: antonio villaraigosa
About the speaker: Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, is a candidate for California governor, former mayor of Los Angeles and former state Assembly speaker. 
Date: March 23, 2017
Location: california
Topics: education;the 2018 california governor's race
Context: a speech at a candidates forum
Fact-check justification: California gubernatorial candidate and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently claimed about the Los Angeles Unified School District: "When I became mayor of Los Angeles, we had a 44 percent (high school) graduation rate. I said that was unacceptable. I challenged that notion. I said the mayor needs to be involved with our schools. We need to partner together. As I left, after a number of reforms, we grew our graduation rate from 44 percent to 72." A 2006 study by the nonpartisan Education Week placed the district’s graduation rate at 44 percent, while a Harvard study the year before placed the rate at 45.3 percent. They both used enrollment data from the early 2000s. School district officials in 2006 disputed the findings, saying improvements had been made and the rate was closer to 64 percent. District data shows that rate had climbed to 70.2 percent immediately after Villaraigosa’s term ended. It rose to 72.2 percent and then 77 percent in the following two years. Several observers of Los Angeles politics and education said Villaraigosa doesn’t get all the credit but did play an outsized role. He helped elect a reform-minded school board, install a superintendent and created a nonprofit that took control of and helped improve the district’s worst performing schools. The dispute over the district’s view of its graduation rate is missing from Villaraigosa’s statement. As is the fact that the studies used data from the early 2000s, a few years before Villaraigosa took office. But there’s certainly  to back up the former mayor’s  about graduation rate improvements and his influence. In the end, we rate Villaraigosa’s  .   – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. UPDATE: We have updated our fact check to note that Dan Schnur’s wife, Cecile Ablack, served as deputy mayor for communications under former Mayor Villaraigosa.
Statement: The vast majority of Wisconsin students cannot even read, write, or do math at grade level.
Speaker: jeremy thiesfeldt
About the speaker: Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R-Fond du Lac, was first elected to the Wisconsin state Assembly in 2010. As of 2019 he served as chairman of the Assembly Committee on Education.
Date: September 19, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a weekly radio address
Fact-check justification: Thiesfeldt used state test results to  the "vast majority" of Wisconsin students are below grade level in math and English. Experts say proficient was once roughly equal to some definitions of grade level, but a dramatic shift in 2013 means that is no longer the case. Wisconsin raised the bar and — predictably — more kids then failed to clear it. Today, Wisconsin’s definition of proficient is almost identical to that of a key federal testing agency that explicitly warns against conflating proficiency with grade level. They say proficiency is more akin to "mastery" of a subject. We rate Thiesfeldt’s  .
Statement: David Perdue said he'd raise taxes.
Speaker: jack kingston
About the speaker: Jack Kingston, a Republican, is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia and a political commentator.
Date: June 19, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: taxes
Context: television ad
Fact-check justification: Basing the statement alone on Perdue’s meeting with a newspaper editorial board takes his statements out of context. Equating revenue increases with tax hikes is a stretch that breaks upon closer examination. Perdue is far more clear, though, on support for extending sales taxes to goods and services bought online. Though the Fair Tax includes such a tax as part of its proposal, there is a separate bill that would levy the Internet sales tax in the exact way that Perdue said he supported. Taken together, we rate the  .
Statement: Says Rand Paul thinks drug-dealing, theft, burglary and prostitution should be decriminalized.
Speaker: jack conway
About the speaker: Jack Conway has been the Attorney General of Kentucky since 2008. He unsuccessfully ran against Rand Paul as the Democratic nominee in Kentucky’s 2010 U.S. Senate election.
Date: September 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: crime;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: But for the Conway campaign to splice that with comments from law enforcement officials listing non-violent crime such as dealing drugs to kids, promoting prostitution, theft, burglary and financial crime suggests Paul wants to decriminalize those acts. We couldn't find a single instance where Paul has said he specifically wanted to legalize any of those activities. Conversely, Paul has repeatedly and unequivocally said he does not want to make those things legal, and that he has no plans to change the current laws with regard to them. We think a reasonable person can see what's going on here. We rate this ad .
Statement: Says Barack Obama is "trying to slash funding for the Armed Pilots Program designed to prevent terror attacks.
Speaker: national rifle association
About the speaker: An advocacy group that fights restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Date: June 12, 2012
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: The NRA claimed that Obama is "trying to slash funding for the Armed Pilots Program designed to prevent terror attacks." The Armed Pilots Program was created post-Sept. 11, 2001, to serve as a last-line of defense in a terror attack. And Obama, in his FY 2013 budget proposal, did propose cutting the budget for the program in half. Obama says the program isn’t as critical as it once was. But that doesn’t contradict the NRA’s . We rate it .
Statement: Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it.
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 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a speech to a joint session of Congress
Fact-check justification: Still, the president said that Otto Raddatz's death was caused by a delay in his surgery caused by the insurer's decision to rescind his policy. But as Peggy Raddatz testified, government intervention enabled her brother to have the procedure, and he lived, despite his cancer, for another three and a half years. When Raddatz eventually died earlier this year, his sister said that his death came while waiting for a second procedure that did not happen because the transplant donor unexpectedly fell ill. Critics can still blame the insurance company for insensitivity — and it's  that the company only paid for Raddatz's treatment after the attorney general's office acted — but the  shows that it's  to say a delay in care caused his death. So we rate the president's statement .
Statement: Says Barack Obama announced Joe Biden's death.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 23, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) There is no credence to the  that Biden died, nor that former President Barack Obama announced his death. Biden, very much alive, spoke publicly from the White House on June 7 as he signed several pieces of legislation.   On May 24, the day after this posted, Biden ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at the White House, public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations, and naval vessels, in remembrance of the children and teachers who were killed during the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that day.   We rate this post !
Statement: It is unusual" for a White House official like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to make unmasking requests.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: April 4, 2017
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;foreign policy;privacy issues
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Cotton said, "It is unusual" for a White House official like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to make unmasking requests. As the president’s top consultant on issues of national security, Rice and other national security advisers consume a large amount of intelligence. There are numerous legitimate reasons why Rice might ask an intelligence agency to reveal the identity of an unnamed person in an intelligence report. It might not be an everyday occurrence, but it is not so "unusual" as to raise suspicion, as Cotton said. We rate Cotton’s  .
Statement: Gov. Ron DeSantis signed "a last-minute exception into an anti-discrimination law for anyone who also operates a theme park more than 25 acres in Florida," benefiting Walt Disney Co.
Speaker: vivek ramaswamy
About the speaker: Vivek Ramaswamy is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. He previously worked in the finance and biotech sectors.
Date: April 30, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: corporations;corrections and updates;legal issues;recreation;technology
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Ramaswamy said DeSantis signed "a last-minute exception into an anti-discrimination law for anyone who also operates a theme park more than 25 acres in Florida," benefiting The Walt Disney Co. In 2021, DeSantis signed a bill that sought to punish tech companies for removing statewide candidates in Florida from their platforms — a major legislative priority for him. After weeks of consideration, legislators in the hours before passage added a carve-out to the bill to protect Disney, which offers streaming services and has large Florida operations.  DeSantis signed the bill that included the Disney provision. He said after passage that he didn’t believe the language was necessary, even though his staff was involved in late negotiations over wording. The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it . UPDATE, May 4, 2023 : This article was updated to include reporting about emails concerning the Disney carve-out that surfaced in March 2023. The rating is unchanged. RELATED : Fact-checking 2024 presidential candidates, who’s running
Statement: The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was "his outreach to Muslims.
Speaker: keith olbermann
About the speaker: Keith Olbermann is the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
Date: April 19, 2010
Location: national
Topics: pundits;religion
Context: comments on the MSNBC show Countdown
Fact-check justification: By characterizing the treaty as an "outreach to Muslims", Olbermann  the importance of Article 11 and implies that the central focus of the treaty was to engage with Muslims. In fact, President John Adams wanted to secure commercial shipping rights, and the countries he wanted to negotiate with happened to be Muslim, and happened to justify piracy by declaring war on Christian nations. Adams addressed that declaration by claiming that the United States was not Christian, and was not at war with Muslims. There is some  in Olbermann's  in that the clause essentially "reaches out" to Muslims, but he  its importance. So we find his  .
Statement: Studies even show that when women go to Congress they get more things done - more bipartisan effort, more bills passed.
