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Statement: Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman's tattoo references 'heroin use' and the Crips
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: September 29, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: congress;drugs;elections;crime;guns
Context: On Fox News
Fact-check justification: Gingrich claimed on social media and on Fox News that Fetterman’s tattoos were references to heroin use or gangs. A review of Fetterman’s public statements going back to 2008 indicates that Fetterman got the "15104" tattoo on his left arm as a hat-tip to the town of Braddock, where he was mayor from 2006 to 2019. The tattoos on his right arm are numeric dates memorializing Braddock residents who died as a result of violent crime during his tenure. A tattoo that Fetterman used to have included the words "I will make you hurt," a lyric from a song that referenced needle use. But Fetterman described it in 2009 as being connected to the pain he felt from these residents’ violent deaths.  The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this  .
Statement: We're making more than ever off oil and gas right now, but it's no secret that oil production in Texas peaked in the 1970s.
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: April 27, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: children;education;energy
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: So how does Patterson’s statement shake out? He gets the peak-production timing right; it was the '70s. But he's off in saying state government is making more than ever from oil and gas "right now." That was  for the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 2008, but in 2009 state oil and gas revenue fell 29 percent from the year before and it's on pace to register another decline this fiscal year. We rate Patterson's statement as .
Statement: Says Donald Trump posed as an anonymous "Nevada poll worker" on Laura Ingraham's show.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 11, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The remarks in the doctored video come from an April interview Trump gave during a coronavirus press briefing . At some point the topic turned to voter fraud, and Trump made the comments you hear in Lutsko’s video.   We rate claims that Trump actually posed as a poll worker . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: In the Affordable Care Act, Democrats "cut $500 billion from Medicare" and "put in place the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 unelected bureaucrats, which will be making decisions about health care for our seniors and for all Americans.
Speaker: allen west
About the speaker: Allen West announced in July 2021 that he is running for the Republican primary for Texas governor. He served for about a year as chairman of the Texas Republican Party, stepping down in June 2021. West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. Lieutenant Colonel West retired from the Army in 2004 after 22 years of service.
Date: October 14, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: West used two common talking points in his Fox News interview. The first, which we've checked repeatedly, is that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "cut $500 billion from Medicare." The statement leaves out important details. The second, that the health care law "put in place the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 unelected bureaucrats, which will be making decisions about health care for our seniors and for all Americans," also ignores facts that would give a different impression. We recognize it's not always easy to give context in a fast-paced TV interview, but a just few more words ("will cut projected Medicare spending by" or "will be making decisions about Medicare spending") would have dramatically boosted West's  quotient. Overall we find his claims .
Statement: Federal agents directly incited people on Jan. 6, 2021, and "intentionally entrapped" American citizens.
Speaker: tucker carlson
About the speaker: Tucker Carlson was a Fox News pundit until his departure in April 2023.
Date: November 1, 2021
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;crime;punditfact;jan. 6
Context: a documentary film
Fact-check justification: Carlson claims that federal agents directly incited people on Jan. 6 and "intentionally entrapped" American citizens. There is no  that the FBI, or any other government agency, orchestrated or incited the Jan. 6 riot.  We rate this statement . RELATED: Tucker Carlson film falsely claims Jan. 6 is ‘pretext to strip millions’ of ‘constitutional rights’
Statement: Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: June 11, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: social security
Fact-check justification: So, the Social Security trust fund is made up of promises to repay ourselves!" There's an overarching concern here, past the statement we checked. Down the years, will the government make good on Social Security's investments in treasury securities? We're not wading into that — it also wasn't at issue in Bachmann's statement. Social Security is clearly a hot topic.
Statement: Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.
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: July 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a speech at the Republican convention
Fact-check justification: Trump said "nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens." According to federal data, 925,000 immigrants had been ordered removed but were still in the country as of July 2015. And an estimated 20 percent of them had at least one criminal conviction — nearly all of whom were at large. However, immigration officials say they make custody determinations on case-by-case basis and those who do not pose a threat to the community may be placed on some form of supervision as an alternative. Trump’s statement is accurate, but needs additional information, we rate it . Update : We've added information from ICE saying they make custody determinations on a case-by-case basis. We also added a report showing that from fiscal year 2010 through July 21, 2015, 124 criminal immigrants released from ICE custody were subsequently charged with homicide-related crimes. Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly said people seeking asylum and who do not appear before immigration judges are considered deported for criminal behavior.  https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/aa2fc627-324a-45ec-be8b-7632680d76c6
Statement: Says President Obama has "doubled" the deficit.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;deficit;federal budget
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: Romney said that Obama has "doubled" the deficit. In reality, using the most appropriate comparison, he and Congress have actually decreased the deficit slightly. We rate Romney’s statement .
