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Statement: Our population has grown from about 1 million in the 1970s to almost 7 million today.
Speaker: video for atlanta super bowl bid presentation
About the speaker: Chamber group backing Super Bowl
Date: May 24, 2016
Location: georgia
Topics: population
Context: Super Bowl bid
Fact-check justification: A video making Atlanta’s case for the 2019 Super Bowl said: "Our population has grown from about 1 million in the 1970s to almost 7 million today." You could make that case for the broadest possible definition of Atlanta -- if you add Columbus into the equation. But who does that? The 20-county area most people consider the broad definition of Atlanta is about 5.7 million and will not reach 7 million for another 14 years. It’s  that metro Atlanta’s population has soared since the 1970s. But it’s  to say the area now approaches 7 million people. We rate the statement  https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/3906d20f-7a1b-48ff-9695-427c2ba61317
Statement: There are "absolutely no patients" at Los Angeles hospital considered the center of region's COVID-19 surge.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 1, 2021
Location: california
Topics: health care;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: They come in through separate emergency department and ambulance entrances.   A hospital spokesperson described the  as groundless.   Based on the , we agree and rate it .  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  .
Statement: A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008.
Speaker: worldnetdaily
About the speaker: WorldNetDaily is a conservative Internet news Web site owned by the Western Center for Journalism.
Date: July 10, 2010
Location: national
Topics: abortion;federal budget
Context: a news report
Fact-check justification: WorldNetDaily wrote, "A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008." We found other websites making similar claims. The GAO never reported that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates couldn’t find $1.3 billion. It simply said that Planned Parenthood spent $657.1 million. The GAO also didn’t say that there was any sort sort of discrepancy or that money was missing, as the headline on WorldNetDaily’s news report said. The website's conclusion was reached by looking at numbers not even mentioned in the GAO report. In fact the statement conflates two different sets of numbers and is an extreme case of comparing apples to oranges, taking one number calculated by the GAO, and another calculated by adding numbers published in Planned Parenthood’s annual reports. The difference is what is claimed to be missing. Planned Parenthood includes all federal, state and local money under the category "government grants and contracts" in its annual reports. The GAO only looked at direct federal funding and noted it was likely undercounting the amount Planned Parenthood receives. The statement irresponsibly suggests misappropriation of federal funds without any . That makes it not just , but  so. As a result, we rate the statement .
Statement: A picture shows former President Bill Clinton naked with another woman.
Speaker: political insider
About the speaker: The Political Insider is a website.
Date: November 15, 2016
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a post on their website
Fact-check justification: The website Political Insider is peddling  news showing an alleged image of Bill Clinton naked with another woman. The image was actually created by a contemporary artist who depicts celebrities and politicians in compromising positions. It is not a real image. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9dd956aa-6b64-45b1-ad42-922b9af7cbd6
Statement: The Florida House is "holding the FINAL public hearing" of a controversial education bill in the middle of spring break..."when they hope (teachers) are not watching or listening.
Speaker: florida education association
About the speaker: Florida Education Association represents more than 250,000 teachers and education staff professional in Florida’s 67 school districts
Date: April 2, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a statement on the group's Web site
Fact-check justification: House Speaker Larry Cretul's office had to add additional telephone lines to handle the flood of calls, more than 5,200, most of whom were from people opposing the bill, said Chamberlin, the Ocala Star-Banner reported.. That means the message is getting out. The state's big teachers union, the Florida Education Association, said the Florida House is holding the final hearing of a controversial education bill in the middle of spring break, when "they hope (teachers) are not watching or listening." We find the scheduling of the hearing is much more of a practical matter than an attempt to stomp out the voice of teachers. We rate the  .
Statement: Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die.
Speaker: pat toomey
About the speaker: Pat Toomey is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, having won election to his seat in 2010 by defeating Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. Toomey occupies the seat formerly held by Sen. Arlen Specter, to whom he narrowly lost in the 2004 Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Date: July 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a television commercial
Fact-check justification: "So I would view Toomey's ad as kosher, much as I would feel it would be acceptable if Sestak were to run an ad about Toomey wanting to 'put people's retirement incomes at the mercy of Wall Street.' It's Sestak's job to criticize Toomey's ad, just as it's Toomey's responsibility to to go after Sestak when his positions get caricatured." To recap, w hile there is some  to Toomey's  because Sestak supports reviving the estate tax, Toomey  the scope of the tax, incorrectly implying that it would apply to far more taxpayers, and that it applies to their entire estates. In fact, only the wealthiest Americans would pay the tax under the proposal that Sestak supports, and the proposal would exclude $3.5 million per person and $7 million per couple.   On balance, then, we rate the ad .
Statement: The first time he ever voted as a Democrat was here in Florida in 2008. He only voted four times in his life, and he's asking Floridians to come out and vote for him.
Speaker: kendrick meek
About the speaker: Kendrick Meek is a former U.S. Representative for Congressional District 17 in Miami, serving from 2003 to 2011. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: June 22, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate
Fact-check justification: Greene's campaign said he voted in 1982 when he ran for office. We think it would be strange if he ran for Congress and didn't vote for himself, but Los Angeles did not keep such records before 1992. Greene says he first registered as a Democrat in 1973 -- but Palm Beach records show 1977 as an NPA. Based on available records, Greene voted at least five times, likely six times -- not four. Meek isn't far off though, so we rate his  .
