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Statement: The latest evidence of Republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term, state unemployment has gone down almost 20% to 5% adjusted.
Speaker: william o'brien
About the speaker: William O'Brien is a Republican from Mont Vernon who serves as speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Date: June 14, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: jobs
Context: a letter to The Telegraph
Fact-check justification: The numbers are off considerably. New Hampshire’s unemployment rate has dropped about 14 percent since the 2010 elections and 10.7 percent since the new Legislature took office in January 2011 -- well short of the 20 percent he claimed. Also, economists say it's a stretch for the Republicans to take credit for the unemployment number, which is usually the result of larger forces. State policies typically take more time to have an effect. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: In his first meeting with University of Wisconsin System officials, Republican Governor elect Scott Walker told them to prepare for cuts.
Speaker: one wisconsin now
About the speaker: One Wisconsin Now is a liberal advocacy group that focuses on advancing "progressive leadership and values."
Date: November 9, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: A review of his remarks, however, finds nothing close to that dire language. If anything, the words chosen suggested a freeze, not a reduction in state support. Of course, the regents -- and many others with a stake in the next budget -- would consider a less-than-inflation increase a "cut." But no matter the definition, Walker didn’t say anything about cuts. So when One Wisconsin Now claims he did, that grades out as .
Statement: There is absolutely no reason why Wisconsin should be facing a worker shortage to the level we are when there are 123,000 more able-bodied childless adults on BadgerCare since the pandemic.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: July 24, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;jobs;legal issues;medicaid;workers
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Kleefisch claimed, "There is absolutely no reason why Wisconsin should be facing a worker shortage to the level we are when there are 123,000 more able-bodied childless adults on BadgerCare since the pandemic."  She was on target with the 123,000 figure, but is off the mark when she links the number so strongly to the worker shortage. First, many of those 123,000 may already be working. And they may not be able to step into many of the open jobs without additional training. What’s more, the  greatly oversimplifies the economy and the factors helping create the workers shortage, from baby boomers retiring to lower immigration to the mismatch between worker skills and open jobs.  For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: What the District of Columbia was trying to do (with its handgun ban) was to protect toddlers from guns.
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: October 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;history;government regulation;supreme court;guns
Context: the third 2016 presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Clinton said her opposition to the 2008 Heller case was because "what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns." City leaders did specifically cite the danger posed to children in trying to keep in place gun regulations, but the regulations were also a widespread ban on unregistered weapons, not just gun safety measures. Child safety wasn’t the sole topic cited by defenders of the city’s gun control ordinance, and the Heller decision dealt with a much broader issue than protecting toddlers from firearm deaths or injuries. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a1279632-b0c9-4856-8bc2-c64555f9f78f
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton's top 10 donors are mainly "banks, corporations and media," while Bernie Sanders' top 10 donors are labor unions.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 6, 2015
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a meme on social media
Fact-check justification: Social media memes say that Clinton’s top 10 donors are mainly "banks, corporations and media," while Bernie Sanders’ top 10 donors are labor unions. This contention fits quite closely with campaign data from the Center for Responsive Politics. However, it’s worth noting that this data refers to cumulative donations as far back as the 1980s, rather than just donations to their current presidential bids. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate it .
Statement: A wax figure of Ye was removed from Madame Tussauds museum but a figure of Adolf Hitler remained.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 4, 2022
Topics: pop culture;facebook fact-checks
Context: post
Fact-check justification: "Ye’s figure has been retired from the attraction floor to our archive," a spokesperson for Madame Tussauds London told the Guardian . "Each profile earns their place at Madame Tussauds London and we listen to our guests and the public on who they expect to see at the attraction." According to the Hollywood Reporter , there has never been a figurine of the rapper at any of Madame Tussauds’ six U.S. locations. A second Hitler figurine that was displayed at the Madame Tussaud Berlin location was removed from public viewing in 2008 after a museum patron decapitated it. We rate the  that Ye’s wax figure was removed from Madame Tussauds but Adolf Hitler’s remained .
Statement: The United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them.
Speaker: joe manchin
About the speaker: Joe Manchin is a U.S. senator from West Virginia. The former governor of West Virginia won a special election in November 2010 to complete the balance of the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s term.
Date: October 14, 2018
Location: west virginia
Topics: technology;trade
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: In his joint op-ed with Murkowski, Manchin wrote that the United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them." The point is well-taken, though the language is a bit garbled. It’s actually "at least 50 percent of 50 mineral commodities." We rate the statement .
Statement: In Wisconsin, even multimillionaires can be on BadgerCare "because we don't even ask people what their income level is to qualify for free health care.
Speaker: robin vos
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has represented western Racine County in the state Assembly since 2004. In November 2012, he was elected Assembly speaker. Vos previously served on the Racine County Board of Supervisors, from 1994 to 2004.
Date: January 19, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;public health;wealth
Context: Speech
Fact-check justification: So, the overnight millionaire scenario Vos describes could theoretically happen — and individuals, because of a new job or other more modest income gains, could rise above the threshold.   But Vos skirts past this not being something the state initiated, nor something the state can avoid. And it will end soon. We rate a statement  if it is accurate, but needs clarification or additional information.   That fits here.
