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Statement: Politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how I want.
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 6, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: unions
Context: a campaign-style ad
Fact-check justification: SB 830 and HB 1021 likely will make it more difficult for unions to collect dues, and more burdensome for workers to contribute to their union. But the bills do not stop union members from doing it. The FEA's ad said "politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how I want." But the bills passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate only would change the method, not take away the right all together. We rate this  .
Statement: Premeditation, in murder cases like the Oscar Pistorius case, "can be formed in the twinkling of an eye.
Speaker: nancy grace
About the speaker: Nancy Grace is a former prosecutor and legal analyst who hosts her own show on HLN.
Date: March 24, 2014
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues;crime;punditfact
Context: an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America"
Fact-check justification: Grace and Abrams wrangled over the definition of premeditated murder, with Grace arguing, "premeditation can be formed in the twinkling of an eye." Location, location, location. Legal experts told us it could in some parts of the United States, but it’s not as likely to meet South Africa’s heightened standards for premeditation. While the definition for what counts as premeditation is not finite, legal precedent shows South African courts are likely to require  that proves more planning than a "spur of the moment" decision. We rate her  . Thanks to our friends at reddit, both in our reddit community and in the /r/ law subreddit , for weighing in on this fact-check.
Statement: A bill in Congress "will ban all semi-automatic weapons, including pistols and shotguns. So, yes, they are coming to take away our guns.
Speaker: tom king
About the speaker: Tom King is the president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the state-affiliated group of the National Rifle Association.
Date: March 26, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: guns
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: King said a bill in Congress "will ban all semi-automatic weapons, including pistols and shotguns. So, yes, they are coming to take away our guns." That’s not . The latest bill to ban "assault weapons" would block the sale of new semi-automatic firearms with one or more military-style features. Guns that already have those features would be grandfathered in. Gun owners would not be required to give up any of their guns as long as they were legally purchased before the ban. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says "Former President Barack Obama arrested for ESPIONAGE.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 28, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The post lifts full paragraphs from an Aug. 17 press release from the Justice Department about the arrest of a former CIA officer, Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, who was accused of "conspiring with a relative of his who was a former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China. "  The press release does not mention Obama, and we found no  to support the  that the former president was arrested for espionage.   Obama, whose new book recently came out, has been appearing on late-night shows and giving other interviews in recent weeks. He was scheduled to talk to Jimmy Fallon, host of "The Tonight Show," on Dec. 4.   We rate this post .
Statement: Colin Kaepernick immediately loses Nike endorsement after anti-white rant.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 3, 2018
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Conservative Columns did not include a disclaimer on its home page or on the story. Conservative Columns copied another story from America’s Last Line of Defense earlier this week with a similar headline: " UPDATE: Sasha Obama’s racist anti-white rant just got her expelled ." We rated that  . In addition to the identical content, the America’s Last Line of Defense article appears under the same headline as conservativecolumns.com, and it’s filed in the site’s category of "Political misinformation under the guise of ‘satire.’ " We rate this  .
Statement: As the CEO of eBay, "Whitman started a separate division that only sells porn.
Speaker: steve poizner
About the speaker: Steve Poizner is the former state insurance commissioner of California. He was a Republican candidate for governor in 2010, losing in the primary to Meg Whitman.
Date: June 1, 2010
Location: national
Topics: ethics;message machine 2010
Context: an online campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: For it's part, the Whitman campaign has dismissed Poizner's ad as "desperate." "Is Steve Poizner seriously trying to tell us that eBay is a pornography site?" said Dan Comstock, a spokesman for the Whitman campaign. "eBay's millions of users, including my grandmother, will find that a little hard to believe." So is Whitman just another version of (Hustler magazine publisher and onetime California gubernatorial candidate) Larry Flynt, as Poizneer's press secretary suggested recently? We think that's a big stretch.
Statement: Says her accomplishments include "a fiscally responsible budget agreement that controls state spending.
Speaker: chris telfer
About the speaker: State Sen. Chris Telfer is a Republican in Bend.
Date: March 6, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: state budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Telfer didn’t negotiate, or help negotiate, that agreement. Not only that, she voted against the bills that authorize operating money for state government. Her statement is not accurate and it makes a  . We rule the statement . Return to OregonLive to comment on this ruling.