Statement: An image of a newspaper article says "True Bethel Baptist Church becomes the first church in NYS to receive a liquor license.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 27, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;new york
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) We could find no credible reports, from Buffalo News or any other news organization, that the church was granted a liquor license. A query on the New York State Liquor Authority website also showed no results.  Bethel Baptist Church told PolitiFact that it does not have a liquor license and that the image reflects a  report.   We rate this !
Statement: Church services can't resume until we're all vaccinated, says Bill Gates.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 9, 2020
Topics: religion;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: That church services can’t resume until we’re all vaccinated.   Considering what the world will look like as regions slow the spread of the coronavirus and people start to resume their lives, Gates suggests that some mass gatherings may not come back before enough people have been vaccinated against COVID-19.   But Gates doesn’t specify that this means "church" gatherings, nor does he have any power to forbid church services "until we’re all vaccinated," as the post says. In the interview he mentions talking to pharmaceutical companies and federal agencies about how to collaborate on a vaccine, but he doesn’t imply that he has control over what policies the government could adopt with respect to such gatherings. We rate this blog headline .
Statement: Sen. Ron Johnson has been "rewarding companies that outsource to China.
Speaker: democratic senatorial campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee works to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate.
Date: January 7, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: china;jobs;taxes;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: A Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ad said Johnson has been "rewarding companies that outsource to China." The only  cited was Johnson’s vote for a 2017 GOP tax law that included many provisions, including a variety of tax breaks for individuals as well as some for companies with foreign operations. The law does not contain a provision specifically for China. Moreover, experts said there is no  the law incentivized U.S. companies to move jobs to China. We rate the statement . RELATED: No  for Senate hopeful McCormick’s  that China created COVID-19 RELATED: In race for open US Senate seat in Missouri, fact-checking a PAC attack on Eric Schmitt over China RELATED: In primary for Texas governor, a   about Greg Abbott and investing tax money in China
Statement: When Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.
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: August 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: Ames, Iowa
Fact-check justification: I was proved right in my position. "  In fact, because the debt ceiling was raised, the United States is paying its debts. What Standard & Poor's actually said was that politicians in Washington can't agree on long-term solutions for how to reduce the debt -- not that the country is or was unable to pay its debts. The notion that the report supported her position is wishful thinking. For that, we rate her statement .
Statement: We sell 40 percent of our guns without a background check.
Speaker: mark kelly
About the speaker: Mark Kelly is a U.S. Senator from Arizona. Kelly is a retired astronaut and husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., who was injured in a January 2011 shooting. The couple founded advocacy group Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Date: October 4, 2015
Topics: punditfact;guns
Context: an interview on "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Kelly said, "We sell 40 percent of our guns without a background check." The figure he’s citing comes from a 21-year-old survey with a small sample size before a key gun law took effect. Even its authors say they’re not sure if it holds  today. Still, there are few credible alternative statistics because of a two-decade dearth of gun violence research funding.  We rate his  .
Statement: Says Harvard scientists say the coronavirus is "spreading so fast that it will infect 70% of humanity this year.
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: March 10, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post says Harvard scientists say the coronavirus is "spreading so fast that it will infect 70% of humanity this year."  An epidemiologist at the university has said that 40% to 70% of the world’s adult population could be infected in the coming year.  But that is a projection, and other projections vary.  We rate this post .
Statement: Changes to DACA during his administration are "because of the pandemic.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: October 15, 2020
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: Miami
Fact-check justification: We rate it . RELATED : Republicans and Democrats  to support Dreamers. So why can’t they pass a law? This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: We aren't the only state cutting back on public television.
Speaker: richard licht
About the speaker: Richard Licht became a superior court judge in Rhode Island in 2014. He is a former lieutenant governor and former director of the Department of Administration for the state of Rhode Island in the Chafee administration.
Date: February 5, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Richard Licht, Chafee's director of administration, said, "We aren't the only state cutting back on public television." Turns out, he’s right. Five states have eliminated funding and others have cut their contributions. We rate his statement  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Update: van full of illegals caught voting at multiple Alabama polling locations.
Speaker: nofakenews-online
About the speaker: Nofakenews-online is a fake news website that identifies itself as satire.
Date: December 12, 2017
Topics: immigration;elections;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Nofakenews.com is affiliated with another  news website America’s Last Line of Defense , among the biggest sources of  news online. The author of these  news websites is Christopher Blair who previously told PolitiFact that he designed his parody site to fool conservatives with  stories most people would find . However, we’re not sure given the  claims of Trump and others of widespread voter fraud that this would meet any reasonable definition of satire. The post appears to have been removed as we began fact-checking its accuracy. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: "Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist.
Speaker: kenneth mckay
About the speaker: Kenneth V. McKay IV is a Rhode Island lawyer who has held state and national Republican leadership positions. He served as campaign manager and chief of staff for former Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri. He was also chief of staff of the Republican National Committee, from March 2009 to April 2010.
