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Statement: Salaries for URI faculty are second to last among New England land grant universities and in lowest 20 percent of major U.S. research institutions
Speaker: frank annunziato
About the speaker: Frank R. Annunziato is executive director of the University of Rhode Island chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a labor union and advocacy group.
Date: August 6, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: education;labor;state budget
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: Frank Annunziato said salaries for URI faculty are second to last among New England land grant universities and in the lowest 20 percent of major U.S. research institutions. He is right on the first point and  on the second. The judges rule . (Editor’s note: In the interest of full disclosure, the author’s wife is a URI faculty member.)
Statement: Space X's Starlink internet constellation has angered Russia as it was reported that the Starlink satellite constellation was used to guide the fire" on the Russian ship Moskva.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 30, 2022
Topics: technology;facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Starlink launched its internet service in Ukraine in late February , just six weeks before the Moskva was attacked. A Facebook post says, "Space X’s Starlink internet constellation has angered Russia as it was reported that the Starlink satellite constellation was used to guide the fire" on the Russian ship Moskva. But there are no credible government or media reports that indicate the Starlink service was involved in the attack on Moskva. The  that a Russian official ordered the destruction of the Starlink satellite service originated on a fraudulent website. We rate this  .
Statement: NASA just announced a 100-foot-wide fissure-crack just opened up Yellowstone volcano in 24 hours.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 1, 2023
Topics: environment;corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And there’s no  an eruption at Yellowstone has happened recently or is imminent. The  is . UPDATE, May 4, 2023 : This story includes a response received after publication from Mike Poland, the scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. The rating is unchanged.
Statement: Northern Virginia is the most "heavily trafficked place in the country.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: December 6, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: transportation
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: McDonnell, during a news conference, said Northern Virginia is the most "heavily trafficked" area in the country. His wording would have been more precise if he had said Northern Virginia is part of the most congested area in the country that also includes Washington and populous Maryland suburbs, according to a 2011 TTI report. McDonnell did make that distinction in a prepared speech he gave one day earlier at transportation conference. While traffic is bad around Washington, not all experts agree it’s the worst in the nation. We found reports by other transportation organizations that ranked the region sixth and third. But we don’t fault the governor for relying on the TTI study -- the industry standard for measuring traffic.    So we rate McDonnell’s comments .
Statement: Says his impeachment is a "coup.
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 1, 2019
Location: national
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump has used the term "coup" to describe the impeachment process, and has approvingly retweeted allies who have used it. Trump’s campaign said the word can be applied more informally than as an extra-legal ouster of a government. However, Trump’s repeated use of the term alongside such other inflammatory charges such as "treason" suggests that he is using it intentionally to call into question the legitimacy of a constitutionally prescribed process. His statement is not accurate and makes a  . We rate it .
Statement: Says Joe Biden repeatedly told Americans he's going to raise their taxes.
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 21, 2020
Location: national
Topics: economy;taxes
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: A Trump campaign ad claims Biden repeatedly told Americans he's going to raise their taxes.  That’s not what Biden actually said in the three clips highlighted in the ad, which were edited to pluck specific comments out of context. And it’s not what Biden’s tax plan would do, either. Biden and his campaign have repeatedly said his tax plan does not call for direct tax increases on anyone making less than $400,000 per year. We rate this ad’s  .
Statement: Under Rosemary Lehmberg, the "Travis County D.A.'s office" convened the grand jury that indicted Rick Perry.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: August 17, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a commentary
Fact-check justification: Palin said that under Lehmberg, the "Travis County D.A.’s office" convened the grand jury that indicted Perry. A special grand jury consisting of Travis County citizens indicted Perry in August 2014. But Lehmberg’s office played no role in organizing the jurors. Early on, Lehmberg’s office recused itself from handling the complaint that eventually resulted in the grand jury whose secret deliberations culminated in Perry’s felony charges. A senior district judge from San Antonio, chosen by a judge based in Williamson County, impaneled the grand jury. The San Antonio judge picked a San Antonio lawyer to prosecute the case. We rate this statement .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Part of the increase in the cost (of higher education) has been because state support has dropped. We now spend, under Governor Walker, more on corrections than we do on higher education.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: June 2, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;education;state budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The drop in state support for higher education -- even with the recent tuition freeze -- has meant increased costs for the students. The lines crossed between corrections and the UW System during Walker’s time in office. But the trend had been heading in that direction for years so the blame does not fall squarely on Walker. What’s more, when spending on technical colleges is considered, the lines have not yet crossed. We rate Burke’s statement .
Statement: Anheuser-Busch closing half its U.S. breweries" after Dylan Mulvaney backlash.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 29, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  We found an article in the network’s Patriot Party Press making the same  and using the Barron name, as well as some of the same wording. The article on the laptop site also uses phrases that one would be hard-pressed to find in a legitimate news story. "Most of these breweries are union shops, so this news is double the lib ownage," it said. Another line read, "Unfortunately, these numbers have not been verified, but we will continue to report them until proven otherwise." For readers who may take the  seriously because the laptop review website carries no satire disclaimer, we rate the  !
Statement: Appalachian Power Company is making "record profits.
Speaker: ward armstrong
About the speaker: Ward Armstrong, D-Henry County,  was a  a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2012, serving the final five years as minority leader. He served on the Courts of Justice, Finance, and Rules committees. In 2011, House Republicans merged Armstrong's district with that of another incumbent, Republican Charles Poindexter. Armstrong was defeated by Poindexter that fall.
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Date: September 27, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: energy;regulation
Context: TV ads
Fact-check justification: Our ruling: Armstrong has charged in ads that Apco, which has raised rates nine time during the last four years, is making record profits.    Armstrong tries to support his statement on three legs but we find fault with each. His citing of Apco’s gross revenue is meaningless because they are not profits; his argument that Apco’s net income increased by 11.2 percent between 2008 and 2010 is  because profits in those years were less than half of the record set in 2003; and his emphasis on the record profits of corporate parent AEP is irrelevant because state regulators, in setting rates, focus only on Apco’s performance. Armstrong, a lawyer, has been poring over Apco’s finances for more than a year and it’s mind-boggling to suppose he's in the dark on these things. We rate his  .
Statement: Texas is "50th in the nation in mental health care access.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: May 25, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Uvalde County, Texas
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke said Texas is "50th in the nation in mental health care access."  Mental Health America, a nonprofit advocating for people with mental illness, ranked Texas 51st for mental health care access, behind every other state and Washington, D.C. There are some limitations in the data, which Mental Health America acknowledges. We rate that  .
Statement: Says Vladimir Putin said, "President Obama and his fellow Democrats are either idiots or deliberately trying to destroy their own economy.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 5, 2013
Location: national
Topics: economy;foreign policy
Context: a meme on the Internet
Fact-check justification: A recent Facebook meme said Vladimir Putin accused Obama of being an "idiot" for trying to implement socialism in the United States. The alleged quote has circulated online for almost six years, but we can say with confidence that the quote comes from a satire website, a  that could have been easily discovered through a few clicks on the Internet. We rate the  .
Statement: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Ron DeSantis and others "are ALL in a diamond mining business in Oklahoma together!
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 13, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;florida
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Walters said he formerly owned The Paragon Diamonds LLC, a company that’s named on the UCC filing and appears to form the basis for the diamond mining . But it is not a diamond mining business and was not registered in Oklahoma, Walters said. He said it was registered in Wyoming, and we found it listed in the Wyoming secretary of state business registry.   We rate the  that DeSantis, Fauci, Moody and Redfield are in a diamond mining business !    PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Says Patrick Murphy "hasn't passed a single bill out of committee.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: August 12, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: congress
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Grayson said Murphy "hasn't passed a single bill out of committee." He cited a source that only looked at Murphy’s first term, not his second. Experts said the source is flawed, and is not a good way to measure how government works. Murphy had a hand in at least two items coming out of committee in 2013: One bill became an amendment, and he co-authored a second that became law. A third bill that Murphy sponsored moved out of committee as an amendment in 2015. We rate Grayson's statement .
Statement: And this would be the first year, if everything holds true, we will spend over $10 billion of our state budget on Medicaid out of the $28 billion budget.
Speaker: caleb rowden
About the speaker: Caleb Rowden is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives representing District 44.
Date: January 20, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: health care;medicaid;public health
Context: a statement at a legislative breakfast
Fact-check justification: Rowden was trying to illustrate that Medicaid spending has reached out-of-control levels. According to Greitens' budget recommendations for fiscal year 2018, the budget for Medicaid has gone up over $1 billion in the last three years and now takes up approximately 37 percent of the state budget. Despite the growing concern from Republicans on the cost of Medicaid spending, Greitens has recommended $10.7 billion for the service for fiscal year 2018, an increase of over $500 million from fiscal year 2017. However, it’s important to note that "we" — as in the state of Missouri — don’t directly fund the entire $10 billion. Because of the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage and the Federal Reimbursement Allowance programs, the state only has to spend approximately $1.7 billion of state revenue on Medicaid. So while Medicaid spending will exceed $10 billion of the nearly $28 billion budget, not all of the money is coming directly from the state. Rowden’s statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it . Supervising editor is Mike Jenner.
Statement: I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.
Speaker: fred thompson
About the speaker: Fred Thompson was a U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He graduated from Memphis State University and earned a law degree at Vanderbilt University. Thompson practiced law and served a variety of government counsel positions, including as minority counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities ("Watergate Committee"). In his acting career Thompson has appeared in 18 films, and recently worked as a TV actor, playing a prosecutor on the series Law and Order. Thompson was born in Alabama in 1942. He has been married to Jeri Kehn since 2002, and has four children, two from his first marriage. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 22, 2008.
Date: September 7, 2007
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Des Moines, Iowa
Fact-check justification: But they said they never worked in ankle-deep water. "I don't know why he said that," said Doyce Shaddix, who worked at Murray for 43 years and said the roof did sometimes leak in the rain. "It wasn't like it happened all the time." We couldn't verify the ankle-deep water conditions, and you'd never know from his speech that Thompson's view of life from the factory floor lasted just one summer before college. But the point of his story is accurate and so we find this  .
Statement: The minions from 'Despicable Me' are based off of these Jewish children tortured by Nazis during the Holocaust.
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: May 18, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The scene mirrors one in the political satire "The Great Dictator," during which comedic actor Charlie Chaplin portrays a Hitler-like leader and speaks in gibberish before a large crowd, the New York Times reported .   We rate this post . UPDATE, May 21, 2021 : The story has been updated to include comment from Matthew Sheldon, executive director of museum operations at the National Museum of the Royal Navy. The rating is unchanged.
Statement: We just don't want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops.
Speaker: bill kennemer
About the speaker: Oregon Rep. Bill Kennemer, R-Oregon City, represents House District 39.
Date: September 11, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: alcohol
Context: a news story
Fact-check justification: Also, in some states, you can buy packaged liquor and beer through a drive-thru window. ) We realize Kennemer is citing an extreme example, and that’s fine, but we should also remind readers that loosening our liquor laws won’t necessarily turn us into Louisiana. California has liquor stores that any kid can enter to buy a pack of gum. And still you can’t get a decent frozen daiquiri to go, by car, or a gin and tonic, by foot. We rate the statement .
Statement: Back when I was studying it, two out of three families that ended up in bankruptcy after a serious medical problem had health insurance.
Speaker: elizabeth warren
About the speaker: Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
Date: October 15, 2019
Topics: health care;health check
Context: comments made during the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: In itself, it’s a fair reflection of what the paper says. Where caution is more important: Warren says this finding suggests the cost of health care is what’s causing Americans financial harm. That isn’t necessarily borne out, and requires more scrutiny. This statement is accurate but would benefit from more information. We rate it .
Statement: The attorney general requires that rape victims pay for the rape kit.
Speaker: barbara ann radnofsky
About the speaker: Barbara Ann Radnofsky was the 2010 Democratic candidate for Texas attorney general.She was the party's 2006 U.S. Senate nominee.
Date: October 22, 2009
Location: texas
Topics: crime;women
Context: a Web site video
Fact-check justification: However, hospitals have sometimes mistakenly sent bills to victims for their forensic exams, according to the attorney general’s office. But none of the officials we contacted knew of any data on how often that happens. Summing up: Regardless of whether Abbott took the initiative on this issue and regardless of whether some sexual assault victims have been mistakenly billed on occasion, Radnofsky’s  is . The attorney general does not require rape victims to pay for rape kits and never has. That's why we give Radnofsky a .
Statement: I did not play any role in bringing the company to RI as did others in government. I was tasked with handling the legislation affecting the company by my superiors.
Speaker: steven costantino
About the speaker: Steven Costantino has served in the R.I. House of Representatives since 1994 and has chaired the House Finance Committee since 2004. He ran for mayor of Providence in 2010.
Date: September 27, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: bankruptcy;debt
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: In his defense, Costantino issued a statement in which he said:  "I did not play any role in bringing the company to RI as did others in government. I was tasked with handling the legislation affecting the company by my superiors." In other words: Don’t blame me, I was just doing my job.   But the records and comments of people involved illustrate that Costantino played a key part in Rhode Island's courtship of 38 Studios. The legislation he helped pass, offering valuable loan guarantees, was his idea, according to one former EDC official. During the process, Costantino shielded his idea from the type of full political scrutiny that might have killed it. He did this by not naming 38 Studios on the House floor when he was asked who was pushing for the loan-guarantee program. When the deal was done, the CEO of Schilling's company thanked all members of the General Assembly and singled out five elected officials by name, including the former House Finance Committee chairman. Costantino played a pivotal role in creating the 38 Studios mess. In some ways, the record shows he bears as much responsibility as the other elected government officials who "tasked" him. We rate his statement .   (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Say "Dunkin' Donuts is providing a free Ḍozen Doughnut Box to everyone! to celebrate 68th Anniversary!
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 28, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: It’s unlikely that an official Dunkin’ Donuts offer would contain so many errors. We reached out to Dunkin’ Donuts but did not hear back. A website’s  that visitors will receive a coupon for a free dozen of donuts in exchange for completing a survey is too good to be . We rate this  !