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Statement: Titan submersible passenger Shahzada Dawood is the World Economic Forum's vice chairman.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 21, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Shahzada Dawood was a British-Pakistani businessman and a member of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families, The New York Times reported.   He also serves as a trustee on the boards of the Engro Foundation and the Dawood Foundation and serves as a director across boards of several companies, according to his profile on the Engro website.   The World Economic Forum website said, "Shahzada is a leading voice in the institutionalization of key international networks and contacts. He aspires to a sustainable future and believes in inclusive business models involving low-income communities building value chains along business interests." We rate the Instagram video’s  .
Statement: The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.
Speaker: mark assini
About the speaker: Mark Assini is the Republican Town Supervisor of Gates, NY in Monroe County. He is currently running to represent New York's 25th Congressional District.
Date: October 18, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a debate on WROC
Fact-check justification: At a debate between candidates in the 25th Congressional District, Assini said, "The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter." Financial support for the new photonics institute comes from Department of Defense funds that existed before Congress approved the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2014.  The Department of Defense says Rochester was selected based on the application prepared by SUNY Polytechnic Institute. The state says no lawmakers were involved in crafting the application, but Slaughter did ask the Obama administration to consider Rochester in the selection process. We rate Assini’s  as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/0a6ff59a-dc68-4f2b-907f-a66231686f02
Statement: Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year.
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: October 29, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The $2,500-per-family savings that Obama mentioned in his ad is a speculative estimate of what he hopes will happen once all the pieces of his plan are in place. It's $500 to $1,000 dollars higher than the number we came up with using Thorpe's independent analysis. We recognize that plans are vague and it's difficult to predict future numbers with any precision. But Obama's numbers are significantly higher than the best independent estimate we could find. So we find his statement .
Statement: The pipe bombs were never mailed.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 25, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The complaint describes such a package containing an IED—made with approximately six inches of PVC pipe, a small clock, a battery, wiring and energetic material—delivered via U.S. mail to George Soros’s home among others in October. After interviewing U.S. Postal Service employees, federal officials determined that between about Oct. 18 and Oct. 20, packages sent to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Robert De Niro, Maxine Waters and Joe Biden were routed through the USPS Royal Palm Mail Processing Center in Opa-Locka, Florida. So bloggers are right that the packages had six stamps, but the pipes used to make the IEDs were lightweight plastic, not steel. CBS News reported on Oct. 26 that investigators think whoever put the devices together was trying to keep the weight down so that they could drop them in a mailbox without having to go to a post office. We rate this statement .
Statement: In his very first budget, (Milwaukee) Mayor Tom Barrett broke his pledge to keep a lid on property taxes and has continued increasing taxes and fees ever since.
Speaker: republican governors association
About the speaker: the gubernatorial campaign arm of the Republican Party.
Date: March 22, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city budget;taxes
Context: a website alert
Fact-check justification: A new fee -- the stormwater management charge -- went into effect under Barrett. Our conclusion The Republican Governors Association said, "In his very first budget, (Milwaukee) Mayor Barrett broke his pledge to keep a lid on property taxes and has continued increasing taxes and fees ever since." The group is  on Barrett’s first budget, no matter which of Barrett’s promises you consider. But there’s an element of  in the part of the  alleging continual fee and tax increases, depending on how you define fees. We rate the RGA statement .
Statement: A patch on law enforcement officers in Portland is for "ZTI solutions, a PRIVATE contractor.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 25, 2020
Location: oregon
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: ZTI Solutions, whose website appears to be down, is a small business founded in 1997 and based in Edinburg, Va. It provides "consultative, engineering, and architecture services," according to an archived version of its website. We found no government contracts mentioning ZTI Solutions on the General Services Administration website. The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists.
Speaker: jason villalba
About the speaker: Jason Villalba, a lawyer, won his first term in the Texas House in 2012.
Date: October 13, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;history
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Villalba said Sanders "admits he is a democratic socialist… Nazis were Democratic Socialists." Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. The Nazis were not democratic socialists. Whether or not Villalba intended to link Sanders to the Nazis, his tweet neatly did the job. We find this  historically  and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: When Roy Barnes was governor, "Georgia created 235,000 jobs.
Speaker: roy barnes
About the speaker: Roy Barnes is the former governor of Georgia.
Date: May 21, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: But overall, economic data show the state's economy did grow. Georgia's overall gross domestic product grew from about $224 billion to $267 billion. Georgia's annual personal income -- the income received by all the residents of the state -- increased during Barnes' time as well. Barnes' statement was correct but gave the impression that employment conditions were stronger than they were. We therefore rate Barnes'  as .
