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Statement: Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska.
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: June 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: energy;stimulus
Context: an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox
Fact-check justification: In other words, accepting the money would not have dictated "the kinds of lights that can be installed in a home in Akutan, and how thick window panes must be in Chignik." A strict reading of the requirements for the energy-efficiency money might give credence to Palin's concerns. But the experience of Missouri and the explicit letter from the Department of Energy to Palin's office made clear the feds are not imposing a "one-size-fits-all" building code. Palin sounds like someone looking for a fight when there isn't one. We find her statement to be .
Statement: The Obama administration "has been outsourcing" by sending money to "solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the United States.
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: July 10, 2012
Location: national
Topics: stimulus
Context: Grand Junction, Colo
Fact-check justification: But given that situation, it is  to call it "outsourcing" because there is not a source domestically. Also, it's important to note that domestic manufacturing tied to wind power benefited considerably from the stimulus. Thanks to the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit, the domestic sector was growing before Obama took office and accelerated during his first three years. However, federal policy has been less effective in the area of solar power. We rate the  .
Statement: They talk about this problem with binding arbitration. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to have somebody from Los Angeles fly into Zanesville and impose a wage settlement on you ... and then they're on the plane back to Los Angeles.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: October 31, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;labor;unions
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: And citing a procedure seldom used by safety forces, who are covered by the binding arbitration rules, doesn't make this  more accurate. And as the state government's chief executive and leading spokesman for reforming the state's collective bargaining rules for public employees, Kasich should know that. Rather, the governor has been stumping for Issue 2 arguing a point that is not accurate. That's . A statement that is not accurate and makes a   gets a special rating on the -O-Meter: .
Statement: The Vaccine Adverse Event Recording System shows that 5,946 people have died because of the" COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: July 18, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a TikTok video
Fact-check justification: They indicate only that a particular event occurred after a vaccination. Researchers can use that data as a starting point to study whether the event is linked to the vaccine. "A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines," the CDC says . The  is  and unsubstantiated. We rate it .
Statement: Says Texas routinely gets "a lot more federal spending" than it pays in taxes.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: April 12, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: federal budget;pundits;taxes
Context: an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show
Fact-check justification: But by 2011, when stimulus funds dry up, she speculated that Texas will revert to being a "donor state." Summing up: The figures from our sources show two different trends. On an annual basis between 1981 and 2003, Texas almost always paid more in federal taxes than it got back from Uncle Sam. But since 2003 the reverse has been , with Texas receiving more than it paid in five out of seven years, which is close to routine. We rate Maddow’s statement as .
Statement: More private-sector jobs were created in the first eight months of 2010 than in the eight years of the Bush administration.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: October 21, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;history
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"
Fact-check justification: But her televised comments don't reflect that. To fully understand the jobs comparison Pelosi makes, you need to understand how she sliced and diced the numbers. It's a good example of a statement that is accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. -- the -O-Meter's definition of . So we rate it .
Statement: Footage NASA shared from the DART spacecraft just before it crashed itself into an asteroid isn't real.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 26, 2022
Topics: science;space;facebook fact-checks
Context: an image shared on Instagram
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post suggested the footage NASA shared from the DART spacecraft just before it crashed itself into an asteroid wasn’t real. The footage shared in the post is real and was published by several news outlets. It was a sped-up video compilation of images DART captured and transmitted back to earth as it approached Dimorphos, seconds before impact. We rate this  .
Statement: Since Obamacare became law, "most of our new jobs have been part-time jobs.
Speaker: ken cuccinelli
About the speaker: Ken Cuccinelli became acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli, a Republican, was Virginia's attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, he lost the general election for governor to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. In 2016, he was a adisver to the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Born in 1968, Cuccinelli has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from Geroge Mason University School of Law and an M.A. in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University.
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Date: September 19, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;jobs;workers
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Cuccinelli says that since President Barack Obama signed the health care law, most of the new jobs created in the country have been part time. He’s flat out . BLS figures show that since the signing in March 2010, there are 5 million more full-time workers and 500,000 more part-time employees. Cuccinelli would have been on the putting for par if he’d aimed his statement at the first eight months of this year, when 65 percent of new jobs were part time, although analysts differ on Obamacare’s blame for that trend. But his shot at Obamacare since its inception wound up in the woods. We rate his statement .
Statement: We already have won" the election.
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: November 4, 2020
Topics: elections
Context: a speech at the White House
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "As far as I’m concerned, we already have won" the 2020 presidential election. At another point, he said, "frankly, we did win this election." It is possible that Trump will win re-election. But his White House speech in the early morning hours of Nov. 4 wasn’t a prediction. It was a premature and  declaration based on incomplete information about the vote counts in a number of states. The U.S. election system allows states more than a month to count legally cast ballots. No credible organization had reported that Trump won when he made his speech.  Trump’s statement is  and ignores the process by which the United States casts and counts votes. We rate it .
Statement: Says in 1944 "we were in debt more than twice as much as we are now.
Speaker: rush holt
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is a Democrat representing New Jersey's 12th district.
Date: December 6, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: deficit;economy;federal budget
Context: a telephone town hall meeting
Fact-check justification: Holt claimed that in 1944 "we were in debt more than twice as much as we are now." By any measure of the debt, the congressman’s statement is . A spokesman said Holt meant to talk about the deficit but he used the word debt.. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Maggie Hassan was "out of state on 30 days over the last three months.
Speaker: kelly ayotte
About the speaker: Kelly Ayotte is a U.S. Senator representing New Hampshire as a Republican. She was the first woman to serve as her state's attorney general. Appointed to that position in 2004 by a Republican governor, she was twice reappointed by a Democratic governor.
Date: May 18, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: public service
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s campaign said earlier this month that Gov. Maggie Hassan was "out of state on 30 days over the last three months." Hassan was traveling out of state for political reasons on 30 days of the 90 in February, March and April, but spent a portion of those days in the state as well. If you exclude the days that she also had events in the state, she was absent only 18 percent of the time. There are a multitude of ways to interpret this data about Hassan, and Ayotte’s campaign is certainly taking the least charitable view possible. But it’s also a justifiable one, albeit needing clarification. We rate Ayotte’s  .
Statement: Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state's workforce.
Speaker: nikki bowmar
About the speaker: Nikki Bowmar is a public affairs specialist with the West Virginia office of the federal Small Business Administration.
Date: March 30, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: economy;small business;workers
Context: a newspaper article
Fact-check justification: Bowmar said that small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce." That’s correct according to the most recent data from the federal Small Business Administration, though the data is a bit old. We rate it .
Statement: We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule!
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: February 20, 2019
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule!" The construction that ended Jan. 30 replaced vehicle fencing; it did not cover new areas of the border for the first time. Officials say the new barrier can stop vehicle and pedestrian crossings. It has been described as both a fence and a bollard-style wall by Customs and Border Protection. Timelines for the project’s completion have varied. But they generally show that it either finished on time or ahead of schedule. Trump's statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: For the first time ever, we completely funded the critical needs waiting list so persons with unique abilities can get the help they need.
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: January 12, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: disability;state budget
Context: his 2016 State of the State address
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "For the first time ever, we completely funded the critical needs waiting list" for people with disabilities. Advocates said Scott has a point about working to help around 5,000 disabled Floridians get off a narrow waiting list, but he left out two pieces of important context.   First, the critical needs waiting list is a category that Scott’s administration came up with about three years ago, so it’s not as if he had any historical competition. The state offered services to everyone on the critical needs list in 2014 and 2015, and Scott wants to do it again this year. However, Scott omits that those on the critical needs list are a subset of the overall waiting list of about 20,000 people. We rate this statement .
Statement: Photo shows Donald Trump refusing to shake hands with Justin Trudeau.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 20, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: In recent weeks, Trudeau’s political opponents have called him a dictator because he invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act to deal with blockades by people protesting COVID-19 restrictions and mandates. When Trump was in office, it was not uncommon for him to look uncomfortable when shaking hands with world leaders, as was documented in a 2019 USA Today photo gallery  titled "President Donald Trump: Awkward handshakes with world leaders." Trump is a self-described "germaphobe" and has called shaking hands "barbaric." But he did shake hands with Trudeau. We rate the Facebook post !
Statement: Palin (proposed) a $150 bounty for the severed foreleg of each killed wolf.
Speaker: defenders of wildlife action fund
About the speaker: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund is the political action committee for a conservation advocacy group that champions environmental causes.
Date: September 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: environment
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: About 40 wolves were killed after the bounty was offered, but the payments were never made to hunters. The judge struck down the incentive program 10 days after it was announced, Barry said. The advertisement is intended to shock viewers by presenting Palin without the context of political life in frontier Alaska, where wildlife management is a high-profile government function. But the facts are right and the missing context has more to do with sensibilities than factual accuracy. We rate the attack .
Statement: The average Atlanta resident "spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time.
Speaker: citizens for transportation mobility
About the speaker: Citizens for Transportation Mobility is an advocacy group that supports a 1 percent sales tax to pay for transportation projects in Georgia.
Date: April 14, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Context: a flier
Fact-check justification: "The difference between Georgia and these more competitive states: less transit, more highways, and more sprawl," Garrick, who was in Switzerland, told us via email. There’s no criticism about the $924 estimate, but there are critiques about how the Texas Transportation Institute reached its conclusion. The TTI research is thorough. But it is based, in part, on estimates. We rate this  .
Statement: The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000.
Speaker: texas organizing project
About the speaker: The Texas Organizing Project says it works to improve the lives of low-income and working class Texas families through community organizing, and civic and electoral engagement. The group describes itself as a membership-based organization that conducts direct action organizing, grassroots lobbying and electoral organizing led by working families in Texas.
Date: March 5, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: economy;education;jobs
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The Texas Organizing Project said: "The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000." Texas African Americans may not have been as bad off as residents of other states, and this  doesn’t acknowledge wage fluctuations over the years. Regardless,  shows Texas blacks having a higher unemployment rate than fellow Texans and also being the lone group with lower wages in 2014 than in 2000. We rate the statement .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Autopsies prove that COVID-19 is" a blood clot, not pneumonia, "and ought to be fought with antibiotics" and the whole world has been wrong in treating the "so-called" pandemic.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 11, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "Autopsies prove that COVID-19 is" a blood clot, not pneumonia, "and ought to be fought with antibiotics," a Facebook post claimed," and the whole world has been  in treating the "so-called" pandemic. The novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 is a virus. Viruses do not respond to antibiotic treatment; antibiotics only work on bacterial infections. COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory illness that in some cases causes pneumonia. Another effect, according to the autopsies in Italy, is lung damage caused by blood clotting. The post is  and  — .
Statement: Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: May 2, 2016
Topics: global news service;health care;foreign policy;public health
Context: a post on Medium
Fact-check justification: Biden said cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening, and vaccines." The experience of the developed countries shows that nearly all deaths from cervical cancer could be eliminated with widespread screening and vaccination programs. Neither currently exist in Africa, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. We rate the  .
Statement: Having a baby is a leading cause of poverty spells in the United States.
Speaker: moms rising
About the speaker: Moms Rising is an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on family economic security and discrimination against women and mothers. It supports legislation that would require paid parental leave. 
Date: August 5, 2014
Topics: jobs;poverty;women;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The advocacy group Moms Rising said having a baby is a major reason someone will slip into poverty. The  cited by Moms Rising goes back to 1998 and while one might say that having a child can trigger a spell of poverty about a quarter of the time, the impact of job loss is much greater. The most careful analysis separated the relative influence of different life changes. According to that, having a child ranks low and is much less important that changes in employment or shifting from a two-adult to a female-headed household. We rate this  .
Statement: Stanford study results" show face masks are ineffective and dangerous.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 19, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Headlines from bloggers said a "Stanford study" found that masks were ineffective and could even lead to death. Stanford University has no connection with a Medical Hypotheses journal article, written by an exercise physiologist who isn’t affiliated with Stanford, that makes debunked claims about mask wearing and COVID-19. We rate the headline .
Statement: Says "Carnival Cruise Lines will now offer free cruises" to hurricane victims.
Speaker: breakingnews247.net
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news, in which a user can create their own fake story.
Date: September 20, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a fake news post
Fact-check justification: He also called the original poster a "soulless, heartless wanker" and further talked about the issue in a video posted to his profile later that day. But the  story was still available at BreakingNews247.net. As of this writing, a counter on the article said it had been shared more than 83,000 times. Don’t pack your bags just yet, because there’s no free pleasure cruise for hurricane victims. We rate this  !