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Statement: In about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again" through Obamacare.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: October 17, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Rubio said in the Senate debate "in about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again" through Obamacare. That’s a reference to more than 400,000 Floridians who are expected to lose their plans under the Obamacare exchange. However, Rubio omits that they will be offered another plan including by Florida Blue, which will remain in every county in Florida. Rubio also ignores the fact that due to the marketplace, 1.7 million Floridians have signed up for coverage -- larger than the more than 400,000 who will have to switch plans. The percentage of Floridians who are uninsured has been dropping under Obamacare in recent years. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Goodwill used the pandemic "to fire all of their employees instead of laying them off.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 2, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post says that Goodwill fired all employees instead of laying them off.  That’s not accurate. Across the country, employees at local Goodwill organizations have been laid off or furloughed, but some operations have not shuttered, according to a Goodwill spokesperson.  In parts of Arizona, a majority of employees were laid off. But they weren’t fired as the Facebook post claims. We rate this post .
Statement: Photo shows "Wayfair president of operations Bill Hutcherson with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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: July 12, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Tatler identifies the man as George Bamford, founder of Bamford Watch Department .    Wayfair doesn’t list a president of operations on its website though there is a "vice president of operations product innovation" named Doran Robinson, a different person than the man who appears in the photo with Maxwell. It also lists a chief operating officer named Thomas Netzer. No one named "Bill Hutcherson" is listed among Wayfair’s executive leadership team. We rate this post .
Statement: No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost.
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: December 9, 2020
Location: ohio
Topics: corrections and updates;elections;florida
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted "no candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost." Trump is . Nixon won Florida and Ohio in 1960 yet lost to Kennedy. We rate this statement ! CORRECTION, Dec. 14 : An earlier version of this fact-check misidentified the Pope in 1960. Pope John XXIII was the pope in 1960.
Statement: Quotes Sen. Mitt Romney as saying: "The Merrick Garland decision wasn't unfair & the notion that someone has to pay the price to make up for it is wrong.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 22, 2020
Topics: supreme court;facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: And that's where I come out." Romney did say the decision to block Garland’s appointment to the Supreme Court "wasn’t unfair" and that he doesn’t agree with the notion that Republicans should abstain from confirming a new justice before Nov. 3. But he did not say the quote attributed to him in the Instagram post. The post is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Bill McCollum has accepted thousands from lobbyists for Planned Parenthood.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: June 23, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: abortion;candidate biography;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign mail piece
Fact-check justification: They succeeded by finding a Washington law firm that at one point lobbied for Planned Parenthood and at another point gave $2,000 to McCollum. But there's no  -- scratch that. We don't think any logical person would conclude that Arnold & Porter's contributions to McCollum and its future business with Planned Parenthood have anything to do with the other. The -O-Meter is hot under the collar about this one. We say !
Statement: Says gloves shouldn't be worn in public because "if you are wearing the same set of gloves all over town you are only spreading germs everywhere you go.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 5, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A viral Facebook post warned against wearing gloves in public because keeping the same set on means "you are only spreading germs everywhere you go." Infectious disease experts around the country agree gloves largely do more harm than good. They don’t really protect the wearer since the coronavirus doesn’t seep in through the skin. And they don’t limit the disease spread since they are often worn too long or removed incorrectly. And perhaps most notably, wearing gloves can stop users from washing hands as often, which is the step that actually kills the coronavirus. We rate this  .
Statement: Says "Every time the Legislature 'suspended' the kicker, most recently the corporate kicker in 2007, Salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the state's revenues.
Speaker: matt wand
About the speaker: Matt Wand was elected to the Troutdale City Council in 2008. He is an attorney with the firm he founded, Wand Law Firm, Gresham. 
Date: August 28, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: guest column
Fact-check justification: It’s very hard to accomplish the savings when you're in a recession." It’s  that the state has suspended the kicker three times, although it’s not  that the state has spent "every penny" in those instances. Using the kicker did not stabilize the state’s budget, but that’s largely due to an unreliable revenue base as well as extenuating circumstances: loss of revenue from a ballot measure and a recession. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate the  .
Statement: Says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees "exploited a loophole exempting themselves from Senate Bill 5.
Speaker: we are ohio
About the speaker: We Are Ohio is a citizen-driven, community-based, bipartisan coalition that has come together to repeal Senate Bill 5 in Ohio. The legislation would overhaul rules for collective bargaining by public employees.
Date: September 13, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;jobs;labor;unions
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: Therefore, they typically pay at least 15 percent of their medical insurance premiums and, if enrolled, must contribute 10 percent of their salary to the retirement system. The  in the ad does contain an element of  -- legislators are exempted from several provisions of SB 5. But the portion of the  that they’ve exploited a loophole leaves out important details that would give a different impression. Those details include that lawmakers have long been exempt from Ohio’s collective bargaining law, that they already pay the same percentages for medical and pension benefits as SB 5 would require and that their wage is set by statute. On the -O-Meter, a statement that has an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression rates one way: .
