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Statement: Obama's daughters caught on camera burning US flag at DC protest.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 12, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: It is not a lie and it is not  news because it is not real," the BustaTroll.org "about us" page reads. "Any similarities between this site’s pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical." While BustaTroll.org is clear to indicate the article isn’t meant to be taken seriously, the copied blog post has none of the same disclaimers. There is no  Sasha and Malia Obama burned an American flag at a recent protest, and it seems the  originated from a website that purports to publish satire.   We rate this post .
Statement: Nurses submitting coronavirus tests say they all are coming back positive.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 27, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a screenshot
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claims that labs are manipulating coronavirus tests to create -positive results. We could find no  to back that up. Sebelia, the source of the , said it was a "word-of-mouth story" from his mom without proof. Similarly  or unproven claims about coronavirus tests have been circulating for weeks, many of which echo months-old conspiracy theories about the pandemic. While COVID-19 tests may sometimes produce -positive results, there is no  that labs are deliberately manipulating samples. Experts are more concerned about -negatives, which could pose health consequences. The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: People don't pretend to be someone else to go in and vote. You just don't see that kind of fraud.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: March 26, 2021
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections;voter id laws
Context: an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper
Fact-check justification: Cooper said "People don’t go in and pretend to be someone else to go in and vote. You just don’t see that kind of fraud." It’s possible that someone could interpret Cooper’s comments to mean that no one has ever committed voter impersonation fraud. Experts have counted a few dozen cases over the past two decades. But Cooper is right that, statistically, it almost never happens. Experts say impersonation attempts are the least common types of voter fraud, describing it as virtually non-existent. We rate his  .
Statement: The federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill would create "special protection for pedophiles.
Speaker: steve king
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Steve King is a Republican congressman from Iowa.
Date: May 6, 2009
Location: national
Topics: crime
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: I think it's a bigoted a scare tactic designed to further denigrate gay and lesbian Americans. I'm disgusted that this has become a part of the debate." So we've found nothing to support the opponents' claims that pedophiles would be protected by the hate crimes bill. The experience of 31 states that have similar laws, the FBI's definition of sexual orientation and the opinions of legal experts have persuaded us not only that the opponents are , but that their arguments are preposterous. We find King's  to be .
Statement: In 20 years "there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 14, 2019
Topics: elections;population;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A social media post make the  that in 20 years "there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president." It is  to assume that an entire population of people who share a religion would all vote uniformly, but we examined the math behind the viral . According to the most recent data collected concerning the religious group, the population numbers are far below the amount needed to determine a nationwide election result. Even in 30 years, a decade longer than the post asserts, the entire projected U.S. Muslim population would be millions below the lowest number of votes needed to elect a president. We rate this  .
Statement: Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 28, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: Using that 1983 starting point, imports tripled by several measures, according to the Energy Information Administration. Between 1983 and 2007, imports of crude oil — refined to produce products like gasoline — went from 3.3-million barrels a day to 10-million, the EIA reports. During the same time, net imports of all petroleum went from 4.3-million barrels a day to 12-million, the EIA reports. That's a bit below tripling, but pretty close. We rate the charge .
Statement: Says "about 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount.
Speaker: lou greenwald
About the speaker: Lou Greenwald is a Democratic state Assemblyman representing parts of Burlington and Camden counties. He also serves as the Assembly Majority Leader.
Date: August 9, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: an interview with Blue Jersey
Fact-check justification: Greenwald said "about 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount." Roughly 30,000 recent high school graduates left New Jersey to attend an out-of-state college, according to federal data. That part of Greenwald’s  is . But far more than 100,000 students attend out-of-state schools and though New Jersey students represented the largest portion of that group, California and New York followed closely behind. So we rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Sen. John McCain spent the July 4 weekend in Islamabad, Pakistan, selling "F-16s and advanced weapons to the folks who harbored Osama bin Laden.
Speaker: kelli ward
About the speaker: Kelli Ward, a former state senator, is running for John McCain's U.S. Senate seat in the 2016 election cycle.
Date: July 3, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: terrorism
Context: a campaign advertisement
Fact-check justification: Ward said McCain was in Pakistan during the Fourth of July weekend selling "F-16s and advanced weapons" to the folks who "harbored Osama bin Laden." Experts we spoke with disagreed. The ad distorts McCain’s mission in Pakistan to stir up questions about his patriotism.  While McCain has discussed F-16 fighter jets with Pakistani officials, the meeting over the holiday weekend was part of a larger effort to fight terrorism. Further, the ad oversimplifies Pakistan's complicated relationship with the United States. There is plenty of legitimate concern about the country's approach to terrorist groups, but there is no definitive proof that Pakistan (particularly the ones who met with McCain) harbored bin Laden. We rate Ward’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/76ddba0b-4e0a-4071-b0aa-a23573c3cc48
Statement: Polling shows that nearly 74 percent of National Rifle Association members "support requiring background checks for all gun sales.
