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Statement: Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent $30,000 to attend the Met Gala and "God knows how much on that dress.
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: September 13, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Lauren Hitt, a spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez, told PolitiFact that the congresswoman didn’t buy her ticket to the gala.   "She was invited as a guest of the Met," Hitt said. "She also did not get to keep the dress." A spokesperson for the Met confirmed that Ocasio-Cortez was a guest of the museum.    We rate claims that she paid for her ticket and dress .
Statement: The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment.
Speaker: christopher plante
About the speaker: Christopher Plante is executive director of National Organization for Marriage - Rhode Island, which supports traditional marriage and opposes same-sex marriage.
Date: January 13, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: civil rights;families;human rights;legal issues;government regulation;lgbtq;marriage;sexuality
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Christopher Plante said Gov. Lincoln Chafee "does not have any power to veto a referendum that would be a constitutional amendment" on the issue of same-sex marriage. It's , as Plante said, that the governor has no veto power over constitutional amendments proposed by the General Assembly. But the question wasn't posed that way, and Plante's answer might have given some viewers the  impression that Chafee has no say if the General Assembly decides to send the question of same-sex marriage to the voters. Because his statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Rick Perry "provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants.
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: September 1, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;education
Context: Tampa, Florida
Fact-check justification: Six years later, Perry opposed an attempt to repeal the measure, telling the Houston Chronicle : "I’m for leaving the law like it is because I think it serves a good purpose." He reiterated his support during the 2010 Texas gubernatorial campaign. Perry’s comments at the Sept. 12 and Sept. 22 debates aligned with his previously supportive statements. All told, Perry isn’t solely responsible for the Texas law enabling illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition, but he signed it into existence and has stood by it. We rate Santorum’s  as .
Statement: Says President Donald Trump "never downplayed the virus.
Speaker: kayleigh mcenany
About the speaker: Kayleigh McEnany is an on-air commentator for Fox News and former White House press secretary under President Donald Trump. She was previously a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee and a pro-Trump pundit on CNN.
Date: September 9, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a White House press briefing
Fact-check justification: McEnany said Trump never downplayed the virus.  The record shows she’s . During the early months of the coronavirus outbreak, Trump said the country was in very good shape and blamed Democrats and the media for trying to inflame the situation beyond what the facts would warrant.  In the very tape that McEnany was asked about, Trump said he downplayed the virus to avoid creating panic. McEnany spun that as him showing leadership to calm a worried nation. The reasons Trump said what he said aren’t part of this fact-check. Trump’s words are. And they give zero support to McEnany’s statement. We rate this  .
Statement: One out of every 30 people in the Greater Boston area is an illegal alien.
Speaker: jeff sessions
About the speaker: Jeff Sessions is President Donald Trump's Attorney General. He was previously a U.S. Senator from Alabama.
 
Date: July 26, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Sessions said, "One out of every 30 people in the Greater Boston area is an illegal alien." Sessions’  is supported by estimates from Pew Research Center and U.S. Census Bureau data. Factoring in a margin of error in Pew’s study would make Sessions’  a conservative estimate. We rate his statement .
Statement: Missouri ranks 45th in the nation in per capita state fiscal support for higher education and Missouri State is last among Missouri schools.
Speaker: clif smart
About the speaker: Clifton "Clif" M. Smart III has served as the 11th president of Missouri State University since June 27, 2011.
Date: February 14, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Missouri State University’s President Clif Smart said , "Missouri ranks 45th in the nation in per capita state fiscal support for higher education and @MissouriState is last among Missouri schools." While Smart did not have the latest numbers from fiscal year 2019, he was on track with the numbers from previous years, showing Missouri and Missouri State University rank low in comparison to other states and comparable universities. We rate this statement .
Statement: You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s.
Speaker: glenn beck
About the speaker: Glenn Beck is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show. He also hosts an Internet-based TV show. Beck formerly hosted a television talk show on CNN Headline News and then Fox News.
Date: October 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;pundits
Context: his radio program
Fact-check justification: The 30-year track record of seasonal flu vaccines strongly suggests the new H1N1 vaccine won't cause neurological damage. Without noting that the H1N1 vaccine has been manufactured in essentially the same way as the seasonal flu shot that has been used by hundreds of millions of people — without any established link to neurological problems — ends up  by omission. And so we rule Beck's statement .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: A video shows Disney is opening pediatric transgender clinics.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 7, 2023
Topics: lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "I enjoy laughing at liberal lunatics, mocking celebrity scum, and exposing the Liberal Media Industrial Complex," Dice wrote on his YouTube account description . Dice shared the same video on Bitchute , where the description clearly stated it was satire. Days before his Oceanside appearance, Dice also posed as Bergman at a Del Mar City Council meeting near San Diego and made the same Disney .   Disney, which has been publicly supportive of LGBTQ+ employees and guests, has not announced any advocacy of or plans for a themed transgender clinic for children in press releases or in news reports. We rate the  that this video shows Disney is opening pediatric transgender clinics .
Statement: California's Prop 60, which would require condom use in adult films, would put "workers in the adult film industry at risk for lawsuits and harassment.
Speaker: no on 60 campaign against condom requirement in adult films
About the speaker: The No on 60 campaign opposes California's proposed condom requirement in adult films. Opponents of Prop 60 include Californians Against Worker Harassment which was founded by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry.
Date: June 24, 2016
Location: california
Topics: government regulation;public health
Context: a campaign video advertisement
Fact-check justification: Opponents of California’s Prop 60, which would require condom use in adult films, recently claimed it would put "workers in the adult film industry at risk for lawsuits and harassment." The statement is partially accurate: Some adult film workers, and perhaps a growing share, could face lawsuits if they have a financial interest in the content they work on. But Prop 60 does not specify what constitutes a financial interest. Ultimately, it may be up to the courts to decide. Importantly, the  by the opponents makes no mention that only workers with a monetary stake in the films would be liable and only after a complaint process plays out. Those who are independent contractors would face no legal action. The statement leaves out this key context and gives the impression that any or all workers could face lawsuits. We rate the  .   – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/be4f6e60-46d0-4490-af32-884f48bf9a49
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher "breaks earmark pledge.
Speaker: tennessee democratic party
About the speaker: The Tennessee Democratic Party headquarters are in Nashville.
Date: April 25, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: congress;federal budget
Context: a blog post on the party’s web site on April 25, 2012
Fact-check justification: The Tennessee Democratic Party claims Fincher’s decision to sign the letter voicing support for the "miscellaneous tariff bill" means he has reneged on his no-earmarks pledge. But while tariff breaks do raise some of the same concerns as earmarks, they are different. Earmarks direct spending; tariff bills are more like tax breaks. More importantly, the process for tariff breaks is transparent and relatively easy to track, unlike the earmarks of previous years. We rate the Tennessee Democratic Party’s  as .
Statement: Breaking: John Fetterman RESIGNATION Announcement.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 3, 2023
Location: national
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, told The Philadelphia Inquirer he would dismiss any calls to ask Fetterman to step down. Fetterman’s not the first American politician to deal with a significant health issue while running for or holding office; other senators have taken time away while recovering from strokes or other ailments.   A spokesperson for Fetterman’s office declined to comment specifically on this . However, there is no  that Fetterman has announced he is stepping down. This  is .
Statement: Elon Musk tweeted "looking into this" in response to a claim that the "KKK never did anything wrong to Black people.
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 16, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: We found no  that @ilikegroomingchildren is or was a real Twitter account, nor that Musk responded to someone tweeting that the KKK "never did anything  to Black people." Rather, this seems like an effort to pan Musk for responding to other users in a similar manner. The formatting and type in the image don’t match those employed on the real Twitter platform.   For example, he said "looking into it" in response to complaints that a 2024 presidential election denier had been wrongly blocked from Twitter and from conservative accounts that have shared misinformation .   We rate claims that Musk responded "looking into this" to this particular tweet .
Statement: Facebook is spamming all climate articles by misleading readers about" the accuracy of climate models.
Speaker: watts up with that
About the speaker: Watts Up With That is a blog created by broadcaster Anthony Watts to provide a platform for those who accept and those who are skeptical of climate change theories to exchange views.
Date: January 31, 2022
Location: national
Topics: climate change
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The Watts Up With That blog said "Facebook is spamming all climate articles by  readers about" the accuracy of climate models. The article misrepresented cautionary words about climate change models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It shared a chart that relies on cherry picked data to undercut the reliability of models. The great majority of climate researchers worldwide have data that shows models do an increasingly good job of capturing temperature changes at the surface. Facebook links to this material do not mislead the public. We rate this  .
Statement: The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests.
Speaker: north korean foreign ministry
About the speaker: North Korea is a nation in Eastern Asia, bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan.
Date: May 29, 2009
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: a released statement
Fact-check justification: That means 99.37 percent of all the tests were done by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, he said. "It's about right," Sublette said of the figures cited by North Korea. "If it's off, it's only off by a few (tests)." We aren't inclined to quibble with fractions of one percent. We find North Korea's  to be .
Statement: Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident.
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: May 13, 2013
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: a press availability
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident. The definition of what constitutes "Benghazi" is a highly politicized bone of contention between the administration and its critics. Obama’s apparent decision to define the Benghazi incident as the security concerns before and during the attack is understandable, given that Obama said at the same briefing that "the whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow." But this isn’t the only definition, nor is it an unassailable one. While the board did investigate numerous angles of the security issues, it didn’t look at who perpetrated the attack, nor did it probe the administration’s public communications afterward. No less an authority than the board’s co-chairman undercut Obama’s sweeping  that the board "investigated every element" with repeated comments on three Sunday shows. On balance, we rate Obama’s  .
Statement: Federal law adopted "under Tommy Thompson's watch" prohibits the government from negotiating for "better prices" on prescription drugs for senior citizens
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: August 15, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: drugs;health care;medicare
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Kraus cited a number of news articles, including one in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that said Thompson was the Bush administration’s "point man" on getting Medicare Part D through Congress; and one in the Philadelphia Inquirer that said Thompson "lobbied tirelessly" for the plan. Moreover, Nemoir acknowledged that the prohibition on the federal government was done under Thompson. Our rating Baldwin said federal law adopted "under Tommy Thompson's watch" prohibits the federal government from negotiating for "better prices" on prescription drugs for senior citizens. Her reference was to the Medicare Part D prescription program, which Thompson lobbied for and which includes the prohibition she stated. We rate Baldwin’s statement .
Statement: Navy SEALs arrest Hillary Clinton.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 4, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: On March 8, she participated in a live Washington Post interview for International Women’s Day and an online Q&A with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.   On Instagram on March 11, Clinton posted a video featuring former Presidents Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton and images of the ex-presidents and their wives, including Hillary Clinton, getting vaccinated.   The arrest of a former secretary of state and two-time presidential candidate would be major international news, but a week after this blog post was published, no such media coverage has surfaced to corroborate its claims.   That’s because it didn’t happen.   We rate this post !
Statement: Says it wasn't until he and a Senate colleague were able to "wrangle the actual streaming video" from BP that scientists were able to calculate the oil spill flow.
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: October 11, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: environment;energy;oil spill
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification:   Nelson told his Senate colleagues, "It was not until Sen. Boxer ... and I were able to wrangle the actual streaming video (of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill) from 5,000 feet below the surface and put it up on my Web site that the scientists could then calculate how much oil was coming out."  Scientists quickly challenged BP's early estimate based on satellite images and Coast Guard maps. Independent estimates improved when BP released short video clips. But scientists who specialize in flow rate calculations based on high-resolution, time-stamped video didn't have access to data they needed until Nelson's and Boxer's offices pushed for it. Some of those files were indeed downloaded from Nelson's website, while some were on physical hard drives that had to be mailed. A casual listener might think scientists were unable to make early calculations that challenged BP's word without video from Nelson's website — and that's not quite the case. Meanwhile, other lawmakers also pushed for greater openness. But letters, press releases and interviews show Nelson did play a key role in the release of critical data, and for that we'll rate his statement .
Statement: Tammy Baldwin voted for $5 trillion in higher taxes.
Speaker: freedom partners
About the speaker: Freedom Partners, initially called the Association for American Innovation when it was established in November 2011, promotes "the benefits of free markets and a free society" and claims "over 200 members." The Washington Post reported that Freedom Partners served as a hub for political spending by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.
Date: October 26, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;taxes
Context: TV ads
Fact-check justification: Baldwin voted for a 2012 federal budget that would have raised taxes by $3.9 trillion over 10 years, but it also would have made $1.7 trillion in spending cuts and spent $1.7 trillion in areas such as infrastructure. Voting for the budget didn’t mean that Baldwin necessarily supported all of the tax increases. There were estimates that total tax collections -- another possible measure of "higher taxes," as stated in the ad -- under budget Baldwin voted for would have been $5 trillion higher than under the budget proposed by the Obama administration. But the ad didn’t make clear that that amount was over a 10-year span, not a sudden increase. For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is .
Statement: Taxes went down under Jerry Brown.
Speaker: jerry brown
About the speaker: Jerry Brown is the governor of California. A Democrat, he earlier served as governor of California from 1975 to 1983.
Date: September 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: He had significant surpluses for the first part of his governorship and in all likelihood didn't need to raise taxes. The most significant  in favor of Brown's statement are the state numbers that show taxes per $100 of resident income. By that metric, taxes went up, and then down under Brown, and finished a little lower than when he started. Those numbers sway the meter in a positive direction. We rate the statement "Taxes went down under Jerry Brown," as .
Statement: The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office.
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: July 21, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview with Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show"
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office." That  is too sweeping. Certain measures of wages and income, the poverty rate and the duration of unemployment are all worse now than they were when Obama "came into office." The statement contains an element of  but ignores facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .