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Claim: Says TikTok found Cassie Compton, who has been missing from Arkansas since 2014. (Facebook posts, 2021-01-14)
Evidence (2021-01-14): Is Missing Arkansas Girl Cassie Compton Alive? Viral TikTok Offers Unbelievable Break In The Case [...] Cassie Compton, a missing girl from Arkansas, vanished seven years ago when she was 16 years old, but now she might be alive — and it’s all because she was potentially spotted in a TikTok video. [...] Compton went missing in 2014 after she told her mom she was going to the store, but she never returned. "There has not been anything, any leads, as far as what happened to her," Genevie Strickland, assistant director for the Morgan Nick Foundation, said.
Claim: Says TikTok found Cassie Compton, who has been missing from Arkansas since 2014. (Facebook posts, 2021-01-14)
Evidence (2021-09-14): Facebook users are once again circulating a TikTok video that supposedly shows missing person Cassie Kay Compton, who was 15 when she was last seen on Sept. 14, 2014, in Stuttgart, Ark. [...] We rate the claim that a TikTok video shows missing person Cassie Compton FALSE, based on our research. The FBI and Stuttgart police concluded the video does not show Compton after investigating it and speaking with the woman in the video. - ABC 7 KATV, Jan. 15, Police: Woman in TikTok video not missing Arkansas girl Cassie Compton - John Eric Mahfouz, Sept. 10, Phone interview with USA TODAY - National Missing and Unidentified Persons Registry, accessed Sept. 10, Cassie Kay Compton - Stuttgart Daily Leader, Jan. 14, TikTok video goes viral after some say it may depict missing teen Cassie Compton - Stuttgart Daily Leader, Jan. 15, Authorities confirm girl in viral TikTok video is not Cassie Compton - THV 11, Jan. 15, Police say woman in viral TikTok video is not missing Arkansas girl - Times Record, Sep. 13, 2020, Cassie Compton missing from Stuttgart for 6 years
Claim: Says TikTok found Cassie Compton, who has been missing from Arkansas since 2014. (Facebook posts, 2021-01-14)
Evidence (2024-03-31): The Disturbing Disappearance of Cassie Kay Compton **Information is obtained from the Where are they? Podcast and other online resources as cited** On September 14, 2014, Cassie Compton, a 15-year-old girl from Stuttgart, Arkansas, was hanging out at her friend Hunter’s house- her home away from home. [...] Where is Cassie Kay Compton?
Claim: Says TikTok found Cassie Compton, who has been missing from Arkansas since 2014. (Facebook posts, 2021-01-14)
Evidence (2021-01-14): Report: Woman claims to be subject of viral TikTok video and not missing Arkansas woman Cassie Compton STUTTGART, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) - In a new video message posted Thursday afternoon on Instagram, a woman has said she is not the person in a viral video, saying she is not Cassie Compton, according to content partner KARK. [...] KARK reported earlier Thursday that federal authorities have confirmed they are investigating if the video was of missing Arkansas girl Cassie Compton.
Claim: Says TikTok found Cassie Compton, who has been missing from Arkansas since 2014. (Facebook posts, 2021-01-14)
Evidence (2021-01-15): Authorities have confirmed the girl in a viral TikTok video is not missing Stuttgart teen Cassie Compton. [...] "After a (sic) 1,000 plus phone calls, as many emails and messages, it was determined thru the combined efforts of SPD, the FBI & ASP that the mystery girl believed to be Cassie Compton in a Tik-Tok video was not actually her. The FBI were able to locate the girl, identify her and interview her. We appreciate everyone’s help and assistance." [...] She became the subject of national attention on Wednesday, Jan. 13 when a TikTok video went viral after users began commenting that the girl in the video resembled Cassie Compton. Compton was 15 when she went missing from Stuttgart. She was last heard from on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, and her disappearance remains a mystery.
Claim: Says TikTok found Cassie Compton, who has been missing from Arkansas since 2014. (Facebook posts, 2021-01-14)
Evidence (2023-12-21): Young Woman In TikTok Video Goes Viral After Users Theorize She Might Be Arkansas Teen Missing Since 2014 Facebook and TikTok users became worried after watching a video that features a girl with blackened eyes who bears a resemblance to missing teen Cassie Compton. A woman named Haley Grace Phillips says it was actually her. [...] "We appreciate all the tips and information about Cassie Compton," the department stated on Thursday. "We have the video from TikTok and have seen the Facebook posts. We are working diligently with the Arkansas State Police and FBI right now. Since this is still an open investigation we can’t release any further information right now."
