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Statement: We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10.
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: July 19, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;states
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating Walker said Wisconsin is now a Top 10 state for business when it used to be in the bottom 10. Site selection professionals say they have seen improvements in Wisconsin’s business environment, but note there is no consensus on how to define and rank the business climate between states. Walker’s  was made broadly and without attribution even though it referred to just one of many rankings that attempt to quantify data and perceptions on states’ business environments. It is the only prominent national ranking to rank Wisconsin in the Top 10 aside from an index that focuses narrowly on small businesses. We rate Walker’s  .
Statement: Says the coronavirus is "a MILITARY BIO-WEAPON Developed by China's Army.
Speaker: hal turner radio show
About the speaker: Hal Turner uses internet and radio broadcasts to float conspiracy theories and hate speech. In 2010, he was sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening three federal judges over their decision to uphold handgun bans in Chicago.
Date: February 1, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The Hal Turner Radio Show claimed the coronavirus is "a MILITARY BIO-WEAPON Developed by China's Army." As , the website included two screenshots of coronavirus entries in a federal database of genetic material. The site claimed the two viruses are the same. But all human coronaviruses have similar genetic material, and just because the entries were uploaded by Chinese researchers doesn’t prove that the 2019 coronavirus was developed as a bioweapon. Hal Turner Radio Show’s article is . We rate it .
Statement: Weis Food stores will no longer sell anything with the American flag and their employees can no longer wear anything with the flag.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 3, 2020
Topics: food;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Standard Speaker, a newspaper in Hazleton, Pa., reported on July 3, that a longtime Weis Markets dress code prohibits employees from displaying pins, logos and other designs, including the American flag, on their uniforms.   "The policy has been in effect for years, but came to attention during the COVID-19 pandemic when employees were told not to wear masks with the flag or other symbols," the story says. "Weis denies a ban of the flag." Dennis Curtin, a spokesman for the company, told fact-checkers at Snopes and the Daily Caller’s Check Your Fact that the store hasn’t stopped selling products with the American flag on them.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn't have it. He had it.
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: June 20, 2019
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a Telemundo interview
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn’t have it. He had it." The Obama administration did not have a policy to separate families arriving illegally at the border. Family separations rarely happened under the Obama administration, which sought to keep families together in detention. Then, based on a court decision, it released families together out of detention. Separations under Trump happened systematically as a result of his administration’s policy to prosecute all adults crossing the border illegally. After mounting public pressure and criticism, Trump signed an executive order to stop separating families. Around 2,800 children have been reunited with their families because a court ordered the Trump administration to do so. Trump repeatedly attempts to change the narrative about family separations, but the facts remain the same. Obama did not pass down to Trump a policy to separate families. Trump’s  is . We rate it .
Statement: Nancy Pelosi suffers breakdown, taken from Capitol Hill on a stretcher.
Speaker: freedomcrossroads.us
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: June 14, 2017
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;punditfact
Context: an Internet post
Fact-check justification: Pelosi did not have any kind of breakdown. The story came from a parody website run by a prolific troll. We rate this one ! Correction, Oct. 2, 2017: This story originally misspelled Alan Whitmore's name.
Statement: A video shows current "leaked footage of heavy war between Russia vs Ukraine
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 15, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: At the 41-second mark in the Facebook video, men are firing rifles, and a tank with the marking "132" on the front drives down a street. The exact same footage is also found in a 2014 video called "Battle of Ilovaisk," starting at the 3:06 mark. The battle took place in August 2014 and resulted in "the biggest loss of life in Ukraine's war against Russian-backed separatists," according to a 2019 BBC News report . Finally, at the 3:35 mark in the Facebook video, the image of tanks that is shown is from a 2014 Ukrainian news story . We rate the  that this video shows current leaked footage of war between Russia and Ukraine .
Statement: Gavin Newsom Gets Death Penalty.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 3, 2022
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A PolitiFact investigation in September found that Real Raw News is authored by a 53-year-old man, Michael Tuffin, who previously ran several other websites and associated YouTube channels that also promoted far-fetched conspiracy theories. His websites publish information under the pseudonym "Michael Baxter. "  The website’s "About Us" page features a disclaimer saying it contains humor, parody and satire, but the author of the articles often insists in the site’s comment sections that the content is legitimate, and the Right Side Broadcasting interview indicates that some people believe the type of content he pushes. The website’s latest claims about Newsom have no basis in reality.    We rate them !
Statement: The Kenosha casino would be one of the state's largest employers and pay more to the state than any other company or Tribe – essentially, it would be Wisconsin's biggest taxpayer.
Speaker: menominee indian tribe of wisconsin
About the speaker: According to the tribe's website, the seat of government for the Menominee Tribe is located approximately 45 miles northwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin, on the Menominee Indian Reservation, in the Village of Keshena. The Reservation shares nearly coterminous geopolitical boundaries with Menominee County, is situated on the ancestral homelands of its 8,551 tribal members, and includes 5 main communities: Keshena, Neopit, Middle Village, Zoar, and South Branch. The Reservation is comprised of 235,523 acres, or approximately 357.96 square miles, and includes over 407 miles of improved and unimproved roads, 187 rivers and streams, and 53 lakes. The Reservation is located in the 8th Congressional District for the State of Wisconsin.
Date: September 10, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: gambling;jobs;state budget;taxes
Context: a web posting
Fact-check justification: Tax payments can vary widely year to year based on fluctuations in taxable income, tax strategies and the availability of tax breaks. Our rating The Menominee contend that "the Kenosha casino would be one of the state’s largest employers and pay more to the state than any other company or Tribe – essentially, it would be Wisconsin’s biggest taxpayer." It’s a difficult  to assess, but we found compelling  it’s accurate when comparing the projections for a future Kenosha casino with the biggest taxpayers and employers in the state in recent years. If we get new information on corporate tax payments that is relevant to this item, we’ll revisit our ruling. For now, with the clarifications noted concerning the timing problem inherent in the tribe’s comparison, we rate this .
Statement: Says there are Ohio Turnpike workers getting paid $66,000 a year to collect tolls that machines might collect.
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: February 6, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave us on the -O-Meter? Kasich is correct that some toll collectors make as much as $66,000 a year. But only five who made that much in 2010 and only 13 of the state’s 286 full-time collectors (about 4.5 percent) earned over $60,000 that same year. That’s additional information that provides clarification. We rate Kasich comments .
Statement: Says the city of Portland has one manager for every six "front-line" workers.
Speaker: jefferson smith
About the speaker: Jefferson Smith represents Oregon State House District 47.  He is a native of east Portland, the district he represents.
Date: May 15, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city government
Context: a questionnaire
Fact-check justification: You wouldn’t want to make a citywide proclamation that the span of control should be a certain ratio. It’s much more effective if you look at it bureau by bureau. But Smith knows that -- and has generally been careful to say as much in his public remarks on this sort of thing. Anyhow, the data backs Smith up. We rate this  .
Statement: The Biden-Harris administration "wants to hand out $450,000 to illegal immigrants.
Speaker: jim lamon
About the speaker: Businessman Jim Lamon is making his first run for public office seeking the 2022 Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Arizona.
Date: January 26, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: immigration;congress;elections;federal budget;legal issues;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Lamon said the Biden-Harris administration "wants to hand out $450,000 to illegal immigrants." It was reported in October that the Biden administration was in talks to potentially offer settlements of up to $450,000 a person to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were separated at the border under the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policy. The families included people who were legally seeking asylum in the U.S. When asked a few days later about the $450,000 figure, Biden said, "That’s not going to happen." By Dec. 16, settlement talks ended. We found no  to support the  that the Biden administration wants to hand out $450,000 to any group of immigrants.  We rate the statement .
Statement: Republican politicians are pushing a plan "that could raise taxes on almost one in three Wisconsinites and sunset Social Security and Medicare in five years.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: May 2, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: medicare;social security;taxes
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin said Republican politicians are pushing a plan "that could raise taxes on almost one in three Wisconsinites and sunset Social Security and Medicare in five years."  There is an element of  to the , in that the plan from Scott has those elements. But the  goes awry by framing it as a plan endorsed by Republicans. Far from it. Scott has said it represents his ideas, not a platform.  And McConnell has explicitly said the two areas the Democrats hammered on will not be part of any GOP agenda. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: McDonald's hamburgers are only 15 percent 'real beef.' The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 27, 2014
Topics: food safety;punditfact
Context: a Facebook meme
Fact-check justification: An Internet meme accuses McDonald’s of using hamburger meat that contains only 15 percent "real beef," with the rest made up of a "meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer." McDonald’s stopped using the "filler" in question -- lean, finely textured beef or its somewhat  nickname "pink slime" -- back in 2011. When the product was on the grills, the burger most likely contained nowhere near 85 percent of meat filler, as experts said most consumers would notice a difference in taste after 25 percent.  What’s more, the lean beef does not have any documented links to cancer.
Statement: Evidence surfaces of Vatican funding caravans targeting America with cash.
Speaker: puppetstringnews.com
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: November 25, 2018
Topics: immigration;fake news;homeland security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We’ve rated as  several versions of that . Puppet String News’ About page said the website was created by a U.S. Navy veteran who "decided to get into alternative news to tell the  to best of ability." Puppet String News did not respond to PolitiFact queries sent to its Facebook and Twitter accounts. Its headline claiming " surfaces of Vatican funding caravans targeting America with cash," is  and . We rate it .
Statement: Says the University of Texas can afford to build a medical school because it has a $7 billion endowment and its football program had a $50 million profit last year.
Speaker: rob moshein
About the speaker: Rob Moshein is an Austin wine writer and consultant.
Date: October 14, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: education;health care;taxes
Context: a letter to the editor
Fact-check justification: Moshein said the University of Texas has a $7 billion endowment and its football program had a $50 million profit last year, indications it can afford to fund a medical school. His endowment tally seems about right and he undershoots football’s 2011-12 profits. However, such funds couldn't be siphoned off for a medical school--year after year at that--without socking existing commitments. We rate this statement as .
