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Statement: San Juan city council votes unanimously to impeach Trump-hating mayor.
Speaker: asamericanasapplepie.org
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: October 15, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: AsAmericanAsApplePie.org has all the hallmarks of a series of  websites associated with Christopher Blair, a self-described liberal troll who creates fictional stories to try to fool conservative readers. We’ve fact-checked plenty of stories that originated from websites run by or affiliated with Blair, including TheLastLineOfDefense.org , FreedomCrossroad.us , OurLandOfTheFree.com and FreedomJunkshun.com . AsAmericanAsApplePie.org uses the same website architecture as these other sites, and carries a disclaimer that reads , "As American as Apple Pie is here to be your beacon of something you can kinda rely on sometimes but not really." The impeachment proceedings against Cruz are made up. We rate this  !
Statement: Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 4KM killer rock on approach - Could end human civilisation.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 4, 2020
Topics: space
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Suggesting imminent danger, the headline of an article shared on Facebook claimed that NASA is tracking a 2.5-mile-wide asteroid approaching Earth that "could end human civilisation." An asteroid "large enough to cause global effects" if it hit Earth is expected to cross Earth’s orbital path on April 29, 2020. But it "will safely pass Earth by 3.9 million miles," says NASA, which called the headline . That’s our ruling — .
Statement: Missouri "had the largest amount of millennial Democrats running than any other state in the country.
Speaker: crystal quade
About the speaker: Crystal Quade is a Democratic Missouri state representative. Her district includes portions of Springfield.
Date: December 8, 2018
Location: missouri
Topics: elections
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Quade said that she "read an article that we had the largest amount of millennial Democrats running than any other state in the country." Quade referenced an October study from the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and the group Run For Something. While the study excluded four states, it found that Missouri had the most millennial Democrats run for office, and we didn’t find any data or expert opinion to the contrary of their numbers. For these reasons, we rate her statement .
Statement: Mehmet Oz "wants to make abortion a crime in Pennsylvania.
Speaker: planned parenthood votes
About the speaker: Planned Parenthood Votes is a "super PAC" affiliated with Planned Parenthood, nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care services, including abortion.
Date: June 30, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: abortion;government regulation;women;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Planned Parenthood Votes said Oz "wants to make abortion a crime in Pennsylvania." Oz suported the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe, which returned abortion regulation to the states. Oz said he favors letting states set their on abortion laws, and since the Roe reversal, some states have made it a felony to perform abortions. Oz says he backs abortions only in the limited cases of rape, incest, and if the life of the woman is in danger. He has not specified what criminal penalties, if any, he would support if a woman had an unlawful abortion. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it . RELATED: Mehmet Oz supports abortion in limited cases, but wants Roe v. Wade overturned RELATED: Ad Watch: Val Demings’ ad attacks Rubio on abortion RELATED: Nikki Fried’s ad misleads on Crist’s position on abortion access RELATED: Fact-checking ads in the 2022 election campaigns
Statement: Early voting remains at 96 hours.
Speaker: kurt browning
About the speaker: Kurt Browning is Florida's Secretary of State. He previously served as Pasco County supervisor of elections.
Date: May 23, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: the 'St. Petersburg Times'
Fact-check justification: While he noted in a May 23 op-ed piece that rural counties may schedule less than the current 96 hours of voting, he failed to note that the same option is available to every county in Florida regardless of size. In fact, local supervisors could cut the total number of hours of early voting from 96 to 48 if they chose because it's what the new law allows. However, they have the ability to keep 96 hours of early voting by increasing voting to 12 hours a day. So a requirement of 96 hours of early voting has been replaced by an option of 96 hours. We rate this  .
Statement: The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: November 14, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: china;economy
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: But by a second measure, adjusting for purchasing power, the U.S. output is still larger than China’s, but the gap is much smaller. The U.S. economy by that score is only one-third larger than China’s. Neither set of statistics is universally accepted as the only way to gauge the size of China’s output. Both measures garner support and criticism from analysts. We rate the  .
Statement: Bill Howell has been the consistent force behind every major tax increase in Virginia in the last decade.
Speaker: susan stimpson
About the speaker: Susan Stimpson, a Republican from Stafford County, was the chairwoman of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors. She was a member of the board from 2010 to 2013.
She ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2013. She has announced her candidacy in the House of Delegates seat in the 28th District, challenging Speaker Bill Howell in the 2015 primary election.
Date: December 2, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: voting record;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Stimpson says "Howell has been the consistent force behind every major tax increase in Virginia in the last decade." She’s right on the transportation tax bills that were passed in 2007 and 2013. Howell sponsored the measures and encouraged fellow House Republicans to vote for them. There’s complexity to the speaker’s role in the passage of the 2004 tax increase for education, public safety and health programs. Howell consistently spoke out against the bill and voted against it.   But the bill survived a hostile House committee because Howell persuaded four conservative allies to skip the vote. This was a political miscalculation by the speaker rather than a nod of support. Howell was under pressure to let the full House vote on the measure. He was outmaneuvered a week later when 17 Republicans joined Democrats to narrowly pass the tax hike. Howell retaliated by stripping leaders of the GOP revolt of some duties. So we find Stimpson’s statement accurate, but in need of this clarification: Howell was an unwitting force behind one of the tax increases. We rate Stimpson’s  .