Statement: Money raised to help (Beto) O'Rourke get elected is being used to fund migrants. This is clearly breaking campaign finance laws.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 2, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: So here’s what we know: Though in the video a campaign staffer talks about helping Honduran immigrants, describing them as members of the migrant caravan who recently arrived in El Paso, the caravan was still hundreds of miles away as of Nov. 5. The campaign says that staffers did use funds to help migrants seeking asylum in the United States. The Annunciation House, where the campaign said the goods were donated, has been assisting families released from federal detention centers following background checks and fingerprinting, according to the El Paso Times . Still, though the "staffers are shown expressing awareness that what they are doing is improper, or at least could be perceived as improper," the Tribune reports, the campaign doesn’t appear to be breaking the law unless it fails to properly report its donations to the FEC. We rate this statement as .
Statement: Says Nancy Pelosi said, "Just because someone is here illegally doesn't mean they broke any of our laws.
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 20, 2019
Topics: immigration;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The paper also quotes him as saying: "Don’t let people make you believe that that’s a crime that the U.S. Attorney’s Office should be doing something about. It’s not." What we couldn’t find was a quote from Pelosi. If one emerges, we’ll reconsider this fact-check. For now, we rate the Facebook post .
Statement: No one under 20 has died of COVID-19, and "it has not actually been determined yet" that anyone under 20 can spread it to an older person
Speaker: van wanggaard
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, was elected to the Senate in 2010. He lost his seat in a recall election in 2012, but won the seat back in a regular election in 2014. He is a retired traffic investigator with the Racine Police Department and a former member of the Racine County Board of Supervisors.
Date: October 7, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;public health;coronavirus
Context: Video interview
Fact-check justification: Wanggaard told a reporter that COVID-19 had caused zero deaths in people under 20, later backtracking to say that it had caused very few, and claimed that it is unknown whether a person under 20 can pass the disease to an older adult.  While it’s correct that deaths among that age group are few, and some studies have found that young children did not account for a disproportionate amount of transmission of the virus, the senator’s statement is too absolute to account for the nuance.  Our definition of  is a  that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.  That fits here.
Statement: Akira' is a 1988 movie about an apocalyptic event taking place months before Tokyo 2020 Olympics, showing the (World Health Organization) advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk
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: February 27, 2020
Topics: health care;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A social media post claims that the film "Akira" shows "the WHO advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk." In the film, there is no outbreak of disease, the WHO never makes an appearance, and the Olympics aren’t canceled due to a pandemic risk. (It is also worth noting that the WHO has not advised Japan to cancel the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at this point.) We rate this  .
Statement: The Trans-Pacific trade deal could cost America 448,000 more jobs.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: March 15, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: trade
Context: a political ad for Bernie 2016
Fact-check justification: Sanders’ ad says that the Trans-Pacific Partnership "could cost America 448,000 more jobs." We’ve asked economists to sort out the good and bad of trade deals before , and found that their opinions on outcomes can be wildly contradictory. So when it comes to predicting such outcomes, it really depends on whose Magic 8 Ball you use. It’s important for people to understand that this number is an estimate, and it’s the biggest estimate we found. Critics of the Tufts study say it goes the furthest to predict doomsday figures, without acknowledging offsetting effects. The author of the Tufts study says that other research glosses over the real-world elements that change the lives of workers in a global economy. A one-liner can’t possibly capture the possible outcome of a War and Peace -sized trade proposal. We rate this statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6513591d-1fdf-4731-9c12-0fe53dfd5fd4
Statement: I've had tremendous Republican support. I have a 90% — 94% approval rating, as of this morning, in the Republican Party. That's an all-time record.
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: June 4, 2019
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: London
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "I’ve had tremendous Republican support. I have a 90% — 94% approval rating, as of this morning, in the Republican Party. That’s an all-time record." While his numbers hold steady in the mid-to-high 80s, no poll puts him at 94%. Nor did the White House point to a poll with that level of support. Still, 87% or 89% approval is a strong showing. Where Trump went overboard was in saying he had set some kind of all-time record. That didn’t happen. The statement as a whole is partially accurate, so we rate it .
Statement: It's bad enough that (Stephen) Silberkraus appeared in a sexual fetish film where women were kidnapped from their homes and forced to live naked in kennels and trained to be pets. But when Silberkraus isn't acting in films that degrade women, he's stalking them in his personal time.
Speaker: lesley cohen
About the speaker: Lesley Cohen is the 2016 Democratic candidate in Nevada's 29th Assembly district.
Date: September 24, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a political mail piece
Fact-check justification: A campaign mailer in a competitive Nevada Assembly race accuses Silberkraus of appearing in a "sexual fetish film" and being detained for "stalking." Silberkraus did appear briefly as an extra in a 2006 movie that centered around a myriad of sexual fetishes. He says he doesn’t agree with the film’s message. The stalking allegation holds less water, stemming from a primary opponent who accused him of stalking her several years ago. No official record exists, and he was not arrested. The  contains an element of  but distorts facts to create an  impression. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a51c9421-8057-40d7-93e6-1b77fcca1f14
Statement: Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. "spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy" and "trillions" each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits.
Speaker: donna brazile
About the speaker: A longtime Democratic political consultant and campaign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. Currently a political commentator for CNN and frequent commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Date: August 2, 2009
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;iraq;medicare;military;taxes
Context: CNN's State of the Union with John King
Fact-check justification: But individually, the accuracy of her assertions is more mixed. Brazile correctly described the cost of the 2001 Bush tax cut, but she overstated the cost of the wars. Although the pricetag may ultimately be trillions, that hasn't been spent yet. And she exaggerated the 10-year cost of the Medicare drug plan. So we rate her  .
Statement: Do you know that New York State pays out way more than they ever get back?
Speaker: nate mcmurray
About the speaker: Nathan McMurray is supervisor of the town of Grand Island, New York. He is a Democrat running for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 27th District. 
Date: October 30, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: federal budget;taxes
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: McMurray said that New Yorkers send "way more" money to the federal government than the federal government sends to New York. Whether it is a good idea or not that every state receives back from the federal government what its residents and businesses paid to Washington, McMurray’s statement is accurate, based on the latest available data and analyses.   We rate his  .
Statement: Says Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature "managed to slash the budget of the volunteer fire departments in our state by 75 percent in the last legislative session," reducing their abilities to fight recent wildfires.
Speaker: jim hightower
About the speaker: Jim Hightower, who served two terms as Texas agriculture commissioner, is a commentator and writer.
Date: September 6, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: natural disasters ;state budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Upshot: Hightower’s statement, suggesting Republican legislators slashed the budgets of fire departments on the front lines of the wildfires, misrepresents the cuts in state grant funding for equipment and training as if they were a direct cut to volunteer fire departments. The state doesn’t fund the operating costs of local departments. It’s also  to conclude that the cut to the grants’ fund hampered any department’s effort to combat recent wildfires; the reduction just took effect. Hightower's statement rates .
Statement: In the past four years, (the U.S. Senate) has only passed nine out of 48 appropriation bills.
Speaker: jack kingston
About the speaker: Jack Kingston, a Republican, is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia and a political commentator.
Date: May 2, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: congress;federal budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Data from the Library of Congress, which tracks bill histories, show that his statement is correct. But digging a bit deeper into his  -- and into history -- shows that this congressional stalemate that lingers over federal spending is not new. Also, while the Senate may not have passed its portion of bills, there are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have prevented real progress on solutions to reduce the national debt and grow the economy. Kingston’s statement is accurate but needs more information. We rated it .
Statement: Says his amendment on a budget bill "would have helped get kids back in school after teachers were vaccinated. Every single Senate Democrat voted against it.
Speaker: roy blunt
About the speaker: Roy Blunt is the junior U.S. senator from Missouri. He was formerly a U.S. representative from Missouri’s 7th district, and served for six years as the Republican whip in that chamber.
Date: February 25, 2021
Location: missouri
Topics: education;federal budget;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Blunt said that he "offered an amendment to the budget bill that would have helped get kids back in school after teachers were vaccinated" and that "every single Senate Democrat voted against it." This leaves out an important detail: The amendment threatened to withhold relief funding from schools that didn’t reopen in-person learning.  Blunt framed Democrats’ opposition to his amendment in narrow terms, making it appear as though they opposed getting kids back in school when they really opposed his punitive approach. The COVID-19 relief bill that Democrats passed included funding to help schools. We rate this statement .
Statement: Unleaded gas costs nearly $7 in Lancaster, Calif.
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: November 10, 2021
Location: california
Topics: gas prices;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "It’s a brand new Circle K, not open yet. "  In March, we fact-checked a similar image that appeared to show a New Mexico gas station with gas costing $7.89 a gallon. There too the station hadn’t opened yet. It’s common for closed stations to advertise high prices so that drivers don’t stop .   We rate claims that gas is selling for these prices at Circle K in Lancaster .
Statement: Rubio's "got more experience than Obama had.
Speaker: richard land
About the speaker: Has served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission since 1988. In 2005, was featured in Time Magazine as one of The Twenty-five Most Influential Evangelicals in America.
Date: April 7, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview with "Politico"
Fact-check justification: In making a hypothetical argument that Rubio could be elected president in 2012, Land said that Rubio -- while young -- would have more experience than Obama when he was elected in 2008 at age 47. Rubio spent slightly more time in state government than Obama and had a more prominent role, so by that measure he has more experience than Obama did. But if you look at time in the U.S. Senate (Obama's four years to what would be Rubio's two) and overall work and political experience (Obama's 20 years to Rubio's 16), Obama outmatches Rubio. And Obama has worked in a variety of roles, while Rubio has only been a lawyer. As such, we rate Land's statement .