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2020-02-21): Sanders is well known for eschewing campaign contributions from big-business interests. But there have been instances where lobbyists representing corporations or industry groups have donated to his presidential and Senate campaigns.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2020-02-28): 55 Things You Need to Know About Bernie Sanders [...] Senator Bernie Sanders has enjoyed a remarkably long career as the ultimate political outsider. His signature message of income inequality, delivered with a metronomic, almost numbing consistency, has often seemed like the only thing one needed to know about him—that is, until he surged to the forefront of the 2020 Democratic field. Now, just days before a slew of wildly consequential primaries from South Carolina on Saturday to California and Texas and beyond on Super Tuesday, people suddenly are discovering or revisiting with a new interest a trove of revealing Bernie-ana. What do voters need to know? Here, culled from books, extensive media coverage and the archives of POLITICO Magazine, is a quick primer on the life of Bernard Sanders, born on September 8, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Polish immigrant, a democratic socialist who also happens to be a millionaire, and the leader of a progressive movement that has convulsed a party with which he long has battled from inside and out.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2019-03-14): In a statement to CNN, Sanders campaign spokesman Josh Orton said, "Throughout his career, Bernie has fought on the side of working people and against the influence of both the powerful ultra-rich and giant corporations who seek only to further their own greed. The record shows that from the very beginning, Bernie anticipated and worked to combat the rise of a billionaire ruling class and the exploding power of Wall Street and multinational corporations. Whether fighting to lower energy prices or expand access to capital for local development, Bernie’s first priority has always been – and will always be – defending the interests of working people across the country." [...] In his career as a US Senator, Sanders has backed away from such ardent calls for nationalization, but maintained similar rhetoric on wealth inequality. In one 2015 speech, he said he didn’t want the government to take over private business or "own the means of production." But his early views are notable because they are far to the left of the current Democratic party and most candidates running for office. [...] Efforts to push for public ownership of Vermont’s utilities like telephone and electric companies played prominently in Sanders’ political career in the 1970s. Sanders ran for Senate in a January 1972 in the special election and governor in that year’s November election, registering in the low single digits in both races.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2023-02-02): Pharmaceutical and health product companies poured over a record $372 million into lobbying Congress and federal agencies last year, outspending every other industry and making up over half of all health sector lobbying efforts, OpenSecrets’ analysis of recent federal disclosure filings revealed. The industry suffered a legislative defeat, however, when a bill curtailing rising drug costs was signed into law. [...] This move was echoed by Moderna’s CEO in January, who expressed their intention to raise the price of its COVID vaccine to as much as $130 per dose. The new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has long expressed his dislike for drug companies and signaled the committee’s new work will focus on drug prices, urged the company to refrain from any price increases. Moderna Inc.’s lobbying expenditures were $690,000 in 2022. [...] Pharma Lobbyists take on The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2018-06-27): Many candidates have tried to run as progressive insurgents in the 2018 primaries, positioning themselves as inheritors of the outsider mantle that Sanders ran on in the 2016 Presidential primaries. Most have lost. ("Bernie’s army in disarray," the headline of a recent piece in Politico said.) The Sanders movement has sometimes seemed as pedantic and single-minded as its hero, fixated on the influence of billionaires. While Ocasio-Cortez borrowed some of Sanders’s language and policy ideas—she stressed her opposition to luxury-real-estate development and refused to take corporate money; in an interview she insisted that Crowley "runs a profoundly corrupt political machine"—she also embodied a more varied conflict with power. She gave interviews to the Cut and Vogue ("Vogue is in on the revolution!" she tweeted, appending a purple heart), and travelled, last week, to the new tent camp for migrant children in Tornillo, Texas. Dressed all in white and ringed by television cameras, she spoke through a fence to a silent security guard about the "human-rights abuses" going on inside. Many progressives have experienced the Trump era as an emergency, but the terms of that emergency—the sources of the stress—are not the same for everyone. Ocasio-Cortez spoke sometimes of intersectionality.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2024-10-06): In addition to his civil rights activism during the 1960s and 1970s,[26] Sanders was active in several peace and antiwar movements while attending the University of Chicago, becoming a member of the Student Peace Union. He applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War; his application was eventually turned down, by which point he was too old to be drafted. Although he opposed the war, Sanders never criticized those who fought in it and has strongly supported veterans' benefits throughout his political career.