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Statement: Amazon is "running a promotion and giving away random packages for just $1!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 15, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: NPR has also highlighted YouTubers who buy pallets of returned goods at auction and reveal the contents. Facebook posts shared a  that Amazon is offering unclaimed boxes of random items for  $1. But the link in these Facebook posts leads to a malware site with a high potential for harming the devices of people who click on it.   While the Facebook posts are , people can buy unclaimed Amazon parcels through legitimate websites like Liquidation.com. We rate the Facebook  that Amazon is selling boxes for $1 .
Statement: In the 2020 presidential election, "4,255 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, were scanned multiple times" and "3,390 went to Biden.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 13, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A tweet says that in the 2020 presidential election, "4,255 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, were scanned multiple times" and "3,390 went to Biden." Some 200 ballots initially were double-counted in Fulton County, where heavily Democratic Atlanta is located — but there’s no  of thousands, and the double-count didn’t change the official result of Biden defeating Trump in Georgia. We rate the  .
Statement: People think AIDS is done -- it's not done.
Speaker: bono
About the speaker: Bono is the frontman of the rock group U2 and co-founder of the ONE Campaign.
Date: January 24, 2016
Topics: global news service;public health
Context: an interview with the "Irish Times"
Fact-check justification: Bono said that the "public thinks AIDS is done -- it’s not done."  There's an obvious bit of rhetorical flourish in Bono's comments, but independent polling does show that the public sees AIDS as less of a threat both at home and overseas than it once did. However, people still rank it rather high on the global health agenda and believe America should continue to help developing nations deal with it. Bono’s broader point is well founded, but his specific  slightly overstates the situation. On balance, we rate this  .
Statement: Senator Webb was a reliable vote for President Obama and Senator Harry Reid.
Speaker: jamie radtke
About the speaker: Jamie Radtke, a Republican, was a candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012 and was president of the Richmond Tea Party and co-founder of the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation.
Radtke graduated from Liberty University, Lynchburg, in 1995 and earned a master's degree in public policy from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, in 1998.
Date: February 9, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: voting record
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: In the 111th Congress only five other senators went against the party’s majority more often than Webb did. But voting with your party 87 percent of the time still sounds consistent to us. But voting with your party 87 percent of the time still sounds consistent to us. And on the highest-profile issues, Webb and Reid have backed the president.   We rate Radtke’s statement .
Statement: Over a million people apprehended at the border this year, "meaning probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: October 18, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Patrick said, "And right now, we are looking at over a million people apprehended this year, meaning probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally." The first part is accurate when you look at figures released by the Border Patrol. Because the Border Patrol has been apprehending a higher share of people over time, the number of people who were not apprehended in fiscal 2021 was likely far fewer than his estimate. We rule this  , which means the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
Statement: This is the first time since World War II that five nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were docked together.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: April 4, 2014
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: A chain email says Obama ordered five aircraft carriers into Norfolk Naval Base together in 2014, supposedly the first time this had been done since World War II. But the rendezvous occurred in 2012, a similar grouping happened at the base in 1997, and it was done so that naval personnel could be with their families for the Christmas holiday -- not for nefarious reasons that posed a security risk. We rate the email’s claims .
Statement: Says as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana carries a designation that means it "should not be researched
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: September 14, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: drugs;health care;marijuana
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: She said a "generation" of possible research has been lost as a result. Schedule 1 status does add additional hurdles for researchers, including approval from the DEA. But research is allowed and does happen — to the tune of more than 400 studies nationwide. So the statement has an element of  but otherwise misses the mark. Our rating for that is .
Statement: Barack Obama said he would debate 'anywhere, anytime' but has rejected joint town hall meetings.
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: July 8, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: His "anywhere, anytime" challenge was issued specifically "to debate about our respective policies in Iraq, Iran, the Middle East or around the world." The Obama campaign did offer an "in-depth" foreign policy debate in August. And he didn't reject the town hall concept, he just wasn't willing to do as many as McCain wanted. Still, after seemingly endorsing the idea, Obama's offer of just two appearances (one on a holiday weekend) beyond the traditional postconvention debates sounds like a change of heart. We rate McCain's  .
Statement: Gas prices have gone up 99 percent since Obama became president, "the highest gas price increase since Carter.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: April 20, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;energy;gas prices
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Congressional Committee said that gas prices have increased by 99 percent since Obama became president and that it’s "the highest gas price increase since Carter." The NRCC framed the question in such a way that it didn’t make an apples-to-apples comparison between presidencies. Seasonal fluctuations in gas prices could easily change the NRCC’s calculation for Obama’s presidency -- a variation the committee didn’t note in its news release. It also didn’t say that it was comparing the first and last months of a president’s term. The release implies that gas prices haven’t risen so high percentage-wise at any time under any other president since Carter. But that’s not . When George W. Bush was in office, the national average price rose much higher by percent before falling. Finally, blaming presidents for gas prices is missing the point. Presidents have little control over them. The global economy is the prime factor. We rule the statement . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: You can't donate plasma after getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 20, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Convalescent plasma is used to help treat people with COVID-19   But some people may be confused over whether vaccine recipients can donate plasma or not because the Red Cross said it wasn’t accepting convalescent plasma donations from people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine . The Red Cross wants convalescent plasma from people that have not received the COVID-19 vaccines to ensure that there are enough antibodies directly related to their immune response to a COVID-19 infection. That’s because the antibodies someone produces after a COVID-19 infection are slightly different from the antibodies someone produces when they’ve been vaccinated, said Katie Wilkes, a spokesperson for the Red Cross.   The Red Cross stopped dedicated COVID-19 convalescent plasma donations in March "due to declining hospital demand and sufficient industry supply," Wilkes said, but it still tests all blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies and plasma from routine blood and platelet donations that meet certain requirements maye be used as convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients.   We rate this post .
Statement: In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote.
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: April 24, 2016
Location: national
Topics: income;voting record
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Sanders said, "In 2014, 80 percent of poor people did not vote." The figure is a bit high if we look at turnout by income. In 2014, about 75 percent of people who made under $10,000 and about 69 percent of those who made under $30,000 didn’t vote. If we look at financial insecurity, however, Sanders is right on the money. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Scott Walker "brags a lot about having an independent agency investigate police shootings. Of course, he didn't fund it.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: August 26, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city government;civil rights;criminal justice;public safety;state budget
Context: comments to reporters
Fact-check justification: Walker has cited the fact that a law he signed was the first in the country to require independent investigations of deaths that involve police officers. And he did not include in his 2015-’17 budget proposal funds requested by the state Department of Justice for five positions to implement the law. However, three months later in the budget process, Walker signed a final budget that included money for four positions, which had been added to the spending plan by state lawmakers. So, ultimately, Walker did include some funding, although only after the Legislature included it in its version of the budget. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we give Moore a .
Statement: I finished" the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born.
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: September 16, 2016
Location: national
Topics: obama birth certificate
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said of the birther controversy, "I finished it." In no credible sense is this . Trump didn’t "finish" fanning the flames of birther conspiracies once Obama released his long-form birth certificate in April 2011 -- he kept tweeting about it for at least another three and a half years. And a core group of Americans hasn’t "finished" expressing birther sentiments. As recently as a year ago, various polls have found that 13 percent of Americans supported the viewpoint. We rate Trump’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f8a8c00a-de79-480b-8444-2e5f66aab040
Statement: Democratic tax hikes led $70 billion of wealth to leave New Jersey between 2004 and 2008, and mainly relocate to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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: May 20, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: a speech at Princeton University
Fact-check justification: Christie was not completely accurate about the destination states for the departed wealth, leaving out New York and California. Several experts agree higher taxes play a role in migration, but the governor’s spokesman couldn’t provide any specific  of that, and some research has found the impact to be minimal. The Boston College study -- the basis for Christie’s $70 billion figure -- also listed family- and job-related reasons as the main factors chasing people from New Jersey. We rate Christie’s statement . To comment on this ruling, join the conversation at NJ.com .
Statement: I didn't raise taxes once.
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: February 6, 2011
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview on Super Bowl Sunday
Fact-check justification: When you combine that with small tax cuts that were part of the economic stimulus, most taxpayers have seen reduced rates under Obama's administration. Obama said, "I didn't raise taxes once." But we've documented numerous instances when he has. He's has signed off on small tax cuts for most taxpayers, but that doesn't change the fact that he's also approved several tax increases. So we rate his statement .
Statement: I have filed every disclosure that has ever been required.
Speaker: gail buckner
About the speaker:  
Served 16 years in the Georgia House of Representatives and two years in the state Senate.
Date: June 27, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: ethics
Context: political debate
Fact-check justification: “I am down to deciding whether to formally request an advisory opinion from the [Ethics] Commission,” he said. “I think the state might be better off just to get clarification on this so it is not repeated.” But as of now, Buckner appears to have done what is required of her. We give her a rating of  on this one.
Statement: Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: August 12, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;taxes
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said, "Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns." There are several examples of major party candidates for president in modern times who released fewer than 12 tax returns. And those examples have been highlighted in recent news articles. Wasserman Schultz’s  is not correct, and we rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/b2415e9e-2c2b-402f-8451-cf2041d0e8c8
Statement: Says President Barack Obama advocated "fathers in the home" as the solution to gun violence.
Speaker: jeanne ives
About the speaker: Jeanne Ives is a former three-term Republican state representative from Wheaton, Ill. She unsuccessfully challenged former Gov. Bruce Rauner in Illinois' 2018 Republican primary election. 
Date: January 15, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: families;guns
Context: a campaign statement
Fact-check justification: Ives claims she was echoing comments from former President Obama as she declared recently that the solution to curbing rampant gun violence would depend on more fathers taking responsibility for their families. In his 2008 speech, Obama drew a link between children from fatherless homes and those who stray into crime. But Ives took it a lot further than Obama ever did. Her sweeping  is not supported by the passages from Obama’s speech that her campaign pointed to as . A reading of the full speech doesn’t support Ives either. As president, Obama made several speeches about the proliferation of guns and violence, and also laid out an array of proposals to deal with the problems. In his public pronouncements, however, Obama did not make statements linking the problem of absent fathers with gun violence. Ives is taking the message from Obama’s 2008 Father’s Day speech out of context. We rate her statement .
Statement: The founders of New Hampshire came up with the motto Live Free or Die.
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: April 8, 2015
Location: new hampshire
Topics: history;patriotism;states
Context: Milford, NH
Fact-check justification: Rand Paul said "the founders of New Hampshire came up with the motto Live Free or Die." New Hampshire’s motto is attributed to General John Stark, who was instrumental in defending it and the other colonies. But he wasn’t a founder of the state, and the motto wasn’t adopted until well after his death. As one of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. constitution, it’s not a stretch to think New Hampshire’s founders were focused on liberty, but not specifically the words of Stark. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Alaska Sen. Mark Begich "is on record supporting a carbon tax, even pushing Harry Reid to make it a priority.
Speaker: americans for prosperity
About the speaker: Americans for Prosperity is a conservative group advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal and regulatory restraint.
Date: February 21, 2014
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Americans for Prosperity said "Begich is on record supporting a carbon tax, even pushing Harry Reid to make it a priority." Begich voted on an amendment that said if there is a carbon tax, the revenue generated by a carbon tax to be given back to the public in some form.The letter to Reid said that energy policy should be aimed at putting some sort of price on greenhouse gas emissions, without specifically saying it should be a carbon tax. Begich’s campaign said he’s never explicitly supported a carbon tax. If you were counting votes in the U.S. Senate for a straightforward carbon tax and looked at Begich's record for how he might vote, you'd likely put Begich in the "maybe" column. Americans for Prosperity exaggerated in saying that Begich is "on record" supporting a carbon tax. So we rate the  .
Statement: There are 86 languages spoken at Miami Dade College.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: January 23, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;education;race and ethnicity
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: The college’s diversity and size make it a common stop in recent years for presidents  and presidential candidates from both parties. The college was expecting a visit from Romney on Jan. 25, 2012, and a group of students were planning to attend an event with Gingrich at the Univision studio on Jan. 25, said Mendieta. Gingrich said, "There are 86 languages in Miami Dade College, 86." We found that in this case Gingrich has a good memory for detail.  We rate this  Verdad, or Vrai, or .  https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ea16445b-aab3-4ec2-b95e-f7a440067dbb
Statement: The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is "an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960.
Speaker: steve moore
About the speaker: Steve Moore is an editorial board member and senior economics writer at The Wall Street Journal.
Date: April 1, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;history;jobs;labor
Context: the "Wall Street Journal"
Fact-check justification: The leisure and hospitality sector, for instance, grew from 6.3 percent of the workforce in 1960 to 10 percent in 2011, and professional business services roughly doubled, from 6.8 percent in 1960 to 13.1 percent in 2011. So, other types of private-sector employment -- jobs that don’t "make" anything -- took up some of the slack from manufacturing’s decline. So where does this leave us? Moore’s raw employment numbers for manufacturing and government are accurate, but adding context about the size of the labor force as a whole weakens the notion that the trendlines are an "exact reversal." On balance, we rate the statement .