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Statement: WOW county swing suburban voters (in Wisconsin) don't vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: February 23, 2023
Location: national
Topics: elections;wisconsin
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: Ryan claimed "WOW county swing suburban voters don't vote for Donald Trump." He was speaking in broad strokes, of course, as Trump outpolled his opponents in those three counties each time. Clearly some people there voted for him.  But the numbers – along with political and polling experts – make clear Trump has fared worse than other Republicans in those counties, and experts say swing voters are to blame. Indeed, he won by far fewer percentage points in 2020 than four years earlier. For a statement that is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing, our rating is .
Statement: Pfizer vaccine kills more people than it saves.
Speaker: steve kirsch
About the speaker: Steve Kirsch describes himself as an entrepreneur and technology expert.
Date: September 14, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Kirsch’s presentation said: "Pfizer vaccine kills more people than it saves."  There is no  that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has caused death. Available data indicate just the opposite: Vaccines are overwhelmingly effective at preventing death and serious illness from the virus that causes COVID-19. We rate the post !
Statement: Says Rick Santorum "funded Planned Parenthood.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: February 28, 2012
Location: national
Topics: abortion;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: Paul’s ad says Santorum funded Planned Parenthood. His campaign points to Santorum’s yea votes in the Senate on massive appropriations bills for funding the federal government. Title X funding, which funnels family planning dollars to health care providers including Planned Parenthood, was in those spending measures. Santorum has been unclear about where he stands on Title X, saying in one instance that he supports Title X and in another that he opposes it. In any event, he did not vote separately for Title X but for omnibus multi-billion dollar appropriations measures that funded many other activities. Saying, as the ad does, that he "funded Planned Parenthood," makes it sound like he played a larger role than being one of many votes in favor of a broad-based appropriations bill. In 2006, for instance, he was joined by all but two of his Senate Republican colleagues in voting for the bill. Paul's statement is partially accurate but it leaves out that important context. We rate the  .
Statement: Angelina Jolie is dead.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 18, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: (We don’t recommend doing this). The post itself doesn’t "confirm" any sad news about Jolie, much less her death.   We found no credible news reports or other sources saying that Jolie has died, though there continues to be press about her widely covered divorce from actor Brad Pitt. Newsc54.com, meanwhile, describes itself as "just another WordPress site. "  We rate claims that Jolie died !
Statement: Some "20,000 Delphi salaried retirees lost up to 70 percent of their pensions" as a result of "political favoritism and backroom deals.
Speaker: michael turner
About the speaker: Michael Turner, a former mayor of Dayton, is a member of the House of Representatives from Ohio's 3rd District in the southwestern corner of the state.
Date: April 23, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: corporations;economy
Context: a statement supporting Mitt Romney
Fact-check justification: That’s a critical fact that Turner’s  ignores. We may return to this if warranted after the TARP inspector general’s work is done, but right now Turner leaves us with a statement that is accurate only in part. Based on what is known now, Turner’s  It suggests a government role that neither he nor anyone else has nailed down. It’s his job to on the House oversight committee to get at the , but as a proxy for a presidential campaign, he reached conclusions that the -o-Meter cannot support. On the -O-Meter, his statement rates .
Statement: In the past three years, "we've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.
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 17, 2012
Location: national
Topics: climate change;energy;gas prices
Context: a Rose Garden speech
Fact-check justification: Obama said the U.S. has added enough pipeline in the last three years to circle the Earth "and then some." He is right about the mileage, though it includes not just large interstate transmission lines but also small pipes that collect gas from groups of wells and feed to the larger lines. But those pipelines are a link in the grid, and Obama didn't specify only large transmission pipeline. The statement is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Every former North Carolina governor opposes "constitutional amendments Raleigh lawmakers put on the ballot this fall.
Speaker:  stop deceptive amendments
About the speaker: Stop Deceptive Amendments is a political group that aims to raise awareness and oppose two proposed Constitutional Amendments in North Carolina that would limit the powers of the governor.
Date: September 24, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: constitutional amendments;elections
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The original Stop Deceptive Amendments commercial suggests that every former North Carolina governor opposes all six constitutional amendments. That’s not . McCrory and Martin (the only two former Republican governors who are still living) oppose the two amendments that affect the governor’s powers, but support the other four amendments. While PolitiFact appreciates the group’s effort to be more accurate, we must set the record straight for those who have already seen the original ad and rate this  . 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.
Statement: Says "Jeb Bush has released 10 percent of his emails.
Speaker: james carville
About the speaker: James Carville is a Democratic political consultant and political commentator.
Date: March 15, 2015
Topics: transparency;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Fact-check justification: Carville said that Bush revealed 10 percent of his emails and he destroyed his emails. The numbers don’t add up. The numbers used by Carville himself include 2.5 million emails sent to state run accounts. Those emails are subject to a public records request. It is completely  to say that Bush only revealed 275,000 or 280,000 emails out of a total of 3 million. A more accurate reading would be that he revealed about half of the emails sent to his private account, and the rest were already available to the press, although some might be held back if they were strictly personal in nature. We rate the  .
Statement: Michigan prosecutor looks to release 90 convicted murderers serving life sentences.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 3, 2020
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post links to an article with a headline that claimed: "Michigan prosecutor looks to release 90 convicted murderers serving life sentences." The county prosecutor has said only that she would review the 90 cases and suggested it’s likely that only a few of the inmates could be recommended to the state for possible release. For a statement that contains only an element of , our rating is .
Statement: Cuccinelli wants to make all abortion illegal, even in cases of rape and incest, even to protect a woman's health.
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 17, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe’s ad says, "Cuccinelli wants to make all abortion illegal, even in cases of rape and incest, even to protect a woman’s health." Cuccinelli is an adamant opponent of abortion, but he has consistently supported one rare exception: Allowing abortion when a mother’s life is endangered by pregnancy. His position was known to McAuliffe’s campaign and incongruously cited in its news release announcing the ad. It’s not easy to overstate Cuccinelli’s objections to abortion, but McAuliffe’s ad manages to do just that. We rate the  .
Statement: I can put 10,000 people to work. Electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers -- by retrofitting all of the state buildings for energy independence or efficiency.
Speaker: roy barnes
About the speaker: Roy Barnes is the former governor of Georgia.
Date: June 23, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: energy
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: By Barnes saying he could put "10,000 people to work," we believe he gave the impression that all of these workers would be new hires. Some of those 10,000 would already be employed. The positions could be filled, but as Henson noted, the work will require some political will that will be necessary after the end of a potential Barnes administration. Barnes' statement is accurate, but it leaves out important details that might lead to a different impression. We rate his  as .
Statement: The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: April 23, 2015
Location: national
Topics: jobs;women
Context: the World conference
Fact-check justification: Clinton said "the United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay." She has cited a finding from one international survey of executives, but other data -- including actual wage data from more than two dozen advanced countries -- shows the United States second only to Germany in the lack of gender-based wage discrimination for men and women who hold the same job. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, so we rate it .
Statement: Al-Qaida is "gone" from Afghanistan.
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 20, 2021
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;foreign policy;ask politifact
Context: remarks
Fact-check justification: Biden said that al-Qaida is "gone" from Afghanistan. Biden’s statement is . On the same day, a Pentagon spokesperson said al-Qaida is present in Afghanistan, but that it wasn’t as powerful as it was 20 years ago. Recent reports from the federal government and the U.N., as well as comments from government officials in recent months, indicate that al-Qaida is still present in Afghanistan. Its future capabilities remain unclear. We rate this statement .  RELATED: Joe Biden’s full flop on messages about Afghanistan withdrawal RELATED : All of our fact-checks about Afghanistan
Statement: U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson "chose to side with President Obama" against the Keystone pipeline
Speaker: freedom pac
About the speaker: Freedom PAC is a super PAC supporting U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Its slogan is "supporting strong conservative candidates in Florida."
Date: April 30, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: climate change;energy;message machine 2012
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: Overall, the ad is laden with  facts we’ve already checked. The super PAC comes closer to the  when it says Nelson and Obama are on the same side, but it still lacks details and context for viewers. First of all, the project isn’t dead. The principal owners just reapplied for a permit. We know that happened after the ad debuted, but it wasn’t really dead then , either. Nelson says he is for the pipeline, but he did follow Obama’s wishes by voting against expediting the permit in a close, bipartisan Senate vote in March. His record also shows a vote in favor of Keystone, though voters should understand its part of political strategy in an election year. The bottom line is that neither Nelson nor Obama has come out definitively against the project. They’ve managed to side with environmentalists -- for now -- by taking action against it this year, but the door is open for future support. We have a rating for statements like this. It’s .
Statement: A serial killer is on the loose in Virginia.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 15, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Two days later, Norfolk police announced they were investigating a possible drowning after a woman’s body was recovered from the water at Ocean View beach on April 12. Authorities have not released the woman’s name, but a police spokesperson said no foul play is suspected .   In November 2020, police recovered a woman’s body from the water near the Willoughby Boat Ramp and then said that while the woman’s death was being investigated as undetermined, there were no signs of foul play. Online and social media searches turned up nothing indicating she was murdered.   We rate claims that a serial killer is preying on women in the Norfolk, Va., area .
Statement: Says the Joker's "Red Hood" origin story is "the true one.
Speaker: jake tapper
About the speaker: Jake Tapper is host of CNN's The Lead.
Date: August 23, 2017
Topics: pop culture;punditfact
Context: comments on Twitter
Fact-check justification: Tapper said the Joker's "Red Hood" origin story is "the  one." That's right, we're fact-checking where the Joker came from. So sue us! This  is throwing down the gauntlet for comic book nerds, pointing to a 1951 backstory about the Joker wearing a disguise and swimming through chemical waste as the one,  origin of the archvillain. He may prefer that version, and that’s fine, because it’s not . But comic historians and even a DC Comics publicist we consulted agreed that the Joker has no definitive backstory — indeed, that is one of the defining strengths of the character. We rate Tapper’s statement .
Statement: Photo shows Rachel Levine's family.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: January 29, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) The original photo shows Philip Chawner flanked by his daughters, Samantha and Emma. The British family appeared on a reality weight loss show called "Lorraine Kelly’s Big Fat Challenge. "  Before being tapped for the Biden administration, Levine garnered national attention for her work overseeing Pennsylvania’s coronavirus response in the face of repeated attacks on her gender identity. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Scott Maddox is a "lobbyist.
Speaker: adam putnam
About the speaker: Adam Putnam lost the Republican primary for Florida governor to U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis in 2018. A former Republican Congressman from Congressional District 12 in Central Florida, was elected Florida Commissioner of Agriculture on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014.
Date: May 4, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;elections
Context: a campaign statement
Fact-check justification: Putnam's campaign called Maddox a "lobbyist bottom feeder." We're not touching the bottom feeder part -- you can make up your own mind based on the clients we found that were represented by Maddox. But Maddox has made money as a lobbyist off and on for several years, representing a variety of clients. And though he's not currently registered as a lobbyist, Maddox is part owner in a firm that does state lobbying. That's enough in our minds to rate Putnam's  that Maddox is a lobbyist .
Statement: Drinking "water a lot and gargling with warm water & salt or vinegar eliminates" the coronavirus.
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: March 13, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: Health experts say no coronavirus remedy has yet emerged. So drinking lots of water, or gargling with warm water and salt or vinegar, won’t eliminate it. We rate this .
Statement: Says he "often" appeared on The O'Reilly Factor and "often was praised" by Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker: david corn
About the speaker: David Corn is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine.
Date: February 25, 2015
Topics: ethics;punditfact
Context: an interview on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Corn said that before this current brouhaha with O’Reilly, he appeared often on O’Reilly’s show and was often praised by the Fox News host. Corn’s use of the word "often" wouldn’t pass the eye test of most fact-checkers. While Corn was a guest on Fox News programs many times, he had just six appearances with O’Reilly between 2001 and 2008, transcripts show. And as for praise, O’Reilly explicitly did so once. A few other times O’Reilly expressed his satisfaction with Corn as a spokesman for a liberal perspective. But he also described him as bomb thrower and very far-left individual. Corn’s statement is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate the  .
Statement: ﻿Says JoAnne Kloppenburg's side had a "3-to-1 money advantage" in the Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign.
Speaker: charlie sykes
About the speaker: Charlie Sykes is a radio talk show host on 620-AM (WTMJ) in Milwaukee and runs the RightWisconsin website, a political site for conservatives. The station, like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is owned by Journal Communications Inc.
Date: April 6, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance
Context: comments made during his radio show
Fact-check justification: Sykes did not respond to our April 7, 2011 request for information that would support the  he made about spending in the Supreme Court race. He went on the air April 11, 2011-- the day after the item was posted – and led off his segment by saying: "I don’t have a problem admitting if I made a ." Amid criticism of PolitiFact Wisconsin , Sykes said it was his "good faith" impression from about two weeks prior to the election that the Kloppenburg side was outspending the Prosser side. He acknowledged the balance might have tipped by election day and said no one can know the  amount that was spent because, by law, it is not officially reported. He did not provide any information to support his  that the Prosser side was outspent 3-to-1. )
Statement: When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.
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: January 10, 2023
Topics: congress;federal budget
Context: an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
Fact-check justification: McCarthy said, "When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero." McCarthy’s  is based on Republicans’ control of the House from 2011 to 2019. During that period, the increase in "outlays," or actual federal dollars out the door during a given year, was close to zero. However, McCarthy’s  is  when considering appropriations approved in one year but intended to be spent in subsequent years. That measure, called budget authority, increased by about 29% in the same period. McCarthy’s statement also ignores that the first six of the eight years he referred to included Democratic leadership in the White House, Senate, or both. So, the spending patterns during those six years were shaped by bipartisan negotiation, not by Republican preferences alone. We rate the statement .