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Statement: Employers and schools have no right to conduct "surveillance of a dorm room or a worker's cubicle.
Speaker: brian patrick kennedy
About the speaker: Brian Patrick Kennedy, a Democrat from Hopkinton, has been a member of the Rhode Island House since 1989. He is a real estate broker/appraiser and a graduate of Providence College.
Date: February 6, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: education;human rights;legal issues;government regulation;technology;unions;workers;privacy issues
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: State Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy said: "Employers and schools have no more right to this private [social media] information than they do in providing surveillance of a dorm room or a worker's cubicle." Kennedy didn’t return our phone calls seeking backup for his . One could read his statement two ways. In one reading, Kennedy could be giving an opinion that employers shouldn’t have rights to that type of surveillance. PolitiFact doesn’t rule on opinions. But in our reading of his news release, Kennedy is asserting a fact -- that employers and schools don’t have such rights. From that standpoint, it is clear that state and federal law does not prohibit schools and employers -- with some important restrictions -- from monitoring workers and students on their property, although we can't imagine anyone, other than students wanting to be in some sort of reality TV series, being willing to move into a dorm where school officials can watch you in your room. Kennedy’s statement has some element of fact -- there are existing protections in the law. But it ignores important facts that would give a different impression -- the right of employers and landlords to monitor workplaces and living spaces. We rate his  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: NASCAR eliminated the national anthem at races.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 15, 2020
Topics: race and ethnicity;sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts have claimed that NASCAR has removed the pre-race prayer, military flyover and the singing of the national anthem from races for being too controversial. NASCAR has only removed the presence of the confederate flag at races, but has not removed any of the listed pre-race traditions. Also, drivers are not required to stand for the national anthem, allowing them peaceful protests to occur per the drivers’ discretion.   We rate this statement .
Statement: Says President Donald Trump hasn't condemned David Duke and Richard Spencer.
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: August 20, 2019
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;race and ethnicity
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Biden said Trump hasn’t condemned Duke and Spencer. That’s an exaggeration. Trump didn’t condemn Duke when asked about him in an interview with Tapper on CNN in 2016. But decades before, he had clearly condemned the former KKK leader -- and he did so after the Tapper interview, too. Some of his disavowals have been brief. We can’t find an example of Trump condemning Spencer by name or being asked to do so, but he has criticized gatherings where Spencer, a white nationalist, played a major role, including Charlottesville.  But Trump has at times detracted from his own denunciation of racism. Most notably, Trump said there were "very fine people, on both sides" at the Charlottesville march. At other times his denunciations have seemed reluctantly made. But he has made them. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says "Michael Jordan resigns from the board at Nike-takes 'Air Jordans' with him.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 5, 2018
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We have checked two other  news stories this week that were copied from America’s Last Line of Defense and then touted as factual. They were not. We rated both . This copy-paste job is no exception. We rate the  !
Statement: A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful.
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: June 2, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;foreign policy;trade
Context: a foreign policy speech
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful." Numerous experts we checked with said the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and the resulting trade war weren’t the only factor to worsen the Great Depression. However, they agreed that the trade war undeniably had a negative impact. Clinton took care not to overplay this argument in her speech, so we rate her statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/70e79ee2-c021-4885-9526-ce33d8442f16
Statement: The noise (from windmills) causes cancer.
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: April 2, 2019
Location: national
Topics: energy;public health
Context: a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee
Fact-check justification: Trump said windmill noise causes cancer. The White House provided no . No study supports the statement. Echoing Iowa’s Republican senators, we rate this  statement .
Statement: Says a "fact check" shows that Nancy Pelosi moved "billions of Social Security funds to cover impeachment costs.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 18, 2020
Topics: fake news;impeachment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: That one claimed Pelosi diverted $2.4 billion from Social  Security to cover impeachment costs. This latest headline comes from a story published on a site called " Americas News Source" that actually pokes fun at the people who believed that earlier story, as well as those who believe this one, calling people who shared the item "реа-brаіnеd trumрсhumрѕ сlаmоrіng about lоѕіng their ѕосіаl security." It continues, saying that there is "no way" Pelosi would be able to "pull off ѕuсh a rіdісulоuѕ stunt, even if ѕhе wаntеd to, аnd 2.4 bіllіоn dоllаrѕ was randomly invented tо ѕоund lаrgе." It also reads: "Wе at Frееdоm Fісtіоnѕ rate thіѕ tаlе truе because we аrе аlѕо раrt оf thе Amеrіса’ѕ Lаѕt Lіnе of Defense network, and hоnеѕtlу, іf this іѕ іn the аrtісlе, аnd уоu still саn’t tеll іt’ѕ ѕаtіrе, уоu nееd a kick in the balls. "  We rate this headline !
Statement: Says "Clackamas County has more urban renewal debt than all the other Oregon counties combined.
Speaker: john lee
About the speaker: John Lee is the chairman of the Clackamas County Republican Party.
Date: September 28, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: county government
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: But when we read the statement, we thought of Clackamas County as a geographic region, not as a government entity. Read that way, the idea that Clackamas County and all the cities inside the county would have more money tied up in urban renewal projects than Portland and Multnomah County was . We think most people would agree with our interpretation. We rate the statement : Partially accurate, but leaving out a pretty important detail. Return to OregonLive to comment on this PolitiFact/Oregon ruling.
Statement: The Washington Times ... pointed out that we had succeeded where previous administrations had failed" on spending cuts.
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: January 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a speech to House Democrats
Fact-check justification: It called the cuts a "bright spot in an otherwise dreary budget picture" and said Obama's "success rate at cutting programs was significantly higher than President Bush. But the article noted that the cuts would  put a dent in the overall federal deficit, pointing out that they accounted for "well less than one-half of 1 percent of the total federal budget." So Obama was right that the Washington Times had run such an article. But his comment suggested it was editorial praise when it wasn't. So we'll take Obama down one notch for not noting it was a news story and rate this  .
Statement: The COVID-19 vaccines cause AIDS.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 14, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that the COVID-19 vaccines cause AIDS. There is no  to support this. Only HIV causes AIDS, and the vaccines don’t contain HIV. Medical experts say the vaccines do not make people more susceptible to HIV or AIDS and that the shots bolster the immune system. They don’t weaken it. We rate this !
Statement: An overwhelming majority of Republican and Democrat law enforcement leaders have endorsed Brad Schimel.
Speaker: brad schimel
About the speaker: Republican Brad Schimel was elected in 2006 as the district attorney in Waukesha County, which borders Milwaukee County. He was the GOP nominee for Wisconsin attorney general in the November 2014 election, and defeated Susan Happ to win the office. After he was defeated in November 2018, he was appointed a circuit court judge in Waukesha County.
Date: October 1, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;elections
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: That’s 28 percent more than Happ won from Republicans, but not a majority. Our rating Schimel’s ad says that "an overwhelming majority of Republican and Democrat law enforcement leaders have endorsed Brad Schimel." The AG candidate has won 80 percent support from those who endorsed, and wooed 9 Democrats into the fold. He has won a clear majority overall, and from Republicans, but not from Democrats alone. That makes for a partially accurate , our definition of .
Statement: Marco Rubio was "subpoenaed.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: April 12, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The ad rightly says that Rubio was subpoenaed, but the overall connection between Rubio and Sansom is flimsy at best. First, a subpoena was issued, but apparently never delivered. Additionally, a subpoena isn't an indication Rubio did something . It just means he could have been called to testify. As such we rate the statement .
Statement: Says police officers smoke marijuana once a year as part of their jobs.
Speaker: alex jones
About the speaker: Alex Jones is a conservative radio show host based in Austin, Texas. He hosts The Alex Jones Show and runs InfoWars.com, a website known to traffic in fake news and conspiracy theories.
Date: April 20, 2017
Topics: drugs;punditfact;marijuana
Context: a court hearing
Fact-check justification: Defending his own use of marijuana, Jones said police officers "smoke it once a year, too." He didn’t offer any proof of his  that cops light up joints annually to test the strength of cannabis, and we couldn’t find any. Perhaps Jones anecdotally knows or has heard of police officers who don't keep off the grass, but we didn't find a cop shop that said that was a policy. Law enforcement agencies generally test marijuana potency in a laboratory setting, and not by lighting up in the squad room (or elsewhere). For lack of , we rate this statement .
Statement: Says she never tweeted comments linking pedophilia and Islam.
Speaker: kathy barnette
About the speaker: Kathy Barnette is a conservative activist who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
Date: May 13, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: candidate biography;crime;religion
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Barnette said in an interview that she never tweeted comments linking pedophilia and Islam. In a 2015 tweet, Barnette shared a headline that read, "Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam." We rate Barnette’s interview statement Pants of Fire! PolitiFact staff researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this article. RELATED: Pennsylvania fact-checks  RELATED:   Wild GOP Senate primary in Pennsylvania coming to a close
Statement: 39 out of 42 (countries) in Europe have more restrictive abortion laws" than Mississippi.
Speaker: tate reeves
About the speaker: Tate Reeves is the Republican Governor of Mississippi.
Date: November 28, 2021
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: an interview on NBC's Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: Reeves said that "39 out of 42 (countries) in Europe have more restrictive abortion laws" than Mississippi. He relied on a study that looked only at one part of each nation’s law — the part that defined the initial time period for elective abortions. Folding in the exceptions that many countries allow, the actual number could be one-third of what Reeves said. But it’s hard to be precise with the count or the comparison. Abortion laws are subject to interpretation, and our point is that the study Reeves relied on is just one possible approach to making the comparison. We rate this  .
Statement: We've still had more deaths to the flu this year than we've had COVID-19.
Speaker: dan forest
About the speaker: Dan Forest is North Carolina's Lieutenant Governor.
Date: April 24, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: On April 24, Forest said: "We’ve still had more deaths to the flu this year than we’ve had COVID-19." Forest phrased his  in a way that makes it seem like health experts were keeping and publicizing an ongoing log of flu deaths across America. That’s not the case. The CDC predicts that the number of flu deaths will be anywhere between 24,000 and 62,000. Forest cherry-picked the highest number possible, and then compared it to the CDC’s running tally of coronavirus deaths. That’s unfair because he compared an estimate to an actual number, and because the diseases entered the U.S. at different times. Forest’s  isn’t  for his home state either. In fact, Forest never proved that there have been more flu deaths than coronavirus deaths as of April 24. We rate his  .
Statement: Assertions that it makes no difference whether children are raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents have been "shattered by the latest and best social science and research.
Speaker: susan yoshihara
About the speaker: Susan Yoshihara, of Portsmouth, R.I., is the director of research at the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, an organization with offices in Washington D.C. and New York. She received a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School, Tufts University and spent 20 years as a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot.
Date: March 21, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: children;families;race and ethnicity;lgbtq;marriage
Context: testimony before a R.I. Senate committee
Fact-check justification: Two things are clear: * There is a sharp division among scholars and advocates over the issue of same-sex parenting * The Regnerus study hasn’t been widely accepted as "the best" research on the topic and has not reordered the social-science world in the way Yoshihara suggests. Wright, the Social Science Research editor-in-chief, put it best: "I would regard ‘shattered by the latest and best social science research’ as something of an overstatement," he said in an e-mail A prudent scholar, he said, would conclude that "the question is by no means settled, either by the literature as a whole or by the Regnerus study, the latter having far too many problems and issues to be considered ‘definitive.’" We rule Yoshihara’s    .
Statement: After (Jeb) Bush's two terms in office, Florida's graduation rate was dead last and remains near the bottom.
Speaker: dan gelber
About the speaker: Dan Gelber is a former Florida state Senator representing Miami Beach. He campaigned to be Florida Attorney General and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: June 21, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a Miami Herald op-ed
Fact-check justification: Gelber said that "after Bush’s two terms in office, Florida’s graduation rate was dead last and remains near the bottom." Gelber cited Morgan Quitno data which showed Florida was 50th in 2004-06. But other data sources -- the federal government’s method and Education Week -- showed that Florida was near the bottom of the pack in Bush’s last full year but not dead last. Gelber is on more solid ground when he said that Florida "remains near the bottom." In 2012-13, only seven states had a lower rate, while two were tied with Florida, according to the federal cohort method. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan.
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: January 13, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Ginrgich’s ad contains a grain of : In one televised debate 18 years ago, Romney distanced himself from Reagan and his policies. But more recently, Romney has had only kind words to say about the Gipper. When the DNC charged that Romney had flip-flopped on his support for Reagan’s policies, we ruled that charge . In this case, though, we don’t think Romney’s long-ago discomfort with Reagan-era policies justifies the Gingrich ad’s  that Romney is "a Massachusetts moderate who runs away from Ronald Reagan." We rate it .
Statement: Says Connie Mack takes two homestead exemptions, "directly contrary to Florida's Constitution.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: October 17, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;debates;taxes
Context: Davie, Fla
Fact-check justification: Nelson tried to whack accusations about his lower tax bill for a family pasture with a  that Mack takes tax breaks of his own in the form of "two homestead exemptions." Mack and his wife both serve in Congress, representing two different states on opposite coasts, and that’s clearly an unusual situation. They each own their own homes in their respective states. While it’s  Mack and his wife have two homestead exemptions between them, it is not accurate for Nelson to say Mack himself has two homestead exemptions. That would not be lawful, and Mack’s county property appraiser has vetted his case and determined it proper. We rate the statement .
Statement: In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: August 21, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: Iowa
Fact-check justification: Cruz said: "In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally." We see how Cruz reached his figures. But ICE says 169 individuals with murder convictions were released and 72 percent of those releases were mandatory—out of its control. Also, 68,000 of the people Cruz described as released were never actually detained by the agency. In addition, this statement is missing vital context. Just as we said in reviewing Smith’s declaration, it’s simplistic to suggest the administration has full decision-making authority. Court decisions and federal laws play important roles. We rate the statement .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
Statement: Right now, only 11 percent of the 15,000 child care providers in Texas are certified as meeting quality standards.
Speaker: children at risk
About the speaker: Children at Risk is a nonprofit based in Texas that advocates for changes to public policies that affect children.
Date: March 19, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: children
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification:  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
Statement: Images show the Ukrainian flag being replaced by the Soviet Union flag in Mariupol in 2022.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 18, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A collage shared online claims to show Russian forces replacing the Ukrainian flag with the Soviet Flag in Mariupol in 2022.  Iterations of the collage have been online since at least 2015 and appear to feature screenshots of a video that shows pro-Russian forces taking control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve.  It’s unrelated to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. We rate this .