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Statement: Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget.
Speaker: thomas brown
About the speaker: Thomas Brown, a Democrat, is the sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia.
Date: November 7, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Woods also defended the quality of the work, which has been a concern of some DeKalb parents who closely watch the district’s spending. He did say some subcontractors have been late in meeting deadlines. The DeKalb school district’s spreadsheet and what we saw ourselves backs up much of Thomas Brown’s argument. The recession has apparently helped lower bid prices -- even though a few projects were still seriously over budget. We rate Brown’s  as .
Statement: Video shows Elon Musk saying "I just unbanned President Trump's Twitter and I already have crybaby liberals threatening to quit Twitter.
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: May 4, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post sharing the video was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) The footage in the video comes from an April 2022 interview Musk gave while appearing at the TED2022 conference. But he didn’t mention Trump, liberals or the Parrot app , which describes itself as "the world’s first AI celebrity voice maker that sounds real." We rate claims this video shows Musk really saying this .
Statement: When electric cars get in accidents, they explode, they catch fire very very badly because of the lithium batteries.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 20, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post says, "When electric cars get in accidents, they explode, they catch fire very very badly because of the lithium batteries." Electric vehicles are not more likely than gas-powered cars to catch fire in crashes. Tesla, which makes more than half of the electric vehicles sold in the U.S., reports five car fires per billion miles driven, compared with 55 fires per billion miles driven in gas-powered cars. We rate this  .  RELATED : Electric vehicle fires can be extinguished with water
Statement: Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We've done, actually, a lot.
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: August 4, 2019
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: Morristown, N.J
Fact-check justification: Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," Trump said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot." Trump has banned bump stocks, supported a bipartisan effort to improve the background-check database, and prioritized gun-related prosecutions. This number does compare favorably to what some other recent presidents have accomplished. At the same time, Trump’s comment ignores that his administration has pursued multiple efforts to expand gun laws and regulations or to block efforts to tighten them.  We rate the statement .
Statement: By eliminating the public intervenor's office, "I was the first one to fire Kathleen Falk.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: June 4, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: In making the remark, he did so in the context of abolishing the office, so he’s on target there. In a colloquial sense, "fired" may fit because Thompson knew Falk would no longer be intervenor due to his actions. But he went too far in leaving the impression Falk was out on the street. And Falk was never removed from any other job we know of, so Thompson misfired with "first to fire." We rate the  .
Statement: Our Navy has shrunk from more than 500 ships in 1991 to 275 in 2016.
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: January 20, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: military
Context: a statement on the White House website
Fact-check justification: The Trump White House website says that "our Navy has shrunk from more than 500 ships in 1991 to 275 in 2016." Trump’s numbers are correct according to a document from the Navy, which shows the annual size of the fleet. However, sheer numbers do not tell the full story. The ships of today are more powerful than those in 1991. The United States remains the world's most powerful Navy. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama "naive" for saying he was would "sit down and talk to the Iranians" during the 2008 Democratic primary.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: January 17, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that Clinton called Obama "naive" for saying he was would "sit down and talk to the Iranians" during the 2008 Democratic primary. This is a simplified description of the back-and-forth between Clinton and Obama. Both candidates said they supported more diplomacy between Iran and the United States than what the Bush administration had pursued. Clinton’s position differed from Obama’s in that she supported a slower approach, starting with lower-level talks. Obama, on the other hand, said he would be willing to meet with Iranian leaders in his first year as president, without preconditions. It was Obama’s approach to diplomacy with Iran that she called naive, not the idea of pursuing diplomatic relations in general. Ultimately, Obama did not meet himself with Iranian leaders in his first year. Sanders’ statement is partially accurate but takes things out of context, so we rate it .
Statement: Says that each year, about 25,000 American women become pregnant through rape or incest.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: July 15, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;crime
Context: an opinion article
Fact-check justification: Davis said, "Each year, about 25,000 American women ... become pregnant through rape or incest." She offered no backup for the incest part of the statement, and we found none. Estimates of rape-related pregnancies per year vary from 3,200 to 50,000. Davis’ number, despite dating from 1998, fits inside that range, but there is too much disagreement for us -- or Davis -- to pin any one statistic as the definitive number of rape-related pregnancies per year. We rate her statement as .
Statement: Haitian migrants took an implausible route to Texas-Mexico border area.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 20, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: ​​Our ruling A Facebook post suggests that Haitian migrants took an implausible route across the Gulf of Mexico to arrive at the Texas-Mexico border. The Haitians who are arriving in Texas did not take a direct route from Haiti. They are people who left their country following the 2010 earthquake and went to South America to find jobs in Brazil and Chile. When opportunities dried up in those countries and conditions worsened, they began traveling north through Latin America toward Mexico. We rate this statement .
Statement: Public-employee unions spent $30 million in Wisconsin unsuccessfully trying to flip the state Senate to Democratic control.
Speaker: reince priebus
About the speaker: Reince Priebus was the first chief of staff to President Donald Trump, replaced by John Kelly in July 2017. Priebus was previously chairman of the Republican National Committee, a post he assumed in 2011. He is also the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was an unsuccessful Wisconsin state Senate candidate in 2004. He is a Kenosha, Wis., native and lawyer.
Date: August 18, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance;elections;state budget
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Priebus claimed public-employee unions poured $30 million into the state Senate recalls in Wisconsin. But the publicly disclosed spending reports that he cites -- by our account as well as groups affiliated with the left and right -- put total spending by pro-Democrat groups at $15 million or less. And that includes campaigning by liberal groups not connected to unions. Based on available information, even if he meant to say all pro-Democratic spending he was way off. We rate his  .
Statement: When Sen. Kelly Loeffler heard about the COVID-19 risk, she "focused on her own portfolio" and "profited from the pandemic.
Speaker: raphael warnock
About the speaker: The Rev. Raphael Warnock is a U.S. Senator from Georgia elected in a special runoff election in January 2021 and running for re-election in 2022. Warnock, a Democrat, served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, located in Atlanta. The church's former pastors include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Date: October 28, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: ethics;financial regulation;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Warnock claimed Loeffler "focused on her own portfolio" after hearing about the COVID-19 threat and "profited from the pandemic," suggesting that she used non-public information about the coronavirus outbreak to make beneficial stock trades. Loeffler denied using inside information, and Senate Ethics Committee and Justice Department investigations found she did not violate laws or Senate rules barring insider trading.  Her disclosures and other news reports show that on the day she received a private coronavirus briefing and in the weeks weeks afterward, there were stock trades made on her behalf involving companies that would be affected by the pandemic, and she benefited from those trades.  We rate the statement . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: After Patrick Murphy's charges were dropped, Murphy's father gave the prosecutor a huge campaign donation.
Speaker: allen west
About the speaker: Allen West announced in July 2021 that he is running for the Republican primary for Texas governor. He served for about a year as chairman of the Texas Republican Party, stepping down in June 2021. West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. Lieutenant Colonel West retired from the Army in 2004 after 22 years of service.
Date: October 25, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: campaign finance;candidate biography
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: West’s ad says "After Patrick Murphy’s charges were dropped, Murphy’s father gave the prosecutor a huge campaign donation." There is a sliver of  here: After the 2003 case against Murphy was dropped, his father’s companies gave $1,500 to Fernandez Rundle’s re-election campaign. Murphy’s father also gave $500 to Fernandez Rundle in 2000. But there are two significant problems with this . First, we wouldn’t call $1,500 in donations "huge." They weren’t huge for Fernandez Rundle, who raised about $800,000 in her 2004 campaign. And the amount wasn’t huge for the companies, either. They had given five-figure donations to the Republican Party of Florida in the past -- and $50,000 to Sink since then. West’s campaign emphasized that the ad simply lays out the facts for the viewers to decide. But the ad’s images of shadowy meetings and large piles of cash leave viewers with the impression that there was an exchange of campaign donations for Murphy’s case being dropped. We see no  to prove that connection. We rate this ad .
Statement: The partial government shutdown in early 2019 affected "18,000 federal employees in West Virginia.
Speaker: joe manchin
About the speaker: Joe Manchin is a U.S. senator from West Virginia. The former governor of West Virginia won a special election in November 2010 to complete the balance of the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s term.
Date: January 2, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: federal budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Manchin tweeted that the partial government shutdown in early 2019 affected "18,000 federal employees in West Virginia." Manchin is close on the number of federal workers in the state. However, it’s important to note that not all of those federal workers in West Virginia were either furloughed or required to work without pay; those employed by agencies with valid spending bills were working and getting paid as normal. We rate the statement .
Statement: Southwest Airlines announce they will no longer terminate employees over the mandate.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 13, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that Southwest Airlines will no longer fire its employees who choose to remain unvaccinated against COVID-19. The company announced in early October that employees must be vaccinated or seek an exemption from the vaccine to continue employment. However, the company’s CEO later said that no one will be fired over the vaccine mandate, and that the airline will encourage unvaccinated workers to seek an "accommodation."  Employees whose exemptions have not been processed or approved by Dec. 8 will remain employed, and the company will adhere to COVID-19 safety protocols as it encourages its unvaccinated workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the company’s spokesperson and its CEO. We rate this  .
Statement: Clintons, Powell, and Hunter Biden have already undergone military tribunals.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 25, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) Military tribunals come up in the QAnon conspiracy theory , which maintains without  that powerful cabal of politicians and celebrities run a global child sex trafficking ring. In the video in this post, the woman speaking refers to the cabal and makes other comments that sound rooted in QAnon.   But there’s nothing to corroborate the  that former President Bill Clinton, former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell, and Hunter Biden, son of the president, have been subject to military tribunals.   We rate this post !
Statement: Says Donald Trump said he intends "to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling" during the campaign.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: November 16, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: environment
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Nelson said that Trump said during the campaign he intends "to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling." In official campaign and transition team statements, Trump repeatedly has called for making it easier to drill for oil. He called for opening offshore areas and reducing "unnecessary restrictions." Since he won, Trump’s administration has reiterated its pro-drilling stance. He hasn't been so clear about his specific plans for Florida. In one interview, he appeared skeptical about expanding offshore drilling closer to Florida. He is limited in the extent that he could expand drilling anywhere near Florida’s coasts because current law bans it within at least 125 miles.   With that caveat, we rate Nelson’s point .
Statement: Says Sen. Thom Tillis "doesn't think restaurant workers should have to wash their hands.
Speaker: majority forward
About the speaker: PAC affiliated with Senate Majority PAC
Date: July 24, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The ad says Tillis "doesn’t think restaurant workers should have to wash their hands." He never said restaurant workers shouldn’t wash their hands. In context, he was saying he didn’t think the government needed to regulate handwashing at restaurants, because customers would stop going if that happened. He later reversed that statement, saying "of course" it needs to be regulated.  What’s more, his 2015 comments had nothing to do with the pandemic. During the pandemic, Tillis has held up hand washing as an important public response. The ad is , so we rate it .
Statement: Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state.
Speaker: barbara buono
About the speaker:  Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001.
Date: April 30, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In a news release issued Monday, Buono offered this statistic about the Badger State: "Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state." According to federal labor statistics, Buono’s  is accurate. From March 2011 to March 2012, Wisconsin lost 23,900 jobs, or 0.9 percent, placing the state in last place for both measures. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Americans not vaccinated before 2022 will be put in camps
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 20, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: Instagram
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that Biden announced that Americans not vaccinated by 2022 will be placed in "quarantine camps." The  derives from an article that is labeled "satirical" — but it is being shared on social media without that context or disclaimer. !
Statement: President Joe Biden "never had a" COVID-19 "plan.
Speaker: save america pac
About the speaker: Save America PAC is a leadership political action committee affiliated with former president Donald Trump.
Date: December 29, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;ad watch;coronavirus
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: An ad from the Trump-aligned Save America PAC claimed that "Biden never had a plan" for COVID-19. The ad seized on a recent Biden remark about the pandemic that "there is no federal solution." Biden’s comment was in the context that the fight is not merely a federal one, but is carried out at the state and local levels, as well. Moreover, as a candidate and as president, Biden has advanced a number of plans to counter the virus. We rate the  . PolitiFact staff researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Under Charlie Crist, Florida lost 825,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: December 11, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Scott is right about the grim jobless figures: The state’s employment picture worsened almost as soon as Crist became governor and did not let up. But Scott misses the mark for implying the state’s recession was the result of a poor handling by Crist. Florida’s economy tanked largely as a result of the housing market crisis, a tornado of issues over which Crist had little to no control. We rate Scott’s statement . Update: This fact-check was updated shortly after publication to include comment from the governor's office.
Statement: The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.
Speaker: sheldon whitehouse
About the speaker: Sheldon Whitehouse is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.
Date: October 23, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: He said Medicare would be gone in 10 years. Under the latest version of the Ryan plan, it wouldn’t. We rate Whitehouse's statement  . (Get updates from PolitiFact Rhode Island on Twitter: @politifactri . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: As a Member of Congress, Chris Murphy "was raking in $1 million in salary.
Speaker: linda mcmahon
About the speaker: Linda McMahon, the 2012 Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut, is the former chief executive officer of WWE, the professional wrestling organization.
Date: October 11, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The method for calculating Murphy’s salary was disclosed on the screen, but it is in such small type -- and it was calculated in such an unorthodox way -- that the explanation is greatly outweighed by the narration and the visuals. We’ve never heard of anyone refer to their "salary" as six cumulative years of earnings. By phrasing it this way, the ad is pulling a fast one. We rate the statement .