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Statement: In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has created a manufacturing-led jobs recovery. 30,000 new jobs were created this year, with 15,000 created in the struggling manufacturing sector.
Speaker: state tea party express
About the speaker: The group says it is "committed to identifying and supporting conservative candidates and causes that will champion tea party values and return our country to the Constitutional principles that have made America the 'shining city on a hill.'”
Date: October 11, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: In this case, the national Tea Party says Walker "created a manufacturing-led jobs recovery" that led to the "creation of 30,000 new jobs." The numbers are essentially on the money. But the group makes a broad statement about jobs, when it is looking only at the private-sector side of the equation. What’s more, it does not reflect that the most recent months have seen a loss of jobs and the Walker administration itself sees weaknesses in the economy and future job growth. We rate the group’s  .
Statement: Virginia ranked 35th in job creation in 2009 under Gov. Tim Kaine, and moved up to third for 2010, while McDonnell has been in office.
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: January 12, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Based on percentage of the work force, Virginia's job creation went from being 14th under Kaine to fifth under McDonnell, which is not nearly as dramatic. McDonnell has used a selective set of data to imply Virginia went from being a "D" student under Kaine to an "A" student under the new administration. But that fails to provide the necessary context provided by percentages. In reality Virginia went from a "B+" performance under Kaine to an "A" performance under McDonnell. Therefore, we find McDonnell’s  .
Statement: Photo shows "huge charter busses" Black Lives Matter bought "to transport members to riots.
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: July 24, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: What the photo actually shows: buses that carried The Toronto Raptors basketball team — and reigning NBA champs — arriving at the so-called NBA bubble at Walt Disney World in Orlando on July 9 ahead of the league’s restart. The team tweeted the image that day and said, "Silence is not an option." The buses have the Raptors logo alongside the words "Black Lives Matter. "  The photo also appeared with a story on the Canadian broadcaster CBC’s website about the Raptors resuming training at Disney.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says Florida didn't offer special incentives to Deutsche Bank, which announced it will add 300 jobs in Florida.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: June 24, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: We are not evaluating whether Deutsche Bank finds several things about Florida attractive for expanding its company: the weather, the lack of income tax, etc. We are looking at Scott’s response to a pointed question in his Fox News interview: Did Florida offer "something special" to Deutsche Bank in exchange for 300 jobs? Scott could have acknowledged that economic incentives were used in the deal. Instead he said they were not. That's . Records show the company is ready to receive up to $2.08 million in state and local incentives if it hits its job targets. We rate Scott's  .
Statement: Kamala Harris is the prosecutor who refused to charge the police in the murder of Oscar Grant!
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 13, 2020
Location: california
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: According to a biography of Harris on California’s justice department website, she joined the Alameda County DA’s office in 1990 after graduating from law school. She worked there until 1998, prosecuting child sexual assault, homicide and robbery cases, before leaving to work in the San Francisco district attorney’s office.   In 2004, she started her tenure as the first woman district attorney in San Francisco, according to the bio, a post she held until 2010. In January 2011, she became the 32nd attorney general of California. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance.
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: January 30, 2012
Location: national
Topics: abortion;health care;religion;states
Context: Jacksonville, Fla
Fact-check justification: Gingrich said that "the Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."  He makes a broad statement in reference to a rule dealing specifically with co-pays for preventive care -- making it sound as though there's a blanket "Obamacare standard" for all insurance policies. The reality allows for states to set benchmarks for private individual and small-group plans. Meanwhile, he ignores an exemption in the federal rule for nonprofit religious employers such as churches and synagogues. That exemption has been condemned by Catholic bishops as too narrow and has been challenged in court. But it makes Gingrich's statement that the rule would "impose on every ... institution"  and . We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/dd0ecf5b-876e-4cfe-ac88-5c90949e8e9f
Statement: Says Ron Johnson referred to "The Lego Movie" as an "insidious anti-business conspiracy.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: June 3, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;small business
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Johnson used the word "insidious" to describe the movie on multiple occasions and repeatedly referred to it as anti-business, though not in so many words. But Feingold is  on the boldest and most significant part of the . A conspiracy implies a specific fact – that some great hidden hand or collusion is at work to indoctrinate the masses. And it’s something Johnson never said. We rate Feingold’s  .
