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Statement: Says Target installed urinals in a women's bathroom to "accommodate the ones who have giblets.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 22, 2016
Location: california
Topics: civil rights
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A popular Facebook post alleged last week that Target installed urinals in a women’s restroom in California. Target representatives told us the  is "," and that the company has no plans to change its restrooms, and never did. Best we can tell, the Facebook post is a one-off picture that hasn’t surfaced in any other form (other than the thousands of people sharing it). So stop that! This  rates . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7fedb0b8-7b12-4278-affd-bd43717e7f7c
Statement: Oregon's "three largest employers, and 13 of the top 25, are health care providers.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: July 27, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: economy;health care
Context: a syndicated column
Fact-check justification: Calls and emails to many of the companies listed, however, indicate that the chart’s numbers are way off, often wildly so. The top three employers on the list Will used are, in fact, a single entity. And by our count, the highest number of health care providers that can rank among Oregon’s top 25 employers is nine, not the 13 Will cited. We rate the  . To view the two lists involved and comment on this check, go to OregonLive.com/politics .
Statement: As of September 2018, there are 6,683 WV children in foster care — 1,415 of whom are legally eligible for adoption.
Speaker: jim justice
About the speaker: Jim Justice is the Republican governor of West Virginia. A businessman, Justice was originally elected as a Democrat.
Date: November 9, 2018
Location: west virginia
Topics: children
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Justice tweeted, "As of September 2018, there are 6,683 WV children in foster care — 1,415 of whom are legally eligible for adoption." Justice isn’t far off with his numbers, but he lumps in a modest number of out-of-state children with "WV children" for both numerical categories he cited. We rate the statement .
Statement: Even when all other state agencies took cuts, Gov. [Nathan] Deal increased education spending every year.
Speaker: republican party of georgia
Date: June 4, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: But it’s also important to know that while austerity cuts to schools are being reduced in the coming year by Deal, they still persist. It was a huge overreach to say that the state Department of Education was uniquely spared from budget cuts in Deal’s tenure. Other agencies also saw increases, so that part of the statement is . Overall, there is some  to the statement, but it needs a lot of context to be fully understood. We rate the GOP statement as .
Statement: Image from news broadcast shows a hospital in France trying to pass off a mannequin as a COVID-19 patient.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 7, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The hospital photo in the image is a screenshot from an April 2020 promotional video by the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute in Canada; it shows medical staff practicing procedures on a mannequin. The video is labeled as a simulation. The news station logo and chyron are from a Nov. 22 television news broadcast by BFM TV. The segment was about French Prime Minister Jean Castex testing positive for COVID-19 and showed Castex standing behind a podium. We rate the Instagram post !
Statement: No federal official at any level is currently allowed to say 'Merry Christmas.'
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: December 19, 2011
Location: national
Topics: religion
Context: Davenport, Iowa
Fact-check justification: The closest Gingrich comes to accuracy is that Congress does bar taxpayer-funded official mailings of all types of cards. However, such rules affect only one class of federal employees (those who serve in Congress); the rules are only about postage (lawmakers are free to send cards on their own dime); and it certainly does not abridge the right of any Member of Congress or congressional employee to speak the words "Merry Christmas." Throw a pair of britches on the yule log. ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6a990c0a-6e85-402f-a802-c772a5e5c68f
Statement: The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: April 18, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted, "The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!" MS-13 gangs in the United States were established decades before Obama took office and had been spreading across the U.S. long before his tenure. Experts told us there is no  Obama policies spurred their growth. Finally, Obama prioritized the deportation of criminal immigrants. Immigration officials told us data on how many MS-13 gang members have been arrested and removed under Trump’s administration is not available. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Video shows Congress voting for a highly classified "Homeland Terrorism Preparedness Bill.
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 16, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Third, although the clip in the post resembles a C-SPAN broadcast, there’s an onion in place of the C in the logo. That’s because this video originated on the satirical website The Onion in 2007.   "Proposed (Classified) Bill Will Defend Against Flesh-Eating (Classified)," the headline on the Onion story says.   We rate claims that this is real footage of Congress !
Statement: Biden administration quietly DROPS all charges against Sam Bankman-Fried.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 20, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The change would give Bahamian authorities time to review the additional charges and determine whether they consent to them. On June 15, Kaplan approved prosecutors’ request to withdraw the five charges and scheduled a second trial date for March 11, 2024. The first trial date will be in October. Reuters also debunked this social media post’s .   We rate the  that the Biden administration "dropped all charges" against Bankman-Fried .
