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Statement: Says Chuck Norris recorded a video in response to the Biden administration saying, "Our great country and freedom are under attack.
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 22, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That’s because it wasn’t filmed in response to President Joe Biden, as the post suggests.   Rather, Norris and his wife recorded this in 2012 to urge Americans to vote against then-President Barack Obama, who was up for re-election against Sen. Mitt Romney. Of course, Biden was Obama’s running mate at the time, but the video is now being presented in a way that suggests it was created recently in response to the current administration. That’s not accurate. We rate claims that this a video in response to the Biden administration .
Statement: The Supreme Court's views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
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: June 29, 2015
Location: national
Topics: lgbtq;polls and public opinion;supreme court
Context: an interview on NPR
Fact-check justification: Cruz said the Supreme Court’s views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. Most polls say around 60 percent favor same-sex marriage -- a high point. At the state level, the majority holds in most cases. Cruz’s staff said that Americans think legalizing same-sex marriage should be a state responsibility rather than something decided at the federal level. But different polls show different results on that point. There isn’t an obvious majority one way or the other. Certainly there is a good chunk of the population that opposes the Supreme Court’s decision, but it’s definitely not a clear majority. We rate Cruz’s  .
Statement: Opioid crisis (is) the worst in ObamaCare expansion states!
Speaker: matt gaetz
About the speaker: Matt Gaetz was elected to Congress in 2016 representing Florida's 1st District. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives serving District 4 in 2010. His father is former Sen. Don Gaetz.
Date: October 17, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: medicaid
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: And by ignoring a larger window, Gaetz misses the fact that the Medicaid expansion states he’s talking about had an opioid problem before the health care legislation took effect. Experts were universal in saying that the  that Medicaid expansion is somehow fueling the opioid crisis doesn’t exist. In some ways, it’s not much different than saying that the opioid crisis is worst in states in the eastern time zone. You wouldn’t blame a clock. We rate this  .
Statement: Extraterrestres reales de visita".
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 1, 2023
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks;politifact en español
Context: una publicación en Facebook
Fact-check justification: En la misma página de Facebook donde fue compartido el video, se han difundido también otros videos de extraterrestres creados por Terramidia, así como videos de supuestos fenómenos paranormales .   Este tipo de videos de seres u objetos no identificados se están haciendo virales tras el revuelo que causaron los cuatro objetos voladores avistados y derrumbados en febrero de este año en los Estados Unidos. Karine Jean-Pierre, la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, dijo en una rueda de prensa que "no hay ninguna indicación de extraterrestres o actividades extraterrestres". Calificamos lo que dice la publicación como Falso.   Lea más informes de PolitiFact en Español aquí.
Statement: A photo shows Ghislaine Maxwell and Bruce Reinhart.
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: August 10, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) In the original photo , Maxwell is massaging Epstein’s feet. An FBI agent testified during Maxwell’s trial that it was among a series of photos seized during a raid of Epstein’s Manhattan home in 2019. The photo of Reinhart that was used in the altered image appears to have been shared on his Facebook page in 2017.    We rate claims that the photo of Maxwell and Reinhart is authentic .
Statement: The current school psychologist to student ratio in this country is roughly 1,400 to 1, while experts say it should be at most 700 to 1.
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: May 28, 2019
Topics: health care;health check
Context: Houston
Fact-check justification: And given the broader point he is making — that many kids cannot access mental health care in schools — his statement would benefit from more context.   Children may not have a "school psychologist," but may still attend a school where another kind of psychologist or mental health professional is employed. That means they can still get care from a "trained professional," even though the provider doesn’t have the same level of specialty training. Biden’s  is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Ringing in your ears can cause total shutdown in under two years" but a pill can make tinnitus disappear.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 16, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But Dr. Bradley Kesser , a University of Virginia professor who specializes in hearing loss and tinnitus, called the post "completely spurious. "  "No such medicine exists and the claims are ," Kesser said.   We also found nothing suggesting that the Mayo Clinic has dubbed tinnitus "precursor dementia," as the post claims, although it reported on its site in June 2022 that "several large studies have shown that people who have a degree of hearing loss, even in midlife, have an increased risk of developing dementia later in life." Hearing loss has been linked to tinnitus as a possible cause, but tinnitus itself "does not cause hearing loss," according to the Mayo Clinic.   We rate this post .
Statement: Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up.
Speaker: glenn beck
About the speaker: Glenn Beck is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show. He also hosts an Internet-based TV show. Beck formerly hosted a television talk show on CNN Headline News and then Fox News.
Date: September 3, 2009
Location: national
Topics: pundits;terrorism
Context: his television program
Fact-check justification: We rate Beck's statement . UPDATE: A few days after we published this story, Jones name was removed from the petition on the Web site of  911Truth.org. "Following recent media-generated controversy over Obama appointee Van Jones' signature on this Statement, he and two other signatories have requested their names be removed. That has been done," the site noted.
Statement: Bill Gunter would "drain millions from local public schools, and give our tax dollars to private, for-profit schools run by out-of-state corporations.
Speaker: florida democratic party
About the speaker: the Florida affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Date: October 9, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: The Imagine Charter School of Land O'Lakes is owned by a Virginia-based company. The ad makes broad assumptions that district costs would swell by millions of dollars, leading to cuts, that local revenues wouldn't keep pace and that charter schools owned by out-of-state companies would get tax money. That's a lot of assuming. Still, history shows that education costs are consistently on the rise. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Terry McAuliffe "opposes" Virginia's right-to-work law.
Speaker: ken cuccinelli
About the speaker: Ken Cuccinelli became acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli, a Republican, was Virginia's attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, he lost the general election for governor to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. In 2016, he was a adisver to the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Born in 1968, Cuccinelli has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from Geroge Mason University School of Law and an M.A. in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University.
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Date: June 21, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: labor;legal issues;unions
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Cuccinelli said McAuliffe "opposes" the right-to-work law. He focuses on a June 18 news report that McAuliffe, during an interview, refused to defend right-to-work. But McAuliffe, in that article, did not criticize the popular law and was quoted as saying that right-to-work is "not going to change." On at least two occasions prior to Cuccinelli’s attack, McAuliffe stated that he would not try to alter the law, which he said "helps grow our businesses here in Virginia." Cuccinelli also makes a guilt-by-association argument, offering McAuliffe’s friendliness with unions as proof that he opposes right-to-work. But this, too, is a flimsy argument: It is entirely possible to support unions and the right-to-work law. Cuccinelli fails to provide credible proof of his  and we rate it .
Statement: The media won't publish a real photo of Trayvon Martin with tattoos on his face.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: July 16, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: crime
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: "I’m the face of L.A., so I put L.A. on my face," he once said . A publicist for the rapper said this picture was probably snapped during a photoshoot with XXL Magazine , though he wasn’t sure when. It’s no matter. We have enough information here to make our ruling. We rate the chain email !
Statement: Last week's three most-viewed television programs were Sunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: September 21, 2014
Topics: sports;punditfact
Context: a panel on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Will said, "Last week’s three most-viewed television programs were Sunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football ." Football games and related programming accounted for eight of the top 10 most-viewed TV programs between Sept. 8-14, 2014. Even though Monday Night Football came in fifth, not third, Will was right to say that football dominated the rankings. Experts say it will continue to do just that. We rate this  .
Statement: We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed.
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: September 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Durham, N.H
Fact-check justification: The corresponding figure for deaths in Afghanistan is 372. In addition, 232 American civilian workers have been killed in Iraq, according to the latest report of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Official figures are difficult to come by for civilian deaths in Afghanistan, but the Web site icasualties.org, which tracks casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, lists only four American civilian deaths in Afghanistan. So, add up the military deaths, combined with the American civilian casualties from the SIGIR report and icasualties.org, and it totals 4,349. This figure is significant, but short of Congressman Paul's assertion of over 5,000.
Statement: If Donald Trump would stay home from Mar-a-Lago one weekend, it would pay the entire meals on wheels budget for the state of Missouri for almost two years.
Speaker: claire mccaskill
About the speaker: Claire McCaskill is a Democrat and a U.S. Senator from Missouri.
Date: April 14, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: families;federal budget;food
Context: a town hall
Fact-check justification: McCaskill said that if Trump stayed home from Mar-a-Lago for one weekend, then it would pay for the cost of meals on wheels in Missouri for two years. We don't know how much it costs for Trump to visit Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. A GAO report said it cost $3.6 million for Obama to take a four-day, two-city trip in 2013, but the author of that report said that figure should not be used to make other estimates. Another group pegged the cost much lower. More problematic, McCaskill only looked at Community Development Block Grants when considering the cost of home-delivered meal programs in Missouri. The comparison falls apart entirely when you look at a fuller set of funding streams. We rate this  . Update (5 p.m. May 23) : This post was updated to include additional comments from McCaskill. The rating remains unchanged.
Statement: If you earn $100 and pay $33 income tax you're left with $67. You then buy $67 worth of fuel and in doing so pay a 48% fuel tax (fuel tax = $32.16 + $6.70 GST). This means that the government just got $71.86 tax from your hard earned $100.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 9, 2022
Topics: corrections and updates;gas prices;taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a photo on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Two recent Facebook posts claimed: "If you earn $100 and pay $33 income tax you’re left with $67. You then buy $67 worth of fuel and in doing so pay a 48% fuel tax (fuel tax = $32.16 + $6.70 GST). This means that the government just got $71.86 tax from your hard earned $100." Since the Facebook posts did not include how much money this hypothetical person makes a year, it’s not possible to determine their income tax rate in Australia or Canada. Also, neither country has a 48% fuel tax. We rate this  .
Statement: At Bain Capital, "we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: August 30, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Tampa
Fact-check justification: Romney said the first lady "praised" Bright Horizons. She did say that she was "excited" to launch an initiative that included the child care provider, calling Let’s Move partners "so important." Those are favorable comments about the company. We rate his  .
Statement: One half of federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while the other half goes to other programs funded with money "borrowed from a foreign land.
Speaker: rob woodall
About the speaker: Rod Woodall, a Republican, is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 7th Congressional District.
Date: February 1, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget
Context: a town hall meeting
Fact-check justification: We conclude that the congressman was essentially correct on how federal money is spent. He said about 50 percent of federal funds are spent on mandatory programs such as Social Security. The CBO’s data show a slightly higher percentage is spent on these programs, but we figure that’s close enough. As for the congressman’s other point, federal data and the fiscal watchdogs we talked to said Woodall’s comments could leave the  impression about the federal debt. Putting it all together, we rate his statement to the students as .
Statement: The health care law includes "a 3.8% sales tax" on "all real estate transactions.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: July 24, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The chain email doesn’t acknowledge any of those pesky facts. It says that a 3.8 percent tax applies to all real estate transactions as a sales tax. That is not the case. The email seems intended to scare people, particularly older Americans thinking of downsizing. For that, we award this chain email a !
Statement: Not even Tim Kaine is willing" to say he trusts Hillary Clinton.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: October 17, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Orlando
Fact-check justification: Rubio said that "not even Tim Kaine" is willing to say that he trusts Hillary Clinton. This is . Kaine has vocalized his trust of Clinton on multiple occasions, and there is no  suggesting Kaine doesn’t feel this way. Rubio’s statement is not accurate and makes a  . ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/4c4e4af7-c525-4473-ac44-8a893c216bea
Statement: President Obama and liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine's $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: June 3, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: deficit;economy;stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Let’s review. The NRSC says the stimulus  "failed to create jobs." The stimulus may  not have created as many jobs as Republicans and Democrats hoped. But there’s no doubt it put many people back to work and preserved the jobs of many more. We rate the NRSC statement .
Statement: Says his tax plan wouldn't leave the federal government with a $1.1 trillion hole.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: October 28, 2015
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;taxes
Context: the third GOP primary debate
Fact-check justification: Carson said "it’s not " that his plan would leave us with a $1.1 trillion hole, as moderator Becky Quick said. But Quick’s math is sound, based on what's publicly known about Carson's plan. Carson’s 15 percent flat tax would generate a $1.1 trillion hole. By his own math, his plan would create a $1 trillion hole.  We rate Carson’s  .
Statement: People haven't had a raise -- 90 percent of Americans have not had a raise for 40 years.
Speaker: tom steyer
About the speaker: Tom Steyer is a former hedge fund manager and environmental advocate who lives in San Francisco. In July 2019, he announced he's running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. 
Date: October 15, 2019
Location: california
Topics: economy;income;jobs;wealth
Context: a Democratic presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Tom Steyer claimed at the Democratic presidential debate in Ohio that, "People haven't had a raise -- 90 percent of Americans have not had a raise for 40 years." PolitiFact in April fact-checked a similar  by South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg: "Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit." It found that income for every group, as calculated by the Congressional Budget Office, has actually increased beyond the rate of inflation since the 1970s. However, another measurement -- the share of income taken by the bottom 90 percent -- has indeed declined since 1973. It rated the mayor’s  .  We agreed with PolitiFact’s assessment and rated Steyer’s  , as well.   – 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: In Congress, (Cresent Hardy) voted to defund DACA.
Speaker: ruben kihuen
About the speaker: Ruben Kihuen is a Democratic state Senator and running for Nevada's Fourth Congressional District
Date: August 15, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: immigration
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Kihuen said Hardy "voted to defund DACA" while in Congress. Kihuen oversimplifies Hardy’s record on DACA, which is more mixed than the  lets on. Hardy did vote for a version of a bill that included an amendment defunding DACA. But Hardy also voted against that specific amendment when it came up on the floor, and he broke with the majority of his party to send the final bill to the president. There’s some  here, but Kihuen is gross oversimplifying the matter and taking things out of context. We rate his comments as .