chengxuphd/liar2 huggingface dataset:
Statement: Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming.
Speaker: restore our future
About the speaker: Restore Our Future is a super PAC run by supporters of Mitt Romney.
Date: December 14, 2011
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change;message machine 2012
Context: a video ad
Fact-check justification: Restore Our Future’s ad says that Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming." In 2008, Gingrich filmed an ad with Pelosi calling for action on global warming, and he did it for Gore’s nonprofit group. Gingrich might regret it now, but the baggage is still there. We rate the statement .
Statement: The United States still ranks 20th in the world in access to broadband -- over 50 percent below the best nations.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: June 5, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;infrastructure;technology
Context: a speech at the state Democratic Party convention
Fact-check justification: The ranking he uses is a year outdated, but the new numbers paint a somewhat worse ranking (24th instead of 20th). Though fixed broadband is preferred by some as a measure, since it can mean more for the economy, Feingold oversimplifies the issue by excluding mobile broadband access. By that measure, the United States fares considerably better, with 92.8 percent of the population subscribing. Though he is literally correct in saying the United States is "over 50 percent below the best nations" in fixed broadband access, the countries that sit atop that list are not comparable to the United States. We rate Feingold’s statement .
Statement: Senate Democrats just voted to give stimulus checks to criminals in prison.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: March 6, 2021
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;stimulus;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cotton said Democrats voted to give stimulus checks to people in prison. They did, arguing that to do otherwise would harm the families of prisoners. It’s worth noting that Cotton and other Senate Republicans voted for previous relief packages that also resulted in prisoners getting checks.  With that clarification, we rate this  .
Statement: Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit.
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: September 16, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: the CNN debate
Fact-check justification: Mixing apples and oranges, Trump said that under Walker, "You were supposed to make a billion dollars in the state. You lost 2.2 (billion). You have right now a huge budget deficit. That’s not a Democratic point. That's a point. That’s a fact." There was in early 2014 a projection of a $1 billion surplus heading into the 2015-17 budget period. Late in 2014, there was a projection of a $2.2 billion shortfall -- the difference between expected revenues and the amount of money being requested by state agencies. But the shortfall was never a deficit -- and some of the surplus was consciously spent by Republicans, as tax cuts. Trump’s statement has an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this  .
Statement: An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is "like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs.
Speaker: 60 plus association
About the speaker: The 60 Plus Association is a conservative advocacy group for senior citizens, with a "free enterprise, less government, less taxes" approach. 
Date: November 7, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;government regulation;message machine 2012;regulation
Context: a television commercial
Fact-check justification: I never followed Elvis again!" Boone says on the website. If he were the speaker here, rather than just the spokesman, he’d be following Elvis’ "Burning Love" with his own fiery song, "Burning Pants." The  by 60 Plus Association is not only , it’s . We rate it .
Statement: Says Steve Kagen "promised us jobs, voting for the $787 billion stimulus. Cost: another 77,000 jobs lost.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: October 3, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;message machine 2010;stimulus
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: We won’t add on any more economists. In issuing its attack against Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen, the National Republican Congressional Committee said the federal stimulus bill cost Wisconsin 77,000 jobs. The two things may have happened in the same time frame, but that does not mean one caused the other. Indeed, there is plenty of  the stimulus has created jobs. Here’s a more direct formula: Twisted logic + lack of  = .
Statement: The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife.
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 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;elections;ethics;history;legal issues;technology;transparency
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife." Trump is correct that hefty donations were given from a Clinton ally to a candidate whose husband was an FBI official. But the timeline doesn’t add up, nor do Trump’s allegations stand up to independent scrutiny. At the time of the contribution, the candidate's husband was not directly involved in the FBI probe of Clinton's email server, according to the FBI. The bureau says that by the time he had some oversight role in the Clinton investigation, the election involving his wife had been over for three months. Meanwhile, the decision not charge Clinton was a recommendation made by the director of the FBI. Trump's statement contains a small element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a completely different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate opponent Tommy Thompson "personally made over $3 million" from a federal contract granted to his healthcare company, but left  9/11 first responders "without the care they were promised.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: October 24, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;terrorism
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Baldwin says Thompson "personally made over $3 million" off a federal contract granted to his healthcare company, but left  9/11 first responders "without the care they were promised." The ad accurately says his firm got a contract and had problems that delayed care for some first responders. But it ignores the mixed blame for the problems as well as the short-term nature of them, while making a sensational and unsubstantiated  that Thompson personally pocketed millions from this particular contract. And it suggests Thompson "took advantage" of first responders without any  to back it up. Looking at the  as a whole, we rate it .
