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Statement: Says Rihanna hired "five planes that carried 90,000 liters of water to support the fire control" in the Amazon rainforest.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 2, 2019
Topics: fires;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Rihanna’s foundation, for example, has been involved with other humanitarian efforts, such as giving grants to nonprofits for disaster relief. But when it comes to this rainforest , we couldn’t find any  to support the notion that she or any of the other celebrities mentioned on Twitter had hired aircraft to help put out the Amazon fires.   We do know, however, that the Brazilian military has used warplanes to dump water on the blazes.   The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: Says Obama wants to redesign the American flag "to better offer our enemies hope and love.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: October 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: patriotism
Context: a widely circulated e-mail
Fact-check justification: We couldn't determine the origin of the part about redesigning the American flag "to better offer our enemies hope and love," but a search of the Project Vote Smart database of Obama's speeches indicates he has not uttered the phrase. He also has not made the remark about his wife disrespecting the flag, according to the Vote Smart database. This chain e-mail, like most that we've checked, is . In fact, it's so , maliciously , that it sets the -O-Meter ablaze. .
Statement: Raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour "would destroy up to 3.7 million jobs.
Speaker: kevin mccarthy
About the speaker: Kevin McCarthy, who was first elected in 2006, is a Republican member of Congress representing a district in California. McCarthy was elected as House Speaker in January 2023.
Date: February 9, 2021
Location: california
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: McCarthy appears to be citing a Congressional Budget Office analysis from 2019 that said, at the high-end, 3.7 million jobs could be lost from the wage hike. But in his statement, he linked to the CBO’s new analysis published this week which found an average estimate of 1.4 million jobs would be lost, a figure he omitted. The new CBO report added there’s a "one-third chance" the loss will be between 1 million and 2.7 million workers, still far less than McCarthy’s . In the end, we found McCarthy cherry-picked a figure from an old report while ignoring current data on the topic that tells a different story. We rated his  .   – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: Says Jimmy Carter has endorsed Bernie Sanders.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 7, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: At one point during the event, Carter says: "Can y’all see why I voted for him?"    But the recent blog post being shared on Facebook falsely plants Carter’s comment as a 2020 endorsement for Sanders, changing a line from the 2017 article, which originally said: "Carter previously stayed  mum about the 2016 election" to "Carter previously stayed  mum about the 2020 election." Years ago Carter said he voted for Sanders in the 2016 primary. He has not endorsed him, or anyone else yet, in 2020.   !
Statement: Says Tammy Baldwin supports a law "in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: September 27, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;medicare;public health;privacy issues
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "In practical terms, it would not happen." Our rating Thompson said Baldwin supports a law "in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals." He provides no  that Obama’s health care reform law would bring about such a change, and offers only speculation that such a change would occur under a single-payer system. Experts were unpersuaded by his . We rate Thompson’s statement .
Statement: A video shows people holding up their phones to film President Joe Biden, but "every phone there is turned off.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 9, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook video
Fact-check justification: At the July 4 celebration, right before the clip shown on TrueNews begins, Biden addressed a crowd of military families on the White House’s South Lawn. In live news coverage of the event, which began around 5 p.m., it’s clear that the phones in the audience are on with their camera apps open. People in the crowd also can be seen tapping their phone screens to take photos and videos. Some of the phone screens in the crowd look dark, but that’s because the late afternoon sun was shining on the audience, making the light from their phones appear dim in comparison. We rate this  .
Statement: The New York Times "had to retract" its story that Hillary Clinton's email handling had broken certain laws.
Speaker: brad woodhouse
About the speaker: Brad Woodhouse is the president of the Super PAC Correct the Record.
Date: June 5, 2015
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: an interview on CNN's "New Day"
Fact-check justification: Woodhouse said that the New York Times retracted the charge that Clinton’s handling of her email broke a law. That's  on two points. The newspaper never accused Clinton of breaking a law. Also, while the newspaper’s public editor said the original story should have included more details, the paper never issued a retraction or a correction. A spokeswoman for Woodhouse’s organization agreed with that point. The  is not accurate, and we rate it .
Statement: Biden flashed the white power sign while a black man was asking him a question.
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: October 21, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "It had nothing to do with race of any kind whatsoever. "   And speaking of race, the Instagram post identified Frederick as a Black man.   "I am most definitely a white man," he said.   We rate this post !
Statement: Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death.
Speaker: jay hottinger
About the speaker: Jay Hottinger is a representative in the Ohio House. He represents the 71st District, which encompasses portions of Licking County.
 
Date: January 11, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: history;state budget;taxes
Context: the Ohio House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: Even today, the "tax man" does not literally "visit on the day of your death," and we take Rep. Hottinger's quip as a figurative expression for the reality of a tax being imposed on the deceased person's estate. And that, he said, was something Franklin likely couldn’t envision. But to the contrary, biographers, historians and even Franklin’s own writings suggest pretty clearly that it was a concept he would have supported. For that reason, we rate the statement as . Comment on this item.
Statement: I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.
Speaker: kanye west
About the speaker: Kanye West is an award-winning rapper/producer.
Date: June 11, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: pop culture
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: But on the facts, West claimed he has won the most Grammys for anyone his age. One other individual artist, Alison Krauss, has tied this feat. On his  that he’s never beaten out a white artist for a Grammy, West is . He has beaten white artists in album and song categories. We rate his claims .
Statement: Last year," Obama "administration officials released into our neighborhoods more than 36,000 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. The crimes included hundreds of convictions for murder, rape and kidnapping and thousands of drug-related crimes.
Speaker: lamar smith
About the speaker: Lamar Smith is a Republican congressman from a San Antonio-based district in Texas. He became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2011.
Date: May 31, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: a letter to the editor of the San Antonio Express-News
Fact-check justification: Smith wrote: "Last year, administration officials released into our neighborhoods more than 36,000 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. The crimes included hundreds of convictions for murder, rape and kidnapping, and thousands of drug-related crime This statement has accurate figures, but fails to acknowledge that an unknown number of the releases--including nearly three in four of the individuals convicted of murder--were not at the administration’s discretion. Also missing: Most of the tallied convictions weren’t for violent offenses; each released individual didn’t skip out on prison time connected to criminal convictions; and most released individuals still faced deportation. We rate this partly accurate  as .  – 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: CNN accidentally aired 30 minutes of pornography in Boston on Thanksgiving night.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 24, 2016
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: posts on the Internet
Fact-check justification: Bloggers said CNN accidentally aired 30 minutes of pornography in Boston on Thanksgiving night. Every account of this incident, which undoubtedly would have given thousands of viewers indigestion, relies on tweets from a single Twitter user. Media accounts appear to have spread based on the same information, despite no other reported complaints to the cable provider. The single customer’s cable equipment may have malfunctioned somehow, the provider said, but the person’s account is working properly. Media outlets that repeated the story have since backtracked on their single-source posts. For lack of , we rate this distasteful  .
Statement: Says Rex "Tillerson won't divest from Exxon.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: January 27, 2017
Location: national
Topics: ethics;foreign policy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Schumer said, "Tillerson won't divest from Exxon." But that’s not even close to the . Tillerson retired from Exxon on Dec. 31 and laid out a plan for full divestment in the following week. The director of the Office of Government Ethics called it a "clean break from Exxon." We rate Schumer’s  .
Statement: Says that in the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., "74,243 mail-in ballots were counted with 'no clear record of them being sent.'
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: July 15, 2021
Location: arizona
Topics: elections
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Trump said that in the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., "74,243 mail-in ballots were counted with 'no clear record of them being sent.'" Maricopa County says that because early voting is done in person as well as by mail, it’s not surprising that there would be more early votes counted than mail-ballots sent out. The county also said auditors used the  files in trying to calculate how many early ballots were sent and received. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: North Korea is telling its people that their men's national team is in the World Cup final.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 12, 2014
Topics: foreign policy;sports;punditfact
Context: a post on the blog "Outside the Beltway"
Fact-check justification: Bloggers said that North Korea was telling its people that the national team was in the World Cup final. The video was satire and bore unmistakable markings, for any Korean speaker, of having not come from the communist country. Plus, North Korea had been broadcasting the World Cup and any soccer fan there would know that their team failed to qualify. We rate the  .
Statement: Georgia is one of the 10 most tax-friendly states for retirees.
Speaker: kiplinger.com
About the speaker: Kiplinger.com is a personal finance website.
Date: October 26, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: income;pensions;retirement;taxes
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: Our ruling: Kiplinger.com, publishers of personal finance advice and business forecasts, said Georgia is one of the 10 most tax-friendly states for retirees. Georgia actually placed 5th on its list, although the ranking doesn’t appear to take into account local sales taxes. Georgia’s tax breaks also do more for higher income retirees than for those in the middle and lower ranks. That’s  important context the reader needs. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says a new report shows the "devastating tax hikes (in the health care law) will have on middle-class Kentuckians.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: July 17, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: On the news of a new CBO report, a McConnell spokeswoman said that the implementation of Obamacare as outlined in the report would mean "devastating tax hikes ... on middle-class Kentuckians." , this report showed how more high-income earners will have to pay taxes over time, but most of the middle class wouldn’t be affected, even 25 years from now. The exception is the excise tax on high-cost plans. While just a fraction of plans would be affected, there are plenty of regular folks who have these types of policies. Still, they’re not likely to face "devastating" tax increases. It’s more probable that employers will provide less expensive insurance policies. Those employees will subsequently pay more in taxes, but only because their incomes will increase. We rate the  from McConnell’s campaign as .
Statement: Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years.
Speaker: steve goreham
About the speaker: Steve Goreham is executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America, an association of scientists, engineers, and citizens that believes there is no evidence that global warming is man-made or will be a crisis.
Date: August 5, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;climate change;energy;history;government regulation;science;weather
Context: The Providence Journal
Fact-check justification: Steve Goreham said "Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years." The databases we checked generally show small increases during that period, but not enough to be statistically significant, thanks to a short timeframe and a starting point that included an unusually warm year in 1998. That's why, at the same time, NOAA data clearly show that global temperatures in 15 of the last 16 years have been the hottest recorded. So Goreham is correct that the temperature trend has been flat, but it's flat at record highs. Because his statement reflects cherry-picked numbers and leaves out important details that would give a very different impression, we rate it   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: A video shows an animal chip scanner detecting a microchip where a woman was vaccinated.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 26, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: But when the scanner is moved to her right arm, which she says is her vaccinated arm, the scanner registers a number — 985141003154180. But after the video started to circulate and people began to take it seriously, the creator posted a comment to clarify, saying the video was a joke and it’s "obviously a dog chip. "  "You guys believe anything on the internet," she said in a second comment.    We looked up the chip ID number shown in the video on petmicrochiplookup.org and found that it belongs to an unregistered HomeAgain pet microchip. We rate this !
Statement: Says "Russia donated 0$ to Donald Trump. Russia donated 145.000.000$ to the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 13, 2019
Topics: campaign finance;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that the Clinton Foundation has received $145 million from Russia, while Trump has received nothing. It’s  to say that the Clinton Foundation $145 million — it may be closer to $4 million from Uranium One investors. It against election law for candidates to accept political contributions from foreign governments, and the Mueller report did not show that Trump’s campaign broke it.  The statement is not accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Terry McAuliffe favors "taking the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4th of July out of the (school) curriculum.
Speaker: glenn youngkin
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected Virginia's governor in November 2021. He defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who was governor from 2014 to 2018.
Youngkin was reared in Richmond and Virginia Beach and won a basketball scholarship at Rice University, where he earned an engineering degree. He earned a MBA from Harvard University. Youngkin worked 25 years at the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm based in Washington with $230 billion in assets. He retired in 2020 as CEO after taking the company public. His net worth is estimated at $254 million, according to The Washington Post.
Youngkin's 2021 campaign for governor is his first bid for public office.
Date: May 4, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: education;history
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: Youngkin says Terry McAuliffe favors "taking the Pledge of Allegiance and the Fourth of July out of the (school) curriculum." It’s one of at least three Youngkin claims that McAuliffe "leads a liberal agenda" to do so. But Youngkin hasn’t produced any  McAuliffe supports such action, and we haven’t found any. Moreover, there’s no  of a Democratic agenda to limit teaching about the Fourth and the Pledge. A commission seeking to broaden instruction about Black participation in American history recommended removing a reference to the Pledge and the Fourth from one subsection of state learning standards.  Youngkin ignores that the state Board of Education did not adopt that recommendation. Even if the board had approved it, other sections of the standards would still require teaching about the Fourth  and the Pledge. And he ignores that - beyond the board’s purview - state law requires students to learn the Pledge. We rate Youngkin’s  .
Statement: The University of Texas is starting "the first medical school at a major Tier One" university "in the last 50 years.
Speaker: steve leslie
About the speaker: Steve Leslie, former provost of the University of Texas at Austin, represented the university in its presentations about the Dell Medical School in the fall of 2013.
Date: October 29, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: education;health care;public health
Context: remarks at an Austin town hall about the Dell Medical School
Fact-check justification: Leslie said UT is starting "the first medical school at a major Tier One" university "in the last 50 years." As Leslie did not say, UT is the first institution that was already in the prestigious AAU to plan a medical school launch since Michigan State and Penn State opened schools 49 and 50 years ago, respectively. Several other AAU-member universities opened medical schools from 1966 to 1977, but none was a member of the association at the time their medical school opened. Another way of identifying top-tier universities, the Carnegie approach, places UT among more than 100 very high-research institutions. We identified four universities considered high-research entities--though none of them is in the AAU--that opened medical schools from 1971 to 2006. We rate Leslie’s , which would have benefited from these clarifications, as .  – 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: Omicron 'hysteria' was timed so that it would coincide with and distract from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 27, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said that "hysteria" over the omicron coronavirus variant was timed so that it would coincide with and distract from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.  The two events have nothing to do with one another. Viruses mutate over time and are unpredictable and omicron is not the first coronavirus variant to gain worldwide attention.  And the case against Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein has been widely covered leading up to Maxwell’s trial and that coverage continued on the first day of her trial. It’s common on social media for some people to  that one news topic is being used to distract from another, experts say. But in this case, it would require a  implausible level of worldwide coordination by hospitals, local and national leaders, patients, scientists, journalists and more, as the new variant is seeing a global reaction. We rate this  .  PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson contributed to this report.
Statement: The Congressional Budget Office has found that (the stimulus) bill will lead to a real 0.1 to 0.3 percent reduction in gross domestic product by 2019.
Speaker: mark sanford
About the speaker: Mark Sanford is a former congressman and two-term governor from South Carolina. He was considered a potential contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination before he was implicated in a scandal concerning a extramarital affair in summer 2009.
Date: February 23, 2009
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;stimulus
Context: the Washington Post
Fact-check justification: Big difference. To say Sanford is cherry-picking the letter would be too generous. He has taken one number from a letter that seems to support his thesis and distorted it. And he's ignored several more prominent measurements that show the stimulus bill would help the economy. So we find his  to be .