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Statement: Wisconsin's technical college graduates "have a higher employment rate and starting salaries" than four-year college graduates nationwide.
Speaker: michael rosen
About the speaker: Michael Rosen is an economics instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College. He  is also president of the union representing MATC faculty and staff. He also is a blogger.
Date: May 19, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;jobs
Context: a blog posting
Fact-check justification: Rosen said Wisconsin’s technical college graduates have a higher employment rate and starting salaries than four-year college graduates nationally. On the first , a direct comparison of 2010 grads can’t be made because a complete breakdown wasn’t available, but more 2010 tech college grads found work than the 2006 through 2010 four-year grads.    On the second , Rosen admitted he was . We would also note that the tech college data comes from an unscientific survey and the four-year grads data was from a scientific survey. We don’t know how Rosen would score this all out on an economics quiz, but on our scale it rates a .
Statement: The Spanish High Court has announced (COVID-19) is a bio weapon with a patent, not a virus.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 22, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a public Facebook group
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claimed that Spain’s supreme court announced that COVID-19 is a patented biological weapon. This   is based on a distortion of events that took place in Spain. The country’s highest court said no such thing. The post lacks  for its  that the Chinese created the virus that causes COVID-19 as a bioweapon, and there was no patent for the virus before the pandemic started.  We rate the post .
Statement: There are more young black males involved in the criminal justice system than there are in higher education.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: April 22, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: census;criminal justice;education
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Carson did not provide  that backs his . The latest federal figures we found show 75,000 black males in that age group who were in prison in 2013 and in the range of 690,000 to 779,000 who were in college. We are not aware of any recent figures for the number of black males ages 18 to 24 arrested, in jail, or on probation or parole at any particular time. If figures do surface, we’ll re-evaluate this item, but we rate Carson’s  .   To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent.
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: November 30, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;poverty;workers
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: When we asked Kennickell whether there was some reason to prefer one study over another, he responded that they all have their own merits. "There are many definitions of income that may be appropriate for various purposes," he said. So, we're left with three studies that vary slightly but which all point in the same general direction -- showing the top 1 percent earning between 21.4 and 23.5 percent of the national income in 2007. The studies also show that this share exceeds what the entire bottom 50 percent of the United States earns. So we rate Sanders' statement .
Statement: The seven nations identified in Donald Trump's travel ban were "identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists.
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: January 29, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But nine other countries or regions are on the safe havens list, too. Our rating Priebus said Trump's executive order that temporarily bans nearly all travel to the United States from seven nations were "identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists." Prompted by concerns about terrorism, the Obama administration did put those seven countries -- Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen -- on a list that makes travel into the United States somewhat more difficult. But that list doesn’t necessarily identify the seven as being the most dangerous. For a statement is partially accurate but takes things out of context, our rating is .
Statement: Children don't seem to be getting this virus
Speaker: janel brandtjen
About the speaker: Janel Brandtjen is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, a Republican representing District 22. She took office in January 2015.
Date: April 28, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Brandtjen claimed "Children don’t seem to be getting this virus." Hundreds of kids in Wisconsin, and tens of thousands in the U.S., have fallen ill with COVID-19.   That said, children do not seem to be contracting the virus as much, or as seriously, as the rest of the population. That’s an important nuance, particularly amid such a contentious debate.    We rate Brandtjen’s  .
Statement: Over 1,000 people were denied a ballot on Election Day" in the 2016 North Carolina primaries.
Speaker: terry van duyn
About the speaker: Terry Van Duyn (pronounced "Van Dine") is a state senator from Buncome County, home to Asheville.
Date: November 27, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Van Duyn said "over 1,000 people were denied a ballot on election day" in the 2016 primary. She’s got a point that more than 1,000 people showed up to vote and that their votes ultimately didn’t count. But her  gives the impression that would-be voters were turned away by election workers, which isn’t the case. They were offered provisional ballots and didn’t take the necessary steps to make them count. Her  in the committee is partly accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, so we rate it .
Statement: There are no photos of "Biden in the Oval Office" from after early 2021.
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: October 23, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A photo taken by New York Times photographer Doug Mills on Sept. 15 of Biden meeting there with negotiators from railway companies and unions.   A Getty Images photo of Biden meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the Oval Office on July12.   Hundreds of Associated Press images of Biden in the Oval Office, or arriving or departing from the Oval Office, in the past year.   And, in an Oct. 16 White House Instagram post , Biden and his dog, Commander, in the Oval Office. We rate claims that there are no images showing Biden in the Oval Office since early 2021 !
Statement: $21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon.
Speaker: alexandria ocasio-cortez
About the speaker: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, was elected to New York's 14th Congressional district seat in November 2018.
Date: December 2, 2018
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare;military
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, "$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon." The comparison is specious. In fact, the data suggests that the Pentagon hasn’t spent $21 trillion in the entire history of the United States. Rather, the $21 trillion figure refers to a collection of transactions in which the same dollar could have been transferred between internal accounts multiple times. As such, it’s comparing apples and oranges to say that "Pentagon accounting errors" would have been equivalent to two-thirds of Medicare for All’s projected 10-year costs. We rate the statement .
Statement: Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: November 4, 2015
Location: national
Topics: history
Context: an edited Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Both the initial and the revised versions of Carson’s  are far off base. About half or more of the declaration’s signers had held elective office previously, a reality that severely undercuts Carson’s overall point that the drafting of the Declaration of Independence showed how a lack of political experience can produce landmark political achievements. As for his later addition of "federal" to the comment, this makes the  nonsensical, since there was no federal government prior to the signing of the declaration. We rate Carson’s  .
Statement: No other Northeastern state has passed a photo ID law
Speaker: rhode island aclu
About the speaker: The Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union is an affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. The national ACLU, founded in the 1920s, is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to upholding and protecting the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Date: May 4, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: elections
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Connecticut, too, has in the past considered photo identification, but has so far rejected the idea. In its attempt to portray Rhode Island as remarkably isolated on the issue, the ACLU has omitted some relevant facts: other states in the country are increasingly turning to photo ID laws; the majority of new bills under consideration across the country would require photo IDs; and two of Rhode Island’s neighbors in New England are considering such mandates. But the ACLU is factually correct when it states that no other state in the Northeast requires photo ID. That’s why our judges (whose IDs, incidentally, we did not request) voted to rate the ACLU  . (To comment or offer your own ruling, visit us on Facebook .)
Statement: Video shows the "Grim Reaper" appearing at King Charles III's coronation.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 7, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) That wasn’t the grim reaper darkening the new king’s door, Newsweek reported . Westminster Abbey identified the person as a verger, a member of the abbey community who helps with religious services.   Vergers also lead tours at the abbey, and one can be seen pictured on the Abbey’s website wearing an outfit akin to the one that appears in the coronation video.   We rate claims that the video shows the Grim Reaper .
Statement: Health professionals are being "urged" to call vaginas "bonus holes" to avoid offending transgender or nonbinary patients.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 9, 2023
Topics: lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram reel
Fact-check justification: "Women are our main audience at Jo’s, however some trans men and/or nonbinary people have cervixes and to reduce as many cervical cancers as possible it is important that we also provide information for this group and the health professionals who support them," the spokesperson said. This is in line with health care industry guidance on how to treat LGBTQ+ patients. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health recommends in its latest Standards of Care guidelines, published September 2022, that health care professionals discuss with transgender and gender diverse people what language or terminology they prefer. PolitiFact found no mention of the "bonus hole" terminology in guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center . We rate the  that health care professionals are being "urged to call vaginas ‘bonus holes’" .
Statement: A banner with a swastika, "Trump" and "Pence" is from a Michigan coronavirus protest.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 17, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post containing a photo of a man carrying a banner that bears a swastika and the last names of the president and the vice president is not from a demonstration in Lansing, Mich., that protested stay-at-home coronavirus orders. We rate the post .
Statement: An economic impact study found that for every $1 invested in pre-K in Pennsylvania, a total of $1.79 is generated in total spending within the state.
Speaker: jim kenney
About the speaker: Mayor of Philadelphia and former City Councilman
Date: February 17, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: education
Context: a speech before the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
Fact-check justification: Mayor Jim Kenney cited a study saying every dollar spent on pre-k education in Pennsylvania would yield $1.79 for the state economy. Comcast’s David L. Cohen noted the same study in an editorial.   While studies and experts agree the economic impact of quality pre-kindergarten programs could be substantial, the study pointed out by Kenney is about shorter-term effects on the state’s output. Taxes required to pay for the pre-K program could lessen the economic effect, adding up to less than an extra 79 cents per dollar spent.   But research and expert opinion illustrate quality pre-K likely will have a substantial, positive effect on the local economy.   We rule the  .
Statement: I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care.
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: December 11, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget
Context: a video advertisement
Fact-check justification: Buono claimed, "I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care." The nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services confirms a $4.481 billion decrease in spending from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2010. The recession had much to do with the cuts, with revenues plummeting from fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year 2010 and spending adjusted accordingly. Also, the federal government, not Buono, protected education and health care with $2 billion in stimulus money. While it’s  that Buono’s chairmanship gave her experience in budget cutting, she alone isn’t responsible for cutting $4.5 billion. It was a team effort. And the last word on cuts, funding and balanced budgets belongs to the governor. For those reasons, we rate her statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: More mail-in ballots were counted in Lancaster County, Pa., than were returned.
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: November 4, 2020
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Lancaster County elections board website showed that, in all, 273,527 ballots had been cast by mail or in person. The majority of those votes went to President Donald Trump, who leads Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with 156,938 votes to Biden’s 112,536.    We rate the  that more mail-in ballots were counted in Lancaster County that were cast . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Donald Trump arrested" July 5.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 5, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Trump wasn’t arrested in July.   He surrendered in June in a classified documents case after he was indicted on federal charges in Miami, and he made his first court appearance in a different case in New York in April in connection with alleged hush money payments to a former adult film star.   He has pleaded not guilty in both cases.   In July, however, Trump could be found campaigning — not in custody.   We rate the  he was arrested on July 5 .
Statement: We're the only developed nation in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave.
Speaker: claire mccaskill
About the speaker: Claire McCaskill is a Democrat and a U.S. Senator from Missouri.
Date: August 22, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: children;women
Context: Monett, Mo
Fact-check justification: Senator McCaskill said the United States is the only developed nation without paid maternity leave. Based on OECD and ILO data, the United States is the only industrialized nation without paid maternity leave. Yet, as previously reported in PolitiFact, some nations with paid maternity leave exclude certain groups of workers, meaning it isn’t quite universal. In the same sense, the United States has some states that do mandate paid maternity leave and parents can take unpaid time off after a child is born or adopted, although there isn’t a national law. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Johns Hopkins virologist "James Kelly" said the COVID-19 vaccine "discriminates, divides, and judges society as it is.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 1, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  Searching for part of the quote online, we found no results that supported the  that a Johns Hopkins virologist named James Kelly — or anyone with Johns Hopkins Medicine — said this. We didn’t find a James Kelly searching among doctors on Johns Hopkins’ website , or anything to lend credence to the post’s  that a Johns Hopkins doctor made the statement shared there.   We did find a 2018 Baltimore Sun obituary for Dr. James H. Kelly,  who in 1985 was named associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical School.   But we found nothing to corroborate this post.   We rate it .
Statement: Gas prices have gone up $2 since Obama took office.
Speaker: michael williams
About the speaker: Michael Williams is a former member of the Texas Railroad Commission. He lost his 2012 bid to be the Republican nominee for a U.S. House seat. He was later appointed the state's education commissioner.
Date: April 26, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: energy;gas prices
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The relationship is a correlation, and other factors contribute to public perceptions of a president." Our take? Gas costs $2 more per gallon than it did when Obama took office; in the past 35 years, no other president saw such a price surge by this point of his presidency. However, Williams errs by implying the president is at fault; key factors driving gas prices are beyond a president’s control. We rate the statement .
Statement: When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps.
Speaker: brad blakeman
About the speaker: Bradley A. Blakeman is a former adviser to George W. Bush. He now appears regularly as a political analyst on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.
Date: October 31, 2013
Topics: poverty;pundits;welfare;punditfact
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Blakeman said that 90 percent of the farm bill went to food stamps. The more accurate figure is 80 percent in the legislation currently under discussion in Congress. The 10 percentage points difference doesn’t change Blakeman’s essential point, but it is enough to bring our rating down a notch. We rate the  .
Statement: Right now, the (Congressional Budget Office) says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year.
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 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;health care
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification:     Romney said, "Right now, the (Congressional Budget Office) says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year." That number is cherry-picked, and many of those 20 million will be leaving employer coverage voluntarily for better options. Romney also ignores that under the status quo, many more people today "lose" coverage than even the highest, cherry-picked CBO estimate. We rate his statement .