Statement: Says Minnesota is "imprisoning half as many people as Wisconsin, and yet our states have virtually identical crime rates.
Speaker: mike mccabe
About the speaker: Mike McCabe, of Madison, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin in 2018. He was executive director of the non-profit Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks money in state politics.
Date: July 6, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;states
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Streit said he believes, to that degree, McCabe has "identified a major difference" between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Our rating McCabe stated that Minnesota is "imprisoning half as many people as Wisconsin, and yet our states have virtually identical crime rates." Minnesota and Wisconsin have nearly identical crime rates, and Minnesota does indeed imprison about half the amount of people as Wisconsin. McCabe’s , though, misses some important information: That is, Minnesota has a higher overall "correctional control rate," which provides more insight into how the states really compare. We rate McCabe’s  .
Statement: Update: Chuck Schumer's steamy affair with a high school cheerleader confirmed.
Speaker: usa in front
About the speaker: USA In Front was a website that published misinformation on politicians in 2017. 
Date: December 10, 2017
Topics: congress;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: The former staff member spoke to the New York Times on the condition of anonymity. A headline stated that "Chuck Schumer’s steamy affair with a high school cheerleader confirmed." There actually is no confirmation of such an event. Many of the alleged details in the story are flat-out . We rate this headline .
Statement: Say photographs of Hillary Clinton at the debate show what could be an earpiece.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: Internet claims suggested that a debate photograph of Clinton showed her wearing an earpiece. Neither the original photograph presented as  nor other enlargements of photographs taken at the debate show anything that looks like an earpiece or a hearing aid. !
Statement: The Wisconsin unemployment rate was higher than the U.S. rate during only three months when Mary Burke was state commerce secretary.
Speaker: joe zepecki
About the speaker: Joe Zepecki, a Democrat, is the communications director for Mary Burke's 2014 campaign for governor of Wisconsin.
Date: June 23, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;economy;jobs;states
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But he didn’t disagree, as we found in fact-checking the GOP’s , that U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show Wisconsin’s rate was higher for 15 months of Burke’s 33-month tenure. It’s worth noting that, even when Wisconsin’s rate exceeded the national rate, it was by less than one-half of 1 percentage point. Our rating Zepecki said the Wisconsin unemployment rate was higher than the U.S. rate during only three months when Mary Burke was state commerce secretary. Wisconsin’s rate was never more than fourth-tenths of a percentage point higher than the U.S. rate, but it did exceed the U.S. rate for nearly half of of Burke’s 33 months running Commerce. We rate the statement .
Statement: Tulsi Gabbard Venmos Nancy Pelosi $600.01 forcing the IRS to audit Pelosi's finances.
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, 2022
Topics: financial regulation;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We found no credible news reports that this actually happened. We’ve previously reported on claims about federal plans to monitor Venmo. The American Rescue Plan, which Congress passed in March 2021, had a provision requiring cash apps like Venmo to file information reports on commercial transactions exceeding $600. Before this new law, cash apps were required to report only business transactions exceeding $20,000 for accounts with at least 200 separate payments in a calendar year.   We rate claims that Gabbard sent Pelosi this money via Venmo .
Statement: The World Economic Forum has called for the end of "wasteful private car ownership.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 8, 2022
Topics: transportation;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post shared a screenshot claiming the World Economic Forum is calling for the end of private car ownership. This is an overreach. The World Economic Forum published an article on its website that suggested a number of ways to transition from private car ownership to usership, but a Facebook post misinterprets the article’s message. Although the forum encouraged car-sharing to reduce the number of unused cars and free resources for other uses, it neither calls for the end of private car ownership nor suggests elites should be alone in owning cars.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: November 28, 2011
Location: national
Topics: abortion;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification:     Abortion opponents may disagree on exactly where on the anti-abortion spectrum Romney falls, and questions have been raised about how fully and quickly Romney made his ideological transition after the event he cites as the spark -- a meeting with a Harvard stem-cell researcher in 2004.     Still, we believe these issues are outside the scope of the  in the DNC ad. Romney’s views on abortion are vastly different today than what he expressed in the 1994 and 2002 debates. The DNC’s  that Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion rates a .
Statement: Potential Foxconn changes are due to "the wave of economic uncertainty" from Evers administration
Speaker: wisconsin republican legislative leaders
About the speaker: Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is the speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, is Senate Majority Leader. Republicans have controlled both chambers of the Wisconsin Legislature since the 2010 election.
 
Date: January 30, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;trade;taxes
Context: a joint statement
Fact-check justification: Experts say those are historically the kinds of factors that drive business decisions, not politics. Foxconn’s lone public statement on the matter says talks with Evers have been "constructive." And the CEO of WEDC says Evers has not interfered in the Foxconn contract in any way. All of which makes Vos and Fitzgerald’s  not only , but . That’s our definition of .
Statement: Photo shows Klansmen and a burning cross at "the Democratic National Convention of 1924.
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: June 20, 2020
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Democratic National Convention was held at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1924. Back then, the KKK was the "most powerful bloc in the Democratic Party," according to the New York Times . During the convention, 20,000 klan members attended a rally across the river in New Jersey. But the photo in this Facebook post doesn’t show that gathering.   We rate it .
Statement: Thousands of military ballots were found in the trash in Wisconsin.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 5, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In late September , an investigation was opened in Pennsylvania regarding nine military ballots, seven of which were cast for Trump, that had been improperly opened and discarded.   We fact-checked another   related to Wisconsin ballots, which said the state "found 112,000 votes" overnight. State election officials previously told us that the City of Milwaukee was still counting absentee ballots around 3 a.m. after Election Day, but that didn’t mean those ballots were found or appeared at that time. There’s no  that thousands of military ballots were found in the trash in Wisconsin and election officials refuted the . We rate it .
Statement: Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education.
Speaker: mike haridopolos
About the speaker: Mike Haridopolos, a Republican, is the president of the Florida Senate.  Haridopolos represents District 26 which spans portions of Osceola, Brevard and Indian River counties. He was elected to the state senate in 2003, and previously served in the State House of Representatives.
Date: January 12, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: education;state budget
Context: comments to reporters
Fact-check justification: Ruling As Haridopolos talked in Tallahassee about the grim state budget prospects for this coming year, he said state education funding might see cuts. Part of the problem is just how much of the budget is tied to education funding, he said -- half of the state's general revenue fund. To be honest, Florida's education funding structure is way more complicated than Haridopolos let on. But he's right that the state general revenue fund, which is a little more than a third of the overall state budget, is being used primarily to fund education. We rate this statement .
Statement: An image of nine white, blond women shows "the amazing diversity of Fox News anchors.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 3, 2014
Topics: race and ethnicity;women;punditfact
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Fox News female hosts and anchors' hair color We realize deciding whether a person’s hair is or isn’t blond can be a judgment call. But we included the images of each host so you can reach your own conclusion. Of the 26 female hosts and anchors listed on the Fox News website, by our count roughly about half are blond and half are not. That's not nearly how the Facebook image had it. Fox News female hosts and anchors' race
Statement: I've created over 40,000 jobs.
Speaker: craig miller
About the speaker: Craig Miller, a Winter Park Republican running for U.S. Senate, is the former president, CEO and chairman of Ruth's Chris Steak House.
Date: July 12, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: jobs
Context: a campaign launch message on his website
Fact-check justification: But 40,000 jobs? He just hasn't proved it. We rate this  . Here's how Craig Miller breaks down his career job creation, with Red Lobster representing nearly half of the total: Miller's role: Joined as president and CEO; from Sept. 2006, also chairman of the board Restaurants added by company during tenure: 37 Estimated jobs created: 2,313 Miller's role: Joined as vice president for administration responsible for development and franchising, became executive vice president/chief operating officer, then in 1996 president and chief executive officer Restaurants added by company during tenure: About 185 Estimated jobs created: 11,563 Miller's role: Joined as part-time auditor before earning college degree; moved to payroll; held positions in finance, planning and analysis, development, real estate, corporate growth and purchasing; after acquisition of Casa Gallardo in 1979, primary duties were as vice president of Casa Gallardo Restaurants added by company during tenure: Casa Gallardo, about 30; Red Lobster, about 325; other brands, about 125 Estimated jobs created: 30,000 Sources: Craig Miller campaign, Boston Business Journal Notes: Restaurants added don't include acquisitions. General Mills Restaurants became Darden Restaurants in 1995.
Statement: Drug overdoses are now the second-most common cause of death in New Hampshire.
Speaker: maggie hassan
About the speaker: New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Hassan was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. She formerly served as governor and as a state lawmaker in New Hampshire. 
Date: February 4, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: drugs;states
Context: her State of the State speech
Fact-check justification: New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan said, "Drug overdoses are now the second-most common cause of death in New Hampshire." Drug deaths are a growing cause of death in the state, and have certainly outpaced car accidents, diabetes and breast cancer, the three examples Hassan cited. But overdoses are not the second leading cause of death, still falling behind heart disease, stroke, and a host of other ailments. We rate her  .