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Statement: Says Al Gore said in 2009 that "the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 22, 2021
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Posts  Al Gore said in 2009 that the North Pole "will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming." Gore said something similar. Citing researchers during a 2009 climate change conference, Gore  said there was a 75% chance that ice in the Arctic could be gone during at least some summer months within five to seven years. Reports indicate that he misrepresented the details of the research.  The post is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Sean Casten has held numerous "invite-only" town halls.
Speaker: jeanne ives
About the speaker: Jeanne Ives is a former three-term Republican state representative from Wheaton, Ill. She unsuccessfully challenged former Gov. Bruce Rauner in Illinois' 2018 Republican primary election. 
Date: December 3, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: transparency
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ives said Casten has held numerous "invite-only" town halls. But her own press release on the subject makes clear she was referring to a public event page the congressman’s team created that allowed anyone interested in attending to reserve a seat for free. Those events, and the sign-up link, were advertised in advance online. We rate her  !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Video clips show staged war footage from Ukraine.
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: October 22, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Its director, Simon Cox, tweeted in March that he "was shocked" to see the footage being misused as misinformation about the war. These aren’t the only clips being misused as war propaganda. We’ve previously debunked posts that said video games show actual Ukrainian victories in the war, and that footage from a short video by a German TV network shows a downed Russian aircraft in the invasion.    Those claims were , and so is this one. We rate the  that these clips show  war footage in Ukraine .
Statement: In the stimulus, "$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165.
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: February 19, 2010
Location: national
Topics: stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Otherwise (things) such as Ouzinkie’s lifeline will continue to be someone else’s taxpayer waste." On this one, Boehner has his facts straight. It's worth noting that the one-sentence synopsis of the project leaves out important contextual information, such as how important a lifeline an airport is to this small island community. But Boehner is right. And so we rule his statement .
Statement: A bill to save teacher jobs is completely paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.
Speaker: zack space
About the speaker: Zack Space, a Democrat, is a former representative from Ohio's 18th Congressional District, which stretches across all or part of 15 counties in southeast Ohio. He was defeated in the 2010 election by Republican Bob Gibbs.
Date: September 2, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: poverty;voting record
Context: a letter
Fact-check justification: By ignoring Frech’s concern -- and passing right over the bill’s single biggest funding source -- Space’s letter took on the air of gamesmanship. Hide and seek, anyone? When we run a statement through the -O-Meter that not only is  but also suggests that someone is playing games, we start looking for the matches. We rate Space’s statement to an Ohio anti-poverty advocate . Comment on this item .
Statement: Hair weave and lace fronts manufactured in China may contain the coronavirus.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 26, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Internet post
Fact-check justification: The agency said there’s no  that the coronavirus can spread through imports. "Fortunately, currently, we are not seeing the impacts of this outbreak resulting in an increased public health risk for American consumers from imported products," the FDA wrote. "There is no  to support transmission of COVID-19 associated with imported goods and there have not been any cases of COVID-19 in the United States associated with imported goods." The Toine360 article is . We rate it .
Statement: Says Donald Trump offered his hotel "to our troops to sleep in after they were put in a car garage.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 22, 2021
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed Trump offered his hotel in Washington "to our troops to sleep in after they were put in a car garage." The National Guard said it is aware of no such offer and we found no credible  to support the . We rate it .
Statement: A single immigrant can bring in unlimited numbers of distant relatives.
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: January 31, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Trump said "a single immigrant can bring in unlimited numbers of distant relatives." Trump’s team did not go on the record to identify who Trump considered to be "distant relatives," but it appears he’s referring to anyone who is not a spouse or minor child. Green card holders can sponsor a spouse and unmarried children , including unmarried sons and daughters over 21 years old. For U.S. citizens, the categories expand to include parents, married children, brothers and sisters. No one can directly petition an aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, nephew, in-law relative or grandparent. But theoretically, one immigrant’s arrival in the United States could lead to the immigration of an aunt or uncle — if the first immigrant becomes a U.S. citizen and petitioned a parent, that parent could eventually become a U.S. citizen and petition his or her siblings. Still, there are numerical limits on visas issued per year per family category. For some relatives, the wait period for a visa is over 13 years. Trump’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city.
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 21, 2017
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: crime
Context: In a speech
Fact-check justification: With 174 murders as of 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Philly was on pace to see about 316 by year’s end. The total would be lower than in 2011 (326) and 2012 (331). That’s not a sizable gap but still wouldn’t put the homicide count at the highest of this decade. On top of that, the merits of making such projections are questionable, given the high variability of homicide. We rule the  .
Statement: One in eight American adults, or 12.7 percent of the U.S population, now meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder.
Speaker: richard ojeda
About the speaker: Richard Ojeda, a U.S. Army veteran and Democratic state senator, ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. House seat in West Virginia in 2018. He has announced his interest in pursuing the presidency in 2020.
