chengxuphd/liar2 huggingface dataset:
Statement: What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: July 23, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Christie said that 9,900 New Jerseyans returned to work in June and almost 90,000 residents are "back to work now since I became governor." Christie wrongly represents job gains as individuals returning to work. The federal labor department counts jobs and employed people in separate surveys. It’s possible for jobs to go up while the number of employed people goes down. Some 17,000 fewer New Jersey residents were employed in May than June, despite 9,900 new jobs created last month. Since February 2010, the first full month Christie was in office, nearly 39,000 -- not 90,000 -- people found employment in New Jersey. We rate this  . To comment on this ruling, to go NJ.com .
Statement: As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil.
Speaker: bill richardson
About the speaker: Bill Richardson is the former governor of New Mexico, having served two terms in that position from 2003-2011. Richardson is also a former congressman, U.S. secretary of energy, and ambassador to the United Nations. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and was President Barack Obama’s initial nominee for secretary of commerce in 2009.
Date: January 5, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Manchester, N.H
Fact-check justification: None came close to today's price. Richardson told the : He visited OPEC countries around the same time as the home heating oil crisis in New England, and he helped establish the home heating oil reserve. Did that reserve lower prices? That's unclear, since the reserve remains today, even though — as Richardson himself points out — heating oil prices in New Hampshire are "the highest ever." Still, Richardson earns a .
Statement: If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent.
Speaker: chuck grassley
About the speaker: Chuck Grassley is a Republican senator from Iowa.
Date: June 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change;energy
Context: interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Fact-check justification: In fact, Grassley's statement is  in this regard because Europe already has adopted stricter goals than the targets we're considering, and China is taking other steps to reduce carbon production. As for Grassley's prediction that our cap-and-trade bill alone would only reduce climate change emissions by 1 percent, things are still murky. His office did not return calls or e-mails to back up that , our experts had never heard the statistic before, nor could we find any studies or documents to support it. The only number we've got comes from an opinion article written by a Harvard economist, who says 4 percent, which is in the Grassley ballpark. But given his lack of documentation and some clear flaws in his assumptions about international involvement, we give Grassley's  a .
Statement: Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee weren't "even entitled to bring an expert witness on any aspect of the tax code that affects 100 percent of our economy.
Speaker: john larson
About the speaker: John Larson is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from a Connecticut district that includes Hartford.
Date: November 10, 2017
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a House Ways and Means Committee markup
Fact-check justification: Larson said that Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee weren’t "even entitled to bring an expert witness on any aspect of the tax code that affects 100 percent of our economy." Committee Democrats did have an opportunity to invite witnesses to a series of earlier hearings on issues related to the tax bill. However, those hearings were held before the official version of the bill was unveiled, and the final bill included a variety of provisions that were not discussed in those prior hearings. We rate the statement .
Statement: The United States imprisons more than any nation in the world.
Speaker: hank johnson
About the speaker: Hank Johnson, a Democrat, represents Georgia's 4th Congressional District
Date: April 18, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Some reports do not include countries such as Cuba and North Korea. Those countries, according to some research, may have a higher ratio of inmates in their prisons. Johnson’s statement is based on accurate data. But it needs additional context to move the needle higher on the -O-Meter. We give the congressman a  on this one.
Statement: When children are given vaccines for COVID-19, "a viral gene will be injected into your children's cells. This gene forces your child's body to make toxic spike proteins. These proteins often cause permanent damage in children's critical organs.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: January 3, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: These proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs." The spike proteins generated by vaccines help trigger the body’s immune response. They are not toxic, do not cause illness and do not last long in the body. Experts say there is no  that the proteins cause damage to organs. We rate this  .
Statement: [The] ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop [Tim Tebow] from praying on the sidelines.
Speaker: john depetro
About the speaker: John DePetro is a talk-show host on WPRO.
Date: January 13, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: civil rights;human rights;legal issues;pundits;religion;sports
Context: an assertion on his WPRO radio show
Fact-check justification: Talk radio host John DePetro said, while discussing quarterback Tim Tebow, that the "ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop him from praying on the sidelines." DePetro's  consisted of two web pages that make no such . And given the ACLU's history of defending an individual's right to practice his or her religion, the idea that the organization would try to block Tebow from praying when he's not bothering anyone or disrupting a game is  We've seen the light. It's not from a burning bush. It's from a ! (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: The five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people.
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: June 1, 2014
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: McCain said the five Taliban prisoners exchanged for Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people." It might be a slight exaggeration to place all five into the highest threat category among Taliban officials and leaders. Still, these were very senior Taliban operatives, and leaked internal documents from U.S. officials at Guantanamo generally back up McCain’s assessment. We rate his statement .
Statement: When Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio tried to push amnesty, it was Ted Cruz who stopped them.
Speaker: courageous conservatives pac
About the speaker: The Courageous Conservatives PAC is supporting U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in his bid for president and other conservatives running for House and Senate.
Date: November 6, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: A super PAC supporting Cruz said in a radio ad, "When Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio tried to push amnesty, it was Ted Cruz who stopped them." Whether you consider the bill "amnesty" or not -- and there are arguments that it is not -- Cruz was one of 32 senators who voted against the bill. The bill actually passed in the Senate. Cruz did speak against the bill leading up to the Senate vote and after, but we found no  that he should get credit for stopping the bill from reaching a vote in the House. During the summer of 2013, Cruz was one of many voices in the Senate opposed to the bill. It was House Republicans who blocked the bill, and they were already calling for its defeat. So Cruz was one voice against the bill out of many, and it's not at all clear that his voice was a decisive one. We rate this  .
Statement: I cast the deciding vote extending Medicaid health care coverage to 50,000 of our fellow citizens,
Speaker: colin van ostern
About the speaker: Colin Van Ostern is one of five Executive Councilors in New Hampshire, representing one-fifth of the state's population, which is about 265,000 people. The council approves state contracts and state appointments.  Previously, he worked on the campigns of several Democrats including U.S. Sens. John Edwards and Jeanne Shaheen and U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster. He's a senior adviser for Southern New Hampshire University and formerly worked as brand manager at Stonyfield Inc., a popular yogurt company in Londonderry, N.H. He has a wife and two children.  
Date: September 6, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: candidate biography;health care;voting record
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Executive Councilor and candidate for governor Colin Van Ostern said he "cast the deciding vote to extend Medicaid coverage to 50,000 people." The Executive Council voted in favor of the contract that allowed expanded Medicaid to go forward, but the vote to approve the program already passed the legislature with bipartisan support. Van Ostern was one of three Democrats who voted for the contract and stated his support ahead of time. Since he did not have a direct vote on the law, and didn’t change his position, we rate his  .
Statement: Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die (from maternal mortality) even when they have the insurance and the income.
Speaker: raphael warnock
About the speaker: The Rev. Raphael Warnock is a U.S. Senator from Georgia elected in a special runoff election in January 2021 and running for re-election in 2022. Warnock, a Democrat, served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, located in Atlanta. The church's former pastors include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Date: October 14, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: health care;race and ethnicity;public health;women
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Warnock said that "Black women are three to four times more likely to die (from childbirth) even when they have the insurance and the income." Studies have shown this type of disparity, but without controlling for income or insurance status. We were unable to find any studies that controlled for those two factors. However, a 2019 study found that for women who had attended college or earned a college degree — a statistic that often correlates with income and insurance coverage — the Black-white differential ranged from 3.5 to 5.2 times, which is in line with what Warnock said. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Pete Gallego "went and lobbied after you fired him from Congress.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: October 4, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;ethics
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The pro-Hurd Republican group says Gallego "went and lobbied after you fired him from Congress." For half of 2015 including three months of the legislative session, Gallego worked in government relations for Austin’s city government. But the NRCC didn’t provide nor did we find  he was working as a lobbyist--either in Austin or Washington, which the ad arguably implies. We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: In Hillary Clinton's tax returns, "you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.
Speaker: paul manafort
About the speaker: Paul Manafort is the chairman for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Date: August 14, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;income
Context: an interview on "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Manafort said, "In Mrs. Clinton’s returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well." The returns for 2015 do show that two educational firms that have donated millions to the Clinton Foundation also paid about $1.6 million to Bill Clinton for consulting services. That’s just 15 percent of the Clintons’ total income in 2015, but "a lot" of money to most people. But we found no  that either of those businesses profited from Hillary Clinton’s actions at the State Department. The Trump campaign did not respond to our query with examples of other businesses donating to the foundation and then profiting from the department, and we did not find any in our search. We rate Manafort’s  .
Statement: Finance experts estimate that paying in cash for the $2.5 billion in projects funded by the sales tax saved Gwinnett County more than $1 billion in interest payments.
Speaker: charlotte nash
About the speaker: Charlotte Nash, a Republican, is a candidate for chair of Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners
Date: October 22, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: county budget;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: If you assumed they issued a 20-year bond at the amounts listed, you could easily get interest payments that total $1 billion." To sum up, Nash said Gwinnett County would have spent $1 billion in interest payments had the county borrowed the money for the projects as opposed to collecting revenue from the sales tax. Experts we interviewed agreed with the county’s methodology and math. We did our own calculations, and it appeared to us that they would have paid more than $1 billion in interest had they borrowed $2.5 billion. We rate Nash’s  as .
Statement: In Romney's first budget (in Massachusetts), he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education.
