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Statement: Rick Scott has destroyed over 100,000 jobs.
Speaker: rod smith
About the speaker: Rod Smith is a former state Senator from Alachua County. In 2006, he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for governor. In 2010, he was his party's nominee for lieutenant governor. In 2011, he was elected chairman of the Florida Democratic Party.
Date: June 28, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: jobs
Context: an e-mail to supporters
Fact-check justification: And that's not even what Democrats charged — they said he has already destroyed 100,000 jobs. Meanwhile, the best  we do have, survey estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show the state has actually added 76,800 net jobs since January. We know that the budget passed by the Legislature and signed by Scott contains real pain for Florida families, in particular teachers and state workers. But Democrats should focus on claims they can prove, and this isn't one of them. We rate it .
Statement: President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: October 22, 2009
Location: national
Topics: bush administration;pundits;transparency
Context: "The Rachel Maddow" show
Fact-check justification: "We'll air a correction." To be clear, we're not checking Maddow's broader point that Bush played favorites with the press. Is there any president who hasn't? Rather, we're checking Maddow's statement that President Bush "never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency." That's not the case, so we rate her statement .
Statement: Former President Barack Obama "is being sent to Gitmo.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 4, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: The most recent detainee arrived at the Cuba prison in 2008.    If Obama were being sent to Guantanamo or an assassination plot against Trump were unearthed, the events would draw widespread news coverage. But there’s none.   We’ve previously debunked similar claims that President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.   We rate the  that Obama "is being sent to Gitmo" !
Statement: Our unemployment rate has been higher than 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the 'stimulus.'
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: October 7, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs;stimulus
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: It has been above 8 percent since early in 2009. We think it's a big stretch to call an economic projection a "promise." The administration never characterized it that way and included plenty of disclaimers saying the predictions had "significant margins of error" and a higher degree of uncertainty due to a recession that is "unusual both in its fundamental causes and its severity." Those are critical facts that the speaker’s  ignores. As we have ruled for others who have made this , we rate Boehner’s statement .
Statement: Video shows Seattle police in uniform "vandalizing" a building "to frame protesters.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 31, 2020
Topics: civil rights;crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: This video was posted with a  that it shows police vandalizing a building to "frame protesters."  A police spokesperson says it shows officers trying to gain entry to a Target in response to a burglary. Police say they arrested three suspected burglars inside.  We rate this  .
Statement: Face masks being manufactured in China, for example, went to domestic consumption and their own fight against the virus" while the U.S. was "largely unable to import supplies from China.
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: April 20, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a New York Times op-ed
Fact-check justification: Rubio said "face masks being manufactured in China, for example, went to domestic consumption and their own fight against the virus" while the U.S. was "largely unable to import supplies from China." China did have a greater need for its domestically manufactured masks in February as the virus ravaged the country, but Rubio greatly overstates the situation. Imports of masks from China to the U.S. did drop in January and February, but imports of other products dropped even more. Imports to the U.S. did occur in April through the federal government’s Project Air Bridge, and a few states arranged their own imports with the help of other entities. We rate this statement .
Statement: There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips" because of sequestration.
Speaker: arne duncan
About the speaker: Arne Duncan is the U.S. Secretary of Education. Prior to his appointment as secretary of education, Duncan was chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools.
Date: February 24, 2013
Location: national
Topics: education;federal budget
Context: an appearance on "Face the Nation."
Fact-check justification: Duncan said that because of the threat of sequestration "there are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips." That conjures images of hundreds or even thousands of teachers who have already been fired. But the lone example of actual pink slips is the West Virginia district. And officials there provide a contradictory explanation for why 104 teachers are being notified their jobs might be transferred, and eventually eliminated. The other districts held up by education officials haven’t fired a single teacher because of sequestration. Ritsch, Duncan’s spokesman, said that distinction hardly matters: "Whether they’ve got a pink slip in hand or one is coming in two weeks, the basic point is the same -- their jobs are at risk." Maybe so. But that’s not what Duncan said, which is that teachers right now are being shown the door. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Barack Obama is a socialist.
Speaker: roger williams
About the speaker: Roger Williams won election to represent the newly created Congressional District 25 in 2012. He is a former Texas secretary of state, the state's chief elections officer. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 as chairman of the Republican National Finance Committee’s Eagles fundraising program and also has served as state finance chair for John Cornyn's 2002 Senate campaign, according to his campaign website.
Date: June 5, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an Austin appearance with Wes Riddle, fellow GOP hopeful for US House
Fact-check justification:     Republicans and Democrats frequently diverge over tax policy, economics and the role of government. Certain Obama policies may have expanded government. Some perceive the health care law as government asserting more control over health care. But we don't see how that's fodder for Obama being a socialist. Indeed, not only is there no case for Obama being a socialist, it's a preposterous sally. We're snatching the matches -- !
Statement: Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken  "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935.
Speaker: brent larkin
About the speaker: Brent Larkin writes a weekly column for The Plain Dealer's Forum section on Sundays. From 1991 until his retirement in 2009, he was director of The Plain Dealer's editorial page.
Date: January 2, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs;stimulus;transportation
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: As an October story in the Columbus Dispatch noted, ODOT itself had said a year earlier that the trip couldn't be made in less than 5 hours 20 minutes -- even if the trains didn't stop. ODOT’s revised schedule hadn't even been seen by the three freight lines that own the tracks the 3C passenger trains would use, putting its feasibility in serious doubt. And, no matter how weak or strong its support, the optimistic revision still comes up longer than the best rail time of 1935. "The schedules speak for themselves," Larkin said. We rate his statement as .
Statement: The first slaves shipped to the American Colonies in 1619 were 100 white children from Ireland.
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: June 20, 2019
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: And, certainly, plenty of people from Europe complained about being treated or bought and sold like slaves (especially in the 17th century). BUT, there weren’t really Irish or English slaves in colonial America." Such an argument is part of a bigger effort to minimize the tragedy of slavery, Guasco said. "The argument that ‘whites were slaves too’ or ‘indentured servants were just like slaves’ are both distortions of the past. "  We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: The Affordable Care Act is "a major reason why we've seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals.
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: March 25, 2015
Location: national
Topics: health care;public health
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Obama said the Affordable Care Act is "a major reason why we’ve seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals." Independent experts said the report Obama was using as  represents a credible attempt to quantify recent improvements in preventing hospital-patient deaths, even if the numbers are estimates rather than hard figures. They added that it’s reasonable to credit the health care law’s Partnership for Patients program with accelerating the gains, even if the improvements were already under way at the time the law was passed. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate it .
Statement: Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world.
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: August 3, 2014
Topics: education;punditfact
Context: comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: On Face the Nation , Bloomberg said that Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world" in the course of praising China’s investment in Africa’s growth. Reports from the United Nations had Africa’s proportional spending on education higher than everywhere but North America and Europe in 2008. But since then, Africa’s overall economic growth has outpaced its governments increasing spending on education. Our calculations based on the most recent available data put Africa’s proportional spending beneath every continent except Asia. African countries do spend more of their governments’ budgets on education than many developed countries, so Bloomberg’s broader point about Africa’s growth has some merit. But Bloomberg’s  cited GDP. We rate his  .
Statement: Elon Musk banned U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Twitter.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 6, 2023
Topics: technology;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter accounts are alive and well.   Her @RepAOC and @AOC accounts were tweeting as of March 9, and we found no news coverage about a permanent ban thanks to Musk.   His decision in December to ban multiple journalists from high-profile news organizations drew widespread media attention , and we’d expect the same if he moved to suspend a lawmaker’s account.   We rate this post !
Statement: ABC News recently banned reporters from wearing American flag lapel pins on air.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 24, 2018
Topics: fake news;patriotism;punditfact
Context: a blog
Fact-check justification: Thus spawned the   about ABC News enacting a new policy banning lapel pins in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. Now the  has been updated to make it appear the ABC News’ "ban" (in , a longstanding policy) is a response to Donald Trump’s presidency.   The political conditions may have changed since the  was first born, but it is still untrue. As an aside, we’d note that the older  that President Barack Obama sought to ban American flag pins is an extreme distortion of reality . We rate this .
Statement: Barack Obama: I'm 'the First Sitting American President to Come From Kenya.'
Speaker: supremeinsider.com
About the speaker: A website associated with misleading news.
Date: July 22, 2018
Topics: obama birth certificate;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A story on Supremeinsider.com says "Barack Obama: I’m ‘the First Sitting American President to Come From Kenya’ (Video)." In the video from his speech in Kenya Obama does say he’s the "first sitting American president to come from Kenya." The article, however, goes on to suggest that this comment invalidates any past efforts Obama has made to assure that he was born in the United States and call for an investigation. The message from Obama’s speech was misinterpreted to mean he was born and/or raised in Kenya when he was actually saying that he is of Kenyan heritage. There’s no  to prove Obama was not born in the United States. We rate this  .
Statement: Our tax rates are lower now than they were under Ronald Reagan. They're much lower than they were under Dwight Eisenhower.