Date: October 19, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: alcohol;public health
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ojeda tweeted, "One in eight American adults, or 12.7% of the U.S population, now meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder." This statistic comes from a peer-reviewed study that was based on federal survey data. However, by citing only this study, Ojeda glosses over the reality that a different federal study showed rates about half as high. Researchers have suggested that the dueling studies may be reporting divergent numbers due to differences in their methodologies. At this point, it’s impossible to say whether the 12.7% statistic is accurate or if it’s actually half that. There is valid  for both numbers, and researchers can’t fully account for the difference.  The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster used $293,000 of taxpayer money to send campaign mail.
Speaker: marilinda garcia
About the speaker: Marilinda Garcia is a state representative in New Hampshire and a candidate for New Hampshire's Second Congressional District in 2014. She is a Republican.
Date: June 27, 2014
Location: new hampshire
Topics: campaign finance;ethics
Context: a campaign tweet
Fact-check justification: Marilinda Garcia’s campaign said that Kuster uses taxpayer money to send campaign mail. Kuster did spend a good deal more on franked mail than other members of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation, and some of the language that appears in those communications is similar or identical to language used in her campaign materials. In the same vein, some of the subjects that came up in Kuster’s newsletters and telephone town halls track closely with the issues highlighted on her campaign website, such as student loan debt, support for veterans, advocacy on women’s issues and protection for Social Security and Medicare. But as Kuster’s spokeswoman pointed out, all of the franked communications were reviewed by a panel of both Republicans and Democrats, and those that were authorized weren’t found to violate any of the Franking Commission’s guidelines. Those guidelines are designed to ensure franked mail isn’t being used to support a reelection campaign. While some voters may have trouble distinguishing between Kuster’s franked mail and her campaign mail, it appears Kuster stayed within the letter of the law. The Franking Commission has not received any complaints about her communications, nor has it found she violated any rules. There’s an element of  to Garcia’s statement, but overall, we rate this  .
Statement: What we said was, you can keep (your plan) if it hasn't changed since the law passed.
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: November 4, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a speech to Organizing for Action
Fact-check justification: According to Obama, "What we said was you can keep (your plan) if it hasn’t changed since the law passed." But we found at least 37 times since Obama’s inauguration where he or a top administration official made a variation of the pledge that if you like your plan, you can keep it, and we never found an instance in which he offered the caveat that it only applies to plans that hadn’t changed after the law’s passage. And seven of those 37 cases came after the release of the HHS regulations that defined the "grandfathering" process, when the impact would be clear. While Sebelius’ teleconference with reporters did provide that sort of caveat, in other instances, such as her blog post, she focused on the upside, not the downside. Her one mention of the extent to which grandfathered plans might be doomed strikes us as the equivalent of the fine print on a television commercial running in heavy rotation. Obama is ignoring the overwhelming majority of times he addressed the issue, where most people would have heard it. We rate his  .
Statement: The Hyde Amendment "language was in the (human trafficking) bill. The Democratic sponsor admits it was in the bill, and she voted for it.
Speaker: karl rove
About the speaker: Karl Rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He has worked as a commentator and political analyst for Fox News.
Date: April 19, 2015
Topics: abortion;bipartisanship;punditfact
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Rove said the Hyde Amendment "language was in the bill. The Democratic sponsor admits it was in the bill, and she voted for it." The abortion language was indeed in the human trafficking bill considered this year, though it was not in a similar bill considered last year. A Democratic staffer was aware it was in the bill, but that message wasn’t conveyed up the food chain. The only flaw in Rove’s statement is the suggestion that the Democratic sponsor, Klobuchar knew about the language and voted for it anyway. There is no  of that. Rove’s statement needs that clarifying detail. We rate his  .
Statement: Mayor Fung wants to punish our children's education by removing 12 million dollars from current funding to pay for his private charter school. Your taxes would increase by between 6 and 8 percent per year.
Speaker: richard tomlins
About the speaker: Richard Tomlins ran an unsuccessful campaign for mayor in Cranston, R.I. in 2010. He was a business manager for Boston University and Barnard College in New York before moving to the hotel business and retiring as a general manager of Sheraton's subsidiaries.
Date: August 22, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: children;city budget;deficit;education;state budget;taxes
Context: a recorded telephone message to Cranston residents
Fact-check justification: There were legitimate reasons to support or oppose Cranston's mayoral academy, but this robocall didn't correctly cite any of them. And because the , inflammatory statements were made anonymously, we're going to do a little inflaming of our own. We rate Tomlin's  robocall  ! (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: 300,000 Floridians have lost their health insurance" as a result of Obamacare.
Speaker: americans for prosperity
About the speaker: Americans for Prosperity is a conservative group advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal and regulatory restraint.
Date: September 14, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Americans for Prosperity said that "300,000 Floridians have lost their health insurance" as a result of Obamacare. Even in 2013 this assertion was not entirely correct, and now, more than three years later, we know it’s not correct. Only about 60,000 people failed to re-up with Florida Blue, and there’s a good chance that many of those 60,000 found coverage elsewhere -- including through the Obamacare exchanges. Indeed, in the most recent year, the Obamacare marketplace has enabled 1.7 million Floridians to sign up for coverage, a far bigger number than the losses cited in the ad. Finally, the uninsured rate in Florida has fallen by one-third since 2013, which paints a very different picture than the ad’s zombie statistic. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/181e4bf6-0018-46b4-b227-ea0c01ff03ce
Statement: Says "Donald Trump wants to eliminate overtime pay for people.
Speaker: thomas perez
About the speaker: Thomas E. Perez was chosen as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Feb. 25, 2017. Previously he was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as Secretary of Labor and was sworn in on July 23, 2013. He previously served as the Secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
Date: February 26, 2017
Location: national
Topics: income;workers
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Perez said Trump "wants to eliminate overtime pay for people". Perez’s statement offers a  view of Trump’s position on overtime. Trump’s administration has said he wants to roll back regulations — some of which would expand the number of those eligible for overtime — but that doesn’t translate to wanting to eliminate overtime completely. The regulation that would expand overtime eligibility for white-collar workers has never been enforced because of a pending court challenge. We rate this statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/565d0156-e575-49fa-8881-9f6e6925f73e
Statement: Says federal debt "doubled during the Bush administration.
Speaker: paul sadler
About the speaker: Paul Sadler, a lawyer who previously worked with the Wind Coalition energy advocacy group, served in the Texas House from 1991 through 2003, an East Texas district around Henderson. He was his party's 2012 U.S. Senate nominee.
Date: June 26, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: debt;federal budget
Context: Dallas
Fact-check justification: We see how Sadler reached his conclusion. In raw terms, both the public debt and gross federal debt more than doubled during the fiscal years corresponding to Bush’s presidency. However, adjusting for inflation, gross debt increased 70 percent over those years, while public debt increased 88 percent. That’s not quite doubling. We rate Sadler’s  .
Statement: Gov. Scott Walker (is) more than halfway to (his) 250,000 jobs goal.
Speaker: maciver institute
About the speaker: The MacIver Institute is a Madison, Wis.-based conservative think tank and news organization.
Date: April 9, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a web posting
Fact-check justification: But the conservative group’s number is , two times over. MacIver started with the  month of data. That alone nearly doubled the number of jobs they  were created under Walker. They compounded their error by combining full and partial years of data -- even though they (like the governor himself) were told not to do so. .
Statement: My supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.
Speaker: mark neumann
About the speaker: Mark Neumann is a developer and home builder from Nashotah. He was a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 2012. He ran for governor in 2010 and formerly represented southern Wisconsin in Congress.
Date: August 16, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a campaign radio ad
Fact-check justification: So, let’s look at the bottom line. Neumann’s statement says his supporters "aren’t special interest groups in Milwaukee and Madison." When it comes to measuring that support in dollars, Neumann has received some cash from such groups -- but so little it’s negligible, and his major opponents received far more. He may have wanted more himself, but it did not come his way. Thus, we rate his statement .
Statement: As written, the (Illinois school funding) bill includes a bailout of Chicago's broken teacher pension system.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: July 22, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: education
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Attempting to parse a political buzzword like "bailout" might be impossible if not for the clear direction provided by Rauner’s own Illinois Education Funding Reform Commission. It called for an "-based" school funding formula but also recommended a "hold harmless" provision that would ensure no district received less this year than last. By that dictate alone, CPS should not be in line this year for a cut in the size of its block grant. What’s more, SB1 does do away with the CPS block grant starting with the 2018-19 school year, poking a major hole in Rauner’s "bailout" . The bill’s Chicago pension component can’t be called a "bailout" or even a perk because it only gives CPS what every other school district already has. And Rauner clearly had sought previously to bargain CPS pension help for other, statewide pension reforms. He got a major one in the budget lawmakers enacted July 6. Numbers are sure to fly fast and furious as Rauner and lawmakers duke this out in Springfield in the days ahead, but we find Rauner’s  generalization that SB 1 is a "bailout" for Chicago schools to be .
Statement: Among Syrian refugees and migrants coming into Europe, "there look like very few women. Very few children.
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: January 14, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;foreign policy
Context: the South Carolina presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said that among Syrian refugees and migrants coming into Europe, "there look like very few women. Very few children." The data in no way supports that . The majority of more than 4.6 million Syrian refugees entering Europe are women and children 17 and younger. Of migrants arriving by sea -- about 1 million people -- 31 percent are children and 19 percent are women. We rate this statement .
Statement: We are in the bottom 10 in dollars in the classroom and the top 10 in dollars in the bureaucracy and red tape.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: May 12, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: education
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: While those statistics do not perfectly match Kasich’s statement of Ohio being in the top 10 for administrative spending, they were close enough that  the administration highlighted the story in support of Kasich’s position. We agree. That the Education Department’s data has Ohio slipping to 12th on administrative spending is not enough to make the governor’s underlying point . Knowing it provides clarification. On the -O-Meter,  we rate the governor’s statement .