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Statement: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes.
Speaker: katie pavlich
About the speaker: Katie Pavlich is a conservative journalist for Townhall.com and a Fox News contributor.
Date: June 18, 2014
Topics: financial regulation;punditfact
Context: an article on Townhall.com
Fact-check justification: Pavlich recently wrote for Townhall, "the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, through the power of Dodd-Frank, passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes through a cease-and-desist order." She is mistaken, an attorney who represents the financial services industry told us. Pavlich ignores several key facts about the agency’s temporary cease-and-desist authority. Namely, it’s not unprecedented, it’s not issued without reason, and it’s meant to stop violations of law, not the business altogether. We rate her  .
Statement: The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn't even have any oil for America.
Speaker: kirsten gillibrand
About the speaker: Kirsten Gillibrand is a senator from New York. Gillibrand was appointed as senator in 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat, as Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to retain her senate seat and won re-elections in 2012 and 2018. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the representative of New York’s 20th Congressional District. Gillibrand received a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: March 27, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: energy;oil spill
Context: Plattsburgh
Fact-check justification: Gillibrand said the Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America." Experts say the oil will not be exported straight to other countries, as Gillibrand said. It is  that exports of petroleum products from Gulf Coast refineries have increased considerably in recent years. That’s part of why PolitiFact rated a similar statement by Obama  in 2014. While the trend adds a grain of  to her , it does not mean all of the oil that will come from the Keystone XL pipeline will be immediately exported. We rate Gillibrand’s  .
Statement: FOX Network Picks Up 'Roseanne,' Saying It Has No Problem With Occasional Racism
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 31, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We advise that you double-check each information on the internet before you take it as a ," the About Us page said. Unless Potus Press readers click the link at the end of the story, there is no label or tag identifying the post as satire. One of the commenters on the story wrote, "I am so happy to hear this." Potus Press’ story about Roseanne  being picked up by Fox Networks Group is made up. We rate it !
Statement: Michigan and Massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and "could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there.
Speaker: jeff kruse
About the speaker: Jeff Kruse represents Senate District 1, which includes Roseburg. He is co-owner of Kruse Farms.
Date: May 25, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: environment
Context: on the Oregon Senate floor
Fact-check justification: Kruse tried to persuade his Senate colleagues that too-high deposits in Michigan and Massachusetts were crippling those programs. But Michigan says that’s not the case and Massachusetts doesn’t even have a higher deposit rate. Kruse doesn’t have any  to back up his . The statement is not just  -- it’s . We rate it .
Statement: Says a pro-choice activist in California 'proudly breaks world record by getting her 27th abortion'
Speaker: worldnewsdailyreport.com
About the speaker: worldnewsdailyreport.com is a fake news satirical website.
Date: October 15, 2018
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Finally, no one knows more about world records than Guinness World Records. Rachel Gluck, a spokeswoman for Guinness World Records North America, said she searched the organization's database and found no  that such a title exists: "After researching within our database," Gluck wrote in an email, "I cannot confirm that this is a title Guinness World Records would monitor." We rate this headline . Update: This report was updated after its initial publication to include a response from Guinness World Records.
Statement: Says Bernie Sanders "voted for what we call the 'Charleston Loophole.'
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: January 17, 2016
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: the South Carolina Democratic debate
Fact-check justification: But Roof was able to purchase the gun after a three-day waiting period expired. Sanders voted in 1993 to shorten the time window for the government to conduct its check. Roof was able to purchase a gun after waiting out a three-day time limit on background checks. We rate this  . Clarification: This fact-check was edited on Jan. 19 to clarify waiting periods and and time limits on background checks.
Statement: There currently are 825,000 student stations sitting empty across Florida in every district and at every grade level.
Speaker: yes on 8
About the speaker: "Yes on 8 Florida" is a group urging residents to vote in favor of Amendment 8, which would change a 2002 amendment about class sizes.
Date: October 18, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: children;education;florida amendments
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: Second, the way the statement is written literally suggests that each school district has 825,000 empty seats. Common sense tells you that would be impossible so we think it was just poor word choice, not an intentional exaggeration. We must note that the 825,000 figure statewide still doesn't give a  picture of class size because it implies that districts can shuffle students around as needed to meet the requirements, and common sense tells you that's difficult, too. Still, the number we're ruling on is close enough. We rate this  .
Statement: Trump said 'hundreds' of governors are calling him…& we only have 50.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 21, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: On April 20, the White House tweeted about a "call with all 50 governors." During a press conference later that day , Trump said that Vice President Mike Pence "spoke with governors from all 50 states about our unified effort to defeat the virus." Searching Factbase for interviews, speeches and tweets in which Trump mentions governors and hundreds, we found several instances but none in which he says he’s received calls from hundreds of governors.   Several other fact-checkers have also looked into posts claiming Trump said hundreds of governors have called him, but no such remark has surfaced. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Polls indicate that "white people think that black people are less intelligent. They think they're less trustworthy, less patriotic.
Speaker: juan williams
About the speaker: Juan Williams is a Fox pundit.
Date: June 22, 2015
Topics: civil rights;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Williams said polls show that white people think that black people are less intelligent, less trustworthy and less patriotic. The veracity of Williams'  hinges on how you interpret his comments. One way: That whites are more likely to hold negative opinions of blacks (than they do of fellow whites or blacks do of blacks), is largely accurate. But a second way: That a majority of whites hold negative opinions of blacks, is . On the question of patriotism, the data are thin. But what we have suggests that Williams is . Williams’ statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: Florida man on drugs kills imaginary friend and turns himself in.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 30, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: John Medina, a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, said he could not find an incident that matched the scenario described in the Facebook post.   A TinEye search revealed that the mugshot used in the post appeared online in 2011, years before the purported arrest.   A Snopes reporter traced the picture in the Facebook post to a Florida resident whose  photo appeared on WTSP-TV’s now-defunct mugshot gallery. The crime included in the Facebook post is as imaginary as Gaylord’s make-believe companion. We rate this  !
Statement: Video shows "HAARP gets destroyed" by protesters.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 8, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The video can also be found embedded in a 2018 article in Metrópoles, which said the protest and tearing down of the electrical substation stemmed from land and water disputes. Another article doesn’t show the video but shows the aftermath of the protest and power poles on the ground. They look nothing like the giant antennas at HAARP. There is no  that any HAARP equipment was destroyed, and the video claiming it happened is from a 2017 protest at a farm in Brazil, during which electrical towers were knocked down. We rate the  .
Statement: Obama Makes Huge Move to BAN Social Security Recipients From Owning Guns
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 20, 2015
Location: national
Topics: disability;retirement;social security;guns
Context: various conservative websites
Fact-check justification: Bloggers such as the Conservative Tribune wrote headlines like this one: "SPREAD THIS: Obama Makes Huge Move to BAN Social Security Recipients From Owning Guns." This is a vast exaggeration of the actual policy under consideration. It would not affect all Social Security recipients, but rather those who have already been declared mentally incompetent, and thus ineligible under current law from purchasing a gun. And it is targeted at blocking gun purchases, not taking away guns from people who already have them. Only in California could the policy lead to increased gun seizures, and only -- potentially -- for mentally incompetent residents of the state who would be newly added to the background check database.  Obama has not made a sweeping move to disarm gun-owning senior citizens, as these websites . We rate the  .
Statement: Says there was a "NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists.
Speaker: paul manafort
About the speaker: Paul Manafort is the chairman for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Date: August 14, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview on "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Manafort said there was a "NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists" the week Trump made his comments about "Second Amendment people." Russian media speculated that there was a second attempted coup at Incirlik air base in Turkey. That incident was exaggerated and occurred two weeks before Trump’s comments. Furthermore, though it houses NATO troops, Incirlik is not a NATO base. Neither Incirlik or NATO’s central headquarters in Izmir, Turkey, have been attacked by terrorists. The event Manafort described did not happen. We rate Manafort’s  !
Statement: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris forced our troops to sleep on the floor of a garage, yet has authorized $89 million for hotel rooms for illegal immigrants.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 21, 2021
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says, "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris forced our troops to sleep on the floor of a garage, yet has authorized $89 million for hotel rooms for illegal immigrants, who broke the law to get into this country." There is no  that Biden and Harris ordered the National Guard to relocate from the Capitol to parking garages. The Guard told PolitiFact that the request to move the troops is believed to have come from a Capitol Police officer.  Axios and Fox have reported that the Biden administration awarded a contract to use hotel rooms to provide shelter and processing services for migrant families. The contract was for a little less, $86 million, and the Biden administration is not the first administration to use hotels near the border to house children and families who enter the country illegally.  This  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.  .
Statement: The Buffalo protester pushed to the ground "had been previously arrested 300 times. 82 times for incitement. Riots is what he does for a living.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 9, 2020
Topics: criminal justice;crime;race and ethnicity;public safety
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said, "Gugino had been previously arrested 300 times. 82 times for incitement. Riots is what he does for a living." We found no  that Gugino has been arrested more than the four times he mentions on his personal blog, let alone 300 times. Friends describe him as a peaceful protester. We rate this statement . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States.
Speaker: sergey lavrov
About the speaker: Sergey Lavrov has been the minister of foreign affairs for Russia since 2004. Previously, he served as Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations.
Date: December 16, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;foreign policy
Context: an interview with the French television network France 24
Fact-check justification: Lavrov said, "Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States." Actually, the data shows that at least 81 percent of members in the recently concluded Congress have taken overseas trips on official business, and the actual percentage is almost certainly higher once all sorts of travel are included, including personal travel completed before being elected to Congress. We rate his  !
Statement: We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: May 18, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Abbott said that there are now more job openings in the state than the number of people receiving unemployment benefits, and that the number of job openings today is 60% higher than the number recorded in the month before the pandemic.    Based on Texas Workforce Commission methodology, there are 1,022,000 job postings on state-run and privately run job boards, some of which represent more than one job. That should total slightly more than the 1,029,890 Texans on unemployment as of the most recent data. Furthermore, that 1,022,000 number is indeed about 60% higher than the 645,000 job openings the Texas Workforce Commission counted in February 2020.    We rate this  .
Statement: A judge has ordered a "HAND RECOUNT by an INDEPENDENT COMMISSION in the state of Michigan, following hard evidence of voting fraud by Detroit City Election Commission.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 10, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a screenshot
Fact-check justification: "Judge Kenny hasn’t ruled on anything in the Costantino case — the hearing hasn’t even happened yet," Wimmer said. The Facebook post is . We rate it . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: October 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;foreign policy;military
Context: Florida
Fact-check justification: Clinton said when Trump was asked if he would defend our allies, "He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them." Trump has raised questions about other NATO nations not paying their fair share for defense. In a New York Times interview, Trump was asked if he would defend NATO members against an attack by Russia, and he said "if they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes." Trump also told the Wall Street Journal that if allies "don’t pay up, they’ve backed out of their obligations, then we no longer have an obligation to defend them." We rate Clinton’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/cc782919-03c6-40c7-b854-2f9c766e1198
Statement: In 2010, Clinton "said Iran could enrich uranium. In 2014 she said she's always argued against it.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: July 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention
Fact-check justification: McConnell said that Clinton changed her views on allowing Iran to enrich uranium. He claimed that she was open to allowing enrichment in 2010, and then in 2014, denied that she was ever open to the idea. A full reading shows that in 2014, Clinton was talking about whether Iran enjoyed a legal right to enrichment, and she said it did not. An arms control expert we reached agreed that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that Iran signed does not grant that right. In addition, in that 2014 interview, Clinton did not reject the idea that through negotiations, Iran might be allowed to enrich uranium. The conditions she described in 2014 are similar to the ones in a 2010 interview with the BBC and even more like her House testimony just a few months later in 2011. In 2011, she called for enrichment "under very strict conditions." In 2014, she said allowing enrichment would be a fallback position under "a clear set of restrictions." The words are not identical, but there’s not enough here to say she changed her position. We rate this  .
Statement: On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit.
Speaker: lee fisher
About the speaker: Lee Fisher is the former lieutenant governor of Ohio. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
Date: September 7, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;history;foreign policy;message machine 2010;trade
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: (That makes it safer than a prior Fisher  that PolitiFact Ohio ruled  -- that Portman was "the one who actually sucked the jobs out of the (Mahoning) Valley and sent them to China.") So let's review what we found. The ad overstated how big the jump in both statistics was, but in both cases, the numbers did increase significantly on Portman's watch. And while we acknowledge that Portman isn't the only factor -- nor, perhaps, even the primary factor -- in the course of both economic trends, we do think that in the middle of a campaign, challenging an opponent on his record in office is fair game. On balance, we rate the item .
Statement: The media "pulled down an entire shelf of goods so that they can present the news of people buying stuff in a hysteria over the coronavirus.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 4, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: This is one of the many conspiracy theories and hoaxes that have gained traction online. Another popular conspiracy theory baselessly claims that the media and Democrats are overhyping the threat of the coronavirus to hurt President Donald Trump’s re-election chances. This Facebook post is part and parcel of that conspiracy. It is  and makes a  . We rate it !
Statement: Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism.
Speaker: mark brodeur
About the speaker: Mark Brodeur is director of tourism at the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. A graduate of Johnson & Wales University in Providence, he has worked in the tourism and hospitality industry for 25 years.
Date: December 2, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;state budget;states;taxes
Context: a Providence Journal story
Fact-check justification: At 68 cents, we were well above both those amounts. When Brodeur says that Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism, that's  only if you ignore each state's population. Once that is factored into the equation, no matter which "average" you look at, his statement is . But in the end, Brodeur's broader point that, compared with other states, Rhode Island spends very little promoting tourism is correct, especially when you take into consideration the fact that Rhode Island's tourism office had a budget of nearly $3 million in 1994 . So Brodeur gets an "I survived the -O-Meter" T-shirt and a ruling of .