Statement: In the month since Republicans took the House majority," they are trying to "impose a 30% tax on everything.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 7, 2023
Topics: congress;taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The bill has limited support — 25 House co-sponsors , all Republicans — and heavy opposition. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., pledged to defeat it; President Joe Biden vowed to veto it. Some conservatives have backed such a plan for two decades . The reason it is drawing attention this year is because House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., agreed to hold a hearing on it, despite opposing it .   Because the post contains only an element of , ignoring critical facts that would give a different impression, we rate it .
Statement: Says Nancy Pelosi was "caught trying to include abortion funding in bill to combat coronavirus.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 12, 2020
Topics: abortion;congress;coronavirus
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: A website claims Pelosi was "caught trying to include abortion funding" in the bill.  This is . A section in the bill seeks to reimburse insurers for COVID-19 related laboratory claims. Concerns were raised that the bill’s language could inadvertently open up federal funds for abortion services, but it’s unclear exactly how. No draft of the legislation had funding for abortion in it.   We rate this  .
Statement: We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use.
Speaker: dianne feinstein
About the speaker: Dianne Feinstein is a Democratic U.S. Senator from California.
Date: March 7, 2013
Location: national
Topics: government regulation;regulation;privacy issues
Context: an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
Fact-check justification: Feinstein said, "We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use." Feinstein’s : Not only does the FAA regulate the commercial use of drones, it actually bans it. Still, the landscape is changing. At Congress’ direction, the FAA is drafting new regulations. How those rules will address privacy concerns, it's too soon to tell. But it's  to say there’s "no regulation." We rate her statement .
Statement: The Michigan attorney general's race was "stolen in the middle of the night from Matt DePerno.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 9, 2022
Location: michigan
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The site showed Nessel with 2,320,440 votes, about 53%, and DePerno with 1,945,531 votes, or about 45%. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson warned on the morning of Nov. 8 that her office wouldn’t have unofficial election results until the following day amid high voter turnout and more than 1.8 million absentee ballots. Election workers couldn’t start counting those ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day.   There’s no  that the election was stolen from DePerno. We rate that  !
Statement: There's never been a president (before Joe Biden) that has made race and gender the defining factor" for a Supreme Court nomination.
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: January 27, 2022
Topics: corrections and updates;history;race and ethnicity;pundits;supreme court;punditfact
Context: a radio show segment
Fact-check justification: Hannity said that before Biden’s recent pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, "there's never been a president that has made race and gender the defining factor." The  ignored that both Trump and Reagan made similar vows to nominate women to the Supreme Court, then followed through on those promises. Other presidents in history have also considered race and religion as they have made their picks. We rate Hannity’s  . CORRECTION:  A previous version of this fact-check mistakenly named George W. Bush as the president who appointed Justice Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. The president who appointed Thomas was George H. W. Bush.
Statement: Donald Trump says he will 'terminate' Social Security if re-elected.
Speaker: social security works
About the speaker: The mission of Social Security Works is to protect and improve the economic security of disadvantaged and at-risk populations and safeguard the economic security of those dependent on Social Security.
Date: August 11, 2020
Location: national
Topics: social security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social Security Works said, "Donald Trump says he will ‘terminate’ Social Security if re-elected." Trump never said he will terminate Social Security, but he has discussed terminating the program’s primary funding source. Administrative officials said that he was referring to doing away with the payback of the deferral. Congress and the president could find an alternative way to fund Social Security. Trump hasn’t proposed such an alternative.  The statement has an element of  but leaves out critical information that would give a different impression. We rate this statement .
Statement: Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: July 18, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Before that, the last time Obama had been in Iraq was in January 2006. McCain, on the other hand, has been to Iraq eight times as of this writing. The McCain-Obama Iraq tally is now 8 to 2. One catch to this  is that it was accurate when the ad was released on Friday, but was no longer accurate by Monday, July 21. Because the campaign knew its  was going to be invalidated in a few days, we deduct one point and call it .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich "spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas.
Speaker: american future fund
About the speaker: American Future Fund is a conservative organization.
Date: August 9, 2012
Location: national
Topics: jobs;message machine 2012;stimulus
Context: an advertisement
Fact-check justification: A charitable interpretation of the ad would be that it was sloppily worded. That may be, but we think a viewer unfamiliar with the stimulus would come away with the idea that $1 trillion in tax dollars were spent on "failed companies" and "jobs overseas." People are free to disagree with the wisdom of passing a stimulus and criticize the way Washington spent the money, but it’s flat  to suggest that any large percentage of stimulus spending ended up going to failed companies and jobs overseas. About four-fifths of the total spent was allocated to items that literally couldn’t go for those purposes. We rate the  .
Statement: President Joe Biden is "in Gitmo.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 8, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: There is no  to support the  that Biden is at the detention center. He continues to make public appearances , including recently traveling to Kyiv in a surprise visit. We’ve previously fact-checked similar claims, including that someone in a Biden mask delivered the State of the Union speech, that an impersonator in a Biden mask gave an interview as the president, and that his granddaughter said he died several years ago .   They were all  claims. So is this one.  !
Statement: Kip Kinkel and Clackamas Town Center shootings "both where citizen with gun stopped the crime
Speaker: oregon citizens lobby
About the speaker: The Oregon Citizens Lobby monitors the Oregon legislative process, analyzing bills and tracking them throughout their life cycle. It also tracks and grades the actions of state representatives and senators as they work through and vote on these bills.
Date: February 6, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: guns
Context: a legislative hearing tweet
Fact-check justification: There is no proof that it did. We rate the  . After publication, we heard from Tony Case, who told us he was shot by Kinkel and that he did not help tackle the shooter. News accounts at the time differ, but we are the first to acknowledge that Case is in a position to know. Return to OregonLive.com/politics to comment on this ruling.
Statement: (A recent study) said 'Medicare for All' will lower health care costs in this country by $450 billion a year and save the lives of 68,000 people who would otherwise have died.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: February 25, 2020
Topics: corrections and updates;health check
Context: remarks during the South Carolina Democratic primary debate
Fact-check justification: And it cites some . But many of its assumptions are flawed, and experts uniformly told us it overestimates the potential savings. It cherry-picks data in calculating mortality effects. This statement has some , but ignores context that would create a dramatically different impression. We rate it .
Statement: The debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought up.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: February 2, 2016
Location: national
Topics: debt;federal budget
Context: Rindge, N.H
Fact-check justification: Bush said that the debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought up." Questions about the size of the debt were most clearly asked in two of the debates, and perhaps that count could be expanded to a third if you include a question about the debt limit. A few candidates also brought up the issue on their own. We rate the  .
Statement: We haven't yet taken out a negative ad.
Speaker: christine o'donnell
About the speaker: Christine O’Donnell is a Delaware politician who gained notoriety in the aftermath of her upset of Rep. Mike Castle in the 2010 Republican U.S. Senate primary. She went on to lose in the general election to Democrat Chris Coons. O’Donnell had previously waged losing U.S. Senate campaigns in 2006 and 2008.
Date: October 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;elections;this week - abc news
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: And Friends of Christine O'Donnell was also the sponsor of her famous "I'm You" ad. So when O'Donnell said that "we haven't yet taken out a negative ad," she was  -- and had been  for at least two full days. We don't necessarily think negative ads are inherently bad; campaigns are about contrasting one candidate to another, so negative ads can play a valuable role, as long as they're accurate. We're not knocking O'Donnell's use of a negative ad here; we're knocking her decision to use a negative ad and then deny that she did. We rate her  .
Statement: In the past decade, K-12 funding has grown six times faster than the rate of enrollment.
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: February 20, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: education;state budget
Context: comments to the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Fact-check justification: During that period, the number of K-12 students in Virginia has climbed 6.3 percent. So McDonnell is technically right, but his  is . When you consider inflation over the last decade -- which the governor did not -- new spending slightly more doubled growth in enrollment. Much of that increase came from new Standards of Learning requirements that McDonnell strongly supported as a legislator. We rate his  .
Statement: President Obama's suggested reduction in spending for next year: $0.
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: April 17, 2012
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a graphic posted on his website
Fact-check justification: Romney claims that the president’s "suggested reduction in spending for next year" is zero. Romney's  ignores the detail that Obama proposed cuts in the discretionary portion of the budget, which he has more control over. The increases come from mandatory spending and net interest. Still, Obama could propose cuts in mandatory spending if he wanted. The statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .