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Statement: Joe Biden "wants to get rid of something called 'stepped up basis'" that reduces inheritance taxes.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 25, 2020
Topics: economy;education;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that Biden wants to get rid of stepped-up basis, a tax policy that allows people inheriting and selling certain assets to only pay tax on the increase in value from the time it was inherited, rather than on the gains in value from the time it was originally purchased. Biden and his campaign have said that he wants to eliminate stepped-up basis. His campaign says the increased tax revenue would be used to help fund Biden’s plan for free community college. We rate this  .
Statement: Collectively states are spending more on Medicaid than they do on K-12 education.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: February 5, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: education;medicaid;state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Cantor said states are spending more on Medicaid than on education. His statement is correct, although it should be noted that a substantial portion of the dollars states are spending on Medicaid come from the federal government. We rate Cantor’s statement .
Statement: Says "we have now more Border Patrol officers … than we've had at any time in our history.
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 26, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Here’s a portion of what prompted them to give Obama a  ruling: "We do have more agents than anytime since the early 1990s. But there have been times in our history when the U.S. sent troops to the border, and many more people than are there to guard the border today." Federal data shows the number of agents patrolling America’s borders has increased to its highest levels in the last two decades. There is historical data that shows there has been at least one period in American history in which there were many more authorities patrolling the border. Because of that, we rate the president’s  as .
Statement: Joe Biden was involved in a plot to kidnap JFK Jr. according to the just declassified FBI files, and also made several threats.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 26, 2020
Topics: history;crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "There is no mention, none at all, of a Biden attempt to kidnap JFK Jr.," Gillon said. "The statement (in the Facebook post) is ." We found no credible reports implicating Biden in any kidnapping threats while searching Google and the Nexis database, either. The FBI and Biden campaign declined to comment. We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: The military arrested the administrator of the Small Business Administration.
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: June 15, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The site’s "About Us" page features a disclaimer that its content includes "humor, parody and satire." This particular story cites an anonymous source claiming Guzman was detained on charges "she threatened small business owners with unaffordable fines and jail time unless they adhered to COVID-19 protocols. "  Guzman wasn’t arrested. We found no news stories or other credible sources reporting such an arrest, and she’s remained active on social media and in the public eye, appearing June 14 at an event in New Hampshire and visiting three LGBTQ+-owned small businesses June 15 in Washington.   We rate this post !
Statement: The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud.
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 17, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted that "the recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly , in that there were massive improprieties and fraud." A multitude of  supports the statement released by Krebs’ former agency that the election was not rigged. Trump’s  is not grounded in . We rate it !  This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.
Statement: Says news stories referencing 322 and COVID-19 are proof cases are being "synchronized
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 15, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An array of Facebook posts  a link between the number 322 and COVID-19 in media reports. The implication is that there is something shady or manufactured in the way these tallies are reported. But even in the context of social media in 2020, this is . The volume of media reports on COVID-19, the number of cases and the number of local and regional units of government means there is ample opportunity for tallies to add up to just about any number, particularly in the low triple digits. Google searches prove out that 322 isn’t even a particularly common number. We rate this .
Statement: Japan's prime minister met with Vice President Kamala Harris holding a Trump 2024 sign and wearing a red baseball cap.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 18, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) Suga and Harris delivered televised remarks on April 16, 2021, before attending a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden. Suga is the first world leader to visit Washington since Biden and Harris took office.   The White House released a clip of their remarks and Suga is not holding a Trump 2024 campaign sign, nor is he wearing a red baseball cap.     We rate this !
Statement: Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It's not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you're working. You get help when you're not.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: November 30, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;economy;federal budget;jobs
Context: an MSNBC interview
Fact-check justification: To put matters clearly: You pay into the unemployment compensation through your employer, and that pool of money pays for your state benefits -- but not your federal benefits -- if you lose your job. We could use the averages from the three pieces to Brown’s  --  (but unmeasurable),  and  -- and arrive at a rating of . Or we could turn to the principles of the -o-Meter. According to those principles, a statement is  if it is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Either way you slice it, we arrive at the same place: .
Statement: Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and "virtually everyone of them [is] playing in government owned ballparks.
Speaker: james skeffington
About the speaker: James Skeffington is longtime Rhode Island attorney who has worked on projects including the Providence Place mall and the Rhode Island Convention Center.
Date: February 10, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: baseball;recreation;sports
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: James Skeffington said that "virtually" all of the 30 Triple A teams play in government-owned ballparks. Our research found that 27 of the 30 stadiums those teams play in are owned by a city, county or other government entity, as seen in Reno. We note that the word virtually is not an absolute. Given that, we rate the  as  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says the CEO of Camping World told Trump supporters "Frankly, don't shop at my business.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 1, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: While I know, that (sic) the headline published was taken out of context and I have to live with that. There should have never been a headline and (sic) I gave a chance to live." But #BoycottCampingWorld lives on, boosted by this  image. The  that Lemonis told Trump supporters broadly not to shop at his store has an element of , but it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Ken Cuccinelli "tried to shut down" state government.
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: September 25, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: bipartisanship;state budget
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said Cuccinelli "tried to shut down" state government in order to defund Planned Parenthood. Cuccinelli in 2008 offered a budget amendment that would have ended funding for Planned Parenthood, and debate over the measure tied up the Senate for about four hours. McAuliffe offers no credible  that Cuccinelli’s intent was to force state government to close. The Senate, later that same day, approved a budget bill. The final version of the state budget was signed by the governor more than seven weeks before it took effect. McAuliffe has invented a crisis to blame on Cuccinelli. We rate his statement .
Statement: AstraZeneca means "weapon that kills.
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: June 20, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Zeneca was formed in June 1993 by the demerger of the pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) into a separate company. "  "Zeneca" is an invented name, the company said — "created by an agency instructed to find a name which began with a letter from either the top or the bottom of the alphabet and was phonetically memorable, of no more than three syllables and did not have an offensive meaning in any language. "  In 1999, Astra AB, the Swedish pharmaceutical company, merged with Zeneca Group , which was based in the United Kingdom. Wikipedia has many articles about the word "Astra," ranging from a Marvel Comics character to a 2012 Bengali movie to a beer. We rate the  that the company’s name means "weapon that kills" .
Statement: New York Times editor admits Biden sexual assault story was censored at behest of Biden campaign.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 14, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An article from the website of a conservative organization claimed "New York Times Editor Admits Biden Sexual Assault Story was Censored at Behest of Biden Campaign." The Times removed 13 words from a 2,500-word story about a new sexual assault allegation against Biden. The Times’ editor said that after being contacted by the Biden campaign, the paper deleted, for better clarity, a portion of a sentence that referred to Biden’s previous physical contact with women. The same words that were taken out of the sentence remain in the story two paragraphs before, stating that women had spoken out about Biden " kissing, hugging or touching them in ways that made them feel uncomfortable."  For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: Says Democrats want to give $54 billion in foreign aid, and Trump is only asking for 10 percent of that "to secure our border and build a wall.
Speaker: richard hudson
About the speaker: Richard Hudson is a Republican Congressman representing North Carolina's 8th District.
Date: January 8, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: immigration;foreign policy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Hudson said "Democrats voted to give $54 billion in foreign aid," and that Trump is asking for "10 cents of every dollar they want to give to foreign governments to go to secure our border and build a wall." Hudson has a point that Trump’s $5.7 billion request is far less than the amount spent on foreign aid. But he incorrectly included standard State Department funding in his  about foreign aid funds. More importantly, his tweet misleads by giving the impression that the spending plan was Democrats’ idea. We rate his  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the 'stimulus' bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: March 18, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a fundraising e-mail
Fact-check justification: Dodd’s amendment did not enable bonus-paying that would not have existed otherwise. Quite the contrary: It limited bonuses, albeit in a way that fell short of public expectations. The Republicans’ charge is  in a limited sense — Dodd’s amendment did address the bonus issue while falling short of disallowing the recent AIG bonuses. It is fair for Republicans to call attention to Dodd's loosening his amendment, and to ask why he did so. We find this  .
Statement: Says the 2014-15 state budget "cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: June 27, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;crime;state budget
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: Patrick said the 2014-15 state budget written by lawmakers and signed into law by Perry "cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs." Yet his cited figures drew from budget summaries that did not show all border spending. Budgeted border security funding in 2014-15 exceeds the total in the 2012-13 budget by about one third, while budgeted 2014-15 spending on battling gangs has yet to be fully calculated. It’s a PolitiFact principle not to hold people responsible for information that wasn’t available when they made their claims. In this instance, though, our sense is Patrick could at least have pinned down total border security funding before he spoke. The fact that anti-gang spending has still not been totaled leaves Patrick’s  with a possible element of . We rate the full statement as .
Statement: A new college tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota "makes college education more affordable for Wisconsin residents.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: August 15, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget;states
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Walker said the new tuition reciprocity agreement between Wisconsin and Minnesota makes college "more affordable for Wisconsin residents." But the new agreement doesn’t make attending school in Minnesota any more affordable. In fact, it’s just the opposite. By eliminating supplementary payments from the state, the typical reciprocity student from Wisconsin will have to pay $1,400 more in tuition each year, based on 2010-2011 figures. Walker’s statement grades out as .
Statement: In contrast to President Barack Obama, who "is not acting presidential," President Ronald Reagan "would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on — that's how much he revered the presidency.
Speaker: ken langone
About the speaker: Ken Langone is the co-founder of Home Depot, a venture capitalist and a former director of the New York Stock Exchange.
Date: July 28, 2011
Location: national
Topics: history
Context: an interview on CNBC
Fact-check justification: The vast majority of photographs show Obama dressed in a jacket in the Oval Office, even though fashion experts agreed that generational norms have shifted, making jackets less essential, and less expected, in such settings. It's clear that Reagan's customary dress -- relaxed only on weekends -- was a suit and tie. But Langone's use of the word "never" overstated the case. In our rulings, words matter. So we rate Langone’s statement .
Statement: The city that I was mayor of was 50 percent Latino, and I won with 90 percent of the vote...
Speaker: lou barletta
About the speaker: Lou Barletta is a Republican U.S. Congressman representing Pennsylvania's 11th Congressional District. He's also running to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey in the 2018 election.  
Date: June 7, 2018
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Barletta’s  that he won re-election with 90 percent of the vote in a majority Latino city while driving a crackdown on illegal immigration there misstates the size of Hazleton’s Latino population at the time and the timeline involved. Barletta was re-elected mayor of Hazleton with roughly 90 percent of the vote in 2007 but the city was not majority-Latino then. It is now. And while Barletta’s crackdown was certainly popular with some in the city at the time, and unpopular with others, it’s unclear what role it played in his 2007 victory. We rate this  .
Statement: Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.
Speaker: dana milbank
About the speaker: Dana Milbank is a columnist for the Washington Post.
Date: January 3, 2010
Location: national
Topics: pundits;religion
Context: the Washington Post
Fact-check justification: Because Milbank made a commonsense deduction from widely disseminated poll data, we're not going to call his  . But he's made a sweeping conclusion from a small amount of data. Because polling experts -- including the leader of the firm that did the poll in the first place -- believe that Milbank has drawn too sweeping a conclusion from complicated data, we're rating his statement .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Miller Brewing is not a U.S. company any more. Neither is Anheuser-Busch.
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: September 2, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: alcohol;corporations;taxes
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: In addition, moves into new markets are necessary because beer sales are flat in the United States and Europe, according to a Sept. 3, 2014 profile of AB InBev in Forbes . "Amid stagnating beer sales in developed markets, comprising North America and Western Europe, the brewer has looked to tap into the growth potential of emerging beer markets such as Brazil, Mexico, China and South Korea, mainly by acquiring small regional brands and leveraging its strong marketing and advertising muscle," the article said Our rating Ryan cited two well-known beer makers -- including one founded in Milwaukee -- when asked about inversions. He said the parent companies of Miller and Anheuser-Busch are located overseas. They were part of a long-standing and rapid world-wide consolidation of the major breweries. We rate his statement .