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Statement: Obama said that "since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas...
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: January 18, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Pahrump, Nev
Fact-check justification: Our take, Obama may want to think twice before invoking the R-word again any time soon. But in this case, it was little more than a sound bite taken out of context and twisted. Obama never said Republicans have all the good ideas. We rate Bill Clinton's statement . Hillary's too, for that matter.
Statement: Roe v. Wade happened because a woman lied about being raped by black men.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 3, 2022
Topics: abortion;supreme court;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: But the allegation of rape was not taken into consideration during the case. The Supreme Court did not consider the circumstances of the plaintiff’s pregnancy, and the court’s ruling does not mention Roe’s  of rape. McCorvey’s lawyers did not mention the alleged rape in court and did not include it in their legal argument. McCorvey’s desire to terminate the pregnancy — not her allegation of rape — is what led to the Roe v. Wade legal proceedings. We rate this  .
Statement: Democrats do not have a plan for extending the Bush tax cuts.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: August 5, 2010
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a note on Facebook
Fact-check justification: But Palin was distorting the facts when she said, "All we have is smoke and mirrors based on an old Obama campaign pledge." There is much more than that in the public record from both President Obama and Democrats in Congress. Frankly, we anticipated criticism when we published our  report on Palin, but we were not anticipating the criticism that the Democrats are hiding their intentions on tax rates for people of lower incomes, or the  that Obama has not published fairly detailed outlines of what he intends for the tax code. There is a plan, and you can see it on pages 39 and 164-165 of the budget. We rate Palin's statement .
Statement: Only about a third" of Texans who enroll in college graduate.
Speaker: scott hochberg
About the speaker: Scott Hochberg, initially elected to the Texas House in 1992, did not seek re-election in 2012.
Date: June 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: a speech at a caucus at the Texas Democratic convention
Fact-check justification: As we learned in earlier checking candidate claims about high-school graduation rates, there are several ways to sort the numbers. The state’s six-year graduation rate at universities, for example, is far higher than the rate Hochberg cites. Yet rolling students seeking associate degrees into the equation supports Hochberg’s assessment. About a third of Texas students lately graduate from a Texas college. His statement is .
Statement: Creflo Dollar needed a $65 million Gulfstream G650 to carry thousands of pounds of food and other supplies -- as well as the Word of God -- worldwide.
Speaker: juda engelmayer
About the speaker: Creflo Dollar spokesman and New York publicist Juda Engelmayer in comments to The Christian Post and The Associated Press published March 13th, 20
Date: March 13, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: religion;transparency
Context: interviews
Fact-check justification: It’s an airplane generally reserved for world leaders, the top crop of business executives and billionaires. One rationale given for buying the aircraft was that the church needed to be able to carry thousands of pounds of food and other goods -- as well as ministers bringing the Word of God -- to other parts of the world. That argument never got off the runway. It is  and bordering on . We rate it .
Statement: Clinton has "raised the most money from Washington lobbyists ... from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies (and) the defense industry.
Speaker: john edwards
About the speaker: John Edwards is a former U.S. senator from North Carolina who was John Kerry's running mate in 2004. A personal injury attorney, Edwards was born in South Carolina in 1953 and now lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. He graduated from North Carolina State University and earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School. He is married to Elizabeth Edwards, who has been diagnosed with cancer. They have three children; a fourth was killed in an auto accident. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: October 30, 2007
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Philadelphia, Pa
Fact-check justification: In October, the Huffington Post, a liberal blog, analyzed Federal Election Commission data on the campaign contributions from employees of the top five U.S. arms makers. Their study found that these individuals gave Clinton a total of $52,600, more than half of the total going to all Democratic candidates and equal to 60 percent of the total for Republican presidential hopefuls. But more extensive data analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics shows that the number one recipient from defense industry employees is, in fact, Dodd. The single-digit-polling Senator from Connecticut gathered $168,800 from the defense industry in the first nine months of this year, the Center found, while Clinton came in a close second with $123,583. So overall, we find Edwards attack on Clinton to be .
Statement: AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated.
Speaker: elijah cummings
About the speaker: Elijah E. Cummings is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland.
Date: March 16, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: This is a complex issue, and much of the detail about the retention bonuses has not yet been publicly revealed. And it's certainly debatable whether the company needs to be paying such large retention bonuses to so many employees. But the fact we are checking here is whether AIG plans to spend $57 million on retention awards for people it expects to terminate in the future. And the answer, according to the company's recent SEC filings, is yes. We rule the statement .
Statement: When I talk about (raising the) minimum wage ... half of Republicans agree with it.
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 5, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;polls and public opinion
Context: Boston
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "When I talk about (raising the) minimum wage ... half of Republicans agree with it." Republicans do support a minimum-wage hike if you don't specify a dollar figure. But once you mention the $10.10 target Obama wants, his case gets shakier. We rate the  .
Statement: Over 73% of all donations raised (from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge) are going to fundraising, overhead, executive salaries, and external donations.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: disability;health care
Context: blog posts
Fact-check justification: The blog post said that "over 73 percent of all donations raised (from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge) are going to fundraising, overhead, executive salaries, and external donations." Whether purposely or by incompetence, the anonymous blogger misreported the ALS Association’s figures. In reality, nearly 79 percent of the ALS Association’s expenditures were for purposes that advance its stated mission. Fundraising, overhead and executive salaries account for no more than 21 percent. We rate the  .
Statement: Bill Gates worked to end livestock production, and is pushing lab grown meat.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 4, 2020
Topics: environment;agriculture;food;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said "Bill Gates worked to end livestock production, and is pushing lab grown meat." Gates has invested at different times in several companies working to make meat replacements. Some of those companies are using biotechnology to grow their products in labs. But we found no  that he has tried to get rid of all livestock production. Based on the information available, we rate this post .
Statement: Says Islamic studies professor Tariq Ramadan said Muslims are here "to colonize the U.S. and Canada and spread Sharia law" and won't "hesitate to use violent Jihad" if they have to.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 20, 2019
Topics: religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: This appears to be entirely fabricated as, rape charges aside, he has called out violence within religion. It is important to note that Ramadan has spoken positively about "Jihad," but his views usually follow a mainstream  understanding of the term: "Jihad is the expression of a rejection of all injustice, as also the necessary assertion of balance and harmony in equity. One hopes for a nonviolent struggle, far removed from the horrors of armed conflict." Pointe De Bascule’s breakdown of Ramadan’s 2011 speech was republished by several anti-Islam websites, and the quote shared on social media appears to have turned into a mashup and exaggeration of Lebuis’ paraphrasing of Ramadan’s words. We rate this  .
Statement: Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: August 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a segment of CBS' ''Face The Nation.''
Fact-check justification: We found that several Republican lawmakers who originally supported the Bipartisan Task Force withdrew their co-sponsorship only days before the vote took place. Had they not done so, the proposal would have passed. At the same time, the Democratic leadership also failed to get all of its members in line -- 22 Democrats voted against the measure. Democrats also overwhelmingly voted down a Republican-backed panel that would have looked at ways to reduce the deficit through spending cuts. In all, we rate this  .
Statement: Joe Biden calls Pennsylvania voters who don't support him 'chumps.'
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: October 26, 2020
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He was referring to a very specific group of people — those disrupting his speech — and not all of the president’s supporters in the state. And his comments came as he was saying that he would be a president for all Americans, not just those who support him.   We rate this Facebook post .   This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Michael Bennet cast the deciding vote" for the stimulus and the health care bill.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: October 6, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care;history;message machine 2010;stimulus
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: The NRSC ad would have been quite justified in describing Bennet's vote for either bill as "crucial" or "necessary" to passage of either bill, or even as " a deciding vote." But we can't find any rationale for singling Bennet out as "the deciding vote" in either case. He made his support for the stimulus bill known early on and was not a holdout on either bill. To ignore that and the fact that other senators played a key role in completing the needed vote total for the health care bill, leaves out critical facts that would give a different impression from message conveyed by the ad. As a result, we rate the statement .
Statement: Says Jen Psaki said, "President Biden might need kneepads for riding his bike, but the last guy needed kneepads for visiting the Kremlin.
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: June 19, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;russia
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The Twitter handle mentioned on the Instagram post is "@psaki" — an account that does not seem to exist. (The statement also does not appear on Psaki’s archived Twitter account from her time working for the Obama administration, @Psaki44.)   We also didn’t find the tweet after searching for it more broadly online. When people delete tweets, an echo of those posts still appears in Google search results, but there were none there in this case.   We rate claims that Psaki tweeted this !
Statement: We do know that Romney personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the IRS as part of the notorious 'Son of Boss' tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history.
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: August 9, 2012
Location: national
Topics: ethics;message machine 2012;taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The Obama ad says Romney personally approved $70 million in fictional tax losses through the Son of Boss tax shelter. Marriott International used Son of Boss. At the time, the illegality of the scheme had not been proven in court, but the nature of it was clear to all participants. Romney was head of Marriott’s audit committee at the time. Experts disagree on whether the corporate board would have known about the deal and had the chance to question it. The company neither confirmed nor denied that the board approved the transaction. At some point, the board would have approved filings that included the fraudulent losses, but it’s unclear whether Romney specifically favored the tax move. The statement includes a measure of  but ignores important context. We rate it .
Statement: Maricopa County official purged machine records before audit started.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 25, 2021
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post says "Maricopa County official purged machine records before audit started." The Maricopa County Elections Department said it archived and backed up all November election data, and that nothing was deleted. Elections experts said this is standard procedure ahead of a forensic audit.  We rate this post .
Statement: Under President Obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high.
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 28, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: energy
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Obama’s commercial is accurate in saying domestic oil production is at its highest level in eight years. The suggestion of the ad, however, overstates the administration’s role in achieving these results. Much of the increase in production during under Obama has come from state and private lands that the president does not control. So we rate the statement .
Statement: Morgan Freeman called out Joe Biden for talking about "ice cream" before commenting on the Nashville, Tennessee, school shooting.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: March 29, 2023
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Biden then called on a group of children in the crowd to stand as he recognized them.   After the opening, Biden briefly addressed the shooting that had occurred that morning, saying that it was "sick" and that facts were still being gathered about what had happened; he then called for more action against gun violence. He spent the bulk of the appearance talking about women in small businesses and their impact on the economy.   As for the TikTok, Freeman didn’t call out Biden. That’s !
Statement: How many of you are aware that the female governor of Michigan is the niece of George Soros?
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 1, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Peter Soros married Flora Fraser in 1997 . Jeffrey Soros was married to Catharine Cosover in 1995.   If this disinformation connecting Whitmer to Soros seems arbitrary, keep in mind two things: A lot of anger was directed at Whitmer as she locked down Michigan to curb COVID-19, and baseless claims tying George Soros to the coronavirus have proliferated online. Combined, we have this Facebook post. And we’re rating it .
Statement: Blake Masters "wants to privatize" Social Security.
Speaker: mark kelly
About the speaker: Mark Kelly is a U.S. Senator from Arizona. Kelly is a retired astronaut and husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., who was injured in a January 2011 shooting. The couple founded advocacy group Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Date: October 26, 2022
Location: national
Topics: social security;arizona
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: Kelly said Masters "wants to privatize" Social Security. During the primary, Masters said "maybe, we should privatize Social Security." He no longer mentions that option and says he’s looking for ways to preserve the program for anyone who has counted on it being there. Kelly was speaking in the present tense and Masters is saying something different today. Kelly’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate his  . RELATED: Democrats attack Republican Social Security plans. What’s in them?
Statement: Says "Bill Gates and other globalists, in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies, are reportedly working to push tracking bracelets and 'invisible tattoos' to monitor Americans during an impending lockdown.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 18, 2020
Topics: public health;science;technology;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An online post says that Bill Gates is pushing tracking bracelets and invisible tattoos to monitor Americans during the novel coronavirus pandemic. We find no  that Gates has supported the concept of "tracking bracelets." His foundation awarded a grant to MIT to study invisible dyes that could accompany vaccines to keep track of vaccinations in developing countries. But this research began in 2016, and there is no  that it has anything to do with the current coronavirus pandemic, or to "monitor" Americans specifically.  This post takes a small kernel of  and frames it in a way that gives a  impression. We rate it .
Statement: John Kerry at COP27 climate summit spoke about wanting to "wipe out the middle class … get you under the central banking digital currency system.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 11, 2022
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: An Instagram video claimed Kerry spoke about wanting to "wipe out the middle class … get you under the central banking digital currency system." Kerry didn’t call for that during the COP27 climate summit. He spoke about private companies investing in greener technologies to combat climate change. He did not advocate for ending the middle class or implementing a central banking digital currency system. We rate this  .