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Statement: Says Joe Biden told a factory worker, "I don't work for you!" while pointing a finger in the worker's face.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 12, 2020
Topics: public service;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post suggests Biden told a factory worker, "I don’t work for you!" while pointing a finger at the worker’s face.  Biden and the worker got into a confrontation over Biden’s proposed gun control policies; the worker falsely accused Biden of wanting to take away people’s guns. While news accounts differ on what words Biden said, the quotes are similar to the phrase attributed to Biden in the Facebook post. Biden was not pointing at the worker during that part of the exchange. The  is partly , but leaves out important details and context.  We rate this  .
Statement: Dr. Anthony Fauci said lockdowns are a method for coercing people to comply with COVID-19 vaccinations.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 19, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post suggests that Fauci said lockdowns are a method for coercing people to comply with COVID-19 vaccinations. The  includes a truncated version of Fauci’s comments that was taken out of context.   In his 90-second reply, he talked specifically about vaccine efficacy and uptake in China, where there is an ongoing lockdown. And Fauci did not indicate at any point that lockdowns should be used as a tool of coercion, as the post implies. We rate this  .
Statement: The total number of dollars that passes through the Department of Development is like $900 million and like $650 (million) of it has nothing to do with development, which is breathtaking when you think about 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: August 17, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget
Context: a statement to reporters
Fact-check justification: To Kasich’s point, it is hard to believe that a state agency charged with bringing and retaining jobs for Ohio could spend only a small fraction of its state funds on its primary duty. Give him credit for the over-arching point. But his figures are off and do not encapsulate the full picture. Take some credit away for that. We rate his statement as .
Statement: The 'New York Times' writes this long story" about Donald Trump's tax returns but "didn't point out there was no wrongdoing" until paragraph 18.
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: October 2, 2016
Topics: candidate biography;taxes;punditfact
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Image taken from the New York Times website. We’ll keep this short and sweet. Giuliani’s  is not accurate. It rates . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/18b969c4-f93b-4b71-b4a7-04001126c5f4
Statement: We have the fourth highest in-state tuition for public universities in the country.
Speaker: maggie hassan
About the speaker: New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Hassan was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. She formerly served as governor and as a state lawmaker in New Hampshire. 
Date: January 3, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: education
Context: her inauguration speech becoming NH governor
Fact-check justification: Data for the 2011-12 or 2012-13 school years isn’t available yet. But, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which compares tuition rates across the country, the University of New Hampshire was one of the nation’s most expensive schools in 2010-11 for in-state students. The state’s other public schools -- Granite State College, Keene State College and Plymouth State University -- didn’t make the national list. But UNH’s $13,672 tuition placed fourth at the time, trailing only Pennsylvania State University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Vermont. We rate the  .
Statement: During the debate, Kamala Harris said, "that's a great segway to the next question," suggesting she knew the next question.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 8, 2020
Location: national
Topics: debates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "No one at either campaign, or at the commission, or anywhere else has been told in advance what topics I’ll raise, or what questions I’ll ask," she said.   Harris does not make the statement that the Facebook post attributes to her, but she did say, "that’s a great segue." It’s unclear what she meant when she said that, and it doesn’t prove that she knew debate questions ahead of time.   Page, however, was explicit when she said that neither Harris nor Pence knew what topics or questions she would cover.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Singer Miley Cyrus: 'Trump fans are destroying my career, I can't stand them and I decided to move to…'
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 8, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Fact-check justification: A  news story said that Miley Cyrus is blaming Trump supporters for her discontentment with her career and that she is planning to leave the United States. Cyrus has recently expressed satisfaction of her career and life, and she specifically reversed her prior feelings on leaving the country. We rate this  .
Statement: The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.
Speaker: represent.us
About the speaker: Represent.us is "building a fiercely non-partisan movement to pass tough anti-corruption laws in cities and states across America.”
Date: April 30, 2015
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;corrections and updates;criminal justice;federal budget;military
Context: a meme on social media
Fact-check justification: The group Represent.us created a meme that read, "The U.S. Representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than did the representatives who voted to stop it. The correct number is actually 70 percent, which is close to what the meme said. But it’s worth noting there's significant doubt about how meaningful this connection is. Several independent experts said it’s not obvious that the defense industry would have a strong self-interest in supporting the continued existence of the program, and if they don’t, that would undercut the meme’s underlying message. Others say defense contractors do have a small but real interest in seeing that police get the equipment. Overall, the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it . Correction: This article has been changed to reflect that Maplight's data on campaign contributions automatically updates. We initially reported that a numerical difference was due to mistaken typing.
Statement: Says the New York bike path assault "was the ninth vehicle assault used by ISIS.
Speaker: michael mccaul
About the speaker: Michael McCaul was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004.
Date: October 31, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: terrorism
Context: an interview by Fox News
Fact-check justification: McCaul said the New York bike path assault "was the ninth vehicle assault used by ISIS." McCaul based his  on nine 2017 attacks--none of them confirmed to have been conducted by ISIS. Regardless, it looks like more than half may have been ISIS-inspired and if you consider actions globally over time, ISIS merits blame for at least nine vehicular assaults. We rate this statement .  – 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: A video shows wreckage of the recent plane crash in Nepal.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 16, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Universal Studios Hollywood offers a studio lot tour featuring sets from movies, including "War of the Worlds." The plane in that set is a Boeing 747. The plane in the Nepal crash was a twin-engine ATR 72 . Authentic photos of the crash don’t reflect the video in the Facebook post.   We rate claims that it shows the crash’s wreckage .
Statement: The stimulus includes "$7 million to build a bridge in Thedford, Nebraska, to help 168 residents avoid a 30-second wait at a local train crossing. Not one full-time job will be created.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: February 19, 2010
Location: national
Topics: stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: But that doesn't mean it didn't create any jobs -- only that those jobs went to people in Colorado, less than 100 miles away. So Boehner has the project and the pricetag correct, but we think it's  to  the bridge only leads to a town of 168, when it is crossed more than 1,200 times a day. And the  that it has not created any jobs is . It might not create any full-time jobs for Thedford residents, but it will for those employed by the Colorado company that got the multimilion dollar contract. And so we rule this  .
Statement: Says EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will endanger 575 Texas dairy facilities, 58 swine operations, 1,300 corn farms and 28,000 beef cattle operations.
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: May 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a campaign Web post
Fact-check justification: Where does all this leave Staples’ statement? The commish had a basis for his numbers in the 2008 USDA letter. But his assumption that farms would be subject to the regulations expired when the EPA issued its final rule weeks ago. Since, Staples has neither adjusted nor reasonably explained his outdated complaint. His statement is .
Statement: And 100 percent, John, of your ads . . . 100 percent of them have been negative.
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 15, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Hempstead, N.Y
Fact-check justification: That's far short of 100 percent. (It also found 61 percent of Obama’s ads have been negative.) That’s up for both parties from the 2004 election, when 64 percent of George Bush’s ads were negative, compared to 34 percent of John Kerry’s. So Obama might be right for one week, but he is way off for the overall campaign, when McCain's negative ads accounted for 73 percent. That's so far off that we find it  .
Statement: Says in regard to providing "more tax cuts for the rich," Bill Pascrell said, "Republicans had great ideas. I liked some of their ideas.
Speaker: steve rothman
About the speaker: Steven R. Rothman served as a Democratic congressman representing parts of northern New Jersey between January 1997 and January 2013. He left office after losing a primary election to Rep. Bill Pascrell.
Date: May 8, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections;message machine 2012;taxes
Context: a video posted on YouTube
Fact-check justification: In an attack ad from Rothman’s campaign, the narrator claims Pascrell "wants more tax cuts for the rich." Then the video suggests Pascrell admitted to supporting such tax cuts by showing a clip of him saying, "Republicans had great ideas. I liked some of their ideas." But when Pascrell made those comments during a "Hardball" interview, the congressman was discussing efforts to reach a bipartisan compromise on health care reform. In fact, the phrase "tax cuts" was never mentioned during the entire interview. Editing a political ad to distort the meaning behind an opponent’s comments is not just , it’s . ! To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: In addition to his compensation as a judge, "Roy Moore and his wife (paid themselves) over $1 million from a charity they ran.
Speaker: senate leadership fund
About the speaker: Senate Leadership Fund is a Super PAC with the stated goal to "protect and expand the Republican Senate Majority." 
Date: August 2, 2017
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;corrections and updates;religion
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Senate Leadership Fund attack ad said, "Roy Moore and his wife (paid themselves) over $1 million from a charity they ran." From 2005 through 2013, the Moore family drew $1,030,875 from The Foundation for Moral Law. But the ad gave the  impression that Moore took a salary from the nonprofit while serving as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.  We rate this .
Statement: No one thought we could get a bipartisan bill (Medicaid) passed. We did in the Florida Senate.
Speaker: mike haridopolos
About the speaker: Mike Haridopolos, a Republican, is the president of the Florida Senate.  Haridopolos represents District 26 which spans portions of Osceola, Brevard and Indian River counties. He was elected to the state senate in 2003, and previously served in the State House of Representatives.
Date: May 22, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicare;state budget
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: But the final, official tallies in the Senate were both strict party-line votes. Democrats even agreed in their caucus that they would oppose Medicaid reform, and they remained united on that. Haridopolos' spokesman points out a couple Democrats who voted for reform in committee -- but the version of the bill they voted on never reached the Senate floor and was not the version that passed. We looked for bipartisanship but didn't find it here. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that when he first ran for office in the late 1980s, "there were still folks who didn't have phone service. Soon I'd helped ensure that everyone in North Florida could access a dial tone.
Speaker: allen boyd
About the speaker: Allen Boyd is a former congressman from Monticello representing Florida's 2nd Congressional District in North Florida. He was defeated in a re-election campaign on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: April 23, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: elections;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: And yes, Boyd voted for the state bill, which supports his cautious  of "helped." (The campaign has not portrayed him as a leader on the effort, although one of his supporters has.) But the state bill was just part of the reason for the big increase in telephone coverage. The federal law also played a role in deregulating the market. So we find his  .
Statement: Says Texas school districts are the fifth largest employers in the world.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: February 25, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: corporations;education;small business;workers
Context: a Texas Tribune article
Fact-check justification: "It’s a perfectly legitimate comparison," he said. "The point is made: Our schools employ lots of people." Yep, and the math behind his statement looks solid. Still, we find it questionable whether any workforces in the public sector, where the goal is supposed to be public service, are directly comparable to those in private sector, where the goal is to make money. We rate Patrick’s statement .
Statement: The crew of the U.S.S. Constitution consumed more than 252,000 gallons of alcohol and only 10,000 gallons of water on a seven-month trip.
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: December 5, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The museum does the math.   With 475 men on board, "each would have had to consume 395 gallons during the cruise, or about 1.8 gallons each day. If you’ve ever tried consuming nearly two gallons of spirits in a day, you’d probably not be around to read this." This tale didn’t happen. We rate this post .
Statement: For the first time in U.S. history, a one-year-old appears in court as a defendant.
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, 2019
Topics: immigration;children;legal issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A viral image on social media makes the  that a "one-year-old appears in court as a defendant" for the first time in U.S. history. Recent data does show a significant increase in the amount of young unaccompanied children appearing in immigration proceedings over the last fiscal year, but the practice was not implemented by the Trump administration – it’s been in place for over a decade. We rate this post .
Statement: The insurance industry is actually run by mostly Democrats.
Speaker: dana perino
About the speaker: Dana Perino is the former press secretary to President George W. Bush. She now is a Fox News commentator and co-host of "The Five."
Date: October 31, 2013
Topics: health care;punditfact
Context: comments on Fox News Channel's "The Five."
Fact-check justification: Perino claimed that the health insurance industry is run  by Democrats. We could find almost nothing to suggest that’s the case. The way most large businesses and industries show their political stripes, through campaign contributions, suggests that large health insurers and their trade associations are more likely to support Republicans. Or at the least, that they hedge their bets by supporting both sides. We rate Perino’s  .
Statement: Covid-19 is NOT killing people. Weak immune systems and bad doctors are.
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 31, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the public health department in Chicago, explained during a news conference that coronavirus can exacerbate or cause health problems. "If, unfortunately, this person dies while they’re in the hospital, the doctor has to fill out the death certificate and you list things that this person had as well as what is the ultimate cause of death," she said .   Like Fauci, she said that these people are dying from COVID-19 — not their other conditions.   And young, healthy people do die from COVID-19, even if they represent a minority of the disease’s victims, according to the Proto , a publication from Massachusetts General Hospital.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Florida leads the nation in elected officials charged with crimes.
Speaker: dan gelber
About the speaker: Dan Gelber is a former Florida state Senator representing Miami Beach. He campaigned to be Florida Attorney General and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: February 8, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: crime
Context: his campaign blog
Fact-check justification: That's not what the DOJ report tracks. Rather, Florida has the highest number of people convicted of public corruption crimes, only a fraction of whom are actually elected officials. And again, while it's certainly valid to note that Florida leads the nation in the sheer number of public corruption convictions, we think that when it comes to ranking states, it makes more sense to look at per capita rates. By that measure, Florida still ranks up there (No. 10) -- particularly when compared to other highly populated states -- but it's not tops on the list. And so we ruleGelber's   statement .
Statement: Says she has "quadrupled agents to secure our border.
Speaker: kay bailey hutchison
About the speaker: Kay Bailey Hutchison, initially elected to the U.S. Senate in 1993, did not seek re-election in 2012. She ran for governor in 2010, losing the Republican nomination to incumbent Rick Perry.
Date: December 2, 2009
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: Hutchison has advocated increasing border agents, but she didn't personally quadruple anything. In many cases, the increases were pushed by President Bush and she was one of many who supported them. We find her  . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .