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Statement: More than 32,000 Americans lose their lives to gun violence each year.
Speaker: safety for all initiative
About the speaker: The Safety For All Initiative is a California measure proposed for the November ballot. It is led by Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and includes restrictions on gun and ammunition purchases in the state.
Date: June 13, 2016
Location: california
Topics: elections;government regulation;guns
Context: a campaign website
Fact-check justification: The Safety For All Initiative proposes stronger gun and ammunition restrictions in California. On its website, it says "More than 32,000 Americans lose their lives to gun violence each year." That sad statistic checks out, based on an examination of data from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. While the statement is accurate, it needs a key clarification that more than 60 percent of those gun deaths result from suicides.   Much of the Safety For All Initiative is designed to make it more difficult for individuals to obtain ammunition for assault-style weapons, not typically associated with suicides. 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. PolitiFact California is fact-checking claims made by and about the November ballot measure campaigns. Contact us with suggestions for a fact-check at [email protected] or on Twitter @CAPolitiFact https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a1a63e78-5ba3-4e76-b95a-9d29b671e6b5
Statement: We're seeing now 30 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.6 million jobs created.
Speaker: julián castro
About the speaker: Julián Castro is a former U.S. secretary of Housing & Urban Development. He was the youngest member of Barack Obama’s cabinet, serving from 2014 to 2017. Just before he became secretary of HUD, he was the mayor of San Antonio, elected in 2009. Castro received a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on Jan. 2, 2020.
Date: September 9, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."
Fact-check justification:     By most measures, the number of jobs in the United States has increased on Obama’s watch, though Castro did some cherry-picking in coming up with the 4.6 million number. Still, his statement reflects private-sector job gains since the last month with a loss in that category. We rate the  as .
Statement: Vaccines "will remove parts of your DNA and replace it with GENETIC CODING (TECHNOLOGY)" that will "cause people to HAVE to cooperate with the New World Order.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 17, 2020
Topics: public health;science;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "  The m in mRNA stands for messenger, and the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 involve injecting genetic material into cells that produce coronavirus proteins that then trigger an immune response, teaching the body how to fight off a real COVID-19 infection, said Mark Lynas, a fellow at Cornell Alliance with Science at Cornell University. They don’t affect DNA at all.   This is the first time this type of vaccine has reached this point in the process of readying vaccines for general use, Lynas said, and because these vaccines involve injecting genetic material in human cell as opposed to traditional vaccines, which involve injecting an inactivated or weakened virus directly into the body, they could be easier to adjust as this coronavirus mutates. As for whether these vaccines can affect someone’s spirituality, or control the behaviors of people who get them, "that’s in the realm of science fiction," Lynas said.   We rate this Instagram post .
Statement: Says that under President Donald Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida.
Speaker: tulsi gabbard
About the speaker: Tulsi Gabbard is a representative of Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. Elected to the office in 2012, Gabbard is the first Samoan-American and first Hindu member of the U.S. Congress. She was re-elected in 2014, 2016 and 2018. Gabbard has also been in active service for more than the past 10 years and has served in the Hawaii Army National Guard. Gabbard received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Hawaii Pacific University. In 2019, she announced she is running for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: July 31, 2019
Location: national
Topics: military;terrorism
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Gabbard said that under Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida." There have been numerous U.S. military actions against al-Qaida during the Trump administration. While some arms sold by the United States to Saudi Arabia might ultimately end up with rebels groups in Syria that have ties to al-Qaida, the United States has been supporting those rebels since before Trump took office and the arm sales are not supporting al-Qaida. We rate the statement .
Statement: Overwhelming Democrat and Republican votes" in 2011 for legislation in two special sessions on jobs demonstrated the bipartisan nature of the Wisconsin Legislature.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: June 6, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: bipartisanship;economy;jobs;voting record
Context: a radio appearance
Fact-check justification: What’s more, Walker claimed the special-session bills had "overwhelming" support from both parties. About 40 percent had strong bipartisan backing. And the special-session vote that consumed the state for months was a bitter partisan battle for the ages. There’s an element of  here, in that some votes were truly bipartisan, but it was far from "overwhelming." We rate Walker’s  .
Statement: Disneyland estates have been used for MK-ULTRA mind control, human trafficking, occult rituals, and parading sexual deviants.
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: April 26, 2022
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: One of those employees is accused of sending inappropriate pictures of himself and messages to an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, and two others were charged with prostitution. But there was no indication these alleged crimes occurred at Disney resorts.   We’ve previously fact-checked and found  the  that Disney CEO Bob Chapek was arrested for human trafficking.   Under scrutiny, these theories are just that. We rate this post .
