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Statement: Male birth control testing stopped after men's testicles start exploding in India.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 3, 2019
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That refers to "npas," which are the letters at the top of the website ihlayanews.com, where the story appeared on Dec. 3 . Below "npas" are the words "nuusparodie waarvan jy hou. " As AFP Fact Check notes , that’s Afrikaans for "news parody you like."     But the post flagged by Facebook includes no such disclaimer.   We rate it !
Statement: McCain's attacks on Obama are 'not true,' 'false,' 'baloney,' according to media outlets.
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: July 30, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: To suggest that these sources have concluded that the entirety of the McCain campaign is deceptive, well, that's deceptive, Jamieson said. We agree. With the exception of the New York Times editorial, which faults the McCain campaign for a number of alleged distortions and its overall tone, the snippets refer to very specific statements made by McCain about Obama. We realize that some details must go in a 30-second ad, but the shorthand presents an overall impression that the these media outlets have judged McCain's ad campaign much more broadly than they really have. We rule the source citations .
Statement: We waited 24 hours and got a measly 62k votes" in Maricopa County
Speaker: mark finchem
About the speaker: Mark Finchem was elected in 2015 as a state representative. He is running as a Republican for Arizona Secretary of State in 2022.
 
Date: November 9, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;arizona
Context: Arizona
Fact-check justification: Finchem said, "We waited 24 hours and got a measly 62,000 votes." Although there was an update that included 62,000 ballots, that was one of three updates after the initial release of results. In the 24 hours after the initial release, the county had included over 273,000 additional ballots in its tally. We rate this  .
Statement: We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years.
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: July 18, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: Cleveland
Fact-check justification: Sessions said, "We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years." Sessions has worded his statement inartfully. If you use the correct statistic for the way he phrased it, the length of time is somewhat exaggerated and it ignores a recent improvement over the past five years or so. But if you can look past his looseness with economic terminology, Sessions has a point. Using a related statistic, he’s on target, and the larger issue he’s addressing -- declining rates of work in the population -- is something economists worry about, though much of it has to do with the graying of America. We rate his statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7a0bfd8a-22a2-4990-a333-bd531b0196e1
Statement: The Northwest Corridor highway project in Cobb and Cherokee counties "is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide.
Speaker: georgia department of transportation
About the speaker: The Georgia Department of Transportation plans and maintains state roads and bridges.
Date: July 19, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: jobs
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: None of these descriptions are as succinct as GDOT’s  that that the Northwest Corridor highway project "is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide." But they do give a more complete sense of Georgia State’s actual projection. GDOT’s jobs figure is based on legitimate, commonly-used economic measures, but the agency presents the data in a  way. Their press release makes non-experts think thousands more people will find full-time construction work than actual estimates suggest.    We therefore rule GDOT’s jobs  .
Statement: Research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and (higher) COVID-19 mortality rates.
Speaker: glenn grothman
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Grothman, of the Town of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, was first elected to Congress in 2014 after serving 21 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He represents the 6th Congressional District in east-central Wisconsin that includes all or parts of Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Winnebago, Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties.  
 
Date: May 21, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: news release
Fact-check justification: Grothman claimed "research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and (higher) COVID-19 mortality rates." Early studies into vitamin D suggests it may curb the severity of COVID-19 symptoms and reduce mortality rates. Further research is needed to examine the issue, and vitamin D is not a cure for the coronavirus.  But Grothman did not say it was a cure, only that there was a correlation. One expert noted the correlation was "significant" We rate his  .  See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com
Statement: A Walmart in Dickson City, Pennsylvania, ran out of food.
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: February 5, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: When we called the Dickson City store and asked about the post, an associate there told us the same thing: The store never ran out of food, and other shelves weren’t affected at all, according to the company.   In January, the Scranton Times-Tribune reported on Dickson City grocery stores affected by supply chain issues, and PennLive.com said in a story that "sporadic inventory issues continue to affect retailers" in central Pennsylvania, "although nowhere near the severity of the great toilet paper shortage of March 2020. "  "Products such as orange juice, cat food, frozen pizzas and ground beef, among others, can at times be hard to find," PennLive said.   But the footage of Walmart that was posted on Facebook reflects an isolated problem with the refrigerators — not with the supply chain. We rate claims that it ran out of food .
Statement: There's more than 100,000 people working at the Department of Agriculture. That's 1 employee for every 30 farmers.
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: June 4, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: agriculture;federal budget
Context: a meeting with the St. Petersburg Times editorial board
Fact-check justification: The USDA currently employees about 105,000 people but that actually translates to 1 employee for every 11 or so farmers based on one calculation, not 1 in 30. That's strike one (though we should note that the correct ratio better makes LeMieux's point). But our point is that you should give that ratio little thought, because it appears to rely on an oversimplification of the USDA's mission. The USDA does a lot more than just deal with farmers, from managing the national forest system, to overseeing the school lunch and food stamp programs, to inspecting meat and poultry products heading to the grocery store. That's enough of playing with the numbers in our mind to warrant a rating of .
Statement: Says North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis "supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it.
Speaker: patriot majority usa
About the speaker: Patriot Majority USA describes itself as an organization hoping to empower all Americans. Its action plan includes providing more money for public schools, improving the nation’s roads and bridges, supporting the federal health care law’s provision that allows parents to keep their children on their insurance until the age of 26, and closing tax loopholes for special-interest groups.
Date: February 12, 2014
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Patriot Majority USA said Tillis "supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it." Tillis has acknowledged supporting aspects of Paul Ryan’s budget plan, but he hasn’t specifically said whether or not he supports the original Medicare provision that would have made significant and mandatory changes to the program. Tillis could clear this up by more forthrightly stating his views on the matter. Still, the ad  by assigning a specific position to Tillis that he hasn't actually taken. Overall, we rate this  .
Statement: I'm the first Democrat to ever lead Scott Walker in an election year.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: June 27, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: He cited a single internal poll -- one at odds with public polling in the race. But there were two instances in which Burke led Walker -- however slightly -- in 2014, and one poll in which Barrett led Walker in 2010. We rate Evers’  . (Editor's note: On July 26, 2018, after this item was published, an NBC-Marist College poll was released that showed Evers leading Walker 54 percent to 41 percent. That does not change this item, as Evers'  related to past elections.)
Statement: The House tax plan "would provide permanent tax cuts for individuals who are multi-millionaires and billionaires," but "all middle-class families will eventually face a tax increase, since tax relief for them expires.
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: November 29, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: families;income;taxes
Context: a House floor speech
Fact-check justification: It’s not clear which provisions in the tax bill approved by the House will be in the final version of the legislation to be considered by both the House and the Senate. Our rating Moore says the House tax plan "would provide permanent tax cuts for individuals who are multi-millionaires and billionaires," but "all middle-class families will eventually face a tax increase, since tax relief for them expires." The richest do benefit from tax cuts that are permanent, but most in the middle class also would see lower taxes each year from 2018 through 2027. It’s estimated that only 25 to 30 percent of middle-class households, not all of them, would see a tax increase by 2027. We rate Moore’s statement .
Statement: Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country.
Speaker: glenn grothman
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Grothman, of the Town of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, was first elected to Congress in 2014 after serving 21 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He represents the 6th Congressional District in east-central Wisconsin that includes all or parts of Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Winnebago, Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties.  
 
Date: April 30, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;corrections and updates;health care;public health;women
Context: a town hall meeting
Fact-check justification: The agency’s national network of clinics stands apart from other providers as the undisputed leader when it comes to providing abortion services. This is one of those truisms that is basically, well, . (Editor's note, June 7, 2017: An earlier version of this item quoted Grothman as saying that Planned Parenthood is an outspoken advocate for "controversial" services such as birth control. A spokesperson for his office said on June 7, 2017 that the video, in which Grothman's voice is hard to hear at times, may have led people to that conclusion, but that Grothman does not believe birth control is a controversial service. The birth control quote had no bearing on the congressman’s statement about Planned Parenthood and its role in abortions, so the rating of  is unchanged.)
Statement: Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. ... And there are more uninsured children in Texas than in any other state.
Speaker: kathleen sebelius
About the speaker: Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, was the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary from April 2009 through June 2014. She served as Governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009.
Date: December 15, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: Sebelius said, "Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. ... And there are more uninsured children in Texas than in any other state." Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents overall, about a quarter of its population, and has the most uninsured children (though not the highest rate of uninsured children). We rate the secretary’s statement as .  – 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: Kroger Corporate says employees can not wear flag masks but they can wear BLM masks!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 5, 2020
Topics: race and ethnicity;patriotism;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "Many associates have expressed a desire to stand together with their communities and show their support through their clothing, facial coverings and accessories," the company said. "While we are not adjusting our existing dress code, rules or policies, we acknowledge our associates’ feedback and want all to feel supported and heard. "  On Aug. 31, some Kroger employees at a store in Michigan said they were told to cover up their Black Lives Matter shirts and prohibited from wearing Black Lives Matter masks, a Fox TV affiliate reported.   "Management came up and told me they support the cause but I need to put an apron on top of that shirt," the station quoted an employee as saying.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: This is what Bill Gates and George Soros want to do… secretly stick you with a chip while testing you for the coronavirus... the Dems have a bill on the House floor ready to vote on it to require this.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 10, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Gates has recommended contact tracing to end the pandemic. But in an April 23 essay , he says that some countries — China and South Korea among them — have required coronavirus patients to disclose their whereabouts for the past 14 days using GPS information and spending records.   "It is unlikely that Western countries will require this," Gates writes. "There are applications you can download that will help you remember where you have been; if you ever test positive, then you can voluntarily review the history or choose to share it with whoever interviews you about your contacts." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: U.S. Sen. John McCain "was singlehandedly responsible for starting a fire on (the) USS Forrestal aircraft carrier.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 6, 2017
Topics: fake news;history;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: Bloggers said McCain "was singlehandedly responsible for starting a fire on (the) USS Forrestal aircraft carrier." Though specific details vary, no official or thoroughly researched account of the Forrestal fire blames McCain or any other particular pilot. A rocket from a jet other than McCain’s misfired due to an electrical surge, hitting a plane from across the flight deck and starting the blaze. Several other factors contributed to the conflagration burning out of control and killing 134 sailors and pilots. We rate this  !
Statement: Video clip shows that protesters in Tennessee "made their way onto the state capitol floor.
Speaker: laura ingraham
About the speaker: Laura Ingraham is a conservative broadcaster and commentator. On April 13, 2014, she was named an ABC News contributor.
Date: March 31, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;punditfact;guns
Context: a segment on “The Ingraham Angle"
Fact-check justification: Ingraham said a video clip showed that protesters in Tennessee "made their way onto the state Capitol floor." The video showed three Democrats, all elected state representatives, who on March 30 disrupted the legislative session to call for action against gun violence. There’s no  unauthorized protesters made their way onto the House floor, however.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says "Richard Devlin raised your taxes by $1 billion in a single day.
Speaker: taxpayer association of oregon
About the speaker: Taxpayer Association of Oregon was founded by Jason Williams and Don McIntire in 2000. Don McIntire is most commonly known as the father of Measure 5, the 1990 property tax limitation measure).  Jason Williams is best known for working with Oregonians In Action.
Date: October 29, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: The statement also ignores the fact that when measures 66 and 67 were put to Oregon voters they passed by wide margins. On the one hand, the statement is accurate -- taxes did go up by $1 billion. And Devlin as majority leader had considerable influence even though the statement makes it sounds as if he did it alone. But the statement leaves out important details, such as why the need, over how long and who agreed to them. We rate this .   Comment on this item.
Statement: A socially conservative group sponsored a "prayer vigil" to stop people from buying Girl Scout cookies because it thinks the Girl Scouts are affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
Speaker: hank johnson
About the speaker: Hank Johnson, a Democrat, represents Georgia's 4th Congressional District
Date: February 28, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: abortion;families;religion;women
Context: a Congressional hearing
Fact-check justification: We can say that an op-ed on the FRC website asks consumers to say no to Do-Si-Dos. It’s also fair to say that the FRC prayer team singled out the Girl Scouts in one of its prayers. But the FRC did not call for an actual prayer vigil. And while the FRC came close to asking people to pray that consumers stop buying Thin Mints, it stopped just shy of doing so. We give Johnson a .
Statement: Rhode Island: 3% bigger at low tide.
Speaker: hilary treadwell
About the speaker: Hilary Treadwell is a Rhode Island artist.
Date: April 6, 2016
Location: rhode island
Topics: tourism
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Besides, who would buy a T-shirt saying: "Rhode Island: 0.1% bigger at low tide?" Nevertheless, it’s ruling time and this is certainly a  (although fanciful) . We rate it  !   (Hilary, there’s a genuine, red-plastic, ! button waiting for you at The Journal.)
Statement: European royals killing naked children for fun at hunting parties.
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: November 13, 2022
Topics: criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A search for credible reports, sources, testimony and more turned up only social media posts, Reddit musings, and fact-checks . (Spoiler: The  isn’t .)   Although there is an International Court of Justice , based in The Hague, the International Common Law Court of Justice isn’t a real court or part of a real legal system. Even though a blog describes it as a "lawful citizens’ tribunal of conscience," legal experts have said it’s a nonentity with no judicial power or legal status. We rate this post !
Statement: Russia unveiled a nuclear weapon, "Satan 2," that is "capable of destroying everything breathing in the world.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 25, 2022
Topics: military;nuclear;facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Kelley is now a distinguished associate fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The weapon has a capacity of 10 to 15 warheads, all of which can target a different location, according to Newsweek . "Individual warheads would strike distinct targets within a very limited ballistic ‘footprint,’ or many warheads from the same missile would strike the same target, increasing the likelihood of destroying that target completely," according to a 2021 report from EurAsian Times. The weapon is believed to be able to evade missile defense systems and its deployment is expected around 2022, said a March 1 Congressional Research Service report . We rate the  that a Russian nuclear weapon dubbed Satan 2 is "capable of destroying everything breathing in the world" .
Statement: By funding the authorization that's already happened a decade ago (in the Secure Fence Act of 2006), we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump's campaign pledge to secure the border.
Speaker: luke messer
About the speaker: Luke Messer is a Republican congressman representing Indiana's 6th Congressional District. He was first elected in 2012.
Date: January 5, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a CNN story
Fact-check justification: Messer said, "By funding the authorization that’s already happened a decade ago (in the Secure Fence Act of 2006), we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to secure the border." The 2006 law authorized the Department of Homeland Security to "take all actions the Secretary determines necessary and appropriate to achieve and maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States." Those actions include the use of personnel, technology and physical infrastructure enhancements. Experts told us that what’s now needed from Congress to build a wall are funds, not additional permission. Messer’s  is accurate, we rate it .