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Statement: Sarah Palin Calls To Boycott Mall Of America Because 'Santa Was Always White In The Bible.'
Speaker: politicono.com
About the speaker: A website that describes itself as a "hybrid News/Satire platform on the web" that offers "a unique brand of entertainment and information." The site takes snippets of news stories and builds fabricated articles around them.
Date: December 3, 2016
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: an online article
Fact-check justification: But the entire rest of the article, detailing Palin’s supposed call to boycott the mall because of the Bible’s teachings on Santa, is completely made up. "Dear Democrats, this is what ‘ news’ actually looks like, and I guarantee you no Trump voter actually fell for this," Palin wrote on Facebook Dec. 20 , with a link to a Breitbart article debunking the Politicono.com post. Politicano.com is more forthcoming than other  news sites about the fact that it posts made-up content. But it’s still not immediately apparent that its editors fabricated the story claiming Palin said she would boycott the Mall of America because Santa was always white in the Bible. So we rate this  news article .
Statement: Biden campaign director arrested for electoral fraud.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 15, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We looked at Harris County court records and found nothing to suggest he was charged with electoral fraud. Jones told FactCheck.org , "This is completely make believe and they’re running with it. "  With no  to back the , we rate it .   This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing.
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 19, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a health care speech
Fact-check justification: In short, Obama is citing a very speculative report that doesn't speak directly to the legislation at hand. And it's a report that speaks to potential effects many years in the future. For more near-term effects, we think the CBO report is more definitive. But the Hewitt report does track a number of the provisions that were in the Senate plan in November, most of which are in the plan now before the House. We rate Obama's  .
Statement: Today gasoline hit $6 a gallon in Florida.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: February 22, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: energy;gas prices;tourism
Context: Arizona
Fact-check justification: Florida drivers can take a small measure of gratitude in the fact that gas prices are not at $6 a gallon. Or $5 a gallon. Or $4 a gallon. The statewide average is $3.70. (One note of caution: If you need to fill up near the Orlando airport, shop around!) As for Paul, we suspect he read headlines that gave the  impression on Florida gas prices. In fact, we found only two of approximately 7,100 gas stations that even come close to the price he cites. We wouldn't bring a flaming -O-Meter to a filling station, but that's what this one deserves. !
Statement: Trump: police officers and firefighters make too much money…hits them with tax penalty.
Speaker: bluedot daily
About the speaker: Bluedot Daily is a website that is critical of President Donald Trump.
Date: December 26, 2017
Topics: fake news;taxes;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Bluedot Daily said, "Trump: police officers and firefighters make too much money ... hits them with tax penalty." The tax bill eliminated employee deductions for expenses such as uniforms, but that will affect many types of employees -- not just police officers and firefighters. And we found no  that Trump stated that police and firefighters make too much money. We rate this statement .
Statement: Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it.
Speaker: sid miller
About the speaker: Sid Miller, a former Texas House member, won election as state agriculture commissioner in November 2014.
Date: March 10, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: agriculture;water
Context: a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune
Fact-check justification: Miller said Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it." Farmers are not just about maxed out, experts told us, though those who use drip irrigation may be close. Growers using sprinkler methods may get 88 percent to 95 percent efficiency. On balance, we rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money.
Speaker: cokie roberts
About the speaker: Cokie Roberts is a political journalist and commentator for ABC News. She also is a contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition. She previously was co-anchor of ABC's Sunday morning show This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts and also worked for PBS.
Date: October 4, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;pundits
Context: appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Fact-check justification: Most importantly, the nation is in the midst of a recession and engaging in deficit spending to get out of it — yet the data that are available have not caught up to the new reality. So, while the government's percentage of GDP for 2009 and beyond is likely to rise, saying so requires the use of preliminary estimates and educated guesses rather than hard data. Still, we spoke to several liberal and conservative economists, none of whom objected to including transfers in the data, and all of them said they expected the 2009 figure to be either 40 percent or close to it. Still, using the latest data, Roberts is off by 5 percentage points. So we find her  .
Statement: The First Amendment doesn't allow you to willingly lie.
Speaker: whoopi goldberg
About the speaker: Whoopi Goldberg is an award-winning actress and comedian who co-hosts ABC's daytime talk show, The View.
Date: March 8, 2023
Topics: legal issues;punditfact
Context: remarks on ABC's "The View"
Fact-check justification: Goldberg said, "The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to willingly lie." For the vast majority of speech, the First Amendment considers lies to be protected speech. There are exceptions to this general rule, but they are limited. In libel and incitement cases, for instance, the judicial bar for proving harm is high, meaning that most types of political speech cannot be challenged successfully in court. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Milwaukee police were protecting a sex offender's house and snuck children out of it after a mother tracked her missing daughter to that address.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 28, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;criminal justice;fires;legal issues
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A June 28, 2020 Facebook postclaimed Milwaukee police were protecting a sex offender's house and snuck children out of it after a mom tracked her missing daughter to that address. The post spins a series of unfounded allegations into a conspiracy theory that simply does not hold water. We rate this  .
Statement: Under Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts ranked "47th in job creation.
Speaker: david axelrod
About the speaker: David Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. He is now an analyst for NBC News.
Date: June 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs;states
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: (As we’ve noted before, Burtless contributed $750 to Obama’s campaign in 2011. However, in 2008 he provided advice on aspects of labor policy to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and he has worked as a government economist and served on federal advisory panels under presidents of both parties.) Our rating It’s correct that Massachusetts ranked 47th of 50 in job creation on Romney’s watch. However, the Obama camp -- like the Romney camp in its rebuttal --  Romney’s influence on the state job market. We rated Axelrod  a year ago, and today, we still think it merits a .
Statement: During his time as House speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent).
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: May 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: jobs
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: An e-mail to a Gingrich spokesman late Wednesday was not immediately returned. Gingrich was correct about the unemployment rate when he became House Speaker and correct that it did go down, but he was  in saying it went down to 4 percent during his term as speaker. The lowest rate it hit during his tenure as speaker was 4.3 percent. He could have easily looked it up and gotten it right. We rate his  as .
Statement: The polling shows over and over again that, unlike Donald Trump, that with me as the nominee, we beat Hillary Clinton.
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: April 11, 2016
Location: california
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: PolitiFact rated Cruz’  on CNN as . That rating means it has an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Likewise, PolitiFact California rates Cruz’  at the Irvine rally as . Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Because of the new health care law, "Americans no longer will see their coverage dropped or capped when illness strikes.
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 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;message machine 2012
Context: an Obama campaign film
Fact-check justification: The film is largely accurate that Obama’s health care law makes it all but impossible for health insurers to revoke their beneficiaries’ policies for anything short of willful fraudulence. But the law hasn’t yet entirely closed the door on limiting beneficiaries medical services. And it’s worth noting that, their media profile notwithstanding, there weren’t a large number of people who experienced revocations every year. Their number was far smaller than, say, those hurt by pre-existing condition rules, or those left uninsured after graduating from college -- the other two claims the film makes about Obama’s health care law. On balance, we rate the statement .
Statement: Says "2 moms, 5 kids killed in car crash" in a nearby county.
Speaker: countynewsroom.info
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news. It is registered in Tbilisi, Georgia, and can expose readers' computers to malware.
Date: April 10, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: The quote is unaltered, and came from a California Highway Patrol officer named Dan Williams. Another CHP officer also is quoted in some  reporting of the incident . The author of the post made minimal changes to real news stories about the accident, using the shocking specifics to fool readers into clicking. But visitors thinking they are reading about a local accident end up being fooled into exposing their computers to an attack with pornographic software. We rate this story .
Statement: Migrants at the U.S. border are "able to pay cell phone bills" after a "two-month excursion across four separate countries.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 8, 2019
Topics: immigration;technology;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Rogue Patriot claimed an image showed migrants are "able to pay cell phone bills" after a "two-month excursion across four separate countries." The photo was taken by the AP in 2017 for a story about Cuban immigrants who had been excluded from a Clinton-era amnesty policy. That context is different than that in which The Rogue Patriot posted its meme, and other fact-checkers have debunked similar claims in the past. We rate this  .
Statement: 70 percent of Florida is in drought today.
Speaker: al gore
About the speaker: Former Vice President Al Gore cofounded and chairs both Generation Investment Management and Current TV. He is on the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and is a senior advisor to Google, Inc. He is also a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University.
Gore wrote An Inconvenient Truth, a best-selling book on global warming, and is the subject of the Academy Award-winning movie of the same title.
