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Statement: Says President Barack Obama told a room of students, "Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence," and then a child told him he could solve the problem by not clapping any more.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: March 17, 2014
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: A chain email said President Obama told a room of students, "Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence." A child then purportedly told Obama he could solve the problem by not clapping anymore. We failed to find any  that this happened to Obama, and the existence of earlier emails making fun of Hillary Clinton and Bono make clear that this is a joke being passed off falsely as a real anecdote. We rate the  .
Statement: My Treasury team eliminated a 900-case backlog in the Crime Victim Compensation Program.
Speaker: gina raimondo
About the speaker: Gina Raimondo served a four-year term as Rhode Island's general treasurer beginning in Jan. 4, 2011 before being elected governor in 2014. She cofounded and served as a general partner of Point Judith Capital. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and a Rhodes Scholar. She is married with two children.
Date: April 3, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a website statement
Fact-check justification: Gina Raimondo said her office was able to resolve 900 pending claims from the state’s Crime Victim Compensation Program since she became general treasurer in 2011. Her staff provided an accounting that outlined the effort. It showed 912 claims resolved, 12 more than she said. We independently verified enough of the claims to rule her statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: The Federal Reserve system has presided over about a 95... percent decline in the U.S. dollar.
Speaker: barbara cargill
About the speaker: Barbara Cargill is a science educator who served on the State Board of Education.
Date: March 11, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: economy;education
Context: a State Board of Education meeting
Fact-check justification: In contrast, most experts we spoke with trace the decline to inflation over the years rather than specific actions by the Federal Reserve Bank. Though some Federal Reserve critics echo Cargill's point, such debates are best left to the economic experts who have waged them for decades. All in all, we rate her statement as . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Antifa is warning that tonight they're moving out of the cities - and into residential areas to 'take what's ours.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 31, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: We checked the Twitter accounts for local antifa cells in New York City , Atlanta , Minneapolis and Philadelphia . None of them have tweeted about "moving out of the cities and into residential areas," as the Facebook post claims. We could find no news reports about antifa-led protests in residential areas on the evening of May 31. Without additional , the Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: Did you know Wisconsin's AFSCME union has lost 50%+ of its members since no longer requiring membership?
Speaker: steve buckstein
About the speaker: Steve Buckstein is senior policy analyst at the Cascade Policy Institute, a think tank that advocates for limited government and free-market policies.
Date: June 18, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: elections;state budget;unions
Context: a tweet, online post
Fact-check justification: We can’t rule on reason. What we can rule on is that membership has gone down about 50 percent, according to news reports, since Walker implemented his changes. That decrease may or may not hold when numbers finally shake out. The tweet is accurate, but needs additional information. We rule the statement .
Statement: Says that his transportation budget and Ohio Turnpike plan "would make sure we have lower tolls than we've had through the history of the turnpike.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: March 20, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: transportation
Context: an interview televised March 22 on “State of Ohio”
Fact-check justification: Furthermore, the inflation cap is not written into the law, and the state has an out from the local EZ-Pass freeze. Ohio Turnpike drivers might be getting a better deal than they were before. But future tolls that do not climb as quickly as they might have in the past are not lower tolls. It’s not only  but  for Kasich to portray it that way. The -O-Meter says: !
Statement: Says Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said, "A few right winged nuts won't affect our bottom line.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 23, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) A spokesperson for Coca-Cola told us that the quote is fabricated. Searching for the quote online we found only one result: a similar Facebook post in a group for supporters of former President Donald Trump. We found no  that Quincey has commented on the diversity training course, though the company issued a statement on Feb. 20 that said in part that it will "continue to listen to our employees and refine our learning programs as appropriate." We rate this post .
Statement: Large machinery is "required to move 500,000 pounds of earth in order to get the minerals needed for one single Tesla car battery.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 30, 2022
Topics: environment;transportation;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post shared an image of large machinery and said it’s "required to move 500,000 pounds of earth in order to get the minerals needed for one single Tesla car battery." The only way a truck hauling 500,000 pounds of earth would contain minerals for just a single car battery is if the ore’s lithium content was 0.1%. The ores from the hard-rock mine Tesla uses contain up to 2.1% lithium. It takes less than 10,000 pounds of material to produce 2,000 pounds of spodumene — a mineral filled with lithium aluminum inosilicate. The maximum amount of lithium a Tesla car battery contains is around 165 pounds. We rate this post .
Statement: Says recall organizers "started their website last November" and began work on their effort before he even took office.
