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Statement: Ninety-five percent of Oregonians now have health insurance coverage, tens of thousands for the very first time.
Speaker: john kitzhaber
About the speaker: John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, was governor of Oregon for two terms, starting in 1995. He was inaugurated in 2011 for an unprecedented third term.
He was elected to the Oregon Legislature in 1978, rising to the position of Senate President. He spearheaded the Oregon Health Plan as a legislator and as governor. Kitzhaber graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University). He worked as an emergency room physician in Roseburg from 1974 to 1988.
Date: October 20, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: health care
Context: a campaign debate
Fact-check justification: This blows that out of the water." The ruling: Kitzhaber, trying in a debate to put the Cover Oregon debacle in the best light, claimed that 95 percent of Oregon residents have health insurance coverage, many for the first time. The author of the report that produced the number said its accuracy is bolstered by regulations that make Oregon one of a few states allowed to collect comprehensive health insurance enrollment information directly from insurers. None of those insurers has questioned the validity of the report’s numbers, including the 95 percent figure. The  is healthy enough to be rated .
Statement: West Virginia is the state with the oldest population.
Speaker: jim justice
About the speaker: Jim Justice is the Republican governor of West Virginia. A businessman, Justice was originally elected as a Democrat.
Date: July 27, 2020
Location: west virginia
Topics: population;retirement
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Justice has a point that West Virginia has an older population than many states, and as recently as two decades ago it did rank No. 1. However, today, it’s not the oldest, by two different measures. West Virginia has the third-highest population of 65-and-over residents and the fourth-oldest median age of any state. So Justice wasn’t correct to say that his state is the nation’s oldest, but it does rank near the top. We rate the statement .
Statement: Biden lead disappears in NV, AZ, GA, PA.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 10, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Biden team has begun preparing for the White House, even as the Trump administration works to thwart the transition. Trump accepted the media’s calls in 2016. A review of the Internet Archive shows he changed his Twitter biography to read "President-elect of the United States" on Nov. 9, one day after the 2016 election. He met with President Barack Obama in the White House on Nov. 10. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Chile ranks third internationally in economic freedom, while the U.S. ranks 17th.
Speaker: glenn beck
About the speaker: Glenn Beck is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show. He also hosts an Internet-based TV show. Beck formerly hosted a television talk show on CNN Headline News and then Fox News.
Date: January 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;foreign policy;pundits
Context: a video blog post
Fact-check justification: So while there is some  to Beck's underlying point that Chile has improved its economic freedom, he's  to portray Chile as ranking far ahead of the United States. By several measures, the United States ranks significantly higher than Chile; in one, Chile is slightly ahead. So we find his  .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Former President Donald Trump "was blocked from getting troops out of (Afghanistan) by Liz Cheney and others.
Speaker: warren davidson
About the speaker: Warren Davidson is a Republican who has represented a district in Ohio since 2016, succeeding former House Speaker John Boehner, a fellow Republican. He is a former special operations officer in the U.S. Army. 
Date: August 17, 2021
Topics: afghanistan;congress;foreign policy;military
Context: an interview with Breitbart
Fact-check justification: Davidson said that Trump "was blocked from getting troops out of (Afghanistan) by Liz Cheney and others." "Blocked" is too strong a term for what the amendment was designed to do, since it allowed troop reductions to proceed as long as reports were submitted confirming the safety of U.S. forces and the protection of national security. Moreover, Trump ignored the law: He did not produce a report as the amendment required when he began reducing troop levels. Still, the amendment laid out robust terms before a drawdown could proceed, setting a national security requirement, and imposing terms on funding. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says country hip-hop star Lil Nas X was "dropped from Wrangler endorsement" after coming out of the closet.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 1, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: The Wrangler x Lil Nas X collab is still in full effect. You can shop it here: https://t.co/O35Rr1WAeO 😉 We’re aware of a  news article circulating misinformation regarding our apparel collaboration with Lil Nas X and take issues like these very seriously. As a company, we support love and diversity wholeheartedly and nothing has changed about our relationship with Lil Nas X. We rate this  story !
Statement: These photos show Jacob Blake posing with a gun.
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 25, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: crime;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Second, they previously spread on social media in connection with the death of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, who was shot by a police officer in 2016 in Chicago .   We couldn’t find credible sources confirming that the person in these photos is Loury, either. His Facebook account now only shows two photos, including one that says "R.I.P."   A different photo the Chicago Tribune published from Loury’s Facebook page in 2016 shows him posing with a gun. His mother "said the photo was taken while he was promoting a rap song, nothing more," the caption says.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Women in Virginia have been incarcerated at an increasingly high rate. It's around (a) 300 percent increase in the past four or five years.
Speaker: kaye kory
About the speaker: Kaye Kory, D-Fairfax Couny, was first elected to Virginia's House of Delegates in 2010. She previously served 11 years on the Fairfax County's School Board. 
Kory was born in Chicago and his lived in Fairfax for more than 30 years. She has a B.A. degree in English from The Western College for Women, today part of Miami University in Ohio.
 
 
 
Date: April 15, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: criminal justice;women
Context: radio interview
Fact-check justification: Kory said, "Women in Virginia have been incarcerated at an increasingly high rate. It’s around (a) 300 percent increase in the past four or five years." She cited the surge as a big reason why Virginia needs to ratify the federal ERA amendment. The number of women inmates in Virginia and the nation has soared, but it’s occurred over five decades - not just the last few years. During the last 4 ½ years, there’s been an 18 percent increase, nowhere near Kory’s . Any credit we might give Kory for acknowledging she was  is blunted by her substitute explanation: That she meant to say that nationally, there’s been a fivefold increase in women prisoners since 2001. That, too, is way off. There’s been a 36 percent increase. Kory’s numbers are astronomically , and we rate her statement .
Statement: Says IBM leader told Obama that using IBM technology to cut fraud could "pay for" health care reform.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: November 5, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: federal budget;health care;technology
Context: The Woodlands, Texas
Fact-check justification: Gingrich did not reveal the source of his  or provide backup beyond the Journal interview. Meantime, the White House did not confirm or deny Palmisano’s claims. Contrary to Gingrich’s debate , though, the then-CEO said $200 billion in funding would come from cutting fraud -- not nearly enough to pay for the health-care overhaul. We rate Gingrich’s statement .
Statement: With 320,000 net Ohio manufacturing jobs lost, (Sen. Rob) Portman calls NAFTA a 'proven success'.
Speaker: ted strickland
About the speaker: Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio from 2007 through 2010. He lost his bid for re-election in 2010 to Republican John Kasich.
Date: December 10, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: trade
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Strickland said, "With 320,000 net Ohio manufacturing jobs lost, Portman calls NAFTA a ‘proven success.’ " The implication that NAFTA is solely responsible is a gross oversimplification of a very complex economic phenomenon. Just as one politician’s four-year term can’t be the sole cause of over a quarter-million lost jobs, the NAFTA trade deal isn’t wholly to blame either. We rate this  .
Statement: Breaking: Santa Fe killer expresses his love for Obama.
Speaker: daily world update
About the speaker: Daily World Update is a fake news site promoting false information. 
Date: May 18, 2018
Topics: fake news;crime;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: While Blair identifies The Daily World Update as satire, other blogs often pick up Blair’s stories without the satire asterisk.     accounts imitating the suspect on Facebook also depicted him wearing a hat showing support for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid, with a background photo displaying a banner espousing anti-fascists, or Antifa, views. The Daily World headline said, "Breaking: Santa Fe killer expresses his love for Obama." We found no  that the suspect declared his love for Obama. We rate this statement .
Statement: Two-thirds of Wisconsinites receiving unemployment checks "are not required to search for work due to current work search exemptions.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: February 13, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;government regulation;poverty;welfare
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: But Emsellem said it would be counterproductive, both for employers and employees, to require laid-off employees to look for new jobs if they are likely to soon return to their old job, or similar work. Those people are not likely to find better jobs -- or temporary ones -- simply by making "cold calls" to other employers, he said. Getting back to the most recent figures that Walker relied on, for January 2013, here’s a breakdown from the Department of Workforce Development of the 40,119 people who filed new claims for unemployment insurance who were not required to look for work: Our rating Walker said two-thirds of Wisconsinites receiving unemployment checks "are not required to search for work due to current work search exemptions." The statement is accurate, but needs additional information -- namely that the vast majority of unemployment insurance recipients who aren’t required to look for work are expected to be working again relatively soon, many at the same jobs they were laid off from. We rate Walker’s statement .
Statement: The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots.
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: education
Context: Hempstead, N.Y
Fact-check justification: It was clear to us that McCain's plan to use — or continue using — Title II funds to improve teaching is the centerpiece of his education policy, even before McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said this in an e-mail: "The focus of our plan is the reform of... Title 1 and 2 funding – which is in excess of 16 billion dollars... Moreover, we have higher ed and early ed policy which have nothing to do with the DC opportunity scholarship expansion." We agree. On this one, Obama gets an F for .
Statement: Says the "public option" considered in the health care law backed by U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin was "wildly unpopular.
Speaker: u.s. chamber of commerce
About the speaker: From the chamber's Web site: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations. More than 96% of U.S. Chamber members are small businesses with 100 employees or fewer."
Date: September 19, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;medicare;message machine 2012;polls and public opinion
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: But a significant number of people’s support for Obama’s reform plan overall was conditioned on his including a public option. Our rating The Chamber terms the Baldwin-supported public option "wildly unpopular." That’s way off target based on a broad look at surveys taken during the health care debate. The public option was far more popular than not, though some of that support was fickle. We rate the group’s  .
Statement: I (found) the Republican votes for the Recovery Act, Obamacare, help us from falling into a Great Depression.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: December 13, 2019
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;economy;health care
Context: San Antonio, Texas
Fact-check justification: Biden said cited the 2009 economic recovery bill and the 2010 Affordable Care Act as proof that he can "bring the country together." At most, those legislative wins show Biden can bring Democrats together. The vote totals showed minimal to no bipartisanship. The recovery bill was opposed by every Republican except for three in the Senate. There was no Republican support in either chamber for Obamacare.  We rate this  .
Statement: And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: December 20, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Fact-check justification: In a television interview, Christie claimed "New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001." The governor’s right, according to the latest preliminary labor statistics. By November, there were 600 fewer state workers than when Whitman stepped down in January 2001. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Stacey Abrams posed with a campaign sign that described her as a "communist" and part of the "Muslim-Brotherhood
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 3, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: One ad recently tried to connect Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Democrat running to represent California’s 50th district in the U.S. House race, to the group. We rated that  ! Our Ruling An altered photo tried to tie Abrams to the "Muslim-Brotherhood," by adding words like "Communist" and "#MuslimBrotherhood," to a photo of her with Palestinian Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. Everyone agrees the image is a lie: Abrams’ campaign said the viral image had been altered and the user who posted the photo acknowledged it was . We rate this  !
Statement: Despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph, "The very same report, however, notes that unemployment will average 10 percent for the rest of the year.
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 11, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Many economic forecasters believe that's exactly the case. Still, projections about the number of jobs saved or created by the stimulus are just that, projections. And many economists believe it is still way too early to measure its effectiveness. But we think it's  to simply point to a stagnant unemployment rate as proof that the stimulus isn't working. And so we rate Boehner's statement .
Statement: We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 23, 2021
Topics: immigration;border security;homeland security
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That’s not in dispute. But construction was not 90% finished. In addition, most of the work completed under the Trump administration involved the replacement of older barriers. The post contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Austin is the biggest city in America with a Tier One research university (UT-Austin) but without a medical school.
Speaker: austin fund for quality healthcare
About the speaker: The Austin Fund for Quality Healthcare is a nonprofit that operates HealthyATX, a program created to build support for a medical school. Its mission is to "coordinate the expansion of innovative medical education, research and public health through community collaboration, fostering cooperation between community institutions and the creation of public/private partnerships in order to position Central Texas as a center for accessible, world-class healthcare for everyone, to create jobs and increase economic prosperity."
Date: June 20, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: education
Fact-check justification: The  that Austin is the biggest U.S. city home to a top-flight research university but lacking a medical school holds up. Still, Texas A&M hopes to make its nearby medical college into a full-fledged medical school. That information is missing from the statement, which we rate .
Statement: The Democrats' Green New Deal includes "working towards ending air travel.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: February 25, 2019
Location: florida
Topics: environment;climate change;congress;transportation
Context: an Orlando Sentinel op-ed
Fact-check justification: Time to bring this fact-check in for a landing. Scott wrote in an op-ed that the Democrats’ Green New Deal includes "working towards ending air travel." The resolution makes no mention of ending air travel. Instead, it calls for "overhauling transportation systems," which includes "investment in high-speed rail." Scott seized on a messaging document from Democrats that mentioned, perhaps in jest, getting rid of "farting cows and airplanes." But we found no  that getting rid of airplanes is a serious policy idea from climate advocates. We rate this statement .
Statement: At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney.
Speaker: karl rove
About the speaker: Karl Rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He has worked as a commentator and political analyst for Fox News.
Date: September 20, 2015
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion;punditfact
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Rove said the leader in the race for the Republican nomination changed seven times between September 2011 and the end of February 2012. Using the polling average numbers, that is a fair summary, and some might argue that the lead moved around even more. We found that five individual candidates -- Perry, Romney, Cain, Gingrich and Santorum -- handed the lead back and forth during that time period. Looking at individual polls, the lead might shift less often, but the window on the race those polls offer is not as detailed as the method Rove used. There might be minor quibbles about the exact tally, but Rove was in the ballpark. We rate this  .