Speaker: kirsten gillibrand
About the speaker: Kirsten Gillibrand is a senator from New York. Gillibrand was appointed as senator in 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat, as Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to retain her senate seat and won re-elections in 2012 and 2018. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the representative of New York’s 20th Congressional District. Gillibrand received a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: November 12, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: congress;women
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Gillibrand said studies show that when women are elected to Congress, they get more things done, are more bipartisan and pass more bills. Studies show women sponsor more bills, secure more discretionary spending for their constituents, and under certain circumstances, reach across the aisle more. In the Senate, women have been more successful than men at passing bills. Studies also show that when women are elected, they work harder than their male colleagues. Other research, however, shows women are not more bipartisan than men and that women’s effectiveness relative to men’s effectiveness varies under different conditions. We rate Gillibrand’s  .   If Gillibrand hadn’t qualified her statement with "studies show," and instead had made an outright  about women’s performance in Congress, we likely would have reached a different ruling.
Statement: Says if you donate blood, "they HAVE to test you" for coronavirus.
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: March 12, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The account that tweeted the information in the Facebook post has since deleted it, writing : "I don’t want to contribute to hysteria or medical misinformation." But the screenshot lives on. So tell your friends! Tell your family!!!!! We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: October 25, 2011
Location: national
Topics: history;space
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: Whether one wants to blame Bush or Obama for our current predicament turns out to be irrelevant to the question raised in the e-mail. Richard Nixon, perhaps in conjunction with Gerald Ford, would be the one to qualify for the unwanted title of "first president to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space" -- not Obama. We rate this  .
Statement: The North Carolina bathroom bill "was really never repealed.
Speaker: pat mccrory
About the speaker: Pat McCrory, a Republican, was governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. Previously, he served as mayor of Charlotte.
Date: October 25, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: human rights;lgbtq
Context: a radio appearance
Fact-check justification: McCrory said HB2 "was really never repealed." The bill named HB2 was indeed trashed and the most controversial part of it is gone. Advocates point out that parts of the repeal bill are still restrictive. But it’s  to suggest, as McCrory did, that "nothing’s changed." We rate this  .
Statement: The Moderna vaccine contains an ingredient that is "for research use only, not meant for human or veterinary use.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 16, 2021
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A video shared on Instagram claimed that a lipid used in the Moderna vaccine was unsafe for humans and is meant to be only used in research. The video showed a safety sheet provided by a biotech company listing the dangers associated with the lipid. However, the safety sheet was not for the lipid itself but a version dissolved in a solution of chloroform that’s sold to pharmaceutical companies for research purposes. The dangers listed on the sheet are for the chloroform, which is a toxic substance. The Moderna vaccine does not contain any chloroform — and none of its ingredients are deemed toxic to humans. We rate this  .
Statement: Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don't have access even to water.
Speaker: rula jebreal
About the speaker: Rula Jebreal is a Palestinian journalist who emerged as a Middle Eastern voice in Western media after sharing her experiences about growing up in the West Bank and reporting in Egypt during the Arab Spring,
Date: July 22, 2014
Topics: israel;foreign policy;water;punditfact
Context: comments on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Jebreal claimed that "90 percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water," in the course of arguing that a significant part of the Israel-Palestine situation goes unreported in the United States. Recent estimates suggest that about 67 percent of people living in Gaza currently have little or no access to running water, a figure lower than Jebreal claimed. But what's  is that 90 to 95 percent of the water from Gaza’s coastal aquifer (their only natural source of fresh water) isn’t suitable for drinking. Jebreal’s  needs that caveat. As such, we rate her statement .
Statement: (Chris Christie) has not paid one dollar of state money into our pension system, and then states that the system is broke.
Speaker: loretta weinberg
About the speaker: Loretta Weinberg is a Democratic state senator representing Bergen County.
Date: November 21, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: retirement;state budget
Context: a column on bluejersey.com
Fact-check justification: In an online column, Weinberg claimed Christie "has not paid one dollar of state money into our pension system." It’s technically  that Christie has not yet made a pension contribution, but the governor has agreed to make a combined payment of about $484 million to six pension funds during fiscal year 2012. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Photo shows "some of the firefighters in California fighting fires 24/7 to save people's lives and property.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 7, 2020
Location: california
Topics: fires;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: "As close as we got to seeing sleep in 36 hours," he wrote. His photo attracted the attention of national media and celebrities . "They’re my heroes," wrote Ellen DeGeneres. As for the new Facebook post, the photo is real, but the user’s caption is . We rate the post .