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Statement: A 2021 article about monkeypox that used a photo of a shingles rash proves the monkeypox virus is a hoax.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 21, 2022
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The 2021 case in the Facebook screenshot predates the current outbreak.   Misinformation about monkeypox has been spreading since May 13, when the World Health Organization reported the first cases of monkeypox in countries where the virus is not usually found, including the United States. As of May 21, 92 cases had been confirmed in 12 countries non-endemic to monkeypox, with between one and five cases found in the U.S. Investigations into the origin of these outbreaks are ongoing.   The misused photo in the Facebook post doesn’t prove that monkeypox is a hoax. We rate claims that it does .
Statement: If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty.
Speaker: steve southerland
About the speaker: Steve Southerland, a funeral home owner in the Florida Panhandle, was elected to the U.S. House representing Congressional District 2 on Nov. 2, 2010. He lost re-election to Democrat Gwen Graham on Nov. 4, 2014.
Date: January 12, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;poverty;workers
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Southerland said, "If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty." That’s  only for full-time jobs. If you include both full-time jobs and part-time jobs, then the percentage drops slightly, to 93 percent. On balance, we rate his  .
Statement: The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: August 29, 2021
Topics: homeland security;foreign policy
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: Romney said that the Trump administration decided to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners. This is accurate. Part of a 2020 agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban called for the release of up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners who were held by the Afghan government. News reports and statements from Afghanistan’s president indicate that the release happened, under pressure from the Trump administration. We rate Romney’s  .
Statement: Bing Energy said it decided to move to Florida because of Gov. Rick Scott's "plan to eliminate the corporate tax.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: March 8, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: economy;state budget;taxes
Context: his State of the State speech
Fact-check justification: So the potential of getting rid of the corporate tax outweighs the reality of a university’s research and commercialization agreement? We don’t think any hard-headed business person would buy that. That's the way Minardi described it, and Scott quotes him accurately. But we think both men are overlooking important details that would put this deal in a different light. We rate Scott’s statement .
Statement: People are going door to door in Colorado Springs stating they are COVID testing so they can rob people!!!!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 17, 2020
Location: colorado
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The department’s dispatch had not fielded any calls along those lines.   Often, residents will call police if people come to their doors selling, say, magazines, Sokolik said — they want to make sure they’re legitimate. But the department hasn’t received even those kinds of reports lately.   While online coronavirus scams abound , we found no news coverage of robbers like the Facebook post describes in Colorado.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says JFK. Jr is masquerading as QAnon promoter Juan O. Savin.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 3, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Vice reported that a book published under Savin’s name disclosed that his real name is Wayne Willott. Savin made a rare public appearance at a QAnon conference called For God And Country Patriot Double Down, where he made claims of a globalist plan to depopulate the earth.    We’ve fact checked similar claims and found no  to support it. Nor is there  that Savin is secretly John F. Kennedy, Jr. We rate this !
Statement: The Castro regime 'violated international norms' by secretly shipping weapons to North Korea in violation of a U.N. embargo.
Speaker: david perdue
About the speaker: David Perdue is running in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Georgia. He was a U.S. Senator from January 2015 to January 2021. He has been the CEO of several businesses and is the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Date: April 15, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: congress;terrorism
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: He said that the Castro regime in Cuba has violated international norms. Among the specific examples he cited was Cuba "secretly shipping 240 metric tons of weapons to North Korea in 2013 in violation of a U.N. embargo." News reports and statements from the administration back up Perdue’s  about the incident. The administration said it narrowly focused on whether Cuban provided any support for international terrorism in the prior six months and whether the Cuban government had provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future, That is context the reader needs. For that reason, we rate Perdue's statement .
Statement: The state crime lab under Attorney General Josh Kaul "is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to test many categories of key items in comparison to Schimel, including DNA.
Speaker: eric toney
About the speaker: Fond du Lac County District Attorney and Republican candidate for Attorney General. Veteran prosecutor Toney defeated former state Rep. Adam Jarchow to win the Republican nomination for Wisconsin attorney general in the August 9, 2022 primary.
Date: April 14, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues;crime
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: Toney claimed the state crime lab under Kaul "is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to test many categories of key items in comparison to Schimel, including DNA." Reports from the Department of Justice show that overall cases are down from 2018, Schimel’s last year at the helm, and 2021 under Kaul. What’s more, in six of 10 categories monitored, including the vital DNA category, the median processing time is up under Kaul, sometimes dramatically so. And while the lab under Kaul improved in some areas, Toney’s  was limited in scope – to "many categories." We feel he met that mark, and rate his  .
