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Statement: Obama goes to G20 summit ...  Everywhere President Donald Trump goes, Obama shows up, too.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 8, 2017
Topics: economy;fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: World-politicus.com published a post headlined, "Obama Goes To G20 Summit," adding "Everywhere President Donald Trump goes, Obama shows up, too." Obama has attended previous summits, but his spokesman confirmed to PolitiFact that he was not present at this year’s event, "nor was he in Germany." There are no photos or videos of Obama at the meeting of global leaders — had he been there, it would have made headlines. We rate the world-politicus.com’s statement .
Statement: We took a deal to the president just last February, less than a year ago -- $25 billion over 10 years in border security done the right way - and the president blew up the deal.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: January 9, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: immigration;congress
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Kaine said, "We took a deal to the president just last February, less than a year ago - $25 billion over 10 years in border security done the right way - and the president blew up the deal." He’s referring to a 2018 bill backed by Senate Democrats and a few Republicans that would have provided $25 billion over a decade to significantly expand the wall and fund other programs to improve Southern border security. Trump vehemently opposed the bill and threatened to veto it because it did not contain two immigration reforms he demanded: ending the visa lottery and deeply restricting family-based immigration. We quibble, however, with Kaine’s use of the term "deal," which suggests everything was guaranteed for passage if the president went along. Republicans lawmakers never made that promise. It was really a proposal. So we rate Kaine's statement .
Statement: MSNBC's Joy Reid hawked diet gummies in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 21, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Her weight loss regimen? She works out twice a week with a coach, who advises her on nutrition. "What a wild world AI has created," Reid wrote. We can add Reid to the list of celebrities who are not hawking diet gummies or other products on Facebook. The  is !
Statement: Says that President Joe Biden said Americans will start seeing "direct deposits in their bank accounts this weekend," and that Medicare recipients will get back $2,880.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 15, 2022
Location: national
Topics: medicare;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video purports to show President Biden announcing a new round of stimulus payments to Americans, and the caption on the post claims Medicare recipients will receive $2,880.  The video was doctored, using an imitator to mimic Biden. The video actually repurposed comments made by Jen Psaki regarding the American Rescue Plan Act in March. We found no  to back the  about Medicare recipients receiving $2,880. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a ballot can be emailed to Wisconsin voters even a day before the election.
Speaker: ben wikler
About the speaker: Ben Wikler is chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Date: April 6, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Wikler, like many others on social media, claimed voters could get a ballot sent to them by email right up to Election Day. State officials say that is not the case — the deadline passed the week before. And Wikler has since deleted his tweet. We rate this  .
Statement: A photo of a burned cat is from the Australia wildfires.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: January 4, 2020
Topics: animals;fake news;fires;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The photo was taken by photojournalist Jane Tyska on Nov. 11, 2018, in Paradise, Calif., following destruction from the Camp Fire. The Camp Fire started in Northern California in early November 2018, and burned over 150,000 acres, destroyed thousands of residences and killed more than 85 people.   Tyska’s caption on the burned cat image reads, "A burned cat waits for animal control to arrive after they were called by responders who discovered it near Bille Road in Paradise, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018." This is a real image, but it was taken in 2018 and is not from Australia. For that reason, we rate it .
Statement: The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices.
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: August 11, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a town hall meeting
Fact-check justification: The custodial staff has access to the same benefits as members of Congress." We should note that while janitors and members of Congress can choose from the same menu of plans, members of Congress generally have more money to spend on, well, anything. Many members of Congress are millionaires. But Obama is right that lawmakers and janitors are eligible for the same benefits, deductibles and co-pays. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says an image of a Vermont mansion is one of Bernie Sanders homes.
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: March 2, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: As other news outlets have reported , the Sanders family owns two homes in Vermont and one residence in Washington D.C. The family owns a home in Burlington that was purchased for $405,000 in 2009 ; a summer residence in North Hero, Vt, that was bought for $575,000 in 2016 and a townhouse in Washington D.C., that Sanders purchased after he was elected to the United States Senate in 2007 for $488,999 .   Sanders earns a $174,000 salary as a senator and has made around $1.7 million in book royalties since 2016. But he doesn’t own the $3 million estate in the image. We rate it .
Statement: The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: May 24, 2009
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;obama birth certificate
Context: an e-mail received by many people
Fact-check justification: "I don't see how it would relate to Obama's birth certificate." One could argue that this law has simply been misread by some well-intentioned government watchdogs. But this is just the latest conspiracy theory from the fringe of a conservative group convinced that Obama hasn't provided sufficient documentation to prove he was born in the United States, and therefore cannot serve as president. Even among these folks, the  about the Free Flow of Information Act is more than a stretch. We give it a .
Statement: Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 7, 2011
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;military;terrorism
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: A few of the sentiments have some link to reality – Obama did order the raid to kill bin Laden, and he did oppose Guantanamo, even though he ultimately failed to carry through on his promise to close it. The critics may have wished Obama had made these statements, but appears the statements have no basis in reality. It's clear from our research that all six quotes are fabrications. Once again a widely circulated chain e-mail is spreading  falsehoods about Obama. We rate this e-mail .
Statement: Videos show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussing a glass dome over Earth.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 2, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Loden spoke about how her company had tapped her to explore why more women weren’t entering management positions, The Washington Post reported in 2018, and "she had gathered enough data that she felt confident the problem extended beyond what her colleagues were wearing or saying." The paper quoted Loden saying that "it seemed to me there was an invisible barrier to advancement that people didn't recognize" — the ’glass ceiling.’ "   We previously fact-checked another  that Clinton was discussing a glass dome over Earth iwhen she conceded the 2016 presidential election to former President Donald Trump. She was, of course, still referring to the "glass ceiling" women encounter in society.   We rate this post !
Statement: There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses.
Speaker: carolyn medeiros
About the speaker: Carolyn Mederios is executive director of the Alliance for Safe Communities, a nonprofit Rhode Island organization that monitors criminal justice issues and acts as an advocate for victims of crimes.
Date: February 18, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: civil rights;criminal justice;economy;crime;poverty;public safety;workers
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Carolyn Medeiros of the Alliance for Safe Communities said, "There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses." She was  correct about the tax credit (although it doesn't involve a bond). But she was  on the other two points. Because her statement contains some element of  but gets some critical facts , we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says 11 states have more people on welfare than employed.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: December 21, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: welfare
Context: an email sent to PolitiFact Texas
Fact-check justification: Ripping off a map that was created for a different fiscal comparison, the chain email said 11 states had more residents on welfare than employed. By either a broad definition of welfare or a narrow one, experts told us that’s a  and even "extreme" statement. !
Statement: Just a little over 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, whether they be for building of nuclear plants or whatever they may be." A planned nuclear plant repair "will only increase that percentage.
Speaker: mike fasano
About the speaker: Mike Fasano has been in the Florida Legislature since 1994, serving in the state House until his 2002 election to the state Senate. An ally of former Gov. Charlie Crist, he stuck by the governor when he left the GOP to run as an independent for the U.S. Senate. This cost Fasano some good will among his fellow Republican lawmakers, and in 2010 he was given a less significant senate committee chairmanship.
He is from Pasco County, and has been a strong advocate of regulation of prescription drug "pill mills.''    
Date: October 11, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: energy;nuclear
Context: a news article
Fact-check justification: Fasano said, "Already, just a little over 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, whether they be for building of nuclear plants or whatever they may be. This (repair) will only increase that percentage." Pass-throughs actually represent just under 60 percent of a Progress Energy bill, so he's close. But there's two caveats to Fasano's . The first is just what constitutes a pass-through. A casual reader of Fasano's statement might imagine that the bulk of a customer's bill goes to big projects unrelated to the power they consume, rather than to something as central as fuel -- and fuel represents by far the largest pass-through cost. Second, the problems with the Crystal River plant create some pass-through costs -- through paying for more expensive fuel -- and possibly some non-pass-through costs, namely the physical repairs. On balance, we rate Fasano's statement .
Statement: Republican candidate for governor Nathan Deal fought to weaken Georgia's rape shield law.
Speaker: roy barnes
About the speaker: Roy Barnes is the former governor of Georgia.
Date: October 15, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice;women
Context: a TV commercial
Fact-check justification: Legislators, prosecutors and victims advocates gave Deal fair warning that they would wage war if he didn't back off.    Still, Deal pursued the change until public protest reached a fevered pitch.   And while he didn't fight to help rapists or hurt victims, he invested his political capital as second-in-command in the state Senate on behalf of a law that weakened the rape shield act. Statements that are accurate but leave out important details or take things out of context meet the -O-Meter's definition of . That's what we rule.
