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Statement: Says a new report proves the stimulus supported by N.J. Democrats cost $278,000 per job.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: July 5, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave Boehner’s tweet -- and the identical  from the NRCC -- that a report said the stimulus had cost $278,000 per job? On the -O-Meter, we rate the tweet (and the subsequent variations of the ) as .   To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com . Editor's note: This item was originally published on the Boehner statement. We have specifically republished it on the National Republican Congressional Committee statement.
Statement: Says Scott Walker 'cut $800 million from our schools.'
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: September 25, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: He did cut close to that ($784 million), in raw dollars in a single two-year budget. But that ignores changes made through Walker’s Act 10 that saved districts money. And the ad does not make clear that it’s referring only to cuts from 2011-’13, so viewers wouldn’t know that subsequent funding increases have made up most of that reduction. Our definition for  is "The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That fits here.
Statement: They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later.
Speaker: andrew yang
About the speaker: Andrew Yang filed paperwork with the New York City Campaign Finance Board Dec. 23 which allows him to explore a bid for mayor in 2021. Yang is an entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America New York. Yang received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In 2017, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in February 2020.
Date: December 20, 2019
Location: national
Topics: china;privacy issues
Context: a Democratic presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: Yang said, "They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later." Yang’s  is on the right track; the government in Hong Kong has tried to ban the use of face masks, and it is reportedly capable of using facial recognition technology against its protesters. But the ban has been lifted for the time being, and it has not been definitively reported that the city’s law enforcement authorities are using facial recognition to find and hold suspects. Overall, the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important context. We rate it .
Statement: Says Mark Zuckerberg invented the word "BFF," and if it doesn't appear green after you type it in a Facebook comment, your account has been hacked.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 10, 2019
Topics: fake news;privacy issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A list of words and abbreviations, such as "xoxo," "congratulations," and "BFF," that when included in a status update or comment trigger animations such as color changes, balloons or hearts. We reached out to Facebook for a response to the  but did not hear back before publication. The rumor appeared to pop up in the spring of 2018 – right around the time Zuckerberg appeared in Congressional hearings to answer questions on Facebook’s data privacy practices after more than 50 million users ’ private information was shared without their permission. And although this BFF  has been labeled a hoax by several outlets , it re-surfaces on the social media website every so often. We rate it !
Statement: Milwaukee has the second-highest" number of children recovered from sex trafficking.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: May 29, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;criminal justice;crime;sexuality
Context: remarks on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Our rating Moore said "Milwaukee has the second-highest" number of children recovered from sex trafficking. Pimp prosecutions, FBI crackdowns and a local study have established that child sex trafficking is a serious problem in Milwaukee. But Moore acknowledges she didn’t state her  accurately. There simply is no comprehensive data available comparing cities on the extent of the problem, nor on the number of children who are recovered from the trafficking. We rate Moore’s statement .
Statement: Over 65% of the country believes that (the) 2020 election was fraudulent. That number was around 35% a year ago.
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: January 30, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a photo on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said, "Over 65% of the country believes that (the) 2020 election was fraudulent. That number was around 35% a year ago." More than a dozen public opinion surveys found that a majority of Americans overall believe the results of the 2020 election were legitimate. However, many of these polls also found that many Republicans continue to hold the view that the results were skewed by voter fraud, despite a lack of . We rate this  .
Statement: COVID was "so bad one year, they just forgot to give us a hurricane? What's really going on here.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 1, 2022
Topics: weather;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram video said "so was COVID so bad they just forgot to give us a hurricane?" and suggested something conspiratorial was going on. Hurricanes are formed in nature, not orchestrated by people, so there’s no conspiracy regarding storm exposure. And hurricane activity did not subside after the COVID-19 pandemic began — 2020 and 2021 marked the first and third most active Atlantic hurricane seasons on record. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Scott Walker "has turned down $1 billion of Medicaid money over the course of his tenure.
Speaker: dana wachs
About the speaker: Democratic state Rep. Dana Wachs, an Eau Claire lawyer, was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2012.
Date: April 11, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;income;medicaid;poverty
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Like us on Facebook . Follow us on Twitter: @PolitiFactWisc Our rating Wachs says Walker "has turned down $1 billion of Medicaid money over the course of his tenure." Leaving aside whether Walker chose good policy or not, his decision not to do a "full expansion" of Medicaid means the state is spending about $1 billion more in state money on Medicaid than if it had accepted additional federal money that would come with a full expansion. With the caveat that the figure is an estimate from the state’s nonpartisan budget scorekeeper, covering roughly 2014 to 2019, Wach’s statement is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Says Joe Biden "shut down travel from 8 countries in response to the Omicron variant, but he refuses to require a #COVID19 test for illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border.
Speaker: glenn grothman
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Grothman, of the Town of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, was first elected to Congress in 2014 after serving 21 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He represents the 6th Congressional District in east-central Wisconsin that includes all or parts of Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Winnebago, Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties.  
 
Date: November 30, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;border security;coronavirus
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Meanwhile, at the southern border reports have shown there is no widespread testing by federal agencies there. Instead, to the degree testing is occurring, local governments are being relied upon to do it. So Grothman is a bit off the mark there. Our definition of  is a "statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.
Statement: You're going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming.
Speaker: mo brooks
About the speaker: Mo Brooks is a Republican who represents a district in Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: May 16, 2018
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change
Context: a congressional hearing
Fact-check justification: Brooks said, "You’re going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming." Scientists agree that parts of Antarctica may already be seeing higher levels of frozen precipitation due to global warming. However, focusing on this increase amounts to cherry-picking, because the same higher temperatures also mean faster melting of existing Antarctic ice. On balance, scientists expect the amount of ice lost from added melting to be much higher than the amount of ice added from greater precipitation. The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled.
Speaker: tom coburn
About the speaker: Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a physician.
Date: December 1, 2010
Location: national
Topics: disability;federal budget;social security
Context: a meeting of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission
Fact-check justification: If you divide that figure by the total United States population in 2009 of 307 million people, it works out to be 5.4 percent, or just slightly more than one out of every 19 Americans. But before we declare Coburn completely correct, let's look at how many people collect both SSDI and SSI. We couldn't find those numbers for December 2009, but for November 2010, the overlap was about 1.8 million people. If you assume that the number was roughly similar for December 2009, then 4.8 percent of the U.S. population receives either SSDI or SSI -- or one out of every 20.7 people. That makes Coburn very close, so we rate his statement .
Statement: Dan Gelber: On the record against scholarships to help our needy children attend Jewish private schools.
Speaker: committee for florida's education
About the speaker: Committee for Florida's Education is an electioneering communication group that is funded by American Federation for Children, a group that supports school vouchers.
Date: October 18, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: We say no, that's not a fact. While Gelber has repeatedly voted against and criticized vouchers for any students, he has no record at all of voting against Jewish education, and it's a crass twist of logic to  otherwise. Characterizing his long opposition to the voucher program as a direct vote against needy Jewish children is flat-out . We rate this  .
Statement: Says unsuccessful Texas abortion legislation "was supported by a majority of" Texans.
Speaker: jerry patterson
About the speaker: Jerry Patterson, who won election to three terms as state land commissioner starting in 2002, filed to seek the post afresh in the 2018 elections. The former state senator from Pasadena unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
Date: June 26, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;polls and public opinion
Context: an email blast
Fact-check justification: Patterson said the majority of Texans supported the abortion measure that died. Yet he did not offer nor did we find public polls covering every element of the legislation, though the GQR poll stretched to two elements of the legislation, seemingly finding a majority of Texans in opposition--though the poll struck us as laden with phrasing likely to encourage qualms about anti-abortion measures. Patterson’s statement has an element of  in that 62 percent of respondents in the UT/Texas Tribune poll specifically supported barring abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, which the proposal angled to do. But the lack of other backup  leaves the overall  .
Statement: Says Ted Cruz "wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants.
Speaker: great america pac
About the speaker: Great America PAC is a political action committee founded in 2016 to help the 2016 presidential campaign of Repbulican candidate Donald Trump. 
Date: March 31, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;candidate biography;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: As for now, Cruz is adamantly against amnesty . Our rating Great America PAC says Cruz "wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants." Cruz in 2014 supported continuing to allow Syrian refugees into the United States and in 2013, he appeared to back measures to give legal status to illegal immigrants. At the same time, the political action committee’s ad suggests those positions are current ones, when they aren’t. For a statement that is partially accurate but takes things out of context, our rating is .
Statement: Says "Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: August 12, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: veterans
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Marco Rubio’s latest ad said he "wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers." This is fairly accurate, with the one caveat being that his legislation was included in a larger bill, and passed as law with other reforms to the VA system. We rate this . Editor's Note:  This fact-check was updated Aug. 25, 2016, to clarify House action on a bill related to Rubio's.
Statement: Desmond Tutu died on Oct. 20, 2021.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: October 20, 2021
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A hoax Twitter account claimed that Desmond Tutu died on Oct. 20 at the age of 90. The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said the rumor was , and that Tutu was alive. The Johannesburg archbishop impersonated by the hoax Twitter account said the same. The rumor originated on a  Twitter account, since-deleted, that was set up by a man known for creating hoax accounts to start  death rumors. We rate this tweet !
Statement: The Bush tax cuts "helped to create a substantial part of the deficit.
Speaker: dennis kucinich
About the speaker: Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 2018. Kucinich was elected to Congress in 1996. He previously served as a member of the city council and as mayor in Cleveland, the city where he was born in 1946. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western University. He has been married since 2005 to Elizabeth Harper. He was married twice before and has one child. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 25, 2008.
Date: April 13, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: bush administration;deficit;taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: "Revenue is lower than it would be without the Bush tax cuts -- liberal and conservative economists are in accord on this question." Debate will go on about the effectiveness of tax cuts in stimulating growth. We won't enter it. But analysis backs up Kucinich in saying that the Bush cuts "helped to create a substantial part of the deficit." We rate his statement as .
Statement: Vaxxed Delta pilot dies in-flight, emergency landing required.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 11, 2021
Topics: transportation;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: There are no news reports of a Delta flight making an emergency landing within the past two weeks, much less because he died after getting vaccinated.   Searching the Aviation Global Incident Map , a website that tracks aviation incidents and accidents, we found several emergency landings on commercial flights between Sept. 26 and Oct. 11, when the blog was published, but none involving a Delta flight.   And the Federal Aviation Administration told Lead Stories that it found no  of a Delta flight making an emergency landing due to the death of a pilot.   We rate this post .
Statement: Gov. Rick Scott "is trying to get a waiver under the federal health care law that would deny consumers in Florida the right to the $60 million in rebates they have from their own HMOs.
Speaker: scott randolph
About the speaker: Scott Randolph is an attorney who was elected to the Florida House to serve District 36 in 2006.
Date: August 11, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: And while rebates are possible, they are not a given. That's because the dollar figure is based on how insurance companies operated before prior to having to meet the new 80 percent standard. We won't know to what extent insurers will make changes to meet that new 80 percent standard yet, but it's safe to assume that they will try to avoid paying out tens of millions of dollars a year in rebates. However, it is clear that Scott is supportive of getting a waiver for a program that was designed to be pro-consumer by resulting in either lower rates or better coverage. On balance, we rate this  .
Statement: The Alternative Minimum Tax...was created by Congress in 1969 to affect 155 wealthy Americans. Because it was never indexed for inflation, those original 155 taxpayers has increased to affect about 3.5-million in 2006.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: September 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: So as time moved on, growing numbers of people have fallen into the AMT program and, as a result, are paying higher taxes. In 2006, 3.5-million taxpayers fell under the AMT, which equates to about 4 percent of American taxpayers, according to the Congressional Research Service. But that was with a special limit — "a patch" — imposed by Congress. So, Giuliani has it right. All of it.
Statement: The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%.
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: April 26, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted, the 9th Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%." An overturned record can be calculated in at least two ways. By one measure, Trump’s tweet is correct if examining only cases reviewed by the Supreme Court. But by factoring in cases reversed over the total number of cases ruled by the circuit court, then the percentage is significantly smaller, far less than 1 percent. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals.
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: August 31, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Phoenix
Fact-check justification: Trump said "at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they’ve been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals. They won’t take them back." Trump’s figure comes from the federal department in charge of immigration and is accurate. But the second half of his statement about "large numbers of violent criminals" is harder to verify. Out of all convictions for anyone known to be in the United States illegally in 2015, 101 were for homicide while more than 30,000 were for traffic-related or drug-related offenses. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Says "the City of Portland alone has 84 public relation representatives on payroll which cost taxpayers over $6.2 million (a year).
Speaker: taxpayer association of oregon
About the speaker: Taxpayer Association of Oregon was founded by Jason Williams and Don McIntire in 2000. Don McIntire is most commonly known as the father of Measure 5, the 1990 property tax limitation measure).  Jason Williams is best known for working with Oregonians In Action.
Date: October 31, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: city government
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: If government is doing its job, it doesn't need a press agent." The fact that Williams admitted their  gets the association some brownie points, but it doesn’t change the fact that they were misinforming the 10,000 people who receive their watch reports. And it doesn’t change our ruling. We give this  a . Return to OregonLive to comment on this statement and ruling.