Statement: Public trust in our election system is at an all-time low.
Speaker: dan blue
About the speaker: Dan Blue is a North Carolina state Senator from Raleigh. He serves as the minority leader.
Date: December 6, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections
Fact-check justification: Blue claimed that "public trust in our election system is at an all-time low." That  is largely undermined by the lack of historical data. Some studies suggest declining confidence, but those are incomplete or outdated. And some of the strongest, most recent data doesn’t support Blue’s tweet. We rate his  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. *Democracy Fund is a financial supporter of PolitiFact.
Statement: My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us.
Speaker: anita perry
About the speaker: Anita Perry became the First Lady of Texas when her husband, Rick, became governor in late 2000. According to a biographical post on the governor's website, she is dedicated to improving the health of her state, preserving its culture and promoting its business climate. Her husband didn't seek re-election in 2014.
Date: October 14, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;pensions
Context: a campaign stop
Fact-check justification: Given the unknowns, it’s tempting to say we can’t judge Anita Perry’s . It’s possible Griffin Perry could have volunteered for the campaign and kept his job. But we think it’s more reasonable to conclude that the SEC rule hastened his departure. We rate the  .
Statement: Because of the federal health care law, "300,000 health plans canceled" in Florida.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: March 24, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a television ad from Let's Get to Work
Fact-check justification: Scott's TV ad says, "300,000 health plans canceled," attributing the number to news reports. Last fall, Florida Blue started sending letters to 300,000 members stating that their plans didn’t comply with Obamacare and would be canceled. However, the ad omits key information here: Members were offered new plans that complied with the law. Obama later announced that people could keep their plans for another year and most of the Florida Blue members have kept their pre-Obamacare plans for now. The statement has an element of  but leaves out important details, so we rate this  .
Statement: House Democrats have kicked Rep. Ilhan Omar out of Congress
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 8, 2022
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video said that House Democrats kicked Omar out of Congress. House members do have the authority to expel members, but it’s rarely used and requires a two-thirds majority vote. Such an expulsion would generate news coverage, but there is none. Omar held a town hall meeting with constituents last month and is running for re-election in August. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Chris Rock apologized after 94th Academy Awards, saying, "Last night I crossed a line that I shouldn't have and paid the enormous price of my reputation as a renown comedian.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 28, 2022
Topics: pop culture;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) "As a comedian it can be difficult to understand which lines are to be crossed and which ones aren't," Rock’s alleged statement read. "Last night I crossed a line that I shouldn't have and paid the enormous price of my reputation as a renown comedian." The grammatically problematic statement attributed to Rock  continued for a few more sentences with a "sincere apology" to Smith and actress Jada Pinkett-Smith before ending with Rock’s "hope that, with time, forgiveness can come of this situation and we can all be better, more considerate people in the end. "
Statement: Barack Obama "is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: July 17, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview with the <i>Kansas City Star</i>
Fact-check justification: Even Charles Green, National Journal's editor, says he'd be wary of putting too much stock in any one rating methodology. "There's pluses and minuses to each rating system. If you look at a number of them, I think you have a pretty good picture," he told PolitiFact in June. So while McCain can make a case that Obama was more liberal than Sanders in 2007, that conclusion is more a matter of opinion than fact. As a result, we find his statement .
Statement: More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 18, 2012
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: on the Internet
Fact-check justification: Sure. But even if every single one somehow managed to fool the government, it still wouldn't be enough to account for the 43 percent. Our rating The first of the Facebook post’s 10 claims -- that "more than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals" -- is  . It isn’t mathematically possible given the number of illegal immigrants in the United States, and it ignores the fact that illegal immigrants can’t even receive food stamps legally. !
Statement: Says there's not "much evidence to suggest that people have (contributed to global warming) or can do very much to change anything.
Speaker: kevin coughlin
About the speaker: Kevin Coughlin is a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Sherrod Brown.
Coughlin is a former state senator from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He represented Summit County in the Ohio Senate from 2001 to 2011. Prior to that he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1997 to 2001.
Date: August 18, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;climate change
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: One 2010 study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , found that 97 to 98 percent out of 1,372 climate researchers who are publishing scientific studies in the field say they believe that human beings are causing climate change, and that the scientific credentials of researchers who doubt that role are "substantially below that of the convinced researchers." A study published the previous year by the American Geophysical Union, asked more than 3,100 scientists whether they think human activity significantly contributes to "changing mean global temperatures." About 82 percent of the surveyed scientists answered "Yes," with a 97.4 percent affirmative rate among climate change specialists. While a few skeptics out there disagree, there’s clear scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that humans contribute to it. Disagreement on the subject is scant enough that we rule Coughlin’s statement is .
