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Statement: We would be just like North Carolina with HB2-like (transgender bathroom) legislation. It actually passed our chamber and I vetoed it.
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: November 30, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: lgbtq;religion;sexuality
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said, "We would be just like North Carolina with HB2-like (transgender bathroom) legislation. It actually passed our chamber and I vetoed it." The governor vetoed a bill that would have protected ministers and religious entities from facing government-imposed penalties or civil liability for refusing to perform or host gay marriages. HB2 says transgender people in North Carolina must use restrooms in schools and other government facilities that match with the sex listed on their birth certificates instead of the sex with which they identify. It raises the spectacle of government enforcing a law aimed against a tiny minority. It has provoked protests and boycotts from businesses, sports organizations and entertainers that have cost the state dearly. The two bills are comparable in that they allow discrimination against members of the LGBT community. But they are very different in substance and it’s  for McAuliffe to say that his veto saved Virginia from being ‘just like North Carolina with HB2-like legislation." We rate his statement .
Statement: The (State Board of Administration) transparency issue got a great airing the last legislative session.
Speaker: ash williams
About the speaker: Ash Williams is executive director and chief investment officer of the State Board of Administration
Date: August 2, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: financial regulation;transparency
Context: response to a question from Gov. Rick Scott
Fact-check justification: At PolitiFact we're sometimes reluctant to analyze statements that are open to interpretation (what's the definition of "great" in this case), but we feel confident that someone seeing Williams' statement would come away with an impression that is very different from the legislative record. In fact, the public records SBA bill that moved through the House and Senate passed with just slightly more debate than is absolutely necessary to comply with state rules that a bill be read three times before it is passed. We're not saying it's Williams' fault that the Legislature decided not to speak out on this bill. But we do hold him accountable for his words. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump's sister tweeted, "My brother Don won this election and will fight this to the very end.
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: November 20, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Hope y’all will forgive me - feel bad for creating any confusion. "   A woman who identified herself as Elizabeth Trump Grau told VICE News she was "just annoyed by the whole thing. "  We rate this Facebook post .   This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process.
Speaker: barry loudermilk
About the speaker: Barry Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. He previously served in the Georgia Senate.
Date: December 18, 2019
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;impeachment;religion
Context: remarks on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Loudermilk said, "When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process." Biblical accounts cited to us by experts in law and religion say Jesus was questioned by the Roman governor, not given an opportunity by Pilate to face his accusers. Trump has yet to go on trial in the Senate. But before being impeached by the House, he was given the opportunity to present a defense. We rate Loudermilk’s statement .
Statement: Corporate entities are paying a lot less taxes this year than they have in the past. Part of that is from a loophole in a bill that was passed in 2015.
Speaker: kip kendrick
About the speaker: Kip Kendrick is a Democrat in the Missouri state House whose district includes Columbia.
Date: January 20, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: regulation;state budget;taxes
Context: an interview on KMIZ’s “This Week”
Fact-check justification: Part of that is from a loophole in a bill that was passed in 2015." There hasn’t been a decrease in businesses, and the Missouri economy is doing well as indicated by various economic data. So corporations must be paying less taxes — though experts can argue about which tax cuts and other factors are behind Missouri’s lower corporate income tax collections. However, we don’t have the complete numbers of corporate tax collections because the fiscal year doesn’t end until June 30. With that caveat, we rate this  as .
Statement: The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror.
Speaker: lindsey graham
About the speaker: Lindsey Graham is a U.S. senator from South Carolina. He was a candidate for the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
Date: April 26, 2009
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Still, the ICRC concludes, "Persons detained in relation to a noninternational armed conflict waged as part of the fight against terrorism — as is the case with Afghanistan since June 2002 — are protected by Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and the relevant rules of customary international humanitarian law." Graham is right that the Supreme Court decision clarified the law (though he was off by a year when he said the ruling came in 2005 instead of 2006). But he goes too far by suggesting it was not the case before that decision. Some legal experts say that the prisoners have always been subject to the Geneva Conventions. We rate Graham's statement .
Statement: Emma Gonzalez bullied school shooter, isn't sorry; then retweets message blaming 'white boys' entitlement' as cause of all school shootings
Speaker: project republic
About the speaker: sensationalized blog 
Date: March 28, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: on a alternative news site
Fact-check justification: And white boys are the most entitled demographic by far." Project Republic described Gonzalez’s retweet as sentiment to blaming "white boys’ entitlement" as the cause of all school shootings. But the tweet isn’t that specific in blaming all school shootings on entitlement. Project Republic has no  to show that Gonzalez bullied Cruz; she didn’t admit; and the retweet doesn’t say what Project Republic said. We rate the statement .
Statement: When the salmonella source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the [peanut] recall.
Speaker: rosa delauro
About the speaker: A Democratic Congresswoman representing the Third District of Connecticut.
Date: February 4, 2009
Location: national
Topics: consumer safety
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: And it was imprecise for her to say the FDA waited for the company's approval to "go live" with the recall — the FDA did not "go live" with the recall at all; it was the company that issued it. But "go live" is a vague term, and DeLauro seems to have meant "announce." And it's  that the FDA could not post on its Web site this press release announcing the recall, which came from the Peanut Corporation of America, until the company agreed to issue the recall and wrote the release. So while DeLauro's depiction of the recall process was not full and complete, it was technically accurate. We find her  to be .
Statement: Satanic leader confesses to sacrificing 675 children 'gifted' to him by doctors.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 19, 2018
Location: national
Topics: crime;religion
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The article by Neon Nettle claimed that "a Satanic cult leader has confessed to carrying out more than 600 child sacrifices." A man did confess this on a Ghanaian television show. The article does acknowledge that there have been no reports of mass child killings in Ghana, Satanic or otherwise. But, Neon Nettle fails to mention that this show has a long sensationalist history of interviewing supposed spiritual deviants and granting them anonymity. We rate this  .
Statement: It is only under President Trump that we have become the largest producer of oil and gas resources.
Speaker: corey stewart
About the speaker: Corey Stewart, a Republican, is the chairman of the Prince William County's board of supervisors. He was elected to the board in 2003 to represent the Occoquan district. Then he won a special election in 2006 to become chairman. He was elected to four-year terms in 2007 and 2011.   
Stewart ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2013.
Stewart was born in Minnesota. He graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and earned a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minn. He works as an international trade attorney in private practice.
Date: July 21, 2018
Location: virginia
Topics: energy
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: EIA data shows that U.S. has been the world leader in gas production since 2009, oil production since 2013, and combined gas and oil production since 2011. All of this happened well before Trump came to White House. We rate Stewart’s statement . Correction: An earlier version of this fact check mispelled the first name of Fatih Birol.
Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke perpetuated stereotypes, "casting aspersions on working women whose 'only qualifications seemed to be large breasts and tight buttocks'.
Speaker: club for growth
About the speaker: The Club for Growth is an anti-tax group.
Date: March 10, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Club for Growth said O’Rourke cast "aspersions on working women whose ‘only qualifications seemed to be large breasts and tight buttocks’." O’Rourke wrote this comment in a review of a play for the student newspaper at Columbia University. The language in the ad is , as it implies O’Rourke was speaking generally about all women. We rate this  . Editor’s note: This is one of four fact-checks featuring a  made in Club for Growth’s TV ad about Beto O’Rourke. To read the others, click here .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
Statement: A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court.
Speaker: city of atlanta
About the speaker: City of Atlanta
Date: November 28, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Officers or dispatchers could telephone the Atlanta court to check for open warrants, Turner told investigators, but it’s closed on Friday, the day Reed was stopped. Police and court officials told PolitiFact they’ve been working on this problem for months but need funding to solve it. Atlanta Municipal Court bench warrants are not included in the ACIC database, as the city’s news release said. In fact, Atlanta’s police chief estimates that thousands of people with open warrants aren’t in there.    We find the city’s  .
Statement: Wearing face masks may cause "pulmonary fibrosis" and other health risks in children.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 5, 2021
Location: california
Topics: children;education;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Medical experts we spoke with also disagreed with the claims, and added that "masks are safe and effective tools to mitigate the spread of viral illnesses spread in the air. "  The debunked information came from a journal entry in Medical Hypothesis, a non-peer reviewed theoretical journal, and the author was falsely affiliated with Stanford University. We rate this  as .  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  .
Statement: Georgia lawmakers fuel up for the session by feasting on "wild" hogs.
Speaker: new georgia encyclopedia
About the speaker: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Date: January 11, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: agriculture
Context: Georgia history
Fact-check justification: Just after sunrise, turn the meat. "That boils the grease back up through the meat as a natural tenderizer. "  Cook for a few more hours until the ribs separate from the meat. Total cooking time --- 12 hours. Serve with barbecue sauce and enjoy.
Statement: On ending the war in Iraq, "Gov. Romney said that was a tragic mistake, we should have left 30,000 troops there.
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: October 11, 2012
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: the vice presidential debate
Fact-check justification: While talking about how Obama kept his promise to end the Iraq war, Biden said, "Romney said that was a tragic , we should have left 30,000 troops there." It’s  that Romney characterized Obama’s 2011 deadline with the word "tragic." Romney did not say ending the war was tragic; he was talking about the speed at which Obama removed all troops. Romney’s preference was to leave a large residual force, and he has used an estimate of up to 30,000 in the past, as Biden said during the debate. We rate Biden’s  .
Statement: Says U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown "promised that the first stimulus bill would fund the
Brent Spence Bridge.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: September 28, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: infrastructure;stimulus
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: But Mandel used a strong word: promise. He did not say Brown broke his suggestion. He said Brown broke a promise. Brown never made a promise, which is a critical difference. It is why Mandel’s  gets a rating of .
Statement: Says "Tom Barrett supports a government takeover of our health care
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: October 13, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: On the support of Hillary Clinton’s plan in 1993, Barrett was a co-sponsor, and some experts say it went further than Obama’s plan. But it still would have retained a private-insurance based system. It didn’t amount to a takeover either. Can we light two matches? We rate the  .
Statement: Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada.
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: February 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;workers
Context: a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference
Fact-check justification: However, not only did Romney not use this calculation, it’s also an unofficial estimate with an unknown margin of error. It could just as easily be 3 million as 4.4 million. So we are not persuaded. Ultimately, Romney’s comparison doesn’t work for the official unemployment figure, nor for the numbers that include Americans who are marginally attached to the labor force. We rate Romney’s statement .
Statement: People who have had cancer in the past, they get the COVID jab and now, they're getting cancer two to three, four months later and it's the same cancer they had except much worse.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 9, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video says, "People who have had cancer in the past, they get the COVID jab and now, they're getting cancer two to three, four months later and it's the same cancer they had except much worse." There is no data to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines lead to cancer recurrence. Cancer is a common disease and hundreds of millions of people have been vaccinated against COVID-19, so it is expected that some people would have cancer recurrence around the time of their vaccination. It is not proof that vaccinations are the cause of the recurrence. We rate this  .
Statement: A poll found that "20% of young adults use (smartphones) during sex.
Speaker: arianna huffington
About the speaker: Arianna Huffington founded the liberal news website Huffingtonpost.com, which she sold to AOL in 2011 for $315 million. In 2003, she unsuccessfully ran for governor of California.
Date: September 9, 2014
Topics: sexuality;technology;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Huffington said that 20 percent of young adults use mobile devices during sex. That , for the most part, accurately reflects the findings of an unscientific online poll. While the poll itself is dubious, there is no better information available to contradict the poll of Huffington's . Maybe the new Apple Watch will have an app for that one day. We rate the  .
Statement: 11.6 million people watched Biden's first presidential address to Congress while far larger audiences watched Donald Trump's speeches.
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: April 29, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an image on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Our rating An image posted on Facebook claimed that Biden’s first address to Congress had only 11.6 million viewers, while Trump’s presidential addresses were watched by three to four times that number of people. The post provided accurate viewership numbers for Trump’s presidential addresses overall. But the post was  about the number of people who watched Biden’s address. In reality, 26.9 million people tuned in to watch — more than double the post’s .   We rate this  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "insists that when the progressive agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary, those beliefs 'have to be changed.'
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: June 15, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: religion;women
Context: his announcement speech at Miami Dade College
Fact-check justification: Bush said, "Secretary Clinton insists that when the progressive agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary, those beliefs ‘have to be changed.’ " During a speech about women’s rights worldwide in April, Clinton talked about the rates of maternal mortality, domestic violence, lack of access to education and "reproductive health care." She said that laws must be enforced to protect those rights "and deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed." So the only area where she says beliefs must change that has any possible connection to domestic issues is in the reference to the overall category of reproductive health. Bush is making Clinton’s remarks sound far more sweeping than they actually are. Clinton was talking about specific issues affecting women’s health and safety, in both a global and domestic context.  We rate this statement .