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Statement: In South Florida "all children and adults must remain in their homes" due to coronavirus.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 13, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We looked at announcements from the city of West Palm Beach , Fort Lauderdale , Broward County and Miami Dade County and found that they have closed many recreational facilities and taken other steps to reduce large gatherings, but none banned people from leaving their homes. Miami-Dade County’s order March 17 made it clear that grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations remain open. Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an order March 17 closing all bars and nightclubs statewide for 30 days and restaurants are now required to limit customer entry to 50% of capacity. (Some local governments had already announced rules related to restaurants designed to steer business toward take-out .) As for this Facebook warning, we rate it .
Statement: Eleven states have enacted these pay-to-play reforms.
Speaker: william perry
About the speaker: William Perry is the executive director of Common Cause Georgia.
Date: January 4, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: campaign finance;ethics
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "In at least 11 states, there is some recognition that it is not a good idea to allow campaign contributions to decision makers." There are variations of pay-to-play laws in at least 11 states, as Perry said. However, some are more detailed and comprehensive than others, as Wood said. The laws in some states seem to be less rigorous than what Perry has proposed in the city of Atlanta. We believe Perry’s  needs some clarification and rate it as .
Statement: The cost for renovating the headquarters of the U.N. has doubled from the original estimate.
Speaker: cliff stearns
About the speaker: Cliff Stearns is a Republican from Ocala serving in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Congressional District 6.
Date: February 18, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The project is now being overseen by New York architect Michael Adlerstein, who joined other U.N. officials for a ceremonial ground-breaking on May 5, 2008. Since then, more than 4,700 employees have been shuffled around to temporary offices being leased throughout New York City. The restoration is expected to be completed by 2013, according to the U.N's website. From an original price estimate of $953 million to a project now reaching close to $2 billion, Stearns is correct in noting the costs of the U.N. renovations have doubled. We rate this  .
Statement: Image shows "This is happening right now...in Australia!! 1.5 Million showed up for a Freedom March/Rally.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 12, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The post was shared in a Facebook group called Freedom Convoy Lithuania 2022, which includes posts about the "Freedom Convoy" movement in Canada, a demonstration against COVID-19 measures, and other, similar protests around the world. Using photos misleadingly to misrepresent the size and scope of protests against COVID-19 measures is not uncommon. Supporters of the Canadian movement have used images of other convoys to misrepresent the size and scope of the movement. When anti-lockdown protesters in Australia had a "Freedom Day" event in 2020, its advocates also misleadingly used outdated photos and music festival images to support claims about crowd sizes, fact-checkers there found. We rate the  that a photo shows a "Freedom March" in Australia with 1.5 million people !
Statement: From 2000 to 2016, every major drug that was introduced came out of" National Institutes of Health funding.
Speaker: sean casten
About the speaker: Sean Casten is a Democrat serving as U.S. Representative for Illinois' 6th congressional district. This is his first term in office.
Date: December 11, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: health care
Context: a Facebook livestream appearance
Fact-check justification: Casten said that "from 2000 to 2016, every major drug that was introduced came out of NIH funding." A 2018 study found NIH funding contributed to the science that underlies every one of the 210 new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2016 — not 2000 to 2016, as Casten claimed. Following our inquiry, his office posted a correction on Facebook. Casten misstated the time period covered by the report, but his overall point tracks with its findings. So we rate his  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 28, 2014
Topics: ebola;public health;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Bloggers worried about the New World Order connected the bank accounts of Soros and Gates to a facility responding to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone -- a facility they strongly suggest is responsible for the outbreak. A direct link to the billionaires is unproven. One researcher who received education and research grants from their foundations does not warrant the much-hyped connection. Moreover, the virus did not start from a research lab in Kenema, giving the bloggers’ incendiary claims even less credibility. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Texas voters are being asked to act this November on a proposed constitutional amendment affecting property taxes.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: October 7, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: elections;taxes
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: "It was  in 2009," Dillard said, "and it's  for the November 2010 election as well." Four days after the Longview article was published, Andrade posted a press release online stating there are no statewide propositions on the 2010 ballot. If voters want to check into anything on the ballot, the state recommends an online visit to www.votexas.org or a telephone call to the secretary of state at 1-800-252-8683. Finally, we went back to the chain e-mail and noticed a clear clue that it's out of date; it provides a web link to an inactive web page about the 2009 elections. !
Statement: The State Department says the 42,000 jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline are "ongoing, enduring jobs.
Speaker: russ girling
About the speaker: Russ Girling is the president and CEO of TransCanada, the company hoping to construct the Keystone XL pipeline.
Date: November 16, 2014
Topics: energy;jobs;punditfact
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Girling shrugged off Raddatz’s point that an estimated 42,000 jobs supported by the Keystone XL pipeline would only last for two years, saying "no, the 42,000 jobs is in ongoing, enduring jobs." That description does not apply to 99 percent of the direct, indirect and induced jobs supported by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which are temporary and would not last for more than two years. A spokesman for Girling acknowledged this fact. We rate his statement .
Statement: The numbers of people that support Obamacare and like it have been steadily dropping.
Speaker: liz cheney
About the speaker: Liz Cheney was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 in Wyoming and lost a primary re-election in 2022. Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She briefly ran for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming before abandoning her candidacy.
Date: April 6, 2014
Topics: health care;polls and public opinion;punditfact
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Cheney said, "The numbers of people that support Obamacare and like it have been steadily dropping." Americans remain divided on the health care law, and most polls show that more people oppose it than support it. But we found no  that people who once supported the law are "steadily" changing their minds -- not even in the poll Cheney specifically cited. We rate Cheney’s  .
Statement: Says "Patrick Murphy's 'Pay More' energy agenda means you could pay another $500 a year for your utility bills!
Speaker: americans for prosperity: florida
About the speaker: Americans for Prosperity Florida is the Florida affiliate of a free-market group that fights "big government."
Date: September 12, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: Americans For Prosperity Florida said, "Patrick Murphy’s ‘Pay More’ energy agenda means you could pay another $500 a year for your utility bills!" The group is attempting to link Murphy’s support for the Clean Power Plan to the possibility of higher gas and electric rates for consumers. But Murphy has no control over the rule, and the study AFP cited is disputed and outdated. Economic impacts of the Clean Power Plan, which is currently on hold by order of the U.S. Supreme Court, are a hotly debated subject with no clear result. We rate the statement .
Statement: A bipartisan payroll tax cut championed by the White House has meant that "the average family has an extra $1,000 in their pocket" this year.
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: September 5, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;taxes
Context: Detroit
Fact-check justification: Obama’s statement is close to correct, but it lacks some clarifications that would have made it fully accurate. First, nearly a quarter of families don’t benefit from the payroll tax cut, although this may be obvious to listeners, since he specifically referred to a "payroll" tax cut. Second, the amount that households saved is at most $934, according to the Tax Policy Center’s calculations -- an amount that would decrease if the center had used a median rather than an average. Obama would have been better off saying that "the average working family has nearly $1,000 extra in their pocket" this year as a result of the payroll tax cut. On balance, we rate Obama’s comment .
Statement: The omnibus spending bill has "9,427 pork barrel items.
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: February 25, 2009
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: an interview on CNN's American Morning
Fact-check justification: That number includes anything defined by Congress as an earmark that doesn't mention the president as the person making the request. If you also include items requested by the president's budget that have been jointly requested by a member of Congress, the number comes to 9,287, according to TCS. A McClatchy News Service story put the total earmarks at 9,000, attributing it to "congressional officials." So McCain's number is in the same range as other counts and given slightly different definitions, it's possible to get different tallies. We find his  to be .
Statement: Facebook removes, censors Declaration of Independence as 'hate speech'
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 5, 2018
Topics: fake news;history;technology;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The Geller Report story had a point that a newspaper’s post of the Declaration of Independence was temporarily removed from Facebook for appearing to violate "hate speech" standards. But the website did not mention that Facebook said it was a  and restored the post. It did not censor the entire speech. We rate this statement .
Statement: QAnon violence! There is none.
Speaker: greg gutfeld
About the speaker: Greg Gufeld is a co-host on the Fox News program The Five.
Date: August 20, 2020
Topics: fake news;crime;pundits;punditfact
Context: a TV segment
Fact-check justification: Gutfeld said, "QAnon violence! There is none." In fact, there have been a handful of examples. The FBI identified QAnon as a potential terrorist threat in a May 2019 memo that listed some incidents of violence or threatened violence associated with the hoax and others like it. News reports, activist groups and an academic institute have also highlighted examples of violence.  And two experts on American conspiracy theories said Gutfeld’s  is . We rate this statement .
Statement: During his governorship, Virginia made "the largest investment ever in K-12 education.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: January 24, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: education
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe says that during his governorship from 2014 t0 2018, Virginia made "the largest investment ever in K-12 education." In raw dollars, the McAuliffe did sign budgets during his last two years that set state records for overall education spending and per-student outlays. But this is , A meaningful comparison of historic spending levels requires that the figures be adjusted for inflation. When that’s done, McAuliffe’s education budgets never rose to the levels of the three years before the Great Recession. So we rate the McAuliffe’s  .
Statement: I have always said that I would be for drilling.
Speaker: connie mack
About the speaker: Connie Mack was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2004. Mack, of Fort Myers, lost a U.S. Senate race to Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003.