Statement: CNN's ratings are "way down.
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: June 27, 2017
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: CNN just posted it's most-watched second quarter in history. Those are the facts. Trump said CNN’s ratings are "way down." In fact, CNN is at a five-year high in several key categories, according to data provided by the Nielsen Company. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent" while "the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: January 21, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;income;pundits;taxes
Context: HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
Fact-check justification: The median wage in the country, expressed in constant 2009 dollars, does appear to be in the range Maddow cited (though with statistics broken out separately for men and women, we can't be precise). As for Maddow's  that the top 1 percent saw their income go up that decade by roughly 80 percent, that's close but only if you cite numbers that do not include capital gains. It's not unreasonable to cite those numbers, but the economists we spoke to preferred to use figures that included capital gains, which show the top 1 percent saw an increase of 55 percent. Either way, Maddow's point that the 1980s were much more of a boon for the very rich than everyone else is valid. And so we rate Maddow's statement .
Statement: I was the first member of Congress to contribute to Donald Trump.
Speaker: lamar smith
About the speaker: Lamar Smith is a Republican congressman from a San Antonio-based district in Texas. He became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2011.
Date: November 9, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: campaign finance;candidate biography;elections
Context: a web post and email blast
Fact-check justification: Smith said: "I was the first member of Congress to contribute to" Trump for president. Corroborating records appear to be imperfect. But Smith reported contributions to the Trump cause in May 2016 and we didn’t find any sign of other members of Congress donating to Trump before July 2016. We rate this statement .  – 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e1c6e749-beca-48a4-b19a-5678ba871cf3
Statement: We don't have any" chess grandmasters in the United States.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: October 10, 2016
Location: national
Topics: sports
Context: Ambridge, Pa
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We don't have any" chess grandmasters in the United States. Actually, the United States has 90 grandmasters, the third most of any country, and the U.S. team recently won chess’ biggest international tournament for the first time in eight decades. We rate the statement .
Statement: A congressional laundry closed due to the partial government shutdown.
Speaker: roger williams
About the speaker: Roger Williams won election to represent the newly created Congressional District 25 in 2012. He is a former Texas secretary of state, the state's chief elections officer. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 as chairman of the Republican National Finance Committee’s Eagles fundraising program and also has served as state finance chair for John Cornyn's 2002 Senate campaign, according to his campaign website.
Date: October 11, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: debt;federal budget
Context: a newspaper article
Fact-check justification: Williams said a congressional laundry was closed due to the government shutdown. Save for a few hours the first Thursday of October, the House’s official cleaners was closed in connection with the partial government shutdown. We rate this  as .  – 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: Says if you take the oath of office on the Koran, "then you have committed treason.
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: January 16, 2020
Topics: islam;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The photos showing Ellison, Tlaib and Omar with their hands on Qurans are from ceremonial events, re-enacting their swearing-in.   "That’s when you’ll see a hand on a religious text," Fred Beuttler, then the deputy historian of the House, told ABC in 2006. "But that’s an informal ceremony for the members or the members’ own purposes. It’s not the official swearing-in ceremony of the House, when no religious text is used." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Last year, we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi.
Speaker: glen sturtevant
About the speaker: Sturtevant, an attorney, is a member of the Richmond School Board. He is seeking the 10th District state senate seat held by outgoing GOP Sen. John Watkins.
Date: August 18, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: economy
Context: a candidates' forum
Fact-check justification: Sturtevant said that Virginia had zero percent economic growth last year, the third worst result in the nation. We rate his statement .
Statement: Saturday Night Live executive producer "Lorne Michaels could be put in jail under this amendment for making fun of any politician.
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: September 9, 2014
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;legal issues
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Cruz said that "Lorne Michaels could be put in jail under this amendment for making fun of any politician." Most experts we talked to agreed that the proposed amendment’s language left open the door to that possibility. But many of those same experts emphasized that prosecuting, much less imprisoning, a comedian for purely political speech would run counter to centuries of American tradition, and would face many obstacles at a variety of government levels and run headlong into popular sentiment. In the big picture, Cruz makes a persuasive case that it’s not a good idea to mess with the First Amendment. Still, his SNL scenario is far-fetched. The  is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .