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Statement: In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work.
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: October 20, 2008
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: And that would be , because we are only talking about McCain's opposition to a single piece of legislation that would have eased the statute of limitations for bringing a lawsuit over unequal pay — weighed against McCain's numerous pronouncements of support for equal pay for equal work. On the other hand, one could argue that the woman is simply stating an opinion about McCain's vote on the Ledbetter bill. McCain did oppose it. And one could certainly argue the bill was designed to help women get equal pay for equal work. And so we rule the statement .
Statement: Since the reopening of (Georgia), we've seen our COVID rate skyrocket by 40%.
Speaker: stacey abrams
About the speaker: Stacey Abrams, a Democrat and national voting rights activist, is running for Georgia governor in 2022. She lost the Georgia governor's race in 2018. She is a former House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly and State Representative for the 84th House District.
Date: May 7, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus
Context: an interview with Mother Jones
Fact-check justification: Abrams said that after Georgia’s governor reopened certain business activities, the COVID-19 rate rose 40%. In reality, the period after reopening had 12% fewer cases. Even if the policy shift did cause infections to rise, it wouldn’t appear until several weeks later. Abrams spoke before that effect would show up in the data. We rate this  .
Statement: When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years.
Speaker: jim kenney
About the speaker: Mayor of Philadelphia and former City Councilman
Date: March 10, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: public safety
Context: a budget address to City Council
Fact-check justification: Our Ruling Kenney used the efforts in Hunting Park as an example of why City Council should authorize more funds to revitalize parks and recreation centers throughout the city. He said "when the city and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years." The Fairmount Park Conservancy confirmed that it -- along with the city and private donors -- invested about $5 million in revitalizing the park. Vandenburg, who conducted the study, said crime did in fact drop by 89 percent within a half-mile radius over the next three years. We rule the  .
Statement: Clinton Foundation cargo ship raided at Port of Baltimore" caught smuggling 460 undocumented immigrants.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 11, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: But the port also picked up on this  story the same day it appeared, tweeting out : A story was published on websites mentioning the Port of Baltimore & a cargo ship raid. It is . None of the events it cites took place. We checked the cargo manifest on this  news and found the  didn’t hold water. We rate it !
Statement: Says a Michigan funeral home employee was "cremated by mistake while taking a nap.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 25, 2020
Topics: crime
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)   That’s because it seems the story originated on this website , which describes itself as a "satire web publication." (The story has since been deleted from the site.) Reposted on the-daily-star.com , however, there’s no such context cluing in readers that this didn’t actually happen.   We rate it .
Statement: An audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Ariz., "is confirming the rumors that real ballots have a special watermark.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 29, 2021
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Ariz., "is confirming the rumors that real ballots have a special watermark" — suggesting that  ballots could have been cast in an effort to prevent Trump from being re-elected president. Maricopa County says it does not use watermarks on its ballots.  No  has emerged that the audit, led by a firm headed up by a man who was part of the "stop the steal" conspiracy theories about the election, has found any  of watermarks. We rate the post .
Statement: The "Health Care Compact bill would end Medicare's guaranteed benefit for Tennessee's Medicare recipients and shift management of the federal health care plan to the state's TennCare program.
Speaker: tennessee democratic party
About the speaker: The Tennessee Democratic Party headquarters are in Nashville.
Date: August 17, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: health care;medicaid;medicare
Context: a version specifically cri
Fact-check justification: If the federal government turned Medicare over to the state Legislature's oversight with no strings attached, as conceivable under the bill, we're not ready to predict what would happen. But the possibility of endangered beneficiaries would be there. Indeed, if the original release language was changed to use the word 'could' instead of 'would,' the party would have a more defensible statement. But we set out to evaluate the original release, not the revised version and not to engage in semantic speculation over what difference the change of a word might have made. The Democrats' declaration that the Health Care Compact bill would eliminate Medicare's guaranteed benefit for Tennessee seniors is .
Statement: Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, "you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create.
Speaker: douglas holtz-eakin
About the speaker: Top economic adviser for the McCain campaign.
Date: September 16, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;technology
Context: a conversation with reporters
Fact-check justification: In 2004, McCain made headlines when, as chairman of the Commerce Committee, he pushed for stricter steroids policies in professional sports. McCain's appetite for deregulation has by and large made him a friend of the telecommunications industry (witness his campaign contributions), but the wireless revolution largely emerged on its own. Congress acted mainly to regulate or deregulate it, and to sell the airwaves as a public asset. For a chief policy adviser to hold up a BlackBerry and suggest McCain was a major player in fostering its development – even from a regulatory perspective – is more than a stretch. We rule the Holtz-Eakin comment .
Statement: When two judges said it was illegal to fire a teacher" who viewed pornography at school, "Tony Evers worked with Republicans and Democrats and changed the law.
Speaker: a stronger wisconsin
About the speaker: A Stronger Wisconsin, which is backed by the Democratic Governors Association, is supporting Democrat Tony Evers in the 2018 race for governor of Wisconsin.
Date: August 20, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;education;legal issues;sexuality
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: So, Evers was involved  — as the narrator says in the ad  — but was not the leading force, as the words on the screen . A Stronger Wisconsin says: "When two judges said it was illegal to fire a teacher" who viewed pornography at school, "Tony Evers worked with Republicans and Democrats and changed the law." Judges ruled that an arbitrator was within her rights to overturn the firing, but they did not conclude that the firing was illegal. Meanwhile, Evers supported the change in state law, but was not the leading force. For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is .
Statement: Video shows Elon Musk talking about what "every failed leader" he met had in common.
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: January 11, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) In the interview from which this video clip was taken, Musk says none of these things. The audio clip in the Instagram post is fabricated.   The original footage, shared on YouTube by TED in May 2017, shows Musk talking about the future of transportation with TED’s head curator, Chris Anderson .   We rate claims that the video clip in the Instagram post is authentic .
Statement: We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9% to 15.2%" over the last eight years.
Speaker: chris taylor
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Chris Taylor, a Madison Democrat, was elected to the Assembly in a special election in August 2011. An attorney, she is the former public policy director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
Date: May 21, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Taylor claimed "We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9% to 15.2%" over the last eight years. The Legislative Audit Bureau said the adult inmate population has increased in the last eight years, from 21,941 in 2011 to 23,675 in 2018, or by 7.9%. And Corrections Department numbers show she is correct about the staffing vacancies as well. We rate the  .
Statement: Says the Steele dossier "was responsible for starting" Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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 23, 2018
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said the Steele dossier "was responsible for starting" Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia. The Steele dossier did not trigger Mueller’s investigation. It was information from Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that set the probe in motion. Also, Mueller did not take up the investigation until roughly a year after the triggering event. We rate this .
Statement: Greta Thunberg said the world would end on June 21, 2023.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 21, 2023
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: That means that two things are  in these posts. First, Thunberg’s original tweet didn’t predict that the world would end on June 21, 2023, as social media posts suggested. Rather, it said that a scientist had warned of humanity’s eventual demise if humans didn’t stop using fossil fuels within five years.   Second, that scientist later said reports were  that he claimed climate change will wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years. We rate claims that Thunberg predicted humanity would be wiped out on June 21, 2023,  .
Statement: A $300 million stimulus allocation to Wisconsin "has led to the creation of tens of thousands of jobs in every corner of this state.
Speaker: tom nelson
About the speaker: In 2022, Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. He was the Democratic nominee running in 2016 for the U.S. House seat held by Republican Reid Ribble. He has served as the Outagamie County executive since 2011. In 2010, Nelson won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor but lost in the general election. Nelson served in the Wisconsin Assembly from 2004 to 2010, and the last two years was the Assembly majority leader.
Date: September 7, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: stimulus
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Where does all of this leave us? Nelson stated that an initial $300 million in stimulus money for road projects created tens of thousands of jobs in Wisconsin. As , he turns to much broader measures -- jobs created or saved, all stimulus spending, the state budget and stimulus money. But the actual jobs figure from the initial allotment  exceeds 1,200 -- and even that is a mix of jobs created and jobs saved. We rate Nelson’s statement .
Statement: A Boeing 757 didn't fly into the Pentagon on 9/11.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 11, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Sean Boger recalled being in a control tower for the Pentagon’s helipad when he saw the plane flying low, clipping a streetlamp and hitting the building about 10 seconds later. Sheila Moody, who was working her first day at the Pentagon, said the plane hitting the building ounded like "an explosion, like a bomb. "  We rate claims that a plane didn’t crash into the Pentagon on 9/11 ! RELATED : 9/11 conspiracy theories misconstrue how World Trade Center buildings collapsed RELATED: Plane debris was found at Pentagon after 9/11
Statement: Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included  "$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: December 14, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: agriculture;federal budget
Context: a statement on the U.S. Senate floor
Fact-check justification: Citing a database, the Arizona senator said an earmark request had been made for $277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin. The database shows the request was made by Obey, the outgoing congressman. He doesn’t dispute it. (But it’s entirely possible his office considers us a pest on this issue.) We rate McCain’s statement .
Statement: In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock.
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: November 28, 2007
Location: national
Topics: families
Context: St. Petersburg, Fla
Fact-check justification: That's the highest number for all races. The lowest: 15.5 percent for Asian and Pacific-Islander. About 46 percent of Hispanic children were born to unmarried women, and 24.5 percent of white children. The figure is 36 percent for all races. Preliminary numbers for 2005 show similar percentages.
Statement: We're No. 1 in child hunger.
Speaker: carol morgan
About the speaker: Carol Morgan is a private-practice career counselor and writer from Lubbock. She was a 2010 Democratic candidate for the Texas House.
Date: June 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: children
Context: a speech at the Texas Democratic convention
Fact-check justification: Texas was a close second, with 24.3 percent of its children in food-insecure households. Our sense: It’s most reasonable to stack up the states based on their rates of children in hunger, rather than raw numbers. Based on its rate, Texas was No. 1 in child hunger from 2005 through 2007. It placed a close second to Arkansas in the latest study, but that wasn’t public when Morgan spoke. We rate her convention statement .
Statement: I'm running against a groundhog. He saw his shadow on the primary day, and no one has seen him since.
Speaker: jeff weems
About the speaker: Jeff Weems was the Democratic party's 2010 nominee for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission. He practices law in Houston representing operating companies, energy service companies, royalty and land owners, according to his campaign website.
Date: June 26, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;energy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Can I stop there?" We informed Weems of the activities summarized by Porter's campaign. He stood by his convention critique. Our suss: Porter has kept a low profile, but that does not a Punxsutawney candidate make. The Democrat's statement is .
Statement: Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. … It didn't get covered
Speaker: kellyanne conway
About the speaker: Kellyane Conway is a White House counselor to President Donald Trump. Previously, she was a Republican strategist and pollster who served as campaign manager for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Date: February 2, 2017
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: There was no massacre
Fact-check justification: Conway said that "two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. … It didn't get covered." Put simply, there was no massacre. While Conway admitted her  the following morning -- and we're happy she did -- it's important to make sure the record is crystal clear. We rate the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/8550f4d4-9408-4f33-899d-ec9ca31437a9
Statement: The Israelis "gave up 1,000 terrorists in return for one sergeant.
Speaker: charles krauthammer
About the speaker: Charles Krauthammer is a syndicated columnist and a contributor to Fox News.
Date: June 4, 2014
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism;punditfact
Context: remarks on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Krauthammer said Israel "gave up 1000 terrorists in return for one sergeant." In 2011, Israel freed 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Sgt. Gilad Shalit, who had been held captive by Hamas since 2006. While we can't confirm that all 1,027 were terrorists, some definitely were, and the definition of "terrorist" is often fuzzy. We rate this statement .
Statement: Photo shows a Chinese restaurant sign that says "F--- DeSantis.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 5, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: You can "make your own Chinese restaurant sign" on the website atom.smasher.org.   We made one . The restaurant is called "PolitiFact," and the marquee is much less hostile to DeSantis. It says: "Fact-checking rules, misinformation drools. "  We rate claims that this sign is authentic !
Statement: Says Donald Trump said at the Republican convention, "I alone can fix it.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: July 28, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a speech at the Democratic convention
Fact-check justification: Clinton said Trump said at the Republican convention "I alone can fix it." Trump did say those words when explaining why he thinks he is the best candidate for president. However, Clinton omitted that in other portions of his speech he showed a willingness to work with partners including prosecutors, law enforcement and foreign allies. We rate this  .
Statement: They have been preparing for mass extinction with these death caskets" in Madison, Ga.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 9, 2023
Location: georgia
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The clip is from a video that’s circulated for years on the internet. A longer YouTube clip posted 13 years ago falsely claimed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is headquartered in nearby Atlanta, owned the plastic bins.   A  2008 report from the Madison-based newspaper the Morgan County Citizen explained that Vantage leased the land to store the vaults, which are meant to protect interred caskets and keep the ground from caving in at burial. It’s common practice for people to arrange their funerals before they die, including selecting a casket and burial vault. We rate the  that "they have been preparing for mass extinction with these death caskets" in Madison, Georgia, !