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: September 20, 2010
Location: national
Topics: history;taxes
Context: a televised town hall
Fact-check justification: (Not all of these taxes kick in immediately.) We think it's fair to note that Obama has raised taxes and promises to do so again. But we don't think that undermines the factual accuracy of his statement from the town hall. If you make the comparison using tax brackets -- which we think was Obama's clear intent -- then the president is right when comparing today's rates to Eisenhower's, and he's close to right when he makes the comparison to Reagan. On balance, we rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Schools in Austin Independent School District are teaching children as young as 4 years old that their gender is fluid – that they're not a boy or a girl and they can choose whichever gender they want.
Speaker: glenna hodge
About the speaker: Glenna Hodge, a Spicewood lawyer, made a claim about what the Austin district teaches children about gender identity.
Date: July 20, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: testimony before a Texas Senate committee
Fact-check justification: Hodge said: "Schools in Austin Independent School District are teaching children as young as 4 years old that their gender is fluid – that they’re not a boy or a girl and they can choose whichever gender they want." Hodge didn’t deliver proof of Austin students including toddlers getting told that gender is fluid nor did we confirm such instruction. It’s clear otherwise that the district has put energy into teachers understanding that each child comes to terms with gender identity among developmental issues. Teacher training materials include a lesson plan describing gender identity varying along a spectrum. We rate this  .  – 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 Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm is a "career bureaucrat with no past ties to Wisconsin.
Speaker: tom tiffany
About the speaker: In 2004 and 2008, Tom Tiffany ran for the 12th State Senate District, first against Senator Roger Breske, and then Jim Holperin losing both times in very close elections. In 2010, he ran for the Wisconsin State Assembly after the position was vacated by retiring incumbent, Representative Donald Friske. Tiffany won the primary, and later defeated Democrat Jay Schmelling 58.09% - 41.81%.
In 2012 Tiffany chose not to seek re-election to the State Assembly and to seek election to the State Senate after Holperin announced he would not run for reelection. He defeated Democrat Susan Sommer, 56% - 40%, in the general election on November 6, 2012. Tiffany succeeded fellow Republican Sean Duffy in Congress, winning a special election against Democrat Tricia Zunker in 2020.
Date: April 20, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;states
Context: a public forum
Fact-check justification: In a Facebook post, Tiffany called Palm "a career bureaucrat with no past ties to Wisconsin." One problem: He doesn’t tell people he’s talking about the health secretary. At first glance, it seems as if Tiffany is targeting Evers, who has deep ties to Wisconsin. That leaves us with a statement that’s accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate Tiffany’s  . window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: While Richard Cordray was Attorney General, 12,000 rape kits like Allyssa's were left untested. Cordray's failure left serial rapists free to strike again. Then Mike DeWine became Attorney General. He tested all 12,000 rape kits. Now hundreds of rapists are behind bars.
Speaker: mike dewine
About the speaker: Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, won the Republican primary for governor in May 2018 and is running in the general election in November. Previously he was one of Ohio's U.S. senator's, lieutenant governor and a member of the General Assembly.
Date: August 22, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: legal issues;crime;women
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: DeWine said in a TV ad, "While Richard Cordray was Attorney General, 12,000 rape kits like Allyssa's were left untested. Cordray's failure left serial rapists free to strike again. Then Mike DeWine became Attorney General. He tested all 12,000 rape kits. Now hundreds of rapists are behind bars." The ad leaves out a lot of context when it blames Cordray. First, it omits that Cordray inherited a statewide problem. Cordray started to take steps to address the problem, but didn’t get far before he was ousted by DeWine in November 2010. The ad is on firmer ground when it gives credit to DeWine for his efforts to clear out the backlog. But it omits that it took him several years to do it. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important context. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Gov. Scott Walker is "openly" backing a move to abolish the state retirement system and convert it to a 401(k)-style plan that will reduce pensions "by at least a third" for current and retired public employees
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: February 23, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: pensions;state budget
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion A chain email making the rounds claims Walker is "openly" backing a move to abolish the state retirement system. While a study of the system is under way, the email’s  jumps the gun and goes way too far. We don’t yet know the study’s conclusions, and Walker’s administration says no decisions have been made on making any changes at all. What’s more, legal experts say in all likelihood any changes would have to be going forward -- and retirees have the most protection. We rate the email’s  .
Statement: We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone.
Speaker: kasim reed
About the speaker: Kasim Reed is Mayor of Atlanta.
Date: January 19, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: crime
Context: the State of the City address
Fact-check justification: It’s down in all zones but one. And in the case of east Atlanta, where crime dropped 27 percent, the decline is far more dramatic than the 10 percent to 16 percent decrease Reed mentioned in his State of the City address. In a written statement to PolitiFact Georgia, Reed acknowledged that the city has more work to do, but the lower overall crime rate is a sign of progress. "One of our goals is to say with confidence that crime is down in all zones, and I believe we are moving in the right direction," Reed said. Because Reed’s broader message held , but the data he used are topsy-turvy, we grant him a .