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Statement: BLM Fresno riots will begin at 4 p.m. in River Park on 06/02/20
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 1, 2020
Location: california
Topics: civil rights;criminal justice;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He declined to recommend a curfew, saying his community "just successfully had one of the largest peaceful demonstrations in this country." Our Rating A post suggests that a Black Lives Matter Group in Fresno has planned a riot for Tuesday afternoon with the goal of destroying infrastructure and sending a message to police.   Black activists in Fresno have denounced the riot post, discouraged people from attending and said it was not organized by a Black Lives Matter group. Fresno police are investigating the threat, but do not see fit to issue a curfew for the city at this time.   We rate this post .
Statement: There's no statistical evidence that" a waiting period for handgun purchases "reduces violence whatsoever.
Speaker: van wanggaard
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, was elected to the Senate in 2010. He lost his seat in a recall election in 2012, but won the seat back in a regular election in 2014. He is a retired traffic investigator with the Racine Police Department and a former member of the Racine County Board of Supervisors.
Date: April 21, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: crime;public health;guns
Context: a legislative floor debate
Fact-check justification: Our rating Wanggaard said, "There’s no statistical  that" a waiting period for handgun purchases "reduces violence whatsoever." There is research to indicate that handgun waiting periods are linked with lower suicide rates. But we did not find  that waiting periods coincide with less violence being committed by one person against another. If such  emerges, we may revisit this item. As it stands, Wanggaard’s statement is accurate but needs clarification -- our definition of .
Statement: Says she is a registered nurse.
Speaker: laurie monnes anderson
About the speaker: Laurie Monnes Anderson is a Democratic state senator from Gresham.
Date: August 30, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: candidate biography
Context: voters' guide
Fact-check justification: Renewals are allowed within 60 days of expiration.) We understand that people forget to renew their professional licenses, although it’s hard for us to fathom someone forgetting for three years. Monnes Anderson is not a registered nurse, per the Oregon State Board of Nursing. She was a registered nurse from July 1985 to December 2009 but cannot  to have been one at the time she submitted Voters’ Guide statements for the primary election in May or for the general election in November. We rate the statement , and note that her GOP opponent, Hansen, has an up-to-date professional license .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's own administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, "all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment.
Speaker: john thune
About the speaker: John Thune is a U.S. Senator who represents South Dakota.
Date: January 4, 2015
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;jobs
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Thune said that the administration had done five studies that all found that the Keystone XL pipeline would have a minimal impact on the environment. The State Department produced five documents, but in reality, all were versions of the same analysis. The State Department did conclude that the pipeline by itself would have no significant impact on the extraction of oil from Canada. However, that was the finding of one government department. The Environmental Protection Agency raised questions, based on the price of oil. The State Department’s final analysis also included the caveat that the pipeline would have a minimal impact on tar sands extraction only if oil prices remained above $75 per barrel. Since then, oil prices have fallen well below that point. Thune’s  overstates the number of separate studies the administration has done, glosses over the differences of opinion within the administration, and fails to account for the caveat included in the State Department’s analysis. We rate the  . Help fund PolitiFact's Kickstarter to live fact-check the 2015 State of the Union and GOP response.
Statement: A list shows over 14,000 dead people voted in Wayne County, Michigan.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: November 5, 2020
Location: michigan
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A tweet claims that this election, over 14,000 dead people in Wayne County voted. There is no  to support this . While the list contains the names of over 14,000 individuals, they are not all Wayne County residents. Several of the individuals did not receive or cast an absentee ballot. At least one woman listed seems to still be alive. There is no  that Michigan clerks counted ballots fraudulently cast on behalf of dead people. We rate it . Reporting contributed by Ashley Nerbovig
Statement: If a 12-year-old girl became pregnant because of rape or incest, "Tim Michels would force her to deliver the baby.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: October 19, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;children;elections;health care
Context: Campaign ad
Fact-check justification: In fact, after Michels said he’d sign a bill allowing them, his campaign staff repeatedly said his personal beliefs on the subject hadn’t changed — that is, that he still doesn’t personally support them.    Our ruling  The television ad from Evers’ campaign said Michels would force a 12-year-old girl to give birth if she became pregnant as a result of rape or incest.   Michels long opposed adding exceptions for rape and incest into Wisconsin’s abortion ban, though he recently said he’d sign a bill adding them. But that scenario appears unlikely, and his campaign has said his personal beliefs on the issue remain the same.   We rate this  .
Statement: The House did vote against engagement in Kosovo, and Bill Clinton kept fighting anyway. And, then, ultimately, a vote did pass.
Speaker: peter king
About the speaker: Peter King is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving a district in New York. He is a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Intelligence Committee.
Date: September 1, 2013
Location: national
Topics: history;legal issues;foreign policy;military
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: King said that "the House did vote against engagement in Kosovo, and Bill Clinton kept fighting anyway. And, then, ultimately, a vote did pass." King is right that the House failed to pass an authorization for military action in Kosovo, and that Clinton continued to pursue the air campaign despite the legislative setback. However, it’s not a slam dunk that "ultimately, a vote did pass." The House did pass a spending bill covering the costs of the Kosovo campaign, but not an authorization along the lines of what is required by the War Powers Resolution. On balance, we rate the statement .
Statement: Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.
Speaker: stanley litow
About the speaker: Stanley Litow is a professor and innovator in residence at Duke University and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He is author of the book, "The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward" and serves as a trustee of the State University of New York system.
Date: February 7, 2023
Location: new york
Topics: education;workers
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Litow said, "Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one." Multiple analyses show that a bachelor’s degree can provide more than $1 million in added income over a lifetime compared with not having one, although one study showed dollar figures that, while substantial, did not quite reach $1 million. Also, the income differential can vary based on factors including undergraduate major, gender, race, ethnicity and industry of employment We rate this statement .
Statement: According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, under Obamacare, 7 million people will lose their employer-sponsored insurance.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: August 12, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: federal budget;health care;public health
Context: a radio commentary
Fact-check justification: Cruz said that according to the CBO, "under Obamacare, 7 million people will lose their employer-sponsored insurance." Not exactly. This  is a refraction of the budget office’s forecast, which says that in four years--2017 and 2021 through 2023--seven million fewer workers will have employer-based plans than if Obamacare were not law. In any year, it makes sense to expect some workers to lose employer-backed coverage. Things change. But the office’s 10-year forecast does not estimate how many workers will "lose" employer-sponsored plans. Conversely, it indicates that compared to 2013, more workers will have employer plans in all but one year of the decade. This  skews a single cherry-picked number from a multi-variable presentation. While there is an element of --fewer workers will have employer-supported plans than if Obamacare had not passed into law--the CBO report also indicates many Americans will obtain coverage from other sources. We rate the statement as .
Statement: Pelosi cries like a kid after Trump's lawyer proves her client 'innocence.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 1, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. Hopefully, the former president will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right. "  Twitter users and Habba criticized Pelosi’s tweet, because the presumption at trial is that a person is innocent until proven guilty.   But there were no tears as the junk headline promised. We rate this post is .
Statement: Says Rudy Giuliani filed for Nancy Pelosi's impeachment.
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, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;impeachment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The first line of that story reads, "Rudy Giuliani walked into the 1st Circuit Court of Writs today and filed Articles of Impeachment for Nancy Pelosi." And when you click on the hyperlink the site provides for the words, "1st Circuit Court of Writs," it takes you to a Google Translate page that states basically everything we know to be  about this story: "Nope. No such thing. "  That’s because Bustatroll.org is a subsidiary of ‘America’s Last Line of Defense," a satirical publication.   We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: You go to a store, they don't have bread.
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: March 29, 2022
Location: national
Topics: agriculture;economy
Context: an interview with Just the News
Fact-check justification: Trump said stores "don’t have bread." His office didn’t provide any examples, and industry data shows no major issues. A particular baked good might be missing briefly from a grocery store’s shelf, but stores carry many varieties of bread. If one is unavailable, customers generally have many other options. We rate this  .
Statement: Images show Highland Park shooter had antifa connection
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 4, 2022
Location: national
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks;illinois
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Videos from Crimo’s now-deleted YouTube channel showed him cheering for former President Donald Trump’s motorcade, according to NBC . A Facebook post claimed that Crimo, the man apprehended for the mass shooting in Highland Park, had posted an antifa flag on Instagram. The photo is unverified. And PolitiFact found no credible  to suggest that the account in the Facebook post belonged to Crimo or he had any ties to antifa.   We rate this  .
Statement: Says more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Wall Street bailouts.
Speaker: kurt schrader
About the speaker: Kurt Schrader is a congressman representing Oregon's 5th District. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008.   He was elected to the Oregon State House of Representatives in 1996 and the Oregon Senate in 2003. He is a veterinarian and an organic farmer.
Date: October 10, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: economy;financial regulation
Context: a radio show
Fact-check justification: There’s not much use arguing with official numbers. Schrader’s right on this: The Wall Street bailout -- one of this election year’s go-to boogeymen -- was, at least in part, the product of the Bush administration. But, he’s definitely  when it comes to counting votes: 86 more Democrats than Republicans voted in favor of the program’s ultimate passage. A spokesman for the campaign now says Schrader simply misspoke. PolitiFact Oregon rates this statement .   Comment on this item.
Statement: If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can "seize all of your personal and private" information, and track your computer activity.
Speaker: kimberly guilfoyle
About the speaker: Kimberly Guilfoyle is a co-host of The Five.
Date: July 31, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;pundits
Context: the Glenn Beck show
Fact-check justification: That much is implied by the fact the government felt the need to remove the language. So in that sense, we think the DOT bears some blame for the confusion. Had she said from the start that this just applied to dealers completing transactions, we might be more generous in our ruling. But we think anyone who saw the July 31 program — in which she claimed "seriously, they can get all your information" — would be left with the clear impression that anyone who logged into the cars.gov site was opening their computer to Big Brother. And that's .
Statement: Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted.
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, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;pennsylvania;michigan
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted." In some states, Trump did initially lead, only to see Biden surge back and take the lead. But in others, Biden led and Trump came back from behind to take the lead. The allegation of "surprise ballot dumps" is flat . Officials had been warning about delays in counting for months. Variations in the ballot counting were due to the normal tabulation playing out, and it didn’t have to do with anything improper by Democrats. We rate the statement .
Statement: While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions.
Speaker:  afscme
About the speaker: AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is the largest public employee and health care workers union in the United States.
Date: January 20, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: corporations;health care;crime;medicare;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The ad claims that, "While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions." That's , but Romney was never implicated personally with the fraudulent activity at the company, and it was one of many companies with which Bain was involved. It’s also difficult to assess whether Romney knew about the fraud or should have known, and what he did to stop it. So the statement is correct but leaves out context. We rate this statement .
Statement: Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown shows someone can be bipartisan in Congress because he "votes about 66 percent with his own party.
Speaker: brendan doherty
About the speaker: Brendan Doherty, former head of the Rhode Island State Police, ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2012 in Rhode Island's 1st District as a Republican.
Date: October 16, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: bipartisanship;congress;voting record
Context: a TV debate
Fact-check justification: Republican Brendan Doherty, attempting to illustrate how he would not be a lock-step Republican if elected to Congress, cited the example of Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown, saying that Brown "votes about 66 percent with his own party." Voting records show that Doherty is correct. Even when you look just at key votes where the political stakes were higher and members of the two parties came down on different sides of the issue, Brown's party-line score was 71 percent, still pretty close to the 66 percent mark. We rate Doherty's   . (Get updates from PolitiFact Rhode Island on Twitter: @politifactri . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: It is ironic that (First Energy Corp. is) going to have a name on our (football stadium) where we (Cleveland Public Power) supply the electricity.
Speaker: mike polensek
About the speaker: Mike Polensek is a longtime member of Cleveland City Council, serving for more than three decades. He represents Ward 11 in the northeast part of Cleveland along the Lake Erie shore.
Date: January 15, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: city budget;energy;infrastructure
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: "If they want to call it Reddy Kilowatt Stadium, and make Reddy Kilowatt the mascot" -- referring to the old stick figure mascot used by the Illuminating Co. and Ohio Edison and many other power companies -- "there's nothing we can do." First Energy didn’t opt to put Reddy’s name in lights, though. Cleveland Browns Stadium is now "FirstEnergy Stadium, Home of the Cleveland Browns." And, it is powered by Cleveland Public Power. On the -O-Meter, Polensek's statement gets a power rating of .
Statement: Out of 150,000 tenured teachers in the last 10 years, only 17 have been dismissed for incompetence.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: April 29, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Fact-check justification: But state records back up his statement about the 17 cases involving inefficiency or incompetence charges. Still, his underlying point is largely correct. The state has tens of thousands of teachers and only 17 have lost their jobs through dismissals or resignations in the past decade following charges of incompetence or inefficiency. We rate his statement . To comment on this ruling, join the conversation at www.NJ.com .
Statement: U.S. has biological weapons labs in Ukraine.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 9, 2022
Topics: foreign policy;military;facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a post on Instagram
Fact-check justification: A spokesperson for the Chinese government said the U.S. has biolabs in Ukraine.   The  originated with the Russian government and has been previously debunked by U.S. government officials and weapons control advocates. Following Zhao’s March 9 remarks, U.S. government officials strongly refuted the claims again, saying the  narrative was being used to lay the groundwork for further violence in Ukraine.
Statement: We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud.
Speaker: brendan doherty
About the speaker: Brendan Doherty, former head of the Rhode Island State Police, ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2012 in Rhode Island's 1st District as a Republican.
Date: March 11, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a TV news show
Fact-check justification: Brendan Doherty said there was $60 billion in Medicare fraud in 2010. The  is, nobody really knows how much money is spent on fraudulent Medicare claims. Even the government agency that regulates Medicare has not -- and apparently cannot -- come up with a firm figure. While experts say the amount of fraud in the entire health care system could range from $69 billion to hundreds of billions of dollars, only the GAO study isolated improper payments for Medicare specifically. Its $48-billion estimate, which also includes wasteful spending, is $12 billion -- or 20 percent -- less than Doherty’s number for fraud alone. Doherty’s campaign didn’t pull the $60 billion number from thin air. Staffers found multiple reports using that figure from credible media outlets. But those media outlets used it inaccurately. It’s understandable why Doherty believed those reports -- especially for a number that’s pretty squishy -- but if stamping out waste and fraud is indeed one of the core issues of his candidacy, he at least should have gotten his information from a first-hand source. We rate Doherty’s statement . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)