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Statement: Says Brett "Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey exposed for ties to Big Pharma abortion pill maker… effort to derail Kavanaugh is plot to protect abortion industry profits.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 21, 2018
Location: national
Topics: abortion;supreme court
Context: blog post headline
Fact-check justification: A headline said, "Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey exposed for ties to Big Pharma abortion pill maker… effort to derail Kavanaugh is plot to protect abortion industry profits." Ford worked for a pharmaceutical company that sells Korlym, a drug that treats Cushing’s syndrome. The main ingredient in that drug is used in combination with another drug to induce abortions, but the doses differ. The company does not promote the drug for abortions; in fact, it requires that doctors rule out pregnancy in order to administer the drug. We rate this statement !
Statement: Western New Yorkers pay some of the highest property taxes in the state.
Speaker: raymond walter
About the speaker: Ray Walter is a Republican member of the New York State Assembly from the Buffalo area.
Date: June 23, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: taxes
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Walter said "Western New Yorkers pay some of the highest property taxes in the state." His statement might come as a surprise to homeowners on Long Island and other counties near New York City, where median property tax bills exceed $10,000. To them, Erie County's median property tax bill of $3,499 doesn't look too high.  So, no, Western New Yorkers do not pay some of the highest property taxes in the state. But Western New Yorkers shoulder a heavier burden paying the property tax. Walter said he was talking about property taxes as a percent of home value. And in that sense, he’s right about the tax. Two Western New York counties lead the state in this category and all eight counties in the region are among the top third. We rate his  .
Statement: I proudly voted for Hillary Clinton.
Speaker: molly gray
About the speaker: Molly Gray is the 2020 Democratic candidate for Vermont lieutenant governor.
Date: September 24, 2020
Location: vermont
Context: a candidate debate
Fact-check justification: Molly Gray said "I proudly voted for Hillary Clinton" during a debate last week. Setting aside some of the related competing claims from the candidates and their allies, it’s clear that Molly Gray did not vote for Hillary Clinton.  Additionally, Gray did not attempt to qualify or add additional context to her , likely leaving some viewers with the distinct impression that she did vote for Clinton in 2016.  But public records and Gray’s own statements confirm that she did not. We rate this  .
Statement: Seventy-two percent of Georgians did not have a chance to finish college.
Speaker: karen handel
About the speaker: Karen Handel is the former secretary of state of Georgia. She is also the former chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. Handel, a Republican, lost the runoff for the GOP nomination for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: April 7, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: The  is correct if you solely consider Georgia’s bachelor’s degrees or higher. The percentage of Georgians without degrees is slightly lower once you include those who earned associate degrees. Once you do that, it’s more like 65 percent. There’s a little context missing in the Handel campaign’s , but it’s  on the mark. Our rating: .
Statement: Video proves Greta Thunberg is a crisis actor.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 22, 2023
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Suthor said the event was not orchestrated: "We are not the extras for the staging of Greta Thunberg." Christian Wernicke, a journalist who was reporting on the protest for German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung, told the BBC that Thunberg wasn’t the first protester police detained and that officers were "deciding how they would proceed with the identity check and waiting to take Greta to the police vehicle." There’s no  to support the  that Thunberg, who first drew attention in 2018 for regularly skipping school to protest outside the Swedish parliament to encourage more action against climate change, is a crisis actor. Nor did we find anything to corroborate earlier claims that she’s a trained actor .   We rate this post .
Statement: Says that in fiscal year 2010, "nearly 80 percent of women served" in the Texas Women's Health Program received services from a provider other than a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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: March 15, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;health care;public health;women
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: On its face, Perry’s statement is accurate. Nearly 80 percent of the women served in the Women’s Health Program in fiscal 2010 did receive a service from a non-Planned Parenthood provider. However, Perry’s statement implies that 8 in 10 program beneficiaries did not visit Planned Parenthood clinics, and that’s off-base. Thirty-two percent of the women swept up in the 80 percent statistic were also served by Planned Parenthood. And it’s likely that in some of those cases, the only contact a woman had with a non-Planned Parenthood provider was the processing of her lab work. The available state data show that 54 percent of Women’s Health Program clients in fiscal 2010 received all their services from a provider not linked to Planned Parenthood. We rate Perry’s statement as .
Statement: If you're a terrorist you can't fly," but "an assault weapon you can buy.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: June 23, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: crime;terrorism;transportation;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating Moore said: "If you're a terrorist you can't fly," but "an assault weapon you can buy." Terrorists, as well as people deemed potential terrorists who are on the federal government’s no-fly list are prohibited from flying. Terrorists who have a felony conviction can’t legally buy guns, but people on the government’s terrorist watchlist can, assuming they aren’t disqualified for some other reason. We rate Moore’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7cd9be64-3f40-453e-9c76-a1b2648fccf7
Statement: With the auto rescue," President Barack Obama "saved more than 1 million middle-class jobs all across America," including more than 28,000 in Wisconsin.
Speaker: jennifer granholm
About the speaker: Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, is the Energy Secretary in the Biden administration. She served two terms as governor of Michigan, from 2003 to 2011.
Date: September 6, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;jobs;transportation;workers
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Moreover, our colleagues observed, no one can say what would have happened without massive government intervention. Our rating Granholm said that "with the auto rescue," Obama "saved more than 1 million middle-class jobs all across America," including more than 28,000 in Wisconsin. The two figures are drawn from estimates from an independent study -- but: it’s not certain that job losses would have reached those levels without the rescue; not all of the jobs projected as saved were middle-class jobs; and Obama deserves a major share of the credit for saving jobs, not all of it. Granholm’s  was partially accurate but left out important details. On balance, we rate it .
Statement: Brock Turner's early release will be a regular occurrence if Prop. 57 passes.
Speaker: stop 57 campaign
About the speaker: The Stop 57 campaign opposes California Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot measure to make it easier for some offenders to become eligible for early release from prison. 
Date: September 2, 2016
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a campaign press release
Fact-check justification: The Stop 57 campaign claimed "Brock Turner’s early release will be a regular occurrence if Prop. 57 passes." There are plenty of offenders who could be eligible for early parole under the ballot measure. California has a category of nonviolent offenders, many of whom committed heinous crimes and could be eligible for, though not guaranteed parole. Under its early release policy for second strike prisoners, however, the state corrections department excludes sex offenders from even being considered for early parole. That policy is not a state law. But the state corrections agency says it expects to continue this practice. The Stop 57  used the notorious Brock Turner case to argue that early parole "will be" a regular occurrence. At best, there’s a remote chance the state will allow prisoners who committed the same crimes as Turner to someday be eligible for early parole. But past practice says it won’t happen. We rate the  .    – The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6a51672e-617f-4836-8dbe-8d75e964f765
Statement: The military took over the mainstream media.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 17, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Now dates are tentative, always, because as you know this is a war. An unconventional war. "  The person talking goes on to reference the QAnon conspiracy theory, and we’ve previously checked similar posts claiming that former President Donald Trump and the military are working together and remain in power in spite of President Joe Biden’s election.   But there’s no  to support that, or the  that the military has taken over or will take over the mainstream media.   We rate this post !
Statement: When I left the Senate, we were on a trajectory towards a balanced budget.
Speaker: george allen
About the speaker: George Allen was a U.S. senator from 2001-2007. He was governor of Virginia from 1994-1998.
Date: July 21, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: deficit;federal budget;taxes
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Allen, trying to refute charges he voted to run up federal deficits, said the U.S. was "on a trajectory towards a balanced budget" when he left the Senate in 2007. Allen’s campaign cites a 2007 CBO report that said Washington was on the road to budget surpluses, starting in 2012. But those projections were based on the assumption that the Bush tax cuts would end as scheduled in 2010. And Allen has maintained since at least 2006 that the tax reductions should be made permanent. Had Allen prevailed on the tax cuts, figures in the 2007 CBO report point to the deficit slowly rising in raw dollars over the next eight years. The deficit, as a percentage of GDP, would have been only a smidgen lower in 2015 than it was in 2007. So Allen is right that the U.S. was projected to be on a trajectory towards a balanced budget when his Senate term ended. But he omits a key detail that creates a different impression: the projected path towards a balanced budget required a step Allen refused to take -- ending the Bush tax cuts. We rate Allen’s statement .
Statement: Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it.
Speaker: shirley franklin
About the speaker: Shirley Franklin is former mayor of Atlanta.
Date: June 23, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Confirmation of massive, widespread, coordinated school cheating is more than a bombshell. It’s the H-bomb of revelations. After Hall’s term, the district’s academic reputation, culture and integrity are in ruins. How can it possibly be better off?    We rate Franklin’s  .
Statement: If you're a small business and don't "adopt the health care plan that Senator Obama mandates, he's going to fine you.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: October 15, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Hempstead, N.Y
Fact-check justification: The plan does not define what's a small business and what's not. We can't say for sure whether plumber Joe would be considered a small business under Obama's plan or not. But generally, Obama does not fine "small businesses." They are specifically exempt. We rate McCain's  .
Statement: Thanks to #ObamaCare, average E.R. wait in California is 5 hours.
Speaker: reince priebus
About the speaker: Reince Priebus was the first chief of staff to President Donald Trump, replaced by John Kelly in July 2017. Priebus was previously chairman of the Republican National Committee, a post he assumed in 2011. He is also the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was an unsuccessful Wisconsin state Senate candidate in 2004. He is a Kenosha, Wis., native and lawyer.
Date: July 7, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, Priebus said, "Thanks to #ObamaCare, average E.R. wait in California is 5 hours." The statistic was based on data from 2012 -- two years before the provisions of the ACA could have had any impact. Meanwhile, the five-hour figure is just one of three measurements of E.R. wait times -- and not even necessarily the best one. If you count from the time of a patient's arrival to being seen by a health care professional, the wait time was 31 minutes in California. Even the strongest support for the  is far from solid: A survey of emergency physicians found signs that E.R. traffic had increased since the ACA took effect in January, but the results were mixed, and this documents patient volume, not wait times. We rate the  .
Statement: Gov. Kay Ivey gave nearly $1 million of taxpayers' money to a liberal activist organization that promotes alternative lifestyles and transgenderism.
Speaker: scott dawson
About the speaker: Scott Dawson is an Evangelical minister and Republican candidate for governor in Alabama.
Date: May 15, 2018
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: campaign press release
Fact-check justification: Dawson said, "It's been uncovered that Gov. Kay Ivey gave nearly $1 million of taxpayers’ money to a liberal activist organization that promotes alternative lifestyles and transgenderism." The organization in question is Free2Be, a victims resources nonprofit that serviced the LGBTQ community. Dawson distorted the organization’s purpose, which was to support LGBTQ victims of domestic violence and bullying in Alabama, not to change anyone’s gender identity or sexual orientation. The Ivey administration approved almost $800,000 in grants to Free2Be in order to meet a federal grant quota for underserved communities. But the group did not receive the full amount before it closed in March; it received a little more than half of that funding. The statement has an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this statement .
Statement: America has already taken in one-fourth of Mexico's entire population.
Speaker: ann coulter
About the speaker: Ann Coulter is a conservative columnist and author.
Date: May 26, 2015
Topics: immigration;punditfact
Context: an interview on "America with Jorge Ramos"
Fact-check justification: Coulter said that America has taken in one-quarter of the entire population of Mexico. Coulter based this on a study that counted all people of Mexican origin in the United States. But Coulter ignored that 65 percent of those were born in America and about a third came from families in which both parents were born in America. Their immigrant status lay at least two-generations in the past, and America couldn’t "take them in" because they were already here. We rate this  . Note: This  was fact-checked as one of the donor-benefits tied to our Kickstarter campaign to live fact-check the 2015 State of the Union. Thanks to all who contributed.
