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Statement: Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks" were spreading "a lie" about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
Speaker: jb pritzker
About the speaker: J.B. Pritzker is Illinois' 43rd governor and a former Chicago venture capitalist and entrepreneur.
Date: November 17, 2020
Location: illinois
Topics: fake news;coronavirus
Context: remarks at a news conference
Fact-check justification: Pritzker said "Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks" were spreading "a lie" about his daughter dining outside at a restaurant with a large group of people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The   Pritzker is referring to is based on a photograph of 14 individuals gathered around a table, none of which are identifiable as his daughter. It was spread by gossip and parody accounts on Twitter before being picked up by a website operated by a company that accepts money from partisan groups and is run by a conservative talk show radio host whose co-host later repeated the  on-air. While definitions of "propaganda" may vary, Pritzker’s use of the term here is reasonable given the context. Two GOP state lawmakers also shared the post on social media. We rate Pritzker’s  .  — 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: Wendy Davis' legal work is currently under FBI investigation.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: June 26, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;ethics;crime
Context: a billboard message
Fact-check justification: Abbott’s billboard said: "Wendy Davis’ legal work is currently under FBI investigation." That's largely unsupported. According to news reports, the FBI has looked into an agency that’s also relied on Davis for legal work--and her work may or may not be an element of the inquiry. But the FBI has been silent about the inquiry and any Davis element and we see no official confirmation otherwise of a focus on the senator. Notably, a Travis County prosecutor said two months ago it’d be  to conclude his office’s mention of the FBI inquiry in a letter indicates Davis is under federal scrutiny. Also, Abbott’s camp offered no  the declared investigation is "currently" happening. We rate this  as .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says one out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran.
Speaker: texas veterans commission
About the speaker: The commission, a Texas state agency, was created in 1927 as the State Service Office to assist veterans of the Indian wars, Spanish-American War and World War I. It says its purpose has always been to act as the state-appointed advocate of Texas veterans as they secure benefits earned in exchange for their service in the U.S. armed forces.
Date: December 5, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: poverty;veterans
Context: a newspaper article
Fact-check justification: To shore up his position with more recent data, he led us to the 2010 strategic plan adopted by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which advises President Barack Obama and Congress on that issue. The plan terms the 107,000 count of homeless veterans nationwide (cited by Shinseki) "a reasonable figure." Using U.S. Census Bureau statistics to extrapolate the percentage of males among veterans (93 percent), McGhee comes up with a figure of 99,720 homeless male veterans — slightly more than one-third of the total number of adult homeless people calculated from the January 2009 one-night survey. Bottom line: Experts outside Texas agree the  that one-third of homeless men are veterans is based on obsolete data, though some cautioned that it’s hard to pinpoint how many homeless men are veterans and one sorting of the data appears to justify the . We rate the statement .
Statement: The world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest.
Speaker: oxfam america
About the speaker: Oxfam America is the U.S. branch of the anti-poverty group Oxfam International.
Date: October 5, 2016
Topics: global news service;poverty
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Oxfam America said the world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest. The Oxfam analysis was based on a report from Credit Suisse and the Forbes list of billionaires. The exact number of billionaires might well be different from the 62 that Oxfam said. But out of world population of 7.3 billion, it makes little difference if the tally were 100. It still represents a tiny sliver of a percentage of the people in the world. The statement is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6158005b-55d8-4bf3-84eb-f25bd2df4025
Statement: Says Melania Trump hired exorcist to "cleanse White House of Obama demons.
Speaker: yournewswire.com
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: February 8, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a fake news blog post
Fact-check justification: A website claimed Melania Trump hired an exorcist to rid the White House of past demons brought by previous politicians. We rate this .
Statement: U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey gave the government the power to electronically spy on Americans without a warrant.
Speaker: michael opitz
About the speaker: Michael Opitz, a Cobb County resident, is a Republican candidate for Georgia's 11th U.S. Congressional District.
Date: May 29, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice;terrorism
Context: a YouTube ad
Fact-check justification: But he does raise a legitimate criticism of CISPA. The bill’s protections may not be enough to keep average Americans safe from Hall and Oates’ private eyes. Opitz’s statement raises real issues. But he overstates some key points, and it could use a lot more context.    Our rating: .
Statement: Says Rep. Justin Amash "votes more with the Democrats than with the Republicans.
Speaker: mike rogers
About the speaker: Mike Rogers is a Republican from Michigan who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2015, including a stint as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. A former FBI special agent, he is now a national security commentator for CNN.
Date: May 8, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;voting record
Context: an article published by Politico
Fact-check justification: Rogers said Amash "votes more with the Democrats than with the Republicans." Rogers didn’t back up his , but we found two sources that showed that Amash has sided with Republicans upward of 80 percent of the time. That may be lower than many of his colleagues, and we found found a few high-profile examples of his voting against his own party. But by the numbers, he votes far more often with Republicans than Democrats. We rate Rogers’ statement .
