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Statement: Says Kamala Harris said looters are just feeding their hungry kids.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 28, 2020
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Back then, a  spread that Harris wants riots to continue even after the election. We rated that .   This Facebook post gets the same rating — . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Referring to the Iraq War, "immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment.
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: September 3, 2019
Location: national
Topics: iraq;military
Context: an NPR interview
Fact-check justification: Referring to the Iraq War, Biden said, "immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment." That’s not the case. The public record shows that immediately before and after the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, Biden supported the president. He also on multiple occasions for years justified his vote on a resolution that authorized the use of force against Iraq. Biden lamented that the United States did not have the support of more nations and gradually criticized the Bush administration’s strategy. But his  of an "immediate" opposition to the war isn’t accurate. We rate his statement .
Statement: Sen. (Richard) Burr voted no on the Violence Against Women Act.
Speaker: deborah ross
About the speaker: Deborah Ross is a Democratic politician from North Carolina. She is a lawyer, former state representative and former head of the North Carolina ACLU.
Date: October 18, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: criminal justice;women
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Ross’ ad said Burr "voted no on the Violence Against Women Act." Burr did vote against the 2012 version of the law’s reauthorization, which was important because it effectively meant delaying the revival of an act that had expired. However, the ad ignores that three other times over 13 years Burr voted for a reauthorization of the same law. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Gov. Chris Christie has "now come up with a new agenda" for ethics reform in September 2011.
Speaker: john wisniewski
About the speaker: John Wisniewski is a Democratic state Assemblyman representing a part of Middlesex County. Wisniewski also is chairman of the state Democratic Party.
Date: September 26, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: ethics
Context: an NJToday interview
Fact-check justification: Wisniewski claimed Christie had "come up with a new agenda" for ethics reform this past month. But the governor unveiled his ethics reform proposals a year ago, and reiterated the need for action earlier this year. Still, Wisniewski is right that ethics reform has not been the governor’s top priority in recent months. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Under Barack Obama, "the average cost of family health care premiums has increased by $4,154.
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 23, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;families;health care;government regulation
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: But that includes a period before Obama took office in January 2009. The increase is less -- $3,459 -- when comparing 2009 to 2014. Moreover, despite the implication in Walker’s statement, the increase in average family premiums from 2009 to 2014 is less than it was the previous five years. We rate Walker’s statement . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: Says Barack Obama "signed the law authorizing federal agents to snatch protesters off the streets" in Portland, Ore.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: July 20, 2020
Location: oregon
Topics: civil rights;criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: It is that provision that is cited by the Trump White House as the legal basis for the federal agents’ actions.   Federal agents can only enforce federal law, unless they are specifically authorized to enforce state law by the state, said Vanderbilt University law professor Christopher Slobogin, whose specialties include criminal law.    "So, federal agents cannot snatch any protester off the street, only those threatening federal property or personnel, or who are also committing some other federal crime such as drug trafficking or national security laws," he said. Put another way, said Kermit Roosevelt, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania who focuses on constitutional law, federal agents have authority to arrest people attacking a federal courthouse, but no government official has the authority to arrest peaceful protestors.   We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then, "You took it out of your book.
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: October 18, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a Republican presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: He was in fact presenting a defense of state-level choice — not a pitch for a mandatory national approach.   We rated Perry's comment . Now Santorum has said, "It was in your book that it should be for everybody," and added that Romney took the assertion out in a later edition. That’s an exaggeration. We rate his statement .
Statement: For the second quarter in a row, my campaign has raised more money than any other challenger in the nation and brought our fundraising total to over $800,000.
Speaker: patrick murphy
About the speaker: Patrick Murphy won his first seat in 2012 for the U.S. House of Representatives representing District 18 in Florida. Murphy lost a U.S. Senate race against Marco Rubio in 2016. 
Date: July 16, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a statement on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: For the record, Murphy's Democratic primary opponent also made the top 10 list: Frankel raised $698,545.88 for the first two quarters combined. Murphy said, "For the second quarter in a row, my campaign has raised more money than any other challenger in the nation and brought our fundraising total to over $800,000." A couple of other candidates technically raised more money, but that is thanks to either personal campaign loans or switching from a statewide U.S. Senate campaign to a run for the House. We think Murphy is on solid footing to leave those scenarios out when making his . So, we rate it .
Statement: Test scores had gone up steadily for 40 years until No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.