Statement: If the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there'd be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are. … Sometimes we ask them to do stuff that they're not capable of doing.
Speaker: mick mulvaney
About the speaker: In December 2018, President Donald Trump named Mick Mulvaney as his acting chief of staff. In 2017, Trump nominated Mulvaney to direct the Office of Management and Budget, and he was confirmed shortly after. Before, he served as the new U.S. Congressman for South Carolina's 5th District from 2010-2017. Mulvaney grew up in the Carolinas and went to Georgetown University. He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later did additional course work at Harvard Business School.
His professional background includes law and real estate.
Date: March 12, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a segment on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Mulvaney said, "If the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there'd be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are." Mulvaney went on to say that the CBO may not be capable of assessing the GOP’s replacement plan. The initial CBO analysis of the Affordable Care Act did forecast that more people would participate in health care exchanges than actually did, but the CBO has revised those estimates. Moreover, independent analyses, as well as experts agree that the CBO offers some of the best estimates given the information available at the time. Mulvaney’s statement is partially accurate, but misses context that would give readers a different picture of the CBO. We rate this  .
Statement: Principal bans candy canes.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 9, 2018
Topics: education;fake news;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Several news articles and websites said that a school principal banned candy canes. A principal wrote a memo to staff banning candy canes and said it was a symbol of Jesus. Comments by the school district show that this was no holiday tale. Ultimately, it's important to know the school quickly reversed the ban. So we rate this .
Statement: In Virginia's Medicaid program, "approximately 30 percent, or $2.7 billion a year, is lost to waste, fraud and inefficiencies.
Speaker: jimmie massie
About the speaker: Jimmie Massie, R-Henrico, was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2008.
In 1990, Massie started a merchant banking firm that provides equity capital to start-ups, businessesn and for commercial real estate transactions. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, is married and has four children. .
Date: March 12, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;medicaid
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Massie said that 30 percent of the Virginia’s Medicaid program is lost to waste, fraud and inefficiencies. He gets the figure by extrapolating an estimated amount of waste in all U.S. health care spending and applying it to the Medicaid program in Virginia. The problem is that no study has ever quantified the amount of Medicaid waste in Virginia, so nobody knows. We don’t completely dismiss Massie’s number, because a variety of studies say 30 percent is a reasonable national gauge of the waste in the health system and in overall government health programs. But Massie takes liberty in applying that rule to Virginia’s Medicaid system, one of the most restrictive programs in the nation. The burden falls on Massie to prove his statement and he offers nothing more than a hypothesis that he’s right. So we rate his  .
Statement: Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran.
Speaker: gina hinojosa
About the speaker: Gina Hinojosa, a Democrat, was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2016 to represent Texas House District 49.
Date: February 26, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: Gina Hinojosa said: "Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran." Based on numbers reported by Russia and Iran, that checks out. The statement also holds up whether we use the more expansive U.S. Census measure of Texas correctional populations, or the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ rate based only on sentenced prisoners. Still, this assumes the figures for Iran and Russia are on the up and up and perfectly comparable to the Texas counts—and we’re not sure about that. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Hate speech is excluded from protection" under the First Amendment.
Speaker: chris cuomo
About the speaker: Chris Cuomo is an anchor on CNN and brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Date: May 6, 2015
Topics: legal issues;supreme court;punditfact
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Cuomo said, "Hate speech is excluded from protection" under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has ruled that certain categories of speech are excluded from constitutional protection, such as a threat or "fighting words." Sometimes, speech can be both a threat and hate speech, in which case it would not necessarily have First Amendment protection. But hate speech on its own -- such as on a picket sign or a blog -- is not excluded from protection. It may only be incidentally excluded. Cuomo tried to clarify his point after the fact, giving an explanation similar to the examples we hashed out here. But on his specific , the jurisprudence works against him. We rate his statement .
Statement: Department of Veterans Affairs doctors "are prohibited from recommending medical marijuana.
Speaker: campaign to regulate marijuana like alcohol 
About the speaker: The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is the pro-marijuana group behind Proposition 205, which would legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona. 
Date: October 14, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: marijuana
Context: a political advertisement
Fact-check justification: The ad claimed, "VA doctors are prohibited from recommending medical marijuana." That’s on the mark. Veterans can still seek medical marijuana on their own -- where it’s legal -- and VA health care. We rate the ad’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/265a5a2c-d11f-4e67-b132-57d62130cff1
Statement: There's no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections.
Speaker: david brooks
About the speaker: David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times.
Date: March 6, 2016
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Brooks said, "There’s no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections." There were competitive primaries on both sides in six out of the past 11 elections. In three of those six elections, the party that saw more votes in nomination contest also got more votes in the general. We rate Brooks’  .
Statement: Rep. Carol Shea-Porter "votes with Nancy Pelosi's Democrats 95 percent of the time," but Frank Guinta "will take on both parties" and has "independent New Hampshire values.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: October 24, 2014
Location: new hampshire
Topics: voting record
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The NRCC ad says that Shea-Porter "votes with Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats 95 percent of the time," but Guinta "will take on both parties" and has "independent New Hampshire values." That’s a pretty stark comparison -- yet by the most apples-to-apples measurement of how both candidates have voted in Congress, Guinta scored a 96 percent partisan unity with Republicans during his term in Congress, which is hardly  of a big contrast. We rate the  .
Statement: Says "Nick Rahall voted with Obama 94 percent of the time.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: September 8, 2014
Location: national
Topics: voting record
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The NRCC ad said, "Nick Rahall voted with Obama 94 percent of the time." Rahall did indeed vote with Obama 94 percent of the time -- but that was in 2009, a fact that is footnoted in the ad, albeit in small type. Between 2010 and 2013, Rahall’s voting record was less closely aligned with Obama, bottoming out at 58 percent in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, so we rate it .
Statement: Video shows Elon Musk and Jack Ma presenting "a new software called 'Quantum AI.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 5, 2023
Topics: technology;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Rather, they debate the potential risks and rewards of artificial intelligence, with Musk warning that the technology was evolving faster than humans’ ability to understand it, the BBC reported .   Third, the video has been doctored to make it appear as though the Quantum AI graphic, among others, appeared onstage with the men. Original footage of the event shows that didn’t happen.   Lastly, anyone who clicked on the "learn more" button in the Facebook post would be disappointed to discover a page that mentions not Ma, Musk or Quantum AI, but rather a site called "lollipoop.top." We rate this post .
Statement: Says a photo shows a dog who has slept by his master's grave every night for seven years.
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: June 19, 2019
Topics: animals;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A dog named Capitán — Spanish for captain — reportedly slept by his deceased owner’s grave every night. But he was a black German Shepherd mix — not at all similar to the yellow lab depicted in the photo — and he apparently spent most of his time at the cemetery, not, not arriving at its cemetery gates every night. And this all happened in Argentina, not the United States. So while the U.S. Marine Corps motto of Semper Fi, or "always faithful," might apply, the American flag emoji does not. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Speaker: chris dodd
About the speaker: Chris Dodd is a former U.S. senator from Connecticut, having served in that post from 1981-2011. Dodd also ran unsuccessfully for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and was a member of the U.S. House prior to his service in the Senate. He was born in Connecticut in 1944, graduated from Providence College and earned a law degree from the University of Louisville. Dodd is married to Jackie Marie Clegg. They have two children.
Date: November 5, 2007
Location: national
Context: Iowa and New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: The bill cleared in 1992, only to be vetoed again by Bush. Again, the veto was not overridden. Finally, in 1993 the legislation cleared for the third time and President Clinton signed it into law. It took compromise to allay the fears of the business community and get enough Republicans to support it. When it passed, the States News Service quoted Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill. saying "Dodd has been a bulldog on this."
Statement: A majority of Wisconsinites opposed the government takeover of health care. But Russ Feingold voted for it anyway.
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: September 28, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;message machine 2010;voting record
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: The pollster himself said  the description in the ad does not match the question that was asked. What’s more, Johnson’s ad says a "majority of Wisconsinites" were opposed. But the more timely state polls measured only likely voters, not the entire adult population. The broadest poll we found -- measuring the view of  Wisconsin adults -- was older, but it did not find a majority in opposition. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Minnesota congressional candidate Jim Hagedorn supports a plan that would take away health care for 340,000 veterans, with 17,000 in Minnesota possibly losing coverage.
Speaker: votevets.org
About the speaker: VoteVets is an advocacy group.
Date: September 27, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: VoteVets said Hagedorn supports a plan that would take away "health care for 340,000 veterans. In Minnesota alone, 17,000 veterans could lose their health coverage." Hagedorn says that’s not , in part because of his proposal for broader VA enrollment. It’s an interesting idea, but not on the verge of congressional consideration. Yet the Medicaid cuts have been on the verge of consideration -- and even got House approval -- for some time. PolitiFact examined a number of claims around last year’s discussions. When White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said the House plan "doesn’t get rid of Medicaid expansion," PolitiFact called it , explaining that with reduced federal funding, states would likely find continuing it unsustainable. When Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said "nobody on Medicaid" would have benefits taken away, we ruled it  for similar reasons. And when the Senate considered the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, PolitiFact said a  by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida -- that "there is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid" -- was   . There were other claims, and you can read them here . VoteVets used two specific numbers in its . The first number, 340,000, is a nationwide figure for veterans in the Medicaid expansion pool. There is no way to know if every one of them would lose coverage. As for the 17,000 figure in the ad, it includes all veterans on Medicaid in Minnesota, not just those in the expansion pool.  The  is based on analyses, and things might turn out differently, especially if states stepped up, as Hagedorn expects.  As such, we rate this  .