Statement: John Boozman is excited about putting a 23 percent national sales tax on everything you buy.
Speaker: blanche lincoln
About the speaker: Blanche Lincoln is a former two-term U.S. senator from Arkansas who was defeated in 2010 by Republican John Boozman.
Date: September 20, 2010
Location: national
Topics: message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: As Creamer, from the Boozman campaign, notes, "Her ads never even mention the fact that it eliminates all your current federal taxes, much less the prebate provisions which give every American an upfront monthly rebate to cover their essential purchases, within the plan." The so-called Fair Tax is certainly a controversial, wholesale upheaval of our current tax system. And when distinguishing yourself from your opponent, it's certainly fair to call your opponent's plans "dumb." But saying your opponent supports a sales tax increase and failing to mention that it would also mean the elimination of federal income taxes is only telling half the story. And so we rate the ad's  .
Statement: Says Bill Clinton "gave nukes to North Korea," Barack Obama "gave nukes to Iran," and Hillary Clinton "gave uranium to Russia.
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: December 29, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;energy;iran;nuclear;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Republican and Democratic presidential administrations in the United States have all tried to stop Iran and North Korea from making nuclear weapons, said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, based in Washington, D.C. Russia, meanwhile, "has mined and produced more uranium, including highly-enriched uranium which can be used for nuclear weapons, than they know what to do with."  After working in nuclear arms control and nonproliferation for 30 years, Kimball said he’s never seen "something that is so blatantly " as the allegations in the Facebook post.  "Each of these three claims is ," he said, "Period." That’s our rating, too: .
Statement: Women still do not get paid as much as men, even "for the same work, period.
Speaker: connie stokes
About the speaker: Connie Stokes is a former DeKalb County Commissioner and state Senator. She is the Democratic candidate for Georgia's lieutenant governor in 2014.
Date: August 27, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;women
Context: a fundraising email
Fact-check justification: Stokes was on target to cite a gender pay gap. But vastly oversimplifies the "same work"  -- it does matter what job is being performed. Stokes  is accurate on one level. But a lot of context is needed to really understand what is going on. We rate her  .
Statement: Says that in New Mexico, "illegals are issued emergency welfare EBT cards with $1k a month +$200 for each child, for at least 5+ years until they see a judge.
Speaker: brian kolfage
About the speaker: We Build The Wall Inc. president and founder.
Date: June 10, 2019
Topics: immigration;homeland security;welfare;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Kolfage said that in New Mexico, "illegals are issued emergency welfare EBT cards with $1k a month +$200 for each child, for at least 5+ years until they see a judge." Federal food assistance benefits are distributed to eligible participants through EBT cards. New Mexico’ Human Services Department, which administers the federal SNAP program, says Kolfage’s  is . The USDA said it does not have a program like the one Kolfage stated. People granted asylum are eligible for SNAP, but solely applying for the immigration protection does not grant eligibility for the food program. We rate Kolfage’s statement .
Statement: The best estimate is that 200,000 people in Wisconsin were either denied or chilled in their efforts to vote" in the 2016 presidential election.
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: May 31, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;elections;government regulation
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "It would be a  to attribute essentially all of that decline to the voter ID requirement." Our rating Clinton said: "The best estimate is that 200,000 people in Wisconsin were either denied or chilled in their efforts to vote" in the 2016 presidential election. A report three weeks earlier from a group that supports Democratic candidates says a decline in voter turnout between the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections in Wisconsin was entirely due to the state’s new photo identification requirement for voting. But experts say that while photo ID requirements may reduce turnout to some extent, they question the methodology of the report and say there is no way to put a number on how many people in Wisconsin didn’t vote because of the ID requirement. We rate Clinton’s statement .
Statement: Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks.
Speaker: mark dayton
About the speaker: Mark Dayton is the current governor of Minnesota, having won election to succeed Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2010. He was formerly a U.S. senator from 2001-2007.
 
Date: July 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: children;education;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: In fact, in 2009 Pawlenty used stimulus funds to reverse initial budget cuts to K-12 education, and he unexpectedly promised to preserve education when he cut spending in nearly every other area in 2010. All in all, the research backing Dayton up is solid -- although some might argue with the methodology. For those who believe that failure to keep up with inflation is a budget cut, Dayton's arguments are persuasive. But his allegation that Pawlenty cut education funding is complicated by the fact that actual dollars went up while Pawlenty was in office. We’ll rate this one .
Statement: Says a California surfer was "alone, in the ocean," when he was arrested for violating the state's stay-at-home order.
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: April 8, 2020
Location: california
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post says a lone surfer in California was arrested for flouting the state’s stay-at-home order. That’s  right — it was a paddle boarder, not a surfer, out on the water at a beach that was closed to slow the spread of COVID-19. Authorities say he was arrested for disobeying a lifeguard and violating the state’s restrictions. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Fifty-three percent of teens in Central Falls are getting pregnant.
Speaker: lincoln chafee
About the speaker: Lincoln Chafee is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He served one four-year term as Rhode Island's governor, beginning on Jan. 4, 2011. He was the first Independent to be elected to that office. He subsequently became a Democrat. As a Republican, he served as mayor of Warwick from 1992 to 1999, when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of his father, Sen. John H. Chafee. He was elected to a full Senate term in 2000. He is married with three children. In April 2015 he formed an exploratory committee to consider running for President.
Date: May 4, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: children;economy;education;families;health care;women
Context: a candidate forum
Fact-check justification: When you include 18- and 19-year-olds into the mix, the birth rate is 3.07 percent statewide and 9.55 in Central Falls. And that doesn't include women who were pregnant but never delivered because of abortion or miscarriage. Clearly, Central Falls has a disturbingly high teenage pregnancy rate, but it’s not nearly as high as Chafee has portrayed it. When it comes to getting his numbers right, Chafee fails the pregnancy test. We rate his  as .
Statement: Photo shows a "clearly intoxicated" Kamala Harris "throwing up in the bushes & staggering aimlessly at the Cleveland airport.
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 24, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: She doesn’t appear "clearly intoxicated," nor is she staggering or vomiting.   We found no credible  that Harris was intoxicated then, or in Cleveland on Oct. 24.   We rate this Facebook post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Before 2020, "crime had been falling, every year, year after year, in the city of Buffalo.
Speaker: byron brown
About the speaker: Byron Brown is the mayor of the city of Buffalo. He is a Democrat.
Date: August 23, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: crime
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Brown claimed that before the pandemic, "crime had been falling, every year, year after year, in the city of Buffalo." Crime did fall during his tenure until the pandemic. Overall, crime fell by 44% between 2006 and 2019.  There were two years where the decline was not consistent. In 2007, overall crime increased by 1.7 percent, and in 2018, overall crime increased by .2 percent. In addition, every category of crime had some increases in between, along with some decreases through the years. We rate his statement .
Statement: By the end of this budget I'm in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: August 17, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: In an interview with Glenn Beck, Walker said "by the end of this budget I'm in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state." That figure holds up, based on numbers from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. We rate his  .
Statement: Says guns are required to be registered.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 26, 2019
Topics: immigration;fake news;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Hawaii and the District of Columbia require the registration of all firearms; and while California does not have a traditional gun registry, it has a similarly functioning system, the Giffords Law Center said. The Facebook post in its question form implies that guns are required to be registered, but that’s not the case nationally. Only a few states require the registration of some or all firearms. The post contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says the Democratic presidential candidates "support giving illegal immigrants free health care at our expense.
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: July 31, 2019
Location: national
Topics: immigration;health care;homeland security
Context: a re-election campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A Trump re-election campaign ad said Democratic presidential candidates "support giving illegal immigrants free healthcare at our expense." This is . The  is based on a raise-your-hand type of question in a June debate. Candidates were asked if their health care plans would provide coverage for immigrants in the country illegally. All candidates raised their hand. But the question did not ask if the coverage would be for free. Two of the candidates who were able to provide context — Buttigieg and Biden — did not say it would be for free. Some candidates on stage that night support universal health care coverage, through Medicare for All. But there isn’t agreement among all candidates on the provisions of that type of coverage. A version of Medicare for All would offer coverage to all individuals by replacing premiums, co-pays and deductibles. One way the government would pay for Medicare for All would be through payroll taxes; so immigrants in the country illegally who do pay income taxes would contribute that way. We rate the ad’s statement .
Statement: In Florida, "the number of voters who now register as 'other' has grown by a million in the last 10 years. Compare that with the Democrats, who only grew by 300,000 and the Republicans who grew by just 200,000.
Speaker: chuck todd
About the speaker: Chuck Todd is a political analyst and reporter for NBC and MSNBC.
Date: July 5, 2015
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Todd said that "the number of voters (in Florida) who now register as ‘other’ has grown by a million in the last 10 years," while registered Democrat and Republican voters grew by 300,000 and 200,000 respectively. In Florida, voters who do not indicate affiliation on their registration forms are automatically placed in the No Party Affiliation category, artificially inflating the number of seemingly independent voters. And among voters registered as having No Party Affiliation, many still vote according to partisan lines. Still, the numbers are fairly close, and the trend is certainly spot on. Todd’s statement is accurate but needs some additional information. We rate it . Update: We updated this item on July 8, 2015, to add more information explaining how NBC got its figures.