Speaker: lena taylor
About the speaker: Lena Taylor is a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 2004. She previously served for nearly two years in the state Assembly.
Date: March 12, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;government regulation;guns
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Our rating Taylor said polling shows that nearly 74 percent of National Rifle Association members "support requiring background checks for all gun sales." The most recent national poll of NRA members that we could find, done in January 2013 by Johns Hopkins University, found that 73.7 percent of the members supported requiring background checks for all gun sales. We rate Taylor’s statement . Update:  After this item was published, NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker called us contending that the Johns Hopkins poll could not accurately survey NRA members because only the NRA has access to the list of current, dues-paying members. We are not adjusting our rating, as it is a common practice in polling to ask respondents to identify whether they are members of, for example, a political party or other group.
Statement: Says El Paso is the "safest city of our size in the nation.
Speaker: veronica escobar
About the speaker: Veronica Escobar took office in 2019 as the U.S. Representative for Texas’ 16th Congressional District in El Paso. She was previously a County Commissioner and a County Judge.
 
Date: May 22, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;city government;crime
Context: a telephone conference call with reporters
Fact-check justification: Escobar said El Paso is the "safest city of our size in the nation." This conclusion draws on the latest CQ Press crime-rate rankings, which suggest El Paso has the lowest crime-rate ranking of 33 cities with 500,000 residents or more, a conclusion drawing on 2011 crime statistics gathered by the FBI. But "safest" is not that simple. The FBI advises against using its figures to rank cities. Also, CQ Press stopped attaching the "safest" label to its crime-rate rankings years ago, saying the label conveys a perception rather than a fact. It gave us pause, too, that in 2011, El Paso had higher violent-crime and burglary rates, according to FBI-collected figures, than at least one other large city. We rate this  as .
Statement: Paul Ryan's Medicare plan "could raise future retirees' costs more than $6,000.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 17, 2012
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;health care;medicare;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: "It also seems reasonable to cite the most recent available analysis" when Ryan has not provided enough detail to do a new one. Our rating The Obama ad would have been more accurate if it had specified that it was referring to a previous Ryan plan for Medicare rather than the current one. We simply don’t have enough details to know how much extra money seniors might have to pay under the current Ryan plan. Still, the Obama campaign gave itself some wiggle room by saying that the plan "could" raise out-of-pocket costs by more than $6,000. On balance, we rate the statement .
Statement: A portion of everything you pay A.A.R.P goes directly to the Democratic Party.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 7, 2020
Topics: retirement;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post asks, "Are you aware that a portion of everything you pay A.A.R.P Goes directly to the Democratic Party."  AARP is a tax-exempt social welfare nonprofit that is not permitted to participate in political campaigns. People who work for AARP can make individual political contributions, but those donations do not come from the organization as a whole. We rate this post .
Statement: The World Economic Forum and the United Nations have "ordered world governments to ration people's water supply.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: April 20, 2023
Topics: government regulation;water
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: PolitiFact staff researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. RELATED: The Great Reset is not a conspiracy to force changes in economic systems RELATED: World Economic Forum does not have its own police force RELATED: Claims that World Economic Forum is hiring only unvaccinated pilots don’t fly RELATED: The World Economic Forum did not say people shouldn’t own cars
Statement: The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.
Speaker: jonathan turley
About the speaker: Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.
Date: June 24, 2022
Topics: abortion;population;states
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Turley said, "The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights." We found that 38% of the population lives in states that have "already protected abortion rights" in the sense that they affirmatively passed laws to keep abortion legal in Roe’s absence. At the same time, another 39% of the population lives in states that have passed laws banning abortion and that are poised to go into effect with Roe’s overturning.  This leaves 61% of the population — a majority — living in a state where, for now at least, the overturning of Roe isn’t changing the legal status of abortion. In many of these states, abortion is not actually "protected" by a law but rather by the principle that something not affirmatively banned is presumed to be legal. We rate the statement .
Statement: High levels of sulfur dioxide in Wuhan "may be a sign of mass cremations of victims of the coronavirus.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 15, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that environmental officials had recorded sulfur dioxide levels several times lower than what Windy.com showed. Third, while the gas can be produced by burning organic matter, sulfur dioxide  comes from burning coal and oil. And there are several coal power plants and oil refineries near Wuhan. The Facebook post is  and . We rate it .
Statement: He's promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security...
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: April 14, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Associated Press Annual Meeting, Washington D.C
Fact-check justification: "It's not clear how he plans to fund the 401(k) program or how everyone would take advantage of it. I am hoping Sen. McCain will have a chance to define things better going forward." There's a lot we don't know about how McCain would deal with the financial problems in Social Security, but we know enough to say that Obama's statement that McCain's plan is the same as the Bush plan isn't accurate. Obama's statement suggests that McCain would entirely supplant the Social Security system with private investment accounts, but the Republican's campaign statements so far talk about using private accounts to "supplement" Social Security benefits. For these reasons, we rate Obama's characterization of McCain's plans to reform Social Security as .