Statement: Baby boomers didn't have autism, seizures, allergies and other ailments when they were kids.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 18, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: This post wrongly suggests that baby boomers only suffered measles, mumps and chickenpox while children today endure a slew of new ailments. While cases of some of these diseases and disorders are more prevalent now than they were in children born in the 1940s to the mid-1960s, these are not new illnesses.  Some people commenting on the post also connected the supposed new medical problems to vaccines, but there’s no credible  to support that. Meanwhile, vaccines have reduced cases of measles, mumps and chickenpox among children today.  We rate this post .
Statement: The IRS scandal "clearly showed some criminal behavior.
Speaker: mike rogers
About the speaker: Mike Rogers is a Republican from Michigan who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2015, including a stint as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. A former FBI special agent, he is now a national security commentator for CNN.
Date: June 16, 2013
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;taxes
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Rogers said the IRS scandal "clearly showed some criminal behavior," but the experts we interviewed were skeptical that such a threshold has been met, at least for now. Proving a civil rights violation would be hard, requiring  of officials’ intent to deny someone’s civil rights. More plausibly, prosecutors could go after officials for  statements or perjury, though it would be a stretch to call that part of the original targeting scandal that Rogers referred to on Face the Nation . In all, experts said Rogers’ use of the adverb "clearly" went too far. If anything, they suggested, "murky" might be a more appropriate descriptor. Not all the  is in, but Rogers is pushing the envelope well beyond what is publicly known today. We rate his  .
Statement: Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.
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: September 17, 2007
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Des Moines, Iowa
Fact-check justification: At the time, the two physicians wrote in Health Affairs , "For decades, vendors have capitalized on this enthusiasm. But hospitals and clinics have ended up with little to show for their large outlays." Himmelstein said Tuesday that promises of big savings through information technology is "pure vaporware." "And though there's some  that disease management improves care, there's no  it saves money," he said. "People getting in to see their doctors means more cost, not less."
Statement: First volunteer in UK coronavirus vaccine trial has died.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 25, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: "We urge people not to give these any credibility and to not circulate them." Considering the attention paid to the  news about her death, Granato’s actual passing would have certainly drawn media coverage. But as we prepared to publish this fact-check, the most recent report we could find about her was a May 5 story in the Oxford Student, a student newspaper at Oxford. It quotes Granato saying she was randomly chosen as the first person to be vaccinated, resulting in "a lot of attention from the media, countless emails from all over the world and — sadly — some pretty vicious online attacks by individuals and groups opposed to vaccines. "  We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says Ted Cruz supports "legalizing people who are in this country illegally.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: December 15, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Rubio said Cruz "is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally."  Cruz proposed an amendment in 2013 to the immigration bill that would have stripped the citizenship provision. But it would have kept intact the language in the Senate bill that allowed illegal immigrants to still apply for the Registered Provisional Immigrant program in the overall bill, which would have resulted in a work permit and 10 years later application for permanent residency. But it’s a stretch for Rubio to label Cruz as a supporter of legalization when he was an ardent critic of the overall bill for months and voted against it. Cruz’s amendment appeared to be a legislative tactic. We rate this statement .
Statement: After 9/11, Jim put us all first by serving for 23 months in Iraq, the war's longest tour.
Speaker: jim mowrer
About the speaker: Jim Mowrer is a Democrat running for Congress in Iowa's 3rd District. 
Date: September 6, 2016
Location: iowa
Topics: public service
Context: In a television ad
Fact-check justification: The ad claims Mowrer served "for 23 months in Iraq, the war’s longest tour." It’s  that Mowrer’s unit was deployed for 23 months, the longest continuous deployment of the Iraq War. But the ad says Mowrer "served in Iraq for 23 months," which is not accurate. Mowrer served in Iraq for about 16 months.   Being deployed, which can include training in the United States, is different from being "in country," with boots on the ground of a foreign nation.  We rate this  .
Statement: Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014.
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: May 24, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;women;workers
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Trump’s post said, "Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014." If you allow some leeway on what accounts for top staff, Trump is close on the numbers. But the statistical pool is too limited and the methodology is too crude to demonstrate  of hypocrisy. Trump is guilty of ignoring the nuances of gender-based wage disparities, just as Democrats often over-simplify the meaning of the 77-cent figure. The statement is partially accurate but takes things out of context, so we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ba673130-73fe-4886-9d2d-d3a5f79b4428
Statement: As mayor, Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley, "which now supports nearly 4,000 jobs in Wisconsin.
Speaker: tom barrett
About the speaker: Tom Barrett served as the 44th mayor of Milwaukee from 2004 until 2021. The mayoral position is non-partisan. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1984–1989), Wisconsin Senate (1989–1993) and U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2003).
Barrett lost bids for governor in 2002, 2010 and in the 2012 recall race against Gov. Scott Walker. He was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg on Dec. 23, 2021.
Date: November 10, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a campaign video and numerous other campaign statements
Fact-check justification: For instance, Harley originally expected to build an office complex with nearly 400 jobs near its museum, but those plans have been on hold since the economy tanked. Nevertheless, there is plenty to look at in assessing Barrett’s . As a former candidate for governor, and current civic cheerleader, Mayor Tom Barrett boasts of creating thousands of jobs in the Menomonee Valley. While overall jobs in the city are down, and Barrett came into office with some key assets put in place by his predecessors, our tally puts new jobs in the valley since 2004 at more than 4,000. We rate Barrett’s statement .
Statement: The percentage of Americans with natural immunity from getting COVID-19 is "a very powerful vaccine in itself.
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: December 8, 2020
Topics: public health;health check
Context: comments made during a White House Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit
Fact-check justification: Though Trump was in the ballpark when he referenced the share of Americans who have been infected with the coronavirus, his overall point -- that the natural immunity these people acquired is a powerful vaccine -- does not hold up. Experts repeatedly have warned that not enough is known about the immunity people appear to gain after recovering from a COVID-19 infection to know how effective or lasting it is. And there have been reported cases of COVID re-infections. Also, experts agree more than 70% of the U.S. population needs to be vaccinated in order to reach herd immunity. Fifteen percent is nowhere close to that threshold and should not be considered as effective as a COVID-19 vaccine. Moreover, that 15% statistic brought with it hundreds of thousands of deaths. We rate this  .
Statement: I cut spending while serving in the state Legislature
Speaker: marilinda garcia
About the speaker: Marilinda Garcia is a state representative in New Hampshire and a candidate for New Hampshire's Second Congressional District in 2014. She is a Republican.
Date: December 11, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: state budget;states;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Garcia said, "I cut spending while serving in the state Legislature." Her voting record on the state budget -- which comprises any legislator’s biggest impact on state spending -- show that Garcia voted against every budget that increased spending and voted in favor of the O’Brien budget that cut state spending for the first time since World War II. We found two minor asterisks. Even though she voted against the most recent state budget, she didn’t oppose it because it increased spending -- she opposed it because of how it treated a program that governs hospital construction and expansion. And she supported a bill on telephone and communication company poles and conduits that would have had the effect of raising taxes. Still, there are few, if any, votes she’s taken that would have increased spending or increased the size of government.  On balance, we rate her statement .
Statement: Nearly 20 million Americans ... have gained health insurance since (the Affordable Care Act) passed in 2010.
Speaker: joe manchin
About the speaker: Joe Manchin is a U.S. senator from West Virginia. The former governor of West Virginia won a special election in November 2010 to complete the balance of the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s term.
Date: April 17, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Manchin tweeted, "Nearly 20 million Americans ... have gained health insurance since (the Affordable Care Act) passed in 2010." From 2013, the year before the law took effect, to 2017, the number of Americans with health insurance rose by 26.6 million, meaning that Manchin actually understated the gains. It’s worth noting, however, that gains in Medicare and from employer-sponsored health care account for a portion of that increase, so the increase can’t be credited entirely to the Affordable Care Act. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley were "totally misrepresenting what took place inside of the hospital. Their news conference after I left for El Paso was a fraud. It bore no resemblance to what took place with those incredible people that I was so lucky to meet and spend time with.
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: August 7, 2019
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said the remarks from Democrats Brown and Whaley misrepresented his visit with survivors, medical staff and first responders of the shooting in Dayton. He called their presentation "a fraud." Brown and Whaley said very little about Trump’s meeting, but what they said leaned toward the positive. Brown called Trump "comforting," and said he was glad Trump had come. Whaley said people were grateful that the president had visited. That might amount only to measured praise of Trump’s time at the hospital, but it doesn’t come close to being a fraud or misrepresenting the mood. We rate this  .
Statement: Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: October 5, 2021
Topics: children;economy;jobs;women
Context: Howell, Mich
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three." The specific rankings vary a bit depending on what measure one uses, though by one measurement, the U.S. position is even worse than Biden said. The general conclusion is the same: The United States used to rank near the top of the pack of industrialized countries in women’s participation in the labor force, but over the past 30 years, many other countries have leapfrogged the U.S. in that measurement, as the rate in the U.S. stagnated or even fell. Economists say the U.S. rate has been lagging for several reasons, including a lack of government policies encouraging child care and paid leave and other countries catching up to the United States’ earlier gains in women’s educational attainment. We rate the statement .