copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2023-11-10): Foxconn promised a $10 billion investment in Wisconsin and the creation of 13,000 jobs Foxconn originally promised to build a Generation 10.5 facility that would manufacture large LCD screens. The project was to be an investment of up to $10 billion that would deliver up to 13,000 jobs. [...] But the company pivoted away from the large screens and the 13,000 jobs never materialized. Instead, about 1,000 workers are now at the site assembling servers and other electronic products.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-07-10): In 2017, Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant, announced plans to build a massive LCD factory in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The deal, touted by then-President Donald Trump as a game-changer for U.S. manufacturing, was supposed to bring 13,000 jobs and a $10 billion investment to the state. However, the reality has been far from the promised vision. [...] While the Foxconn debacle under Trump left a bitter taste, Biden’s recent announcement about Microsoft’s $3.3 billion data center investment in Racine is a breath of fresh air. The very site where Trump grandstanded about Foxconn’s supposed $10 billion investment and 13,000 jobs is now being repurposed by Microsoft. Biden’s administration has already overseen the addition of over 700,000 manufacturing jobs. Instead of just throwing money at individual companies, they are trying to create a more favorable environment through legislation. The CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law by Biden in 2022, provides over $50 billion in incentives for companies to build semiconductor fabrication plants in the U.S.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-05-08): Microsoft will also develop an AI innovation lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a "Data Center Academy" at Gateway Technical College, where Biden is slated to announce the development, the White House release says. The academy will train 1,000 people in the community for data center and STEM jobs by 2030. The AI lab aims to work with 270 Wisconsin companies by 2030. Microsoft said it is also partnering with United Way to train more than 100,000 people across the state on generative AI. Wisconsinites may be skeptical. In 2017, former President Donald Trump announced that the Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn — which, among other things, manufactures iPhones — was building a massive LCD factory in Mount Pleasant, a small town with high unemployment. The company also promised "innovation centers" in Racine, Eau Claire, and Green Bay. Trump said Foxconn’s $10 billion investment, which would create 13,000 new jobs, would be the "eighth wonder of the world." Most of it never materialized.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2020-10-09): President Donald Trump promised a new dawn for the struggling U.S. steel industry in 2016, and the lure of new jobs in Midwestern states including Michigan helped him eke out a surprise election win. Four years later, Great Lakes Works — once among the state's largest steel plants — has shut down steelmaking operations and put 1,250 workers out of a job. A year before the June layoffs, plant owner United States Steel Corp called off a plan to invest $600 million in upgrades amid deteriorating market conditions. [...] Trump made similar 2016 campaign promises to revive the ailing coal industry by rolling back environmental regulations. But that industry's employment has dropped 9 percent since 2016, to about 46,000, as 66 coal plants —nearly one-fifth of the U.S. total — have closed. The economic losses come despite the administration's moves to ease restrictions including limits on carbon emissions and dumping coal waste into streams.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2020-10-19): Hopes were high among the employees who joined Foxconn’s Wisconsin project in the summer of 2018. In June, President Donald Trump had broken ground on an LCD factory he called "the eighth wonder of the world." The scale of the promise was indeed enormous: a $10 billion investment from the Taiwanese electronics giant, a 20 million-square-foot manufacturing complex, and, most importantly, 13,000 jobs. [...] In many ways, the Foxconn debacle in Wisconsin is the physical manifestation of the alternate reality that has defined the Trump administration. Trump promised to bring back manufacturing, found a billionaire eager to play along, and now for three years the people of Wisconsin have been told to expect an LCD factory that plainly is not there. Into the gap between appearance and reality fell people’s jobs, homes, and livelihoods.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-06-22): News Roundup: Robin Vos and Michael Gableman’s Partisan Investigation
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-08-29): During a Wednesday campaign event in De Pere, Wisconsin, Vance said he plans to tell workers at the International Association of Fire Fighters conference he wants workers to "have safe jobs" and livable wages "without being destroyed by our public leadership." [...] Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes will be critical to the election. President Biden won the state by about 20,000 votes in 2020. Former President Trump won the state by about 22,700 votes in 2016. [...] Trump was visiting the cemetery following a wreath laying to honor 13 US military service members who were killed at Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate. Monday marked three years since the tragedy.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Apr 29th, 2019 by Matt RothschildTrump Comes to Wisconsin to Sell Record of Broken Promises [...] Jun 28th, 2018 by Gov. Scott WalkerFoxconn and U.S. Leaders Celebrate Groundbreaking of Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park $10 Billion Investment in U.S. High-Tech Industry Will Create More than 13,000 Jobs in Production of Next Generation Display Technology and Building of AI 8K+5G Ecosystem [...] Jul 26th, 2017 by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin VosGlobal High-Tech Manufacturer Foxconn Announces $10 Billion Investment, Will Create 13,000 Jobs in New Wisconsin Campus
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2021-02-05): "Almost a year later, we’re still far from back to normal. The honest truth is this: Things will get worse before they get better," he said Friday, as U.S. deaths climbed closer to 400,000. The global toll has now reached 2 million. [...] Evers has sounded the same themes for months during twice-weekly news conferences to little avail. He warned in his speech that deaths could double to 5,000 by January if something doesn't change.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-08-27): That’s because Taiwanese company Foxconn planned to build a massive flat screen manufacturing facility not far away, employing as many as 13,000 workers Perez thought might frequent his restaurant. But Perez’s dreams, and FoxConn’s plans, didn’t meet reality. Today, FoxConn’s scaled-back southern Wisconsin facility employs fewer than 1,000 people. [...] Nick Ramos, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: [...] "A vote for Trump is a vote to save Wisconsin and is a vote to save your country."
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2022-04-29): Muhle, Department of Wisconsin. (Applause) [...] He's here to make sure that the two of us get back to Wisconsin so that we can get back to our work, helping our military families take care of each other while we're on deployments. [...] President Donald Trump, together with all of you, we are forging a new century of
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2020-10-22): Wisconsin Report Confirms Foxconn's So-Called LCD Factory Isn't Real (theverge.com) 109
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-06-19): It was also Trump’s first visit to Racine County since 2018, when he joined then-Gov. Scott Walker at a groundbreaking for the Foxconn development that Trump promised would be the "eighth wonder of the world." Despite a deal giving the company $700 million in local taxpayer funds and a prospective $3 billion in tax credits, Foxconn never achieved its promise to employ 13,000 people. Trump made no mention of Foxconn Tuesday. [...] The Democratic Party bought time on an electronic billboard visible to southbound drivers through Racine County on Interstate 94. Alternating messages played on Trump’s "horrible" comment and contrasted the loss of jobs in Wisconsin when Trump was in office against job growth under Biden. [...] Tuesday was also Trump’s first visit to Wisconsin since he was convicted of 34 felony counts by a New York City jury for falsifying business records to disguise hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to influence the 2016 presidential election outcome.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2019-02-16): We know from Foxconn-filed documents that they project three-fourths of their labor force to be hourly workers. We also know that the project was sold by Gov. Walker and his administration as a source of "13,000 family supporting" jobs. While this initial assembly plant can’t be projected across the entire future Foxconn complex, we know that $14/hour is a far cry from the promised average annual salary of $54,000, far enough that instead of family-supporting, it would likely qualify families for food stamps, housing assistance and state-supported health care. When asked where you could apply for an assembler job a worker gave me the name of a staffing company. "I went through their Chicago office," he said, an early indicator that contradicted the booster promises that the workforce would be almost entirely Wisconsinite, even though the factory site is just a nine-minute drive from the Illinois border. The premise of large numbers of Wisconsin residents making $54,000 a year is fundamental to the state of Wisconsin’s payback calendar for the $3 billion it gave Foxconn, which was originally, and highly optimistically, calculated to be about 25 years. In fact, all the workers I talked to were being employed by temporary agencies rather than Foxconn directly, a pattern we’d seen in their other U.S. locales.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2024-06-18): Recap: Donald Trump holds rally in Racine, his third Wisconsin rally of 2024 [...] Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker and legislative Republicans in 2017 signed into law billions in taxpayer-funded incentives for Foxconn to build a LCD panel factory in Racine County with the promise of 13,000 jobs. [...] "Trump's policies did not bring the promised jobs to Wisconsin. In fact, we lost jobs. A second term could be even more disastrous," Democratic state Rep. Greta Neubauer of Racine said at the press conference at the local Democratic Party headquarters.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2017-08-07): Foxconn doesn’t keep its promises. Foxconn has a history of leaving others at the altar when they don’t deliver high enough on the dowry. In 2013, Pennsylvania offered $30 million to create 500 jobs there. There was fanfare not unlike the breathlessness of Scott Walker this week here. But the Pennsylvania plant never happened. And Foxconn will disappoint you wherever you are in the world. They’ve come up short in Vietnam and Brazil too. It’s entirely possible that Foxconn will use the Wisconsin deal as the baseline for the extortion of other states that dare to go higher. Two hundred and thirty thousand per job. The $3 billion in taxpayer handouts to Foxconn would come out to $230,000 per job even if they keep their promise and create a total of 13,000 jobs here over 15 years. That’s an average subsidy of $15,000 to $19,000 per job per year. That makes Wisconsin a world class sucker because the average nationally for similar projects is all of $2,500 per job. There’s desperate and then there’s pathetic. Have we no self-respect at all? Guess not.