Statement: Says Charlie Bass supports Paul Ryan plan that forces seniors to pay $6,400 a year more for health care so millionaires can pay less in taxes.
Speaker: house majority pac
About the speaker: House Majority PAC is the biggest-spending Democratic super PAC operating in the House landscape.
Date: September 26, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: In The House Majority PAC’s case, it plays off a Bass quote about his support of the 2013 congressional budget plan, then uses calculations for the plan Ryan proposed the previous year. Bass did vote for both Ryan plans, but the 2013 plan lacks enough details to truly determine how much more money seniors may have to pay for Medicare. And where President Obama used the phrase "could" to cite cost increases by more than $6,000 -- giving his  a little more wiggle room -- The House Majority PAC uses the phrase "would," taking the $6,400 estimation a step further because it implies greater certainty. On top of that, experts say it’s too difficult to determine how the Romney/Ryan proposed changes to Medicare have a direct link to the tax rates that would be set for the wealthy. We give them a .
Statement: McCain opposes a woman's right to choose.
Speaker: moveon.org
About the speaker: MoveOn.org is a left-leaning political advocacy group. It endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
Date: April 5, 2008
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: an e-mail message
Fact-check justification: McCain calls himself prolife. During the primaries in 2007, he asserted several times that he thought Roe vs. Wade should be overturned, and that message is featured prominently on McCain's campaign Web site. "John McCain believes Roe vs. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench," the Web site states. "Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe vs. Wade , returning the abortion question to the individual states." We find MoveOn's statement about McCain's position on abortion to be .
Statement: Sharron Angle supported "a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners.
Speaker: harry reid
About the speaker: Harry Reid is a former U.S. senator from Nevada. He served as the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. Senate immediately prior to leaving office.
Date: June 12, 2010
Location: national
Topics: crime;message machine 2010;religion
Context: a political ad
Fact-check justification: As for the  in the Reid ad, we think it's accurate to point out Angle's one-time support for a controversial drug and crime rehabilitation program based on the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. But we think it's  to sum it up as back rubs for prisoners. There's a lot more to it than that. Some may find the idea of taxpayer support for the program equally as troubling, but this was more about supporting a controversial drug treatment program than one aimed at coddling criminals with massages. And so we rate the ad's  .
Statement: President Obama's uncle and aunt "are illegal aliens ...  who've been allowed to stay in this country.
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: October 18, 2011
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a Republican presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: Bachmann said, "I think the person who really has a problem with illegal immigration in the country is President Obama. It's his uncle and his aunt who are illegal aliens... who've been allowed to stay in this country, despite the fact that they're illegal." It’s  that the president’s aunt and uncle were both in the U.S. illegally at one time, But Zeituni Onyango was granted asylum in May 2010 and is no longer in the U.S. illegally. We rate Bachmann's statement .
Statement: Says Barack Obama is a "hypocrite" for criticizing President George W. Bush's "drone attack program," then using it aggressively as president.
Speaker: john fleming
About the speaker: John Fleming is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from a district in Louisiana. He was elected to Congress in 2008.
Date: October 3, 2011
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: an interview on Fox Business Network
Fact-check justification: Fleming -- and Cheney -- have a point that Obama has flip-flopped on some positions concerning counter-terrorism, notably his decision not to close Guantanamo. But Fleming was  when he cited the "drone attack program" as  that Obama was a hypocrite. We find no  to support the  that candidate Obama opposed drone strikes on terrorist targets and no hypocrisy when he increased the frequency of those strikes well beyond what Bush, his predecessor, did. We rate Fleming’s statement .
Statement: A DWI costs $17,000.
Speaker: texas department of transportation
About the speaker: The Texas Department of Transportation says its mission is to maintain existing roadways and collaborate with private and local entities to plan, design, build and maintain expanded transportation infrastructure.
Date: March 16, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: alcohol;transportation
Context: Austin
Fact-check justification: Another wrinkle: Since the study was "a snapshot of 'clean' DWIs - no collision, and no injuries... actual cost (if there was a collision or injury) would actually be higher than the $17,000," Mahometa said. So, how to park this puppy? Our conclusion is the research on which the billboard was based doesn’t justify the flat statement that a DWI costs $17,000. Still, it’s undisputed that some DWI cases can cost defendants a bundle--presumably including costs sometimes adding up to $17,000. We rate the statement .
Statement: Texas prosecutor Rosemary Lehmberg purchased "72 bottles of vodka in just one store alone, in just over a year.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: August 17, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: alcohol;candidate biography
Context: a commentary
Fact-check justification: Palin said the Travis County district attorney purchased "72 bottles of vodka in just one store alone, in just over a year." Receipts indicate Lehmberg bought 74 bottles of vodka at several stores over about 15 months through April 2, 2013. We rate Palin’s , which doesn’t have anything significant missing, .  – 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.