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Statement: Says the Make-A-Wish Foundation will grant wishes only to fully vaccinated children.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 26, 2021
Location: national
Topics: children;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that the Make-A-Wish Foundation will grant wishes only to fully vaccinated children. This is . The nonprofit organization recently announced a policy that requires families and children to be fully vaccinated only for wishes that involve air travel and large gatherings.  The new policy is based on the guidance of medical experts to protect the health of the children, whose conditions often make them more vulnerable to viruses. It doesn’t apply to any child who has received an end-of-life prognosis. We rate this .
Statement: Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield.
Speaker: joe lieberman
About the speaker: Joe Lieberman, a lawyer from Stamford, Conn., now in his fourth term in the U.S. Senate, is perhaps best known as the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2000. He lost the Democratic primary for Senate prior to the 2006 election but retained his seat after running on his own party line and beating the anti-war Democratic candidate Ned Lamont. He now calls himself an independent but continues to caucus with the Democrats. He is a friend and supporter of Sen. John McCain, and was one of his surrogates in the 2008 presidential race.
Date: September 2, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: St. Paul, Minn
Fact-check justification: If, by voting against funding for a strategy he opposed, Obama voted to "cut off funding for the troops," then so did almost every Republican in the Senate — and Lieberman himself — when they voted against a $124-billion appropriations bill on April 26, 2007, that would have funded operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also required Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq. (McCain missed the vote on that bill, which passed 51-46 and was subsequently vetoed by Bush.) In a very narrow sense, yes, those votes were against military funding — a portion of which goes to equip and pay the troops. So there is a grain of  to Lieberman's attack. But because it is so  — treating a strategic disagreement as a stand against men and women in uniform — we find it .
Statement: Says Rick Scott "is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions" despite troubled power plants.
Speaker: nextgen climate action committee
About the speaker: Next Generation Climate Action Committee, or NextGen, is a Democratic-aligned super PAC promoting awareness and solutions to global warming. The group was founded by Thomas Steyer, a billionaire who in 1986 founded Farallon Capital Management, a San Francisco hedge fund.
Date: August 8, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: energy
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: NextGen Climate said Scott "is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions" after the utility company took in billions for two failed nuclear projects. The $3.2 billion settlement was the decision of the Public Service Commission, however, and not the governor or the Legislature. Scott and lawmakers have a say in who serves as commissioners, but the board’s decisions in utility matters is final. Scott could have asked for a change in the advance fee from 2006 that led to the flap, but he didn’t. He also could have appointed commissioners who may have voted differently. Beyond that, there’s not much the governor could do about the settlement the PSC awarded Duke. But it’s not like Scott has spoken up on the issue. If anything, he has been notably silent. We rate the statement .
Statement: Over the past decade, the big five oil companies --- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- made a total profit of nearly $1 trillion.
Speaker: jim moran
About the speaker: Rep. Jim Moran, D-8th, was first elected in 1990 to represent a district covering Falls Church, Alexandria, Arlington County and part of Fairfax County.
He serves on the Appropriations Committee and is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, as well as serving on the Defense Subcommittee.
Moran previously served as the mayor of Alexandria from 1985 to 1990.
Moran was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., in 1967, and received a master of public administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970.
Date: February 10, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: corporations;energy;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: That statement was based on a report from the Center for American Progress, which initially said profits totaled $951 billion, but then corrected its figure to $901.6 billion. Our math put the inflation-adjusted profits at $884.3 billion. That’s still more than $100 billion away from the $1 trillion figure Moran cited. So to say that the total profits was nearly $1 trillion is a stretch. The overall tally is still sizable though, so we rate the  .
Statement: Their New York casino deal was called 'rigged' and 'corrupt.'
Speaker: it's still a bad idea
About the speaker: The It's Still a Bad Idea coalition is opposed to Measures 82 and 83 on the Oregon 2012 ballot. The measures would authorize a private casino in Wood Village.
Date: September 13, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: gambling
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Does that mean Clairvest will bring problems to Oregon? We can’t make that link, and neither can casino opponents. But opponents can say with accuracy that "their New York casino deal was called rigged and corrupt." The only additional information we’d offer is the abhorrent behavior of the others involved. We rule the statement .
Statement: Video shows U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn receiving an "ovation" after confronting U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 6, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Third, there’s no ovation.   Instead, we have Cawthorn denouncing mask mandates, discussing   the Taliban, criticizing infrastructure legislation, and calling on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to assess the president’s mental competency. Plus, none of these videos is new. Cawthorn lost his reelection bid in 2022 after Republican challenger Chuck Edwards , a three-term senator, won the primary and then the general election. We rate this post .
Statement: McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: April 28, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In the second of those votes, McCain was one of only 14 senators to oppose a less generous GOP alternative. And in the case of the 2003 votes cited by the DNC, Republicans said they preferred alternative legislation for a number of reasons, arguing that Democratic amendments didn't include language to encourage donations from other countries, would have exceeded budget restrictions, and might overwhelm the bureaucracy with so much money that it wouldn't be able to disburse it wisely. With the exception of the 2001 vote and one of the 2002 votes, the remaining four votes split  along party lines, with Democrats arguing that the GOP concerns were outweighed by the magnitude of the AIDS crisis in Africa. In the end, compromises were reached on funding measures that were somewhat less generous, which McCain supported. As a result, the DNC's charge of hypocrisy is only .
Statement: Says Measure 3-386 will cost a fortune for elections while Measure 3-388 will cost less.
Speaker: ann lininger
About the speaker: Ann Lininger is a Clackamas County Commissioner in favor of county Ballot Measure 3-388 in the Nov. 8, 2011 election.
Date: October 22, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: county government
Context: campaign literature
Fact-check justification: We find that the proponents of the smaller election option have not proved their case that their version would cost less or that a countywide election would cost a fortune. In fact, special elections could cost more. The statement is not accurate. We rate it . Return to OregonLive to comment on this ruling .
Statement: Says "James Comey Has Been Having An Affair With" Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Speaker: freedomcrossroads.us
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: June 21, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a post on the Internet
Fact-check justification: Freedomcrossroads.us published an article that said "James Comey Has Been Having An Affair With" Debbie Wasserman Schultz. As the website itself acknowledges on another page, this is all a "crock of doody." Only one rating fits: .
Statement: Pennsylvania sent out 1,823,148 mail-in ballots. They got back 2,589,242.
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: August 8, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: From where did the extra 1,126,940 votes come?" Mastriano is running for Pennsylvania governor. Fact-checkers from numerous news outlets then debunked the allegations. They’re still .   We rate claims that Pennsylvania got more mail-in ballots back than they sent out during the 2020 general election .
Statement: (T)he United States government and its Constitution says that people can be put to death.
Speaker: jimmy carter
About the speaker: Jimmy Carter was elected president of the United States in 1976 and served one term. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The native of Plains, Georgia was submarine commander, peanut farmer, state senator and Georgia governor. 
Date: June 23, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Next to Brennan’s quote on the website is a quote from the current chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr. In a 2008 ruling, Roberts wrote that a method of execution "cannot be viewed as probative of the wanton infliction of pain under the Eighth Amendment." To sum up, Carter claimed the federal government and the U.S. Constitution say people can be put to death. The U.S. attorney general’s office has guidelines on prosecuting such cases, and the Supreme Court has ruled capital punishment can be employed under the Constitution, although there is still much discussion about its interpretation. We rate Carter’s  .
Statement: Deaths of four alternative medicine doctors show they are being targeted for their ideas.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 6, 2023
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed the deaths of Buttar and three other doctors show that alternative medicine doctors are being targeted for their ideas. There is no  to support the  that Buttar’s death and the 2015 deaths were suspicious or connected.  The cause of Buttar’s death has not been revealed, but there’s no  that foul play was involved. Buttar said in March that he had been hospitalized, and information shows he had cardiac problems dating to 2016.  The other three doctors highlighted in the video died in 2015 of natural causes, suicide and a murder in which the motive was insurance money,  shows. We rate the  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report
Statement: I'm pro-life. He's not.
Speaker: sam brownback
About the speaker: Sam Brownback is a U.S. senator from Kansas, elected to that job in 1996. He previously served one term in the U.S. House and also was the state agriculture commissioner. He graduated from Kansas State University and earned a law degree from the University of Kansas. He was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1956. He and his wife, Mary, have five children. He withdrew from the presidential race on Oct. 19, 2007.
Date: August 21, 2007
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Fact-check justification: I believe that abortion is the  choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother. I wish the people of America agreed, and that the laws of our nation could reflect that view. But while the nation remains so divided over abortion, I believe that the states, through the democratic process, should determine their own abortion laws and not have them dictated by judicial mandate." Brownback's statement about Romney would have been  if he had referred to the former governor's past position. But since Brownback was clear that it was present-tense, we find the  to be .
Statement: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campaign says, "FACT: Refusing to take the vaccine is a form of racism since it harms people of color.
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: April 24, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has spoken about the intersection of race and COVID-19. In an April 8 statement , she noted that the disease’s impact is "felt, most severely, in communities of color — communities that have experienced disproportionate case counts and deaths." But she didn’t mention the vaccine.   And the image in the Facebook post is not from a real CDC campaign.   We rate this  post .
Statement: Says "traffic fatalities have fallen dramatically, even as population has risen. You are more likely to stay alive biking, walking and driving around Portland than you were before" he took over the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Speaker: sam adams
About the speaker: Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland. Before that he was a city commissioner and , for 11 years, was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz.
Date: February 28, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: transportation
Context: a commentary article
Fact-check justification: He’s partly right, the number of driver fatalities is trending down down. Pedestrian fatalities, however, during his time as head of PBOT are trending up, as are motorcycle deaths. What’s more, Portland’s figures aren’t exactly unique. Adams statement ignores those details and the larger state and national context. We give this statement a .
Statement: Solar panel farms cause "hundreds and thousands" of birds to "hit that magnified sun, explode in flame ... (This) is going to bring the nation down.
Speaker: louie gohmert
About the speaker: Louie Gohmert, a U.S. House member since 2005, is a former chief justice of the Texas 12th Court of Appeals and Smith County state district judge. He lives in Tyler.
Date: August 11, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: animals;energy
Context: an OAN broadcast
Fact-check justification: Gohmert claimed hundreds and thousands of "flamers" die from solar farms. Birds have been found to ignite after flying over solar farms that use concentrated solar power. However, most solar farms in the U.S. use photovoltaic panels, which have not been found to cause birds to die in this manner. Gohmert’s  ignores findings that show significantly more birds die from fossil fuel production or colliding with buildings each year. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.
Speaker: tom kean 
About the speaker: Tom Kean is a former governor of New Jersey and a former chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
Date: August 30, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: a radio interview on WNYC
Fact-check justification: King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, pledged in a Sept. 1 press release to continue working with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other House leaders to reform congressional oversight of Homeland Security. The ruling As unbelievable as it may sound to his listeners, Kean accurately states that Homeland Security answers to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees. It’s a level of oversight that has attracted the criticism of various entities and the Homeland Security Secretary herself. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: No one got (a) dime" from the $70 million raised for the Florida Disaster Fund.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: March 13, 2023
Location: florida
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A social media post said "no one got (a) dime" from the $70 million raised for the Florida Disaster Fund. The Volunteer Florida Foundation, which administers the fund, provided summary reports showing that out of the $61 million raised so far, $22 million had been distributed. To say that tens of millions of dollars have not been spent, contrary to official documentation, is an extraordinary  that lacks . We rate this  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: The Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: May 13, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said "the Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down." But it’s the rate of growth that’s dropped, not the actual cost of care — which is still rising. Meanwhile, recent studies agree that something more than just the recent recession has driven that lower growth rate. Some experts argue that includes provisions of the health care law, such as lower Medicare Advantage payments and incentives for greater efficiency from hospitals. Others say it's simply too soon to say. Spending may increase as more people become insured, but for now, there's divided support for Pelosi's statement. We rate it .
Statement: Sherrod Brown "failed to pay his own taxes three separate times.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: October 2, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: message machine 2012;taxes
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: Mandel was accurate in saying that Brown failed to pay his taxes three separate times. Brown was late to pay. He did pay the taxes and penalty. There is no indication he was trying to evade the tax, but that wasn’t part of Mandel’s , either. On the -O-Meter, the  in the Mandel campaign ad rates .
Statement: Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans.
Speaker: investor's business daily
About the speaker: IBDEditorials.com is a political commentary Web site affiliated with Investor's Business Daily, a newspaper and Web site with a focus on business news and the stock market.
Date: September 2, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;cap and trade;climate change;energy
Context: an editorial
Fact-check justification: For example, in April, a Zogby poll found that 30 percent of respondents supported cap-and-trade. And a CNN poll done one month later found that 44 percent favor a cap-and-trade plan.     So, given the most recent polling, it would be fair to say that a slight majority of Americans support cap-and-trade but that those numbers may decrease depending on how much it would cost in higher utility bills. Even so, at its lowest, nearly 40 percent of Americans would still support cap-and-trade even if it meant heftier energy bills. In no case do polling numbers show that cap-and-trade is "wildly unpopular," as the editors of IBD , so we give this one a .
Statement: Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman.
Speaker: pat robertson
About the speaker: Marion Gordon (Pat) Robertson is a conservative Christian businessman, broadcaster, educator and former Southern Baptist minister. He is chairman of the Christian Broadcast Network and CEO of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.
He was born in 1930 in Lexington, Va., the son of Willis Robertson, a long-serving U.S. senator. He received a B.A. in history from Washington & Lee University and a law degree from Yale University. Robertson founded CBN in 1960 and became host of The 700 Club, a Christian news broadcast. He founded CBN University in 1977 and it was reneamed Regent University in 1989. In 1988, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president.
Date: November 8, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion;history;public health;women
Context: a TV broadcast
Fact-check justification: Robertson said that Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman." His statement twists a sentence Sanger wrote in a 1939 letter - discussing the need to seek the support of black ministers in a program to promote birth control in the South - into a murderous conspiracy. His  that King became the spokesman for the effort is just as preposterous and rests on a 1966 award the civil rights leader received from Planned Parenthood for his support of family planning. We rate Robertson’s incendiary statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/081fdb98-3c13-43c4-b862-e4a9fc9651ec
Statement: The annual gross domestic product of metro Atlanta is "bigger than 28 states in the union.
Speaker: kasim reed
About the speaker: Kasim Reed is Mayor of Atlanta.
Date: January 31, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: economy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Indeed, metro Atlanta has a larger population than 30 other states, U.S. census figures show. Humphreys said the Atlanta region has a "highly developed economy" through economic resources such as the airport that are "serving people in other states, the country and the world at this point." To sum up, Reed claimed the Atlanta region had a higher GDP than 28 other states. Our research showed Atlanta slightly better than that in most categories. We rate the mayor’s statement .