Date: February 27, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: health care
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: And he accused the GOP senators of voting against funding for soldiers, as another tactic to stall the health care vote. But in the paragraph McKay cites, it’s clear that Whitehouse was criticizing fringe groups who are "nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama"  not just opponents of the president’s health care plan. In suggesting that Whitehouse labeled all opponents of the health care plan Aryans and white supremacists, McKay seriously distorted the senator’s speech. His further suggestion that, by extension, Whitehouse was applying the label to Rhode Islanders who disagreed with the president, is even more of a distortion. .
Statement: Nazi imagery [was used] by the Block for Governor campaign to describe supporters of Allan Fung for Governor.
Speaker: allan fung
About the speaker: Allan Fung has been mayor of Cranston, R.I. since Jan. 5, 2009. In 2014 he made an unsuccessful run for governor as a Republican. He received his law degree from Suffolk University, worked as a prosecutor for the state attorney general's office, served as a lobbyist for MetLife and served two terms on the Cranston City Council, beginning in 2002. In his 2012 reelection bid, he was unopposed.
Date: August 18, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: elections;history;human rights;negative campaigning
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Allan Fung, represented by his campaign manager, said in a news release that Ken Block's campaign compared Fung supporters to Nazi soldiers. The Fung campaign could offer no meaningful  that any official with any authority in the Block campaign was involved in creating or posting the bizarre message. To suggest that being an unpaid volunteer, donating $125 to a campaign, and showing up for one second as an extra in a campaign commercial makes you a "key supporter" of a candidate is a huge stretch. And to suggest that a posting on a personal Facebook page by a supporter of the campaign automatically represents the opinion of the candidate or the candidate's campaign is an equally large contortion. We rate this   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Obama promised to cut the deficit by half by the end of his first term but he "hasn't even come close.
Speaker: crossroads gps
About the speaker: Crossroads GPS is a conservative advocacy group founded by prominent Republicans, including former White House political adviser Karl Rove.
Date: May 16, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: deficit;message machine 2012
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The campaign pointed us to Obama’s response when asked about it by an Atlanta TV station in February 2012. "Well, we're not there because this recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized," he said. "Everybody who is out there back in 2009, if you look back at what their estimates were in terms of how many jobs had been lost, how bad the economy had contracted when I took office, everybody underestimated it. …" Obama promised to halve the nation’s deficit, but he hasn’t managed to chip away much as the end of his first term nears. We rate this  from the Crossroads GPS ad .
Statement: Bill O'Brien's Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control.
Speaker: new hampshire democratic party
About the speaker: The New Hampshire Democratic Party is the Granite State's branch of the Democratic National Committee.
Date: July 6, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: abortion;education;health care
Context: a Web advertisement titled “College vs. Smokes.”
Fact-check justification: Of the four included in this statement, the ad is spot on about O’Brien and the Republican Majority’s push to defund Planned Parenthood. But, the ad is off the mark in other areas. The proposal to repeal the kindergarten mandate got little support from either party and was ushered to a quick death; the push to do away with compulsory education was removed from the associated bill before it reached the House floor; and, finally, with the birth control bill, House Republicans sought to allow some employers to decline to include birth control in their insurance coverage, not to eliminate coverage entirely. Of these charges, the Democratic Party is shooting 1-4. We rate the  .
Statement: Says there are "concrete examples" of University of Texas job applicants or prospective applicants and students as well as invited speakers changing their minds because of handguns being allowed in campus buildings and classrooms.
Speaker: lisa moore
About the speaker: Lisa L. Moore, who has taught in the University of Texas Department of English since 1991, joined two fellow faculty members in filing suit in 2016 against a state law permitting conceal-carry permit holders to bring handguns into university classrooms.
Date: August 7, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: education;guns
Context: an interview for NPR's "All Things Considered"
Fact-check justification: Moore told NPR there are "concrete examples" of UT job applicants, prospective students and invited speakers deciding not to come to the university because of conceal-carry permit holders newly being allowed to bring handguns into campus buildings including classrooms. Not naming names, UT’s administration says this is so. We separately identified two out-of-state professors, a prospective graduate student and the mother of a high school student who cited the change in gun law and policy for not continuing to seek a UT position or not applying to come there--plus an outside speaker who reportedly resisted an invitation to speak on campus before relenting. We rate this statement .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7faa9692-b238-4e6b-b053-5529f83ee602
Statement: In Sauk City, Wisconsin, "the ID office" that provides identification for voting "is only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month" -- a total of four days in 2016.
Speaker: john oliver
About the speaker: John Oliver is the host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO. Previously he was a correspondent for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
Date: February 14, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;elections;states;transportation
Context: a TV show
Fact-check justification: To be sure, Sauk City isn't the only small town where DMV hours are limited, but no DMV site is open less. Our rating Oliver said that in Sauk City, Wis., "the ID office" that provides identification for voting "is only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month" -- a total of four days in 2016. He’s correct that the state DMV office in Sauk City is only open on those four days in 2016, but that isn’t the only place where residents can go to get a state ID that they can use for voting. Several other locations within a relatively short drive of Sauk City are open much more often. For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification, our rating is .