Date: June 4, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: environment;climate change
Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday
Fact-check justification: "What matters most is global average temperature, because that drives sea level rise, which eventually will be the biggest problem." Gore said "70 percent of Florida is in drought today." Gore correctly cited the United States Drought Monitor which showed that 71.66 percent of Florida was experiencing a drought for the week ending May 30. However, that drought percentage isn’t unheard of in Florida -- there have been other periods of drought since 2000 when the monitor began mapping drought data. We rate this  .
Statement: The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: November 29, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;new hampshire 2012
Context: the "New Hampshire Union Leader"
Fact-check justification: Santorum was correct in stating the balanced budget amendment came within one vote of clearing Congress and that the vote by the Republican chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee against it was key to its failure to pass. Hatfield said he opposed it because he viewed it as a "gimmick." And Santorum and others did call for Hatfield's resignation as committee chairman. Santorum's description of his role as  of his leadership skills is an opinion, and we don't check opinions. But he has the basic history right. We give his statement a .
Statement: The University of Wisconsin System "will be much more affordable than just about any other campus in America" because "going forward we have a cap on it tied to inflation.
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: March 1, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: His  is current rankings, but they show the state is neither high nor low for student costs. And the inflationary cap the governor mentioned remains only a gleam in his eye. We rate his  . ------ More on Scott Walker For profiles and stories on Scott Walker and 2016 presidential politics, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Scott Walker page .
Statement: South Carolina has "the fastest-growing economy in the Southeast.
Speaker: nikki haley
About the speaker: Nikki Haley announced on Feb. 14, 2023 that she is running for president in the Republican primary. Haley was the governor of South Carolina 2011-2017 and then served as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the UN in 2017 and 2018.
Date: August 26, 2013
Location: national
Topics: economy;states
Context: an event to launch her reelection bid
Fact-check justification: Haley said South Carolina has "the fastest-growing economy in the Southeast." Since she took office, South Carolina had the third-highest growth rate among the 12 states that constitute the broadest definition of "southeastern." But in a geographically tighter group of eight states, South Carolina does rank first. On balance, we rate her statement .
Statement: Glenn Youngkin "called COVID relief 'unnecessary.'
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: August 23, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;stimulus;coronavirus
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe’s ad says Youngkin "called COVID relief ‘unnecessary.’"  Youngkin actually said that the economy is bulging with "unnecessary stimulus." McAuliffe has a leg to stand on because Youngkin partially blamed the problem on portions of the American Rescue Plan that sent aid to states, localities and pension plans. But McAuliffe skips important information. Youngkin also said, before the ad aired, that he supports popular aspects of the law that gave $1,400 checks to many people, increased tax deductions for children and sent aid to small businesses. McAuliffe takes liberty with Youngkin’s statement and his position on COVID relief. We rate his ad statement .
Statement: This is all about a certificate of vaccination where they get you a national ID, and then the AI can track you.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 9, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The  here that Microsoft patented 5G-powered tracking "nanotechnology" that were used in the development of any vaccines is also .There is no  to suggest that COVID-19 vaccinations, once injected, create an invisible, trackable ID in the bodies of those inoculated.   We rate this  !
Statement: For every one mile of light-rail track that will be built, 16 miles of new road capacity will be built.
Speaker: colleen kiernan
About the speaker: Colleen Kiernan is director of the Georgia Sierra Club.
Date: May 14, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "Our argument is that the amount of fixed, permanent transit infrastructure that we know will be built by the tax is overwhelmed by the amount of fixed road infrastructure we know will be built," Kiernan wrote via email. "Traditional express and local bus service is a completely different animal ... and the suggestion that ‘miles of bus service’ is somehow equivalent to miles of permanent fixed-guideway infrastructure is highly ." Kiernan’s  is essentially correct. But it needs a bit of context to move higher on the -O-Meter. Under our rating system, Kiernan gets a .
Statement: In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: October 8, 2015
Location: national
Topics: history;foreign policy
Context: an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer
Fact-check justification: Carson said, "In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin." This is one of the more bizarre claims we’ve heard so far in the 2016 presidential campaign, and that’s saying something. Abbas may have attended the university, though we don’t know for sure, or when. No credible  has yet surfaced to place Khamenei as a student in the Soviet Union -- ever, much less in close proximity to Abbas, or in 1968. And Putin would have been a teenager in 1968, attending school 450 miles away. The idea that the three men developed lifelong ties as students in the late-1960s-era Soviet Union is . !