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Statement: Says that while President Barack Obama promised to "work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year," his health care law "raises premiums in the individual market by $2,100 per family.
Speaker: senate republican conference
About the speaker: The Senate Republican Conference is the group representing Republican members of the U.S. Senate.
Date: March 21, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;message machine 2012
Context: a web video
Fact-check justification: The Senate Republican Conference video claimed that while Obama promised to "work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year," his health care law "raises premiums in the individual market by $2,100 per family." The number does come from a Congressional Budget Office analysis, and it’s phrased accurately. But it’s stripped of crucial context and distorts the . It ignores subsidies that would ease the financial burden for a majority of those seeing premium increases; it ignores that the additional premium dollars will pay for more generous benefits; and it ignores that the vast majority of Americans with private insurance will pay no more than $200 extra for their premiums due to the law -- and possibly less than that. We rate the statement .
Statement: The Murray-Ryan deal "is the first divided-government budget agreement since 1986.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: December 10, 2013
Location: national
Topics: congress;federal budget
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: At the initial news conference, Ryan said the current deal "is the first divided-government budget agreement since 1986." He later clarified his statement to note it’s actually the first one "with a divided Congress" since 1986. The first  is  -- there are actually more than a dozen instances since 1986 in which "divided government" produced a budget agreement. And while the second version of Ryan's  is right, it's not very significant, since Congress has been under divided-party control for just four years out of the past 28. On balance, we rate Ryan’s  .
Statement: If masks prevent coronavirus, governors would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 14, 2020
Location: california
Topics: corrections and updates;criminal justice;crime;public health;facebook fact-checks;new york;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that if masks prevent coronavirus, governors in New York, Michigan and California would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them. Experts agree that wearing facial coverings in close settings provides some measure of protection against spreading the coronavirus. New York, Michigan and California prisons are providing masks to inmates, as well as staff, as part of their COVID-19 response.  Inmates in those states are being freed early as a way to try to limit the spread of COVID-19 —  nonviolent offenders or those who aren’t seen as a safety threat. We rate the statement . Correction, June 8, 2020: Michigan had more than 2,100 state prisoners with COVID-19, not more than 2,100 state prisoner COVID-19 deaths.
Statement: Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree, but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.
Speaker: hank huckaby
About the speaker: Chancellor, University System of Georgia and state House representative.
Date: December 16, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: education;jobs
Context: civic club speech
Fact-check justification: For instance, they’ve simplified the enrollment process and now allow credit for 25 courses to transfer between the two systems. Online course offerings also expanded from 1,571 in 2009 to 5,000-plus last fall -- including a new Master’s of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Tech enrolling 1,256 new students. Our conclusion: Georgia’s workforce is facing a skills gap that the University System of Georgia and Technical College System of Georgia are working together to address by pushing for more graduates. The skills gap is significant, though measures of it have varied albeit slightly. We rate Huckaby's statement as .
Statement: Wisconsin is "not a high tax and fee state." When you look at "all the money state and local governments bring in" from residents, "we're more in the middle.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: January 19, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget;states;taxes
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Her campaign cites a statistic that is too broad to apply to an analysis of Wisconsin’s "taxes and fees" burden. By one widely used measure, Wisconsin is very close to middle of the pack -- just a shade over the national average with a ranking as low as 19th. By the other, we remain significantly above the national average, with a ranking around 15th. This meets the definition of partially accurate. .
Statement: On home health workers' low pay and limited benefits, "40% are still on SNAP or Medicaid.
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: July 21, 2020
Topics: health check
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: Biden said home health workers were paid very little, citing a statistic that 40% of these workers relied on public assistance programs like SNAP and Medicaid as . According to the experts with whom we spoke, and the documents we consulted, Biden accurately described home health workers’ income and their reliance on these programs. His number appears to represent the low end of the spectrum. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Eric Trump said, "The president should be able to choose governors, senators, and congressmen, just like our founders meant it to be. The only election should be for president.
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 13, 2019
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But we couldn’t find any credible  that he actually said this. He did appear on Fox & Friends on Nov. 6, and declared that though his dad wasn’t on the ballot that election day, Republicans should get out and vote for other races. "If Republicans and Trump supporters get out there today, we win," he said. "Go vote." We rate this post !
Statement: Photo shows Tampa Mayor Jane Castor maskless at Super Bowl.
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 9, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;sports;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: She’s drawn criticism for complaining about maskless Super Bowl partiers when she didn’t wear one during the revelry for the Lightning.   But this photo doesn’t show her at the Super Bowl and she wasn’t talking about authorities trying to identify maskless fans. We rate that  . UPDATE, Feb. 12 : We updated the story with comment from the City of Tampa, which we received after publication.
Statement: Government employees make 43 percent more in wages and benefits" than private-sector workers.
Speaker: building a better ohio
About the speaker: Building a Better Ohio is a political action committee promoting passage of Issue 2 in Ohio. Passage of the state issue would allow provisions of Senate Bill 5, a law overhauling collective bargaining rules for public workers in Ohio, to be implemented.
Date: October 14, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: labor;unions
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: It doesn’t put more dollars and cents into employee compensation. We think it is  to include it in an accounting of what workers "make." Also, the AEI study arrived at its 43 percent figure through rounding that we could not follow, and which the Center for Retirement Research questioned, after adding the 10 percent for job security to the 31.2 percent advantage in non-wage benefits it says that public workers have a 43 percent edge over their private sector counterparts. And that 31.2 percent advantage -- whose calculation is the subject of considerable disagreement in the pension and financial worlds -- is more than three times the finding of the Center for Retirement Research. On the -O-Meter, we rate Building a Better Ohio’s  .
Statement: Says the new Dodd-Frank financial law requires a 20 percent down payment to buy a house.
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: June 13, 2011
Location: national
Topics: housing;new hampshire 2012
Context: Concord, N.H
Fact-check justification: : Gingrich is not correct that the law mandates a 20 percent down payment. There is no such requirement. The only element of the law that even comes close to that is a provision that requires banks to hold on to 5 percent of the value of their mortgages so they will retain a stake in mortgages. There's also been a proposal by regulators to waive that requirement for highly rated mortgages, which would include those with a 20 percent down payment.  But that proposal has stalled and that's a long way from what Gingrich said, that 20 percent down payments are required. We rate Gingrich's statement .
Statement: Hank Williams Jr resigns from CMT's board of directors: 'I support Jason Aldean.'
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: July 22, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) We found the headline on the website of The Dunning-Kruger Times, which publishes "parody, satire and tomfoolery," according to its About Us page. We found no  that Williams has made such a show of support for Aldean. No such statement appears on his Facebook , Instagram or Twitter pages, and we found no news stories corroborating the .   We rate claims that it’s authentic .
Statement: Matt Rosendale supports plans that don't have to cover (pre-existing conditions).
Speaker: jon tester
About the speaker: Jon Tester was elected to his first term in the U.S. Senate in 2006 as a Democrat representing Montana.
Date: October 10, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Tester said, "Matt Rosendale supports plans that don’t have to cover (pre-existing conditions)." Rosendale supports short-term plans that do not have to cover pre-existing conditions, and he welcomed their expansion under Trump. We rate this .
Statement: Says Scott Walker left college "under an ethical cloud for having tried to fix" the election for student body president.
Speaker: howard dean
About the speaker: Howard Dean is the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, and was the longtime governor of Vermont before that.
Date: November 15, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;education;elections;ethics
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: When Walker was a student at Marquette, there were allegations that his supporters confiscated copies of a student newspaper that endorsed Walker's opponent for student government president. But the available  shows no action was taken against Walker regarding the newspaper incident. And Walker was officially in good standing throughout his time at Marquette, including when he left school early, without a degree, to take a job. We rate Dean’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2af1ef0a-e990-409c-b995-61c993c2e5e2
Statement: Says Scott Walker "has taken money away from internet expansion in our state.
Speaker: andy gronik
About the speaker: Democrat Andy Gronik, a businessman who lives in the Milwaukee suburb of Fox Point, announced in July 2017 that he would run for governor of Wisconsin in 2018 in his first run for public office. He dropped out of the race on June 21, 2018.
Date: July 14, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;technology
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Gronik says Scott Walker "has taken money away from internet expansion in our state." In 2011, Walker’s first year in office, the state returned $23 million to the federal government -- though the decision is not as simple as Gronik portrays it. Since then, Walker’s office has increased funding for broadband development grants. Price tags aside, the data available on rural coverage put the state’s reach on par with Minnesota -- which spent tens of millions more in the same time frame -- and in the middle of the pack of neighbors Illinois, Iowa and Michigan. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that despite a recent increase in school funding, Scott Walker "has taken over a billion dollars from the public schools.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: March 23, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Evers says that despite a recent increase in school funding, Walker "has taken over a billion dollars from the public schools." In Walker’s first year as governor, he cut school aid by $426.5 million from the previous year, Doyle’s final year as governor. Because it took five years to get school funding back to that base level, it can be argued that Walker "took" a total of $1.17 billion from schools over that period. But since then, Walker has increased school funding to the point that the deficit, in comparison to the base year, is $183.6 million. For a statement that contains only an element of , our rating is .
Statement: From 2000 to 2008, we averaged "about five mass shootings a year. We're now averaging 15. So that's a three-fold increase.
