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Statement: The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: January 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The Committee intends that funds be used for grants to States for testing activities, and the prevention of STD infections like chlamydia that have been increasing dramatically in recent years." We're not going to wade into the debate over whether the spending is appropriate for an economic stimulus bill. We're only ruling on whether there is $335 million in the House version of the bill for STD prevention programs. We note that while the proposed $335 million in the House bill includes prevention programs for STDs, it also includes prevention programs HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis prevention programs, which are not always transmitted sexually. So we find the  .
Statement: Video shows helicopters in Ukraine "being picked off in ambush - Short range air-to-air missile
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 18, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A recent video shared on Facebook that’s described as showing "helicopters being picked off in ambush — short range air-to-air missile" is also from the game.   This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) We found the footage on YouTube searching for the Facebook post description and "Arma 3."  But the YouTube video makes it clear that this is a video game.   We rate claims that it’s real footage of combat .
Statement: Says "Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?
Speaker: greg walden
About the speaker: Greg Walden is a U.S. representative from Oregon. He is leading the transition as Republicans take power in the 112th Congress.
Date: January 29, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: environment;climate change;energy;jobs;workers
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: In his statement, Walden seems absolute even while there is no clarification that the 20,000 figure refers to "job years," which is much different than the way "job" is commonly understood. Walden has a somewhat stronger case on the Oregon job ,  because TransCanada mentions Oregon by name as one state that would produce equipment needed for the project. As for the number 800, however, it is at best a guess. That’s a pipeline full of uncertainty. We rate this  : It contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: A number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between Democrats and Republicans. They don't know who's going to win this race.
Speaker: kendrick meek
About the speaker: Kendrick Meek is a former U.S. Representative for Congressional District 17 in Miami, serving from 2003 to 2011. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: January 10, 2010
Location: florida
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: That number, however, appears to be just one. The overwhelming majority of pundits who attempt to predict election outcomes all have Republicans favored in the Sunshine State.  Maybe the ratings will change. But they haven't yet. We rate Meek's  .
Statement: The U.S. Justice Department "conservatively estimated that guns are used 1.5 million times per year to save lives.
Speaker: andy biggs
About the speaker: Rep. Andy Biggs represents Arizona's 5th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. 
Date: June 2, 2022
Topics: guns
Context: an opening statement at a House hearing
Fact-check justification: Biggs said that the Justice Department "conservatively estimated that guns are used 1.5 million times per year to save lives." The Justice Department published a report with the 1.5 million figure, but that was an estimate of the number of times people used guns to protect themselves, their families or their property. The author said the research did not find that the use was to save lives. Another prominent gun researcher said he knows of no "scientifically based estimates of lives saved." A review of this kind of gun research concluded that there is no conclusive  that defensive gun use reduces harm to people. The Justice Department’s article did not say what Biggs stated. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That's what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week.
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: October 30, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: Albuquerque
Fact-check justification: Trump said Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in, and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week." Clinton has never said that, nor is this a realistic possibility. Clinton has spoken in favor of bring in 65,000 Syrian refugees, but that’s nowhere near hundreds of millions of people, and not in a week. Trump’s  is not accurate and makes a  . We rate it ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/3b2f59e3-9ac5-4f65-b8af-7b6968817f72
Statement: Says of disclosing his $20,000 speech about Syria, "there was no hiding. I released it.
Speaker: dennis kucinich
About the speaker: Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 2018. Kucinich was elected to Congress in 1996. He previously served as a member of the city council and as mayor in Cleveland, the city where he was born in 1946. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western University. He has been married since 2005 to Elizabeth Harper. He was married twice before and has one child. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 25, 2008.
Date: April 19, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;elections;foreign policy
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Regarding his $20,000 speech about Syria, Kucinich said, "there was no hiding. I released it." But Kucinich initially listed "paid speeches" on his campaign financial disclosure form with no further detail. When the Ohio Ethics Commission asked him to identify the source of payments, Kucinich provided the commission with a list of the entities that paid him to give speeches, including $20,000 from the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees. So Kucinich initially omitted the information, but disclosed it when asked to do so by a state commission. He also admitted that he made an error by not initially disclosing the source of who paid him for the speech. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;states;women
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Romney said a survey by the University at Albany after he staffed his Cabinet and senior staff concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America." Twenty-one states actually employed more women in senior roles in 2003. Rather, Massachusetts had the best percentage in the country, something that earned the state positive recognition. But that’s a small clarification. Meanwhile, that narrow Albany survey reflected the number of female appointees shortly after Romney took office. A broader study that looked at all of Romney’s appointments and the percentage of women before and after his term found that his effort flagged halfway through his administration — and that the overall percentage of women in executive positions actually dropped. Still, Romney fairly accurately characterized a survey that ranked his state No. 1. We rate his  .
Statement: 32,000 votes for David Perdue "disappeared" during the Georgia Senate runoff election.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 5, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: We reached out to CNN for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. The Facebook post contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . RELATED:   How will the Senate work under a 50-50 split?
Statement: Congressional Budget Office "says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!
Speaker: john cornyn
About the speaker: John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.
Date: August 24, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a Twitter message
Fact-check justification: On average, 44 percent of workers who were unemployed in the first half of 2011 had been jobless for more than six months. Moreover, in mid-2011, 31 percent of unemployed workers had been jobless for at least a year. Those rates of long-term unemployment are unprecedented in the post-World War II era." We’re not judging here who’s responsible for the nation’s unemployment troubles, but how accurately Cornyn echoed the CBO’s projection. His statement rates .
Statement: In England, "official data shows children are up to 52 times more likely to die following COVID-19 vaccination than unvaccinated children.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 29, 2022
Topics: children;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A blog post said that in England, "official data shows children are up to 52 times more likely to die following COVID-19 vaccination than unvaccinated children." There is no  that links the COVID-19 vaccine to an increase in deaths among children in England. We rate this  . RELATED: Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data RELATED: COVID-19 vaccines did not cause a 366% increase in miscarriages, as article claims
Statement: Says El Chapo "stated in court" that James Comey helped launder $150 million "cartel money for Pelosi.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 14, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post on Facebook says Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán took the stand and said James Comey helped launder $150 million "cartel money" for Nancy Pelosi. This  is unfounded. EGuzmán did not take the stand at his trial, and therefore could not have testified that his cartel gave millions to Comey, Pelosi or any American official.  This rumor is !
Statement: Proposed Senate bill would give FDA power to approve dietary supplements and "ban herbs.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 25, 2022
Topics: food safety;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that the proposed Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022 would give the FDA new power to regulate and approve dietary supplements, and is an attempt to ban herbal medicines. The FDA has had regulatory authority over dietary supplements since 1994, and this bill does not expand its powers. Nor does it grant the FDA the power to approve a product before it goes to market. The bill would require supplement makers to register new products with the FDA and provide information about them. The FDA would use that information to create an online database of such products that consumers could also reference. We rate this .
Statement: The NAACP wants" the Confederate Memorial Carving "sandblasted off Stone Mountain.
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: September 18, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification:   A viral image states that the NAACP wants" the Confederate Memorial Carving "sandblasted off Stone Mountain." The Atlanta NAACP advocates for removing the carving, though not necessarily by sandblasting. The national NAACP opposes Confederate tribute imagery but has not stated a position specifically on the carving.  We rate the post .
Statement: The COVID-19 vaccines were linked to the deaths of 80 Canadian doctors.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: December 10, 2022
Topics: health care;science;coronavirus
Context: a video on Instagram
Fact-check justification: A person in an Instagram video repeated Druthers’  that the deaths of 80 Canadian doctors were linked to the COVID-19 vaccines.  There’s no  to support that . Local news reports and public obituaries show that many of the physicians’ deaths were linked to illnesses or accidents. We rate this  . RELATED: 'Died Suddenly' repeats debunked COVID-19 vaccine claims, promotes conspiracy theory
Statement: (Raphael) Warnock's camp was shut down for failing to report five findings of child abuse and neglect.
Speaker: herschel walker
About the speaker: Herschel Walker is a GOP candidate for the 2022 Senate race in Georgia. He is a former NFL player.
Date: November 16, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Walker claimed that "Warnock’s camp was shut down for failing to report five findings of child abuse and neglect." The camp was shut down for one summer, in 2003, partly because of unreported allegations of abuse. But no findings of abuse were cited in the shutdown. Warnock was the pastor of the church that ran the camp, but he did not direct it. The ad is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it . RELATED: Herschel Walker’s record on the -O-Meter RELATED: Raphael Warnock’s record on the -O-Meter
Statement: A strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline.
Speaker: joni ernst
About the speaker: Joni Ernst is a Republican senator from Iowa. A former state senator, she won the 2014 GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat and defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in November. She was sworn into Congress in January 2015, replacing long-time Senator Tom Harkin.
Date: January 20, 2015
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;infrastructure
Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Ernst said that "a strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline. She’s right that between 56 percent and 60 percent of the public has consistently supported the project when asked outright whether it should be built. However, one poll found public concern about building it before reviews are complete -- a stance more in tune with Obama than with Republican leaders. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it . EDITOR’S NOTE, Jan. 21, 2015 : After this article appeared, a reader pointed out another poll that had addressed public support for the Keystone XL pipeline that had been released the same day we published the story. A NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll taken in January 2015 asked respondents whether they favored or opposed building the pipeline, or whether they did "not know enough about this topic to have an opinion." The inclusion of that last phrase increased the "don’t know" response beyond that found in most other polls, to 37 percent. Of those who did have an opinion, 41 percent favored building Keystone XL and 20 percent opposed it. Because that's generally in line with what we found in the other polls, our original rating of  stands.
Statement: Nike and Lil Nas X are launching "demonic shoes" containing human blood.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 27, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: "Nike did not design or release these shoes and we do not endorse them." The shoes are not a new release by the corporation, but a custom adaptation of an existing Nike product: Nike Air Max 97s.   This  might sound outlandish, but most of it accurately describes a new limited edition shoe released by Lil Nas X and MSCHF. However, Nike isn’t involved, and the company has sought to distance itself from the project.   .
Statement: Barack Hussein Obama will ... force courts to accept Islamic Sharia law in domestic disputes.
Speaker: government is not god pac
About the speaker: Government Is Not God is a political action committee for social conservatives founded in 1992 by William J. Murray who is currently the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition. The mission of Government Is Not God - PAC is the election to Congress of men and women who hold conservative beliefs on both moral and economic issues.
Date: September 23, 2012
Location: national
Topics: islam;message machine 2012
Context: a newspaper ad
Fact-check justification: The ad from the Government is not God PAC said Obama "will move America to force courts to accept Islamic sharia law in domestic disputes." The PAC offered no  -- and we couldn’t find any either. The idea itself runs counter to the constitutional separation of powers and individual protections defined in the Bill of Rights. We rate the statement .
Statement: Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt.
Speaker: anna little
About the speaker: Anna Little is a former mayor of Highlands Borough and a former Monmouth County freeholder. A Republican, Little ran unsuccessfully in 2010 for the Sixth Congressional District seat. She is running again for the same seat this November.
Date: December 29, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a message on her campaign website
Fact-check justification: On her campaign website, Little claimed Menendez "just voted" for a debt ceiling increase and that he "has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt." But Menendez voted against the most recent debt ceiling increase, and he has a mixed record in regard to past legislative actions that contributed to the higher debt. For example, he rejected tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, but supported the stimulus bill in 2009 and tax cuts in December 2010. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Barack Obama "pays for every dime" of his spending plans.
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 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: Oxford, Miss
Fact-check justification: As for Obama's  that he "pays for every dime" of his spending plans: If the deficit were to stay the same or grow only modestly as a result of Obama's policies, we would give him a better rating. But independent groups agree that the deficit will grow significantly under an Obama administration, and that's an important yardsitck. We give Obama credit for the level of detail many of his proposals have when it comes to spending and cost. But Obama doesn't pay "for every dime" of his proposals. We rate his statement .
Statement: (Jeff) Atwater's bank was so weak that just a few months ago it was shut down by the FDIC.
Speaker: loranne ausley
About the speaker: Loranne Ausley, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, campaigned to be Florida Chief Financial Officer and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: August 12, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;financial regulation;housing;message machine 2010
Context: a web ad
Fact-check justification: We can, however, rule on the specific  in Ausley's ad. She said, "Atwater's bank was so weak that just a few months ago it was shut down by the FDIC." At the time, it wasn't Atwater's bank. It may have been his former bank, or best yet, it was a bank where he used to work as an executive vice president. For the  timeline, we find the  .