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Statement: BLM Activist kills three people in a Louisville bar wearing a Breonna Taylor tee shirt last Friday.
Speaker: peggy hubbard
About the speaker: Peggy Hubbard is an Illinois Republican who ran for U.S. Senate in 2020 and 2022.
Date: September 21, 2020
Location: illinois
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Hubbard said, "BLM Activist kills three people in a Louisville bar wearing a Breonna Taylor tee shirt last Friday. Why isn’t this National News?" Hubbard’s Facebook post contains an element of  because a triple homicide did take place in Louisville and the alleged shooter owns a business that promotes positive messages for the Black community, including on clothing it sells. However, the post ignores critical facts: The shooter is not known to be an activist in the Black Lives Matter movement and was not wearing a shirt featuring Breonna Taylor. We rate this  .
Statement: Polls show that Americans "overwhelmingly" support "expanding background checks.
Speaker: gabrielle giffords
About the speaker: Gabrielle Giffords is a former Democratic U.S. Representative from a district in Arizona. She was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 8, 2011, and has since become a leading advocate for preventing gun violence.
Date: April 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: the "New York Times"
Fact-check justification: In her op-ed, Giffords said polls show that Americans "overwhelmingly" support "expanding background checks." Four independent polls taken in the previous month showed that some sort of expansion of background checks earned the support of between 83 percent and 91 percent of respondents, a level of backing we think qualifies as "overwhelming." We rate her statement .
Statement: The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: April 9, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: social security
Context: remarks at Politico breakfastt
Fact-check justification: Portman recognizes this, as he makes clear often -- and did so again at the Politico  breakfast -- in his calls for entitlement reform. The Social Security trustees report in 2012 recognized this too, saying, "The DI program faces the most immediate financing shortfall of any of the separate trust funds; thus lawmakers need to act soon to avoid reduced payments to DI beneficiaries four years from now." So yes, we can hope or expect that the problem will be solved before 2016. But as of right now, Portman’s  -- that the "disability fund is going belly up in 2016" -- is accurate, or as accurate as Social Security’s trustees and the CBO can be. We rate the  .
Statement: Merrick Garland catches Trump planning to flee.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 9, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We reached out to the Justice Department for comment about the post, but didn’t immediately hear back.   Nevertheless, we found no credible reports or other sources to corroborate the Facebook post’s .   A video in the Facebook post includes a clip of CNN news coverage of the FBI’s seizure of documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and features someone musing about Trump fleeing the country. But the person didn’t say Garland caught Trump planning to flee. We rate this post .
Statement: Congressman Renacci is under FBI investigation.
Speaker: democratic congressional campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is responsible for assisting Democratic candidates for the U.S. House.
Date: June 1, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;ethics
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In a June 18 interview, Andrew Hayden, the supervisory senior resident agent of Canton’s Federal Bureau of Investigation office confirmed that Renacci is not a target of the FBI’s investigation. "We are looking into the donations from the Suarez Corporation, and not the congressman’s campaign or the congressman," Hayden said. It couldn’t be much clearer than that. The FBI says it is not investigating Renacci. On the -O-Meter, the DCCC’s statement rates .
Statement: Video montage shows Kamala Harris and others faking vaccination.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 19, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post includes a video montage that purports to show that people who got COVID-19 shots while on camera, including Harris, were faking being vaccinated.  The video clips included in the montage are of real events, but they are depicted and labeled in  ways. One of the video segments shows a flu shot that was administered in 2019, and another shows a staged promotional event. Other parts of the video mischaracterize the type of medical equipment used or mistakes that occurred during vaccinations and were later corrected.  We rate this  .
Statement: The person purporting to be Tiffany Dover is an impostor.
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 10, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Her bright blue eyes are the same color as they were in 2020. And back then, the hospital where she was employed repeatedly responded to rumors of her death and later confirmed to PolitiFact that she was, indeed, alive.   "Hey guys, I know it’s been a really long time and I don’t even know where to begin, but I guess I could start with: I’m alive," Dover says in the TikTok video that’s drawing claims that she’s not who she says she is.   Those claims are baseless. We rate them !
Statement: Says Jon Ossoff is "a socialist.
Speaker: david perdue
About the speaker: David Perdue is running in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Georgia. He was a U.S. Senator from January 2015 to January 2021. He has been the CEO of several businesses and is the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Date: November 16, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Perdue said Ossoff is a socialist. As , Purdue said Ossoff supports policies that Ossoff actually does not support, such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. Those policies don’t constitute socialism. Ossoff is not a socialist. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.
Speaker: centers for disease control
About the speaker: Centers for Disease Control
Date: October 22, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: drugs;health care;public health;states
Context: map
Fact-check justification: Georgia had the highest flu activity in the country based on data provided by doctors offices across the country and mapped by the CDC for the week of Oct. 4 through Oct. 10. That information factors into the CDC’s efforts to track what goes on through flu season. But it’s based on data submitted voluntarily and that, as we have seen, can change week -to-week. That’s important context that downgrades the statement to .
Statement: Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: December 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: "The idea that Reagan had any affect on their release is laughable." Bowden said waiting until Carter left office had more to do with the Iranian leaders dislike of Carter "than a fear of Reagan," he added. While Giuliani is technically correct that the hostages were released after 444 days in the first hour Reagan took office, Reagan wasn't responsible. So Giuliani's message doesn't match the facts. We rule this statement .
Statement: Our graduation rate is the highest it's ever been.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: March 2, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: his State of the State address
Fact-check justification: But Joe Citizen doesn't think of "ever" as beginning in 2005, or even 1999. We understand that accurate statistics only go back so far, but Crist could have been more clear. We rate his statement . Update: This item was updated on March 4, 2010, to clarify University of South Florida professor Sherman Dorn's position on graduation rates.
Statement: Says Republican-approved changes to "make it more difficult to participate in Ohio elections include reducing in-person early voting from 35 days to six.
Speaker: armond budish
About the speaker: Rep. Armond Budish, a Democrat from Beachwood, Ohio, formerly was speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. Be became the minority leader in 2011 after Republicans regained control of the House in the 2010 elections.
Date: May 18, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: But this window is also squeezed by prohibiting voting on Sundays and on the Saturday and Monday before Election Day. It also requires elections boards to close Saturday voting at noon. The House version allows for voting until 6 p.m. Applying these restrictions, the Senate bill takes away five days, leaving 11 days for in-person voting. Returning to the House bill and Budish’s assessment, his statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. On the -O-Meter, Politifact Ohio rates his  .
Statement: We have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now.
Speaker: mandela barnes
About the speaker: Mandela Barnes is an American politician serving as the 45th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, Barnes is a former state representative. On August 14, 2018, he won the Democratic primary in a landslide and became the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Evers. Evers and Barnes went on to win the November 2018 election, defeating incumbent Republicans Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. Barnes became Wisconsin's first African American lieutenant governor.
 
 
Date: July 17, 2022
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;transportation;wisconsin
Context: Debate
Fact-check justification: During a debate, Barnes said "we have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now." The Bureau of Land Management confirmed that the number of approved but unused onshore drilling permits reached 9,623 at the end of fiscal year 2021, the highest it’s been in the past decade. The problem is there is no available earlier data, which would really be necessary to make such a sweeping . That puts an asterisk on what Barnes said, and means we’re nudging our rating down to , which we define as: "The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information."
Statement: Says the U.S. Constitution provides for just compensation when land is taken under eminent domain.
Speaker: todd staples
About the speaker: Staples was first elected agriculture commissioner of Texas in 2006 after previously serving in the Texas Senate and House. He unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, afterward resigning for another job.
Date: September 16, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: history;legal issues;message machine 2010;supreme court
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: The amendment prohibits the taking of private property for transfer to a private entity for the purpose of economic development or to increase tax revenues, according to the Texas Secretary of State's office. Gilbert has questioned Staples' bonafides for talking up laws against government taking private property without just compensation. In a Sept. 17 press release, the Democrat singles out measures Staples supported as a state senator to suggest he's not always aligned with private property owners. That sally may be valid; we're not judging it here. We rate Staples' statement to KVET as .
Statement: This is the California model spreading across the country. When you need to flip things blue there's always some mysterious mail-in ballots lying around that'll do the trick. Shameful!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 4, 2020
Location: california
Topics: elections
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Election experts and county election officials along with numerous studies have rejected the idea that mail-in ballots in California or any other state lead to widespread fraud.   Lahren’s post is making waves on social media. But it’s not backed up by the facts.   We rated it .     – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: January 23, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: bush administration;elections
Context: various social media postings
Fact-check justification: Hoover, of course, was ushered out in 1932 as the Great Depression raged, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt era began. Our rating No Republican has been elected president since 1928 without a member of the Bush family or Richard M. Nixon on the GOP ticket? You could look it up. But now you don’t have to. .
Statement: DeWine "took $1.9 million from big banks," "supported legislation that helped Bernie Madoff make millions" and "protected predatory lenders while families lost their homes.
Speaker: ohio democratic party
About the speaker: Statewide organization for Ohio's Democrats.
Date: August 23, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;economy
Context: an election ad
Fact-check justification: So while certainly some families were among those who lost their homes in 2001, the foreclosure numbers were about half the record-breaking foreclosure numbers that have hit the state in recent years with upwards of 80,000 a year since 2007. By then, DeWine wasn’t even a senator. Add it up, and the scorecard for the Ohio Democratic Party is far from spotless.    We rate the Ohio Democratic Party’s claims as . Comment on this item .
Statement: Says Joe Biden "just announced on CNN he will completely shut down drilling for oil and natural gas on day one of his administration.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 15, 2020
Topics: environment;energy;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says Biden "just announced on CNN he will completely shut down drilling for oil and natural gas on day one of his administration." In a CNN debate, Biden said "no more drilling" for oil. Taken literally, that could be interpreted to mean he supports ending oil drilling. But he did not use the words "shut down" and his stated position has been to ban new oil drilling on federal lands and water, not end ongoing work. Biden was more clear in his debate statements regarding natural gas, saying he would not allow any new fracking.  He did not say he would take either step on day one as president.  For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support.
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: March 15, 2016
Topics: nbc;campaign finance
Context: a victory speech after the March 15 primaries
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support." The campaign's best  for this isn't independently verifiable. Otherwise, Clinton is  — small donors accounted for only 17 percent of the dollar amount her campaign has collected from individuals through Jan. 31, and 19 percent of the dollar amount collected through Feb. 29. We rate statement .
Statement: Ohio's Planned Parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in 2010 and 2011.
Speaker: ohio right to life
About the speaker: Ohio Right to Life is the state affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee. Its stated mission is to promote and defend the right to life of all innocent human beings, from the time of fertilization until natural death.
Date: December 5, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: abortion
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The money that would be redirected by S.B. 201 is used to provide other health services. Ohio Right to Life’s  about funding for Planned Parenthood is accurate. That the money cannot be used for abortions and that abortion procedures make up a small percentage of Planned Parenthood services are additional pieces of information that provide the full picture. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Arizona congressional candidate Ray Strauss is "a 'Champion of Big Government' for his votes to raise taxes while on the local city council.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: August 11, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: taxes
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Palin said, "Dr. Gosar's opponent is actually classified by Americans for Prosperity for being a ‘Champion of Big Government' for his votes to raise taxes while on the local city council." That’s  and leaves out important context. The opponent in question, Ray Strauss, did not vote to raise taxes that year while on the Buckeye City Council. And while the group did give him that rating in 2015, it wasn't a lifetime rating. Palin cherry-picks one year. On average, he has a much more moderate score from AFP. We rate her  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c31bf412-8e0d-4a78-bf3f-ac7802c2806c
Statement: Democrats used "47 million mail-in ballots" to steal "every election in the country.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 9, 2022
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: In Virginia, Republican state Sen. Jen Kiggans ousted Democratic U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria. Among other Democrats who lost :  U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-Ariz., U.S. Rep. Al Lawson, D-Fla., U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, and U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y. Prominent statewide races for U.S. Senate in Arizona and Nevada, for seats held by Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Catherine Cortez Masto, were still too close to call early Nov. 11. As for this Facebook post, we rate the  ! RELATED : We fact-checked misinformation about the midterm elections, from Maricopa County to Detroit
Statement: Says Ilhan Omar "partied" on the anniversary of 9/11.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: September 18, 2019
Location: national
Topics: fake news;patriotism;terrorism
Context: a retweet from his account
Fact-check justification: Trump retweeted a post that said Ilhan Omar "partied" on the anniversary of 9/11. The bogus allegation, shared by a comedian with an assist from Trump, who broadcast it to his 64 million Twitter followers, was based on a video that shows Omar dancing at a Congressional Black Caucus event. But the event was hosted on Sept. 13, not on Sept. 11. We rate this statement !
Statement: Says "Joe Biden calls for gun ban.
Speaker: national rifle association
About the speaker: An advocacy group that fights restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Date: June 17, 2019
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The NRA said Biden called for a "gun ban." Biden has advocated banning assault weapons, and he has a history of trying to ban certain guns . But as he vies for the Democratic presidential nomination, he isn’t promising to prohibit Americans from owning any gun. He said he’d again champion a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines like the bans he supported in 1994. Those bans prevented the manufacture and sale of certain weapons for private citizens to use; they did not confiscate or prevent the sale of weapons that were purchased before the restrictions went into effect. The Facebook post contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .