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Statement: Nancy Pelosi is no longer the Speaker of the House
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 11, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post including a video of a Jan. 11 House session claims that it shows that Pelosi is no longer House speaker. This is . The clip showed the opening of a pro forma session when the presiding officer, in this case Pelosi, was absent and appointed a "speaker pro tempore." This is standard procedure and doesn’t indicate that Pelosi resigned as speaker eight days after being re-elected to the position. We rate this . CORRECTION, Jan. 13, 2021: Clerk Joe Novotny read Pelosi’s letter before the House. An earlier version erroneously identified the person reading the letter. This story has been updated.
Statement: Says state Rep. Jim Keffer, a GOP lieutenant to House Speaker Joe Straus, "did mail pieces for Democrat Mark Strama to help him defeat" a Republican.
Speaker: david barton
About the speaker: David Barton of Aledo, vice chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 1997 into 2006, is the founder and president of WallBuilders, which describes itself as a national pro-family organization that presents America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious and constitutional heritage.
Date: June 12, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship
Context: an open letter
Fact-check justification: We don't always agree on every issue, but we agree on the need to put the interests of Texas ahead of partisan politics.” Responding to our query, Keffer confirmed he’d given Strama a hand, saying: “Whether you’ve got an R or a D behind your name doesn’t mean you are most qualified.” Finally, we contacted Strama, who told us by e-mail that Keffer, who had authored school funding legislaton that Strama co-sponsored, “didn’t ‘do’ mail pieces in the sense of paying for them,” but agreed to be quoted in a mailer “funded by my campaign about my bipartisan approach to the school finance bill.” Though Strama paid for the campaign materials, Keffer willingly helped out his Democratic colleague. Barton’s statement checks out as .
Statement: Pepsi admitted an employee contaminated its products with AIDS.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 9, 2019
Topics: food safety;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Sky News did not respond to an email asking if the network had aired a segment, like the Facebook post claims, but we couldn’t find any  of such a story on its website. In fact, we couldn’t find any credible articles about this so-called "urgent message." But for what it’s worth: You can’t get HIV from consuming food handled by someone with HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Even if the food contained small amounts of HIV-infected blood or semen, exposure to the air, heat from cooking, and stomach acid would destroy the virus." We rate this  !
Statement: Says Michael Kors said, "I'm tired of pretending I like blacks.
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 5, 2019
Topics: civil rights;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But there’s no  Kors said anything like what the NaHa Daily story — or Facebook post — allege. The designer is well-covered in the news. His reaction to First Lady Melania Trump wearing his label at her husband’s 2017 congressional address garnered media attention , for example. Searching the Nexis news database, we found no articles quoting Kors saying he doesn’t like black people.   We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Right now, we only keep 50 percent of Georgia Tech's graduates.
Speaker: kasim reed
About the speaker: Kasim Reed is Mayor of Atlanta.
Date: January 31, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;education;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: The school’s surveys are pretty close to the mayor’s statement. There’s not much data out there on this subject. Georgia Tech’s surveys showed the percentage of graduates who stayed in the state were slightly higher than what the mayor said at the luncheon. Still, Reed appears to be on the right track with his comments, based on the limited information available. Our rating: .
Statement: California won't let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you're about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for.
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: March 7, 2018
Location: california
Topics: immigration;crime;public safety;states
Context: Sacramento
Fact-check justification: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed California prevents local law enforcement from communicating with and transferring prisoners to federal immigration agents. There are limits on cooperation under California’s SB 54. Local law enforcement are prohibited from working with immigration agents in cases where undocumented immigrants are charged with minor crimes, unless they are presented with a federal warrant.  Notably, the law does not limit cooperation in cases involving 800 serious misdemeanor and felony crimes. Sessions’ statement has an element of , but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .  –  The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: Says Joe Biden "voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: August 25, 2020
Topics: iraq;foreign policy;military
Context: a speech at the RNC
Fact-check justification: Biden as a senator voted for resolutions that supported interventions in Iraq and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). As vice president, he followed the policies of the Obama administration, which included interventions in Syria and Libya. Biden’s campaign said that Biden as vice president supported going into Syria, but pointed to 2016 reporting that said Biden within the White House argued against intervention in Libya. Paul’s  is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Harvard Medical School students "learn how to care for LGBTQIA+ infants.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: January 11, 2023
Location: national
Topics: lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video claims that Harvard Medical School is teaching students how to care for infants who identify as LGTBQ. It is not. When it comes to infants, the class teaches how to provide medical care for babies who are born intersex, meaning a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit typical definitions of female or male. Babies born intersex have physical variations in sex development that can arise in utero and are present at birth. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Rob Portman "even voted to allow people on the terrorism watch list to buy guns.
Speaker: ted strickland
About the speaker: Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio from 2007 through 2010. He lost his bid for re-election in 2010 to Republican John Kasich.
Date: September 21, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: corrections and updates;terrorism;guns
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Strickland’s campaign ad said of Portman, "He even voted to allow people on the terrorism watch list to buy guns." The ad distorts facts on many levels. People on the terrorism watch list could already buy guns before the votes in question. Portman voted along party lines on the gun control measures that came up for Senate vote on June 20 and 23. He voted against Feinstein’s amendment to enact a blanket ban on firearm purchases by terrorists or suspected terrorists. But he voted for the Republican version of the legislation, sponsored by Cornyn, that would ban a gun sale after a three-day period of judicial review to determine whether an individual was on a watch list for legitimate reasons. The vote for Cornyn’s legislation was literally a vote to stop terrorists from buying weapons — but the extra hurdles for the government were not supported by Democrats. We rate the ad’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/75c564aa-58eb-4640-9db2-99437d9cd9cd
Statement: I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: September 28, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: abortion;health care;medicaid
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Bruce Rauner said his signing of a controversial abortion bill was consistent with his pro-choice principles and that he had never presented himself as anything but pro-choice. We looked through numerous campaign appearance videos, ads and news stories and found no  that Rauner ever tried to hide or downplay his pro-choice beliefs. In fact, his campaign touted the Rauners’ support of abortion rights groups to rebut the charge that he was not pro-choice. Rauner sought anti-abortion voters by assuring them that, as governor, he had no social agenda and that "the right for a woman to choose is the national law and… that ain’t gonna change in Illinois." Politically, it proved to be a smart strategy that helped gain him election in 2014. By 2017, however, it became impossible to continue finessing the issue. In picking a side, Rauner declared that he has been consistent in declaring his pro-choice beliefs. We rate that statement .
Statement: Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent.
Speaker: david axelrod
About the speaker: David Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. He is now an analyst for NBC News.
Date: September 27, 2011
Location: national
Topics: education;federal budget;new hampshire 2012
Context: a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics
Fact-check justification: Still, because education spending makes up such a large proportion of the total Function 500 costs – over 90 percent – it's safe to assume most of the cuts from this category would come from education. With that in mind, the percentages don't lie. The Ryan budget proposal included more than 25 percent funding cuts every year between 2016 and 2021, and it proposed a total 24 percent funding cut between 2012 and 2021, within range of Axelrod’s 25 percent figure. Axelrod's figures are correct  if you include everything in the category, most of which is education, but it also includes items that are not education. We rate Axelrod's  .
Statement: Says his father, Fred Trump, was "born in a very wonderful place in Germany.
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: April 2, 2019
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: remarks to reporters
Fact-check justification: Donald Trump said his father was born in Germany  — even though, as has been reported many times -- Fred Trump was born in New York. It’s unclear why the president keeps repeating it, but it’s . .
Statement: Kohl's Department Stores in 2012 "announced the creation of 3,000 new jobs.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: January 15, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;economy;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: That’s a projection that, even if well founded, doesn’t amount to a commitment to create that many jobs. And there’s no way to know whether economic conditions over 12 years will enable Kohl’s to reach its hiring goal. Our rating Walker said that in 2012, Kohl’s Department Stores "announced the creation of 3,000 new jobs." What Kohl’s announced is it would build a new headquarters and expected to create 3,000 jobs, over 12 years -- not that 3,000 jobs were a certainty. For being partially accurate but leaving out important details, we rate Walker’s statement .
Statement: Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.
Speaker: msnbc
About the speaker: MSNBC is a cable network owned by NBC Universal.
Date: March 5, 2020
Topics: campaign finance;elections;population;pundits;punditfact
Context: an MSNBC segment
Fact-check justification: Bloomberg did spend in the ballpark of $500 million on ads and other campaign-related finances , according to reports . And the census estimates that the U.S. population is a little more than 327 million people. But even at roughly $500 million, the billionaire didn’t spend nearly the amount of money he would've needed to give every American $1 million. That’s bad math. We rate this statement !
Statement: As Ohio treasurer, Josh Mandel loaned your money to Chinese business interests, and Mandel opposed a bill holding Communist China accountable when they cheated and stole American jobs.
Speaker: mike gibbons
About the speaker: Mike Gibbons is running in the 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio. He also ran for the Senate GOP nomination in 2018. He was Ohio finance co-chair of Trump Victory, a joint committee of Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee in 2016.
Date: April 7, 2022
Location: ohio
Topics: china;jobs;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Gibbons claimed in an ad that Mandel, as Ohio’s state treasurer, "loaned your money to Chinese business interests and Mandel opposed a bill holding Communist China accountable when they cheated and stole American jobs." Mandel led a state fund that invested public money in multinational corporations such as U.S.-based Exxon and Apple that do business in China, but are not based there. Mandel indicated he did not support a 2011 bill that would have allowed for imposing tariffs on countries that manipulated their currency. But he suggested holding China accountable through diplomatic efforts. Gibbons’ statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: These are real to date pictures taken during the Million (MAGA) March 2020.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 14, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a series of photos
Fact-check justification: pic.twitter.com/GMGqk2aoT1 The recent pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington were not as well-attended. News outlets estimate that thousands of people were present at the Nov. 14 rallies, which grew violent toward the end of the day when hundreds of counterprotesters showed up. We previously rated  a  that more than 1 million people were present at the demonstrations. This Facebook post is similarly . We rate it .
Statement: Trudeau declares Emergencies Act amounting to near martial law in Canada.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 14, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Under the Emergencies Act, banks can temporarily freeze accounts being used to support protesters’ blockades without obtaining a court order. But the act doesn’t specify a role for the military. Trudeau has said he will not call in the military as part of the Emergencies Act. He also said fundamental rights will not be suspended. We rate this  .
Statement: Took on the Olympics and turned them around
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: September 26, 2007
Location: national
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Romney scored a big win early in his effort to preserve the Olympic luster by helping to convince John Hancock to remain a sponsor. Stephen A. Greyser, a professor emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a specialist in sports marketing, said the Olympic brand itself had been at stake. "It was Mitt Romney who was, in essence, Mr. Integrity," Greyser said. In the end, we cannot award a fully  ruling to Romney's  when even his supporters say his  is a little overstated. But there is nothing to dispute that Romney played a vital role in rescuing a very troubled Olympic games and that's why we're rating his  .
Statement: DEA agent Mark Ibrahim was forced from his job and later indicted simply because he was near the Capitol protest on Jan. 6.
Speaker: tucker carlson
About the speaker: Tucker Carlson was a Fox News pundit until his departure in April 2023.
Date: November 2, 2021
Location: national
Topics: crime;punditfact;jan. 6
Context: a documentary film
Fact-check justification: Carlson said Ibrahim was "forced" from his DEA job and "later indicted simply because he was near the Capitol protest on Jan. 6."  Court documents show that Ibrahim had been a probationary DEA employee on leave on Jan. 6 and had given a notice of his intent to resign from the agency several weeks earlier. He was indicted for bringing a firearm on Capitol grounds and for making  statements to federal agents, not "simply because he was near the Capitol." We rate this .
Statement: Says Donald Trump "believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: July 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: jobs;poverty;workers
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that Trump believes that states should have the right to lower the minimum wage. Looking strictly at Trump’s words, at one point, in that Meet the Press interview, he said states should have the right to set their own minimum wage and rejected the idea that the federal government should set it for the country. The only quibble with Sanders’ statement is he talked about what Trump believes, as if Trump’s policy is fixed and steady. It isn’t that simple. Trump suggested in one interview that he might consider raising the federal minimum wage. But most of the time, he has not expressed that view. Nor has Trump said anything recently to clarify his position. Taking Trump’s ambiguity into account, we rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2d3f300b-aebb-4aae-b6a1-8a33626d6a60
Statement: Planned Parenthood "raked in more than $300 million in profits over the past four years.
Speaker: marjorie dannenfelser
About the speaker: Marjorie Dannenfelser is the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an organization that opposes abortion and aims to help elect abortion-opponents to Congress and pass pro-life legislation.
Date: May 6, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: abortion
Context: a blog
Fact-check justification: Most of the experts we consulted say no. And the one who would call it profit agrees that it's not treated the same way as profit for a corporation. Companies distribute their profits to shareholders and owners, while nonprofits put their excess revenues back into the organization's work. We think the real sting in this  comes from the word "profits," so we weighed that more heavily than the vague dollar figures in our ruling. We rate this  .
Statement: Since 2004, more than 2,000 suspected terrorists have legally purchased weapons in the United States.
Speaker: mike thompson
About the speaker: U.S. Representative Mike Thompson is a Democrat and represents the Napa and Sonoma counties region in Northern California.
Date: December 7, 2015
Location: california
Topics: terrorism;guns
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: But given the large size of the terror watch list — with perhaps 10,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of foreigners — it’s reasonable to assume that 200 or more on the list made legal weapons purchases each year over the past decade. We rate the  .    –   The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for   more   on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.