Statement: People born before 1957 are getting $1,728 added to their Social Security checks.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 21, 2022
Topics: social security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  In a statement, the spokesperson said that "CMS is making no such payments" and noted that "scammers target people with Medicare, as older Americans are particularly vulnerable to fraud and scams." Medicare beneficiaries should share their Medicare number only with their doctor, pharmacist, hospital, health insurer, or other trusted healthcare provider, the agency said. A Social Security Administration spokesperson told PolitiFact that "if people have questions about the validity of any of the programs administered by Social Security, we encourage them to visit our website for the most accurate and up-to-date information. "  We found no $1,728 entitlement on the agency’s website . We rate this post .
Statement: There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.
Speaker: marcia fudge
About the speaker: Rep. Marcia Fudge, a Democrat from Warrensville Heights, is the congresswoman from Ohio's 11th district. Prior to her election to the House of Representatives, she was mayor of Warrensville Heights.
 
Date: March 1, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: corporations;federal budget;taxes
Context: an interview on C-SPAN
Fact-check justification: "In sum, the idea that there is a large pool of corporations not paying taxes that they legally owe is just ," Regalia concluded. The nation’s big business representatives don’t dispute the report’s findings, even as they stress it should not be misconstrued to mean businesses are evading taxes they owe. During her television appearance, Fudge stressed that the businesses who don’t pay taxes aren’t cheating or doing anything . Our research finds solid ground beneath her  that some large U.S. companies don’t pay taxes. That’s why we rate her statement as .
Statement: Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi planned "the ethnocide of the peoples of Europe" through "the encouragement of mass non-white immigration.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: November 21, 2021
Topics: immigration;history
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: A post on TikTok shows a video claiming that an elite is carrying out a plan to replace white Europeans with non-white migrants, and that this plan was devised by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an early proponent of continental unification in Europe. There is no  that the plan exists. The idea that it does lies in distortions of Kalergi’s writings and fabrications by Nazis and neo-Nazis, according to information from historians, Kalergi’s biographer, the European Commission, and Kalergi’s own writings. We rate the post .
Statement: With the money Elon Musk spent to buy Twitter shares, he could have given every American family $100,000 and still had enough left over to cancel all student debt.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: April 5, 2022
Topics: debt;population;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A user on Twitter said the $3 billion Elon Musk used to buy shares of Twitter could’ve been redistributed to give $100,000 to each American family and eliminate student debt. But $3 billion divided among all the families in America would be nowhere close to $100,000. It also wouldn’t even come close to covering the $1.74 trillion that Americans owe in student loans.  We rate this Twitter post as !
Statement: Criminals don't go through (gun) background checks. I think it's like 3% go through a background check.
Speaker: philip van cleave
About the speaker: Philip Van Cleave is president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a pro-gun lobbying group in Virginia that was founded in 1994.
Date: August 8, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: guns
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Van Cleave said, "Criminals don’t go through (gun) background checks. I think it’s like 3% go through a background check." He was referring to results from a 2016 survey of 24,848 state and federal inmates by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. About 5,200 of the prisoners said they possessed or used a firearm during their crime. Of that armed group, about 350 - or 6.7 percent - said they went through a background check to get the gun. Van Cleave slightly understates the percentage of gun-toting criminals who went through background checks, but the gist of his  - that very few of them did - is sound. We rate his statement .
Statement: Absent from the news — Dominion lost their lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 30, 2021
Topics: elections;legal issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Giuliani has denied defaming Dominion. Powell has argued that the suit against her should be dismissed because "no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact." Online court filings show that both cases are active.   A spokesperson for Dominion confirmed the same. We rate the Facebook posts claiming otherwise .
Statement: (Hillary Clinton's State Department) actually admonished one of her ambassadors because he wasn't using the proper server.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: July 26, 2015
Location: national
Topics: technology;transparency
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Paul said the State Department under Clinton "actually admonished one of her ambassadors for not using the proper server." The ambassador in question, Scott Gration, was effectively fired from his post in Kenya in 2012  because of his poor management skills but also for his email management. The department’s office of the inspector general, which works independently, called Gration’s use of a personal email account for government business a leadership failure and a security risk. We rate Paul’s  .
Statement: Now, 50% of all of America, more than any other country, is fully vaccinated.
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 27, 2021
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: Cleveland
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "Now, 50% of all of America — more than any other country — is fully vaccinated." The United States’ vaccination program is faring well by international standards, exceeding all but two advanced industrialized nations in the percentage of residents who are considered fully vaccinated. But Biden has exaggerated on two counts. The percentage of Americans who are fully vaccinated is 40%, not 50%. And five other countries have higher rates for full vaccination than the United States does. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says in Newark "we're paying 80 percent of the school budget from local property taxes.
Speaker: ronald rice
About the speaker: Ronald Rice is a Democratic state senator who represents parts of Essex County.
Date: January 5, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: education;taxes
Context: a state senate budget committee hearing
Fact-check justification: In a legislative hearing, Rice claimed that Newark funds "80 percent of the school budget from local property taxes." Of a $970 million budget, more than $106 million, or about 11 percent, is raised from local taxes. State aid, grants and entitlements account for most of the budget, at $775 million. That’s nearly 80 percent. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, to go NJ.com .