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Statement: Nancy Pelosi and Democrats "want to turn 150 million Americans into felons overnight" with HR 1808.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 28, 2022
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed the proposed assault weapons bill being considered by Congress will turn 150 million gun owners into felons overnight. The bill includes a provision that would allow lawful owners of semi-automatic weapons to keep them, but not sell or transfer them. The bill would also prohibit them from buying additional semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.   Also, because no national gun registry exists, it’s unknown how many gun owners there are in the country. However, a recent survey estimated there are about 81 million Americans who are gun owners, not 150 million, as the post implies. We rate this  .
Statement: The presence of apes calls into question the concept of evolution.
Speaker: herschel walker
About the speaker: Herschel Walker is a GOP candidate for the 2022 Senate race in Georgia. He is a former NFL player.
Date: March 13, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: science
Context: an appearance at a church
Fact-check justification: Walker talked about the presence of apes to question the concept of evolution. Genetic and fossil  show that humans and apes both exist today because they evolved 6-8 million years ago from a common ape ancestor. Over time, humans and apes followed separate evolutionary trajectories to develop their unique characteristics known today. We rate this  .
Statement: So now they take drugs, literally, and they throw it, a hundred pounds of drugs. They throw it over the wall, they have catapults, but they throw it over the wall, and it lands and it hits somebody on the head.
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: September 22, 2017
Location: national
Topics: homeland security
Context: a rally
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "So now they take drugs literally and they throw it, a hundred pounds of drugs. They throw it over the wall, they have catapults, but they throw it over the wall and it lands and it hits somebody on the head." Trump is accurate that, from time to time, catapults have been used at the border by traffickers. Packages of marijuana thrown over the border range from less than 50 pounds to more than 100 pounds. But we found no reports of people on the U.S. side of the border hit by the falling bundles. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood do little other than provide abortions.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: January 24, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;health care
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Duffy said, "New  reveals that abortion providers like Planned Parenthood do little other than provide abortions." But that is far from accurate. Planned Parenthood's most recent annual report covering a 12-month span between October 2013 and September 2014 states that abortions accounted for 3 percent of services the organization provided. About 13 percent of Planned Parenthood patients had abortions in the same period, a spokeswoman said. What's more, Duffy's own measure to defund Planned Parenthood underlines how  this  is. Federal money generally can't be used for abortions, so the money he and others want to eliminate goes to pay for, well, things other than abortions. For a  that's  and , we have one rating: .
Statement: Breaking news — US Supreme Court has canceled universal vaccination in the United States.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 27, 2021
Location: national
Topics: public health;supreme court;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A post on Instagram claims that the Supreme Court "canceled" universal vaccinations. No such lawsuit has been heard by the Supreme Court.  We rate it .
Statement: Says a study projected that a pension buyout program he expanded would save "billions and billions, potentially $25 billion.
Speaker: jb pritzker
About the speaker: J.B. Pritzker is Illinois' 43rd governor and a former Chicago venture capitalist and entrepreneur.
Date: November 19, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: pensions
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Pritzker said a study projected that a pension buyout program he expanded would save "billions and billions, potentially $25 billion." During his remarks, he described a program that allows the state to "buy out retirees when they’re retiring at 60% of what their pensions would be." There is a state program that allows for that, but it is limited to a smaller segment of state pensioners than his comments suggest. The governor’s office told us Pritzker was referencing a private study showing the state’s buyout programs are projected to save billions, including up to $25 billion. But they declined to share it with us or describe its specific findings. We rate Pritzker’s  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: In a budget deal struck in 2011 "a trillion dollars of cuts went into effect immediately, and then a special committee was set up ... to get agreement on another $3 trillion of cuts.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: February 21, 2013
Location: national
Topics: debt;deficit;federal budget
Context: an interview on Central Florida News 13
Fact-check justification: Nelson said the 2011 budget deal included "a trillion dollars of cuts went into effect immediately, and then a special committee ... to get agreement on another $3 trillion of cuts." Nelson missed some things here. The trillion dollars in savings in the Budget Control Act take place over 10 years (not immediately), and must be implemented by lawmakers through the annual appropriations process. Meanwhile, the committee charged with further cutting the deficit had to reduce it by $1.2 trillion to avoid the sequester, not get agreement on $3 trillion in cuts, as Nelson said. He’s partially accurate, but misses some important details. We find his statement .