[34][35] He also was briefly an organizer with the United Packinghouse Workers of America while in Chicago.[23] He also worked on the reelection campaign of Leon Despres, a prominent Chicago alderman who opposed then-mayor Richard J. Daley's Democratic Party machine. Sanders said that he spent much of his student years reading history, sociology, psychology, and the works of political authors, from Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Dewey, Karl Marx, and Erich Fromm—"reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day."[2][36] [...] - ^ Bradner, Eric (April 30, 2015). "Sanders doesn't want billionaires' backing". CNN. Archived from the original on October 16, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2019-04-04): Enough is enough. With Bernie’s Corporate Accountability and Democracy Plan, we will give workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for, break up corrupt corporate mergers and monopolies, and finally make corporations pay their fair share. When Bernie is president, we’re going to put an end to the corporate greed ruining our country once and for all. [...] The Trump administration has been plagued by corruption and its approvals of mergers and acquisitions have been no different. We have seen the administration approve mergers after CEOs and investors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars at Trump hotels, despite knowing that it will result in thousands of workers losing their jobs. This is unacceptable and under Bernie’s administration, these mergers will be reviewed and, when necessary, undone. [...] Working together, a Bernie Sanders administration will end a rigged tax code and political system that allows large corporations to shift their profits to the Cayman Islands to avoid paying American taxes and to ship jobs to China and other low-wage countries to avoid paying American wages.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2016-02-04): We would also note by that by the standard used here, holding elective office (as Sanders has done for most of the last 35 years as a mayor, a U.S. representative, and a U.S. senator) is as much a "9 to 5" job as any other. [...] This statement is not literally true, as during his tenure in Congress Sanders has sponsored three bills that were enacted, two of which were rather slight matters involving the naming of USPS facilities, and one of which was the Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 (which provided "for an increase in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans"). [...] Bernie Sanders might equally be considered a "winner" for persevering at his goal of achieving a political career long after others might have given up, and for succeeding at that effort despite prolonged financial hardship. Unlike many others, Sanders might also be lauded for maintaining a rather plain life and not having enriched himself in public service (especially since candidates at the other end of the financial spectrum are frequently criticized for being "out of touch with the common man").
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2024-02-08): It is no secret that lobbying groups like AIPAC and the far-right Christians United for Israel lobby for unquestioning support for Israel’s right-wing government. They spend enormous sums of money to influence our political system. [...] But let’s be clear: It’s certainly not just issues relating to Israel where this money warps our politics. The Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris, and others spend tens of millions on lobbying and political influence, both licit and less so. We have no clearer example of this than the Trump White House, where these countries brazenly bought influence. [...] Instead, the US is reportedly focused on protecting the patent monopolies of hugely profitable pharmaceutical companies, even in the face of a future pandemic. Might that have something to do with the $8.5 billion drug companies have spent on lobbying over the past 25 years? Or the $700 million they’ve given in campaign contributions to political candidates?
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2019-10-07): Lobbyists pan Sanders proposal to end corporate donations for party conventions Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) new proposal to prohibit corporate funding of party conventions drew sharp criticism from lobbyists on Monday, with some arguing the move would discourage cities from offering to host the quadrennial gatherings. [...] "Bernie Sanders is building an unprecedented grassroots campaign to end corruption, and as a nominee would host a grassroots conventions for delegates, party members, teachers, workers, nurses, farmers, and students — corporate lobbyists will never buy influence with Bernie, period," Josh Orton, Sanders’s national policy director, said in a statement.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2016-02-17): Bernie Sanders Took Money From Big Lobbying Groups, Returned Corporate PAC Donations Bernie Sanders says he’s never taken money from corporate political action committees. An International Business Times review of federal elections records supports that claim — but Sanders has taken PAC money from business-linked groups that lobby Congress. [...] As Hillary Clinton faces scrutiny for the campaign donations and speaking fees she received from Wall Street firms, she has sought to direct attention to Sanders’ ties to a national Democratic Party committee that’s received some of its funding from the financial sector and other big businesses. The Sanders campaign has struck back at that comparison, and declared last week that he "has never accepted corporate PAC money in his life."