Claim: Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…” (Gwen Moore, 2020-02-14)
Evidence (2021-07-01): Wisconsin is one of the key states that will decide who will be our next president. It’s also a state where Republican lawmakers have been making it harder to vote for about a decade. New restrictions, including a strict voter ID law, have been especially hard on Black voters. Then the pandemic hit Milwaukee. As lawmakers forced Wisconsin’s spring election to happen on time and in person, the state’s largest Black population was getting hammered by the coronavirus. Reporter Ike Sriskandarajah takes us to his home state to look at the effect of the virus and voting reforms and what that might mean for the presidential election, for a story reported in partnership with APM Reports. [...] Wisconsin was one of those so called trifecta states where all branches of government were now controlled by Republicans so that they could then redistrict with complete authority. [...] Dee Hall at Wisconsin Watch agrees.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-05): After a monthslong selection process, a Minnesota commission chose a new design for the state’s flag that was adopted May 11. The flag includes a star and blue coloring, as does Somalia’s national flag, but Somalia’s flag was not an inspiration, said a Minnesota man whose flag concept inspired the final design. The Minnesota flag has an eight-pointed star, while Somalia’s star is five-pointed. The dark blue surrounding the star on the Minnesota flag represents the state’s shape and the light blue on the right represents the state’s abundant lakes and rivers.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-21): Wave of Fact-Checks Follows Renewed Tim Walz Minnesota, Somalia Flag Claims [...] "Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s selection as the Democratic vice-presidential contender spurred false suggestions on social media, that he changed the state’s flag to resemble that of Somalia." [...] -- Snopes.com found the claim that "Governor Tim Walz changed the state flag of Minnesota closesly resemble the national flag of Somalia" to be FALSE.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2023-12-22): Minnesota is getting a new state flag, and right-wing accounts on X, including End Wokeness and pro-Trump influencer Fleccas, claim that the winning design purposefully resembles a Somali flag. The inaccurate posts claim the new flag closely resembled that of Puntland state, a region of northeastern Somalia that was declared autonomous in 1998. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the U.S., and possibly the most significant Somali diaspora community in the world outside of East Africa. Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, represents the 5th Congressional District, which encompasses much of greater Minneapolis. [...] "The new Minnesota flag was not designed based on the Somali flag," a spokesperson for the Minnesota Historical Society told The Dispatch Fact Check. "The designer who submitted the design concept, who is from Luverne, Minnesota, cited many symbols and references of Minnesota as his design inspiration. The Commission further refined the design to represent important features of Minnesota including the North Star, the shape of the State of Minnesota, and blue representing the waters of Minnesota."
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-07): According to the claim, which was supported by several other social media users, Walz altered the design of the Minnesota state flag in 2024 to resemble the national flag of Somalia. These critics implied that he had transformed Minnesota into a "New Somalia" and suggested he would do the same to the country if elected. The posts soon went viral and has left many confused. However, these claims are completely false as Walz did not change Minnesota's state flag to resemble Somalia's. Here's what actually occurred: [...] Also, there is a reason behind Somalia's reference in this wild claim. Minnesota is home to over 60,000 Somali Americans, the largest such community in the country.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-07): A day before Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was named the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, false rumors spread on social media suggesting he changed the state flag to resemble Somalia's. This conspiracy theory has since been debunked. Minnesota did introduce a new state flag and seal in May, replacing a previous design that Native Americans criticized for evoking painful memories of conquest and displacement. [...] A Timeline of Key Posts about Walz Flag Conspiracy 14 May 2024: The Daily Wire posts a video on TikTok alleging that the new Minnesota state flag purposefully resembles the Somali flag (link). [...] - Fueled BLM Riots in 2020 - Rioters looted and wrecked Minneapolis - Change MN state flag to resemble Somalia's - 1.4 millions views and author has ~570,000 followers 6 Aug 2024: Walz is announced as running mate. The number of posts per day on peaks at ~60,200 posts on Twitter about Walz and the Somali flag.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2023-12-20): After months of debate and thousands of submissions, Minnesota has unveiled a new flag to replace a design many Native Americans considered offensive. [...] The flag was approved by Minnesota's State Emblems Redesign Commission after an 11-1 vote. The commission also approved a new state seal that features a loon, the state bird. [...] Minnesota is home to a large Somali diaspora, and is represented in Congress by Somali-born representative Ilhan Omar, but officials have said that any similarity is a coincidence.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Why Did VP Pick Tim Walz Change ‘Problematic’ Minnesota State Flag? [...] KEY HIGHLIGHTS - Governor Tim Walz’s redesign of the Minnesota flag has been controversial, with comparisons to flags from Somalia. [...] The Minnesota State Emblems Redesign Commission was created by Governor Walz to design a new flag. The commission was charged with resolving the problems related to the previous design. It was made up of four non-voting and 13 voting members. Walz called the existing flag "problematic" and mentioned that a new design was required to represent Minnesota's increasing diversity.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-05): Tim Walz didn’t pick Minnesota’s new flag, and its designer said it wasn’t inspired by Somalia’s [...] An Aug. 5 X post said, "Kamala Harris’s VP choice, Tim Walz, is the governor who just changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag." It included a video of Walz introducing the new flag and an image of several regional Somali flags from a Wikipedia page. [...] An X post claims Walz changed the Minnesota flag to resemble Somalia’s flag. But Walz played no role in a state commission’s monthslong process to choose a new design for the state flag and logo, other than appointing three commission members.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-21): 1. An Aug. 5 X post said Walz "just changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag." False. The Somalia national flag has a light-blue background with a five-pointed white star in the center. The new Minnesota state flag, adopted May 11, features a white, eight-pointed star on a dark blue background on the left, and light blue coloring on the right. Much of the misinformation is based on proposed Minnesota flag designs and not on the final design. Although both flags have stars and similar colors, Somalia’s flag did not inspire Minnesota’s, Andrew Prekker, a Minnesota man whose flag concept inspired the final design, told PolitiFact. And Walz wasn’t involved in the new flag’s design.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-08): An Aug. 5 X post said, "Kamala Harris’s VP choice, Tim Walz, is the governor who just changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag." It included a video of Walz introducing the new flag and an image of several regional Somali flags from a Wikipedia page. [...] Since Harris announced Aug. 6 that Walz would join the Democratic ticket, we found multiple social media posts reviving false claims about the new Minnesota flag and its supposed resemblances to Somalia flags. [...] An X post claims Walz changed the Minnesota flag to resemble Somalia’s flag. But Walz played no role in a state commission’s monthslong process to choose a new design for the state flag and logo, other than appointing three commission members.
Claim: Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” (X post, 2024-08-05)
Evidence (2024-08-06): According to some posts, Walz changed the design of the Minnesota state flag in 2024 to one closely resembling the national flag of Somalia, implying that he had turned Minnesota into some kind of "New Somalia" and would do the same to the nation if elected. These claims are demonstrably false — Walz did not change the state flag of Minnesota to resemble that of Somalia. Here's what actually happened: [...] The new Minnesota flag was not designed based on the Somali flag. The designer who submitted the design concept, who is from Luverne, Minnesota, cited many symbols and references of Minnesota as his design inspiration. The Commission further refined the design to represent important features of Minnesota including the North Star, the shape of the State of Minnesota, and blue representing the waters of Minnesota.