Statement: Other than University of Virginia's 2019 basketball team, "We've not had a Virginia team even in the Final Four in over a decade. I think George Mason was the last one…
Speaker: mark warner
About the speaker: Mark Warner, a Democrat, has represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate since 2009. He serves on the Banking, Budget, Commerce and Intelligence committees. He is the honorary co-chairman of the Forward Together PAC.
Warner gave the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Warner previously served as governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1996. Before public office, Warner was an early investor in the cell phone business, co-founded the company that became Nextel.
Warner was born in Indianapolis, Ind., and grew up in Illinois and Connecticut. Warner graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He received a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
Date: April 9, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: history;sports
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Warner said other than University of Virginia’s 2019 basketball team, "We’ve not had a Virginia team even in the Final Four in over a decade. I think George Mason was the last one…" We’re calling a foul. VCU made the Final Four in 2011 - less than a decade ago. We rate Warner’s statement .
Statement: Says a bill he vetoed to give driver licenses to certain immigrants known as Dreamers would have changed "nothing.
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: October 10, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates
Context: a Telemundo debate
Fact-check justification: Scott said that "nothing changed" for certain illegal immigrants to get driver licenses in a bill he vetoed. There was a change in the bill: It would have affirmatively stated that immigrants with DACA approval could use that documentation to get driver’s licenses. Scott vetoed the bill, so immigrants don’t have that right. However, applicants for DACA simultaneously apply for a work permit and generally get their approvals around the same time. If Scott hadn’t vetoed the bill, it would have meant that those who get DACA first wouldn’t have to wait for their work permit, although it is sometimes a short wait. The  is partially accurate in that immigrants who get DACA will likely get a work permit and they can use that work permit to get the driver’s license. However, Scott exaggerated when he said "nothing changed" in the bill he vetoed. We rate this  . Editor's note:  This report initially appeared with conflicted rulings. The correct ruling is .
Statement: Says the U.S. is developing an "antivirus" that includes a chip to track your movement.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 16, 2020
Topics: fake news;technology;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: This comes from the stream of conspiracy theories of the last 50 years. It has nothing to do with science and everything to do with conspiracy theories." Social media has been rife with falsehoods and hoaxes about the novel coronavirus, and the response to it. This is another one. !
Statement: Members of Congress can "retire with the same pay after only one term" in office
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: January 6, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: congress;retirement
Context: a chain email message
Fact-check justification: It's never full pay and the only one-term members who would be eligible for any pension would be senators. Snopes.com rated the pension  as . Our colleagues at FactCheck.org have also debunked the  -- which, over the years, has been accompanied by assertions that members of Congress don't pay into their Social Security (they have since 1984) or that they don't contribute anything toward their retirement (they do). For a bogus  that’s been circulating at least 13 years, and for anyone who still spreads it, we’ll break out the matches. !
Statement: Candidate for governor Roy Barnes has been "fighting hard" to let illegal immigrants vote.
Speaker: republican governors association
About the speaker: the gubernatorial campaign arm of the Republican Party.
Date: September 9, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: immigration
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: Barnes had no direct involvement in it. It would take a leap of conspiratorial proportions to believe that Barnes had fought for such an extreme position as giving illegal immigrants the right or ability to vote. The  is silly. Pantalones en fuego. .
Statement: Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams are radical communists and, if they get their way, gun owners here in Georgia will be completely disarmed.
Speaker: georgia gun owners
About the speaker: Georgia Gun Owners is organized as a 501(c)4 non-profit, non-partisan grassroots citizen organization that describes itself as the only no-compromise grassroots gun organization in the state.
Date: October 30, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography;government regulation;guns;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Georgia Gun Owners claimed that Warnock and Abrams are "radical communists and, if they get their way, gun owners here in Georgia will be completely disarmed." The two Georgia Democrats have not advocated communist policies, such as complete government ownership of property. They also have not called for the widespread confiscation of guns from all people in Georgia. The  is  and distorts reality. We rate it ! RELATED :   All our fact-checks about Georgia
Statement: The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: January 27, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union
Fact-check justification: Or he's mixing one form of debt to make one point, and another to make a second. In his State of the Union response, McDonnell tried using both the macro and the micro to drive home a point that spending led by the Democrats in the White House and Congress is out of control. His  that national debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10 isn't wildly off, but it ignores the fact that some of the responsibility falls on Bush's shoulders. On his second , that the per household share of the national debt is more than $100,000, that's  if you measure the gross federal debt and  if you only count the money the government actually borrowed from somebody else. On the whole, we rate McDonnell's statement .
Statement: Judge Rules Over 200,000 Biden Votes Are Illegitimate In Wisconsin.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 25, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Several Facebook posts echoed an article’s claims that a judge had ruled over 200,000 Biden votes in Wisconsin were illegitimate. There is no  all the ballots in question here backed Biden, and the description of the court ruling is simply .  The court expressly ruled against an attempt to throw out indefinitely confined votes en masse, saying votes were only invalid if the individual casting them falsely claimed that status. And that's a determination that has to be made on a case-by-case basis. We rate this  .
Statement: Says when armed civilians stop mass shootings with guns, an average of 2.5 people die; otherwise, an average of 18 people die.
Speaker: jim rubens
About the speaker: Jim Rubens is a two-term Republican State Senator who served as the chair of the Public Affairs and Education committees. He was Board President of Headrest, a substance abuse program and suicide prevention hotline serving northern New England. He is a private venture investor, focusing on New England start-ups in proprietary technology and healthcare solutions. He has lived with his family in Hanover, New Hampshire since 1980.
Date: March 24, 2014
Location: new hampshire
Topics: guns
Context: Hudson, N.H
Fact-check justification: Rubens said when armed civilians stop mass shootings with guns, an average of 2.5 people die; otherwise, an average of 18 people die. One of the most comprehensive studies of recent active shooter events suggests the average of 18 deaths when police stop the shooter is far too high. The study of more than 100 incidents determined the median number of people killed or wounded in all active shooter situations was five. The study documented only nine incidents out of dozens in which the number of people shot was 14 or higher. Conclusions about the number of deaths when an armed civilian takes action are also problematic because very limited data exists. The author of the study agrees it’s logical to assume casualties would be lower when civilians intervene before police arrive, but his research documented very few incidents that were actually stopped because a civilian was carrying a gun. Finally, both Rubens and the internet blogger who first offered the statistics that Rubens cited have acknowledged the figures were . Rubens has since revised his estimate to be in the range of 2.33 and 14. Overall, this statement is not accurate. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a careless attitude and "poor oversight by the Texas Department of Agriculture" led to deaths and illnesses traced to a Texas peanut plant.
Speaker: hank gilbert
About the speaker: Hank Gilbert, who raises cattle near Tyler, was the 2010 Democratic nominee for Texas agriculture commissioner. He won the party's 2006 nomination for the same post.
Date: December 14, 2009
Location: texas
Topics: agriculture;consumer safety
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: In his statement about the peanut plant, Gilbert overstates the agriculture department's role; it's not the primary agency responsible for policing such facilities for health hazards. Still, its inspector admittedly slipped up in this case. If he'd flagged the Plainview plant for lacking the required food manufacturer license, it might have been shut down or its conditions improved. That could have prevented the 2009 illnesses and deaths. We rate Gilbert’s statement .
