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Statement: A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 6, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;drugs;legal issues;crime
Context: a Snopes.com tweet recapping a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post spotted by Snopes.com said Lumberton police placed an ad encouraging drug dealers to turn in other dealers. Actually, the Lumberton Police Department this year purchased two such ads in the local weekly. We didn’t pin down if the ads led to fresh snitching. We rate the  .  – 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: The list of voters that North Carolina Republicans "tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic.
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 2, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: North Carolina
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "The list of voters Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic." Obama’s phrasing left the scope of his  open for interpretation. One could think he was speaking of the state of North Carolina as a whole, in which case his  would be , as about 25.7 percent of the statewide list of people removed from the voter registration rolls were black Democrats. But Obama’s staff told us he was talking specifically about just 138 challenges in the town of Belhaven, N.C. Of those challenges, 58 percent were black Democrats — just under two-thirds. Republicans did bring these challenges. We rate Obama’s  .
Statement: There is not a single documented case of abuse" of the bulk metadata collection program.
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: May 10, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: a USA Today op-ed
Fact-check justification: Marco Rubio said, "There is not a single documented case of abuse of this program." Rubio’s office did not respond to a request for comment. There are plenty of documented cases of misuse of the metadata collection program. It just depends whether that misuse is what you or Rubio have in mind when you think of abuse. We found no example of intentional misuse of the program. At the least, Rubio should have been more clear in in his op-ed to help readers understand the complexities of the metadata collection program. Rubio’s statement is partially accurate. We rate it .
Statement: The premiums on Medicare's prescription drug program have fallen almost every year since it began.
Speaker: johnny isakson
About the speaker: Johnny Isakson, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Georgia
Date: August 23, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a speech before the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce
Fact-check justification: Furthermore, using the 2006 base beneficiary premium to assess other years’ figures amounts to comparing apples to oranges. That year, it was not possible to adjust the figure to account for which plans seniors actually chose. We presented our  to Isakson’s spokeswoman, who reiterated that he based his statement on federal government sources. That might be , but the senator’s take on the numbers is not. Isakson earns a .
Statement: Says that three of these five Republicans -- Ben Westlund, Rob Patridge, Max Williams, Lane Shetterly, Lynn Lundquist -- later became Democrats.
Speaker: ted piccolo
About the speaker: Ted Piccolo blogs NW Republican. His handle is "I am Coyote."
Date: September 14, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: voting record
Context: an online comment
Fact-check justification: Generally, we think people should be able to criticize elected officials and opine freely without worrying about the raters at PolitiFact. But we have to call this one out, if only to set the party record straight. Shetterly and Williams may not be Republicans in Coyote’s eyes, but according to registration records, they remain Republican voters. He could have called them RINOs, Republican in name only, but he chose to call them Democrats -- for him a more derogatory term. We rate the  , knowing full well that others would rate this anywhere from  to a , depending on their political views.
Statement: In Atlanta, since 1994 when the 'Seven Deadly Sins' (mandatory minimum sentences) took effect, the violent crime rate has dropped 62 percent.
Speaker: paul howard
About the speaker: Fulton County District Attorney
Date: February 17, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a news story
Fact-check justification: On just the numbers, Howard is correct. But criminology and law experts say it is almost impossible to tie the decrease directly to this one issue of mandatory minimum sentencing. Howard’s numbers are accurate, but his statement needs additional information. We rated his statement . Staff writer Karishma Mehrotra contributed to this article.
Statement: Says justices of the peace in Texas are being asked to choose: "give up your career or violate your religious beliefs" and perform same-sex marriages.
Speaker: chris salcedo
About the speaker: Chris Salcedo is a conservative radio host from Texas who describes himself as a "Liberty-Loving Latino." 
Date: December 5, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;lgbtq;marriage
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Salcedo said justices of the peace like Hensley are being asked to choose: "give up your career or violate your religious beliefs." Justices of the peace are not required to officiate marriages and do so mainly for their own benefit, not as an integral duty of the job. Clerks, on occasion, may not have the luxury of that choice, but that is not what Salcedo called out in the statement. Plus, there hasn’t been an authoritative ruling in Texas on either situation. We rate this statement .
Statement: The "moon has more than 250 million citizens.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 8, 2018
Topics: fake news;space;punditfact
Context: a blog
Fact-check justification: "It is possible to tell this because when we have had things in orbit around the Moon, how they orbit in the Moon's gravity tells us about the mass of the Moon. We also know the size of the Moon so we can work out the density and see that it is not possible for the Moon to be hollow." This bogus item follows a familiar  news formula, wending its way from a shocking clickbait-y headline, through muddled reasoning that attempts to buttress an ultimately  central premise. One thing that is : This  is hollow. We rate it .
Statement: The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic.
Speaker: sheldon whitehouse
About the speaker: Sheldon Whitehouse is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.
