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Statement: We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups.
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: July 30, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Springfield, Mo
Fact-check justification: Point taken, but Obama's statement was made within the context of the current drilling debate, which has been about increasing the supply of domestic oil to ease the strain on the U.S. transportation sector. In the end, estimates are all we have to work with here. Estimates of oil production, estimates of gasoline savings. For our purposes in evaluating Obama's , all the available  shows that he's on solid ground in saying that better car and tire maintenance would save as much gasoline as drilling would generate. We appreciate McCain's campaign pointing out a GAO source we'd missed in our original research, but it's not at odds with our original ruling, .
Statement: The costs of cancer and all affiliated issues are over $20 billion a year to this state.
Speaker: jim keffer
About the speaker: Jim Keffer was initially elected to the Texas House in 1996.
Date: April 3, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: House floor remarks
Fact-check justification: Finally, we looked for national expertise on the costs of cancer at the state level, finding none. Summing up: Keffer claimed that cancer and its related issues cost Texas upwards of $20 billion a year. Most of that figure is pegged to indirect costs. That said, the most recent research we found consistently pegged the total annual cost at considerably more than $20 billion. We rate Keffer’s statement .
Statement: Cory Booker's son charged with assault after attack on Santa.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 25, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on a fake news website
Fact-check justification: The article quotes local police officer Satya Martin. There is no such person in Hope, N.J., a quiet township with under 2,000 residents. Martin gets around, or at least her name does. AJUA had her as the spokeswoman for a non-existent group of Democrats who filed to switch parties to protest the impeachment of President Donald Trump –– another piece of  news. We rate this !
Statement: Police dispatch audio from Paul Pelosi's attack was recorded in a Moscow studio.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 29, 2022
Location: california
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Two minutes later, two police officers arrived at the residence and tackled the man identified as DePape "moments after he allegedly struck Paul Pelosi with a hammer. "  In an Oct. 28 Facebook post , the San Francisco Police Department wrote that the police chief wanted to thank the officers and emergency dispatcher "for their swift action. "   The federal criminal complaint against DePape details the 911 call San Francisco dispatch received from Pelosi, who was "located at the Pelosi residence in San Francisco, California. "  There is no  to support the  that the call or police dispatch audio were recorded in a studio in Moscow.   We rate that  !
Statement: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's move to limit collective bargaining rights has led to "riots" at the Capitol -- "It's like Cairo has moved to Madison these days.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: February 17, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: an appearance on a TV interview program
Fact-check justification: Wheeler and Soglin heaped praise on law enforcement for their professionalism, and said there was no significant tension between the crowds and cops. Puzzled, we called Ryan’s office and asked what he was referring to in his comments about riots and his comparison of a week of Madison protests with 18 days that led to the resignation of the president of Egypt. Ryan’s response: "It was an  comparison." To put it mildly. Our response: .
Statement: One in six Texans don't have health care. We're the most uninsured state in the U.S.
Speaker: lupe valdez
About the speaker: Lupe Valdez, a Democrat elected four times as Dallas County sheriff, declared her candidacy for governor in December 2017. She won the party’s nomination in May 2018.
Date: May 23, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a New York Times news story
Fact-check justification: Valdez said: "One in six Texans don’t have health care. We’re the most uninsured state in the U.S." One in six Texans in 2016 lacked health insurance, according to government surveys, and the state remained No. 1 for its share of residents without coverage. It’s an exaggeration to say that all uninsured people have no health care. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Congress has officially banned TikTok.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: March 23, 2023
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;technology
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: But experts told PolitiFact that a ban wouldn’t prevent the Chinese government from accessing sensitive data about U.S. social media users, because similar data from other apps would remain available for purchase from third-party brokers.   A TikTok ban could happen, but it hasn’t happened yet. We rate posts that say it has . RELATED: US frets about TikTok feeding data to China; banning app won’t end the threat, experts say
Statement: One year today since #GOP took control of the House" and "no new jobs.
Speaker: frank pallone
About the speaker: Frank Pallone Jr. is a Democratic Congressman representing New Jersey's 6th district, which includes parts of Middlesex and Monmouth counties.
Date: January 5, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: bipartisanship;jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A tweet posted on Pallone’s account on Jan. 5 said it’s "one year today since #GOP took control of the House" and "no new jobs." A written statement from Pallone’s office said the tweet decried "consistent Republican inaction in Congress on moving a meaningful agenda to create jobs." But "no new jobs" isn’t the same as a "no new jobs agenda" and the U.S. gained 1.64 million of the former in the last year. Yes, there’s a limit of 140 characters on Twitter, but there’s still room for accuracy. We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Do this research … watch how much crime picks up if you take away [football].
Speaker: ray lewis
About the speaker: Ray Lewis is a linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens.
Date: May 25, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: crime
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "I took the Ray Lewis challenge and I don’t see any  of [a crime increase]," said Fox, the author of several books on crime who also writes a crime and punishment blog for the Boston Globe. We, too, took the challenge and found no substantive  that Lewis has a point. Hopefully, we won’t see this fall whether Lewis is right. For now, we’re throwing a flag on this . Our rating is .
Statement: Duke Health, UNC Health and ECU Health "in North Carolina are diagnosing toddlers who play with stereotypically opposite gender toys as having gender dysphoria and are beginning to transition them!!
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 7, 2023
Topics: lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post shared on Instagram
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that three health care systems in North Carolina were diagnosing toddlers with gender dysphoria and starting to transition them for playing with stereotypically opposite-gender toys. Duke Health, UNC Health and ECU Health said claims that they provide transition care to toddlers were . Standards of care for gender diverse youth that are accepted by most major medical organizations recommend social transition only for children who haven’t reached puberty. Additionally, the toys children play with do not signal gender dysphoria. We rate these claims . RELATED: Is all gender-affirming care for children ‘experimental’? Experts say no
Statement: I've cut a half a billion (dollars) out of the EPA just in the last two years. We've cut 3,000 jobs out of the EPA.
Speaker: evan jenkins
About the speaker: U.S. Congressman representing West Virginia's 3rd district.
Date: April 23, 2018
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;government regulation
Context: a U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Jenkins said, "I’ve cut a half a billion (dollars) out of the EPA just in the last two years. We’ve cut 3,000 jobs out of the EPA." Setting aside his choice of "I" rather than "we," Jenkins has a point about the decrease in the EPA’s budget; in anything, his estimate is actually low. On employment, though, 3,000 jobs shed is an overzealous estimate. To get a number that large, you have to go back at least to 2012, before Jenkins was in Congress. We rate the statement .
Statement: If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon.
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: May 24, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: McCain said that if you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon." Statistics from the Pentagon back that up. We won’t wade into the debate over whether the current approach is right or needs adjusting, but on the specific data point McCain mentioned, we find no fault. We rate the  .
Statement: Photo shows people protesting against "vaccine tyranny" in France.
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 19, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: More than 100,000 people in France recently protested the country’s COVID-19 vaccination strategy, and some people are cheering them on online.   "France," reads one Facebook post showing a photo of Champs-Elysee crowded with people as someone stands on the Arc de Triomphe above holding a French flag. "People are [email protected] up and uniting [email protected] ¥@xxin€ tyranny and n€w w0rld 0rd€r!"
Statement: Say "Sam Hyde identified as perpitrator (sic) of Beirut explosion
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 5, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Sam Hyde is a real person, but not a killer. He’s a comedian with a right-wing bent whose name got picked up in 2015 by anonymous users of the far-right image-sharing site 4chan and attached to various incidents of deadly violence. In the immediate aftermath of a 2017 mass shooting in Texas, a U.S. congressman fell for a bogus post and told CNN that Hyde had been named as the shooter. No need for you to be fooled. This is more Sam Hyde  nonsense.
Statement: Says Ron Johnson "has essentially done nothing" to fight heroin addiction and opioid abuse.
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: September 6, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;candidate biography;drugs;homeland security
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: It’s fair to criticize Johnson for what he didn’t do -- but that wasn’t Feingold’s . Our rating Qualifying his  only slightly, Feingold says Johnson "has essentially done nothing" to fight heroin addiction and opioid abuse. Johnson has voted for a major bill aimed at confronting the heroin-opioids problem, introduced a bill aimed at curbing overprescription of opioids and held Senate committee hearings on the problem. That’s more than nothing. We rate Feingold’s statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "owning guns IS NOT a right, if it were a right it would be in the Constitution.
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: January 21, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: "Keep the severely mentally ill and people with a history of domestic abuse from purchasing guns," Ocasio-Cortez said about a year ago while answering questions on Reddit. "I am a believer in the Second Amendment but this is where I draw the line." We rate this  ! Correction Feb. 4, 2019: As a member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sworn in to the office, not inaugurated as an earlier version of this post stated.
Statement: Say Gretchen Carlson said, "The 2nd Amendment Was Written Before Guns Were Invented.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 15, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact;guns
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: We also couldn’t find any credible news source reporting Carlson’s words as cited in therightists.com article. Finally, we checked with Carlson’s office. In a statement, her office confirmed that the article was "total B.S." Bottom line: Carlson did not say, "The 2nd Amendment Was Written Before Guns Were Invented." The accusation that she did rates as .