Statement: Says the federal stimulus program was ineffective because "the number of jobs has actually decreased by 18,300 through July 2011.
Speaker: greg walden
About the speaker: Greg Walden is a U.S. representative from Oregon. He is leading the transition as Republicans take power in the 112th Congress.
Date: November 30, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: jobs;stimulus
Context: his website
Fact-check justification: While economists and other experts say it’s impossible to say how many Oregon jobs were "created or saved," as the White House puts it, there certainly were some. And it’s clear that a significant number of Oregon jobs would have been lost without the stimulus. Walden’s assertion of lost jobs uses numbers out of context and leaves out important details. For that reason we rate this : . Return to OregonLive to comment on this ruling.
Statement: Says Texas ranks first among the states in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and toxic chemicals released into water.
Speaker: sacramento bee editorial board
About the speaker: The editorial board of The Sacramento Bee says it composes editorials that are its collective opinion. It meets regularly to discuss community concerns and issues of the day, it says.
Date: February 6, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: environment;climate change;public health;water
Context: an editorial
Fact-check justification: The editorial said Texas ranks first nationally in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and toxic chemicals released into water. We can see a basis for the first part of the , though not the second. Texas ranks No. 1 in CO2 emissions, by a wide margin. But it trailed about a dozen states in 2010 after each state's emissions were adjusted for the state's population or economic output. In 2011, Texas ranked third in total industrial releases of toxic chemicals into water; it was fourth nationally the previous year--and adjusting for each state’s population or economic output leaves Texas in 10th place among those states with the most industrial toxic releases that year. We rate this two-part  as .
Statement: In 1984, the New York Times said Trump would be our BEST president.
Speaker: bling news
About the speaker: Bling News is a website that uses clickbait headlines and lacks original reporting.
Date: July 9, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: To clarify, if you read the intro paragraph of the article we hope you’ll think subjectively and understand what we said about the article. We believe that the New York Times INADVERTENTLY DESCRIBED HOW TRUMP WOULD BE A PERFECT FIT FOR THIS TIME IN AMERICA, therefore, THE BEST PRESIDENT ‘FOR THIS TIME IN AMERICA.’" We found no contact information on Bling News’ website. The New York Times magazine story in 1984 didn’t say that Trump would be our best president; instead, it was an in-depth profile of Trump the businessman. We rate this statement .
Statement: The administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place (on Iran).
Speaker: bob corker
About the speaker: Bob Corker is a senator from Tennessee.
Date: November 24, 2013
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday
Fact-check justification: Corker said that on Iran sanctions, "the administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place." Experts agree that the term "kicking and screaming" is a large exaggeration. There was wrangling between the executive and legislative branches to secure negotiating flexibility for Obama — flexibility that made it possible to get the international community on board with tougher sanctions. Corker ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate his statement .
Statement: Black Panthers Just Took Over City (Atlanta) – All Out War On Election Day
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 6, 2018
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Right Wing News
Fact-check justification: " Abrams campaign spokeswoman Abigail Collazo responded to the rally and the photos Monday. "Brian Kemp is the only candidate in this race who has posed for pictures with supporters wearing racist, hate-filled T-shirts and refused to denounce them, while Abrams continues to condemn any racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise discriminatory words and actions," Collazo said . All that said, there is no war on the streets of Atlanta on Election Day. Just ordinary, peaceful voting. We rate this
Statement: FDA finally admits dental fillings are toxic.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 12, 2018
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The story we’re fact-checking claims that the FDA finally admitted that "dental fillings are toxic." That’s not quite right, and it’s old news — not from 2018, when the story was posted, but 2008, when the FDA settled a lawsuit with consumer groups. It’s  that as part of the settlement the FDA warned that a type of dental filling, amalgams, may have neurotoxic effects on some people — pregnant women, fetuses and young children. But it didn’t declare without caveats that dental fillings are toxic, full stop.  We rate this story .