Statement: Says the Affordable Care Act "took money out of the Medicare trust fund.
Speaker: daniel lipinski
About the speaker: Rep. Daniel Lipinski is a U.S. Congressman from Illinois. He represents the state's 3rd congressional district.
Date: February 14, 2020
Location: illinois
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Speaking about the costs behind the ACA as one of his reasons for voting against it, Lipinski said the law "took money out of the Medicare trust fund." The law did reduce future growth in Medicare spending to help fund Obama’s expansion of health care coverage, but it did not do so by taking existing dollars away. While Lipinski did not directly state that the ACA resulted in a cut to Medicare, his remarks nevertheless suggested it siphoned money already in the fund away from the program. We rate his  .  – 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: It is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party (for kids).
Speaker: kathleen passidomo
About the speaker: Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo is a Republican from Naples.
Date: May 30, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: alcohol;animals;children;crime
Context: a newspaper article
Fact-check justification: Passidomo claimed that "it is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party (for kids)," referring to a party with underage drinking. Possessing an untagged alligator is a felony that can land someone in prison for five years in Florida. The open house party law as of June 2011 is a misdemeanor -- and if the governor signs a revised version, it will remain a misdemeanor. However, it will move up from second- to first-degree in some circumstances, resulting in a maximum of one year in jail. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Spectrum will provide free internet to students during coronavirus school closures.
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 13, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Starting March 16, Charter also started waiving installation fees for new student households and opening its wifi hotspots for public use to, it said, "ease the strain during this challenging time." Comcast has announced similar measures, pledging free wifi hotspots around the country "available to anyone who needs them" and providing free internet for new customers for 60 days. If existing customers contact the company and let it know that they can’t pay their bills right now, the company won’t disconnect their internet service or charge late fees, the company said. Both Comcast and Charter Communications seem to be heeding the call of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Aji Pai, who asked broadband and telephone service providers on March 12 to help keep Americans connected during the coronavirus outbreak, according to the FCC.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: The Democrat plan would just obliterate Medicare and terminate Medicare Advantage ... seniors who have been paying for this for years (and) will not be taken care of anymore.
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: October 26, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "The Democrat plan would just obliterate Medicare and terminate Medicare Advantage ... seniors who have been paying for this for years (and) will not be taken care of anymore." Not all Democrats support Medicare for All. The proposed new system gets rid of Medicare and Medicare Advantage as they stand in order to expand health benefits. Nobody would lose their health care coverage. We rate this statement .
Statement: California's Central Valley and Inland Empire "are experiencing tremendous job growth.
Speaker: jerry brown
About the speaker: Jerry Brown is the governor of California. A Democrat, he earlier served as governor of California from 1975 to 1983.
Date: March 26, 2017
Location: california
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview on Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: Gov. Jerry Brown recently claimed California’s Central Valley and Inland Empire "are experiencing tremendous job growth." Economists say Brown is right about the Inland Empire. That region experienced the fastest job growth rate among the state’s large metro areas over the past year, and added more jobs than the Santa Clara metro area, the heart of Silicon Valley, during that period. Job growth in the Central Valley, while it’s outperformed its historical benchmark in much of the diverse region, hasn’t kept up with the overall state average. The governor’s argument here needs this key clarification. In the end, we rate his overall  .   – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says scientists predict "sometime in the future, an event that will kill … somewhere between 80 and 90 million people.
Speaker: john sharp
About the speaker: As chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, John Sharp leads a network of 11 universities, seven state agencies and a health science center; he was previously a Democratic member of the Texas House and Senate before winning terms as a Texas railroad commissioner and state comptroller.
Date: June 18, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: public health
Context: Austin
Fact-check justification: Sharp said scientists predict "sometime in the future, an event that will kill … somewhere between 80 and 90 million people." Scientists agree another pandemic is coming. However, they say the number of deaths will depend on many variables -- early detection, coordinated response and luck, to name a few -- and there is not uniform agreement among scientists that 80 million to 90 million people would die. We rate Sharp’s statement .