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Statement: Says Tony Thurmond was "Reprimanded by the Obama Administration for failing to address widespread sexual harassment and assault in district schools.
Speaker: students, parents and teachers supporting marshall tuck
About the speaker: Students, Parents and Teachers supporting Marshall Tuck for Superintendent of Public Instruction 2018 is an independent expenditure group created by EdVoice, a nonprofit that supports charter schools.
Date: October 11, 2018
Location: california
Topics: education;elections
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: A recent TV attack ad by a group supporting Marshall Tuck claimed the Obama administration "reprimanded" Tony Thurmond over assault and sexual harassment problems when he served on a school district board. Obama’s Education Department censured West Contra Costa Unified’s handling of sexual harassment during a period when Thurmond served on the district’s board. But the the report never mentions Thurmond and was addressed to the district’s superintendent. School district administrators, not board members, are responsible for day-to-day management in the district. The text of the TV ad distorts the facts by wrongly singling out Thurmond. We rated the  .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. Related fact check: Ad wrongly implies Marshall Tuck is ‘backed’ by Betsy DeVos
Statement: Obamacare medical device tax "has led to the loss of thousands of jobs" in U.S.
Speaker: ted poe
About the speaker: Ted Poe, of Humble, was initially elected to the U.S. House in 2004. He'a a former judge.
Date: October 24, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: health care;jobs
Context: an email to a constituent
Fact-check justification: Poe said "the costly medical device tax" in the Obamacare law "has led to the loss of thousands of jobs across the nation." News stories indicate more than 2,000 such cuts were planned or made partly because of the tax. An industry analyst has said that "the tax is costing the industry thousands of jobs," but also told us that "it's nearly impossible to determine if the tax alone was the cause of layoffs." Poe’s  is partly accurate but leaves out this important context. We rate it .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: No U.S. presidents elected before Donald Trump were racist.
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: July 22, 2020
Topics: history;race and ethnicity
Context: a town hall
Fact-check justification: Biden said that no presidents who came before Trump were racist. Historians agree that various presidents can be considered racist. That includes those who enslaved Black people, those who used racist rhetoric and those who held beliefs that white people were superior to other races. Biden’s campaign later clarified the comment, but his original words are .  We rate Biden’s history .
Statement: The U.S. Supreme Court is "five guys who start determining what contraceptions are legal.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: July 10, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care;sexuality;women
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said, "We should be afraid of this court, the five guys who start determining what contraceptions are legal." This sweeping  was a misstatement, her spokesman acknowledged to PolitiFact. The Hobby Lobby decision didn’t turn on whether certain types of contraception should be legal, but rather on the question of whether certain corporations could decide on religious grounds not to pay for specific types of contraceptives in employee health insurance plans. Experts say that there are solid legal precedents that would keep the Supreme Court from actually banning forms of contraception outright. We rate the  .
Statement: Florida has "the highest" homeowners insurance in the nation.
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 15, 2023
Location: national
Topics: housing;florida
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said that Florida has "the highest" homeowners insurance in the nation. Multiple rankings by industry-related groups back this up. It will take time to see whether several laws signed by DeSantis can bring down costs. Some measures were designed to reduce litigation, a driver of rising premiums. However, Florida will likely always remain one of the higher states in the nation for insurance because of hurricanes. We rate this statement . RELATED : Florida's property insurance overhaul doesn't promise 'immediate relief'
Statement: Says Joe Biden "made it clear..No More Coal Fired Power Plants!! So, No More Coal!! Wake Up WV, PA,OH, KY
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 29, 2020
Location: west virginia
Topics: energy;facebook fact-checks;pennsylvania
Context: a text post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claimed that Biden said "no more coal-fired power plants!! So, no more coal!!" Biden during the first presidential debate said that "nobody’s going to build another coal-fired power plant in America," after explaining that renewable energy is "cheaper or as cheap as" coal, oil and gas.   The  is missing important context that Biden appeared to refer to marketplace competition, which would be consistent with his climate action plan.  We rate this  .
Statement: Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. It's not an emolument.
Speaker: sheri dillon
About the speaker: Sheri Dillon is a partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. She worked with President-elect Donald Trump on his plans to distance himself from his business interests while he is in office. 
Date: January 11, 2017
Location: national
Topics: ethics;supreme court
Context: a press conference at Trump Tower
Fact-check justification: Dillon, a lawyer for Trump, said under the Constitution, "Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. It's not an emolument." Whether the emoluments clause would include a situation where representatives of a foreign state paid for a room in one of Trump’s hotels is an unanswered legal question. We encountered reasonable arguments on both sides, and there isn’t any judicial precedent to guide us to the right answer. Maybe this question will get answered in a meaningful way during the Trump administration. But for now, we rate the statement .
Statement: Vladimir Putin "orders destruction of all COVID-19 vaccines in Russia.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 4, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus;russia
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Plus, Real Raw News has a disclaimer saying it contains "humor, parody and satire," though the author has defended his stories as . PolitiFact reporting has found the website regularly publishes , fantastical stories authored by someone using a pseudonym. COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain HIV , as some people have claimed, nor cause AIDS . And on March 5, a day after the publication of this blog post alleging that Putin was destroying all COVID-19 vaccines, the country’s health ministry announced on Telegram that it had recently sent more batches of the Sputnik V vaccine to Moscow and other regions that had reported low stockpiles. We rate this post !
Statement: Says Bruce Springsteen "only had 8,000 tickets sold" for a Greensboro show and canceled after "they didn't get the ticket sales they wanted.
Speaker: pat mccrory
About the speaker: Pat McCrory, a Republican, was governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. Previously, he served as mayor of Charlotte.
Date: May 3, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: lgbtq;pop culture;sexuality;states
Context: a radio talk show appearance on the John Boy and Billy Big Show
Fact-check justification: McCrory was way off on the number of tickets sold, which was widely reported before his radio appearance. What's more, he used that  number to suggest that was why Springsteen canceled. In fact, the arena said the show was on the verge of selling out, not half empty. That’s not just  – ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, it’s on fire. ! UPDATE: McCrory apologizes The night after our fact-check went up, we heard back from Pat McCrory’s office about his  that only 8,000 tickets had been sold. Although he’s standing by another  he made – that he loves Springsteen’s music – McCrory admitted he was  about the sales figure and that it was the reason for the cancellation. "The governor apologizes for using the  number," wrote his spokesman, Josh Ellis, in an email to PolitiFact North Carolina. "It’s too bad Bruce Springsteen actually canceled on nearly 15,000 people at the last minute. Regardless, the governor is still keeping his Springsteen albums despite their political disagreements." https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/8810b36b-ac00-4caf-bcc4-42e9dba89087
Statement: Says Bernie Sanders was indifferent to Russia's annexation of Crimea because he felt "they have a lot of Russians anyway.
Speaker: danielle pletka
About the speaker: Danielle Pletka is senior vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
Date: July 8, 2018
Topics: foreign policy;punditfact
Context: remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Pletka said Sanders was indifferent to Russia's annexation of Crimea because he felt "they have a lot of Russians anyway." We found no  to support that assertion. To the contrary, we found that Sanders has consistently criticized the annexation since it occurred and supported measures to punish Russia. We rate the statement .
Statement: Blake Masters does not support abortion exceptions for rape and incest.
Speaker: senate majority pac
About the speaker: Senate Majority PAC is a super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate.