Statement: Says "Pelosi blackmails Congress! She demands mail-in voting or no 2nd stimulus for you and your family.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 4, 2020
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that Pelosi is "blackmailing" Congress by not allowing a second stimulus bill to pass unless everyone votes by mail. Not only are state governors the only ones deciding how each state will vote, but the HEROES Act Pelosi is negotiating includes state funding for safe voting without any reference to mail-in voting. We rate this  .
Statement: The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: May 11, 2014
Topics: economy;jobs;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union."
Fact-check justification: Santorum said if the United States raises the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs." Santorum said "would" but really the 500,000-job figure was the CBO’s best guess. Analysts say job losses could be anywhere from just a few workers to as many as 1 million. Santorum's statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .
Statement: Under Mayor Cicilline, [Providence] was a sanctuary city.
Speaker: john depetro
About the speaker: John DePetro is a talk-show host on WPRO.
Date: October 21, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: immigration;history;homeland security;legal issues;pundits
Context: a statement on WPRO-AM
Fact-check justification: John DePetro said that under Mayor David Cicilline, Providence "was a sanctuary city." While there is no legal definition of "sanctuary city," in the eight years that Cicilline was mayor Providence had not taken any of the measures adopted by other cities often identified by that label. We rule DePetro’s statement  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Attempts to find things like, 'crime,' 'criminal activity,' 'indictment,' have been filtered out by Google" in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Speaker: andrew napolitano
About the speaker: Andrew Napolitano is a Fox News political commentator and legal analyst.
Date: June 16, 2016
Topics: technology;punditfact
Context: a segment on Fox & Friends
Fact-check justification: Napolitano accused America's most popular search engine, Google, of scrubbing search suggestions in favor of Clinton. Although it is clear Google’s algorithm is different from Bing or Yahoo, it still isn’t correct to describe the difference as  of Google’s support of Clinton. Google’s suggested searches, for the most part, avoid offensive suggestions for everyone, not just Clinton.   Napolitano’s  has a thread of , but it leaves out key details that would give the reader a different impression. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/4b442b95-e20a-4768-babf-61ed5ba7062f
Statement: Wayne Powell has a "stated position of having no objection to taking `In God We Trust" off of U.S. currency.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: August 29, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: religion
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: Cantor said Powell "has a stated position of having no objection to taking `In God We Trust’ off of U.S. currency." As proof, Cantor offers Powell’s comments in a question-and-answer session held on a social media website. Powell acknowledges answering queries on the website for about two hours early this year this year with the help of a campaign worker. He says the question about the national motto came up after he left and the aide, exceeding her authority, wrote a response that he renounces and was unaware of until we contacted him last week. Powell takes responsibility for not keeping a closer eye on things. There’s no doubt that when Cantor made his accusation, Powell’s stated position was, "I wouldn’t object to replacing `In God We Trust’ with the first American motto, `E Pluribus Unum.’" So we rate Cantor’s statement .
Statement: Every day over 450,000 Americans sit in jail not because they've been convicted of anything, but because they are too poor to pay bail & don't have high powered attorneys.
Speaker: ted lieu
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu is a Democrat who represents parts of Los Angeles County. 
Date: June 16, 2018
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Lieu tweeted, "Every day over 450,000 Americans sit in jail not because they’ve been convicted of anything, but because they are too poor to pay bail & don’t have high powered attorneys." The 450,000 number counts how many people are detained before their trials each year in America. However, Lieu uses it incorrectly here: included in that number are not only unconvicted inmates who are too poor to pay bail, but also unconvicted inmates who are being detained preventively and held without any bail. Experts confirmed that there is no national figure keeping track of how many unconvicted inmates are unable to pay bail. That said, the point of Lieu’s tweet—that some Americans languish in jail without ever being proven guilty—is largely accurate.   We rate this statement Half .
Statement: There is no statistical evidence that bail bonds increase the likelihood of those awaiting trial returning to court for their scheduled hearings.
Speaker: lena taylor
About the speaker: Lena Taylor is a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 2004. She previously served for nearly two years in the state Assembly.
Date: June 7, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice
Context: an op-ed article
Fact-check justification: the group asked in a 2010 paper. Our rating Taylor said "there is no statistical  that bail bonds increase the likelihood of those awaiting trial returning to court for their scheduled hearings." There’s no definitive , to be sure, but various statistical studies have shown that bail bonds are associated with, and may be a cause of, lower no-show rates. The studies are not without their limitations, and don’t settle the broad policy argument over bail bonds, but Taylor’s blanket assertion is off base. We rate her  .
Statement: On the economic troubles of 2008, "really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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: October 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Nashville, Tenn
Fact-check justification: Some regulatory agencies had regulation powers that they never utilized or didn't utilize well. The Federal Reserve has the power to tighten lending standards, for instance, or raise interest rates. But officials there discouraged new rules and advised Congress repeatedly not to regulate derivatives. McCain oversimplifies things and perhaps puts too much emphasis on Fannie and Freddie in order to assign political blame. We rate his statement .
Statement: During the (housing) crisis, Catherine Cortez Masto gave a sweetheart contract worth millions to a D.C. law firm that then donated thousands to her political campaigns.
Speaker: freedom partners action fund
About the speaker: The Freedom Partners Action Fund, a Super PAC, says it supports "candidates who believe in freedom, who will empower innovators and entrepreneurs over special interests to expand opportunities, create strong communities, and give everyone the best shot at a better life."
Date: May 2, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: candidate biography;ethics
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: A Freedom Partners Action Fund ad claims Cortez Masto "gave a sweetheart contract worth millions to a D.C. law firm that then donated thousands to her political campaigns." The general contours of the ad are accurate. As attorney general, Cortez Masto entered into a contingency-fee contract with Cohen Milstein for outside counsel on lawsuits filed against companies involved in the foreclosure crisis. She then received campaign contributions amounting to $2,650 from at least six lawyers at the firm — technically this is "thousands," but the ad's vague language overplays the scale of those donations compared to her total haul. We take issue with the ad's "sweetheart" description of the deal, as the firm was chosen through a bidding process that was reviewed and approved externally. Lost in the ad is how the extra help was sought amid budget cuts at the Attorney General's office, and Nevada benefited from the lawsuits.  Because some additional context is needed, we rate the statement Half .
Statement: (The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools.
Speaker: julia sass rubin
About the speaker: Julia Sass Rubin is a spokeswoman for the advocacy group Save Our Schools NJ. She also is an associate professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
Date: December 3, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show
Fact-check justification: In a television interview, Rubin claimed the Opportunity Scholarship Act "would be funded directly from public school budgets" and "take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools." The program would not make a direct link between public school budgets and the scholarships. But to offset the cost of tax credits awarded to the scholarship donors, the participating school districts would lose state aid. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: More than 1,000 people ... move to Texas every day.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: December 29, 2009
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;census;states
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: (The IRS' data are slightly older than the figures Perry cites as  for his .) In the end, Perry came close to getting it right, though he didn't take into account in-state births or people moving away. Statistically speaking, of course, a set number of people aren't moving to Texas every day because that number varies. But if you rely on IRS data collected in 2007 and 2008, more than 1,300 people on average were relocating here during that time frame. We rule Perry's  , even if he wasn't using the right data as .
Statement: Officials "recommend that women who get one of these (COVID-19) shots should absolutely not get pregnant for at least the first two months after they've been injected.
Speaker: sherri tenpenny
About the speaker: Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is a licensed osteopathic physician and anti-vaccine advocate based in suburban Cleveland. Tenpenny is the author of “Saying No To Vaccines: A Resource Guide for All Ages” and has previously said vaccines cause autism, a claim public health officials have debunked.
Date: April 20, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram video
Fact-check justification: Tenpenny claimed that it is recommended "women who get one of these shots should absolutely not get pregnant for at least the first two months after they’ve been injected" because an ingredient in the coronavirus vaccines might cause unknown problems during pregnancy.  This is . The CDC and medical experts recommend people get vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as the vaccine becomes available to them — even if they are actively trying to conceive. Experts also agree that there is no  the mRNA vaccines cause fertility problems. We rate this  .
Statement: U.S. Marine Corps arrested a CDC official.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: May 4, 2023
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video shared on TikTok
Fact-check justification: We found no  to support this, and traced the  back to a website known for spreading misinformation.   We rate this  . PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. RELATED: Hangings, guillotines and Gitmo: Going behind Real Raw News’ sensational (and fabricated) headlines
Statement: Quotes Donald Trump as saying, "I'll tell you the funniest thing. I'll go backstage before a Miss Teen USA show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything and no men are anywhere. … You know, I'm inspecting. The girls (14-16) are standing there with no clothes on.
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: September 21, 2020
Topics: candidate biography;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post quotes President Trump as saying, "I’ll tell you the funniest thing. I’ll go backstage before a Miss Teen USA show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything and no men are anywhere. … You know, I’m inspecting. The girls (14-16) are standing there with no clothes on." The post distorts remarks Trump made when speaking with radio show host Howard Stern in 2005. At the time, Trump was talking about his behavior during the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, where all contestants are over the age of 18. Five former Miss Teen USA contestants have accused Trump of walking into the dressing room when girls were changing during the 1997 pageant. But there is no  he said this quote about the Miss Teen USA pageant. We rate this  .