# claims

text: A photo shows a Russian warplane under attack.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t a photo of a Russian plane under attack in Ukraine
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/24/viral-image/no-isnt-photo-russian-plane-under-attack-ukraine/


claimant: TikTok videos
claim_date: 2020-06-05T00:00:00Z
title: Was Central Park once a town called Seneca Village?
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Central Park actually used to be a town called Seneca Village” founded by African Americans in 1825.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/12/tiktok-posts/was-central-park-once-town-called-seneca-village/


text: “The CEO of FTX is the daughter of the chairman of the SEC.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
title: No, FTX CEO isn’t the Security and Exchange Commission chair’s daughter
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/16/viral-image/no-ftx-ceo-isnt-the-security-and-exchange-commissi/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-06-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Quotes Benjamin Franklin as saying "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/28/facebook-posts/no-benjamin-franklin-did-not-say-we-are-all-born-i/

title:
No, Benjamin Franklin did not say ‘We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid’


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-08-20T00:00:00Z
title: Don’t believe this Facebook claim. States have procedures to prevent double voting
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“If I mail in my ballot on Sunday and show up to the polling station on Tuesday, they won’t know if I’ve already voted or not. That, my friends, is a serious concern for all of us.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/31/facebook-posts/dont-believe-facebook-claim-states-have-procedures/


text: John F. Kennedy Jr. is alive and the author of anonymous QAnon messages.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, JFK Jr. isn’t alive (or behind anonymous QAnon messages)
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/25/viral-image/no-jfk-jr-isnt-alive-or-behind-anonymous-qanon-mes/


text: The U.S. spends "57 cents on the dollar on defense."
claimant: Ilhan Omar
claim_date: 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z
title: Rep. Ilhan Omar's claim that the US spends 57% of the federal budget on defense is wrong. It's 15%
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/13/ilhan-omar/rep-ilhan-omars-claim-us-spends-57-federal-budget-/


claimant: Hillary Clinton
claim_date: 2016-10-09T00:00:00Z
title: Clinton correct Buffett claimed to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary
review_date: 2016-10-18T21:33:59Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Warren Buffett has publicly said his secretary "should not be paying a higher tax rate" than him.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/18/hillary-clinton/clinton-correct-buffett-claimed-pay-lower-tax-rate/


text: "It’s not unusual for hospitals to sit at max or near max capacity on any given day."
claimant: Erin Marie Olszewski
claim_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
title: It’s common for hospitals to be full, but COVID-19 adds unusual burdens
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/11/erin-marie-olszewski/its-common-hospitals-be-full-covid-19-adds-unusual/


claimant: Tom Tiffany
claim_date: 2020-04-20T00:00:00Z
title: State Health Secretary Andrea Palm is not from Wisconsin, but Sen. Tom Tiffany muddled his point
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm is a “career bureaucrat with no past ties to Wisconsin.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/22/tom-tiffany/state-health-secretary-andrea-palm-not-wisconsin-s/


text: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-04-06T00:00:00Z
title: Did Derek Chauvin have his hand in his pocket as he restrained George Floyd?
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/19/facebook-posts/did-derek-chauvin-have-his-hand-his-pocket-he-rest/


claimant: Alyssa Milano
claim_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/may/24/georgia-abortion-bill-prison-fact-check/
title: Critics say Georgia’s abortion law could land women in prison. Here's what we know
review_date: 2019-05-24T18:22:38Z
textual_rating: See what courts say
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The Georgia bill states that a woman can be investigated for miscarrying and that women who travel to another state to get an abortion can spend up to ten years in prison."


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-08-20T00:00:00Z
title: U.S. Navy: Story about SEALs rescuing child sex slaves in San Francisco isn’t true
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
U.S. Navy SEALs rescued 807 children who were being kept as sex slaves on a barge in San Francisco Bay.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/24/instagram-posts/us-navy-story-about-seals-rescuing-child-sex-slave/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The World Health Organization director general confirmed “some countries are using boosters to kill children.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/18/viral-image/world-health-organization-director-general-stutter/

title:
World Health Organization director general stuttered, he wasn’t asserting that countries are killing


text: A lawyer for former President Donald Trump released new proof of 2020 election fraud.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
title: New evidence of fraud in Biden-Trump election? No, that debunked claim is from a 2020 video
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/22/facebook-posts/new-evidence-of-fraud-in-biden-trump-election-no-t/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/may/30/what-donald-trump-got-wrong-his-tennessee-rally-ma/
title: What Donald Trump got wrong in his Tennessee rally for Marsha Blackburn
review_date: 2018-05-30T19:53:43Z
textual_rating: Wrong, again
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We've passed the largest tax cuts and reform in American history. Larger than Ronald Reagan, many years ago."


claimant: Marco Rubio
claim_date: 2016-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: Do presidents stop nominating judges in final year?
review_date: 2017-04-11T20:57:19Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There comes a point in the last year of the president, especially in their second term, where you stop nominating" both Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/feb/14/marco-rubio/do-presidents-stop-nominating-judges-final-year/


claimant: Kellyanne Conway
claim_date: 2017-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: Kellyanne Conway wrongly says this is longest the U.S. has gone without a Treasury secretary
review_date: 2017-02-02T22:32:21Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"This is longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the Treasury, at least in modern times. If it's not the longest, it's darn close to it."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/02/kellyanne-conway/longest-united-states-has-gone-without-secretary-t/


text: Says Hillary Clinton's plan "would tax many small businesses by almost 50 percent."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-08-08T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton plan would tax small businesses at nearly 50 percent
review_date: 2016-08-10T22:05:47Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/10/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-plan-would-tax-s/


text: Says Joe Biden repeatedly told Americans he's going to raise their taxes.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00Z
title: Trump campaign ad takes Biden out of context three times on taxes
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/21/donald-trump/trump-campaign-ad-takes-biden-out-context-three-ti/


text: "In the 1980s, the state funded 68% of school expenses, and now the state’s share is 38%."
claimant: Scott Milder
claim_date: 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2018-02-16T23:04:28Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/16/scott-milder/scott-milder-state-share-education-spending-68-38-/

title:
Scott Milder: State share of education spending was 68 percent in 1980s--now it's down to 38 percent


claimant: Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
claim_date: 2017-04-05T00:00:00Z
title: Pro-Sheriff David Clarke group says Clarke called Black Lives Matter hate group, terrorist movement
review_date: 2017-04-17T20:39:31Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/17/sheriff-david-clarke-us-senate/pro-sheriff-david-clarke-group-says-clarke-called-/


claimant: American Principles Project PAC
claim_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
title: Claim linking Protasiewicz to school policy for trans students widely misses mark
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Campaign ad claims at a Wisconsin school, a 12-year-old girl "was transitioned into a boy by school officials without parental consent," and Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz supports it.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/29/american-principles-project/claim-linking-protasiewicz-school-policy-trans-stu/


claimant: Chris Abele
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: Has tough-on-crime Sheriff David Clarke cut the number of his deputies by half or more?
review_date: 2017-05-26T16:56:39Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says David Clarke reduced the number of Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies "from about 700 and something to 300 and something."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/26/chris-abele/has-tough-crime-sheriff-david-clarke-cut-number-hi/


text: “Joe Biden announced that the U.S. dollar will now become cryptocurrency.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
title: Don’t bank on claims that President Joe Biden is transforming the U.S. dollar into a cryptocurrency
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/14/instagram-posts/dont-bank-on-claims-that-president-joe-biden-is-tr/


claimant: Ted Nugent
claim_date: 2022-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jan/26/how-ted-nugents-claim-about-voter-turnout-suppress/
title: How Ted Nugent’s claim about voter turnout, suppression presents a false choice
textual_rating: Presents false choice
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"If this guy received the most votes in history, in the largest voter turnout in history like they claim, then how is the vote being suppressed like they claim?"


claimant: Internet Rumors
claim_date: 2018-07-31T00:00:00Z
title: How Trump's State Department permitted 3D-printed gun blueprints to go live online
review_date: 2018-08-02T16:16:47Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Donald Trump contradicted his own administration when he said the decision to allow blueprints for 3D-printed guns to be distributed "doesn’t seem to make much sense."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/02/blog-posting/how-trump-state-permitted-3-d-printed-gun/


text: “At UNC 14% of students tested positive.”
claimant: Chris Murphy
claim_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
title: Senator forgets key context about UNC's COVID-19 testing
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/20/chris-murphy/senator-forgets-key-context-about-uncs-covid-19-te/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/14/fact-checking-donald-trumps-bedminster-speech-foll/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Bedminster speech following documents indictment
review_date: 2023-06-14T03:42:31Z
textual_rating: This is misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Biden sent 1,850 boxes to the University of Delaware making the search very, very difficult for anybody, and he refuses to give them up, and he refuses to let people even look at them."


text: Says news stories referencing 322 and COVID-19 are proof cases are being “synchronized”
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-06-15T00:00:00Z
title: Conspiracy claim linking COVID-19 reports with the number 322 is nonsense
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/16/facebook-posts/conspiracy-claim-linking-covid-19-reports-number-3/


text: Walmart is adopting a staggered shopping schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-03T00:00:00Z
title: No, Walmart hasn’t announced a staggered shopping schedule by age group
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/17/facebook-posts/no-walmart-hasnt-announced-staggered-shopping-sche/


text: In New York City, "murders are up."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-09-26T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump off-base in saying murders are up in New York City
review_date: 2016-09-27T20:16:51Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/sep/27/donald-trump/donald-trump-base-saying-murders-are-new-york-city/


text: Rachel Levine “is telling us that Dr. Seuss books and Mr. Potato Head are bad for the children.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
title: No, Rachel Levine didn’t say Dr. Seuss books and Mr. Potato Head are bad for kids
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/viral-image/no-rachel-levine-didnt-say-dr-seuss-books-and-mr-p/


text: Says Stacey Evans "voted for (school) vouchers...in the beginning."
claimant: Stacey Abrams
claim_date: 2017-10-02T00:00:00Z
title: School voucher claim in Ga. gov. race leaves out important details
review_date: 2017-10-17T16:11:06Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/17/stacey-abrams/school-voucher-claim-ga-gov-race-leaves-out-import/


text: West Virginia has "more veterans per capita" than any state.
claimant: Joe Manchin
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Manchin wrong that W.Va. is first in nation in veterans
review_date: 2018-10-11T22:29:42Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/11/joe-manchin/joe-manchin-wrong-wva-first-nation-veterans/


text: Says Joe Biden was the only world leader to wear a face mask during a video conference.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-04-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, Biden wasn’t the only world leader to wear a mask during the virtual climate summit
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/26/viral-image/no-biden-wasnt-only-world-leader-wear-mask-during-/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-02-19T00:00:00Z
title: Do a majority of Republicans support Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan?
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/22/joe-biden/do-majority-republicans-support-bidens-19-trillion/


text: Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."
claimant: Virginia "Jennie Lou" Leeder
claim_date: 2016-10-17T00:00:00Z
title: Democrat Jennie Lou Leeder says Texas spends more per inmate than public school student
review_date: 2016-11-18T23:19:45Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/18/jennie-lou-leeder/democrat-jennie-lou-leeder-says-texas-spends-more-/


text: There has been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."
claimant: Sean Spicer
claim_date: 2017-01-23T00:00:00Z
title: Sean Spicer's claim of a 'dramatic expansion in the federal workforce' is exaggerated
review_date: 2017-01-25T00:12:05Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jan/25/sean-spicer/sean-spicers-claim-federal-workforce-has-expanded-/


claimant: Mike Bloomberg
claim_date: 2020-02-26T00:00:00Z
title: Did Donald Trump fire pandemic officials, defund CDC?
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the Centers for Disease Control.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bloomberg/did-donald-trump-fire-pandemic-officials-defund-cd/


claimant: United For Care
claim_date: 2016-08-11T00:00:00Z
title: 'Medical-grade marijuana' won't get you high, cannabis amendment supporters say
review_date: 2016-08-24T16:53:37Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Medical-grade marijuana alone will not get that patient ‘high,’ no matter what level of THC, CBD or any other compound is found in the plant."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/19/united-care/medical-grade-marijuana-wont-get-you-high-cannabis/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-08-04T00:00:00Z
title: QAnon conspiracy theorists seek to link Beirut explosion to Rothschilds
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The Beirut bombing today was directly next to the Lebanon Central Bank, which is also owned by the most evil deep state family, the Rothschilds. There are no coincidences.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/06/facebook-posts/qanon-conspiracy-theorists-seek-link-beirut-blast-/


text: "Generally the deaths are still pretty flat because we've flattened the curve.”
claimant: Ron Johnson
claim_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
title: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson confuses and misses on claim about COVID-19 deaths
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/23/ron-johnson/us-sen-ron-johnson-confuses-and-misses-claim-about/


text: "China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution."
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2019-12-26T00:00:00Z
title: False image overstates pollution by China
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/02/facebook-posts/false-image-overstates-pollution-china/


text: "In #WI, over 44,000 jobs depend on trade with Mexico and Canada."
claimant: Glenn Grothman
claim_date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
title: Wisconsin lawmaker's jobs claim falls short by one word
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/26/glenn-grothman/wisconsin-lawmakers-jobs-claim-comes-short-one-wor/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/oct/18/deciding-whats-fake-medias-definition-fake-news-vs/
title: The media's definition of fake news vs. Donald Trump's
review_date: 2017-10-19T13:44:30Z
textual_rating: Wrong use of word
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Look, the media is fake. .. The media is -- really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I've come up with -- is fake."


claimant: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
claim_date: 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
title: Who's to blame for almost killing Obamacare? Democrats point to New York's John Faso
review_date: 2018-11-05T16:17:42Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says New York Rep. John Faso "cast the deciding vote" to try to kill health care protections provided by Obamacare.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/05/democratic-congressional-campaign-committee/whos-blame-almost-killing-obamacare-democrats-poin/


text: November election data shows a “stunning anomaly in the rejection rate of absentee ballots.”
claimant: Dan O'Donnell
claim_date: 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z
title: No, absentee rejection rate in November was not a “stunning anomaly”
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/dan-odonnell/no-absentee-rejection-rate-november-was-not-stunni/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
title: No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn't call the woman who joined ISIS a hero
review_date: 2019-02-27T16:27:08Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "We must block Trump from stopping the return of the heroic Alabama mother from ISIS. In many ways she is more of a hero then our veterans. Welcome home sister!"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/27/viral-image/no-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-didnt-call-woman-who-j/


text: “Breaking: Democrats introduce bill to put Americans in quarantine camps.”
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, Democrats aren’t trying to put Americans in quarantine camps
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/18/blog-posting/no-democrats-arent-trying-put-americans-quarantine/


text: Donald Trump "has the second-highest disapproval ratings of anyone running for president."
claimant: Ted Cruz
claim_date: 2016-04-21T00:00:00Z
title: Ted Cruz incorrectly says Donald Trump has 'second-highest disapproval' of any presidential hopeful
review_date: 2016-05-27T15:38:50Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/27/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-incorrectly-says-donald-trump-has-second-/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/may/17/fact-checking-donald-trumps-misleading-immigration/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s misleading immigration claims in meeting with California officials
review_date: 2018-05-17T20:13:02Z
textual_rating: Not the whole story
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
About Oakland mayor’s warning about an ICE raid, ‘you had 1,000 people … many of these were illegals. They were criminals … And she informed them and they all fled, or most of them fled.'


claimant: Jennifer Granholm
claim_date: 2021-04-04T00:00:00Z
title: Jennifer Granholm spins comparison of Joe Biden’s corporate tax proposal
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
President Joe Biden’s corporate tax rate increase would "put us in line with other industrial nations."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/06/jennifer-granholm/jennifer-granholm-spins-comparison-joe-bidens-corp/


text: Most of Kathy Manning’s donors are from out-of-state.
claimant: Ted Budd
claim_date: 2018-08-30T00:00:00Z
title: Budd claims most of Manning's donors aren't from North Carolina
review_date: 2018-09-26T18:35:47Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/26/ted-budd/budd-claims-most-mannings-donors-arent-north-carol/


claimant: Nevada Assembly Republican Candidates
claim_date: 2016-05-31T00:00:00Z
title: GOP campaign mail severely distorts complex issue of transgender bathroom access
review_date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Nevada lawmakers voted to allow teenaged boys to "shower with your teenaged girls in public school locker rooms."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/13/nevada-assembly-republican-candidates/gop-campaign-mail-severely-distorts-complex-issue-/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-07-05T00:00:00Z
title: Hoax about mayor refusing pork demands spreads again online
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A Canadian mayor said Muslims must integrate after they “demanded removal of pork in all school canteens in Montreal.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/09/facebook-posts/hoax-about-mayor-refusing-pork-demands-spreads-aga/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
title: Only a few get an unemployment ‘pay raise’
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Non-essential people get to file for unemployment and make two to three times more than normal,” but essential workers still on the job get no pay raise.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/08/facebook-posts/only-few-get-unemployment-pay-raise/


claimant: Sherrod Brown
claim_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
title: Black Lives Matter protests faced a more militarized response than Capitol mob
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/11/sherrod-brown/black-lives-matter-protests-faced-more-militarized/


text: “All communications to families from the US Navy have been halted.”
claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2022-01-21T00:00:00Z
title: Claim that the U.S. Navy 'halted' communication between sailors and their families lacks evidence
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/25/facebook-posts/claim-us-navy-halted-all-communication-between-sai/


text: Says two of U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s daughters were arrested for smuggling drugs.
claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2017-07-06T00:00:00Z
title: Fake news saga wrongly says Nancy Pelosi’s daughters caught smuggling drugs
review_date: 2017-07-13T14:51:55Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/13/blog-posting/fake-news-saga-wrongly-says-nancy-pelosis-daughter/


text: Jan. 6 defendants “are being held in prison without being charged.”
claimant: Kari Lake
claim_date: 2022-03-13T00:00:00Z
title: Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake wrongly says Jan. 6 defendants are in prison without charges
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/17/kari-lake/arizona-gop-candidate-kari-lake-wrongly-says-jan-6/


text: The Supreme Court will put Donald Trump back in office in October
claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2022-08-18T00:00:00Z
title: U.S Supreme Court is not going to put Trump back in office
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/29/facebook-posts/us-supreme-court-not-going-put-trump-back-office/


claimant: Joaquin Castro
claim_date: 2016-08-10T00:00:00Z
title: Joaquin Castro says conservative activist believes HIV can be spread through sewer system
review_date: 2016-08-17T21:06:18Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide women’s health services "believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/17/joaquin-castro/joaquin-castro-says-conservative-activist-believes/


text: "VIDEO Kevin Bacon Saying ‘We Are Blessed To Have Donald Trump As Our President’"
claimant: Phoenix Post
claim_date: 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kevin Bacon did not say 'we are blessed' to have Donald Trump as president
review_date: 2018-08-15T18:00:42Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/15/blog-posting/no-kevin-bacon-did-not-say-we-are-blessed-have-don/


text: Under the Iran nuclear deal, "we give them $150 billion, we get nothing."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: No, Donald Trump, we are not giving Iran $150 billion for 'nothing'
review_date: 2017-04-11T20:15:32Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/mar/17/donald-trump/no-donald-trump-we-are-not-giving-iran-150-billion/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
title: No, this woman isn’t wanted for impersonating a nurse and kidnapping a baby
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Photo shows a woman who is wanted for impersonating a nurse and kidnapping an infant from a local U.S. hospital.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/19/viral-image/no-woman-isnt-wanted-impersonating-nurse-and-kidna/


claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
title: No, a dead voter named William Bradley didn’t vote in Detroit
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“118-year-old William Bradley voted via an absentee ballot in Wayne County, Michigan this year. William died in 1984. They’re trying to steal this election.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/facebook-posts/no-dead-voter-named-william-bradley-didnt-vote-det/


text: "We’ve lifted hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty in the last five years."
claimant: Bill de Blasio
claim_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
title: De Blasio claims city helped people out of poverty
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/10/bill-de-blasio/de-blasio-claims-city-helped-people-out-poverty/


claimant: Chain email
claim_date: 2014-06-26T00:00:00Z
title: Video of Barack Obama speech circulating on the Internet was edited to change his meaning
review_date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Obama said "ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs" and that individuals should "surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/jun/23/chain-email/video-barack-obama-speech-circulating-internet-was/


text: Photo shows a taxi driver in New York City who “drives around taking people to kill.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-10-15T00:00:00Z
title: Old hoax about killer cab driver still spreading online
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/19/viral-image/old-hoax-about-killer-cab-driver-still-spreading-o/


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-11T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking misinformation about firefighters, antifa in Portland
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“KXL Radio in Portland reported today that Firefighters are now being shot at by suspected Antifa and BLM members.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/13/facebook-posts/fact-checking-misinformation-about-firefighters-an/


text: “We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-07-19T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump wrong to say U.S. has “one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/20/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-say-us-has-one-lowest-mortality/


claimant: Tom Tiffany
claim_date: 2021-03-29T00:00:00Z
title: Tiffany misses mark with claim that young adults are not susceptible to coronavirus
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says it doesn't make sense for young adults to get the vaccine since they "really are not under that much of a threat as a result of this virus."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/08/tom-tiffany/tiffany-misses-mark-claim-young-adults-are-not-sus/


claimant: Jerrold Nadler
claim_date: 2021-11-19T00:00:00Z
title: Nadler wrong on claim Rittenhouse crossed state line with gun before shooting at Kenosha protest
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Kyle Rittenhouse was an “armed person” crossing state lines when he came to Kenosha protests in 2020.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/26/jerrold-nadler/nadler-wrong-claim-rittenhouse-crossed-state-line-/


claimant: Paul Bettencourt
claim_date: 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
title: Texas legislation needs context for claim about crime, immigration status
review_date: 2019-04-08T20:17:31Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"194,000 criminal aliens booked into Texas jails from 2011-2019 were charged with more than 299,000 criminal offenses."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/08/paul-bettencourt/texas-legislation-missing-important-info-about-cri/


claimant: Sheri Gallo
claim_date: 2016-11-29T00:00:00Z
title: Sheri Gallo misses with claim Alison Alter removed from board for terrible attendance
review_date: 2016-12-03T00:46:34Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Alison Alter "got an F in attendance in 2016" as an Austin parks board member "and was removed by a unanimous vote of the Austin City Council."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/03/sheri-gallo/sheri-gallo-misses-claim-alison-alter-removed-boar/


claimant: Mitch McConnell
claim_date: 2022-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/may/05/ask-politifact-it-illegal-leak-draft-supreme-court/
title: Ask PolitiFact: Is it illegal to leak a draft Supreme Court opinion?
textual_rating: Experts say charges unlikely
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The Department of Justice must pursue criminal charges if applicable” against the the Supreme Court draft opinion leaker.


claimant: Stacey Evans
claim_date: 2017-06-12T00:00:00Z
title: Did Stacey Evans help win one of the biggest private lawsuits against Medicare fraud in history?
review_date: 2017-07-14T16:44:29Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"I helped win one of the biggest private lawsuits against Medicare fraud in history. The government declined to pursue the case, so my firm did, and we recovered $324 million for taxpayers."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/14/stacey-evans/did-stacey-evans-help-win-one-biggest-private-laws/


text: "Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens."
claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2016-11-14T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-check: Did 3 million undocumented immigrants vote in this year's election?
review_date: 2017-09-30T13:44:44Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/18/blog-posting/no-3-million-undocumented-immigrants-did-not-vote-/


claimant: Rush Limbaugh
claim_date: 2019-02-17T00:00:00Z
title: Scientists’ response to Rush Limbaugh’s climate denial: ‘utter nonsense’
review_date: 2019-02-19T21:37:05Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/19/rush-limbaugh/scientists-response-rush-limbaughs-climate-denial-/


text: Senate GOP plan doesn't raise taxes for Americans earning less than $70,000
claimant: Thom Tillis
claim_date: 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z
title: NC Sen. Tillis says plan won't raise taxes on Americans earning $30K-$70K a year
review_date: 2017-11-30T23:59:40Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/30/thom-tillis/nc-sen-tillis-says-plan-wont-raise-taxes-americans/


text: "Jack Berry voted for a plan to cut $23.8 million from our schools."
claimant: Levar Stoney
claim_date: 2016-10-17T00:00:00Z
title: Levar Stoney weakly claims that Jack Berry voted to cut $23.8 million from Richmond schools
review_date: 2016-10-31T18:05:20Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/31/levar-stoney/levar-stoney-weakly-claims-jack-berry-voted-cut-23/


text: "Texas medical professional: Migrants quarantined with UNKNOWN disease."
claimant: Big League Politics
claim_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
title: No, migrants aren’t being quarantined with an unknown disease at the U.S.-Mexico border
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/03/big-league-politics/no-migrants-arent-being-quarantined-unknown-diseas/


claimant: Kelda Helen Roys
claim_date: 2018-12-11T00:00:00Z
title: Ahead of 2018 election, Gov. Scott Walker attacked for spending more on corrections than colleges
review_date: 2018-01-12T19:50:21Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
In 2011 under Scott Walker, Wisconsin for the first time spent "more on our prison system than we did" on the University of Wisconsin System.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/12/kelda-helen-roys/ahead-2018-election-gov-scott-walker-attacked-spen/


text: Says Florida's economy "is largely propped up on low-wage work."
claimant: Andrew Gillum
claim_date: 2018-09-30T00:00:00Z
title: Is Florida's economy propped up by low-wage jobs? Gillum says yes
review_date: 2018-10-15T14:07:03Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/15/andrew-gillum/gillum-increase-low-wage-florida-jobs/


text: The COVID-19 vaccines contain “HIV lipid wrappers.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-04-10T00:00:00Z
title: No, the COVID-19 vaccines do not contain ‘HIV lipid wrappers’
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/12/facebook-posts/no-covid-19-vaccines-do-not-contain-hiv-lipid-wrap/


text: A Denver International Airport mural of people wearing masks was painted in 1994.
claimant: Viral Image
claim_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
title: Painting of people around the world wearing masks is from 2020, not 1994
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/01/viral-image/painting-people-around-world-wearing-masks-2020-no/


text: "The chances of being killed by a refugee committing a terrorist act is 1 in 3.6 billion."
claimant: Ted Lieu
claim_date: 2017-01-27T00:00:00Z
title: MOSTLY TRUE: Odds of fatal terror attack in U.S. by a refugee? 3.6 billion to 1
review_date: 2017-02-02T00:40:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/01/ted-lieu/odds-youll-be-killed-terror-attack-america-refugee/


claimant: Congressional Leadership Fund
claim_date: 2018-09-12T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Radinovich, running from the law? CLF ad touts 18 crimes
review_date: 2018-09-17T18:44:13Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Minnesota U.S. House candidate Joe Radinovich has "spent his life running from the law, charged with 18 crimes."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/17/congressional-leadership-fund/joe-radinovich-running-law/


text: “Piles of bricks are being staged in cities around the country, indicating riots are planned.”
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2020-05-31T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking theories about bricks and Black Lives Matter protests
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/03/blog-posting/fact-checking-theories-about-bricks-and-black-live/


claimant: Peter Schweizer
claim_date: 2020-09-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/19/fact-checking-claims-about-hunter-biden-joe-biden-/
title: Fact-checking claims about Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and China
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Deals between Hunter Biden and Chinese entities "didn't just make the Bidens money — they had dangerous consequences for our national security."


text: Photo shows the BOK Center full with people during Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-06-21T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook user posts photo from past Trump rally, wrongly claims it shows packed Tulsa arena
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/23/viral-image/facebook-user-posts-photo-past-trump-rally-wrongly/


text: Says there’s “no wait list” for private school vouchers
claimant: Natasha Marcus
claim_date: 2019-05-08T00:00:00Z
title: NC Democrat says there's no wait for private school vouchers
review_date: 2019-05-16T01:55:04Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/16/natasha-marcus/nc-democrat-says-theres-no-wait-private-school-vou/


text: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00Z
title: Viral photo, flight logs don't prove Chief Justice John Roberts went to Jeffrey Epstein’s island
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/21/facebook-posts/no-viral-photo-doesnt-show-chief-justice-john-robe/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/apr/29/fact-checking-joe-bidens-first-speech-congress/
title: Fact-checking President Joe Biden's first speech to Congress
review_date: 2021-04-29T04:44:48Z
textual_rating: Accurate
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We won’t ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today: white supremacist terrorism."


text: “Dr. Fauci: No reason to be wearing a mask.”
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-06-24T00:00:00Z
title: Video shows outdated face mask guidance from Dr. Anthony Fauci
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/08/facebook-posts/video-shows-outdated-face-mask-guidance-dr-anthony/


text: The delta variant of the coronavirus “is approximately 19 times less deadly.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
title: Data showing lower death rate for coronavirus delta variant doesn’t mean it’s less dangerous
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/07/instagram-posts/data-showing-lower-death-rate-coronavirus-delta-va/


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-02-18T00:00:00Z
title: Derailed Ohio train carried vinyl chloride, which is banned in aerosols, but not other products
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The train that derailed in Ohio was carrying “over 300,000 gallons of a chemical that was banned in 1974.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/27/facebook-posts/derailed-train-carried-vinyl-chloride-which-banned/


claimant: Elizabeth Warren
claim_date: 2020-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/feb/20/fact-checking-las-vegas-democratic-debate-bloomber/
title: Bloomberg on the defensive, fact-checking the Las Vegas Democratic debate
review_date: 2020-02-20T06:21:38Z
textual_rating: Lots more than that
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Amy, I looked online at your (health care) plan. It’s two paragraphs." — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/mar/25/fact-checking-joe-bidens-first-press-conference/
title: Fact-checking Joe Biden’s first White House press conference
review_date: 2021-03-25T22:29:42Z
textual_rating: Filibuster, racism intertwined
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Biden said "yes" when a reporter asked if he agreed with former President Barack Obama’s remark at Rep. John Lewis’ funeral that "the filibuster was a relic of the Jim Crow era."


text: During the Obama/Biden administration “18,000 people got clemency.”
claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2020-10-05T00:00:00Z
title: Biden inflated the number of clemency actions by Obama
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/06/joe-biden/biden-inflated-number-clemency-actions-obama/


text: Says Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote a paper blaming 1918-19 flu deaths on masks.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
title: Dr. Anthony Fauci didn’t blame masks for 1918-19 flu deaths
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/21/facebook-posts/dr-anthony-fauci-didnt-blame-masks-1918-19-flu-dea/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jun/15/fact-checking-donald-trumps-unusual-white-house-la/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's interviews with Fox and Friends, reporters on the White House lawn
review_date: 2018-06-15T18:19:28Z
textual_rating: More like five months
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Manafort worked for me for a very short period of time. ... He worked for me, what, for 49 days or something, a very short period of time.”


text: Joe Biden resigned and “Trump is the new president.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: No, Biden didn’t resign and Trump didn’t replace him
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/09/facebook-posts/no-biden-didnt-resign-and-trump-didnt-replace-him/


text: Poll watchers in Philadelphia prevented from entering polling places.
claimant: Tweets
claim_date: 2020-11-03T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking claim about poll watchers turned away in Philadelphia
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/03/tweets/fact-checking-claim-about-poll-watchers-turned-awa/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/nov/30/fact-checking-trumps-whopper-laden-interview-maria/
title: Fact-checking Trump’s whopper-laden interview with Maria Bartiromo
review_date: 2020-11-30T22:52:33Z
textual_rating: No evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There are many mailmen that are in big trouble right now for selling ballots, getting rid of ballots."


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-10-22T00:00:00Z
title: Trump mistakes exhibition hall for abandoned factory
review_date: 2016-10-31T20:40:54Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/31/donald-trump/trump-mistakes-exhibition-hall-abandoned-factory/


text: "Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-01-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, Mexico isn't paying for border wall through USMCA trade deal, despite Donald Trump's claims
review_date: 2019-01-04T20:44:59Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/04/donald-trump/no-usmca-trade-deal-wont-pay-border-wall-despite-d/


text: "One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-01-19T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-01-25T21:14:23Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/25/donald-trump/trump-said-1-3-migrant-women-sexually-assaulted-jo/

title:
Trump said 1 in 3 migrant women is sexually assaulted in journey to the United States. Is that true?


claimant: Ron DeSantis
claim_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
title: Ron DeSantis falsely said migrants deported from Martha’s Vineyard within 24 hours
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
When migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, “They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/11/ron-desantis/ron-desantis-falsely-said-migrants-deported-from-m/


text: “NCAA strips Lia Thomas of National Championship After ‘Unfavorable’ Test Results.”
claimant: Tweet
claim_date: 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
title: Lia Thomas was not stripped of her title. This claim comes from a satire site.
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/15/tweets/lia-thomas-was-not-stripped-of-her-title-this-clai/


text: "48-Hour waiting periods limit crimes of passion and keep our communities safe.”
claimant: Shelia Stubbs
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: Stubbs’ 48-hour gun waiting period statement backed by some studies, but other factors muddy claim
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/18/shelia-stubbs/stubbs-48-hour-gun-waiting-period-statement-backed/


claimant: Rebecca Dallet
claim_date: 2018-03-19T00:00:00Z
title: Rebecca Dallet says Michael Screnock imposed 8-month jail sentence and probation in sex-crime cases
review_date: 2018-03-23T12:51:24Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Michael Screnock "let a child predator walk without time and let a rapist who preyed on an underage girl go free after only an eight-month sentence."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/23/rebecca-dallet/rebecca-dallet-says-michael-screnock-imposed-8-mon/


text: Diesel prices jumped from $1.69 to $3.19 since Biden took office, and the president is to blame.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z
title: Biden not to blame for rising diesel (or gas) prices
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/facebook-posts/biden-not-blame-rising-diesel-or-gas-prices/


claimant: Debbie Wasserman Schultz
claim_date: 2015-01-23T00:00:00Z
title: Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Marco Rubio now against immigration reform, pathway to citizenship
review_date: 2016-05-12T14:57:21Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Marco Rubio "was for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship before he was against it."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/jan/30/debbie-wasserman-schultz/debbie-wasserman-schultz-says-marco-rubio-now-agai/


claimant: Jonathan Turley
claim_date: 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z
title: The complicated calculation to determine what share of the population will retain abortion rights
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/27/jonathan-turley/complicated-calculation-determine-what-share-popul/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
title: No source for supposed Pelosi statement about undocumented immigrants
review_date: 2019-05-29T19:26:56Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Nancy Pelosi said, "Just because someone is here illegally doesn’t mean they broke any of our laws."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/29/viral-image/no-source-supposed-pelosi-statement-about-undocume/


claimant: Beto O'Rourke
claim_date: 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/23/beto-orourke/la-di-dah/
title: Is racial gap in infant mortality higher today than in 1850, as Beto O'Rourke says?
review_date: 2019-04-23T14:33:55Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019, than in the year 1850...”


text: “Hank Williams Jr resigns from CMT’s board of directors: ‘I support Jason Aldean.’”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-07-22T00:00:00Z
title: Headline about Hank Williams Jr. resigning from CMT to support Jason Aldean comes from satire site
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/24/viral-image/headline-about-hank-williams-jr-resigning-from-cmt/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook post wrong that four GOP senators are already blocking SCOTUS nomination
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“4 republican senators now on board...no vote until January on (Supreme Court): Murkowski, Romney, Collins, Grassley.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/20/facebook-posts/facebook-post-wrong-four-gop-senators-are-already-/


text: Pregnant women getting the Tdap vaccine “voluntarily are quite literally the experiment.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
title: Do Tdap shots expose pregnant women to undue risk? No. Studies show the vaccines are safe
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/18/instagram-posts/do-tdap-shots-expose-pregnant-women-to-undue-risk/


text: “Finally, a judge has ruled Dominion voting machines were designed to create fraud.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-03-18T00:00:00Z
title: No, a judge has not ruled that Dominion voting machines were designed for fraud
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/23/facebook-posts/no-judge-has-not-ruled-dominion-voting-machines-we/


text: "Pads and tampons (are) still taxed when Viagra and Rogaine are not."
claimant: Ashley Judd
claim_date: 2017-01-21T00:00:00Z
title: Are pads and tampons taxed but Viagra and Rogaine not?
review_date: 2017-04-12T19:49:54Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jan/22/ashley-judd/are-pads-and-tampons-taxed-viagra-and-rogaine-not/


text: "Inner-city crime is reaching record levels."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-08-29T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump is wrong that 'inner-city crime is reaching record levels'
review_date: 2016-08-30T15:02:49Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-inner-city-crime-reaching-recor/


text: " 'Denali' is the Kenyan word for 'black power.' "
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2015-09-03T00:00:00Z
title: No, 'Denali' is not a Kenyan word for 'black power'
review_date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/sep/03/viral-image/no-denali-not-kenyan-word-black-power/


text: Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to expand (Obamacare) into a single-payer program."
claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
title: Mike Pence says Hillary Clinton wants to turn Obamacare into single-payer
review_date: 2016-10-05T04:58:14Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/05/mike-pence/mike-pence-says-hillary-clinton-want-turn-obamacar/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-07-16T00:00:00Z
title: Claims connecting arsonists to dozens of recent wildfires in Canada don’t stand up under scrutiny
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Video shows that Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigators determined that “dozens of wildfires in Canada” were caused by arson in 2023.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/20/facebook-posts/claims-connecting-arsonists-to-dozens-of-recent-wi/


text: "Leah Vukmir OPPOSES Buy American legislation."
claimant: Wisconsin Democratic Party
claim_date: 2018-09-10T00:00:00Z
title: Democratic Party delivers trade dig against Republican candidate Leah Vukmir via mail
review_date: 2018-10-17T16:21:01Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/17/state-democratic-party-wisconsin/democratic-party-delivers-trade-dig-against-vukmir/


claimant: Phil McGraw
claim_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
title: Dr. Phil’s faulty point about the coronavirus and swimming pools
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/17/phil-mcgraw/dr-phils-faulty-point-about-coronavirus-and-swimmi/


claimant: Jeff Greene
claim_date: 2018-07-29T00:00:00Z
title: 3rd-grade reading stats from Jeff Greene, FL Dem candidate for governor, mostly hold up
review_date: 2018-08-07T18:51:10Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There is a big correlation between third grade reading level and whether you go to college or whether you go to prison. And in Florida right now only 56 percent of kids are coming out of third grade at third grade reading level."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/07/jeff-greene/greenes-third-grade-statistics-mostly-hold/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-10-10T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump's wild number of sanctuary city criminal releases
review_date: 2018-10-31T21:56:50Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says "Bob Casey voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities that released thousands upon thousands of illegal alien criminals and vicious gang members to prey on Pennsylvania streets, to prey all over this country."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/31/donald-trump/donald-trumps-wild-number-sanctuary-city-criminal-/


text: Nine “antifa members arrested” in Portland, Ore.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
title: 2016 Portland arrests resurface, no connection to antifa
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/21/viral-image/no-evidence-9-arrested-portland-are-members-left-w/


text: HR 1 will allow members of Congress to draw a second salary “worth an estimated $600,000 per year!”
claimant: Act for America
claim_date: 2021-02-23T00:00:00Z
title: Group makes bogus attack on HR 1 over congressional salaries
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/25/act-america/group-makes-bogus-attack-hr-1-over-congressional-s/


text: Wisconsin voter turnout jumped from 67% in 2016 to 89% in 2020
claimant: Donald Trump Jr.
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
title: No, Wisconsin voter turnout did not jump from 67% in 2016 to 89% in 2020
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/donald-trump-jr/no-wisconsin-voter-turnout-did-not-jump-67-2016-89/


text: Video shows Donald Trump at an Alabama rally on July 13, 2022.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, this video doesn’t show Trump speaking in Alabama in July 2022
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/19/viral-image/no-video-doesnt-show-trump-speaking-alabama-july-2/


claimant: North Carolina Republican Party
claim_date: 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
title: NC GOP mostly wrong about 'secret DMV' created by Cooper
review_date: 2018-09-28T17:44:18Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"As hundreds of North Carolinians face long lines at DMV offices around the state, Governor Cooper created a secret DMV office just for his friends."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/27/north-carolina-republican-party/nc-gop-mostly-wrong-about-secret-dmv-created-coope/


claimant: Russian Ministry of Defense
claim_date: 2022-04-03T00:00:00Z
title: Russia pushes false crisis actor claims about video from Bucha, Ukraine
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A video taken from a car driving through Bucha, Ukraine, shows a corpse “moving his arm,” and then “in the rear view mirror the ‘corpse’ sits down.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/04/russian-ministry-defense/russia-pushes-false-crisis-actor-claims-about-vide/


claimant: Brian Sims
claim_date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
title: Philly Rep. Sims: Martina White wants to deport all immigrants; she never said that
review_date: 2017-04-05T14:38:13Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Finally, I will continue to fight against Republicans like Martina White, who like Trump, wants to deport all of our hard working immigrant brothers and sisters and white wash America."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/05/brian-sims/philly-rep-sims-martina-white-wants-deport-all-imm/


claimant: Marco Rubio
claim_date: 2015-07-22T00:00:00Z
title: Trump says Iran deal forces U.S. to defend Iran if it's attacked by Israel
review_date: 2016-06-23T18:30:13Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The Iran deal says that "if any other country tries to undermine (Iran's) nuclear program, we have to help them defend themselves against Israel, Egypt, Saudis, our own allies."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/sep/04/donald-trump/trump-says-iran-deal-forces-us-defend-iran-if-its-/


text: Says Texas ranks among the nation’s top five states for its high school graduation rate.
claimant: Greg Abbott
claim_date: 2018-02-19T00:00:00Z
title: Greg Abbott says Texas ranks among 5 top states for its high-school graduation rate
review_date: 2018-03-02T20:53:21Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/02/greg-abbott/greg-abbott-says-texas-ranks-among-5-top-states-it/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/apr/15/ad-watch-donald-trumps-video-about-joe-biden-and-c/
title: Ad Watch: Donald Trump’s video about Joe Biden and China is rife with omission, deceptive editing
review_date: 2020-04-15T22:09:06Z
textual_rating: Biden did not mention travel ban
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Joe Biden said of travel restriction on China, "This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysterical xenophobia."


claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2020-07-11T00:00:00Z
title: Why masks for COVID-19 don’t need to go in biohazard bins
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The coronavirus can’t be so dangerous because there are no biohazard bins for COVID-19 masks and gloves.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/22/facebook-posts/why-masks-covid-19-dont-need-go-biohazard-bins/


text: Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.”
claimant: Ron DeSantis
claim_date: 2023-07-09T00:00:00Z
title: Ron DeSantis’ statement on federal government growth is exaggerated
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/13/ron-desantis/ron-desantis-statement-federal-government-growth/


text: “A Black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison.”
claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2020-09-03T00:00:00Z
title: Making point on overlooked Black history, Biden misses mark on the inventor of the light bulb
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/04/joe-biden/making-point-overlooked-black-history-biden-misses/


text: “Cocaine, porn, evidence of child trafficking found in (Gov. Gretchen) Whitmer’s car.”
claimant: TikTok posts
claim_date: 2023-06-03T00:00:00Z
title: Story about Gretchen Whitmer drug bust was fabricated
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/09/tiktok-posts/story-about-gretchen-whitmer-drug-bust-was-fabrica/


claimant: Margaret Hoover
claim_date: 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
title: CNN's Margaret Hoover corrects claim on Jimmy Kimmel's son's surgery, Medicaid
review_date: 2017-05-02T21:07:58Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Regarding the surgery that saved Jimmy Kimmel's son, "Medicaid has stopped providing this kind of service."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/02/margaret-hoover/cnns-margaret-hoover-corrects-claim-kimmel-surgery/


text: El Paso is the "safest city in the state of Texas, safest city in the United States."
claimant: Beto O'Rourke
claim_date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
title: Beto O'Rourke relies on disputed rankings to call El Paso America's safest city
review_date: 2017-04-14T21:32:05Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/14/beto-orourke/beto-orourke-relies-disputed-rankings-calling-el-p/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-07-31T00:00:00Z
title: No, exercise and healthy eating are not 'the best way' to avoid getting COVID-19
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The best way to avoid COVID altogether is to exercise, eat healthy and let your immune system beat it naturally.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/03/facebook-posts/no-exercise-and-healthy-eating-are-not-enough-avoi/


claimant: Louis Seidman
claim_date: 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/sep/24/How-would-impeachment-inquiry-against/
title: How would an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump work?
textual_rating: Most legal experts agree
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says of Donald Trump's impeachment prospects that impeachment is available when a president’s acts are inconsistent with his presidential duties, whether or not it violates criminal law.


text: “The #irandeal ultimately would have guaranteed Iran a nuclear bomb capable of reaching the US.”
claimant: David Rouzer
claim_date: 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
title: Congressman: deal ensured Iran could hit US with nuclear bomb
review_date: 2018-05-22T23:21:46Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/22/david-rouzer/congressman-deal-ensured-iran-could-hit-us-nuclear/


text: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “I don’t need truckers. I get my food from the grocery store.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-02-05T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t a real AOC quote about truckers
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/07/viral-image/no-isnt-real-aoc-quote-about-truckers/


text: Photo shows members of the migrant caravan dragging a Mexican official.
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
title: Viral photo showing Mexican police being dragged is from 2014, not the migrant caravan
review_date: 2018-11-03T15:54:28Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/02/blog-posting/viral-photo-showing-mexican-police-being-dragged-2/


text: Says two photos show climate change “is a hoax.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-04-18T00:00:00Z
title: No, two photos don’t reveal sea levels, don’t prove climate change is a ‘hoax’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/21/facebook-posts/no-two-photos-dont-reveal-sea-levels-dont-prove-cl/


text: “ICE arrests LA mayor for harboring fugitives through sanctuary city.”
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, ICE didn’t arrest the mayor of Los Angeles
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/13/blog-posting/no-ice-didnt-arrest-mayor-los-angeles/


text: “President Trump sanctioned Russia. President Biden gave them a pipeline.”
claimant: Kayleigh McEnany
claim_date: 2022-02-08T00:00:00Z
title: Kayleigh McEnany spins comparison of Trump, Biden on Russian gas pipeline
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/09/kayleigh-mcenany/kayleigh-mcenany-spins-comparison-trump-biden-russ/


text: Trump-o-Meter promise: Allow individuals to deduct health care insurance premiums from taxes
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: Trump-O-Meter
review_date: 2017-03-15T19:10:32Z
textual_rating: Stalled
language_code: en
publisher_name: Trump-O-Meter: | PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1391/allow-individuals-deduct-health-care-insurance-pre/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-07-03T00:00:00Z
title: No flag ban at Weis Markets, company says
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Weis Food stores will no longer sell anything with the American flag and their employees can no longer wear anything with the flag.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/14/facebook-posts/no-flag-ban-weis-markets-company-says/


text: "We have more women in the workforce than ever before."
claimant: West Virginia Republican Party
claim_date: 2019-02-06T00:00:00Z
title: Do we have more women in the workforce than ever before?
review_date: 2019-03-27T20:43:40Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/27/west-virginia-republican-party/do-we-have-more-women-workforce-ever/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-02-09T00:00:00Z
title: Biden would move some ag funds to climate change, but he’d still pay farmers
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Joe Biden “will redirect the $30 billion” that Donald Trump “left for U.S. farmers to ‘climate change.’”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/18/facebook-posts/biden-would-move-some-ag-funds-climate-change-hed-/


claimant: Charlie Kirk
claim_date: 2020-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: Report about potential Iowa voter fraud is false
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says "EIGHT Iowa counties have more adults registered to vote than voting-aged adults living there.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/03/charlie-kirk/conservative-organizations-are-spreading-misinform/


text: "Trump just gave every working, legal man, woman and child in the USA $612 each!"
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump did not give every working American $612 through stimulus program
review_date: 2017-02-28T23:55:26Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/28/blog-posting/trump-did-not-give-every-working-american-612-thro/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
title: Formula shortage isn’t related to Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg investment in artificial breast milk
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The infant formula shortage was purposely created because Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates invested in artificial breast milk.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/12/facebook-posts/formula-shortage-isnt-related-bill-gates-mark-zuck/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/feb/05/fact-checking-2020-state-union-address/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2020 State of the Union address
review_date: 2020-02-05T06:44:04Z
textual_rating: Accurate for territory
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Three years ago, the barbarians of ISIS held over 20,000 square miles of territory in Iraq and Syria. Today, the ISIS territorial caliphate has been 100% destroyed and the founder and leader of ISIS, the bloodthirsty killer known as al-Baghdadi, is dead."