Date: September 12, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: abortion;government regulation;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: VoteVets and the Democratic Senate Majority PAC said Masters opposes abortion "even in the case of rape and incest." Masters supports an Arizona law, set to take effect Sept. 24, that allows abortion for any reason through 15 weeks of pregnancy but bans abortion after that, with no exceptions for rape or incest.  He also supports a federal personhood law, which is generally viewed as complete or nearly complete ban on abortion. We found no statements from Masters of support for rape and incest exceptions. We rate the statement . RELATED: Blake Masters still supports a national abortion ban, but during the third trimester RELATED: Fact-checking Blake Masters: Mark Kelly voted to legalize abortion ‘up until the moment of birth’ RELATED: Fact-checking ads in the 2022 election campaigns RELATED: Fact-checks on abortion RELATED: Many states are looking toward abortion bans with no exceptions for rape, incest
Statement: The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 bans Muslims from holding public office in the United States.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 6, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: That meant that 85 percent of about 154,000 visas available annually went to people from northern and western European lineage. President Harry Truman worried that the law was discriminatory, but Congress had enough votes to override his veto. Still, the law does not mention religion nor Muslims. And as other fact-checkers found last year, the  that it bars Muslims from holding office is . We rate it !
Statement: The top 1 percent (of income earners) paid 36.7 percent (of the taxes).  ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent.
Speaker: jim renacci
About the speaker: Jim Renacci, a Republican, is running against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in 2018. Renacci is the representative from Ohio's 16th Congressional District. He is a businessman and also the former mayor of Wadsworth. He was first elected to Congress in 2010.
Date: February 13, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: income;taxes
Context: a town hall-style meeting
Fact-check justification: More than half of those who pay neither tax are elderly. More than one third are non-elderly with yearly incomes under $20,000. The statistics Renacci cited to his constituents were accurate. The top 1 percent of the nation’s taxpayers do pay 36.9 percent of its income taxes and the top half of earners do pay 97.7 percent of the nation’s income taxes. On the -O-Meter, Renacci’s  rates .
Statement: 25 percent of all drug-related fatal vehicle accidents in the U.S. involve marijuana.
Speaker: don't let florida go to pot
About the speaker: Don't Let Florida Go To Pot is an organization opposed to Florida's Amendment 2 to legalize medical marijuana. Their website is operated by Save Our Society From Drugs and the Florida Sheriff's Association.
Date: August 5, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: drugs;health care
Context: on their website
Fact-check justification: Don’t Let Florida Go To Pot said, "25 percent of all fatal drug-related vehicle accidents in the U.S. involve marijuana." Some other research backs up that number, although the studies are limited in scope and descriptiveness. Reports usually don’t show whether marijuana use was the cause of the accident or how long ago the drug was ingested, and are limited in several other ways. Marijuana, for example, can be detected in person’s system for weeks after ingestion. The study cited by the group also only measured drivers that died and were tested for drugs, a very specific scope that doesn’t tell the whole story. Experts warned it’s not wise to imply causation among marijuana users in fatal crashes, but a 25 percent rate of involvement has been established in some studies. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says John Kitzhaber wants a sales tax so people without jobs pay taxes.
Speaker: chris dudley
About the speaker: Republican Chris Dudley is a financial adviser. He ran unsuccessfully for governor of Oregon in 2010. Dudley graduated from Yale University in 1987 with a degree in economics and political science.  He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association, including six seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers.  He retired from basketball in 2003. He was a senior vice president at M Financial and is now a partner in a small financial company in Oregon. In 1994, Dudley and his wife, Chris Love, founded The Dudley Foundation, which is dedicated to children who have diabetes.
Date: October 14, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: jobs;message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Clearly, it’s a burden to be poor in Washington. Kitzhaber never said anything about implementing a sales tax to make sure the unemployed pay into Oregon’s tax base. We rate this : The statement is not accurate and makes a  .    Comment on this item.
Statement: If Trump tries to lie in a TV ad, most networks will refuse to air it. But Facebook just cashes Trump's checks.
Speaker: elizabeth warren
About the speaker: Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
Date: October 10, 2019
Location: national
Topics: elections;legal issues
Context: a Facebook ad
Fact-check justification: Warren said, "If Trump tries to lie in a TV ad, most networks will refuse to air it. But Facebook just cashes Trump’s checks." This is a misreading of both federal and actual practice. Federal law requires broadcast networks to run political candidate ads without vetting them for lies or falsehoods. The same law does not apply to cable networks, but those networks also generally aim to run such ads, experts told us.  Warren does have a point that federal law does not apply to online social networks such as Facebook, so Facebook can take candidate ads regardless of whether they include falsehoods. But overall, it’s  to say that "most networks" will refuse to air an ad by Trump with a lie in it. We could find no  that most networks reject  candidate ads. We rate this statement .
Statement: President Joe Biden admitted having an inappropriate relationship with a minor.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 26, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;russia
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: We reached out to the White House press office for comment and did not receive a reply. A Facebook post suggests Biden admitted having an inappropriate relationship with a minor. The , shared by Russian state media, baselessly implied that Biden’s comments acknowledging a longstanding friendship with an audience member amounted to him admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a minor. The  referenced other, debunked claims that Biden is a pedophile.   We rate this  .
Statement: The United Nations sent out an email instructing staff not to use the words "invasion" or "war'" when referring to Ukraine.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 17, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that the U.N. sent an email instructing staff not to use the words "invasion" or "war" when referring to Ukraine. The email is real and instructed some U.N. staff members not to use the terms. But it came from a regional U.N. office and officials say that it did not reflect the organization’s official policy. Top U.N. leaders have used the words on social media before and around the time the email was sent. For a statement that’s partially accurate but leaves out important details, we rate this .
Statement: Unvaccinated people "are making the vaccinated people sick and die, but the unvaccinated people are not dead or sick.
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: August 5, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: But it’s clear that unvaccinated people are being hit much harder by the virus than those who have been inoculated. Seven states with some of the lowest vaccination rates — Florida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi — accounted for about half of new cases and hospitalizations in the previous week, the White House said at a briefing Aug. 5. Based on preliminary data, hospitalizations and deaths "are overwhelmingly unvaccinated people," CDC director Rochelle Walensky said at the briefing. The CDC estimated July 29 that the unvaccinated are 25 times more likely than the vaccinated to be hospitalized or to die from the virus. We rate the post .
Statement: Says Republicans supported legislation on early voting and in-person voting in 2005.
Speaker: teresa fedor
About the speaker: Teresa Fedor is a Democrat in the Ohio House of Representatives. Her district, the 47th House District, is in Northeast Ohio.
Date: August 15, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;government regulation;voting record
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Fedor’s  was that early voting and that Republicans have sought to limit was originally supported by Republicans. That contention is backed by records from the secretary of state's office and legislative voting records. Votes in the House and Senate were cast along party lines with Republicans supporting the measure. Democrats were in opposition, citing what they said were concerns over the timing of the measure. On the -O-Meter, her  rates .
Statement: Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been used for public education in the Commonwealth for kindergarten through 12th grade.
Speaker: virginia lottery
About the speaker: The Virginia Lottery was approved by state voters in 1987 and sold its first tickets the next year. In 2011, it is expected $436 million in profits which will be disbursed to K-12 education.
Date: March 2, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: Since 2008, the state’s auditor of public accounts said that the profits go into their own separate fund and are distributed directly to localities for public education. The money is detailed in the state budget line items. Just as lottery officials can’t prove their  that all lottery profits since 1999 have gone to education, nor we can we disprove it. The Lottery would lay aside doubts if it simply said all of its profits go to schools and didn’t mention a start date. We rate their  .
Statement: Event 201 "gave out stuffed souvenir coronavirus toys" to "commemorate" Novel coronavirus outbreak
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 27, 2020
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says that Event 201 in October 2019 gave out stuffed coronavirus plushies to commemorate a coronavirus outbreak that didn’t start until December 2019. Yes, these plushies are meant to represent coronavirus microbes. They were given out in October — two months before the first cases of the current 2019 coronavirus outbreak appeared — but this was not because the event’s organizers had predicted the Novel Coronavirus to come. They were distributed as part of the registration for a New York event that was centered on preparing for a new coronavirus pandemic because of the history of outbreaks. These plushies were not intended to commemorate the toll that outbreak would bring. Context is everything. We rate this  .