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: November 30, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: But the founder of the website is not a recall organizer; he’s a fringe player at best who took no steps to actually organize the petition drive. Even Republican officials can cite no  to the contrary. While his recall-advocacy website was registered back then, the site was dormant until Walker’s controversial bill was introduced. The real "recall organizers’" website, that of United Wisconsin, kicked into operation only after Walker proposed his controversial budget bill in February 2011. We rate Walker’s statement .
Statement: Says the FDA said that Pfizer "falsely misled" the agency about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and that the shots are killing more people than they save.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 14, 2022
Location: national
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that the FDA said in a vaccine advisory meeting that Pfizer "falsely misled" the agency about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and that the shots are killing more people than they save. This is . No one affiliated with the FDA said this, and the agency strongly disputed the substance of the statements.  The comments were made by Steve Kirsch, a tech entrepreneur who has promoted unproven COVID-19 drugs and misinformation about the vaccines in the past. He based his claims on VAERS, which contains unverified reports and cannot be used alone to draw conclusions about vaccine safety. We rate the  that the FDA made the statement !
Statement: So far in 2015, there have been more mass shootings than days.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: December 5, 2015
Location: california
Topics: the 2018 california governor's race;guns
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: Following the shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 people and injured 22, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Richard Pan claimed that hundreds of mass shootings took place in 2015. They used an extremely broad definition of mass shooting — one that includes incidents in which people are shot but no one is necessarily killed. A key congressional report defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are killed. Criminologists say this definition is more in line with events like the shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech or in San Bernardino. As we said at the beginning, there is no legal definition for a mass shooting. The California politicians chose a broad definition by using a crowd-sourced website that better fits their gun control goals. We rate their claims .  – The statements contain some element of  but ignore critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Del. Debra Rodman "opposes adoption as an alternative to abortion in event of unplanned pregnancies.
Speaker: siobhan dunnavant
About the speaker: Siobhan Dunnavant, R-Henrico County, was first elected to the Virginia's senate in 2015. She's a OB-GYN physician and the sister of Del. Chris Stolle and former state Sen. Ken Stolle, now sheriff of Virgnia Beach.
 
 
 
Date: September 30, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion;education;sexuality;voting record
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: Dunnavant says Rodman "opposes adoption as an alternative to abortion in event of unplanned pregnancies."  She cites Rodman’s support of a bill that would have changed state mandates for family life courses in schools to ensure what Democrats said would be neutral and scientific teaching. It wouldn’t have ended instruction about adoption; it would have erased a requirement for teaching its "benefits" as a "positive choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy."  Dunnavant wrenches that position on teaching to the sensational  that Rodman supports abortion over adoption. Rodman says she backs choice on adoption and abortion. Dunnavant’s statement goes well beyond that, and she fails to credibly back it up. We rate Dunnavant’s statement . Correction: An earlier version of this fact check gave the  date the family life education bill died in the House Education Committee.
Statement: There are no earmarks" in the stimulus bill.
Speaker: robert gibbs
About the speaker: Robert Gibbs served as White House press secretary for President Barack Obama. He now is a Democratic consultant.
Date: February 2, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: a comment at the daily White House press briefing
Fact-check justification: The Filipino project might not fit the narrow definition of earmarks that Congress or OMB uses, but we think reasonable people would consider it to be an earmark. And the movie industry tax break, which was in the bill when Gibbs made his statement, and the Texas and Maryland projects sure look like earmarks by any definition. Gibbs didn't leave himself any wiggle room. He said "no earmarks." But we see at least a few, so we find his statement to be .
Statement: Drivers with no DUIs are getting up to $610 back in savings.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 21, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook
Fact-check justification: I simply entered my zip and got $610 back just for having a good record." The post showed two pictures of people holding checks for $610 along with a link to a website that proclaimed, "All 50 States Approve $610 in Savings for US Drivers with No DUIs." The post told people to "check eligibility" at a link on the site. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its news feed. (Read more about PolitiFact’s partnership with Facebook .)
Statement: Says "our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment.
Speaker: justin nelson
About the speaker: Justin Nelson, an Austin attorney, is the 2018 Democratic nominee for Texas attorney general.
Date: May 29, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;history;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Nelson tweeted that Paxton, his November foe, "is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment." We didn’t find an authoritative database or research effort bearing out this statement. But interviews of experts and searches of news stories using the Nexis database didn’t yield contradictory information. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for  more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: We didn't go out and take" information from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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: December 20, 2015
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that his campaign did not go out and take information from the Clinton campaign. From all accounts, it is  that the Sanders campaign did not attempt to break into the voter data of a rival campaign. The Sanders people stumbled upon a glitch. But rather than reporting the glitch immediately, they probed the database for a bit under two hours. At some point, the staff produced a page of information that at the very least would show the count of certain voters. Experts familiar with the Democratic voter data base say that the Sanders campaign would have gleaned valuable information. At the end of the day, they knew some things about the Clinton campaign that they hadn’t known before, even if they didn’t seek to crack into the Clinton data. We rate Sanders’  that the campaign didn’t "go out and take" information as .
Statement: 2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces.
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: March 27, 2009
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;military
Context: a speech at the White House.
Fact-check justification: Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the committee Afghanistan was in some ways a more complex challenge than Iraq. "We don't have a single adversary," he said. "We have the Taliban, we have the Gulbuddin Hekmatyar group, we have the Haqqani network, we have narco-thugs, we have al-Qaida, we have foreign fighters." So Obama's  is not only technically correct, but also accurately reflects the deteriorating security conditions in Afghanistan. We find his  to be .
Statement: Says chiefs from the American Indian Nation gave Donald Trump a plaque of his new Indian name, "Walking Eagle," which actually depicts "a bird so full of s*** it can no longer fly.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 6, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Just as this didn’t happen when John Kerry was named in the "joke," or George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton , it also did not take place with Trump. We found the George W. Bush version of the joke in the 2008 book, " Celebrity Smackdown: A Very Rude Joke Book" by Luther Blisset, though it likely didn’t originate there, as there have been versions of the joke reported as early as 2004 . It is simply a regurgitated joke that routinely swaps out the politician. It is just as untrue now as it was 15 years ago. We rate it !
Statement: High-ranking Ukrainian officials caught splurging on luxury real estate in Switzerland.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 29, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: However, the article also said there is "no " that U.S. funds were used to purchase these Swiss properties.    PolitiFact asked Newspunch for  to support its claims but received none.   Our ruling  A website claimed that three high-ranking Ukrainian officials had purchased luxury property in the resort town of Gstaad, Switzerland. A Swiss land registry official said the documents cited as  were forged; errors in them prove that they did not come from the registry, the official said.   We rate this  .
Statement: Since 1904, the Ohio victor has won the presidency 25 out of 27 times
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: June 21, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;history
Context: a statement posted to his website
Fact-check justification: The answer to the state's accuracy as a presidential bellwether may lie in its population. "The state itself represents very well the political diversity of the country," Eric Rademacher, co-director of the University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research, once told The Plain Dealer. The institute sponsors The Ohio Poll. So while Ohio can't say it's the decider (Bush already claimed that title), it can boast that it's the presidential predictor -- a  supported by 25 of 27 correct votes, including 12 in a row. We rate this statement .
Statement: In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent.
Speaker: pew environment group
About the speaker: The Pew Environment Group, the conservation arm of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Date: December 11, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;animals;economy;regulation
Context: a newspaper advertisement
Fact-check justification: The Pew Environment Group said that "in recent years, menhaden numbers along our coasts have plummeted by 90 percent," a very specific number. It says overfishing must be halted to rebuild the population. The estimated number of menhaden is clearly well below the estimated population for the late 1980s. But it's currently at levels seen in the 1960s. If you want to  a 90-percent drop, you have to compare the 2008 population to a very specific -- and very exceptional -- year, 1982. We don't consider a 30-year-old benchmark to be "recent." Because the statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we rate it  . (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: A Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history.
Speaker: ryan zinke
About the speaker: Ryan Zinke is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Montana's at-large congressional district.
Date: March 13, 2018
Location: national
Topics: environment;federal budget;infrastructure
Context: testimony before a Senate committee
Fact-check justification: Zinke said that a Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history." It’s far from assured that the maximum figure of $18 billion in the proposal will ever be reached if enacted. Beyond that, though, Roosevelt’s $3 billion investment in the Civilian Conservation Corps would amount to $53 billion today, and it accounted for vastly more than the Trump proposal as a percentage of federal spending at the time. We rate the statement .
Statement: We are dealing with an administration that, quite frankly, has shown a reluctance to enforce the immigration law.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: April 30, 2013
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Rubio said the Obama administration "has shown a reluctance to enforce the immigration law." His spokesman pointed out some concrete changes in how Obama has approached immigration, namely a program to allow people brought here illegally as children to seek deferred action on deportation and an emphasis on deporting criminals while leaving many illegal residents who are otherwise law abiders alone. But while Rubio calls that reluctance, others see it as prioritizing. Obama has put new emphasis on some approaches, such as adding border agents, while minimizing others, such as the 287(g) program. Whether those priorities represent sound policy is a matter of opinion. But Rubio’s statement suggests that Obama has turned his back on enforcing the law, and the reality is much more nuanced than that. We rate the statement .