Date: June 12, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;animals;climate change;economy;energy;history;public health;science;weather
Context: a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
Fact-check justification: U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said the oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic." He is correct if you look at the increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions since the 1850s in the upper layers of the ocean, where most sea life thrives. We also note that he's describing the change using a measure that heightens the drama for the casual listener. But regardless of how it is characterized, that change is cause for concern if it harms ocean creatures sensitive to changes in pH. On the other hand, the deeper ocean has not seen a 30-percent increase. Because his statement is accurate but needs clarification and additional information, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: The FDA advisory board said unvaccinated people are more educated than most people who have gotten the COVID-19 vaccines.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 20, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that a "FDA vaccine advisory board" said unvaccinated people are more educated than most people who have gotten the COVID-19 vaccines. Someone unaffiliated with the FDA advisory committee said something like this during the public comment period of a Sept. 17 meeting of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. The agency said it doesn’t endorse remarks by the public. We rate this  .
Statement: Says "zero" African Americans have presented to the House Budget Committee in 2019.
Speaker: tommie pierson jr.
About the speaker: Tommie Pierson Jr., a Democrat, represents parts of St. Louis County and St. Louis City in the Missouri House of Representatives. He was elected to his first two-year term in November 2016. 
Date: February 18, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: race and ethnicity;state budget
Context: a Missouri Legislative Black Caucus press conference
Fact-check justification: Pierson said no African-Americans presented the state budget to the House Budget Committee. According to records from the House of Representatives and other sources, he is correct. The only African-American state department director, Chlora Lindley-Myers, did not present to the House Budget Committee due to a prior commitment in her schedule. We rate this statement .
Statement: I opposed the only multilateral trade deal that came before the Senate while I was there.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: August 11, 2016
Location: national
Topics: trade;voting record
Context: Warren, Mich
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "I opposed the only multilateral trade deal that came before the Senate while I was there." Clinton did oppose one multilateral deal (CAFTA) and opposed another that could be characterized as a multilateral deal (the Trade Act of 2002). However, focusing only on multilateral agreements, as Clinton does, obscures her overall voting record on trade pacts while serving in the Senate. When it came to bilateral agreements, Clinton cast votes to support five of them, and she supported -- but never cast a formal vote for -- an additional three. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: The overwhelming majority of America's elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history.
Speaker: don willett
About the speaker: Don R. Willett, a former state and federal government attorney, was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in 2005 before winning election to the Place 2 seat in 2006 and again in 2012 before President Donald Trump nominated him to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017. The Senate confirmed the nomination in December 2017. Willett was previously also widely known, and followed, for his Twitter posts though it was unknown if he’d continue tweeting as a federal appeals judge.
 
Date: January 12, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;education;history
Context: a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event
Fact-check justification: Willett said the "overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities" don’t require history majors to take a course in American history. In 2016, some 70 percent of the country’s 76 colleges and universities most highly-ranked by U.S. News & World Report did not require history majors to take American history, a study shows, though clarifications are missing. There's evidently no current research on what students actually take while in places including Texas, every degree-seeking undergraduate at a public college must take American history. We rate the  .  – 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. CLARIFICATION, 10:23 a.m., Jan. 30, 2017: After this fact check posted, we added Professor Jones' additional comment that it'd be unlikely for a UT student to fulfill state requirements by taking an upper-level course such as the class on Jews in American entertainment. This addition did not affect our rating of the . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/cfbf3dff-2209-4f26-8b0a-b4a600e5f182
Statement: A 'gerrymander' is by definition and common understanding, a strange looking 'monster' drawing. This map is clearly not that.
Speaker: robin hayes
About the speaker: Robin Hayes, chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party.
Date: January 10, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: redistricting
Context: Press release
Fact-check justification: Hayes said a gerrymander is "by definition and common understanding, a strange looking ‘monster’ drawing," insinuating that North Carolina’s Republican-drawn maps can’t be gerrymanders if the districts have smooth edges and look nice. While he’s right that weird shapes can be indicators of gerrymanders, shapes are not the lone determining factor. And there’s more than just one definition of gerrymandering. We rate his  .
Statement: Dr. Anthony Fauci and U.S. health officials plotted "for a new avian flu virus to enforce universal flu vaccination.
Speaker: the gateway pundit
About the speaker: The Gateway Pundit is a conservative website.
Date: October 6, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: articles and social media
Fact-check justification: A headline widely shared on social media claimed that Fauci and U.S. health officials plotted "for a new avian flu virus to enforce universal flu vaccination." The  broadly misrepresents what they were talking about. The video shows they didn’t discuss any such plot.  Fauci’s reference to a universal vaccine meant one that could provide long-lasting protection from multiple flu strains and eliminate the need for annual flu shots. The  is  and . We rate it !
Statement: Says that Minnesota Democratic congressional candidate Dean Phillips doesn't offer health insurance for his employees.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: September 15, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Congressional Committee says that Phillips doesn’t provide health insurance to his coffee shop employees even after he has said that health insurance should be a "moral right." We found that he doesn’t provide coverage for his part-time employees, but does so for his full-time employees. We rate this  .
Statement: The military's actually been in charge since November 3rd.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 13, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "The cases could not throw the outcome into question even if all the potentially fraudulent votes were for Biden, which they were not, and even if those ballots were actually counted, which in most cases they were not," the AP reported. We aren’t sure what the video is referencing when it mentions "watermarked ballots," but we previously looked into a  that the Trump administration "put secret watermarks on official ballots to trick cheating Democrats" and found it baseless . There is also no  to support the  that the military has been in charge since the presidential election.   It’s baseless. We rate this post .
Statement: President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing.
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 5, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;energy;history;jobs;workers
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Gingrich is free to argue that environmental regulations, tax policies and the like have prevented  the energy and manufacturing sectors from creating as many jobs as they otherwise might. But in this case, Ginrgich said that Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing." That’s a different standard, one which means that Obama’s policies have destroyed existing jobs on a net basis. Right off the bat, we need to downgrade Gingrich’s statement due to its allocation of blame. The job market is subject to many factors, not just Obama’s policies, so it’s unfair to lay all of the blame on the president. But even on the numbers, the ’s accuracy is mixed at best. Combined, energy extraction jobs have increased in absolute numbers since Obama took office and have risen quite rapidly over the past two years. Meanwhile, manufacturing jobs are down over the course of Obama’s presidency, but they are up during the past two years at the fastest pace in two decades. On balance, we rate Gingrich’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/050fd79e-a562-4189-902e-5f16a84d8b04
Statement: Says "I never billed a single hour of my time to the City of Portland in the last 10 years -- so, no revolving door.
Speaker: charlie hales
About the speaker: Charlie Hales was a Portland city commissioner, serving from 1993 through 2002. After leaving the City Council, he joined HDR Engineering as senior vice president, working on new light rail and streetcar lines.
Date: April 30, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city government;ethics;message machine 2012
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: But his full-bodied explanation at the debate led us to believe he kept his distance from the city in order to hold himself to "that highest ethical standard." There was no revolving door, because he didn’t get in. It’s  Hales has never billed the city for his work with HDR -- but it wasn’t for lack of trying. The statement contains an element of  -- he never billed the city -- but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression about Hales’ business relationship with the city. We rule the statement .
Statement: Ohio Director of Job Creation "Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didn't keep them.
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: March 8, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget
Context: his State of the State speech
Fact-check justification: And we’re assuming here that he’s referring to the specific process by which the state sends clawback notices to companies that have not lived up to their agreements. But Kasich spoke in the past tense, as if it was a completed action. And he gave no hint that the process just underway with no guarantee of what can be recovered. Those details might have lessened the dramatic flair of his address, but are important for the listener to fully understand his statement. On the -O-Meter we rate his  as .
Statement: Says a photo of a young girl crying alongside an ISIS member is a Christian being forced into sexual slavery as a child bride.
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: May 6, 2019
Topics: children;fake news;islam;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We could find no other account in which the girl was reported to be a child bride or a Christian who just witnessed her father being "beheaded and her mother raped." We know that child marriage is a serious global issue affecting the lives of one in every five girls who is married or in a union before age 19, according to the United Nations Population Fund . "In the least developed countries," UNFPA reports, "that number doubles – 40 percent of girls are married before age 18, and 12 percent of girls are married before age 15." But instead of raising awareness about the practice, some social media posts are spreading misinformation. We rate this !
Statement: Quotes Trump as saying, "Fine you boo me DC? Go #Astros, Texas loves me, I get the best kind of love there. I'll be renaming the White House the Orange House.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 27, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Trump didn’t really write that. We looked through Trump’s tweets on Oct. 27 and found he did not tweet about being booed at the game. We also searched through deleted tweets on ProPublica’s Politwoops website and didn’t find it there either. The screenshot appears to be created using a  tweet generator , which mimics real accounts but is most definitely not.   We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Measures 82 and 83 authorize just one more casino.
Speaker: yes on 82 and 83 campaign
About the speaker: The Yes on 82 and 83 campaign wants voters to approve a casino complex in Wood Village this November.
Date: September 20, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: gambling;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: But we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell the viewer that one of the two ballot measures changes the constitution to allow the possibility of more in the future. That detail is important. The Constitution has been amended numerous times, but it’s still the Constitution. We rate the statement  -- partially accurate, missing an important detail -- and reserve the right to fact check Martin’s statement in the future. Return to OregonLive to comment on this Politifact/Oregon ruling.