Speaker: diane ravitch
About the speaker: Diane Ravitch, a former federal assistant secretary of education, is an education policy analyst and a research professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
Date: October 15, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: bush administration;education
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Education critic Diane Ravitch said, "Test scores had gone up steadily for 40 years until No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top." There are a few problems with her statement. First, the time spans for the scores she cites are 32 and 38 years, not 40. Second, while the scores increased overall, there were a few dips. And for 17-year-olds, the overall increases were insignificant. Finally, despite her implication that the increases stopped after No Child Left Behind, scores actually rose for all age groups in 2008 and for nearly all in 2012, the next two testing periods. Because Ravitch’s statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, the judges rate it  .
Statement: The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty.
Speaker: james clyburn
About the speaker: James Clyburn is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina. He serves as Assistant Minority Leader -- the third-highest-ranking officer in the House Democratic leadership.
Date: June 21, 2015
Location: national
Topics: history;race and ethnicity;states
Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Clyburn said that there was a compromise measure to place the Confederate flag in a more discreet location on the South Carolina state house grounds. Such a proposal did exist and had the backing of the governor and black lawmakers. But it was not the only compromise plan in play and it failed along with other proposals backed by black lawmakers. Clyburn’s  leaves out that context. We rate it .
Statement: The Christmas Day explosion in Nashville, Tenn., was the result of a "missile strike.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 28, 2020
Location: tennessee
Topics: public safety;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: DNA from human remains found at the scene matched Warner, and investigators found financial records for components that he may have used to construct the bomb.   FBI agents are investigating whether Warner may have been paranoid about 5G technology. Conspiracy theories about the cellular data networks have blossomed on social media over the past year, falsely claiming that 5G spreads COVID-19 and could be used as a spying tool by the government.   The investigation of the Nashville bombing is ongoing, but the Facebook post is  and . We rate it !
Statement: The decision to remove Chick-fil-A from Emory University was based solely on student feedback.
Speaker: david furhman
About the speaker: David Furhman is the food service administration director at Emory University.
Date: March 12, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: lgbtq
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: It  wants to remove Chick-fil-A, but plans call for a proposed pizza and pasta joint and expanded Mexican food areas. Not exactly healthy alternatives. We rated the  . (Karishma Mehrotra is a journalism major at Emory University who is completing an internship with PolitiFact Georgia. She is also an editor at The Emory Wheel but took no part in the Chick-fil-A news coverage.)
Statement: Says British voters "under 50, especially millennials, overwhelmingly voted to stay," in the European Union. "It was older voters who voted to leave.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: June 26, 2016
Topics: global news service;polls and public opinion
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Kaine said of the Brexit referendum, "Young voters, those under 50, especially millennials, overwhelmingly voted to stay. And it was older voters who voted to leave." Based on the best polling we have, all signs point to a significant generational divide on the question of whether the United Kingdom should have remained in the European Union. It’s clear as day that millennials — those about 34 or younger — favored remaining. It seems that those between 35-50 slightly favored staying, too, while older generations heavily favored Brexit. The only caveat is that we don’t have official exit polls to support Kaine’s . For that reason, we rate Kaine’s  .
Statement: Says there were multiple instances of voter fraud in Wood County, Ohio.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: August 15, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: viral image circulating on the internet
Fact-check justification: A viral post makes several claims about 2012 voter fraud in Ohio, ginning up fears ahead of the 2016 presidential election. But the election tallies discredit the claims about voter fraud in Ohio. Election board officials cannot corroborate the  of GOP monitors being "illegally removed" from polling places. The numbers 106,258 (registered voters) and 98,213 (residents old enough to vote) include the ghost registrations of inactive voters that lingered on the rolls. Finally, Obama got 51 percent of the vote in Wood County, not 108 percent. This viral image is 108 percent . We rate it ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/86f594ee-8169-4425-9303-725a584210df
Statement: 148th Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike jockey Sonny Leon just turned down a White House invite, saying 'If I wanted to see a horse's ass, I would have came (sic) in second.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 8, 2022
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: "Asked why, the #TripleCrown winner said,"If I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would’ve finished second." At that time, former President Donald Trump was in office. In 2021, the joke eluded folks when it was changed to falsely attribute the quote to a real person: jockey John Velazquez, who won the Kentucky Derby that year. But Velazquez didn’t say it and neither did Leon. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Trump shirts are made in Bangladesh, Trump suits in Mexico, Trump Vodka in the Netherlands, Trump crystal barware in Slovenia and his cufflinks and ties in China.
Speaker: funny or die
About the speaker: Funny Or Die is a comedy video website started by comedians Will Ferrell and Adam McKay and producer Chris Henchy.
Date: July 25, 2016
Topics: candidate biography;corrections and updates;jobs;punditfact
Context: a video shown at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: The Funny or Die video said Trump shirts are made in Bangladesh, Trump suits in Mexico, Trump Vodka in the Netherlands, Trump crystal barware in Slovenia and his cufflinks and ties in China. We found examples of all of these products made in the countries Jeong and Goolsbee mentioned, with the exception of a suit made in Mexico. But we did find suits made in other countries, and there are examples of other Trump clothing products made in Mexico. Some suits, in fact, are made in the United States. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e4ca60a0-598b-41f7-b7d2-2fed1838e7fb
Statement: The stimulus has "$30 million in there to protect mice in San Francisco.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: February 12, 2009
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;stimulus
Context: a statement on Fox News Channel
Fact-check justification: And the funding agencies — the Corps of Engineers or NOAA — could still decide to fund the projects or not. The bill passed a final vote in the House on Feb. 13, with no Republicans supporting it. So Pelosi did not put an earmark in the bill to save the mice. In fact, there's no money in the bill for mice. For this reason, we rate Pence's remark . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/d236e0ab-d760-4d4e-9ade-11675260059b
Statement: Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq).
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: September 10, 2014
Location: national
Topics: iraq;islam;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: McCain said Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)." Obama’s president-elect platform made a vague comment about leaving residual forces, and it seems that the White House -- behind closed doors -- considered it extensively. But we found no public statements of Obama saying he wanted to leave troops in Iraq past the agreed upon withdrawal date in the months leading up the war’s end. He repeatedly asserted that troops would be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. McCain’s  is accurate but requires additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "would help lift over a million Americans out of poverty.
Speaker: alison lundergan grimes
About the speaker: Alison Lundergan Grimes is a Democrat challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for his Senate seat in 2014. She currently serves as Kentucky's secretary of state.
Date: October 13, 2014
Location: national
Topics: income;message machine 2014;poverty
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Grimes said that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would lift "over a million Americans out of poverty." The report she sites actually puts the net figure slightly less than a million, at about 900,000. Grimes’ campaign later said she misspoke but our job is to check what the candidates tell the voters at the time. The stat Grimes actually said is close but not quite on the ball. We rate the statement .
Statement: Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan.
Speaker: anthony weiner
About the speaker: Anthony Weiner is a former congressman who represented parts of New York City, including Brooklyn, Kew Gardens and Rockaway.
Date: August 25, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on "Fox and Friends"
Fact-check justification: He also says you can't migrate to the public plan. It's  that employers can't force their workers onto the public plan, but individuals can select it if they choose to. The only thing Weiner gets right is that employers can't dump their workers into the public option. Almost all the details are . We rate his statement .
Statement: We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina" with the passage of HB2.
Speaker: pat mccrory
About the speaker: Pat McCrory, a Republican, was governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. Previously, he served as mayor of Charlotte.
Date: March 28, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: city government;civil rights;county government;lgbtq;sexuality
Context: Clayton, N.C
Fact-check justification: McCrory said that with the passage of HB2, "we have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina." That is not . It took away the rights of cities to put certain anti-discrimination requirements on private contractors, and it nullified existing policies like in Carrboro and Raleigh. It might have also taken away the rights of cities and counties to pass their own in-house anti-discrimination policies, depending on which lawyer you ask. And it takes away the right of everyone in North Carolina to file a state-level lawsuit alleging a discriminatory firing, according to attorneys who represent both employers and employees in those cases. But even if you discount the discrimination lawsuit changes and only focus on municipal government powers and rights, McCrory is still . We rate this  .
Statement: The Sun is out of place, the Moon is out of place and the stars are out of place. The compasses are off" because of a shift in the Earth's poles.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 29, 2022
Topics: science;space;weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Our solar system has many moving parts. Even the core of our big blue marble is in motion. But there is no  that the sun, moon or stars are "out of place" or moving differently than what astronomers would expect.  There is also no  of a current or impending shift in either the magnetic or geographic poles. They both move, but slowly.  Conclusion? You can probably trust your weather forecaster.  We rate this  !