Statement: When I served as City Commissioner, we made great strides …we successfully fought for, and won, adding women and people of color to the Fire Bureau.
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: May 31, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: race and ethnicity
Context: Posted at charliehales.com
Fact-check justification: Hales hired a new chief specifically to diversify the bureau. And the numbers started going up. iIn spite of Leonard’s equivocation, we think it’s fair to say that as a member of City Council, Hales "successfully fought for, and won, adding women and people of color to the Fire Bureau." We rate the  as . Comment on this item.
Statement: Trudeau's foundation owns 40% of Acuitas Therapeutics which makes mechanic lipids for Pfizer.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 18, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Malone has promoted  and  claims about the COVID-19 vaccines and pandemic and has been banned from Twitter for violating the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policies. An Instagram post says, "Trudeau's foundation owns 40% of Acuitas Therapeutics which makes mechanic lipids for Pfizer." Both Trudeau’s office and Acuitas Therapeutics said the  is . Acuitas said neither Trudeau nor the foundation owns or has owned shares or has any interest in the company. We rate this  .
Statement: The official pride flag was altered to include Ukrainian colors.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: May 24, 2022
Location: national
Topics: lgbtq;ukraine
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Greene and others shared an image that showed the pride flag altered to incorporate the colors of the Ukrainian flag as if it were real. This isn’t a genuine flag used by the LGBTQ community. It originated as satire. We rate this
Statement: I want to give every American a $5,000 refundable tax credit.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: October 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Nashville, Tenn
Fact-check justification: Any remainder would go into a special health spending account. We've seen Barack Obama talk about a $1,000 tax cut for working families, when it's actually a $500 per person tax credit. McCain would be accurate if he had said $5,000 per family, but his statement in the debate takes things too far. It's $2,500 for single people. We rate his statement .
Statement: When I go on Letterman" the "ratings go up.
Speaker: bill o'reilly
About the speaker: Bill O'Reilly hosted The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News until 2017. He formerly worked as a television news reporter and has authored numerous books.
Date: October 12, 2014
Topics: pop culture;pundits;punditfact
Context: an interview with Howard Kurtz
Fact-check justification: In a trademark moment of non-modesty, O’Reilly bragged about his effect as a guest star on mainstream broadcast shows. "I bring ratings to those shows. So when I go on Letterman or I go on the morning shows, their ratings go up," he said. Looking strictly at Letterman’s Late Show , to keep things simple, we found he has a point. Using available data, we found O’Reilly beat the average ratings for the comparable day of the week and calendar year 10 or 11 times out of 14 show appearances with data. In this specific case, booking O’Reilly isn’t a sure bet for better ratings. But it’s a pretty safe one. We rate his  .
Statement: A quarter of a million illegal votes found in Arizona's audit.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 26, 2021
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Washington Post analysis faults Navarro’s report for describing as "near-certainties things that are unfounded, misrepresented or unimportant" and relying on "biased and flawed sources of information. "    In any case, Navarro’s speculation about the election results in the six states does not mean that the audit uncovered a quarter of a million fraudulent votes in Arizona or anywhere else. The Arizona Republic reported on April 26 that auditors have not provided any updates since the audit began.   Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based technology company that Republican senators hired to oversee the audit, did not respond to our questions about the post.   We rate the  .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: September 12, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: social security
Context: Tampa, Florida
Fact-check justification: The bankers in charge of the trust fund in Romney’s example would face prosecution for, in effect, stealing the trust fund’s money. Romney says their behavior would be called criminal, again as Perry says. However, as Romney said in the debate, this reference to criminal behavior focuses on the trust fund’s "surplus" not being socked away and kept safe until needed, a diversion he blames on Congress. By our read, it’s not reasonable to interpret the analogy as saying that if the entire Social Security program were in the private sector, it would be called criminal. Perry’s  echoes some of Romney's language, but ultimately overreaches.
Statement: Eric Cantor "took $5 million from Sheldon Adelson," a Las Vegas casino owner.
Speaker: wayne powell
About the speaker: Wayne Powell was the 2012 Democratic nominee for Virginia's 7th Congressional District seat held by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Republican. 
Powell served in the U.S. Army for 30 years, 5 years of active duty and 25 years in the Active Reserves. He was called back into active duty after September 11, 2001, to command a specialized Army intelligence unit. He was awarded the Legion of Merit when he retired as a colonel in 2002.
Powell graduated from the University of Richmond in 1972, and received a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1973 and a law degree from T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond in 1980.
Powell served as staff clerk to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, worked as an assistant state attorney general and served as deputy commissioner of the Virginia Worker’s Compensation Commission for six years. He entered private practice in 1991, and founded his present firm of Powell & Parrish in 1999.
Date: October 1, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Powell said Cantor "took $5 million from Sheldon Adelson." That’s not correct. Adelson and his wife gave $5 million to the YG Action Fund. Cantor has close ties to the super PAC, which is run by two former senior advisers to the majority leader. The group takes its name from "Young Guns," the title of a book Cantor co-authored.   Powell would have been correct in saying a super PAC closely tied to Cantor took $5 million from the Adelsons. But he exaggerated when he said Cantor took the money; the YG Action Fund is required to operate independently of Cantor. So we find an element of  in a largely  statement. We rate Powell’s  .
Statement: The CDC has classified monkeypox as an airborne form of herpes that can lead to paralysis.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 3, 2022
Location: national
Topics: public health;science;facebook fact-checks;health check
Context: an image on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A  BBC News screenshot claims the CDC has classified monkeypox as an airborne form of herpes that typically lasts two to four months and can lead to paralysis.  The CDC and WHO haven’t changed how they classify monkeypox. The virus does not spread primarily through airborne transmission, is not a form of herpes, does not last two to four months and rarely leads to paralysis. Also, the image posted on Facebook is not a real graphic shared by BBC News.   We rate this  .
Statement: This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: May 2, 2010
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
Fact-check justification: But when Pence said "this administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control," that's . Funding for fencing is down, but funding for border security is up. In fact, discretionary spending on border security is up 55 percent between 2007 and 2011, even with a small proposed cut in 2011. We rate Pence's  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c10a8d81-2441-48cd-8144-d3c5f7a1fdcd
Statement: For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, "there's virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: May 3, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;health care;health check;coronavirus
Context: remarks on the American Families Plan
Fact-check justification: Biden has repeatedly claimed that vaccination rates among white people and people of color age 65 and older are virtually the same — or even higher among people of color. No public national data from the CDC or another database has been released to support this assertion. For the few states that do report data on age and race/ethnicity combined, the numbers suggest that, for the most part, obvious disparities persist in the vaccination rates for white seniors and seniors of color. In several states, vaccine administration rates are more proportional to the percentage of the Black and Hispanic populations, but the data covers all age groups. National data for all age groups also shows that rates of vaccinations for Black and Hispanic people lag behind that of white people. Existing data paints one story on vaccine equity, while Biden’s words paint another. Without data to back it up, we rate Biden’s statement .  Update: This report was updated to include a May 11 CDC report with additional data on race, ethnicity and age. The rating is unchanged.
Statement: DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget "than any local government in the Atlanta metro region.
Speaker: burrell ellis
About the speaker: Burrell Ellis is the chief executive officer of DeKalb County, Georgia
Date: February 22, 2011
Location: georgia
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Since 2008, the numbers show DeKalb has cut more money from its general budget than any of the governments its size. The $107 million DeKalb has cut amounts to a 17 percent decrease over that time span. That is a larger percentage than the other governments. It appears CEO Ellis is on the money with this . We rate his statement as .
Statement: Says "Georgia becomes first state to ban Muslim culture in historic move to restore Western values.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 13, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: fake news;religion
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Bloggers said in a headline, "Georgia becomes first state to ban Muslim culture in historic move to restore Western values." The post misrepresents the outcome of a months-old and short-lived legislative proposal from November 2016 that could have prevented Muslim women from hearing veils and headscarves. Muslim culture was not banned, although it did appear to briefly be under attack. We rate the headline .
Statement: In the past two years, Democrats have "spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: October 12, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: federal budget;history
Context: an interview on Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Fact-check justification: He said that in the past two years, Democrats "spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined." That's  no matter how you slice it. And it's not just  -- it's  . We rate the  ! (Cantor’s wife, Diana Cantor, is a member of the board of directors of Media General Inc., parent company of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.)
Statement: When we discovered, I discovered, that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks, we cut 95% of it out.
Speaker: michael bloomberg
About the speaker: Michael Bloomberg was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. The billionaire co-founded Bloomberg LP, a financial information and media company, in 1981. On Nov. 24, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on March 4, 2020.
Date: February 19, 2020
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Bloomberg said, "When we discovered, I discovered, that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks, we cut 95% of it out." The reduction Bloomberg touted is based on a comparison of data from the beginning of 2012 and the end of 2013, the end of his time in office.  But as Bloomberg himself acknowledged, stop and frisks had ballooned before that period under his watch. The declines toward the end of his tenure came as the city faced public criticism over the policy and a lawsuit that questioned the legality of the police behavior and its impact on minorities. So while there was ultimately a sharp decline, Bloomberg had presided over a sharp increase in stop and frisks for most of his time as mayor. Bloomberg’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., "is now worth $29 million dollars.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 23, 2023
Location: new york
Topics: wealth;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We could not find any credible reports that show her net worth being anything close to $29 million. Members of Congress, with few exceptions, receive a salary of $174,000 . The House speaker receives $223,500, while the Senate president pro tempore and the majority and minority leaders in the House and Senate receive $193,400. These rates have been unchanged since 2009. We rate this  !