Statement: Until this week, they [OSHA] weren't even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: April 15, 2020
Topics: corrections and updates;workers;health check;coronavirus
Context: comments at a virtual town hall meeting
Fact-check justification: Biden said that OSHA was not enforcing coronavirus guidelines until the week of April 13, and since then, the agency has not told employers what rules they must implement to keep workplaces safe. It’s  that OSHA did not release any COVID-19 enforcement instructions for its inspectors until April 13. However, even when this directive was issued, it told inspectors to focus on its existing general safety standards, not recommendations geared toward the current outbreak. In other words, the coronavirus guidelines are not currently being enforced by OSHA. And while the agency’s April 13 enforcement directive instructs inspectors to focus on general safety standards, it does not guide them on how specific recommendations for COVID-19 — for instance, requiring masks and encouraging hand-washing — fit into such efforts. We rate Biden’s  . This story was updated to include comments from an OSHA spokesperson that came after the fact check was posted.
Statement: U.S. sanctions mean "Cuba can't trade with any country or any company whatsoever.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 12, 2021
Location: national
Topics: human rights;foreign policy;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook  stated that the U.S. embargo on Cuba blocks the country from trading with any country or company whatsoever. Embargo is the official term used by the U.S. government to describe the sanctions on Cuba. An expert pointed out that the term blockade is used by someone who believes the sanctions to be illegal due to its broad reach. Experts and  shows that Cuba can and has traded with other countries. While the nuances in the U.S. embargo can make it difficult for foreign companies to trade with the country, there is no  that they can’t. We rate this  .
Statement: Super Bowl Sunday has the highest rate of domestic violence.
Speaker: mika brzezinski
About the speaker: Mika Brzezinski is host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC.
Date: September 16, 2014
Topics: crime;sports;punditfact
Context: a segment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Fact-check justification: Brzezinski invoked a widely debunked  that Super Bowl Sunday has the highest rate of domestic violence on Morning Joe. It’s no more  now than 20 years ago. Experts say this myth persists in spite of long-lasting academic rebuke. We rate it !
Statement: Says President Barack Obama "himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: December 8, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;terrorism
Context: a press conference with Sen. Ted Cruz
Fact-check justification: Abbott said "the president himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists." The Homeland Security secretary--not the president--grants case-by-case waivers in accord with federal law enabling people with tenuous connections to terrorist groups to be admitted as refugees. This  ignores the fact that material support under the law doesn’t always mean someone has committed or supported violent acts. Unsaid too: The law permitting the waivers predates Obama’s presidency. We rate this statement .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says President Barack Obama made "unilateral changes" to Obamacare "38 times.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: March 1, 2015
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Boehner said Obama made "unilateral changes" to Obamacare "38 times." Boehner’s staff sent us a link to 29 unilateral actions, and it takes some creative picking and choosing to get the count up to 38 -- including counting two delays of the same regulation as separate actions. Further, the Congressional Research Service only considers 12 of these actions to be significant policy changes. Lastly, experts said administrative changes are a routine part of the lawmaking process and have occurred "under all presidents." Boehner’s  is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: With federal stimulus money for schools, "no distinctions are being made between Wisconsin schools that remain closed to in-person learning, and those that have been re-opened for months.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: April 8, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;coronavirus
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Our rating  Johnson claimed that when distributing federal money, "No distinctions are being made between Wisconsin schools that remain closed to in-person learning, and those that have been re-opened for months. "   But lawmakers in Wisconsin did put some restrictions on money sent to school districts based on how many days of in-person schooling took place during the 2020-21 school year. Federal funds, however, were not distributed in that way.   We rate Johnson’s  .
Statement: California is proposing to legislate what drinks restaurants can serve your kids, only giving two options: milk or water.
Speaker: fox news channel
About the speaker: Fox News Channel is a 24-hour cable channel focused on coverage of breaking news and politics. 
Date: August 19, 2018
Location: california
Topics: children;food;government regulation;public health;regulation;states
Context: California
Fact-check justification: A third host then noted parents could still request soda for their children. That clarification, buried near the end of the segment, doesn’t balance out an otherwise  presentation. We rate the show's  .  –   The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: In 2017, I've done 17 town halls.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: September 24, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: public service
Context: an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival
Fact-check justification: Cruz, asked if he interacts enough with constituents, said: "In 2017, I’ve done 17 town halls" in Texas. The listed events Cruz attended from April through August 2017 demonstrate that the term ‘town hall’ can be stretched every which way, even to events not open to the public. All told, it looks to us like Cruz took questions at gatherings of selected constituents,  business employees--with the three veterans events open to members of the public who registered. We rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost.
Speaker: matt miller
About the speaker: a former Clinton White House staffer who now works as a management consultant
Date: September 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a Washington Post op-ed
Fact-check justification: The recession has almost certainly bumped that number upward, so his "nearly 50 million" assertion is probably pretty close. So let's recap. Miller is correct that both the Netherlands and Switzerland achieve universal coverage through systems that use private insurers. And he's right that both countries do so more cheaply than the United States. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth.
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: June 1, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;polls and public opinion
Context: remarks at the White House
Fact-check justification: Obama said that today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth." International polling by Gallup has found that, in a reversal from the Bush era, the United States now finishes first compared to a limited group of countries -- Germany, China, Russia and the European Union. But a BBC poll that tested a broader group found the United States finishing in the middle of the pack, behind Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the European Union and Brazil. We rate Obama’s  .
Statement: The Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 25, 2021
Topics: debt;education;federal budget;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A widely shared social media post claimed: "The Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt." Biden’s 2022 federal budget proposal does not include a provision for student debt forgiveness. But Biden is still considering options, including an executive order, for student debt forgiveness. For a statement that contains only an element of , our rating is .
Statement: Says his promise of 250,000 new private sector jobs was a "big goal.
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: October 22, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Walker portrayed his 250,000 jobs promise as a "big" goal. The growth rates needed in a post-recessionary period to make that number happen were not uncommon after World War II. But that was not the case during the two most recent recoveries, and at the time Walker made the promise it had been nearly 15 years since the state had seen sustained growth at that pace. In raw terms, the 250,000 hoped-for gain was a bigger figure than the actual gains over any four-year period since at least the mid-1980s. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Haley Stevens' plan for "socialized medicine" would "eliminate 100,000 doctors and nurses.
Speaker: eric esshaki
About the speaker: Eric Esshaki, a former nurse, is running to unseat incumbent Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s 11th congressional district.
Date: July 10, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: health care;health check
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Esshaki claims that 100,000 nurses and doctors would disappear under Stevens’ "plan for socialized medicine."  The studies Esshaki’s campaign shared make problematic assumptions and were from a group lobbying against Medicare for All. While Stevens has supported Medicare for All in the past, her current position is for a public option, and she told PolitiFact Michigan that she does not support Medicare for All. The ad comes up short in offering a fair characterization of Stevens’ views and a credible assessment of the impact of her health care policies. We rate its claims .
Statement: Says VA doctors are "censored from being able to talk to their patients" about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use
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;veterans;marijuana
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Baldwin said VA doctors "are censored" from talking to patients about the benefits of marijuana. But the  her office cites relates only to VA bans on recommending or prescribing the drug. And VA guidelines explicitly encourage veterans to discuss marijuana use with providers. There’s an element of  to Baldwin’s  — since those discussions are presumably limited by the restrictions the VA imposes — but there is no  of censorship. That’s our definition of .
Statement: Says "wealthy people in Canada donate to hospitals" to get better health care treatment.
Speaker: mark cuban
About the speaker: Businessman Mark Cuban, also an investor and philanthropist, owns the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team.
Date: August 15, 2019
Topics: health care;wealth;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cuban said "wealthy people in Canada donate to hospitals" to get better treatment. It’s possible Cuban knows some people who  they’ve gotten special treatment, but hospital representatives and health policy experts told us Cuban’s  is an  description of what happens in Canadian hospitals by and large. It’s also at odds with Canadian law, which says people should have access to care regardless of finances.  We rate this statement .
Statement: California's prisons budget in 1970 "was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it's 8.9 percent, about $12 billion.
Speaker: jerry brown
About the speaker: Jerry Brown is the governor of California. A Democrat, he earlier served as governor of California from 1975 to 1983.
Date: January 25, 2018
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice;state budget
Context: a State of the State Address
Fact-check justification: Gov. Jerry Brown recently claimed California’s corrections budget in 1970 was "about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it’s 8.9 percent, about $12 billion." California’s 1970-71 fiscal year budget supports the first part of Brown’s , listing prison system spending as 2.8 percent of that year’s general fund. Brown’s budget proposal for this fiscal year, meanwhile, shows the corrections department is now estimated to be 9 percent of the general fund, or $12 billion. A UC Berkeley criminal justice professor told us the governor’s spending  rings , noting the state’s prison population exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, driven by the state’s overall population boom, strict criminal sentencing laws and a national focus on drug crimes.   The governor’s numbers are on the mark and there’s nothing significant missing from his statement. We rate Brown’s  .   – 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.
Statement: Says photo of beaten woman is Aracely Henriquez, a pregnant woman who George Floyd assaulted during an armed robbery.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 14, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims an image of a woman with bruises on her face is Aracely Henriquez, the victim of an armed home robbery that Floyd was involved in. But the image isn’t of Henriquez. It shows an American student who was assaulted in Madrid in 2018 . Floyd served five years in prison for the armed robbery, but there is no  that Henriquez was pregnant at the time, and her injuries were inflicted by another man. We rate this .