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Statement: Hillary Clinton is on trial, she (supposed) to have killed" a 10-year-old girl.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 7, 2020
Topics: criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: So in 2014, Clinton’s lawyers combed through her private server and turned over about 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department and deleted the rest, which Clinton said were about personal matters.   An employee managing her server deleted 33,000 of Clinton’s emails. The FBI found no  that the emails were deleted deliberately to avoid any subpoena or other requests. The statement is  and . We rate it .
Statement: Says Jon Ossoff "wants total, blanket amnesty and he wants a total lockdown.
Speaker: david perdue
About the speaker: David Perdue is running in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Georgia. He was a U.S. Senator from January 2015 to January 2021. He has been the CEO of several businesses and is the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Date: December 7, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: immigration;public health;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Perdue said Ossoff "wants total, blanket amnesty and he wants a total lockdown." Ossoff backs a path to legal status for immigrants in the country illegally who meet a set of requirements, not a blanket amnesty without conditions. He is not seeking a lockdown to respond to COVID-19, but would support one if public health experts recommend it We rate Perdue’s statement . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: An optional microchip for COVID-19 vaccines "would give officials information on who has and has not been vaccinated" and "tracks the location of the patient.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 9, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video said an optional microchip for COVID-19 vaccines "would give officials information on who has and has not been vaccinated" and "tracks the location of the patient." The chips are part of the label for ApiJect’s prefilled syringes, and they help identify the vaccine doses, not patients. They would not be injected into patients seeking the vaccine, nor would they be used to track information and locations. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy's 8-year-old son found dead "in a dumpster in D.C.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 20, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: "Names that represent actual people and places are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and do not in any way depict reality." TheLastLineOfDefense.org’s  saga went on to say the suspects (whose names had changed) had escaped from U.S. Marshals and implied a link to the boy’s death to Hillary Clinton . There’s no  that anything actually happened to Gowdy’s real children, so that’s a plus. This story, however, is another creation of the  news cycle. We rate it !
Statement: 1 in 100 people are sociopaths.
Speaker: michael mccaul
About the speaker: Michael McCaul was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004.
Date: March 26, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: history;public health;terrorism
Context: an interview on Capital Tonight on Spectrum News
Fact-check justification: McCaul said 1 in 100 people are sociopaths. Mental health experts steer clear of "sociopath" to characterize individuals who don’t show remorse, among antisocial qualities. Still, research suggests that about 1 percent of the population consists of psychopaths though it’s also worth clarifying that such judgments are reached on a scale. 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: 56 million defenseless people 'rounded up and exterminated' in the 20th Century because of gun control.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 30, 2021
Topics: history;guns
Context: Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A post on Instagram claims that "56 million defenseless people" were "rounded up and exterminated" in the 20th century because of gun control. The  conflates gun control with confiscation. And it rests on the theory that gun confiscation policies by authoritarian governments left citizens defenseless and enabled genocide.  Researchers and historians say there’s no  to support the theory, and that it  the role armed civilians could have played in counteracting the power of authoritarian governments and their militaries.  We rate this  .
Statement: One man sacrificed for his country. One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth. One man stands up to the special interests.
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 6, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland
Fact-check justification: "One man stands up to the special interests." This is a reference to McCain's strong opposition to what he calls wasteful pork barrel spending and earmark projects. Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington-based group that watches for such things, says McCain holds the title of pork-fighter and has honored him with its "Treasury Guardians" award. Overall, it's an effective TV ad with accurate claims. We give it a .
Statement: The CDC "adjusted the US Covid deaths from 153,504 to 9,210.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 31, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: images
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that the CDC decreased the number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. from 153,504 to 9,210. That’s . As of Aug. 31, the CDC counted 182,622 Americans who had died because of the coronavirus. A NCHS report found that, for about 6% of Americans who die from the virus, COVID-19 is the only condition listed on their death certificates. But that doesn’t mean the remaining 94% didn’t die due to the coronavirus. People with preexisting conditions, such as cancer or diabetes, have a higher risk of dying if they contract COVID-19. Complications from those conditions, as well as comorbidities like influenza and pneumonia, can be listed in addition to the coronavirus on death certificates. In 92% of death certificates that mention the virus, COVID-19 was the underlying cause of death, according to the NCHS. The Facebook post is  and makes a  . We rate it .
Statement: Walmart is giving some women $500 grocery store credit as part of a discrimination settlement.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 17, 2023
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Like the Walmart post, these offers were shared on Facebook pages that were created the same day the posts were published.    We found no news reports or credible sources to corroborate the  that they’re settling discrimination allegations by giving women deeply discounted cookware. A spokesperson for Lowe’s told us it’s not . We rate this post . UPDATE, Jan. 19, 2023: This story was updated to include a response from Lowe’s.
Statement: Central Health "is the only hospital district in Texas that spends taxpayer dollars on abortions.
Speaker: wayne christian
About the speaker: Wayne Christian of Center, first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996, lost his bid for the GOP nod in 2012.
Date: March 15, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: However, federal Medicaid funds cover abortions in cases of rape, incest or life endangerment at Texas hospitals that are enrolled in Medicaid providers." A December 2009 Statesman news article also says Central Health "is now the only government entity in Texas that uses public money for abortions." Another December 2009 Statesman news article quotes Megan Peterson, director of advocacy for the Boston-based National Network of Abortion Funds, saying: "This idea of the city setting aside money to help pay for this is definitely unique to Austin." Admittedly, we haven’t checked every hospital district in the state, but we’ve found no information contrary to Christian’s statement. We rate this statement as .
Statement: The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: February 24, 2020
Topics: public health;pundits;punditfact;coronavirus
Context: an episode of his radio show
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said the 2019 coronavirus is "the common cold." Generally speaking, coronaviruses are a family of viruses that produce illnesses ranging from the common cold to more critical diseases such as SARS or MERS.  But the 2019 coronavirus is a novel strain that was unknown before December. It is different and can be much more dangerous than the common cold. We rate Limbaugh’s statement .
Statement: President Biden is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured.
Speaker: mark walker
About the speaker: Mark Walker, a Republican, represented North Carolina's 6th Congressional District from 2015-2020. He is running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in 2022. 
Date: January 22, 2021
Location: north carolina
Topics: drugs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Walker said Biden "is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured." Biden froze a directive that would have ordered some health centers to provide insulin and epi-pens at the same price they purchased them through a government program.  But experts say the health centers were already providing the discounts. Furthermore, Biden froze Trump’s order before it ever took effect, so it’s  to suggest prices are going up. The program’s status quo will continue until a final decision is made. We rate this  .
Statement: Reuters reported that Nancy Pelosi bought 10 million shares of cannabis stock.
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 7, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;marijuana
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Pelosi’s most recent publicly available financial disclosure report , signed by the speaker Oct. 14, reflects no such transaction. Nor did the previous report , signed Sept. 9, or any others filed this year.   Stock purchases by politicians and their potential for conflicts of interest have drawn increased scrutiny in recent years. And in December, Pelosi drew some criticism for rebuffing the idea of banning congressional lawmakers and their spouses from owning individual shares.    But claims that she bought shares of cannabis stock this year — and that Reuters reported on it — are .
Statement: Melania Just Hit Donald Trump With Shocking Announcement He Never Saw Coming
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 6, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: (Here’s a timeline of Trump’s explanations for the Stormy Daniels payment.) "Will Melania resist being seen with Donald publicly as she did after the first time Donald’s affair with Daniels stole headlines?" said the realtimepolitics.com post. "What is your reaction?" Realtimepolitics.com’s headline is , pure click-bait and completely . We rate it !
Statement: Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace.
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 4, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Hershey, Pa.
Fact-check justification: Trump said that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace." Trump got this all . Obama defended the protester's right to speak out, and didn’t scream at him. In fact, Obama’s remarks were directed at Clinton supporters, not the protester. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/62034012-fe88-469a-bd2c-3195e9b82378
Statement: The Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring ballot drop boxes illegal "includes the 2020 Presidential Election.
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 9, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;legal issues
Context: Social media
Fact-check justification: Trump claimed the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring ballot drop boxes illegal "includes the 2020 Presidential Election." That  defies logic, and the court’s order itself. The state Supreme Court itself has explicitly permitted the drop boxes in some past elections. And its order is prospective — for the future, not the past. And that’s an assessment from the group that filed the lawsuit. We rate this  .   window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don't pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 14, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: crime;technology
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Local Jackson County News WV published a post that said, "Just a tip, When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth." Checking a Bluetooth sensor in your cell phone before inserting your credit card in a gas pump may be able to determine whether the pump has been compromised. However, skimmer technologies vary, and many types of skimmers won’t be detectable using the Bluetooth method. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner "cited his efforts to weaken pro-life and school choice legislation as unequivocal proof that he's a moderate.
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: October 3, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: abortion;candidate biography;education
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: LeMieux says that Hasner "cited his efforts to weaken pro-life and school choice legislation as unequivocal proof that he’s a moderate."  What we have here, based on our review, is a rare double cherry-pick. LeMieux has cherry-picked Hasner cherry-picking his own record. It is  that Hasner cited a vote on judicial bypass and expanding a voucher program as proof that he is a moderate Republican in 2004 and he did use the word "moderate" on his own mailer. But those 2004 votes have caveats of their own as we've already detailed.  And being labeled a "moderate" does not tell the full picture of Hasner's voting record on the issues of abortion and school choice. Hasner  voted in favor  of  a bill requiring women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound  and review it unless they signed a waiver. Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed the bill in June 2010. Hasner supported a 2008 bill that  required patients to review an ultrasound and that third-trimester abortions be performed in a hospital.  (That bill never made it into law.) Hasner also voted in favor of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program -- which provides a credit to taxpayers who contribute to organizations that award scholarships to students to attend private schools -- in  2008 ,  2009  and  2010 . All were approved by Gov. Crist. Ultimately, it looks like Hasner stretched the  to appeal to moderate voters in 2004 and that LeMieux stretched the  in his attack on Hasner in 2011. On balance, we rate this  .
Statement: All schools in Canada are closed for the rest of the school year, each family will receive $950 every two weeks for the next 15 weeks, banks were notif(ied) to suspend mortgage payments for at least 6 months, and student loans deferred.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 21, 2020
Topics: economy;public health;workers;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said: "All schools in Canada are closed for the rest of the school year, each family will receive $950 every two weeks for the next 15 weeks, banks were notif(ied) to suspend mortgage payments for at least six months, and student loans deferred." The post is right about mortgage payments and student loans. But it overstates the impact of Canada’s new employment insurance benefits and  the extent of school closures. We rate this statement .
Statement: WHO Director-General: The vaccines are being used to kill children.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: December 22, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;health check;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The WHO confirmed that Tedros stumbled over the word "children," before immediately correcting himself and pronouncing the word correctly. That’s supported by public statements by Tedros and the WHO. There is no  that the COVID-19 vaccine has harmed or killed children. Both WHO and the CDC state that the vaccine has been proven safe to protect people against COVID-19, and fact-checking reports from around the world state that claims like this don’t have  to back them up. We rate this  .
Statement: The RNC is "a $200 million economic infusion into our communities.
Speaker: cavalier johnson
About the speaker: In 2016, Johnson ran for 2nd District Alderman on the Milwaukee Common Council, winning a five-way primary with 38 percent of the vote and winning the general election with 4,307 votes (52 percent). 
Johnson was re-elected without opposition in 2020 and was also elected by his peers in a 8–7 vote to serve as the Milwaukee Common Council president.  
Johnson became acting mayor of Milwaukee upon the resignation of  Tom Barrett to assume the ambassadorship of Luxembourg, on December 22, 2021. He is acting mayor until the 2022 Milwaukee mayoral special election. The Milwaukee mayor's office is non-partisan. Johnson is a candidate in the special election. The day before assuming the role, Johnson announced his top priority would be combating reckless driving to create safe streets. 
Date: May 27, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;elections;income;jobs
Context: News conference
Fact-check justification: Johnson claimed the RNC is "a $200 million economic infusion into our communities." While the figure from VISIT Milwaukee is grounded in the experience of Cleveland in 2016, an expert who has studied a range of past conventions say it is "wildly exaggerated." What’s more, even if anticipated spending figures were reached, much of the money would quickly leave the local economy for other places. We rate the  .
Statement: Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: August 27, 2008
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;foreign policy;military
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: His office later clarified that permanent bases were not necessarily required, but noted America had to remain in the country to remove the "last vestiges" of the Taliban and al-Qaida. This year, McCain said he would support adding more U.S. and Afghan soldiers, strengthening the government there. He promised it would "turn around the war in Afghanistan," where the Taliban have expanded attacks recently and American troops in July rose to 36,000, their highest level. Although Biden was selective in his choice of McCain's words, he correctly quotes what McCain said three years ago. We rule his statement .
Statement: Chicago now has City ID Cards which allow illegal immigrants to vote in local, state & federal elections.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 28, 2019
Topics: immigration;elections;homeland security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Chicago Board of Education members are appointed by the mayor.) "Local School Council elections are nothing like standard elections," Allen said. "LSC elections do not involve voter registration, they are not governed by the Election Code, and they are not managed by election authorities." The Facebook post claiming that Chicago’s ID card "allows" immigrants in the country illegally to vote in local, state, and federal elections is not based in facts. We rate the post .