Statement: A report by the US General Accountability Office (GAO) in 2008 found that the disposal of Katrina wastes by AshBritt in the south resulted in the creation of contaminated sites along the Gulf Coast and two new Superfund sites in New Orleans.
Speaker: jeff tittel
About the speaker: Jeff Tittel is the director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club.
Date: February 22, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: environment
Context: an opinion column for NJToday.net
Fact-check justification:   Tittel said in an opinion column, "A report by the US General Accountability Office (GAO) in 2008 found that the disposal of Katrina wastes by AshBritt in the south resulted in the creation of contaminated sites along the Gulf Coast and two new Superfund sites in New Orleans."   There are several major problems with Tittel’s . First, neither AshBritt nor any other contractor is named in the report. Second, the GAO confirmed that contractors were not part of their study. Third, the Army Corps of Engineers confirmed that AshBritt was not the major contractor in New Orleans - the company was moved to Mississippi shortly after Katrina cleanup started. Fourth, the report’s scope is limited to existing landfills in the New Orleans area – not new contamination sites or "the Gulf Coast." Fifth, the EPA has confirmed that post-Katrina debris did not cause new Superfund sites in New Orleans. At least five falsehoods in one ? That’s beyond . !   To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: March 16, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: elections;legal issues
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: The Texas law requires a business making an over-the-counter sale of a product containing ephedrine,  pseudoephedrine or norpseudoephedrine to make the purchaser show a driver’s license or other form of photo ID that indicates the person is 16 or older. Dodson noted, too, that legislators in 2011 amended the law to specify that the presented IDs must be government-issued. Upshot: Perry’s Sudafed statement reflects both state and federal ID requirements. It’s .
Statement: The governor's cuts would kick over 8,000 people out of their homes.
Speaker: crystal quade
About the speaker: Crystal Quade is a Democratic Missouri state representative. Her district includes portions of Springfield.
Date: August 9, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: corrections and updates;housing;state budget
Context: a letter
Fact-check justification: Quade and Merideth said that the governor’s cuts would cause 8,000 people to lose their homes. Greitens proposed the original budget cuts to in-home care and nursing home services for qualified seniors, veterans and people with disabilities. Legislators tried to come up with another way to fund these services, but Greitens vetoed that bill. The numbers suggest that just about 8,000 people will lose their funding when the budget cuts go into effect, but that doesn’t mean these people will lose their homes. These seniors, veterans and people with disabilities will lose the funding for both in-home care and nursing home services. But in some cases, they may employ other mechanisms to receive care, or depend more heavily on family-provided care that is not funded by the state. We rate this  . CORRECTION, Sept. 13, 2017:  This article has been changed to reflect that when seniors, veterans and people with disabilities lose funding for in-home care, they also lose funding to go to a nursing home (or state-assisted living facilities) to receive care. An earlier version had said that the affected group would be forced to move into state-assisted living facilities.
Statement: New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York.
Speaker: barbara buono
About the speaker:  Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001.
Date: January 28, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview on NJToday
Fact-check justification: Buono said during a recent appearance on NJToday that "New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York." She’s correct that New Jersey has lost pharma jobs, but it’s not the "more than half" that she claimed. Jobs have been lost for a variety of reasons, from the industry’s new business model to wanting to be near universities and hospitals of excellence, and more. We rate this  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.'
Speaker: jerry patterson
About the speaker: Jerry Patterson, who won election to three terms as state land commissioner starting in 2002, filed to seek the post afresh in the 2018 elections. The former state senator from Pasadena unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
Date: June 11, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: a speech at the Texas Republican Party Convention
Fact-check justification: Patterson said Friday that Napolitano’s continued use of “man-made disaster” proves his point. We disagree. The essence of his charge at the convention was that the secretary can’t and won’t say “terrorist attack.” News accounts, congressional testimony and speeches prove otherwise. We rate Patterson’s statement as .
Statement: Says Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans.
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: October 19, 2019
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;education;taxes
Context: New York City
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that during the Great Recession, Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans." By our calculations, the total across several actions ranged from $2 trillion to about $3.1 trillion. But Sanders is less accurate regarding where the money went and the interest rate. The biggest Wall Street players benefited greatly, but banks and other business across the country also got help. And while very low, the interest rates remained above zero. Also, the Fed is not Congress. Sanders oversimplified a complex response to an economic crisis. We rate this  .