Speaker: pierre thomas
About the speaker: Pierre Thomas is the senior justice correspondent for ABC News.
Date: May 25, 2014
Topics: crime;punditfact;guns
Context: a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Thomas said that mass shootings have tripled since the 2000 to 2008 period and the country now sees about 15 episodes a year. The study that matches those figures looked at a different form of violence and included instances where no one was murdered. The study’s author told us that mass murders, as defined by the FBI, have not increased. Using a more narrow definition, Mother Jones found that the country now has between three and four mass killings a year, a doubling since about a decade ago. Another study that looked at the number of people wounded, not necessarily killed, offered similar results. The annual rate is much lower than Thomas said and the change in the rate is also considerably less. There is some  that mass killings have increased but that finding hinges on a careful choice of incidents, and by any measure, Thomas’ numbers are way off. We rate his  .
Statement: Estimated annual COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. totals 27,530, after you subtract those who died "with, not from" COVID-19, not in nursing homes and who didn't have four or more comorbidities.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 20, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post says the number of estimated annual COVID-19 deaths in the United States is 27,530, after you subtract those who died "with, not from" COVID-19, not in nursing homes and who didn't have four or more comorbidities. That’s bad math built on several  assumptions and arriving at a  conclusion. COVID-19 was found to be a cause of death for 385,460 people in 2020 and 452,707 people in 2021, according to the CDC. And research shows that, if anything, deaths resulting from COVID-19 have been undercounted, not overcounted, in the U.S. We rate this  !
Statement: Republicans in Congress are plotting to take away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Speaker: ron wyden
About the speaker: Ron Wyden is the Democratic U.S. Senator from Oregon.
Date: March 29, 2018
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;medicaid;medicare;social security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Wyden said, "Republicans in Congress are plotting to take away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security." Some key Republicans, including Ryan, have long argued in favor of overhauling entitlement programs such as these by reducing the amount of money spent on them. However, no Republican proposal has been made to "take away" any of the three programs cited in the tweet. In addition, Wyden glosses over just how far away from passage even a more modest overhaul would be. We rate it .
Statement: A new Republican litmus test "would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan.
Speaker: keith olbermann
About the speaker: Keith Olbermann is the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
Date: November 23, 2009
Location: national
Topics: history;pundits
Context: MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Fact-check justification: On one item (amnesty for illegal immigrants) Reagan definitely broke with today's conservative orthodoxy. But on three others (abortion, gun control and fiscal policy)  exists in either direction. So, deciding whether Reagan qualifies under the rules of the resolution ends up being a tough call with  for both sides. We rate Olbermann's assertion .
Statement: Wiley Nickel supports "abortion all the way up until the point of birth, even post-birth.
Speaker: bo hines
About the speaker: Bo Hines is a Republican who's running for Congress in North Carolina's 13th District.
Date: October 1, 2022
Location: north carolina
Topics: abortion
Context: an interview on WRAL's "On the Record"
Fact-check justification: Hines said Nickel supports abortion "all the way up until the point of birth, even post-birth." This  ignores Nickel’s stated goal of codifying Roe, which would grant the right to an abortion up to the point of viability. In cases in which complications arise, Nickel says he believes decisions are best left to a mother and her doctor. Although Nickel opposed a GOP-backed bill termed the "born alive" bill, he did so on grounds that existing laws already made it a crime to kill a newborn baby, regardless of the circumstance. There is no  he supports "post-birth" abortion. We rate this  .
Statement: Portland Community College serves more students than all of the state's universities combined.
Speaker: portland community college
About the speaker: Portland Community College is the state's largest community college with three comprehensive campuses, six centers and dozens of independent locations throughout the community.
Date: November 8, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: education
Context: the college's website
Fact-check justification: (That, of course, doesn’t diminish the fact that Portland Community College serves an awful lot of students each year.) James Hill, the man who wrote the enrollment numbers article, said that "it’s always been that case" that PCC served more students annually. He said he would review his numbers and thanked us for pointing out the discrepancy. Seeing as how neither the total headcount or full time equivalent figures back PCC up, we find this  . Comment on this item.
Statement: The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: May 31, 2007
Location: national
Topics: crime
Context: New York
Fact-check justification: In this statement, Giuliani simply tries to say too much. His assertion that the national decline in crime "would be fairly small" if not for the improvements in New York just isn't . From 1993-2001 -- the time frame the Giuliani campaign uses for its crime stats -- the number of violent crimes nationwide fell by about 25 percent. If you factor out the crimes that occurred in New York during that same period, the nationwide drop would still have been 23 percent. The difference in the decline for property crimes would have been even smaller.