Statement: There's polio in New York City's tap water.
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 13, 2022
Location: new york
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The CDC said about 25% of people will experience flu-like symptoms , including fever, tiredness and nausea and about 72% of people will have no visible symptoms. The CDC also said polio, which is incurable , is spread mainly by person-to-person contact. But it can also be spread by eating raw or undercooked food or by drinking water or other drinks that are contaminated with the feces of an infected person.   In New York, "wastewater is not a concern in terms of having the ability to infect the general public," the state health department spokesperson told Medical News Today, because "the general public does not interact with wastewater." We rate this post .
Statement: Rob Portman shares "radical, ideological views" toward women.
Speaker: ohio democratic party
About the speaker: Statewide organization for Ohio's Democrats.
Date: June 3, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: abortion;health care;voting record;women
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: And to criticize him as the "sole" Ohio senator voting no, when this nation has exactly two U.S. senators representing every single state, is laughable. Civics lessons, anyone? The flimsy  simply does not support the Ohio Democratic Party’s  about "radical, ideological views. The statement is not accurate. On the -O-Meter, the  rates .
Statement: Barron Trump has been kicked out of school for fees.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 21, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, was kicked out of his school over a failure to pay tuition.  A spokesman for Oxbridge Academy, where Barron is enrolled, said he is still a student at the school. We rate this  .
Statement: A waiver in the American Health Care Act "doesn't apply to things like maternity coverage.
Speaker: john faso
About the speaker: John Faso is the Republican candidate in the 19th Congressional District. He is a former Republican leader in the New York State Assembly, and also ran for governor in New York in 2006.
Date: June 1, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: health care
Context: a radio town hall
Fact-check justification: Faso said a waiver in the American Health Care Act "doesn’t apply to things like maternity coverage." The waiver applies specifically to maternity coverage. If a state does not require maternity coverage and is approved for a waiver, insurers there would not be required to cover maternity care. We rate his  .
Statement: Mel Gibson has announced he has been secretly working on a 4 part docu series exposing the 34 billion dollar global child sex trafficking trade.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 6, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "   But Ballard said that "reports this four-part series is actually being produced by Mr. Gibson are not accurate." What’s more, we found no  of Gibson announcing that he was working on such a series. We looked for news stories, statements from the actor or other credible sources to corroborate the , and came up empty.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he "imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: August 4, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;public health;coronavirus
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he "imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border." The available  shows that coronavirus hot spots tend to be clustered either far from the border or on the water, whereas the entire land border with Mexico has fairly low rates. The hotspot locations tend to correlate with low rates of vaccination among the public. In addition, the U.S. does not have a "wide open" border. Most people who are encountered are turned away under a Trump-era policy that Biden continued. We rate the statement .
Statement: Photo of migrant mother at U.S.-Mexico border running from tear gas with children "was a staged hoax.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 26, 2018
Topics: immigration;fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Bloggers posted an article that claims a photo of a migrant mother and her children fleeing from tear gas at the U.S.-Mexico border was a staged hoax. It isn’t. Customs and Border Protection confirmed the use of tear gas, which was documented by several news organizations.  And the Honduran woman featured running in a photo with her kids, Miara Meza, was tracked down and interviewed about what happened. We rate this  .
Statement: With Medicare for All, "study after study has shown that ... the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health care bills.
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: July 17, 2019
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare;taxes
Context: a speech at George Washington University
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that multiple studies show that under Medicare for All "average middle-class families will save $3,000 every year." The studies don’t back him up. One is based on 2016 numbers that are outdated, especially when it comes to current tax rates. Another deals only with New York state, excluded the high cost of long-term care, and offered a range of possible outcomes. A lot depends on the actual taxes to raise money, and we don’t have a specific proposal from Sanders. We rate Sanders’  .
Statement: My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.
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: January 29, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months." The Obama administration in 2011 delayed processing Iraqi refugees for six months following  of a failed plot by two Iraqi refugees. Trump’s executive order temporarily bars travel to the United States for all citizens from seven countries, and it is not in direct response to actions from citizens of those countries. Furthermore, Iraqi refugees were nonetheless admitted to the United States during the 2011 suspension while Trump has put an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much.
Speaker: chris larson
About the speaker: Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in November 2010. A former member of the Milwaukee County Board, he is a candidate for Milwaukee County executive in 2016.
Date: October 26, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;consumer safety;legal issues
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, Larson said "In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much." At least two key leaders opposed the program, citing -- in part -- the amount of money that would go to the City of Milwaukee. But there were other factors cited as well. Our definition for  is "The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information."  That fits here.
Statement: Says Cracker Barrel's name has racist origins and its logo depicts a whip.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 7, 2021
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  that Cracker Barrel’s name and logo allude to a slaveholder’s whip and the barrels used to store them. That isn’t . The company rejected the rumor and said its logo features a common calligraphy flourish used in the logos of many brands.  The barrels referred to in the name were used at general stores to store soda crackers, not whips. We rate this .
Statement: Georgia ranks No. 9 in the rate of women murdered by men.
Speaker: violence policy center
About the speaker: A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization focused on gun violence.
Date: September 8, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: crime;women;guns
Context: an annual study
Fact-check justification: One caveat is that tally counts only single victims and perpetrators. It ignores some crimes it hopes to draw attention to, such as a former partner killing a woman before committing suicide or a man killing his ex-partner and a new love interest, if there are two victims. More importantly, the tally also fails to acknowledge Georgia’s dismal rank for the risk of homicide overall, and the other factors that contribute to it. The numbers are right, but it’s also  that there is more to the story. We rate the  .
Statement: Says NBC News' Kristen Welker "gave thousands of dollars to Obama, Clinton and Biden, is registered as a Democrat & her family spent Christmas with the Obamas at the White House.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 17, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says Welker "gave thousands of dollars to Obama, Clinton and Biden, is registered as a Democrat & her family spent Christmas with the Obamas at the White House." The claims in the post are  or exaggerated.  First, FEC records don’t show any political contributions from Welker. Second, Welker is registered to vote in Washington, D.C., with no party affiliation.  Third, Welker did not take her family to spend Christmas with the Obamas. She posed for a photo at a White House reception hosted for the press in 2012. We rate the Facebook post .
Statement: Says Gary Farmer's claim that he "received an 'A' from the NRA" is "an absolute lie.
Speaker: jim waldman
About the speaker: State Rep. James "Jim" Waldman, D-Coconut Creek, was first elected to the Legislature in 2006 and is the former mayor of  Coconut Creek.
Date: July 8, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: guns
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: Waldman said Farmer’s  that he "received an A from the NRA" is "an absolute lie." Screenshots show the grade for Waldman was once listed as an A, but spokespersons for the NRA said that information was wrongly listed (and they don't know why). The NRA made it clear that Waldman would never would receive an A, has only received a D or F in previous races, and did not change the grade for his benefit. Waldman’s  is accurate. So we rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/84c66d52-2a74-4911-9c33-7a6834ffe5e1
Statement: New Jersey "will be out of gas for a week.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 10, 2021
Location: new jersey
Topics: gas prices;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And, he said, the idea that the state would be out of gas for a week "is very far-fetched." Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy didn’t have that kind of impact, and New Jersey is not solely reliant on gasoline from the Colonial Pipeline, DeGesero said. So while some residents could see prices rise, the possibility is New Jersey running out of fuel is as likely "as me getting voted People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive," he said. "Infinitesimal." We rate this post .
Statement: Since 2012," city of Austin "property taxes have gone up almost 30 percent while incomes have only risen 4 percent.
Speaker: ellen troxclair
About the speaker: Ellen Troxclair, elected in 2014 to represent a Southwest Austin district on the Austin City Council, says she otherwise volunteers in the community and manages a real estate management business.
Date: February 23, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: city budget;city government;families
Context: an interview with Austin’s Fox 7 about her proposed affordability plan
Fact-check justification: Troxclair said: "Since 2012," city of Austin "property taxes have gone up almost 30 percent while incomes have only risen 4 percent." Both percentages, we found, have flaws enfeebling this admittedly difficult comparison. In our attempt to be precise, we estimate that city taxes on homesteads in 2016 were up around 8 percent to 11 percent from a few years before with Austin’s median family income in 2015 about 9 percent higher than the city’s median family income in 2012 (though this also almost certainly doesn't reflect income changes for the same specific families). Upshot: City taxes  were up, but largely to a lesser degree than Troxclair suggested. Also, the cited regional income figures reflected lesser gains for families than Austin-only estimates available from the Census Bureau. We rate the statement .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.