Date: April 5, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;climate change;energy
Context: an event to promote the Keystone XL pipeline
Fact-check justification: Mack said, "I have always said that I would be for drilling. But I think that’s an issue the state should have a say in – in determining how far it’s going to be off the coast of Florida. We ought to allow the state to have a say in that decision." But Mack didn’t always say he was in favor of drilling. In 2005, he repeatedly said he was against allowing drilling closer to Florida’s shores. He has since changed his stance, as did many other Republicans in 2008 amid high gas prices and a presidential campaign. "Always" means at all times -- not sometimes, or the past few years, or in Alaska. At one time, Mack very much opposed drilling off Florida's coast. His comment that he's "always" been for drilling misrepresents his actual record on a very high-profile issue in the state of Florida.  We rate his statement !
Statement: The Obama administration "leaked information, deliberately or otherwise, that led to the identification of the Pakistani doctor that helped us in achieving our goals and killing bin Laden.
Speaker: special operations opsec education fund
About the speaker: A group of former special forces and CIA officers who oppose release of classified information.
Date: August 15, 2012
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;message machine 2012;military;terrorism
Context: a web video
Fact-check justification: The Special Operations - OPSEC Education Fund said, "This administration leaked information, deliberately or otherwise, that led to the identification of the Pakistani doctor that helped us in achieving our goals and killing bin Laden." The OPSEC group provides no  to support its , and journalists close to the scene in Abbottabad say it was the Pakistanis, not the Americans, who identified the doctor. The bin Laden raid triggered the ISI investigation, not anything said by U.S. officials. In fact, the CIA had urged the doctor to leave the country and when Pakistan provided the name of the doctor, US officials tried to prevent it being published. We see no  that it was the Obama administration that leaked the name. We rate it .
Statement: Derek Chauvin's trial and conviction for the murder of George Floyd was faked as part of a "false flag.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 20, 2021
Topics: criminal justice;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Various Facebook posts claimed that Chauvin’s trial and conviction for the murder of Floyd was faked as part of a " flag." These Facebook posts are  and make a  . Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter April 20 after a weeks-long trial. Several of the trial’s witnesses testified that the defendant in court was the same man they knew to be Chauvin. Freeman, the Hennepin County attorney, rejected the Facebook posts and said Chauvin "is the same person the world has seen on video, in the courtroom and being led away in handcuffs." We rate these Facebook posts !
Statement: Says Mark Pryor "continues to insist" that Obamacare is "an amazing success.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: July 25, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: campaign email
Fact-check justification: The Cotton campaign said Pryor "continues to insist" that Obamacare is "an amazing success." We found that Pryor said the Affordable Care Act was an "amazing success," but he was likely saying it was a success for a particular hospital he was visiting at the time. That comment came a year ago, and Pryor has not repeated it since. The comment also doesn’t fit with Pryor’s usual talking point -- that the law is not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction. There’s some  in Cotton’s , but it leaves out crucial context and distorts Pryor’s comments, so we rate this .
Statement: Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been "too many in too short a period of time.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: September 16, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: public health
Context: the CNN GOP presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Carson said pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been "too many in too short a period of time." Leading medical organizations have concluded that the scheduling of vaccines -- including multiple ones at once -- is safe. While there is  that some parents ask pediatricians to delay vaccines, that’s a decision based on parents’ wishes and isn’t based on scientific . There is no  that pediatricians are cutting down the number and proximity of vaccines based on any conclusion by them that there have been too many in too short a period of time. Carson has provided no  to support his . We rate this  .
Statement: The Trump administration "added over 209,000 jobs, including 16,000 new manufacturing jobs, to Pennsylvania over the last three years.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: July 29, 2020
Location: national
Topics: jobs;pennsylvania
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: He doesn’t just get to stop the clock in February because it provides a more favorable picture. Using the most recent data, Pennsylvania has 600,000 fewer jobs than when Trump took office; manufacturing jobs are down as well. Pence could have clarified his timeframe to provide a more realistic assessment. But he didn’t.   We rate his  .
Statement: Says Jeanne Shaheen "voted to pave the way for a new national energy tax.
Speaker: scott brown
About the speaker: Scott Brown was elected a Republican U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 2010. He lost re-election in 2012 and subsequently became a political commentator for Fox News. In March 2014, Brown announced that he was considering entering the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire.
Date: October 21, 2014
Location: new hampshire
Topics: energy;voting record
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Brown said Shaheen "voted to pave the way for a new national energy tax." That’s . The two votes she took did mirror those of some lawmakers who favor a carbon tax, but that’s not the same thing as saying she voted to "pave the way for a new national energy tax." These weren’t procedural votes to commence a debate on, or tee up a final vote on, an actual carbon-tax bill. We don't see how either vote would have brought a carbon tax any closer to fruition. We rate the  .
Statement: Ron Klein "repeatedly voted in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
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: September 16, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a campaign website
Fact-check justification: For Allen West to accuse Congressman Klein of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants is nothing more than an outright lie." Our conclusion here is crystal clear: West's campaign admits that it wrongly characterized Klein's views on amnesty, and it had done so in the 2008 campaign as well. Illegal immigration is a hot-button emotional topic.  We give the West campaign credit for changing the website on the same day we asked questions, but the  about amnesty was flat-out . We rate this .