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: September 25, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;education;state budget
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: An Obama for America ad uses a big number to attack Romney’s record on school funding in Massachusetts, saying, "In Romney's first budget, he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education."  "Romney’s first budget" sounds like a proposal coming from the governor. Romney actually proposed a modest increase in state K-12 spending categories and larger cuts elsewhere. The $248.7 million in education-specific cuts reflected primarily the work of the Democratic Legislature in a time of serious financial crisis that predated the governor. Romney, tasked with closing a substantial budget gap, ultimately signed a document that embodied the Legislature’s cuts — and then tried to use his veto to cut further. But he shares responsibility for that $248.7 million with the veto-proof majority of lawmakers. We rate the ad’s  .
Statement: We don't take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs -- never have and never will.
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: December 28, 2011
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a fundraising appeal
Fact-check justification: The Obama campaign has a point that it doesn’t "take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs." But this leaves out important details. The campaign -- like others before it -- uses a narrow definition of "lobbyist" that allows donations and fundraising by people who most likely look, to the average American, like "lobbyists," even if they are not officially. In addition, the Obama campaign’s policy doesn’t bar even federally registered lobbyists from serving as volunteers for the campaign, as long as they don’t give or bundle money. On balance, we rate the statement .
Statement: The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 25, 2014
Location: national
Topics: children;families;marriage;poverty
Context: a meme on the Internet
Fact-check justification: A meme circulating on social media said the percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. There’s no federal data to back up the meme’s specific , but the most applicable statistics show an increase in black fatherlessness that is more limited, and the rise might have been even more modest still if the early-1960s data had been more reliable. In addition, the focus on Johnson and the Great Society is likely a red herring, since broader, societal factors are believed to have played a major role in rising rates of single-parenthood -- not just among blacks, but also among whites. The exaggerated statistics, combined with an ignorance of important context, leads us to rate the  .
Statement: Says Michelle Nunn has acknowledged allowing a convicted felon to hold a fundraiser for her.
Speaker: ending spending action fund
About the speaker: The Ending Spending Action Fund describes itself as “an independent organization that proudly supports candidates regardless of party affiliation who favor enhancing free enterprise, reducing the size of government, and balancing our nation's budget.” It was founded in 2010 under another name by Joe Ricketts, a businessman who founded TD Ameritrade and whose family owns the Chicago Cubs baseball club, according to Open Secrets, a website that tracks money in politics. Ricketts has said he is a registered independent.
Date: August 29, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Nunn has said she did not know anything about the man’s criminal background. And there is  from a leaked memo that her campaign was not vetting donors. The  is accurate. But it leaves out some relevant details. We rate it .
Statement: Says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell interviewed domestic abuse victim Janay Rice with Ray Rice present and for "every domestic violence agency, every law enforcement agency, that's a no-no.
Speaker: mike wise
About the speaker: Mike Wise is a columnist for the Washington Post. 
Date: September 14, 2014
Topics: criminal justice;sports;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Wise has a problem with Goodell meeting with Ray and Janay Rice together as Goodell sought information about the February elevator incident and aftermath that would inform Rice’s discipline by the league. First, there’s little debate that the meeting occurred, as it has been widely reported and not challenged by the NFL. Second, Wise also claimed that "in every domestic violence agency, every law enforcement agency" a meeting like that would be "a no-no." That’s for the most part correct as well, though experts we spoke to questioned whether it’s the right parallel to draw. Questioning victims separately from suspects in domestic violence cases does appear to be a widespread practice both encouraged by domestic violence advocates and many police and state policies after an incident occurs. But Goodell was not conducting a criminal investigation -- that already had occurred, and he had access to that information. Also, there are occasions when couples involved in domestic violence cases are interviewed together later, allowing police and prosecutors to judge how they act with one another so they can assess credibility and potential prosecution, one expert told us. Setting aside whether the comparison is apt, Wise’s  is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Since I introduced my budget -- first budget -- in March of 2010, we've created 50,000 new private-sector jobs for the people of this state.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: August 10, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs;state budget
Context: Belmar
Fact-check justification: His statistic is  correct. But his underlying point that the introduction of his budget spurred that job growth, according to most of the experts we spoke with, is a stretch. We couldn’t fully blame Christie’s budget if the state lost private-sector jobs, and we can’t fully credit Christie’s budget when the state gains private-sector jobs. We rate the governor’s  . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: U.S. military holding White House for Trump's return.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 29, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The video shows an image of former President Donald Trump and someone in uniform standing together as a narrator reads the text of a story published on July 23 on a website called Real Raw News.   We’ve debunked  news from this site before.    This particular story contains a number of falsehoods, including that President Joe Biden "has never set foot" in the White House and that Biden has been using director Tyler Perry’s production company to film White House events .    That’s all  and unfounded, and so is the  that the military is controlling the White House awaiting Trump’s return.   We rate it .