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2021-10-03): Fact-checking Bernie Sanders on pharmaceutical lobbying pushback [...] Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., took a shot at lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry for blocking progress on a "human infrastructure" bill, particularly on a provision that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. [...] Asked about Sanders’ source for the lobbyist figure, his office pointed to a database of lobbyists maintained by OpenSecrets. The database counts 1,469 lobbyists whose subject area falls under the definition "pharmaceuticals/health products."
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2024-09-06): Since Citizens United, companies have often donated to political candidates they hope will do their industry’s bidding or support a specific cause. [...] Ideally, companies should stop making political contributions altogether. Failing that, they should commit to giving only through a PAC that raises voluntary money from employees and other stakeholders—or at least contribute only according to a political spending plan approved by shareholders.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2017-04-25): In 2016, seventeen donors gave three-quarters of the Democratic National Convention funding, with large corporations like Bank of America, Peco Energy, Comcast, and Facebook each donating over $1 million. Their lobbyists were everywhere and filled the VIP suites. This type of corporate sponsorship is a corrupting influence and must end if politicians are going to represent the American people. [...] In 2016, the fundraising committee for the DNC was led by an insurance executive and a Comcast executive. Currently, some Committee Chairs work as CEOs and Board Members for large health care lobbying groups, and companies such as Comcast. Under my administration, the DNC will no longer accept corporate money. [...] The influence lobbyists have extends beyond contributions to National Political Parties and individual candidates. In Congress there is a revolving door that allows Congressional staff to move between lobbying firms and Capitol Hill. Congress cannot represent their constituents while special interest groups have the ability to influence decisions with corner offices and lucrative job offers.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2016-04-12): Sanders has not responded to repeated questions from TIME over several months about whether he would ask the Democratic National Committee to stop raising money from federal lobbyist money or PACs if he is the nominee, as well as whether he would return corporate funds solicited for the convention. If Sanders did accept such funds to the DNC, it would challenge his own rhetoric. The Sanders campaign circulated a petition to oppose such funding to the DNC shortly after the Party announced its new policy in February, but has not commented on its own campaign contributions or agreed to return DNC funding from lobbyists and corporate PACs. [...] The Vermont Senator’s campaign has taken money from lobbyists as well, including the National Mining Association and the National Cannabis Association.
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2016-02-08): In an effort to level the playing field with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Wall Street regulation, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued Monday that he accepted money indirectly from financial institutions. [...] "Senator Sanders took about $200,000 from Wall Street firms," Clinton said, speaking to a crowd at the community college. "Not directly but through the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. There is nothing wrong with that. It didn’t change his view. Well, it didn’t change my view or my vote, either." [...] Sanders’ campaign manager shot back later on Monday afternoon. "Bernie Sanders, who has never accepted corporate PAC money in his life, is now accused by Secretary Clinton of taking ‘about $200,000 from Wall Street firms.’ How do they reach that false and absurd conclusion?" Jeff Weaver said. "They assume that every nickel Bernie Sanders received from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for his Senate campaign came from Wall Street."
Claim: Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2020-02-21)
Evidence (2020-02-28): 6. No to Super PAC money, kinda - Sanders prides himself on his grassroots-funded campaign. But while he denounces billionaire-funded Super Pacs (political action committees) and secret campaign contributions, he does have a non-profit political organisation, Our Revolution, that operates similarly to a Super Pac. The Sanders group, however, won't have to disclose its donors during this election year, prompting criticism over so-called dark money, reports AP, external. [...] 8. The two-party system is broken - Sanders - one of two independent US senators - has been at times as unsparing in his criticism of the Democratic party he hopes to lead into this election as he is of the Republicans. He has long condemned the Washington duopoly, saying both parties are beholden to corporate money. Some say Sanders' rejection of both congressional parties has left him politically alienated. But his outsider status is the touchstone of his appeal to supporters. [...] Read more on Bernie Sanders