Statement: The 1986 tax reform approved under Ronald Reagan "was polling at about 18 percent right before they passed it.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: December 13, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: history;polls and public opinion;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Two national polls, taken at roughly the stage of where the current tax reform effort is, showed 22 percent favored the legislation. That’s close to Ryan’s 18 percent . But two other polls showed approval of the bill at or near 40 percent, as more respondents were willing to choose Approve or Disapprove, rather than Don’t Know. Moreover, the disapproval rates in polls on the current tax reform are much higher than they were in the 1986 polls. For a statement that is partially accurate, we rate Ryan’s statement .
Statement: Due to the Colonial Pipeline issue causing a fuel shortage on the east coast, NASCAR has decided to postpone this weekend's Dover race.
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: May 12, 2021
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But the  has an extra S: @bobpockrasss. We couldn’t find that account on Twitter .   So what does the real Pockrass have to say?   "The Dover race is on this weekend," he tweeted after seeing an image of the  tweet.   We rate this post .
Statement: Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker: students for trump
About the speaker: Students for Trump is a conservative activist group. 
Date: February 16, 2021
Location: national
Topics: energy;texas
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Students for Trump claimed, "Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party." Biden suspended part of a Trump order forbidding the use of Chinese electrical equipment in the U.S. power grid. However, the prohibitions remain in place.  There is no  that Chinese interference caused the Texas power outage.  We rate this . ​
Statement: The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities "at the last minute in midnight phone calls.
Speaker: dick cheney
About the speaker: Dick Cheney served as Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush.
Date: October 21, 2009
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military
Context: a speech to the Center for Security Policy
Fact-check justification: Asked by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, at a Senate Armed Services hearing whether the announcement could have been handled any better, undersecretary of defense Michele Flournoy blamed leak-fueled speculation.    ''We too would have preferred a longer period for consultation and rollout, but leaks and speculation in the press sort of forced us to go sooner to set the record straight,'' she said.    As for Cheney's statement, he's definitely right about Fischer, the Czech leader, being contacted about midnight. And although there is a discrepency about the time of the final notification for Poland, the reports indicate that Obama first tried about midnight. So we find Cheney's  to be .
Statement: Video shows President Joe Biden talking about what "stable Jesus" said about airports.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 26, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: And when dawn came, their Star Spangled Banner waved defiant." The Continental Army fought in the Revolutionary War, which ended in 1783 . The first successful powered airplane was invented in 1903 , more than a century after the war ended. Trump later blamed his blunder on teleprompter glitches .   We rate the  that a video shows Biden referencing what "stable Jesus" said about airports .
Statement: Georgia Public Service Commission member Stan Wise "has received about 95 percent of his campaign money from the utilities he is supposed to be regulating.
Speaker: pam davidson
About the speaker: Pam Davidson, a Republican, is a candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission.
Date: May 18, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Her over-reaching point appears correct -- people associated with the utilities are contributing about 90 percent of PSC Commissioner Stan Wise’s campaign war chest. However, that money is not coming directly from the utilities, which is prohibited under the law. Many of the lawyers who donated to Wise have colleagues who’ve also given large sums of money to candidates in other races, so some context is necessary. Davidson might be making a good political point, but her statement needs a lot of context to move any higher on the -O-Meter. Our rating: .
Statement: Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: December 1, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget;health care;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Rubio said, "Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion." He’s referring to a provision in the Affordable Care Act called risk corridors, which faced a $2.5 billion shortfall for 2014. Rubio, whose efforts to repeal risk corridors have so far failed, helped persuade Congress last year to prevent Health and Human Services from being able to cover the difference with money from its own budget. But experts said calling the program a bailout is not accurate. They also noted CMS has said they want the risk corridors to pay for themselves through fees from insurers. Most importantly, experts also said Rubio did not necessarily save that money in the long run. His best argument is he temporarily limited one way CMS could have tried to pay for insurance companies' losses. The program has two more years to cover its expenses. If any bills are due after that time, CMS or Congress will have to find a way to pay them because they are obligated to do so.  Rubio oversimplified a complex process that is still largely unresolved. We rate his statement .