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Statement: Says Ken Cuccinelli tried to make it more difficult for mothers to obtain divorces.
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 4, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: families;marriage
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe’s ad says Cuccinelli introduced legislation in 2008 that would have made it more difficult for mothers to obtain divorces. Cuccinelli’s unsuccessful bill would have eliminated the ability for a spouse in a couple with minor children to unilaterally file for a no-fault divorce. The legislation would have allowed the other spouse to block the process by filing a written objection. In portraying the bill as an attack on women, McAuliffe ignores that the legislation would have made it equally more difficult for dads to get divorces. So McAuliffe’s statement has accuracy, but leaves out an important detail and context. We rate it .
Statement: Says all North Carolina teachers do not currently get a "duty free lunch break.
Speaker: john torbett
About the speaker: John A. Torbett is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the 108th district.
Date: April 3, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: education;states
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Torbett said North Carolina teachers do not currently get a "duty free lunch break." He’s right. The current law doesn’t guarantee that all teachers actually enjoy a duty-free lunch. In reality, Scioli and Jewell said many teachers eat while supervising their students or working themselves. We rate this statement .
Statement: Rick Scott's even saying he wants more offshore drilling.
Speaker: alex sink
About the speaker: Alex Sink is a candidate for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. She served as Florida's Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2011. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in 2010, but lost to Rick Scott.
Date: May 15, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: oil spill
Context: email
Fact-check justification: "I believe we can come up with a way to drill with the right precautions,'' Scott said. Scott's campaign doesn't dispute that he is in favor of offshore drilling and against a constitutional ban -- as long as the drilling is done safely. Certainly any candidate or politician who supports drilling wants it done safely -- we don't believe that makes Sink's  . Sink's campaign said that Scott wants "even more offshore drilling'' -- and that's an accurate account of what he's said. We find this  .
Statement: Due to Obamacare, Arkansas "has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already.
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: October 30, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care;states
Context: Boston
Fact-check justification: Obama said that due to the health care law, Arkansas "has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already." That number is very close, if not spot on. But it's a case study that has limited application for the rest of the country, because of the state's unique approach to Medicaid. Many of the state's uninsured still have to get coverage from the troubled healthcare.gov website. The statement is accurate but needs additional information or context, so we rate the  .
Statement: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario suggested "that 'unvaccinated' people are mentally ill and in need of psychiatric medication.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: November 20, 2022
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video says The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario suggested "that ‘unvaccinated’ people are mentally ill and in need of psychiatric medication." The  distorts the college’s guidance about treating patients who are seeking medical exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine. The guidance included legitimate medical exemptions for which doctors could write a note. It did not say all patients who don’t want the vaccine may be mentally ill.  The initial guidance was misinterpreted, and the college later updated the language — before the interview in the TikTok post was conducted — to include a specific example of when doctors could help vaccine-hesitant patients by prescribing medication or psychotherapy. We rate this  .
Statement: You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: January 25, 2015
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;taxes
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Kasich said that Lincoln said, "You can’t build a little guy up by tearing the big guy down." It’s well-established that this is not a Lincoln quote. Many have misattributed it to Lincoln, but its real author was a politically conservative minister and public speaker who was born several years after Lincoln’s assassination. Additionally, Kasich used the idea to support his position against raising taxes on the wealthy. Lincoln, however, instituted the first-ever federal income tax, and it was progressive. We rate this  .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border.
Speaker: jeff sessions
About the speaker: Jeff Sessions is President Donald Trump's Attorney General. He was previously a U.S. Senator from Alabama.
 
Date: September 5, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;legal issues;race and ethnicity
Context: remarks at the Justice Department
Fact-check justification: Sessions said that DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border." Since the DACA policy itself didn’t address the situation of unaccompanied Central American minors at all, the only way it could have had any effect was through mistaken understandings among potential migrants in Central America about what the program did and didn’t do. While there is  that such mistaken ideas did exist, the data shows that the upticks at the southern border were already under way by the time DACA was announced, and that the trend line didn’t change significantly after the announcement. So the effect, if there was any at all, would have been too small to measure. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Damascus' disincorporation would produce "NO significant tax savings.
Speaker: steve spinnett
About the speaker: Steve Spinnett is president of Steve's Imports, a car service and repair shop founded in 1975.
Date: September 3, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: a Voters' Pamphlet statement
Fact-check justification: And while remaining city assets would, by law, be turned over to the county, "those are completely divorced from the tax rate," said Dan Chandler, the county strategic policy adviser who wrote the fact sheet. Last, although voters countywide may cast ballots sometime late next year on an increased vehicle registration fee for road maintenance, Clackamas County has shown considerable reluctance in recent years to approve anything resembling a new tax. Thus, it seems unlikely that a flood of countywide bonds, levies and local improvement districts would materialize. Simple math shows that if Damascus voters follow up their 2004 historic vote to incorporate with another historic vote to disincorporate, homeowners will see their property tax bills fall -- by 46 percent at the median level. That is a significant savings.
Statement: The University of Wisconsin System had a "jobs-for-life tenure program" for professors.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: May 16, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Walker described the UW System’s original policy as a "‘jobs-for-life’ tenure program." He left out the fact that even before the Board of Regents broadened the grounds for dismissal of tenured faculty members, individuals could be dismissed under several circumstances, such as misconduct and financial difficulties that threaten the university’s existence. But because dismissals under that policy were extremely rare, being granted tenure effectively promised someone a job for life. Our definition of  is "the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.
Statement: Says Houston is "home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: February 22, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: health care;medicaid;public health
Context: remarks at a Washington, D.C. event
Fact-check justification: Perry said Houston is "home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world." Perry did not provide nor did we find  proving this , and there are signs that it’s not supported, including the census table indicating that Harris County ranked fourth nationally in total physicians in 2004 and trailed even more counties, including more than half a dozen in Texas, in physicians per 100,000 residents. Also, while Houston had the most doctors and nurses among five populous Texas cities in 2011, Dallas had greater concentrations of physicians and nurses. Finally, there is not yet any confirmation that the Texas Medical Center employs more doctors, nurses and researchers than any other place. That could be. But mights aren’t facts and regardless, Perry specified Houston in his recent statement, not the center. We rate this  as .
Statement: Since Scott Walker took office as governor in January 2011, there has been an increase of 33,200 jobs in Wisconsin.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: May 16, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Walker presents it all as final and official, offering no cautionary notes or caveats -- even though there are many. And Walker credits his policies for the improvement, which overstates the impact a governor can make on broad economic trends in a short period of time. There is clearly some  to the numbers. But in mixing everything together and not making it clear these numbers are preliminary, Walker ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. That is our definition for .
Statement: Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old.
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: April 27, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: education;retirement
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said, "Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old." But he is mixing statistics that don’t don’t go together and his eye-popping  that more than half of Virginia’s teachers have lived more than half a century doesn’t hold up. Virginia does not keep data that is solely focused on the age of teachers. The best statistics available show that the state’s instructional staff -- including teachers, librarians, guidance counselors and technology instructors -- was 98,792 during the 2010-11 school year and, of them, 33,462 were 50 or older. That’s 33.9 percent. The teaching corps is not moving toward retirement with anything close to the speed that McAuliffe described. We rate his statement .
Statement: While Act 10 allowed (Milwaukee County) to save some money, it was millions short of what we needed to fill the hole left by the $28 million cut in state aid.
Speaker: chris abele
About the speaker: Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office is nonpartisan, but Abele has indicated he is a Democrat.
Date: April 12, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: a statement to the Journal Sentinel
Fact-check justification: Walker’s office also claimed savings for long-term pension costs for 300 county workers who transferred to the state, but whose pension obligations stayed with the county. Walker can take some credit for changes while county executive, but we are looking at Abele’s   and he limited it to the changes Walker made as governor. By the numbers, Abele is correct that the changes the county made under Act 10 reforms did not completely make up for the lost revenue. But the county failed to take full advantage of Walker’s law. On balance, we rate Abele’s statement .
Statement: If the voting bill H.R. 1 is passed, "absentee ballots would be mailed out to anyone without proof of the voter's identity.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 25, 2021
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an online video
Fact-check justification: The post says that if the voting bill H.R. 1 is passed, "absentee ballots would be mailed out to anyone without proof of the voter’s identity." That’s not the case. A few states already do send ballots to all registered voters, but their process would not be changed by the bill. In every other state, registered voters would typically have to request a mail ballot to receive one. The bill would require states to make it easier for voters to do that. The bill would require states to send mail ballot applications to all registered voters before federal elections, but sending an application is not the same thing as sending an actual ballot, and these would go to registered voters only, whose identity and eligibility to vote are known.  We rate the statement .
Statement: McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'
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: October 27, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a television advertisement
Fact-check justification: Yes, but editing generally is selective, and this editing didn't really distort Biden's meaning. Did Biden actually say Obama had steel in his spine? Yes, but a day earlier than he made the comments the McCain ad highlighted, not immediately afterward as the Obama ad claimed. The Obama ad suggests there was some outrageous lapse here, but we don't see it. We find the Obama ad .
Statement: Says a challenge called "Momo" is appearing online in apps and children's programs and threatens kids in an attempt to force them into performing harmful acts.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 27, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: Warning posts and news accounts flooding social media warn parents about the "Momo Challenge," saying it is infiltrating kids’ programs online and encourages them to harm themselves or others. Some version of the challenge may exist now, with cyberbullies or copycats picking up on the viral trend, but there is no  to support that this challenge is real and there has been no confirmed link between the game and any deaths. Child psychologists and internet safety groups say the most important thing for parents to do is to consistently monitor their children’s internet use and to communicate frequently about the content their children are encountering online. We rate this internet rumor !
Statement: Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession.
Speaker: austan goolsbee
About the speaker: Austan Goolsbee is the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He also serves as chief economist of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He was an economic adviser to Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
Date: June 5, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Fact-check justification: He compared the current recovery only to the prior one, which was easily the weakest in recent U.S. history. But while this is somewhat , Goolsbee was careful to make a very specific . More worrisome is that he used cherry picking to help make his point. He ignored the first eight months of the current recovery, in which a significant number of jobs were lost. On balance, we rate Goolsbee's statement .
Statement: The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.
Speaker: david miliband
About the speaker: David Miliband is the president of the International Rescue Committee.
Date: May 17, 2016
Topics: global news service;foreign policy
Context: a panel discussion
Fact-check justification: Miliband said that the geography of poverty has fundamentally changed in the past 15 years and is increasingly concentrated in conflict and fragile states. Broadly speaking, the numbers back that up -- because non-fragile states are doing a better job of raising people out of poverty. The biggest cautionary note from experts is that we lack consistent measures of fragility and the list can change significantly from year to year. The statement is accurate, but one has to apply it cautiously. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a82c1824-f518-499c-bfcc-7b61b9691390
Statement: Says for every "share" that a photograph of a sick boy gets, Facebook will donate one dollar.
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: July 5, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In 2015, the Better Business Bureau released a statement about such scams, calling them "like-farming," and warned that some use the scheme to collect and sell information about users who interact with the posts. "Once the page creators have piled up hundreds of likes and shares, they may strip the page and promote something else, such as products that they will receive commissions for selling," the organization said in the statement. "They may also sell the page and information that was collected from the ‘likes’ with a more direct threat of gaining access in an attempt to gather credit card numbers that may be stored for certain Facebook apps, passwords or other personal information." The Better Business Bureau encourages people to refrain from interacting with these posts and  report them to Facebook instead. We rate this !