Statement: Republican election challengers were unfairly barred from observing absentee ballot processing and counting in Detroit.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 4, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook users claimed that Republican challengers were unfairly barred from monitoring the counting of absentee ballots in Detroit. Hundreds of Democratic and Republican challengers were present in the counting area. At one point on Nov. 5, the number exceeded the legal limit, so election officials barred some challengers, both Republican and Democratic, from reentering TCF after they left. Other challengers were allowed to stay and observe the process. We rate the  . Tresa Baldas, Kristen Jordan Shamus, Niraj Warikoo and Evan Petzold contributed to this report. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation.
Speaker: lizzie pannill fletcher
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher represents Texas's 7th Congressional District, which includes parts of West Houston. She has represented the district since 2018, when she unseated U.S. Rep. John Culberson, a Republican.
Date: November 20, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: labor;women;workers
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Fletcher said: "In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation." There are many ways to slice and dice the wage gap. Fletcher's figures are an accurate description of the wage gap between Latinas and white, non-Hispanic men using median income measurements for full-time, year-round workers. The language in Fletcher’s original tweet suggests that she was comparing Latinas to all men, but she clarified her remark in a separate post after PolitiFact Texas contacted her office. Her  is accurate, but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: There hasn't been a single of these mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show or on the internet.
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: May 25, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: government regulation;guns
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Rubio said, "There hasn't been a single of these mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show or on the internet." PolitiFact found several instances where the firearms used in a mass shooting were purchased online or at a gun show. A high-profile example includes the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. Rubio didn’t provide any  to support his assertion. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Deborah Ross "supports the Iran nuclear deal and the ransom it paid for hostages.
Speaker: john bolton superpac
About the speaker: The John Bolton SuperPAC is run by John Bolton, the Republican political adviser and former U.N. ambassador.
Date: September 27, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: corrections and updates;foreign policy;nuclear;states
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: A new ad attacking Richard Burr’s challenger Deborah Ross says Ross "supports the Iran nuclear deal and the ransom it paid for hostages." Ross does support the nuclear deal. She does not support "ransom" payments for American prisoners. The group behind the ad said she can’t support the Iran deal and also oppose the payment, arguing that the payment was part of the deal, but experts say that isn’t correct. Since the ad gets one part right and one part , we rate this  . Correction: The payment from the U.S. to Iran was agreed to in a settlement in an international tribunal. It was not from an order from that tribunal. This correction does not change our ruling. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/80b12778-8fbb-4312-8585-24c71767571e
Statement: Texas legislation "would allow… teachers to kill their students if they felt it was needed.
Speaker: greenville gazette
About the speaker: The Greenville Gazette, a website, appears to collect and repackage news and feature stories.
Date: February 1, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: children;criminal justice;education;crime
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The website declared: "This new bill would allow Texas teachers to kill their students if they felt it was needed." This statement is partially accurate in that a bill was introduced in 2015 to give teachers greater legal protection if deadly force were employed against a student. But saying that it would "allow Texas teachers to kill their students if they felt it was needed" is a stretch that suggests that the bill would allow teachers to just start firing away.   We rate this , which lacks this context, .  – 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.
Statement: Says that "we brought CHI Manufacturing, that had business in China, back to" Texas.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: October 11, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: the Blooomberg/Washington Post Republican presidential debate
Fact-check justification: However, there’s no indication that qualities specific to the Texas economy or actions by state government merit credit for the shift. It could be, too, that most of the moved jobs came from South Korea. In any event, CHI still has products made in China. Ultimately, Perry’s statement overreaches by indicating the company deserted China and by claiming that anyone besides Shami "brought" the jobs from abroad. We rate Perry’s  .
Statement: The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: November 9, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;federal budget;taxes
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: They are not the folks operating small manufacturing plants or neighborhood pizza parlors. In fact, only 0.5 percent of small businesses make that kind of money. More often, small businesses are small in every sense -- most have incomes of less than $50,000 and almost all have profits of less than $1 million -- and they wouldn’t be affected by the millionaires tax. Boehner’s statement is not accurate. On the -O-Meter, his  rates .
Statement: The IRS is "going to be in charge of our health care.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: May 15, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
Fact-check justification: Bachmann said the IRS is "going to be in charge of our health care." The IRS does play a number of key roles under the health care law, but it’s  to say it would "be in charge" of any American’s health care. The IRS won’t oversee interactions between doctors and patients, nor will it play any more of a role than confirming that exchange purchasers qualify for subsidies. Even within the government, HHS plays a much bigger role. We rate Bachmann’s  .
Statement: Says Kellogg's tweeted, "Oh, so you think it's cool when workers strike jobs? Now replace 'jobs' with 'women.' Still think it's 'cool'?
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 19, 2021
Topics: labor;unions;workers;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In a Dec. 21 online statement responding to the unionized workers’ ratification of the five-year contract ending the work stoppage, Kellogg’s chairman and CEO Steve Cahillane said, "We are pleased that we have reached an agreement that brings our cereal employees back to work." Before that, the most recent statement on the Kellogg’s website was posted Dec. 16, before the  tweet purportedly went up.   Searching Twitter, Nexis and Google , PolitiFact found nothing to match the made-up tweet. We rate the Facebook post about the tweet .
Statement: The national coin shortage was done intentionally, the Mint is no longer releasing coins into circulation aka this is the beginning of the end of paper money.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 2, 2020
Topics: economy;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: At the same time, reduced sales activity meant retailers were ordering more coins from the Mint because they were receiving fewer of them as people stayed home, he said. Coin production began to ramp up in May with mandatory Saturday overtime, the Mint returned to full production by mid-June, and nearly 1.6 billion coins were produced in June, Martin said. In short, the coin shortage was caused by reduced retail activity and a temporary reduction in production, both due to COVID-19. It was not, as this post suggests, done "intentionally" as part of a plan to eliminate paper money. The statement contains only an element of , so we rate it .
Statement: Ohio student suspended for staying in class during National Walkout Day
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 16, 2018
Topics: children;education;fake news;punditfact;guns
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Many online headlines said, "Ohio student suspended for staying in class during National Walkout Day." The headline in and of itself could lead viewers to reach a  conclusion that the student was suspended for simply opting out of the walkout. But the story states that he was suspended because he didn’t take the alternative the school district offered, which was to attend a supervised study hall instead. The school said that less than half of the students participated in the walk out and that no one was disciplined for opting out of it, but they had to remain in a place supervised by staff. We rate this  .
Statement: Says there are "2,000 inadmissible migrants arriving every day
Speaker: ted budd
About the speaker: Ted Budd is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represents parts of central North Carolina between Greensboro and Charlotte. He joined Congress in 2017.
Date: January 9, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: immigration
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Congressman Budd said "2,000 inadmissible migrants" arrive "every day" in the United States. There is some overall  in Budd’s  that, every day, there are indeed hundreds of migrants who are found not admissible. But the only way to get the number he used is to use a very broad definition of "inadmissible," use the most narrow time period, and disregard migrants who are granted the right to seek asylum. We rate the  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: Oregon Health Plan rations "covered procedures under certain circumstances
Speaker: wesley smith
About the speaker: Wesley J. Smith is the author of an article in the Weekly Standard.
Date: January 31, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: health care
Context: the Weekly Standard
Fact-check justification: We understand what he’s saying, but it somewhat confuses and ignores the way in which the prioritized list works. The list is not one of broadly covered procedures -- chemotherapy, organ transplant, physical therapy, etc. -- but one of medical conditions and very specific treatment plans. Smith’s clarification is welcome. It’s also necessary to understanding his argument. As such, we find his  that the Oregon Health Plan rations "covered procedures under certain circumstances" to be  -- the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important, clarifying details.
Statement: If you have "natural immunity," getting vaccinated against COVID-19 "is more likely to harm you severely.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 4, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "Immunity is based on being exposed to the virus," he said. "So-called ‘natural immunity’ results in a wide range of levels of protection, because it’s primarily dependent on the type of virus you were exposed to and the level of exposure, which can widely vary and result in varying levels of immune response. This results in widely varying levels of protection. Vaccinations are given at doses that are designed to ensure a robust immune response to generate a strong level of protection. "  We rate this post .
Statement: Says Adam Putnam "endorsed the Schumer-Obama Gang of Eight immigration amnesty.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: June 28, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a Fox News debate
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said Putnam "endorsed the Schumer-Obama Gang of Eight immigration amnesty." Putnam endorsed a bill that laid out a path to legal status and eventual opportunity for citizenship, but several prominent Republicans also supported it, including Rubio. Calling the bill amnesty is also at least partially . The bill did not offer blanket legal residency to unauthorized immigrants. The bill mandated fines, background checks and waiting periods DeSantis has the endorsement right but the details beyond that require some clarification. We rate this  .
Statement: Missouri has one of the highest rates of uninsured children in the country.
Speaker: nicole galloway
About the speaker: Nicole Galloway, a Democrat, is state auditor of Missouri and a candidate for governor in 2020.
Date: October 12, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: children;health care
Context: a mass email
Fact-check justification: "Missouri has one of the highest rates of uninsured children in the country," Nicole Galloway said in an email to voters. While the data Galloway used shows Missouri had the steepest decline in Medicaid and CHIP enrollment, those programs are a subset of the overall uninsurance rates. The enrollment declines between 2017 and 2019 don’t by themselves show that Missouri had one of the country’s highest rates of uninsured children. With that, we rate this  .