text: Says Mandela Barnes “supported a 20% increase in the gas tax.”
claimant: Ron Johnson
claim_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
title: Johnson leaves out context in claim that Barnes supported a gas tax hike
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/06/ron-johnson/johnson-leaves-out-context-claim-barnes-supported-/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/nov/04/why-are-oil-prices-so-high-and-what-can-be-done-ab/
title: Why are oil prices so high? And what can be done about it?
textual_rating: OPEC, Russia roles are key
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"If you take a look at gas prices and you take a look at oil prices, that is a consequence of, thus far, the refusal of Russia or the OPEC nations to pump more oil."


claimant: Glenn Grothman
claim_date: 2020-05-21T00:00:00Z
title: Glenn Grothman on target about tie between vitamin D and COVID-19, but vitamin D isn’t a known cure
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and (higher) COVID-19 mortality rates.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/08/glenn-grothman/glenn-grothman-target-about-tie-between-vitamin-d-/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-10-30T00:00:00Z
title: Toddler in photo wasn’t found lost in Philadelphia. He was pulled from car in police stop
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the toddler shown in a photo clinging to a police officer was found wandering, alone and barefoot, looking for his mother amid protests in Philadelphia.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/31/facebook-posts/toddler-photo-wasnt-found-lost-philadelphia-he-was/


text: "Sen. Rubio has the worst vote attendance record of any Florida senator in nearly 50 years."
claimant: Patrick Murphy
claim_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
title: Mostly True: Marco Rubio has worst voting record of any Florida senator in nearly 50 years
review_date: 2016-09-02T21:27:55Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/sep/02/patrick-murphy/patrick-murphy-says-marco-rubio-has-worst-attendan/


text: Says Tim Kaine "actually tried to raise taxes by about $4 billion."
claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
title: Mike Pence says Tim Kaine tried to raise Virginia taxes by $4 billion
review_date: 2016-10-05T05:06:59Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/05/mike-pence/mike-pence-accuses-tim-kaine-raising-taxes-leaving/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-03-13T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook post misleads on number of border apprehensions under Biden, Trump
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Joe Biden is “now saying he inherited ‘a mess’ at the border. Fact: 9,000 illegals all of 2020. So far in 2021 108,000 entered U.S.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/facebook-posts/facebook-post-misleads-number-border-apprehensions/


text: Police dispatch audio from Paul Pelosi’s attack was recorded in a Moscow studio.
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2022-10-29T00:00:00Z
title: Police dispatch audio in Pelosi attack was in San Francisco, not Moscow
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/01/instagram-posts/police-dispatch-audio-pelosi-attack-was-san-franci/


claimant: Val Demings
claim_date: 2022-03-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Marco Rubio is following his party bosses, like Rick Scott, with his plan to raise taxes on Florida's working families, retirees and veterans."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/09/val-demings/no-proof-val-demings-claim-marco-rubio-backs-tax-h/

title:
No proof for Val Demings claim that Marco Rubio backs tax hikes like those indicated in Scott’s plan


claimant: American Unity PAC
claim_date: 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
title: PAC blames Ted Strickland for Iran deal he didn't vote on
review_date: 2016-09-15T18:51:51Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Ted Strickland supported giving $150 billion to Iranian regime that persecutes women, Christians and gays.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/sep/15/american-unity-pac/pac-blames-ted-strickland-iran-deal-he-didnt-vote/


text: Says Carol Burnett is dead.
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2019-12-18T00:00:00Z
title: Story wrongly says Carol Burnett is dead and was a Trump supporter
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/02/blog-posting/story-wrongly-says-carol-burnett-dead-and-was-trum/


text: "I have consistently opposed shutdowns."
claimant: Ted Cruz
claim_date: 2018-01-22T00:00:00Z
title: Ted Cruz says he's opposed shutdowns, but he hasn't always
review_date: 2018-01-23T02:23:30Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/23/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-hes-opposed-shutdowns-he-hasnt-alway/


text: “Hillary Clinton is on trial, she (supposed) to have killed” a 10-year-old girl.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-07-07T00:00:00Z
title: No, Hillary Clinton is not on trial for the murder of a 10-year-old girl
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/13/facebook-posts/no-hillary-clinton-not-trial-murder-10-year-old-gi/


claimant: "Hamilton"
claim_date: 2015-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jul/01/fact-checking-hamilton-musical/
title: Fact-checking ‘Hamilton’ the musical
review_date: 2020-07-01T21:47:26Z
textual_rating: Not all Southern states
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Southern states had paid their post-war debts before Alexander Hamilton’s plan for the federal government to assume all state debts.


text: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years."
claimant: Bryan Steil
claim_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
title: Wisconsin congressman correct about Milwaukee’s homicide rate nearly doubling in past two years
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/09/bryan-steil/steil-on-target-with-claim-on-milwaukees-homicide/


text: “On average, 17% of a family’s income goes towards childcare in Wisconsin.”
claimant: Sarah Godlewski
claim_date: 2021-02-06T00:00:00Z
title: Child care costs are high, but Godlewski’s stat lacks nuance
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/23/sarah-godlewski/child-care-costs-are-high-godlewskis-stat-lacks-nu/


text: “House Democrats have passed more than 275 bipartisan bills this Congress."
claimant: Veronica Escobar
claim_date: 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
title: What is an acceptable measure of bipartisanship?
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/12/veronica-escobar/what-acceptable-measure-bipartisanship/


text: Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.
claimant: Marco Rubio
claim_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio: President Obama 'was proposing pinprick strikes' in Syria
review_date: 2016-10-27T18:11:13Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/27/marco-rubio/rubio-says-obama-was-proposing-pinprick-strikes-sy/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/oct/30/who-alexander-vindman/
title: Who is Alexander Vindman?
textual_rating: No sign of bias
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the Army officer who listened to the July 25 call with Ukraine and testified about it is a "Never Trumper."


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jun/15/fact-checking-donald-trumps-unusual-white-house-la/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's interviews with Fox and Friends, reporters on the White House lawn
review_date: 2018-06-15T18:15:22Z
textual_rating: But no bias found
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The top (FBI) people were horrible. You look at what happened. They were plotting against my election.”


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
title: Doctored images in coronavirus post exploit boy’s suicide
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Same little boy died of COVID-19 in three different countries. Still don’t believe the media is #fakenews?”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/13/facebook-posts/doctored-images-coronavirus-post-exploit-boys-suic/


claimant: Rudy Giuliani
claim_date: 2016-07-18T00:00:00Z
title: Nuclear deal allows Iran to access its frozen assets
review_date: 2016-08-05T19:27:49Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The Iran nuclear deal is "putting billions of dollars back into a country that’s the world’s largest supporter of terrorism. We are actually giving them the money to fund the terrorists that are killing us and our allies."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/05/rudy-giuliani/no-one-writing-iran-check-under-nuclear-deal/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/apr/29/fact-checking-joe-bidens-first-speech-congress/
title: Fact-checking President Joe Biden's first speech to Congress
review_date: 2021-04-29T04:44:48Z
textual_rating: Experts say concept is sound
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, we are on track to cut child poverty in America in half this year."


text: Pennsylvania drop boxes were “pre-loaded” with ballots.
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
title: Ballots found in drop box before the voting period opened were legitimate, county official says
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/28/instagram-posts/ballots-found-drop-box-voting-period-opened-were-l/


text: Says border "crossings remain at historically low levels."
claimant: David Price
claim_date: 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: Are border crossings at “historically low levels,” as Rep. David Price says?
review_date: 2019-02-22T21:16:39Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/22/david-price/are-border-crossings-historically-low-levels-rep-d/


text: "Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke."
claimant: Paul Ryan
claim_date: 2016-11-10T00:00:00Z
title: With 'repeal and replace' in the works, Paul Ryan claims Obamacare is making Medicare go broke
review_date: 2016-12-23T13:54:09Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/23/paul-ryan/repeal-and-replace-works-paul-ryan-says-obamacare-/


claimant: Jeanine Pirro
claim_date: 2018-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/aug/02/fact-checking-fox-news-analysts-pro-trump-book-rus/
title: Fact-checking Fox News analyst’s pro-Trump book ‘The Russia Hoax’
review_date: 2018-07-25T16:41:57Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced in February that "the Russia collusion investigation is over."


claimant: Jeanine Pirro
claim_date: 2018-07-17T00:00:00Z
title: Jeanine Pirro’s new book falsely declares the Russia investigation over
review_date: 2018-07-25T16:41:57Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced in February that "the Russia collusion investigation is over."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/25/jeanine-pirro/jeanine-pirros-new-book-falsely-declares-russia-in/


text: "Bibles banned in California moves one step closer to evil reality."
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
title: Recirculated video recycles false claim that California moved to outlaw the Bible
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/07/facebook-posts/recirculated-video-recycles-false-claim-that-calif/


text: The military arrested the administrator of the Small Business Administration.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
title: SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman wasn’t arrested by the military
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/16/viral-image/sba-administrator-isabella-casillas-guzman-wasnt-a/


text: The Democratic Party "is the oldest continuous political party in the world."
claimant: Tim Kaine
claim_date: 2016-08-05T00:00:00Z
title: Is the Democratic Party the oldest continuous political party in the world?
review_date: 2016-10-25T17:29:05Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/24/tim-kaine/democratic-party-oldest-continuous-political-party/


claimant: Jerry Jones
claim_date: 2016-04-22T00:00:00Z
title: Pants on Fire: Jerry Jones says 'absurd' to firmly link football, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
review_date: 2016-04-25T15:40:14Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says it’s "absurd" to say there’s enough data to establish a link between playing football and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/apr/22/jerry-jones/pants-fire-jerry-jones-says-absurd-firmly-link-foo/


text: The New York Times reported on a conservative activist’s “superdiarrhea.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-07-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t a real New York Times headline about a conservative activist’s illness
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/22/viral-image/no-isnt-real-new-york-times-headline-about-conserv/


claimant: Tweets
claim_date: 2021-11-03T00:00:00Z
title: Fox says live reporting of Va. governor election turnout tallies not manipulated
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Fox News went from 97% reporting to 94% in Virginia. The fraud is so blatant it's not funny anymore.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/08/tweets/fox-says-live-reporting-va-governor-election-turno/


text: “New autopsy reports suggest Jeffrey Epstein most likely died from COVID-19 complications.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-04-20T00:00:00Z
title: There’s no new autopsy report linking Jeffrey Epstein’s death to COVID-19
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/viral-image/theres-no-new-autopsy-report-linking-jeffrey-epste/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/feb/08/fact-checking-joe-bidens-2023-state-union-address/
title: Fact-checking Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address
review_date: 2023-02-08T05:10:55Z
textual_rating: Partly accurate
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The 2021 infrastructure act is "the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System.”


claimant: Jeff Greenfield
claim_date: 2018-02-14T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2018-02-15T23:48:56Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/15/jeff-greenfield/mostly-false-18-us-school-shootings-so-far-2018-an/

title:
Mostly False: 18 U.S. school shootings so far in 2018 and 18 in rest of the world over past 20 years


text: "Bill Gates just admitted that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines don’t work well."
claimant: Tweets
claim_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/17/tweets/bill-gates-said-we-need-vaccines-halt-transmission/

title:
Bill Gates said we need vaccines that halt transmission. He didn’t say the COVID-19 shots don’t work


text: Says Ron Johnson gave himself a $10 million "sweetheart corporate payout."
claimant: Russ Feingold
claim_date: 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
title: Did Ron Johnson approve a $10 million payout for himself?
review_date: 2016-09-09T15:48:42Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/sep/09/russ-feingold/did-ron-johnson-approve-10m-bonus-himself/


text: Says Christopher Miller is “in charge of the military.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
title: No, Christopher Miller isn’t still defense secretary
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/20/facebook-posts/no-christopher-miller-isnt-still-defense-secretary/


claimant: House Republican staff
claim_date: 2019-12-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/dec/03/fact-checking-house-republicans-impeachment-report/
title: Fact-checking House Republicans’ impeachment report defending Trump on Ukraine
review_date: 2019-12-03T22:21:51Z
textual_rating: Needs context
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“U.S. security assistance ultimately flowed to Ukraine without the Ukrainian government taking any action to investigate President Trump’s political rival.”


claimant: Joyce Beatty
claim_date: 2016-05-25T00:00:00Z
title: A thousand child sex-trafficking victims yearly in Ohio? Nope
review_date: 2016-06-10T15:36:52Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
In Ohio, "each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 more are at risk."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/10/joyce-beatty/thousand-child-sex-trafficking-victims-yearly-ohio/


claimant: Tim Moore
claim_date: 2016-05-05T00:00:00Z
title: NC House speaker says 80 percent think bathrooms should be separated by biological gender
review_date: 2016-05-17T21:31:01Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says 80 percent of North Carolinians support "the concept that men should not be in women’s restrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, etc."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/14/tim-moore/nc-house-speaker-says-80-percent-think-bathrooms-s/


claimant: Tom Cotton
claim_date: 2016-07-03T00:00:00Z
title: Tom Cotton: Hillary Clinton pushed reset with Russia months after it invaded Georgia
review_date: 2016-07-03T23:32:43Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Hillary Clinton "was literally present when we pressed the reset button with Russia just a few months after Russia had invaded Georgia."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/03/tom-cotton/tom-cotton-hillary-clinton-pushed-reset-russia-mon/


claimant: Kamala Harris
claim_date: 2018-07-19T00:00:00Z
title: Is housing unaffordable for full-time minimum-wage workers in 99 percent of counties in America?
review_date: 2018-07-25T22:06:44Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In 99% of counties in America, someone making the minimum wage working full time can’t afford a 1-bedroom apartment."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/25/kamala-harris/housing-unaffordable-full-time-minimum-wage-worker/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-09-13T00:00:00Z
title: Does Beto O'Rourke's 'criminal record' mean he can't buy a gun?
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Beto O’Rourke wants to confiscate guns because he can’t buy one himself due to his criminal record."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/18/facebook-posts/would-beto-orourkes-criminal-history-prevent-him-p/


text: “Disney pushes ‘We love Satan’ in new family Christmas movie.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, Disney isn’t promoting Satan in ‘The Santa Clauses’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/30/viral-image/no-disney-isnt-promoting-satan-in-the-santa-clause/


claimant: Stefan Mychajliw
claim_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
title: Is Erie County’s health commissioner paid roughly the same as Anthony Fauci?
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The (Erie Co., N.Y.) health commissioner makes more than the governor, the vice president of the United States, and has a salary that is comparable to Dr. Anthony Fauci.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/05/stefan-mychajliw/erie-countys-health-commissioner-paid-roughly-same/


text: “Tuck-friendly” bathing suits at Target “are available in kids’ sizes.”
claimant: Matt Walsh
claim_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, Target is not selling ‘tuck-friendly’ swimwear for kids
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/23/matt-walsh/no-target-is-not-selling-tuck-friendly-swimwear-fo/


text: "Some of the safest communities in the United States are along the border."
claimant: Jorge Ramos
claim_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
title: Jorge Ramos: Border communities some of the safest in the United States
review_date: 2017-05-17T21:24:05Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/17/jorge-ramos/jorge-ramos-border-communities-some-safest-country/


text: The White House Visitor Center is displaying a photo of a fake President Joe Biden.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-03-06T00:00:00Z
title: That White House Visitors Center photo looks like Joe Biden, because it is of Joe Biden
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/09/facebook-posts/white-house-visitors-center-photo-looks-joe-biden/


text: No, Biden didn’t give his used face mask to Justice Stephen Breyer
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
title: No, Biden didn’t give his used face mask to Justice Stephen Breyer
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/08/viral-image/no-biden-didnt-give-his-used-face-mask-justice-ste/


text: The newly drawn congressional district map in Arkansas “keeps communities together.”
claimant: Tom Cotton
claim_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Tom Cotton on Arkansas’ new congressional map
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/22/tom-cotton/fact-checking-tom-cotton-arkansas-new-congressiona/


claimant: Rudy Giuliani
claim_date: 2020-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/nov/20/giuliani-trump-legal-team-push-conspiracy-theories/
title: Rudy Giuliani, Trump legal team push conspiracy theories, baseless claims about 2020 election
review_date: 2020-11-20T23:25:56Z
textual_rating: They didn’t decertify.
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says of a lawsuit filed in Michigan, "Trump v. Benson is a case that we dismissed today because that case was attempting to get the Wayne County Board of Supervisors to decertify. Well, they did. They decertified."


claimant: Ronna McDaniel
claim_date: 2018-03-28T00:00:00Z
title: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says U.S. Census Bureau has asked citizenship questions for decades
review_date: 2018-04-03T18:18:18Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The census "for years and years and years, decades, has asked, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States of America?’"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/apr/03/ronna-mcdaniel/rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-says-us-census-bureau-ask/


text: In cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the United States is “the leader in the world by far.”
claimant: Dan Sullivan
claim_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
title: Does the US lead in cutting greenhouse gases? It depends on how you look at it
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/06/dan-sullivan/does-us-lead-cutting-greenhouse-gases-it-depends-h/


text: Image says Tom Hanks was photographed wearing a T-shirt with progressive slogans on it.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-20T00:00:00Z
title: No, Tom Hanks did not wear a T-shirt with progressive slogans
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/03/facebook-posts/no-tom-hanks-did-not-wear-t-shirt-progressive-slog/


text: After the Capitol insurrection, “one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa."
claimant: Michael van der Veen
claim_date: 2021-02-12T00:00:00Z
title: Trump impeachment defense lawyer wrongly singles out antifa in Capitol riot
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/michael-van-der-veen/trump-impeachment-defense-lawyer-wrongly-singles-o/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-10-29T00:00:00Z
title: Trump, Obama story on ‘vacation scam’ was fabricated by satire website
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Obama used government funds to pay for his personal vacations for the next 20 years and Trump sent him a bill.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/25/facebook-posts/trump-obama-story-vacation-scam-was-fabricated-sat/


claimant: Newt Gingrich
claim_date: 2012-01-30T00:00:00Z
title: Newt Gingrich says government would impose 'Obamacare' standards on religious institutions
review_date: 2016-07-15T16:09:37Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jan/31/newt-gingrich/newt-gingrich-says-obama-administration-would-impo/


claimant: Simone Gold
claim_date: 2020-07-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jul/28/fact-checking-video-doctors-talking-about-coronavi/
title: Fact-checking a video of doctors talking about coronavirus, hydroxychloroquine
review_date: 2020-07-28T22:25:06Z
textual_rating: Ignores how virus spreads
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"So the case number is almost irrelevant. And that’s because there’s a lot of inaccuracies with the testing. And also even if the test is accurate, most people are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. So it’s not that important to know."


text: "Texas Church shooter was Antifa and wanted to start (a) ‘communist revolution.’ "
claimant: YourNewsWire.com
claim_date: 2017-11-05T00:00:00Z
title: Fake news: No proof Antifa, communism compelled Texas shooter Devin Kelley
review_date: 2017-11-06T22:34:50Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/06/yournewswirecom/fake-news-no-proof-antifa-communism-compelled-texa/


text: Says “31 U.S. troops” were “killed in Afghanistan yesterday.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2015-08-10T00:00:00Z
title: Attack of US Army helicopter in Afghanistan occurred in 2011, not ‘yesterday’
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/23/facebook-posts/attack-us-army-helicopter-afghanistan-occurred-201/


text: "Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium is flooded after mocking God!”
claimant: TikTok video
claim_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
title: Video shows reflected light from wet surface, not flooded Dodger Stadium
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/22/tiktok-posts/video-shows-reflected-light-from-wet-surface-not-f/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z
title: Quote about watching TV by candlelight originated with a comedian, not Marjorie Taylor Greene
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching TV by candlelight.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/18/viral-image/quote-about-watching-tv-candlelight-originated-com/


claimant: Scott Peters
claim_date: 2017-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: Would Trump’s border wall cost the same as one and a half U.S. aircraft carriers?
review_date: 2017-04-28T23:04:31Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/28/scott-peters/would-trumps-border-wall-cost-same-one-and-half-us/


claimant: Steve Milloy
claim_date: 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: Particulate matter is not ‘junk science.’ Decades of research show it affects human health
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Particulate matter, found in wildfire smoke, has “no effect” on human health and is “total junk science.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/20/steve-milloy/particulate-matter-is-not-junk-science-decades-of/


text: The “3 red stripes” in Joe Biden’s campaign logo refer to a Chinese socialist slogan.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-10-20T00:00:00Z
title: The Biden campaign logo does not pay homage to a Chinese socialist slogan
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/22/facebook-posts/biden-campaign-logo-does-not-pay-homage-chinese-so/


text: Says Phil Bredesen "lured illegal immigrants to Tennessee."
claimant: Marsha Blackburn
claim_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
title: Marsha Blackburn falsely says Phil Bredesen lured illegal immigrants to Tennessee
review_date: 2018-10-25T21:36:11Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/25/marsha-blackburn/marsha-blackburn-falsely-says-phil-bredesen-lured-/


text: "President Obama used" his DACA order "to unilaterally confer U.S. citizenship."
claimant: Ken Paxton
claim_date: 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
title: Ken Paxton makes unfounded claim that Barack Obama used DACA to 'unilaterally confer' citizenship
review_date: 2017-09-15T15:06:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/sep/15/ken-paxton/ken-paxton-obama-daca-citizenship-incorrect-claim-/


claimant: Chris Larson
claim_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, GOP did oppose $40 million for lead pipe replacement because it helped Milwaukee too much
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/04/chris-larson/yes-gop-did-oppose-40-million-lead-pipe-replacemen/


claimant: Stacey Abrams
claim_date: 2018-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: Are the majority of Georgians in jail because they can't pay bail?
review_date: 2018-02-21T20:56:45Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The majority of Georgians incarcerated in local jails have never been convicted of crime. They are simply too poor to pay their bail."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/21/stacey-abrams/majority-georgians-jail-locked-being-too-poor-pay-/


text: The U.S. Geological Survey increased Yellowstone volcano eruption threat level to "high"
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2018-10-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, Yellowstone volcano's eruption threat level did not increase in 2018
review_date: 2018-11-03T16:08:32Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/03/blog-posting/no-yellowstone-volcanos-eruption-threat-level-did-/


text: Says Democrats blocked his efforts at police reform.
claimant: Tim Scott
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
title: Bipartisan police reform has been a struggle in the Senate. Here’s the story
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/30/tim-scott/sen-tim-scott-says-democrats-blocked-his-police-re/


claimant: Bernie Sanders
claim_date: 2017-05-25T00:00:00Z
title: Bernie Sanders inflates Trump tax plan benefits to billionaires
review_date: 2017-05-31T22:08:44Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Donald "Trump’s budget gives a $100 billion tax break to three of the wealthiest families."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/31/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-inflates-trump-tax-plan-benefits-bi/


text: "There is no law that deals specifically with the term ‘partial-birth abortion.’”
claimant: Xavier Becerra
claim_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
title: Xavier Becerra is wrong that no law addresses partial-birth abortion
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/may/19/xavier-becerra/xavier-becerra-wrong-no-law-deals-partial-birth-ab/


text: Under the American Health Care Act "people with pre-existing conditions are protected."
claimant: American Action Network
claim_date: 2017-05-23T00:00:00Z
title: Conservative group's ad misleads about pre-existing conditions in GOP health care bill
review_date: 2017-05-24T19:49:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/24/american-action-network/conservative-groups-ad-misleads-about-pre-existing/


text: There is "no system to vet" refugees from the Middle East.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-06-13T00:00:00Z
title: Wrong: Donald Trump says there's 'no system to vet' refugees
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/13/donald-trump/wrong-donald-trump-says-theres-no-system-vet-refug/


text: A photo shows the height difference between Donald Trump and Mike Bloomberg.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-02-13T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump isn’t really this much taller than Michael Bloomberg
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/20/viral-image/donald-trump-isnt-really-much-taller-michael-bloom/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-07-09T00:00:00Z
title: People weren’t holding up turned-off phones at Biden’s July 4 event
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A video shows people holding up their phones to film President Joe Biden, but “every phone there is turned off.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/12/facebook-posts/they-did-get-the-pictures-attendees-phones-at-joe/


text: Half of proposed tax breaks would go to the "wealthiest 1 percent."
claimant: Roy Cooper
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
title: NC governor cherry-picks stats showing tax breaks for wealthiest 1 percent
review_date: 2017-12-05T22:22:32Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/dec/05/roy-cooper/nc-governor-cherry-picks-stats-showing-tax-breaks-/


text: Bud Light billboard says “lol CRYBABIES”
claimant: Instagram
claim_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
title: This Bud Light ‘crybabies’ billboard is fabricated
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/14/instagram-posts/this-bud-light-crybabies-billboard-is-fabricated/


text: Wisconsin has "the fastest-shrinking middle class in the country."
claimant: Mahlon Mitchell
claim_date: 2017-11-19T00:00:00Z
title: Here comes that claim again: Does Wisconsin have the fastest-shrinking middle class in the country?
review_date: 2017-11-29T16:53:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/29/mahlon-mitchell/its-close-wisconsin-doesnt-have-fastest-shrinking-/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
title: A Michigan judge has not called for a hand recount
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A judge has ordered a "HAND RECOUNT by an INDEPENDENT COMMISSION in the state of Michigan, following hard evidence of voting fraud by Detroit City Election Commission."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/11/facebook-posts/michigan-judge-has-not-called-hand-recount/


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
title: Claim Viewed By Millions On Social Media Says California Legalized Pedophilia. That Is False.
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"PEDOPHILIA is now LEGAL in CALIFORNIA. Now a 21 year old can have sex with an 11 year old, and not be listed on the sex registry as a sex offender."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/02/facebook-posts/claim-viewed-millions-social-media-says-california/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-01-05T00:00:00Z
title: Is Donald Trump right that the Dow Jones just had its fastest-ever 1,000-point jump?
review_date: 2018-01-08T22:56:21Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average "jumped 1000 points in last 5 weeks, Record fastest 1000 point move in history."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/08/donald-trump/donald-trump-right-dow-jones-had-its-fastest-ever-/


text: A car flooded in Germany had a sticker critical of Greta Thunberg.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-07-18T00:00:00Z
title: Image of flooded car altered to include sticker critical of climate activist Greta Thunberg
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/19/viral-image/image-flooded-car-altered-include-sticker-critical/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jun/16/people-are-reserving-tickets-trumps-tulsa-rally-le/
title: People are reserving tickets to Trump’s Tulsa rally to leave empty seats. It probably won’t work
textual_rating: Not likely to work
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says that if people “scooped up all the tickets for the (Trump campaign) rally in Tulsa,” then Trump could be “speaking to an empty crowd.”


claimant: Delaware Health and Social Services
claim_date: 2019-01-14T00:00:00Z
title: Fate of March food stamps uncertain, but not ruled out, amid shutdown
review_date: 2019-01-15T21:32:17Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"March 2019 and on-going food benefits WILL NOT be available until further notice. Clients are encouraged to use their food benefits as soon as possible in case SNAP benefits are unavailable in March."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/15/delaware-health-and-social-services/are-food-stamps-going-be-unavailable-march/


text: Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."
claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2016-05-02T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden says cervical cancer 'totally preventable' in Africa
review_date: 2016-05-05T22:15:19Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/05/joe-biden/biden-says-cervical-cancertotally-preventable-afri/


text: "When the House wants to stop Enterprise Florida ... they’re hurting our rural communities."
claimant: Gov. Rick Scott
claim_date: 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
title: Gov. Rick Scott says cutting Enterprise Florida will hurt rural areas
review_date: 2017-02-22T16:46:14Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/22/rick-scott/war-florida-house-about-enterprise-florida-gov-ric/


text: Says Kaleb Torres, a young spokesperson for Shriners Hospitals for Children, has died.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kaleb from Shriners Hospitals commercials didn’t die
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/facebook-posts/no-kaleb-shriners-hospitals-commercials-didnt-die/


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2021-08-15T00:00:00Z
title: Biden, Harris questioned Trump not vaccines; they back some vaccine requirements
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris “continuously questioned the vaccine during the campaign” but now “they support vaccine cards and forced vaccinations.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/20/instagram-posts/biden-harris-questioned-trump-not-vaccines-they-ba/


text: Prince Harry and Meghan “have finally signed the divorce papers.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-06-16T00:00:00Z
title: No, Prince Harry and Meghan didn’t get divorced
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/21/facebook-posts/no-prince-harry-and-meghan-didnt-get-divorced/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z
title: No, that Gene Hackman quote about Trump is misattributed and incomplete
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Quotes Gene Hackman as saying that Trump could "easily turn out to be one of the best presidents that America has ever seen."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/21/facebook-posts/no-gene-hackman-quote-about-trump-misattributed-an/


claimant: Republican National Committee
claim_date: 2022-04-27T00:00:00Z
title: RNC tweets distortion of what Biden said to teachers about kids in their classrooms
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Biden to teachers: ‘They're not somebody else's children. They're yours when you're in the classroom.’”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/28/republican-national-committee-republican/rnc-tweets-distortion-what-biden-said-teachers-abo/


claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2018-02-17T00:00:00Z
title: VP Mike Pence says government nabbing 7 terrorists or suspected terrorists a day on southern border
review_date: 2018-02-21T22:37:55Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says that "along the southern border of the U.S.," the government apprehends "seven individuals a day who are either known or suspected terrorists."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/21/mike-pence/pants-fire-mike-pences-claim-about-nabbing-7-terro/


claimant: Heidi Heitkamp
claim_date: 2018-08-16T00:00:00Z
title: Did Kevin Cramer’s votes harm pre-existing condition coverage for 300,000 people?
review_date: 2018-08-24T16:17:27Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Kevin Cramer voted to let insurance companies go back to denying coverage for 300,000 North Dakotans with pre-existing conditions.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/24/heidi-heitkamp/kevin-cramers-votes-pre-existing-conditions/


claimant: Vivek Ramaswamy
claim_date: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/aug/24/fact-checks-first-republican-presidential-debate/
title: Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News
review_date: 2023-08-24T09:43:08Z
textual_rating: Lacks evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The reality is the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy. And so the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change."


claimant: Viral Image
claim_date: 2019-11-19T00:00:00Z
title: No, gruesome photo of tortured man isn’t Benghazi victim Chris Stevens
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says a photo of a tortured man is U.S. diplomat Chris Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/20/viral-image/no-gruesome-photo-tortured-man-isnt-benghazi-victi/


claimant: David Perdue
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-check: Sen. Perdue touts US power program for Africa
review_date: 2017-03-21T14:25:39Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"USAID put $8 billion up and attracted more than $45 billion in a public-private partnership called Power Africa."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/mar/21/david-perdue/sen-perdue-touts-us-power-program-africa/


claimant: Gavin Newsom
claim_date: 2018-08-17T00:00:00Z
title: Gavin Newsom’s misleading claim on John Cox ‘parroting’ Trump on family separations
review_date: 2018-09-12T20:50:17Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says John Cox "parroted, parroted Trump — almost verbatim — on the children’s separation issues at the border."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/12/gavin-newsom/gavin-newsoms-misleading-claim-john-cox-parroting-/


text: “Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.”
claimant: J.D. Vance
claim_date: 2022-09-04T00:00:00Z
title: J.D. Vance distorts Tim Ryan’s words on the criminal justice system, Jim Crow comparison
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/sep/08/jd-vance/jd-vance-distorts-tim-ryans-words-police-race/


claimant: North Carolina Democratic Party
claim_date: 2018-12-27T00:00:00Z
title: The NC Democrats overstated this law’s effect on election investigations
review_date: 2019-01-07T22:21:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Legislators are "ramming through a provision that’ll make investigations like #NC09 less transparent."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/07/north-carolina-democratic/nc-democrats-overstated-laws-effect-election-inves/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/apr/15/ad-watch-donald-trumps-video-about-joe-biden-and-c/
title: Ad Watch: Donald Trump’s video about Joe Biden and China is rife with omission, deceptive editing
review_date: 2020-04-15T22:09:06Z
textual_rating: Words spliced together
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Joe Biden said of the travel restriction on China due to the coronavirus, "banning all travel will not stop it."


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-05-12T00:00:00Z
title: Claims that Democrats didn’t attend a hearing about the border are wrong
review_date: 2019-05-22T19:34:53Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Not one Democrat showed up to listen to border officials about the dangerous situation at our border. Not one!!! NOT ONE!"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/22/viral-image/claims-democrats-didnt-attend-hearing-about-border/


text: "I'm not a politician."
claimant: Dan Kohl
claim_date: 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
title: Why Herb Kohl nephew Dan Kohl, opponent of Glenn Grothman, straddles line on being a 'politician'
review_date: 2018-09-06T18:18:13Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/06/dan-kohl/why-dan-kohl-democrat-running-against-us-rep-glenn/


claimant: Hillary Clinton
claim_date: 2016-10-09T00:00:00Z
title: Clinton said terrorists use Trump's remarks about Muslims for recruitment
review_date: 2016-10-10T04:19:36Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump said about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/10/hillary-clinton/clinton-said-terrorists-use-trumps-remarks-about-m/


text: A video shows Rep. Matt Gaetz threatening Robert Mueller with jail time.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-12-12T00:00:00Z
title: No, this video doesn't show Matt Gaetz threatening Robert Mueller with jail time
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/20/facebook-posts/no-video-doesnt-show-matt-gaetz-threatening-robert/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-05-21T00:00:00Z
title: A misused shingles photo fuels a conspiracy theory about monkeypox
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A 2021 article about monkeypox that used a photo of a shingles rash proves the monkeypox virus is a hoax.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/23/facebook-posts/misused-shingles-photo-fuels-conspiracy-theory-abo/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/sep/16/fact-checking-donald-trumps-abc-town-hall/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s ABC News town hall
review_date: 2020-09-16T18:54:50Z
textual_rating: Mixed
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Dr. (Anthony) Fauci said that we were, we’ve done a really good job, and we didn’t mislead anybody."


text: Says Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “faces espionage charges.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-01-04T00:00:00Z
title: No grounds for claim that Raffensperger could face spy charges over Trump call
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/06/facebook-posts/no-grounds-claim-raffensperger-could-face-spy-char/


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
title: Claim on Republican Party origin oversimplifies Democrats' position
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the Republican Party started in Ripon, Wis., “to counter the Democrats’ plans to expand slavery.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/29/facebook-posts/republican-party-origin-democrats-slavery/


text: Before the presidential campaign, "I didn't know Steve (Bannon)."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
title: Did he or didn’t he? Trump contradicts himself on whether he knew Steve Bannon
review_date: 2017-04-12T12:49:23Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/12/donald-trump/did-he-or-didnt-he-trump-contradicts-himself-wheth/


text: Trump Says Democrats "want to give (undocumented immigrants) cars."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-10-20T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says Democrats want to give cars to undocumented immigrants. Nope
review_date: 2018-10-22T22:29:55Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/22/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-democrats-want-give-cars-undocum/


text: A photo showing young children saluting troops was captured in Ukraine in 2022.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of children sending off Ukrainian troops is from 2016, not 2022
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/viral-image/photo-children-sending-ukrainian-troops-2016-not-2/


claimant: Kamala Harris
claim_date: 2019-02-24T00:00:00Z
title: Kamala Harris tries to ‘rewrite history’ with False claim on San Francisco ICE policy
review_date: 2019-03-01T04:46:11Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says handing over arrested undocumented youth to ICE "was an unintended consequence" of a 2008 San Francisco policy that she supported.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/28/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-tries-rewrite-history-false-claim-sa/


text: Says Ted Strickland admits his record on jobs and taxes is "mixed and spotty."
claimant: Fighting for Ohio PAC
claim_date: 2016-05-06T00:00:00Z
title: Fighting for Ohio PAC ad takes Ted Strickland’s 'mixed and spotty' quote out of context
review_date: 2016-05-13T19:18:45Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/13/fighting-ohio-pac/fighting-ohio-pac-ad-takes-ted-stricklands-mixed-a/


text: “An overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites support restoring #Roe and legalizing marijuana.”
claimant: Tony Evers
claim_date: 2022-11-14T00:00:00Z
title: Evers right that majorities of Wisconsin voters support restoring Roe v. Wade, legalizing marijuana
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/02/tony-evers/evers-right-majorities-wisconsin-voters-support-re/


claimant: Ted Budd
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
title: What will happen to North Carolina premiums if the AHCA replaces Obamacare?
review_date: 2017-05-10T18:46:36Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says if the AHCA replaces Obamacare it will "significantly reduce insurance premiums in" North Carolina.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/10/ted-budd/what-will-happen-north-carolina-premiums-if-ahca-r/


claimant: Elizabeth Warren
claim_date: 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jan/23/stump-speech-analyzer-elizabeth-warren/
title: The Stump Speech Analyzer: Elizabeth Warren
review_date: 2020-01-23T22:46:42Z
textual_rating: Selective examples
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The wealth tax is like a property tax, except it covers not just "the real estate, but also the stock portfolio, the diamonds, the Rembrandt and the yacht."


text: "Breaking: four million Democrat votes just declared fraudulent."
claimant: The Politico News
claim_date: 2018-02-07T00:00:00Z
title: No, 4 million Democrat votes were not declared fraudulent
review_date: 2018-02-15T20:37:55Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/15/politico-news/no-four-million-democrat-votes-were-not-declared-f/


text: Says Republican lawmakers delayed COVID-19 testing
claimant: Janet Bewley
claim_date: 2021-03-29T00:00:00Z
title: Wisconsin lawmaker overreaches on claim that Republicans delayed COVID testing
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/16/janet-bewley/wisconsin-lawmaker-overreaches-claim-republicans-d/


claimant: Pete Olson
claim_date: 2017-06-09T00:00:00Z
title: Pete Olson said Bill Clinton basically told Loretta Lynch 'we killed Vince Foster'
review_date: 2017-07-05T21:23:31Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says that Bill Clinton "basically" told then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch in 2016 that "we killed Vince Foster."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/05/pete-olson/pete-olson-said-bill-clinton-basically-told-lorett/


text: Rep. Tim Ryan “wanted to decriminalize fentanyl.”
claimant: J.D. Vance
claim_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: J.D. Vance accused Tim Ryan of wanting to decriminalize fentanyl, but Ryan was talking about pot
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/31/jd-vance/vance-wrongly-says-ryan-wanted-decriminalize-fenta/


text: “The gas station where they initially attacked” Kyle Rittenhouse “is owned by his grandparents.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-11-20T00:00:00Z
title: Rittenhouse wasn’t attacked at grandparents’ gas station before Kenosha shooting
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/24/facebook-posts/rittenhouse-wasnt-attacked-grandparents-gas-statio/


text: Says as GOP was picking a convention city, "I recommended Ohio."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-07-18T00:00:00Z
title: Trump says, without proof, that he recommended Ohio for GOP convention
review_date: 2016-07-19T04:57:33Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/19/donald-trump/trump-says-without-proof-he-recommended-ohio-gop-c/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-07-16T00:00:00Z
title: Trump’s False claim that his presidential approval rating is ‘not bad’
review_date: 2017-07-17T19:13:54Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says his job approval poll numbers are "not bad" relative to other presidents at this point in his presidency.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/17/donald-trump/trumps-false-claim-his-presidential-approval-ratin/


text: Quotes Tom Brady as saying, “If anyone on my team kneels, I quit.”
claimant: Tweets
claim_date: 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, Tom Brady didn’t threaten to quit if teammates kneeled during anthem
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/27/tweets/no-tom-brady-didnt-threaten-quit-over-teammates-kn/


claimant: Public Interest Legal Foundation
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
title: Millions of California ballots were simply unused, not ‘unaccounted for,’ experts say
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
In California, there were “10 million mail ballots unaccounted for” in the November midterm election.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/26/public-interest-legal-foundation/millions-of-california-ballots-were-simply-unused/


text: The attack on Paul Pelosi was a “false flag.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2022-11-03T00:00:00Z
title: No, the Paul Pelosi attack wasn’t a ‘false flag’
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/05/instagram-posts/no-the-paul-pelosi-attack-wasnt-a-false-flag/


claimant: Nancy Pelosi
claim_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Nancy Pelosi overstates Republican gains in impeachment process
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says under the Democratic impeachment inquiry, Republicans get "more rights than we ever received in any of the other impeachment proceedings."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/04/nancy-pelosi/nancy-pelosi-overstates-republican-gains-impeachme/


text: "Hillary Clinton spied on President Trump."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump’s Save America PAC falsely claims Hillary Clinton spied on Trump
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/donald-trump/donald-trumps-save-america-pac-falsely-claims-hill/


claimant: Natural News
claim_date: 2021-12-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, food cannot be engineered to create infertility in Black people
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Food crops can be engineered right now based on existing technology to cause infertility in Black people alone.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/07/naturalnewscom/no-food-cannot-be-engineered-create-infertility-bl/


text: Video shows “articles of impeachment to be filed against President Joe Biden today!”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-08-19T00:00:00Z
title: Old video about Biden impeachment articles is misleadingly repackaged as breaking news
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/22/facebook-posts/old-video-about-biden-impeachment-articles-is-misl/


text: "Right now, here in Texas, wind power is already cheaper than dirty fossil fuels."
claimant: Barack Obama
claim_date: 2016-03-12T00:00:00Z
title: Barack Obama says wind power cheaper in Texas than power from 'dirty fossil fuels'
review_date: 2016-04-13T13:44:27Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/apr/12/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-wind-power-cheaper-texas-power-d/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-09-08T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump didn’t donate $1 million to Hurricane Dorian victims in the Bahamas
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Donald Trump has donated $1 million to a relief fund for the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian while no other politicians have contributed any money.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/10/facebook-posts/donald-trump-didnt-donate-1-million-hurricane-dori/


text: "After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
title: Is U.S. 'finally seeing rising wages,' as Donald Trump said?
review_date: 2018-01-31T04:24:44Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/31/donald-trump/us-finally-seeing-rising-wages-donald-trump-said/


text: "After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking the 2018 State of the Union address
review_date: 2018-01-31T17:18:13Z
textual_rating: Not the whole story
language_code: en
publisher_name: Washington Post
publisher_site: washingtonpost.com
url:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/30/fact-checking-the-2018-state-of-the-union-address/


text: "The noise (from windmills) causes cancer."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump's ridiculous link between cancer, wind turbines
review_date: 2019-04-08T19:39:47Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/08/donald-trump/republicans-dismiss-trumps-windmill-and-cancer-cla/


claimant: Melanie D'Arrigo
claim_date: 2022-02-06T00:00:00Z
title: Tax code offers write-offs for some private plane purchases
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Teachers can only deduct up to $250 for school supplies on their taxes, but billionaires can write off the entire cost of a private jet.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/18/melanie-darrigo/tax-code-offers-write-offs-some-private-plane-purc/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/oct/22/fact-checking-joe-biden-cnns-town-hall/
title: Fact-checking Joe Biden at CNN’s town hall
review_date: 2021-10-22T18:19:07Z
textual_rating: Depends on definition
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"All the talk about all these folks who were going to leave the military if they were mandated — not true. You’ve got about a 90-some percent vaccination rate."


claimant: Hugh Hewitt
claim_date: 2016-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/jul/20/fact-checking-pence-cruz-third-night-republican-na/
title: The third night of the 2016 Republican National Convention, fact-checked
review_date: 2016-07-21T03:52:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"A million Democrats deserted (Howard Dean’s) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year."


claimant: Hugh Hewitt
claim_date: 2016-07-20T00:00:00Z
title: Hugh Hewitt: A million Ohio Democrats voted Republican because of Donald Trump
review_date: 2016-07-21T03:55:01Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"A million Democrats deserted (Howard Dean’s) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/21/hugh-hewitt/hugh-hewitt-million-ohio-democrats-changed-parties/


claimant: Richard Durbin
claim_date: 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z
title: Durbin oversimplifies Supreme Court voting process
review_date: 2017-02-10T21:47:25Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Barack Obama’s nominees met a standard of 60 votes, "a standard that was met by Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choices."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/10/richard-durbin/durbin-oversimplifies-supreme-court-voting-process/


claimant: Unite Here Florida PAC
claim_date: 2018-08-16T00:00:00Z
title: In Florida governor's race, ad attacks Gwen Graham for mega mall project
review_date: 2018-08-22T16:00:31Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Gwen Graham owns a $14 million stake in her family’s company that’s behind the American Dream Mall. ... While Graham and her family will make millions, Florida will be stuck with poverty wage jobs, endangered wildlife and massive traffic congestion."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/22/unite-here-florida-pac/florida-governors-race-ad-attacks-gwen-graham-mega/


text: Video shows Joe Biden faked an interview in front of a green screen.
claimant: YouTube videos
claim_date: 2021-03-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, Biden didn’t fake an interview in front of a green screen
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/18/youtube-videos/no-biden-didnt-fake-interview-front-green-screen/


text: Says Hillary Clinton dressed up in blackface.
claimant: post on Facebook
claim_date: 2019-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, Hillary Clinton wasn't pictured in blackface
review_date: 2019-02-04T21:49:55Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/04/viral-image/no-hillary-clinton-wasnt-pictured-blackface/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/aug/23/fact-checking-president-donald-trumps-campaign-ral/
title: Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix
review_date: 2017-08-23T02:53:28Z
textual_rating: Leaves out 'many sides'
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"This is my exact words. ‘I love all the people of our country’ …. They (the media say), ‘Is he a racist?’ "


text: Says Richard Cordray’s "plan would allow drug dealers to remain on our streets."
claimant: Mike DeWine
claim_date: 2018-09-12T00:00:00Z
title: Mike DeWine misleads about Issue 1, the drug amendment in Ohio
review_date: 2018-09-26T14:42:02Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/26/mike-dewine/mike-dewine-misleads-about-issue-1-drug-amendment-/


claimant: Richard Cordray
claim_date: 2018-07-25T00:00:00Z
title: Unpaid fine by Betsy DeVos PAC subject of misleading attack by Cordray on DeWine in Ohio
review_date: 2018-08-07T16:13:06Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations and Mike DeWine's office refuses to collect the fine."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/07/richard-cordray/unpaid-fine-betsy-devos-pac-subject-misleading-att/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden wrong about Donald Trump holding Bible upside-down
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Donald Trump walked across Lafayette Square to a church and held a Bible upside down.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/18/joe-biden/joe-biden-wrong-about-donald-trump-holding-bible-u/


text: “The sun is not 93 million miles away … it is local and under a firmament dome.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
title: The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, though unfounded theories claim otherwise
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/sep/14/viral-image/sun-about-93-million-miles-away-earth-though-unfou/


claimant: Jesse Jackson
claim_date: 2013-07-18T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2016-05-12T13:55:20Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Homicides against blacks have tripled" since Florida’s "stand your ground" law has been in existence.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/jul/24/jesse-jackson/homicides-blacks-have-tripled-stand-your-ground-wa/

title:
Homicides of blacks have tripled since 'stand your ground' was passed in Florida, Jesse Jackson says


claimant: LaWana Mayfield
claim_date: 2018-04-16T00:00:00Z
title: Charlotte city councilor: pieces of 9/11 planes haven't been produced
review_date: 2018-04-25T21:41:45Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"I am still waiting for someone to produce pieces of the alleged plane” that caused the Twin Towers to collapse.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/apr/25/lawana-mayfield/charlotte-city-councilor-pieces-911-planes-havent-/


text: “Code red emergency - poison released in the air” affecting 127 million people.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Unhealthy’ air quality affected 127 million in June, not August
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/08/facebook-posts/unhealthy-air-quality-affected-127-million-in-june/


claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2020-08-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/27/fact-checking-night-three-2020-rnc/
title: Fact-checking Mike Pence, night 3 of the 2020 RNC
textual_rating: Biden opposes defunding police
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"When asked whether he’d support cutting funding to law enforcement, (Biden) replied, ‘Yes, absolutely.’"


text: Video shows Dr. Anthony Fauci getting “confronted on what was exposed about him last night.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
title: Old video featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci mischaracterized online
review_date: 2023-06-22T23:19:05Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/22/facebook-posts/old-video-featuring-dr-anthony-fauci-mischaracteri/


text: Says court ruling allows abortions in North Carolina "until right before the baby is delivered."
claimant: Tim Moore
claim_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
title: GOP leader wrong about NC abortion law ruling
review_date: 2019-06-27T22:28:21Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/27/tim-moore/gop-leader-wrong-about-nc-abortion-law-ruling/


claimant: Civitas Institute
claim_date: 2019-01-28T00:00:00Z
title: Civitas Institute mostly correct on school choice waitlists in North Carolina
review_date: 2019-02-05T19:34:25Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says "there are almost 60,000 North Carolina children on waiting lists to access a school that works best for them."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/05/civitas-institute/civitas-institute-mostly-correct-school-choice-wai/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-01-04T00:00:00Z
title: Did Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff have access to the White House?
review_date: 2018-01-05T22:19:23Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/05/donald-trump/did-author-michael-wolff-have-access-white-house/


text: YouTube removed Tucker Carlson’s interview with Tony Bobulinski.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: No, YouTube didn’t remove Tucker Carlson’s interview with Tony Bobulinski
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/30/facebook-posts/no-youtube-didnt-remove-tucker-carlsons-interview-/


claimant: Tom Barrett
claim_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
title: Milwaukee Mayor Barrett on target with housing creation claim
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says since he took office, the City of Milwaukee has seen the creation of 7,000 new affordable housing units.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/17/tom-barrett/milwaukee-mayor-barrett-target-housing-creation-cl/


claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2015-03-29T00:00:00Z
title: Did Barack Obama vote for Religious Freedom Restoration Act with 'very same' wording as Indiana's?
review_date: 2016-07-15T13:18:43Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Barack Obama voted for the "very same language" of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation "doesn't have anything to do with this law."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/mar/29/mike-pence/did-barack-obama-vote-religious-freedom-restoratio/


claimant: Viral Image
claim_date: 2019-04-03T00:00:00Z
title: No, 13,506 Marines have not volunteered for White House duty since Trump’s inauguration
review_date: 2019-04-09T14:25:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says "13,506 Marines have applied for White House duty" since Trump’s inauguration. When Obama was president, "no Marines volunteered" but had to be "assigned."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/08/viral-image/no-13506-marines-have-not-volunteered-white-house-/


text: A New York law makes it "now perfectly legal to murder" a baby a minute before it would be born.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-01-23T00:00:00Z
title: No, New York abortion law doesn't let mothers abort babies a minute before they would be born
review_date: 2019-02-01T20:12:35Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/01/viral-image/no-new-york-abortion-law-doesnt-let-mothers-abort-/


claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2017-10-09T00:00:00Z
title: Fake photo changes social message on LeBron James' t-shirt
review_date: 2017-10-12T20:33:54Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A viral image shows LeBron James wearing a T-shirt that reads, "We march, y’all mad. We sit down, y’all mad. We speak up, y’all mad. We die, y’all silent."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/12/viral-image/fake-photo-changes-social-message-lebron-james-t-s/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump wrong about COVID-19 testing on airplanes, trains
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Now, they’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/06/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-about-covid-19-testing-airplane/


claimant: Marcia Fudge
claim_date: 2019-05-08T00:00:00Z
title: In election security hearing, Marcia Fudge misleads about South Carolina, Ohio voting machines
review_date: 2019-05-23T21:18:36Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Ohio "thought that our (voting) machines were so awful we got rid of them, but South Carolina bought them. This is true. South Carolina bought all the machines we got rid of because they were not effective."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/23/marcia-fudge/election-security-hearing-marcia-fudge-misleads-ab/


claimant: Tweets
claim_date: 2022-03-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, Zelensky’s hospital visit video doesn’t feature combat medic who died weeks earlier
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A Ukrainian combat medic who died in February was seen in a video Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted of his visit to see wounded soldiers.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/14/tweets/no-zelenskys-hospital-visit-video-doesnt-feature-c/


claimant: Travis Allen
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
title: Has California’s homeless population ‘skyrocketed’? And how does it rate nationwide?
review_date: 2018-03-27T23:18:45Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Homelessness has skyrocketed across California. We have the nation’s highest homelessness rate and the nation’s highest homeless population."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/27/travis-allen/has-californias-homeless-population-skyrocketed-an/


claimant: Claire McCaskill
claim_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
title: Checking Claire McCaskill on GOP's plan for pre-existing conditions
review_date: 2018-11-05T19:42:31Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The Collins-Nelson bill will not protect pre-existing conditions. It has nothing to do with pre-existing conditions."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/05/claire-mccaskill/checking-claire-mccaskill-gops-plan-pre-existing-c/


claimant: Tim Kaine
claim_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
title: Sorry Tim Kaine, there are no tobacco frescoes on the state capitol's ceilings
review_date: 2019-05-30T19:58:23Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The ceilings of the Virginia Senate and House chambers are "circled by gold-embossed tobacco leaves."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/30/tim-kaine/sorry-tim-kaine-theres-no-tobacco-frescoed-state-c/


text: “Trump vows to end winter heating assistance for elderly and disabled.”
claimant: Democrats Rising
claim_date: 2017-11-26T00:00:00Z
title: Headline misleads about Trump's budget proposal and heating program for poor
review_date: 2018-01-03T22:56:39Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/03/democrats-rising/headline-misleads-about-trumps-budget-proposal-and/


text: “Two stamps needed for mail-in ballots.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z
title: Postal service says its policy is to deliver even mail ballots lacking postage
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/23/facebook-posts/postal-service-says-its-policy-deliver-even-mail-b/


claimant: Ron Johnson
claim_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
title: Some Democrats did and some did not weigh in on Madison pro-life office arson
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
In the immediate wake of a fire and vandalism at the Madison headquarters of an anti-abortion group, Democrats had not condemned “activists who are engaging in this repugnant illegal activity.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/31/ron-johnson/some-democrats-did-and-some-did-not-weigh-madison-/


text: “1,900 food production companies have been destroyed” as part of conspiracy.
claimant: Instagram post
claim_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
title: Fires and accidents at food plants are common, not a conspiracy
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/26/instagram-posts/fires-and-accidents-at-food-plants-are-common-not/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, Trump didn't sign a bill this month to clean up oceans
review_date: 2019-04-02T15:20:33Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"President Trump signed legislation to clean up millions of tons of trash from our oceans and lakes last week."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/27/viral-image/no-trump-didnt-sign-bill-month-clean-oceans/


claimant: Randolph Bracy
claim_date: 2017-04-04T00:00:00Z
title: Has the U.S. Supreme Court banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders?
review_date: 2017-04-06T14:07:34Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/06/randolph-bracy/has-us-supreme-court-banned-all-state-laws-make-ex/


claimant: Jenna Fischer
claim_date: 2017-12-23T00:00:00Z
title: Jenna Fischer of 'The Office' tweets outdated info on teacher tax deduction
review_date: 2017-12-27T21:01:46Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
After enactment of the Republican tax bill, "school teachers can no longer deduct the cost of their classroom supplies on their taxes."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/dec/27/jenna-fischer/jenna-fischer-office-tweets-outdated-info-teacher-/


text: Creflo Dollar has endorsed Republican Donald Trump for president.
claimant: Social
claim_date: 2016-10-17T00:00:00Z
title: They both like expensive jets, but Creflo Dollar did not endorse Donald Trump
review_date: 2016-10-18T23:13:04Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/19/social-media/they-both-expensive-jets-creflo-dollar-did-not-end/


text: Small businesses in West Virginia "make up about 96 percent of our state's economy."
claimant: Joe Manchin
claim_date: 2018-03-21T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Manchin off-target on small business share of West Virginia's economy
review_date: 2018-03-26T22:06:53Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/26/joe-manchin/joe-manchin-target-small-business-share-west-virgi/


text: The National Parks Service posted about children who have been freed from human traffickers.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
title: The idea that Mammoth Cave National Park is imprisoning children? That’s bananas
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/11/viral-image/the-idea-that-mammoth-cave-national-park-is-impris/


text: “Every single Republican blocked Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS appointment.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
title: Three Republicans voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, despite claims
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/17/facebook-posts/these-are-3-republicans-who-voted-confirm-ketanji/


text: Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-08-15T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump said wages 'haven’t gone up for a long time,' but that's wrong
review_date: 2017-08-17T21:49:30Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/17/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-wages-havent-gone-long-time-s-wr/


text: Images of crowds and crowded arenas were taken "today in Tulsa Oklahoma"
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-06-20T00:00:00Z
title: Photos show a protest and other events, not Trump’s Tulsa rally
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/23/viral-image/photos-show-protest-and-other-events-not-trumps-ra/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump leaves out part of the story with New Mexico border barrier
review_date: 2019-02-25T16:49:44Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule!

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-said-border-wall-built-new-mexico-tru/


text: A 1988 exorcism took place in the only house still standing after Hurricane Ike.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-08-28T00:00:00Z
title: No, a 1988 exorcism didn’t happen in this house that survived Hurricane Ike
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/03/viral-image/no-1988-exorcism-didnt-happen-house-survived-hurri/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-04-19T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, this really is a photo of Jacksonville Beach during the pandemic
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A photo taken by a journalist showing a beach in Jacksonville, Fla., isn't from after the government reopened the beach as news reports have claimed.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/21/viral-image/yes-photo-jacksonville-beach-during-pandemic/


text: Says the GOP plan he supports is "the biggest tax cut in U.S. history."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-10-25T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump wrong that his tax plan is biggest cut ever
review_date: 2017-10-26T21:50:33Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/26/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-his-tax-plan-biggest-cut-ever/


text: "Hillary Clinton invented ISIS with her stupid policies. She is responsible for ISIS."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-07-17T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump wrongly blames Hillary Clinton for creation of ISIS
review_date: 2016-07-20T22:21:12Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/20/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrongly-blames-hillary-clinton-creati/


text: A bike a boy chained to a tree in Washington state in 1914 is now a fallen soldier memorial.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-05-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, this bicycle in a tree is not a memorial to a fallen soldier
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/19/viral-image/no-bicycle-tree-not-memorial-fallen-soldier/


text: Warren Buffett asked people to forward a chain email about the "Congressional Reform Act of 2019."
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-09-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/06/facebook-posts/no-warren-buffett-isnt-asking-you-forward-email-ab/

title:
No, Warren Buffett isn’t asking you to forward an email about the “Congressional Reform Act of 2019”


claimant: Facebook Post
claim_date: 2021-06-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, Fauci's emails don't prove he knew hydroxychloroquine worked against COVID-19
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Emails show that Fauci knew "hydroxychloroquine worked [and] emailed friends about it being effective."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/15/facebook-posts/no-faucis-emails-dont-prove-he-knew-hydroxychloroq/


text: “They put” monkeypox in the water in Atlanta.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-08-09T00:00:00Z
title: Monkeypox in wastewater isn’t evidence of tampering
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/15/viral-image/monkeypox-wastewater-isnt-evidence-tampering/


text: Donald Trump tweeted, "Danny DeVito supports baby murder."
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-11-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, Donald Trump didn’t say Danny DeVito 'supports baby murder'
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/09/viral-image/no-donald-trump-didnt-say-danny-devito-supports-ba/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
title: Trump correctly tweets that Democrats mistakenly tweeted photo of child migrants being held in 2014
review_date: 2018-05-29T20:40:26Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-correctly-tweets-democrats-mistakenly-tweete/


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z
title: Gender-affirming surgery is not banned for minors in Europe, but is mostly inaccessible
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Norway, Finland, Sweden, Holland, and the UK have now banned gender transition surgery for minors.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/sep/06/instagram-posts/gender-affirming-surgery-is-not-banned-for-minors/


text: Says a photograph shows Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett burning the United States flag.
claimant: Vets for Trump
claim_date: 2017-09-28T00:00:00Z
title: Fake photo shows Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett burning American flag
review_date: 2017-09-29T19:23:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/sep/29/vets-trump/fake-photo-shows-seattle-seahawks-player-michael-b/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-06-30T00:00:00Z
title: News outlets didn’t ignore a six-time Olympic medalist due to her stance on gun rights
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
News organizations and sponsors ignored the accomplishments of Kim Rhode, a six-time Olympic medalist, because of her support of the Second Amendment.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/09/facebook-posts/news-outlets-didnt-ignore-six-time-olympic-medalis/


claimant: Shelley Moore Capito
claim_date: 2019-08-20T00:00:00Z
title: Could West Virginians be out $70,000 a year under the Green New Deal?
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"A study shows that households neighboring West Virginia could be on the hook for upwards of $70,000 in the first year alone under the Green New Deal!"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/08/shelley-moore-capito/could-west-virginians-be-out-70000-year-under-gree/


text: “Merrick Garland catches Trump planning to flee.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-10-09T00:00:00Z
title: There’s no evidence that Trump was fleeing the country, or that Garland caught him doing so
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/12/facebook-posts/theres-no-evidence-trump-was-fleeing-country-or-ga/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-01-07T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden is right that more than 60 of Trump’s election lawsuits lacked merit
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
In more than 60 cases, judges “looked at the allegations that Trump was making and determined they were without any merit.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/08/joe-biden/joe-biden-right-more-60-trumps-election-lawsuits-l/


claimant: Fox News Channel
claim_date: 2018-08-19T00:00:00Z
title: Misleading claim by ‘Fox & Friends’ on California kids meal bill
review_date: 2018-08-22T00:58:14Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"California is proposing to legislate what drinks restaurants can serve your kids, only giving two options: milk or water."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/21/fox-news-channel/misleading-claim-fox-friends-california-kids-meal-/


text: “It’s actually the safest time to fly.”
claimant: Ainsley Earhardt
claim_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
title: Fox & Friends host says now is ‘the safest time to fly.’ It’s not
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/13/ainsley-earhardt/fox-friends-host-says-now-safest-time-fly-its-not/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-08-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/28/fact-checking-donald-trumps-2020-rnc-speech/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2020 RNC speech
review_date: 2020-08-28T05:11:11Z
textual_rating: Mixed accuracy
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Biden voted for the NAFTA disaster, ... he supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization ... After those Biden calamities, the United States lost 1 in 4 manufacturing jobs."


claimant: National Republican Senatorial Committee
claim_date: 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
title: Ad blaming Cortez Masto for crime upticks as AG too narrow, misleads on blame
review_date: 2016-08-10T16:59:57Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In Catherine Cortez Masto's last term as attorney general, Nevada murder went up 11 percent, robbery went up 28 percent, rape 51 percent. When Cortez Masto left office, Nevada ranked as America's third most dangerous state."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/10/national-republican-senatorial-committee/ad-blaming-cortez-masto-crime-upticks-ag-too-narro/


text: Jill Biden said, “Whatever is on Hunter’s laptop is not important.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-10-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, Jill Biden didn’t say this about Hunter Biden’s laptop
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/29/viral-image/no-jill-biden-didnt-say-about-hunter-bidens-laptop/


text: Joe Biden said, "the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-04-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, Joe Biden didn’t say the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
review_date: 2019-05-02T15:37:07Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/01/viral-image/no-joe-biden-didnt-say-germans-bombed-pearl-harbor/


text: Activities by foreign governments had "absolutely no effect on the outcome of this election."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-01-06T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-01-08T22:37:19Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jan/08/donald-trump/donald-trumps-dubious-claim-foreign-governments-ha/

title:
Donald Trump's dubious claim that foreign governments had 'absolutely no effect' on election outcome


text: "In one Colorado hospital, 50 percent of newborns tested had marijuana in their system."
claimant: Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy
claim_date: 2016-10-11T00:00:00Z
title: Anti-recreational marijuana ad cherry-picks data for claim on newborn babies and pot
review_date: 2016-11-03T20:30:20Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/03/arizonans-responsible-drug-policy/anti-recreational-marijuana-ad-misleads-claim-newb/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2019-12-12T00:00:00Z
title: California Firefighters ‘Spoke Out’ Against Trump? Claim In Biden Ad Is True.
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
California firefighters decided "to speak out" against President Trump because his tweet about the state’s wildfires "contained so much misinformation."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/18/joe-biden/california-firefighters-spoke-out-against-presiden/


claimant: Jay Sekulow
claim_date: 2017-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/aug/03/3-times-trump-team-changed-its-story-russia/
title: 3 times Trump team changed its story on Russia
review_date: 2017-08-03T16:08:40Z
textual_rating: Pres. Trump 'Weighed In'
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The president was not -- did not -- draft the response. The response came from Donald Trump Jr. and -- I’m sure -- in consultation with his lawyer.”


claimant: Stacey Abrams
claim_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Stacey Abrams’ comparison of census response rates
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Right now, we are about 4% behind the (census) response rate where we were in 2010. But for Black and Latino and Native American communities, they’re behind by 10%.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/31/stacey-abrams/fact-checking-stacey-abrams-comparison-census-resp/


text: Winning enough pledged delegates is "not impossible."
claimant: Bernie Sanders
claim_date: 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z
title: Sanders: It's not impossible to get enough delegates to win
review_date: 2016-05-02T21:40:54Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/02/bernie-sanders/sanders-its-not-impossible-get-enough-delegates-wi/


claimant: Ron DeSantis
claim_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
title: Trump suggested raising Social Security retirement age in 2000, but hasn’t backed it since
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/12/ron-desantis/trump-suggested-raising-social-security-retirement/


text: “New York Times editor admits Biden sexual assault story was censored at behest of Biden campaign.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-14T00:00:00Z
title: Claim that New York Times 'censored' Joe Biden sex assault story is wrong
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/04/facebook-posts/Claim-New-York-Times-censored-Biden-sex-assault/


claimant: Ron Paul
claim_date: 2020-03-16T00:00:00Z
title: Ron Paul wrong to say no basis for coronavirus death rate
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Anthony Fauci’s statement that the coronavirus death rate is 10 times that of the seasonal flu is “a claim without any scientific basis."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/18/ron-paul/ron-paul-wrong-say-no-basis-coronavirus-death-rate/


text: “Scientists warn eggs are causing thousands of people to ‘suddenly’ form blood clots.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-01-26T00:00:00Z
title: Don’t egg them on: Scientists found no link between eggs, sudden blood clots
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/27/viral-image/dont-egg-them-on-scientists-found-no-link-between/


claimant: Turning Point USA
claim_date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00Z
title: Conservative group's meme distorts Nevada’s chloroquine restrictions
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak "has banned the use of an anti-malaria drug that might help cure coronavirus.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/27/turning-point-usa/conservative-group-meme-distorts-nevadas-chloroqui/


claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
title: Fake news story falsely quotes Kasich saying some women not smart enough to decide on abortion
review_date: 2017-04-13T13:35:45Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich said, "If a woman is not intelligent enough to keep her legs closed, how can we entrust the abortion decision to her?"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/13/blog-posting/fake-news-story-falsely-quotes-kasich-saying-some-/


claimant: Bernie Sanders
claim_date: 2017-06-25T00:00:00Z
title: Bernie Sanders' projection of 'thousands' of deaths from lost health coverage is well-supported
review_date: 2017-06-27T16:24:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"When you throw 23 million people off of health insurance -- people with cancer, people with heart disease, people with diabetes -- thousands of people will die. … This is study after study making this point."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jun/27/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-projection-thousands-added-deaths-g/


text: Says there are "2,000 inadmissible migrants arriving every day"
claimant: Ted Budd
claim_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
title: How many migrants come to the US each day? Republican says 2,000
review_date: 2019-01-17T19:22:04Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/17/ted-budd/how-many-migrants-come-us-each-day-republican-says/


claimant: Mike Gallagher
claim_date: 2020-06-25T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, the average American family pays more in hospital expenditures than federal taxes
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The average family in America forks over more of their hard-earned income to their local hospital than to the IRS.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/22/mike-gallagher/yes-average-american-family-pays-more-hospital-exp/


text: Says an Internet meme shows people rejoicing over the Paris agreement.
claimant: Sarah Palin
claim_date: 2017-06-06T00:00:00Z
title: Sarah Palin Facebook meme on climate accord uses unrelated photo of Florida House
review_date: 2017-06-07T20:03:17Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jun/07/sarah-palin/sarah-palin-facebook-meme-climate-accord-uses-unre/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/14/fact-checking-donald-trumps-bedminster-speech-foll/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Bedminster speech following documents indictment
review_date: 2023-06-14T03:42:31Z
textual_rating: Faulty comparison
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says a ruling in the Bill Clinton "socks" case gives the president authority to "segregate personal materials from presidential records," and the National Archives "lacks any right, duty or means to seize control of them."


text: "The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country."
claimant: Bernie Sanders
claim_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
title: Bernie Sanders on target saying 3 richest have as much wealth as bottom half of all Americans
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/03/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-target-saying-3-richest-have-much-w/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-02-12T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says refugee admissions surged from 7 countries during suspension of executive order
review_date: 2017-02-12T22:11:34Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"72% of refugees admitted into U.S. (2/3 -2/11) during COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/12/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-refugee-admissions-surged-7-coun/


text: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper “has seen his approval rating plummet”
claimant: North Carolina Republican Party
claim_date: 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: NC GOP mostly wrong about Cooper's approval rating
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/12/north-carolina-republican-party/nc-gop-mostly-wrong-about-coopers-approval-rating/


text: Says China and Singapore impose the death penalty on drug dealers.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-03-10T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says China, Singapore have death penalty for drug dealers
review_date: 2018-03-14T15:24:27Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/14/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-china-singapore-have-death-penal/


text: Aunt Jemima was photographed chained to a table.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-06-22T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Aunt Jemima’ in chains is modern art, not old picture
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/23/viral-image/aunt-jemima-chains-modern-art-not-old-picture/


text: Photo shows a semi-truck that crashed with a Chevy pickup that cut in front of it.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z
title: Crash photo doesn’t show vehicle that cut in front of a semi-truck
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/21/viral-image/crash-photo-doesnt-show-vehicle-cut-front-semi-tru/


text: “Alkaline foods” can heal the body of cancer.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z
title: No, the alkaline diet doesn’t cure cancer
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/28/facebook-posts/no-alkaline-diet-doesnt-cure-cancer/


text: “Aretha Franklin’s 1968 song ‘A Natural Woman’ deemed ‘offensive’ by trans community.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
title: Parody account criticizing Aretha Franklin’s ‘Natural Woman’ sparks confusion
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/26/facebook-posts/parody-account-criticizing-aretha-franklins-natura/


claimant: Ron Johnson
claim_date: 2019-07-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, survey did not say that a third of Guatemalans intend to come to the United States
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There's a survey done in Guatemala. A third of Guatemalans intend to migrate to the United States. That's about 5.8 million people."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/26/ron-johnson/no-survey-did-not-say-third-guatemalans-intend-com/


text: “Even Joe Biden admitted just days ago in an interview with NPR that it ‘looked bad.’”
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-12-17T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking President Trump’s impeachment letter to Pelosi
review_date: 2019-12-18T12:58:12Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Washington Post
publisher_site: washingtonpost.com
url:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/18/fact-checking-president-trumps-impeachment-letter-pelosi/


text: “The CBO says (the Build Back Better Act) is $3 trillion of deficit spending.”
claimant: Lindsey Graham
claim_date: 2021-12-12T00:00:00Z
title: Sen. Graham’s false claim about Build Back Better adding $3 trillion in deficits
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/14/lindsey-graham/sen-grahams-false-claim-about-build-back-better-ad/


text: Photo shows someone stealing less than $950 of goods in California.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-08-27T00:00:00Z
title: Florida photo mischaracterized in posts about California property crimes law
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/29/viral-image/florida-photo-mischaracterized-in-posts-about-cali/


text: Video shows Rand Paul telling Nancy Pelosi “she’s a traitor.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-10-03T00:00:00Z
title: Rand Paul didn’t tell Nancy Pelosi she’s a ‘traitor’ in this video
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/04/facebook-posts/rand-paul-didnt-tell-nancy-pelosi-shes-traitor-vid/


text: Says Jon Ossoff "wants total, blanket amnesty and he wants a total lockdown."
claimant: David Perdue
claim_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
title: Jon Ossoff isn’t for ‘total’ amnesty, backs a lockdown only if sought by experts
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/14/david-perdue/jon-ossoff-isnt-total-amnesty-backs-lockdown-only-/


text: Bank of America just pledged $1 billion dollars to Black Lives Matter.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, Bank of America didn’t pledge to donate $1 billion to Black Lives Matter
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/23/facebook-posts/no-bank-america-didnt-pledge-donate-1-billion-blac/


text: Says Joe Biden "has advocated cutting Social Security for 40 years"
claimant: Bernie Sanders
claim_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
title: Sanders’ misleading Social Security attack on Biden
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/12/bernie-sanders/sanders-misleading-social-security-attack-biden/


claimant: John Kerry
claim_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: Most people clueless on U.S. foreign aid spending
review_date: 2016-11-11T20:08:53Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/09/john-kerry/yep-most-people-clueless-us-foreign-aid-spending/


claimant: West Virginia Republican Party
claim_date: 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
title: Business registrations are up in W.Va., but closures high too
review_date: 2018-09-20T17:38:08Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In 2017, the number of new business registrations in West Virginia grew nearly 11 percent (8,318 new businesses registered for the year). This comes off the heels of a 12 percent increase in new business registrations during 2016."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/20/west-virginia-republican-party/business-registrations-are-wva-closures-high-too/


claimant: Giffords
claim_date: 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
title: Florida Gov. Rick Scott made it illegal for doctors to talk to patients about guns, TV ad says
review_date: 2018-02-22T21:49:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Gov. Rick Scott made it illegal for a doctor to ask a patient if they owned a gun, even a mental health professional. This law was so dangerous that a court had to strike it down."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/22/giffords/florida-gov-rick-scott-made-it-illegal-doctors-tal/


text: "Food waste is the 3rd largest contributor" of greenhouse gas emissions.
claimant: World Food Program
claim_date: 2017-02-05T00:00:00Z
title: No, food waste is not the third biggest source of greenhouse gases
review_date: 2017-02-14T21:02:37Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/14/world-food-program/no-food-waste-not-third-biggest-source-greenhouse-/


text: Hillary Clinton "lied about why her parents named her Hillary."
claimant: Mitch McConnell
claim_date: 2016-07-19T00:00:00Z
title: Did Hillary Clinton lie about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary?
review_date: 2016-07-20T01:50:47Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/20/mitch-mcconnell/did-hillary-clinton-lie-about-being-named-after-si/


claimant: Tulsi Gabbard
claim_date: 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says immigrant military service members applying for U.S. citizenship "are getting rejected at higher numbers than those who are not veterans."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/07/tulsi-gabbard/tulsi-gabbard-right-citizenship-denials-are-higher/

title:
Tulsi Gabbard is right: Citizenship denials are higher for military applicants compared to civilians


text: Says Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith died in a car crash.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-12-10T00:00:00Z
title: Celebrity death hoax about Will Smith and his son spreads online
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/10/facebook-posts/celebrity-death-hoax-about-will-smith-and-his-son-/


claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
title: Is interest on the federal debt costing more than national defense?
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/05/mike-pence/interest-federal-debt-costing-more-national-defens/


text: Says "Dan McCready took money from Ilhan Omar"
claimant: Dan Bishop
claim_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
title: At Trump rally, Bishop tells half the story of McCready and Omar
review_date: 2019-07-22T16:32:06Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/22/dan-bishop/trump-rally-bishop-tells-half-story-mccready-and-o/


text: "We put $330 million in general school aids — the largest in more than a decade."
claimant: Tony Evers
claim_date: 2021-01-13T00:00:00Z
title: Gov. Tony Evers on the money with claim about increase to general school aid
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/26/tony-evers/gov-tony-evers-money-claim-about-increase-general-/


text: Photos show Target selling children’s clothing with satanic imagery.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-05-28T00:00:00Z
title: Target is not selling children’s clothes with satanic imagery. Photos are AI-generated
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/06/facebook-posts/target-is-not-selling-childrens-clothes-with-satan/


text: Says HB2 has hurt North Carolina’s economy by "one-tenth of 1 percent of our annual GDP."
claimant: Dan Forest
claim_date: 2017-03-06T00:00:00Z
title: HB2 has cost North Carolina hundreds of millions of dollars. Dan Forest says that isn't very much
review_date: 2017-03-08T00:09:09Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/mar/07/dan-forest/hb2-has-cost-north-carolina-hundreds-millions-doll/


claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2018-12-09T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking meme about costs for Mueller investigation, Trump golfing, Benghazi, GOP tax bill
review_date: 2018-12-19T18:27:56Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says "Cost of Mueller’s investigation: $3,200,00; Benghazi "investigation": $7,000,000; Trump’s golfing trips: $83,000,000; New debt from Republican tax bill: $1,500,000,000,000."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/dec/19/blog-posting/fact-checking-meme-about-costs-mueller-investigati/


claimant: Rick Scott
claim_date: 2021-07-26T00:00:00Z
title: Blame Joe Biden for inflation? Most government spending came earlier
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/29/rick-scott/blame-joe-biden-inflation-most-government-spending/


claimant: Scott Wagner
claim_date: 2018-05-21T00:00:00Z
title: Pennsylvanians would only pay for a fraction of Gov. Tom Wolf’s severance tax
review_date: 2018-05-25T19:18:37Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Gov. Wolf is trying to implement "a severance tax that would be financed by Pennsylvania’s working class"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/25/scott-wagner/pennsylvanians-would-only-pay-fraction-gov-tom-wol/


text: “The White House is now attempting to ban all gas ovens and burners.”
claimant: Sean Hannity
claim_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
title: The White House is not banning gas stoves and ovens
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/12/sean-hannity/white-house-not-banning-gas-stoves-and-ovens/


claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2021-04-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, an Iowa BLM protest was not like the Jan. 6 US Capitol riot
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Black Lives Matter protest at Iowa Capitol was an “insurrection” like that on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/12/blog-posting/no-iowa-blm-protest-was-not-jan-6-us-capitol-riot/


text: Photo shows Donald Trump supporters protesting Joe Biden’s visit to Allentown, Pa.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
title: Photos of Trump supporters protesting Biden are from 2020, not a recent Pennsylvania motorcade
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/29/viral-image/photos-trump-supporters-protesting-biden-are-2020-/


claimant: Chris Ruddy
claim_date: 2017-12-03T00:00:00Z
title: GOP tax bill and overseas profits: Beware the hype
review_date: 2017-12-05T19:13:49Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says "$3 trillion in offshore money... is coming back into the economy" because of the GOP tax bills.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/dec/05/chris-ruddy/gop-tax-bill-overseas-profits-beware-hype/


text: “Friendly reminder: Cigarettes are FDA approved.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-08-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, the FDA hasn’t approved cigarettes, or any tobacco product
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/30/facebook-posts/no-fda-hasnt-approved-cigarettes-or-any-tobacco-pr/


claimant: Tulsi Gabbard
claim_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says that under President Donald Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/aug/02/tulsi-gabbard/tulsi-gabbard-cites-us-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-fal/

title:
Tulsi Gabbard cites US arms sales to Saudi Arabia in falsely claiming Donald Trump supports al-Qaida


text: Says "James Comey Has Been Having An Affair With" Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
claimant: FreedomCrossroads.us
claim_date: 2017-06-21T00:00:00Z
title: It's fake news that James Comey and Debbie Wasserman Schultz are an item
review_date: 2017-07-10T16:11:50Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/10/freedomcrossroadsus/its-fake-news-james-comey-and-debbie-wasserman-sch/


text: Photos show Manila Bay before and during Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-10-23T00:00:00Z
title: Photos show Manila Bay during Duterte’s administration
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/28/viral-image/photos-show-manila-bay-during-dutertes-administrat/


claimant: Ted Strickland
claim_date: 2016-05-14T00:00:00Z
title: Ted Strickland doesn't have a super PAC?
review_date: 2016-05-31T21:26:47Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"While Rob Portman relies on his super PAC and a handful of billionaires to do his dirty work, we don’t have a super PAC..."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/31/ted-strickland/ted-strickland-doesnt-have-super-pac/


text: The shooting in Boulder, Colo., was a "false flag like most of the others."
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00Z
title: Boulder shooting was not a ‘false flag’ attack
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/23/facebook-posts/boulder-shooting-was-not-false-flag-attack/


text: In Parkland, Fla. "the mass murderer was immersed in Islamic and leftwing hate."
claimant: Pamela Geller
claim_date: 2018-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: No proof that Nikolas Cruz, Parkland shooter, was motivated by Islamic or left-wing hate
review_date: 2018-02-19T21:16:26Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/19/pamela-geller/no-proof-nikolas-cruz-was-motivated-islamic-or-lef/


text: Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent."
claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2016-09-04T00:00:00Z
title: Mike Pence cites Clinton support for more Syrian refugees
review_date: 2016-09-04T22:42:24Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/sep/04/mike-pence/mike-pence-cites-clinton-support-more-syrian-refug/


claimant: Kevin Sorbo
claim_date: 2021-02-15T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, California requires signature verification for mail-in ballots and Newsom recall petitions
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“So California is requiring signature verification for Gavin Newsom’s recall, but didn’t require it for the mail in ballots.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/16/kevin-sorbo/yes-california-requires-signature-verification-mai/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-05-31T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump: Thousands of veterans die waiting for treatment from the VA
review_date: 2016-06-01T20:32:22Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We're losing thousands of (veterans) waiting on line" because they can't get speedy health care from the Veterans Administration.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/01/donald-trump/donald-trump-thousands-veterans-die-waiting-treatm/


claimant: Chris Larson
claim_date: 2020-09-23T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, Republicans could end Evers’ state of emergency anytime
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“(Republicans) have the power to overturn the (state of emergency) order by joint resolution and they refuse to do it.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/25/chris-larson/yes-republicans-could-end-evers-state-emergency-an/


text: "Drug prices are coming down, first time in 51 years because of my administration."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that drug prices are going down
review_date: 2019-05-23T11:04:45Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claim-drug-prices-are-/


text: Says Jan. 6 Capitol riot “didn’t seem like an armed insurrection.”
claimant: Ron Johnson
claim_date: 2021-02-15T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, Jan. 6 Capitol assault was an “armed insurrection”
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/15/ron-johnson/yes-jan-6-capitol-assault-was-armed-insurrection/


text: Winston Churchill didn’t mention the Holocaust in his memoirs because it didn’t happen.
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
title: Winston Churchill’s World War II memoirs aren’t evidence that the Holocaust didn’t happen
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/23/instagram-posts/winston-churchills-world-war-ii-memoirs-arent-evid/


claimant: Nancy Pelosi
claim_date: 2018-05-23T00:00:00Z
title: Did Congress approve $1.6 billon for school safety?
review_date: 2018-05-24T21:23:50Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A recent spending bill had at least "$1.6 billion in there ... for schools to give them an opportunity to secure them."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/24/nancy-pelosi/did-congress-recently-approve-16-billon-school-saf/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/jan/26/fact-checking-what-donald-trump-got-wrong-his-abc-/
title: Fact-checking what Donald Trump got wrong in his ABC News interview
review_date: 2017-09-29T17:15:49Z
textual_rating: This is wrong
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In terms of a total audience including television and everything else that you have we had supposedly the biggest crowd in history."


claimant: Andrew Cuomo
claim_date: 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
title: Cuomo’s claim on New York’s contributions to federal treasury needs clarification
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“At the end of the year, we put into that federal pot $116 billion more than we take out,” while Kentucky “takes out $148 billion more than they put in.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/05/andrew-cuomo/cuomos-claim-new-yorks-contributions-federal-treas/


text: President Joe Biden said “this s--- will turn your pacemaker off.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z
title: Did Joe Biden profanely mention pacemakers in speech? No; this video was altered
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/16/viral-image/did-joe-biden-profanely-mention-pacemakers-speech/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden’s boast on early job gains neglects timing, pandemic context
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“We have now created over 3 million jobs since I took office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/09/joe-biden/joe-biden-target-early-job-gains-figure-leaves-out/


text: "Malaysian doctor put to death for giving COVID injection under the (Nuremberg) Code.”
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
title: No, a doctor in Malaysia wasn’t executed for giving a COVID-19 vaccine
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/28/facebook-posts/no-a-doctor-in-malaysia-wasnt-executed-for-giving/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-12-20T00:00:00Z
title: Trump wrongly says end of mandate is 'essentially' Obamacare repeal
review_date: 2017-12-21T17:07:42Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate ... and that was a primary source of funding of Obamacare."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/dec/21/donald-trump/trump-wrongly-says-end-mandate-essentially-obamaca/


text: "BREAKING Trump Removes Muslim Federal Judge For Trying To Implement Sharia Law In America"
claimant: webviners.com
claim_date: 2018-02-28T00:00:00Z
title: Claim about Donald Trump, federal judge and Sharia law is Fake News
review_date: 2018-03-07T17:41:32Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/07/blog-posting/no-donald-trump-did-not-remove-federal-judge-over-/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-09-07T00:00:00Z
title: Trump’s misleading claim about 'unsolicited' mail ballots
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Election officials are “sending 80 million ballots all over the country. Eighty million ballots, non-requested. I call them ‘unsolicited ballots.’”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/10/donald-trump/trumps-misleading-claim-about-unsolicited-mail-bal/


claimant: Julián Castro
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, more people are uninsured since Donald Trump took office, but be leery of specific numbers
review_date: 2019-03-28T15:53:02Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Donald Trump’s health care policies have "left millions more Americans uninsured since he took office."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/28/julian-castro/rise-uninsured-under-trump-tops-1-million-beware-e/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
title: No, Thomas Jefferson did not say big government is ‘strong enough to take everything you have’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Quotes Thomas Jefferson as saying that "a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/06/facebook-posts/no-thomas-jefferson-did-not-say-big-government-str/


text: "There is long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices."
claimant: Ted Cruz
claim_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: Ted Cruz says 'long historical precedent' for smaller Supreme Court
review_date: 2016-11-28T18:00:52Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/23/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-long-historical-precedent-smaller-su/


text: Wisconsin’s middle class is the "most diminished" in the United States.
claimant: Peter Barca
claim_date: 2017-01-10T00:00:00Z
title: Citing old data, Wisconsin lawmaker says the state's middle class is 'most diminished' in U.S.
review_date: 2017-01-20T12:51:12Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jan/20/peter-barca/citing-old-data-wisconsin-lawmaker-says-states-mid/


text: Claims to be endorsed by the Democratic Party.
claimant: Duane Hall
claim_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
title: Democrat touts party endorsement. Party: we want you to resign
review_date: 2018-04-20T17:31:50Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/apr/20/duane-hall/democrat-touts-party-endorsement-party-we-want-you/


text: “Biden resigned, Pelosi was detained.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
title: No, Joe Biden didn’t resign and Nancy Pelosi wasn’t detained
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/28/viral-image/no-joe-biden-didnt-resign-and-nancy-pelosi-wasnt-d/


text: Says Barack Obama complained that Democrats continue to ignore blacks except at election time.
claimant: Great America Alliance
claim_date: 2017-06-18T00:00:00Z
title: Anti-Ossoff ad in Georgia House race distorts lines from Obama's book
review_date: 2017-06-19T19:54:42Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jun/19/great-america-alliance/Attack-ad-Obama-book-turn-blacks-Dems-Georgia/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-04-30T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says wrongly the Iran nuclear deal expires in 7 years
review_date: 2018-05-02T21:05:08Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In seven years that (nuclear) deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/02/donald-trump/donald-trump-said-wrongly-iran-nuclear-deal-expire/


text: “Dr. Oz wins seat.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-10-05T00:00:00Z
title: No, Dr. Mehmet Oz hasn’t won the Pennsylvania race for a Senate seat
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/05/facebook-posts/no-dr-mehmet-oz-hasnt-won-pennsylvania-race-senate/


claimant: Sidney Powell
claim_date: 2020-11-16T00:00:00Z
title: Trump lawyer falsely claims voting technology companies were created for changing election results
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Smartmatic and Dominion systems ... were built to do this very thing, for changing the results of elections.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/19/sidney-powell/trump-lawyer-falsely-claims-voting-technology-comp/


text: The man in a mugshot is “responsible for lighting 32 of the wildfires” on the West Coast.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-09-20T00:00:00Z
title: No, this man wasn’t arrested for lighting 32 wildfires on the West Coast
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/21/facebook-posts/no-man-wasnt-arrested-lighting-32-wildfires-west-c/


text: "The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not."
claimant: Glenn Grothman
claim_date: 2022-02-03T00:00:00Z
title: U.S. is making progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions when compared to the rest of the world
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/11/glenn-grothman/us-making-progress-cutting-greenhouse-gas-emission/


text: Says CNN video shows “HAMMER / Scorecard Voter Software Fraud in Real Time”
claimant: Pamela Geller
claim_date: 2020-11-09T00:00:00Z
title: Debunking the ‘Hammer and Scorecard’ election fraud conspiracy theory
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/pamela-geller/debunking-hammer-and-scorecard-election-fraud-cons/


text: "Thousands of folks are opening West Virginia E-ZPass accounts."
claimant: Jim Justice
claim_date: 2018-08-27T00:00:00Z
title: Are thousands of West Virginians signing up for E-ZPass?
review_date: 2018-10-24T15:41:41Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/24/jim-justice/are-thousands-west-virginians-signing-e-zpass/


text: The deaths at the Astroworld festival were part of a satanic ritual.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-11-07T00:00:00Z
title: No, the Astroworld tragedy wasn’t a satanic ritual
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/09/facebook-posts/no-astroworld-tragedy-wasnt-satanic-ritual/


claimant: Dr. Judy Mikovits
claim_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/08/fact-checking-plandemic-documentary-full-false-con/
title: Fact-checking ‘Plandemic’: A documentary full of false conspiracy theories about the coronavirus
review_date: 2020-05-08T13:41:30Z
textual_rating: No evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Wearing the mask literally activates your own virus. You’re getting sick from your own reactivated coronavirus expressions."


text: Requesting a chargeback is “a better way to get back at” GoFundMe.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-02-06T00:00:00Z
title: Requesting a chargeback probably isn’t the best way to 'get back' at GoFundMe
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/10/facebook-posts/requesting-chargeback-probably-isnt-best-way-get-b/


text: "George Soros has endorsed (Ron) DeSantis for 2024."
claimant: The Gateway Pundit
claim_date: 2023-02-16T00:00:00Z
title: Did George Soros endorse Ron DeSantis? No
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/23/gateway-pundit/did-george-soros-endorse-ron-desantis-no/


claimant: Lloyd Doggett
claim_date: 2016-12-15T00:00:00Z
title: Lloyd Doggett says by federal law, universities don't check immigration status of students
review_date: 2016-12-28T17:34:19Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Our university campuses by federal law do not check the immigration status of their students just as our public schools don’t."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/28/lloyd-doggett/lloyd-doggett-says-federal-law-universities-dont-c/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2022-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/oct/10/bowling-alley-chinese-restaurant-and-george-hw-bus/
title: A bowling alley, a Chinese restaurant, and George H.W. Bush: What was Donald Trump talking about?
textual_rating: Not comparable to Mar-a-Lago
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them. ... By contrast, I had a small number of boxes and storage at Mar-a-Lago, very small, relatively guarded by the great Secret Service."


text: There was "just about zero press coverage" of the 2007 Bush White House email controversy.
claimant: Juan Williams
claim_date: 2015-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: The media reaction to George W. Bush's email controversy
review_date: 2017-04-11T18:37:57Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/mar/15/juan-williams/media-reaction-george-w-bushs-email-controversy/


text: Gas prices were "$1.86 when I left" the White House.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2021-12-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, gas did not cost $1.86 a gallon when Donald Trump left the White House
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/08/donald-trump/no-gas-did-not-cost-186-gallon-when-donald-trump-l/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-10-17T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking false claims about debate moderator Kristen Welker of NBC
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says NBC News’ Kristen Welker “gave thousands of dollars to Obama, Clinton and Biden, is registered as a Democrat & her family spent Christmas with the Obamas at the White House.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/20/facebook-posts/no-nbc-news-debate-moderator-isnt-democratic-mega-/


text: Says an image of a Vermont mansion is one of Bernie Sanders homes.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-03-02T00:00:00Z
title: Viral photo of $3 million Vermont estate is not owned by Bernie Sanders
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/viral-image/viral-photo-3-million-vermont-estate-not-owned-ber/


text: Getting up too quickly in the middle of the night can cause "sudden death."
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
title: Sitting up too quickly in the middle of the night won’t cause your sudden death
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/26/viral-image/sitting-too-quickly-middle-night-might-make-you-di/


claimant: Tucker Carlson
claim_date: 2021-02-22T00:00:00Z
title: Tucker Carlson’s false claim downplaying role of white supremacists at Capitol riot
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There's no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That's a lie.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/23/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-false-claim-downplaying-role-white/


claimant: Mike Lindell
claim_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/05/mypillow-ceo-lindells-film-not-intended-be-taken-f/
title: MyPillow CEO Lindell’s film not intended to be taken as fact
review_date: 2021-02-05T22:35:10Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"On election night, 11:15 at night, the algorithms of these (voting) machines broke … Donald Trump got so many more millions of votes that they didn’t expect, that they’re going to have to go recalibrate, right? So that’s why all these states shut down. All of a sudden they all shut down. And we’re all going, ‘What? That’s weird, this has never happened in any other election.’"


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump falsely says Democrats invite migrant caravans
review_date: 2018-11-01T19:14:28Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The Democrats want to invite caravan after caravan of illegal aliens into our country. And they want to sign them up for free health care, free welfare, free education, and for the right to vote."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/01/donald-trump/donald-trump-falsely-says-democrats-invite-migrant/


text: The Christmas Day explosion in Nashville, Tenn., was the result of a “missile strike.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-12-28T00:00:00Z
title: The Nashville explosion was a suicide bombing, not a missile strike
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/29/facebook-posts/nashville-explosion-was-suicide-bombing-not-missil/


text: "Poverty in WV is more than 5% higher than the national average."
claimant: Kendra Fershee
claim_date: 2018-09-19T00:00:00Z
title: Is West Virginia poverty 5% higher than U.S. as a whole?
review_date: 2018-11-01T18:40:58Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/01/kendra-fershee/west-virginia-poverty-5-higher-us-whole/


claimant: Instagram post
claim_date: 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
title: Full video shows Biden did not simply walk away from football tokens offered by Air Force Falcons
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
President Joe Biden showed signs of cognitive decline when he walked away from an Air Force Falcons presentation with a jersey, snubbing a signed football and helmet.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/08/instagram-posts/full-video-shows-biden-did-not-simply-walk-away-fr/


text: “Free health allowance is available at no cost.”
claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2022-08-22T00:00:00Z
title: Social media hoax promises cash allowance for health care
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/22/facebook-posts/social-media-hoax-promises-cash-allowance-health-c/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z
title: Biden says U.S. is losing ground to China in R&D spending. His rankings are off.
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“We used to rank No. 1 in the world in research and development, now we rank No. 9. China used to rank No. 8, now it ranks No. 2.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/13/joe-biden/biden-says-us-losing-ground-china-rd-spending-his/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-03-18T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook claim on Sen. Joe Manchin miscasts his remarks on stimulus aid
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says “Senator Joe Manchin hit (an) all time low saying seniors and the disabled did not need the relief package $1000 on Fox News.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/23/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claim-about-joe-manchin-saying-senio/


claimant: Shelley Moore Capito
claim_date: 2021-08-12T00:00:00Z
title: How much have W.Va. gas and milk prices increased in a year?
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more for a gallon of milk than we did at this time last year.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/05/shelley-moore-capito/how-much-have-wva-gas-and-milk-prices-increased-ye/


text: Compares 100,000 flu deaths to COVID-19 to say the flu is more deadly in "most populations."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-10-06T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump’s false claim that COVID-19 is less deadly than the flu
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/06/donald-trump/donald-trumps-false-claim-covid-19-less-deadly-flu/


text: "Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-10-08T00:00:00Z
title: Is Sen. Bob Corker responsible for the Iran deal, as Donald Trump claims?
review_date: 2017-10-12T18:29:14Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/12/donald-trump/sen-bob-corker-responsible-iran-deal-donald-trump-/


text: Rep. Dan Donovan "voted for Tax Cuts"
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-05-30T00:00:00Z
title: Did Rep. Dan Donovan vote for tax cuts, as Trump said?
review_date: 2018-06-04T19:00:34Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jun/04/donald-trump/did-rep-dan-donovan-vote-tax-cuts-trump-said/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/16/trump-and-some-in-gop-are-promoting-a-biden-briber/
title: Trump and some in GOP are promoting a Biden bribery allegation. It is from 2020 and unverified.
textual_rating: Lacks evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"It is also no coincidence that these charges against me came down the very same day evidence revealed Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe from Ukraine."


text: Video shows Queen Elizabeth II “feeding Africans like chickens.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t a video of Queen Elizabeth II ‘feeding Africans’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/sep/09/facebook-posts/no-isnt-video-queen-elizabeth-ii-feeding-africans/


text: A photo shows two men on the run who pretend to be homeless and then “attack and rob you.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-07-09T00:00:00Z
title: Don’t fall for this hoax about two men pretending to be homeless to rob you
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/11/viral-image/dont-fall-hoax-about-two-men-pretending-be-homeles/


text: Photos show Queen Elizabeth II was a “Luciferian.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
title: No, these photos don’t prove Queen Elizabeth II was a ‘Luciferian’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/sep/14/instagram-posts/no-these-photos-dont-prove-queen-elizabeth-ii-was-/


text: "Third party votes only siphon from (Democrats)”
claimant: Instagram Post
claim_date: 2020-08-06T00:00:00Z
title: Third-party candidates hamper both Republicans, Democrats
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/10/instagram-posts/third-party-candidates-hamper-both-republicans-dem/


text: "Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."
claimant: Elizabeth Warren
claim_date: 2019-06-21T00:00:00Z
title: Warren correct: Inmate phone calls can cost $25 for 15 minutes
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/01/elizabeth-warren/warren-correct-inmate-phone-calls-cost-15-minutes/


claimant: Mike Gibbons
claim_date: 2022-03-28T00:00:00Z
title: In Ohio, GOP candidate falsely says more votes than registered voters in 2020 election
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
According to the Census Bureau, “5 million more people voted than were registered to vote” in the 2020 election.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/04/mike-gibbons/ohio-gop-candidate-falsely-says-more-votes-registe/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z
title: Conspiracy theories about Disney abound after Florida law controversy
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Disneyland estates have been used for MK-ULTRA mind control, human trafficking, occult rituals, and parading sexual deviants.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/28/viral-image/conspiracies-about-disney-abound-after-florida-law/


text: The COVID-19 vaccine “will make the common cold/flu extremely lethal.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2021-05-09T00:00:00Z
title: No, the COVID-19 vaccines won’t make colds and flus extremely lethal
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/may/11/instagram-posts/no-covid-19-vaccines-wont-make-colds-and-flus-extr/


text: "We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-12-11T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump's Electoral College victory was not a 'massive landslide'
review_date: 2017-04-12T19:55:33Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/12/donald-trump/donald-trumps-electoral-college-victory-was-not-ma/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z
title: Was Lincoln's Gettysburg Address initially ridiculed, as Donald Trump said?
review_date: 2018-09-07T19:34:43Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"When Abraham Lincoln made the Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, do you know he was ridiculed? He was ridiculed."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/07/donald-trump/was-lincolns-gettysburg-address-initially-ridicule/


claimant: Rudy Giuliani
claim_date: 2018-08-19T00:00:00Z
title: Rudy Giuliani gets facts wrong about Trump Tower meeting
review_date: 2018-08-20T15:26:28Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The Trump campaign "didn’t know" that Natalia Veselnitskaya "was a representative of the Russian government. ... I don't even know if they knew she was Russian at the time."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/20/rudy-giuliani/giuliani-gets-facts-wrong-about-trump-tower-meetin/


text: Photo shows a sea of red-clad education advocates covering most of the Halifax Mall.
claimant: Mark Jewell
claim_date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
title: NC education leader tweets doctored rally photo
review_date: 2019-05-03T16:00:14Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/03/mark-jewell/nc-education-leader-tweets-doctored-rally-photo/


text: "Thousands killed as Israel Drops Tactical Nuclear Bomb On Syria"
claimant: Exclusive103.com
claim_date: 2018-04-30T00:00:00Z
title: Fake news claims thousands killed by nuclear bomb in Syria
review_date: 2018-05-04T20:55:07Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/04/blog-posting/fake-news-claims-thousands-killed-nuclear-bomb-syr/


text: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded.
claimant: Nikki Haley
claim_date: 2023-04-10T00:00:00Z
title: Is Nikki Haley right that $500 billion in COVID-19 funding could be rescinded? It’s not that simple
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/01/nikki-haley/is-nikki-haley-right-that-500-billion-in-covid-19/


claimant: Ron Johnson
claim_date: 2019-05-26T00:00:00Z
title: Updated: Sen. Johnson correct on southern border crossing claim
review_date: 2019-06-18T15:08:48Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Just the last three weeks, on average about 23,000 women, children, men are coming over across the border illegally as family units."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/18/ron-johnson/sen-johnson-ballpark-southern-border-crossing-clai/


text: Says he "actually wrote the bipartisan law that makes it illegal to drill off Florida’s coast."
claimant: Bill Nelson
claim_date: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z
title: Did Bill Nelson write the bipartisan law that makes it illegal to drill off Florida’s coast?
review_date: 2018-06-29T18:12:01Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jun/29/bill-nelson/did-bill-nelson-write-bipartisan-law-makes-it-ille/


claimant: Hillary Clinton
claim_date: 2016-06-22T00:00:00Z
title: Hillary Clinton wrongly places full blame for NC teacher salaries on Republican leaders
review_date: 2016-06-28T21:54:09Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Thanks to (North Carolina’s) governor and the legislature, the average teacher salary can barely support a family."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/28/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-wrongly-places-full-blame-nc-teach/


text: Bill Gates is coating your organic produce with a “dangerous chemical.”
claimant: Instagram post
claim_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
title: Bill Gates is not poisoning your produce with Apeel
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/24/instagram-posts/bill-gates-is-not-poisoning-your-produce-with-apee/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2023-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/mar/26/fact-checking-trumps-false-and-misleading-statemen/
title: Fact-checking Trump’s false and misleading claims in Waco, Texas, rally
review_date: 2023-03-26T19:25:33Z
textual_rating: Never became law
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We are a nation that is consumed by the radical left's Green New Deal. Yet everyone knows that the Green New Deal will lead to our destruction."


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/sep/30/context-adam-schiffs-dramatized-version-trump-zele/
title: In context: Adam Schiff’s dramatized version of the Trump-Zelensky call
textual_rating: Needs context
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people.”


text: “I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.”
claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-12-12T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden wrong that he was against Afghanistan war from the start
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/15/joe-biden/joe-biden-wrong-he-was-against-afghanistan-war-sta/


claimant: Robby Mook
claim_date: 2016-10-30T00:00:00Z
title: Clinton campaign says Comey letter violates Justice Department protocols
review_date: 2016-10-30T20:17:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There are Justice Department policies against" FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation "so close to an election."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/30/robby-mook/clinton-campaign-says-comey-letter-violates-justic/


text: Says Anthony Fauci will make millions off new book.
claimant: Charlie Kirk
claim_date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/15/charlie-kirk/fauci-isnt-making-millions-upcoming-national-geogr/

title:
Fauci isn’t making millions off upcoming National Geographic book about the pandemic. He wasn’t paid


text: “George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/30/viral-image/yes-george-washington-ordered-troops-be-inoculated/

title:
Yes, George Washington ordered troops to be inoculated against smallpox during the Revolutionary War


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-02-26T00:00:00Z
title: Social media posts distort Trump, Biden child sex trafficking records
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Former President Donald Trump “was the 1st president in U.S. history to acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S.” while President Joe Biden “rescinded Trump’s executive order that helped combat child sex trafficking.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/27/viral-image/social-media-posts-distort-trump-biden-child-sex-t/


text: "The Biden family is so heavily invested in oil and energy in other countries."
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking whether Biden family is ‘heavily invested’ in foreign oil, energy
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/10/facebook-posts/fact-checking-whether-biden-family-heavily-investe/


text: "D.A.R.E. removed cannabis from its list of gateway drugs."
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
title: D.A.R.E. still thinks marijuana is a dangerous drug for kids
review_date: 2019-05-30T17:21:03Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/30/viral-image/dre-still-thinks-marijuana-dangerous-drug-kids/


text: “Some states are only getting 50 tests per day, and the Utah Jazz got 58.”
claimant: Michael Dougherty
claim_date: 2020-03-12T00:00:00Z
title: How the Utah Jazz got 58 coronavirus tests when US testing is sluggish
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/13/michael-dougherty/how-utah-jazz-got-58-coronavirus-tests-when-us-tes/


claimant: With Honor
claim_date: 2018-09-10T00:00:00Z
title: Ad accuses Andy Barr of allowing payday lenders to take advantage of military families
review_date: 2018-10-09T16:37:45Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr "would let shady payday lenders take advantage of our troops" and that he took "$36,550 from payday lenders."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/09/With_Honor/ad-accuses-andy-barr-allowing-payday-lenders-take-/


text: California’s budget surplus is about "$30 billion"
claimant: Jerry Brown
claim_date: 2018-12-11T00:00:00Z
title: Does California have a budget surplus of nearly ‘$30 billion,’ as Gov. Jerry Brown claimed?
review_date: 2018-12-18T23:36:42Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/dec/18/jerry-brown/does-california-have-budget-surplus-nearly-30-bill/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/oct/03/fact-checking-trumps-claims-about-medicare-village/
title: Fact-checking Trump's claims about Medicare at The Villages in Florida
review_date: 2019-10-04T14:52:47Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Democratic proposals for universal health care "would totally obliterate Medicare" adding that "whether it’s single-payer or the so-called public option … they want to raid Medicare to fund a thing called socialism."


text: "White House chef quits because Trump has only eaten fast food for 6 months."
claimant: HalfwayPost.com
claim_date: 2017-07-06T00:00:00Z
title: White House chef’s faux resignation is on the fake news menu
review_date: 2017-07-17T20:46:27Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/17/halfwaypostcom/white-house-chefs-faux-resignation-fake-news-menu/


text: Cal Cunningham "voted for over $1 billion in new taxes.”
claimant: National Republican Senatorial Committee
claim_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
title: Attack ad right about Cunningham's 2001 budget vote
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/13/national-republican-senatorial-committee/attack-ad-right-about-cunninghams-2001-budget-vote/


text: "The No. 1 job vacancy in Florida every month for seven years has been nursing."
claimant: Adam Putnam
claim_date: 2017-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Adam Putnam right about the demand for more nurses in Florida
review_date: 2017-11-08T21:37:51Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/08/adam-putnam/adam-putnam-right-about-need-more-nurses-state/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2001-04-07T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump claims Obama spent $2 million in legal fees defending birth certificate lawsuits
review_date: 2016-09-16T13:24:35Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2011/apr/12/donald-trump/donald-trump-claims-obama-has-spent-2-million-lega/


claimant: Occupy Democrats
claim_date: 2016-08-20T00:00:00Z
title: Facts take a vacation in Occupy Democrats' post about presidential, congressional time off
review_date: 2017-04-11T17:42:52Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
President Barack Obama "has taken less vacation days than any other president in a generation," while Congress "has taken more vacation days than any other Congress in history."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/sep/09/occupy-democrats/facts-take-vacation-occupy-democrats-claim-about-p/


text: Says U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi “is guilty of treason.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-05-06T00:00:00Z
title: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn’t found guilty of treason
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/08/facebook-posts/former-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-wasnt-found-guil/


claimant: Tim Scott
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/apr/29/fact-checking-sen-tim-scotts-gop-response-presiden/
title: Fact-checking Sen. Tim Scott's GOP response to President Joe Biden
review_date: 2021-04-29T04:50:26Z
textual_rating: Exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Just before COVID, we had … the lowest unemployment ever recorded for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. The lowest for women in nearly 70 years."


text: Detroit has “2,503 dead people registered” including “one voter born in 1823.”
claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
title: Dead voters on Detroit’s voter rolls, including person born in 1823? That post is outdated
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/facebook-posts/dead-voters-detroits-voter-rolls-including-person-/


text: In manufacturing, "I brought back 700,000 jobs. (Obama and Biden) brought back nothing."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-09-29T00:00:00Z
title: During debate, Donald Trump overstates manufacturing job gains
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/30/donald-trump/during-debate-donald-trump-overstates-manufacturin/


text: “Italy has decided not to treat their elderly for this virus.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-03-14T00:00:00Z
title: Italy’s overwhelmed hospitals are treating elderly COVID-19 patients as a lower priority
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/18/facebook-posts/italys-overwhelmed-hospitals-are-treating-elderly-/


text: Says Beto O’Rourke voted "against body armor for Texas sheriffs patrolling the border."
claimant: Texans Are
claim_date: 2018-09-12T00:00:00Z
title: PAC backing Ted Cruz falsely says Beto O'Rourke voted against body armor for border sheriffs
review_date: 2018-09-21T15:06:43Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/13/texans-are/pac-backing-ted-cruz-falsely-says-beto-orourke-vot/


text: "Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists."
claimant: Jeff Bridges
claim_date: 2016-03-28T00:00:00Z
title: Rubbish! Experts degrade claim that every bit of plastic ever created is still around
review_date: 2016-04-14T18:20:39Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/apr/14/jeff-bridges/rubbish-experts-degrade-claim-every-bit-plastic-ev/


text: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
title: Claim that Martha’s Vineyard ‘deported’ migrants is wrong
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/sep/21/instagram-posts/claim-marthas-vineyard-deported-migrants-wrong/


text: Says a video shows Joe Biden lolling his tongue.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
title: How a parody GIF of Biden lolling his tongue became a manipulated video on Facebook
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/30/facebook-posts/how-parody-gif-biden-lolling-his-tongue-became-man/


text: Says images show migrants on trains and buses heading toward the United States, not walking.
claimant: Drain the Swamp
claim_date: 2018-10-22T00:00:00Z
title: Viral Facebook post uses old images to falsely claim it's the October migrant caravan
review_date: 2018-10-24T21:02:54Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/24/viral-image/viral-facebook-post-uses-old-images-falsely-claim-/


text: “They eliminated the funding for community policing.”
claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden wrong to say COPS funding has been ‘eliminated’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/16/joe-biden/joe-biden-wrong-say-cops-funding-has-been-eliminat/


text: “Joe Biden takes a knee after spotting an American flag near his childhood home in Pennsylvania.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-07-11T00:00:00Z
title: Photo shows Biden kneeling to talk to a child, not because he saw an American flag
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/30/viral-image/photo-shows-biden-kneeling-talk-child-not-because-/


claimant: Michael Long
claim_date: 2019-02-03T00:00:00Z
title: Abortion foe makes false claim about NY law
review_date: 2019-02-23T00:46:13Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Under New York's new abortion law, "If the baby was born alive, they would just let the baby expire."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/22/michael-long/abortion-foe-makes-exaggerated-claim-about-ny-law/


text: The COVID-19 vaccines’ “spike protein is very dangerous, it's cytotoxic.”
claimant: YouTube videos
claim_date: 2021-06-13T00:00:00Z
title: No sign that the COVID-19 vaccines’ spike protein is toxic or ‘cytotoxic’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/16/youtube-videos/no-sign-covid-19-vaccines-spike-protein-toxic-or-c/


claimant: John Shimkus
claim_date: 2016-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: Shimkus shortens War on Poverty, crunches soggy data to make a point
review_date: 2016-10-14T18:08:52Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"When LBJ started #WarOnPoverty, 14% of Americans lived in poverty. 50 yrs later, 14% still do. There's a #BetterWay."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/28/john-shimkus/shimkus-shortens-war-poverty-make-point/


text: "General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-04-30T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says Michael Flynn got security clearance from Obama administration
review_date: 2017-05-02T21:22:01Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/02/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-michael-flynn-got-security-clear/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking claim that Mitch McConnell's 'biggest donor' is sanctioned Russian oligarch
review_date: 2019-02-14T19:31:36Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Mitch McConnell's "biggest donor" is a "Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/14/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claim-mitch-mcconnells-biggest-donor/


text: “Military take over on May 11 confirmed!”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
title: No, a military takeover hasn’t been confirmed
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/13/facebook-posts/no-military-takeover-hasnt-been-confirmed/


text: Courts have "quietly confirmed" that the MMR vaccine causes autism
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2017-05-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, courts did not 'quietly confirm' MMR vaccine causes autism
review_date: 2019-02-11T22:02:04Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/11/blog-posting/no-courts-did-not-quietly-confirm-mmr-vaccine-caus/


text: “Disease X” is “the next plandemic.”
claimant: TikTok
claim_date: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
title: Conspiracy theorists falsely claim ‘Disease X’ is the next ‘plandemic’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/07/tiktok-posts/conspiracy-theorists-falsely-claim-disease-x-is-th/


claimant: Howard Dean
claim_date: 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
title: One ex-presidential candidate's attack on another: Scott Walker left school under 'ethical cloud'?
review_date: 2016-11-18T14:29:25Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Scott Walker left college "under an ethical cloud for having tried to fix" the election for student body president.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/18/howard-dean/one-ex-presidential-candidates-attack-another-scot/


text: "The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race."
claimant: Whoopi Goldberg
claim_date: 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z
title: Whoopi Goldberg wrongly claims the Holocaust was ‘not about race’
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/01/whoopi-goldberg/whoopi-goldberg-wrongly-claims-holocaust-was-not-a/


text: Says "Sasha Obama’s racist anti-white rant just got her expelled."
claimant: Conservative Columns
claim_date: 2018-09-03T00:00:00Z
title: No, Sasha Obama wasn’t expelled for racism
review_date: 2018-09-04T19:01:18Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/04/blog-posting/no-sasha-obama-wasnt-expelled-racism/


text: A video shows President Joe Biden “getting off plane with little boy dressed like girl.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
title: That person with President Biden is his granddaughter, not a ‘little boy’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/05/viral-image/that-person-with-president-biden-is-his-granddaugh/


text: Obamacare "was invented by liberal academic theorists."
claimant: Rick Scott
claim_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
title: Rick Scott misleads about the inventors of Obamacare by ignoring Republicans' roles
review_date: 2016-12-05T15:12:45Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/05/rick-scott/rick-scott-misleads-about-inventors-obamacare-igno/


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-05-21T00:00:00Z
title: Uptick in cases of myocarditis in newborns in Wales linked to enterovirus, not COVID-19 vaccines
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
COVID-19 vaccines administered during pregnancy drove an increase in cases of myocarditis in babies.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/23/instagram-posts/uptick-in-cases-of-myocarditis-in-newborns-in-wale/


text: An image shows a paralyzed groom being held up by his groomsmen so he could kiss his bride.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-09-22T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t a photo of groomsmen holding up a paralyzed groom
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/22/viral-image/no-isnt-photo-groomsmen-holding-paralyzed-groom/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/sep/23/president-donald-trump-ukraine-biden-whistleblower/
title: Trump’s Ukraine call, a whistleblower and the Bidens: What we know, what we don’t
textual_rating: We don't know identity
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says of intelligence community whistleblower who reportedly raised concerns about interactions between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, "It’s a partisan whistleblower."


claimant: Jack Posobiec
claim_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
title: Boulder shooting suspect didn’t come to US during Obama administration
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“New information coming in that Boulder shooter was a Syrian refugee who arrived via Obama-era asylum programs.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/24/jack-posopiec/boulder-shooting-suspect-didnt-come-us-during-obam/


claimant: Viral Image
claim_date: 2019-05-06T00:00:00Z
title: No, this photo does not show a young girl being sold to Muslims as a child bride
review_date: 2019-05-07T19:13:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says a photo of a young girl crying alongside an ISIS member is a Christian being forced into sexual slavery as a child bride.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/07/viral-image/no-photo-does-not-show-young-girl-being-sold-musli/


claimant: Chuck Schumer
claim_date: 2018-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/apr/19/north-korea-scrap-nuclear-weapons/
title: Is North Korea ready to scrap its nuclear weapons?
review_date: 2018-04-19T21:37:35Z
textual_rating: More words than action
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Thus far we've not seen any indication that North Korea is willing to take concrete measures towards denuclearization.”


claimant: Florida Democratic Party
claim_date: 2015-11-05T00:00:00Z
title: Rubio spent tax money to renovate Florida House, state Dems say
review_date: 2016-06-20T15:00:14Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Marco Rubio spent $400K of your tax dollars remodeling offices, and building a members-only lounge."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/nov/09/florida-democratic-party/rubio-spent-tax-money-renovate-florida-house-state/


text: "U.N. calls for decriminalizing sex with minors.”
claimant: Instagram post
claim_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
title: U.N.-backed report doesn’t say adults having sex with children is OK
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/21/instagram-posts/un-backed-report-doesnt-say-adults-having-sex-with/


claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00Z
title: The Pentagon didn’t ‘admit’ that there are 46 US-funded biolabs in Ukraine
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The Pentagon "finally comes clean" and "admits...that there are 46 U.S. military-funded biolabs in Ukraine"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/15/blog-posting/pentagon-didnt-admit-there-are-46-us-funded-biolab/


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2021-08-16T00:00:00Z
title: Claim wrong about Biden, Harris, Psaki being off of work amid Afghanistan crisis
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Joe Biden is on a two-week vacation. Kamala Harris has been nonexistent since Inauguration Day. Jen Psaki is taking a break from her duties as press secretary for one week.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/20/instagram-posts/claim-wrong-about-biden-harris-psaki-being-work-am/


text: Sarah Huckabee Sanders dressed up as KKK member on Halloween in 1993.
claimant: Wake Up America
claim_date: 2017-10-22T00:00:00Z
title: No, Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not dress up as a KKK member for Halloween
review_date: 2017-10-23T17:55:01Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/23/blog-posting/no-sarah-huckabee-sanders-did-not-dress-kkk-member/


claimant: Jon Erpenbach
claim_date: 2021-03-21T00:00:00Z
title: Erpenbach overstates claim that there are 'no strings attached' to federal funds to expand Medicaid
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/may/07/jon-erpenbach/erpenbach-overstates-claim-there-are-no-strings-at/


text: Video shows helicopters in Ukraine “being picked off in ambush - Short range air-to-air missile”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t real footage of downed helicopters during an ambush
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/20/facebook-posts/no-isnt-real-footage-downed-helicopters-during-amb/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
title: Gift shop selling COVID-19 coins is not from the White House
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Donald Trump is selling coronavirus-themed commemorative coins through the White House Gift Shop.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/01/facebook-posts/gift-shop-selling-covid-19-coins-not-white-house/


text: Says Scott Pruitt’s security spending was "somewhat more" than his predecessor.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-03-07T00:00:00Z
title: Is Scott Pruitt's security spending somewhat more than predecessor? It's a lot more
review_date: 2018-04-10T15:16:58Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/apr/10/donald-trump/scott-pruitt-security-spending-epa-predecessor/


text: "Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."
claimant: Cory Booker
claim_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
title: Farmer suicides as high as in the Great Depression? No data says so
review_date: 2019-03-21T20:50:35Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/21/cory-booker/farmer-suicides-high-great-depression-no-data-says/


claimant: Devin Nunes
claim_date: 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/nov/13/fact-checking-house-impeachment-hearings-trump/
title: Fact-checking Trump, Ukraine impeachment hearings, day 1
review_date: 2019-11-13T21:42:16Z
textual_rating: Misleads in several ways
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Democrats tried "to obtain nude pictures of Trump from Russian pranksters who pretended to be Ukrainian officials."


text: Says Trump volunteered his airline to bring troops home during Operation Desert Storm.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-03-31T00:00:00Z
title: No, Trump didn’t donate his airline to bring troops home in the 1990s
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/07/facebook-posts/no-trump-didnt-donate-his-airline-bring-troops-hom/


text: Says for every "share" that a photograph of a sick boy gets, Facebook will donate one dollar.
claimant: Viral Image
claim_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook doesn’t donate money based on the number of shares a post gets
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/05/viral-image/facebook-doesnt-donate-money-based-number-shares-p/


text: George Soros’s son is married to Adam Schiff’s sister.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-10-07T00:00:00Z
title: No, George Soros’s son isn’t married to Adam Schiff’s sister
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/11/viral-image/no-george-soross-son-isnt-married-adam-schiffs-sis/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-06-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, emails to Fauci don’t show early agreement that virus was man-made
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Emails show "Fauci's fellow scientist could tell early on that the (coronavirus) looked manufactured."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/02/facebook-posts/no-emails-fauci-dont-show-early-agreement-virus-wa/


claimant: Yusef Salaam
claim_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jul/25/did-donald-trump-ever-apologize-central/
title: Did Donald Trump ever apologize to the ‘Central Park Five’?
textual_rating: Trump still believes group's guilt
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Donald Trump "never said sorry for calling for my execution" as a member of the "Central Park Five."


claimant: TikTok posts
claim_date: 2023-04-20T00:00:00Z
title: Despite video’s claims, neither World Economic Forum nor UN ordered governments to ration water
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The World Economic Forum and the United Nations have “ordered world governments to ration people’s water supply.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/03/tiktok-posts/despite-videos-claims-neither-world-economic-forum/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: UV radiation is not a common way to kill viruses and bacteria in the body
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says “Ultraviolet Radiation is administered into the body as a disinfectant to kill bacteria and viruses and this has been used for a while now.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/28/facebook-posts/uv-radiation-not-common-way-kill-viruses-and-bacte/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence Johns Hopkins doctor said this about COVID-19 vaccines
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Johns Hopkins virologist "James Kelly" said the COVID-19 vaccine “discriminates, divides, and judges society as it is.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/03/facebook-posts/no-evidence-johns-hopkins-doctor-said-about-covid-/


text: Says Ilhan Omar "partied" on the anniversary of 9/11.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-09-18T00:00:00Z
title: Trump retweets false claim that Ilhan Omar partied on 9/11 anniversary
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/19/donald-trump/trump-retweets-false-claim-ilhan-omar-partied-911-/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/sep/21/refugee-resettlement-united-states-versus-assistan/
title: Estimating costs of refugee resettlement in the United States, assistance in home region
review_date: 2017-09-21T18:57:07Z
textual_rating: Hard to verify
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region.”


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
title: President Trump’s claim that 10 refugees overseas cost as much as one in the U.S.
review_date: 2017-09-22T14:20:49Z
textual_rating: Numbers in Dispute
language_code: en
publisher_name: Washington Post
publisher_site: washingtonpost.com
text:
“For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region.”

url:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/09/22/president-trumps-claim-that-10-refugees-overseas-cost-as-much-as-one-in-the-u-s/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-09-08T00:00:00Z
title: A viral post claims fish in Alaska are getting cancer because of Fukushima. They aren't
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says aquatic life near Alaska, Canada and Australia have been found with cancer and mutations as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/11/facebook-posts/viral-post-claims-fish-alaska-are-getting-cancer-b/


text: Says Joe Biden tweeted, “the way white people talk leaving minorities confused.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, Joe Biden didn’t tweet this about Coca-Cola and minorities
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/24/viral-image/no-joe-biden-didnt-tweet-about-coca-cola-and-minor/


claimant: Vivek Ramaswamy
claim_date: 2023-08-27T00:00:00Z
title: Why Vivek Ramaswamy’s claim about what Mike Pence could have done on Jan. 6 is False
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, could have approved the 2020 electoral votes on the condition that Congress pass an overhaul of election law.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/29/vivek-ramaswamy/vivek-ramaswamys-flawed-argument-about-vp-mike-pen/


text: An HIV-positive Cadbury worker has been arrested after contaminating products with his blood.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
title: No, Cadbury products were not contaminated with a worker's HIV-positive blood
review_date: 2019-03-07T20:01:54Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/07/facebook-posts/no-cadbury-products-were-not-contaminated-workers-/


text: “Shots fired T.L Hanna High School 1 seriously injured.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-08-28T00:00:00Z
title: False rumors about gunshots fired at a South Carolina high school spread on social media
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/29/facebook-posts/false-rumors-about-gunshots-fired-at-a-south-carol/


text: “The average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds” of stool stuck in their gut.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
title: Feeling weighed down? It’s not because there are 5-15 pounds of stool ‘stuck’ in your gut
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/27/facebook-posts/feeling-weighed-down-its-not-because-there-are-5-1/


claimant: Bruce Rauner
claim_date: 2017-12-04T00:00:00Z
title: Rauner distorts Dems' message on Illinois income tax
review_date: 2017-12-14T19:20:02Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The candidates controlled by Madigan, all of them have said, ‘The answer to our problems is a massive income tax hike.’ "

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/dec/14/bruce-rauner/rauner-distorts-dems-message-illinois-income-tax/


text: "NASA will pay you $18,000 to stay in bed and smoke weed for 70 straight days."
claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2017-01-02T00:00:00Z
title: Persistent story about NASA paying people $18,000 to lie in bed and smoke ganja is fake
review_date: 2017-05-24T14:10:28Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/24/blog-posting/persistent-story-about-nasa-paying-people-18000-li/


text: "Democrats and their allies (...) are manufacturing voters."
claimant: Ken Blackwell
claim_date: 2018-11-09T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence Democrats and their allies ‘manufacturing voters’ in Florida recount
review_date: 2018-11-13T19:35:43Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/13/ken-blackwell/no-evidence-democrats-and-their-allies-manufacturi/


text: "One in 10 babies born in this country is born in Texas."
claimant: Joyce Mauk
claim_date: 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
title: Fort Worth pediatrician says 1 in 10 U.S.-born babies born in Texas
review_date: 2017-10-12T15:14:49Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/12/joyce-mauk/fort-worth-pediatrician-says-1-10-us-born-babies-b/


text: "What does Trumpcare do? Yank tax credits away from veterans unlike any other American."
claimant: Richard Blumenthal
claim_date: 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z
title: GOP health care bill 'yanks tax credits away from veterans,' Sen. Blumenthal says
review_date: 2017-05-15T20:32:34Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/15/richard-blumenthal/gop-health-care-bill-yanks-tax-credits-away-vetera/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-07-11T00:00:00Z
title: Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt wasn’t assigned to any Congress member’s security detail, police say
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
A bodyguard of a high-ranking Democrat in Congress fired the shot that killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/14/facebook-posts/officer-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-wasnt-assigned-any-/


claimant: Taylor Swift
claim_date: 2018-10-07T00:00:00Z
title: Taylor Swift: Marsha Blackburn voted against reauthorizing Violence Against Women Act
review_date: 2018-10-09T17:04:58Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Marsha Blackburn "voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/09/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-marsha-blackburn-voted-against-reauth/


text: "Democrat Maxine Waters has shown up to only 10 percent of congressional meetings for 35 years."
claimant: TeddyStick.com
claim_date: 2017-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: Maxine Waters has not skipped 90 percent of congressional meetings
review_date: 2017-06-16T18:02:13Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jun/15/teddystickcom/maxine-waters-has-not-skipped-90-percent-congressi/


text: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “will be at every polling station” on Nov. 3, 2020.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: ICE says it’s not patrolling polling locations on Election Day
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/26/facebook-posts/ice-says-its-not-patrolling-polling-locations-elec/


claimant: Rebecca Kleefisch
claim_date: 2022-07-24T00:00:00Z
title: Kleefisch off the mark with claim linking worker shortage and medical assistance enrollments
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There is absolutely no reason why Wisconsin should be facing a worker shortage to the level we are when there are 123,000 more able-bodied childless adults on BadgerCare since the pandemic."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/02/rebecca-kleefisch/kleefisch-mark-claim-linking-worker-shortage-and-m/


text: On whether the state should use surplus funds for ongoing expenses.
claimant: Tony Evers
claim_date: 2020-01-27T00:00:00Z
title: Tony Evers' school funding idea a partial reversal of past position
textual_rating: Half Flip
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/17/tony-evers/wisconsin-governor-takes-half-step-back-using-surp/


text: "1,000,000 Ukraine soldiers wiped out”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-05-25T00:00:00Z
title: Claim of 1 million Ukrainian soldiers dead has no official backing
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/26/facebook-posts/claim-of-1-million-ukrainian-soldiers-dead-has-no/


text: On voting for a health care bill without an up-to-date Congressional Budget Office score.
claimant: Paul Ryan
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
title: Did Paul Ryan flip-flop on how to pass a big health care bill?
review_date: 2017-05-04T20:46:05Z
textual_rating: Full Flop
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/04/paul-ryan/did-paul-ryan-flip-flop-how-pass-big-health-care-b/


claimant: Ron DeSantis
claim_date: 2021-08-04T00:00:00Z
title: Ron DeSantis’ effort to blame COVID-19 spread on migrants is short on evidence
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/06/ron-desantis/ron-desantis-effort-blame-covid-19-spread-migrants/


text: In Wisconsin, Foxconn has "4,000 jobs, people making $53,000 a year."
claimant: Kanye West
claim_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
title: Kanye West jumps the gun in saying there are 4,000 Foxconn jobs in Wisconsin paying $53,000
review_date: 2018-10-12T21:20:36Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/12/kanye-west/kanye-west-jumps-gun-saying-there-are-4000-foxconn/


claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2018-03-11T00:00:00Z
title: Hannity's double standard on North Korea, Trump and Obama?
review_date: 2018-03-14T21:43:50Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama’s willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump’s "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/14/blog-posting/hannitys-double-standard-north-korea-trump-and-oba/


text: "Western New Yorkers pay some of the highest property taxes in the state."
claimant: Raymond Walter
claim_date: 2017-06-23T00:00:00Z
title: Who pays the highest property taxes in New York?
review_date: 2017-07-07T19:59:30Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/07/raymond-walter/where-are-property-taxes-highest-new-york/


claimant: Leah Vukmir
claim_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
title: GOP U.S. Senate hopeful Leah Vukmir's Pants on Fire claim about Mark Pocan proposal to abolish ICE
review_date: 2018-07-13T16:43:53Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Mark Pocan’s proposal to eliminate the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would "eliminate border enforcement."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/13/leah-vukmir/gop-us-senate-hopeful-leah-vukmirs-pants-fire-clai/


text: Video shows former President Donald Trump attacking the Clintons in 2023.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
title: Old video of Trump on the 2016 campaign trail misleads today’s social media users
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/15/facebook-posts/old-video-of-trump-on-the-2016-campaign-trail-misl/


text: Says Democrats "have issued more subpoenas than they’ve passed bills."
claimant: Mike Shields
claim_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Subpoenas vs. bills: What this CNN pundit got wrong
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/04/mike-shields/subpoenas-vs-bills-what-cnn-pundit-got-wrong/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-03-18T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's claims about Democrats on Robert Mueller's team
review_date: 2018-03-21T21:09:11Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Robert Mueller’s investigative team has "13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/21/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claims-about-Mueller/


claimant: Congressional Leadership Fund
claim_date: 2017-04-05T00:00:00Z
title: Attack ad in Georgia special election ties Jon Ossoff to Al Jazeera
review_date: 2017-04-13T22:36:09Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Al Jazeera, "a mouthpiece for terrorists, has been paying Jon Ossoff thousands of dollars. ... What is he hiding?"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/13/congressional-leadership-fund/attack-ad-ties-jon-ossoff-al-jazeera/


text: Silicon Valley Bank “donated $73M to 'BLM Movement'”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: Claim that Silicon Valley Bank donated $73 million to Black Lives Matter is unsupported
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/22/facebook-posts/claim-silicon-valley-bank-donated-73-million-black/


claimant: Rand Paul
claim_date: 2019-11-10T00:00:00Z
title: Rand Paul’s false equivalence about Trump, Biden on Ukraine
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president "sounds exactly like what Joe Biden did."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/11/rand-paul/rand-paul-said-trumps-actions-related-ukraine-were/


claimant: Scott Walker
review_date: 2016-05-13T19:43:34Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has "2.8 students per faculty" member, "tied for second-lowest in its history since 1994."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/13/scott-walker/scott-walker-way-saying-university-wisconsin-milwa/

title:
Scott Walker way off in saying University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has 2.8 students per faculty member


claimant: JD Wooten
claim_date: 2018-09-28T00:00:00Z
title: Wooten leaves out some details about teacher pay cuts
review_date: 2018-10-17T17:36:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Republicans in the General Assembly cut teacher pay so much when they took over in 2011 that even with recent pay raises, we are still below pre-Recession pay levels."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/17/jd-wooten/wooten-doesnt-paint-full-picture-teacher-pay-cut/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
title: Conspiracy theory targets first recipient of UK COVID-19 vaccine as crisis actor
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Images that show a 90-year-old UK woman receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appeared online in a CNN news story in October.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/09/facebook-posts/conspiracy-theory-targets-first-recipient-uk-covid/


text: Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
claimant: John Cornyn
claim_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
title: John Cornyn claim about Texas Medicaid spending counts state plus federal aid
review_date: 2017-03-28T22:06:19Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/mar/28/john-cornyn/john-cornyn-Texas-Medicaid-spending-counts-state-f/


claimant: Rick Scott
claim_date: 2019-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/01/unpacking-spin-democrats-gop-over-which-side-block/
title: Unpacking the spin from Democrats, GOP over which side is blocking hurricane relief for Puerto Rico
review_date: 2019-04-01T17:05:18Z
textual_rating: Dems propose aid too
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We are so close to getting funding to help FL and PR recover after devastating storms. But the Dems keep holding it up. They need to stop making disaster relief a partisan fight! Let’s get this done NOW!"


text: Models projecting COVID-19 deaths “are talking about without mitigation.”
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
title: Trump wrong that COVID-19 death projections omit revisions based on social distancing
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/06/donald-trump/trump-wrong-covid-19-death-projections-omit-mitiga/


text: A photo shows “Barack Obama dressed up as Baphomet (Lucifer).”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
title: Flames from hell? That’s just the Truth-O-Meter burning over claims a photo shows Obama as Satan
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/27/viral-image/flames-from-hell-thats-just-the-truth-o-meter-burn/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/jun/22/fact-checking-nine-things-trump-overstated-got-wro/
title: Fact-checking 9 things Trump overstated, got wrong in his Cedar Rapids speech
review_date: 2017-06-22T20:27:00Z
textual_rating: Company noted in bid
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall so it creates energy and pays for itself. ... Pretty good imagination, right? Good? My idea."


text: GOP tax plan “is better for working, middle-class families” making under $100K
claimant: John Nygren
claim_date: 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z
title: Nygren: GOP tax plan “is better for working, middle-class families” making under $100K
review_date: 2019-02-22T21:16:58Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/22/john-nygren/nygren-wisconsin-gop-tax-plan-middle-class/


text: The CDC has classified monkeypox as an airborne form of herpes that can lead to paralysis.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
title: Image makes false claims about monkeypox and wasn’t shared by BBC News or the WHO
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/05/facebook-posts/image-makes-false-claims-about-monkeypox-and-wasnt/


claimant: Tom Tiffany
claim_date: 2020-05-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the state “health secretary says don't go to hospitals or clinics, now the tourism secretary says don't recreate.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/28/tom-tiffany/tiffany-wrong-claim-officials-dont-want-wisconsini/

title:
Tiffany wrong on claim that officials don’t want Wisconsinites to go to doctors, spend time outdoors


text: How many 'Democrat campaign donors' on special counsel team probing Trump campaign-Russia ties?
claimant: Sean Duffy
claim_date: 2017-10-30T00:00:00Z
title: How many 'Democrat campaign donors' on special counsel team probing Trump campaign-Russia ties?
review_date: 2017-11-03T18:12:18Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/03/sean-duffy/how-many-democrat-campaign-donors-special-counsel-/


text: The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers' "
claimant: Ann Coulter
claim_date: 2017-06-08T00:00:00Z
title: Ann Coulter says Trump granted amnesty to nearly 100,000 'Dreamers.' Is that true?
review_date: 2017-06-21T19:42:30Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jun/21/ann-coulter/ann-coulter-says-trump-granted-amnesty-nearly-1000/


claimant: Stacey Abrams
claim_date: 2018-01-17T00:00:00Z
title: Did Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate protect college aid program?
review_date: 2018-01-24T14:38:37Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says under her leadership, "Democrats fought to ... make sure the (2011 HOPE) bill ... prevented the use of ACT/SAT testing standards."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/24/stacey-abrams/georgia-governors-race-hope-scholarship-abrams/


text: "To be clear, all my investments are in a trust that I don’t control."
claimant: Bruce Rauner
claim_date: 2017-10-20T00:00:00Z
title: Rauner's "blind trust procedures" don't excuse lawsuit secrecy
review_date: 2017-10-27T12:19:17Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/27/bruce-rauner/rauners-blind-trust-procedures-dont-excuse-lawsuit/


claimant: Democratic National Committee
claim_date: 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
title: DNC offers one-sided view on who gets tax bill's benefits
review_date: 2018-01-16T22:36:09Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The Republicans and President Donald Trump "passed a tax bill that gave 80 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jan/16/democratic-national-committee/dnc-offers-one-sided-view-who-gets-tax-bills-benef/


claimant: James Edming
claim_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, data shows COVID-19 vaccines are safe despite quick timeline
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“You can’t tell me they can (develop a safe vaccine) in eight to 10 months. Or a year. It takes more time than that.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/26/james-edming/yes-vaccines-are-safe-despite-quick-timeline/


text: "Male birth control testing stopped after men’s testicles start exploding in India."
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
title: This story about men’s testicles exploding after male birth control testing is fake
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/17/facebook-posts/story-about-mens-testicles-exploding-after-male-bi/


claimant: One Wisconsin Now
claim_date: 2017-08-07T00:00:00Z
title: Would Wisconsin's $3 billion to Foxconn be largest-ever 'gift' by any state to a foreign company?
review_date: 2017-08-15T15:27:51Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Wisconsin's $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is "the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/15/one-wisconsin-now/wisconsins-3-billion-offer-foxconn-gift-and-it-lar/


text: Says Ron DeSantis "voted in an agricultural bill to give food stamps to illegal immigrants."
claimant: Adam Putnam
claim_date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
title: Putnam parrots previous absurd claim on food stamps for illegal immigrants
review_date: 2018-06-29T18:17:43Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jun/29/adam-putnam/putnam-parrots-previous-absurd-claim-food-stamps-i/


text: Says Jordan Davis, son of Georgia Congresswoman Lucy McBath, was killed in "a drug deal gone bad."
claimant: Paul Maner
claim_date: 2020-01-20T00:00:00Z
title: Ex-Georgia candidate makes Pants on Fire claim about son of US Rep. Lucy McBath, Jordan Davis
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/24/paul-maner/claim-us-rep-lucy-mcbaths-teen-murdered-son-was-ki/


text: "Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."
claimant: Rand Paul
claim_date: 2019-10-11T00:00:00Z
title: Rand Paul’s claim about taxes went over poorly on The View, but it was pretty accurate
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/17/rand-paul/fact-checking-rand-pauls-appearance-view/


text: “Biden smirks while saying he has added more to the debt than any president before him.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
title: Biden’s debt comments taken out of context
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/31/viral-image/bidens-debt-comments-taken-out-of-context/


text: Bill Gates’ daughters aren’t vaccinated.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, Bill Gates’ children are vaccinated
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/02/viral-image/yes-bill-gates-children-are-vaccinated/


claimant: Newt Gingrich
claim_date: 2013-09-30T00:00:00Z
title: Newt Gingrich says shutdowns are 'normal' process, with 12 under Tip O’Neill and two under Gingrich
review_date: 2016-07-15T15:20:32Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Shutdowns are "a normal part of the constitutional process," with 12 shutdowns under Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill and two during his own speakership.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/oct/04/newt-gingrich/newt-gingrich-says-late-speaker-tip-oneill-served-/


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-05-15T00:00:00Z
title: A claim full of hot air: Earth’s temperature historically high, not colder than 10,000 years ago
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“We are about 1 degree Celsius above the coldest it’s been in the last 10,000 years” and “that’s why we shouldn’t be panicking.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/17/instagram-posts/a-claim-full-of-hot-air-earths-temperature-histori/


text: "Midland, Texas, now beats the San Francisco area in the percentage of jobs created by startups."
claimant: Greg Abbott
claim_date: 2017-01-31T00:00:00Z
title: Is Midland outpacing San Francisco in startups? Yes, but perhaps not like you'd think
review_date: 2017-02-24T16:38:13Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/24/greg-abbott/greg-abbott-claim-touting-midland-over-san-francis/


text: A person’s immune system “tanks” after their second COVID-19 vaccine dose.
claimant: YouTube video
claim_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence that COVID-19 vaccines weaken the immune system
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/07/youtube-videos/no-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-weaken-immune-system/


text: “My opponent’s plan for people who commit sexual assault, sexual predators, is no jail time.”
claimant: Byron Brown
claim_date: 2021-09-26T00:00:00Z
title: No jail time for rapists? Walton hasn’t said that
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/14/byron-brown/no-jail-time-rapists-walton-hasnt-said/


claimant: Empower Wisconsin
claim_date: 2021-08-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, Wis. Gov. Evers did not wait to send help to Kenosha during unrest
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says of Gov. Tony Evers and 2020 violence in Kenosha after the police shooting of Jacob Blake: “It took the loss of lives before help finally came.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/15/empower-wisconsin/no-wis-gov-evers-did-not-wait-send-help-kenosha-du/


text: "Sanitizer will do nothing for the coronavirus."
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-03-02T00:00:00Z
title: Hand sanitizer can be used to prevent coronavirus infection
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/03/facebook-posts/hand-sanitizer-can-be-used-prevent-coronavirus-inf/


text: Property taxes have “nothing to do with the state.”
claimant: Andrew Cuomo
claim_date: 2019-07-19T00:00:00Z
title: Cuomo's claim on property taxes omits mandates
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/aug/10/andrew-cuomo/cuomos-claim-property-taxes-omits-mandates/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden’s claim on Medicare For All tax hikes rests on flaky analysis
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"For people making between $50,000 and $75,000 a year, their taxes are going up about $5,000 because the fact is, they will pay more in new taxes" for Medicare for All.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/16/joe-biden/bidens-claim-medicare-all-tax-hikes-rests-flaky-an/


text: Photo shows Don Lemon and Jeffrey Epstein embracing.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-08-09T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of Don Lemon and Jeffrey Epstein is doctored
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/viral-image/photo-don-lemon-and-jeffrey-epstein-doctored/


text: "Out of 860 bills (Sen. Bill Nelson has) introduced in Congress, only 10 have passed."
claimant: Republican Party of Florida
claim_date: 2018-04-09T00:00:00Z
title: Florida Republicans attack Sen. Bill Nelson's legislative record
review_date: 2018-04-20T17:42:43Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/apr/20/republican-party-florida/florida-republicans-attack-sen-bill-nelsons-legisl/


claimant: Michael Caputo
claim_date: 2020-09-13T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Trump health aide’s unproven ‘hit squads’ claim from controversial Facebook video
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There are hit squads being trained all over this country” to violently oppose a second term for President Donald Trump.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/17/michael-caputo/fact-checking-trump-health-aides-unproven-hit-squa/


text: “Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2020-06-24T00:00:00Z
title: Did Donald Trump lose a trade war he started, as Joe Biden says?
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/30/joe-biden/did-donald-trump-lose-trade-war-he-started-joe-bid/


text: NC is home to two of the "top five most polluted rivers" in the U.S.
claimant: Billy Richardson
claim_date: 2017-08-31T00:00:00Z
title: NC Democrat says state's rivers are among the top 5 'most polluted'
review_date: 2017-09-20T18:19:33Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/sep/20/billy-richardson/nc-democrat-says-states-rivers-are-among-top-5-mos/


claimant: Mike Pence
claim_date: 2020-02-29T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Pence’s defense of response to Indiana HIV outbreak
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/05/mike-pence/fact-checking-pences-defense-response-indiana-hiv-/


text: An email shows that employers are requiring employees to wear masks during Zoom meetings.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z
title: Messages about employer mask requirements for Zoom meetings originated on satire accounts
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/06/viral-image/messages-about-employer-mask-requirements-zoom-mee/


claimant: Hugh Hewitt
claim_date: 2020-09-28T00:00:00Z
title: Experts say Trump tax report shows aggressive tax avoidance, unusually persistent losses
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
President Donald Trump’s tax returns show “what any wealthy person's tax history is, if you can believe it — which is good years and bad years, years of immense taxes and years of almost no taxes at all because you carry over losses.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/30/hugh-hewitt/experts-say-trump-tax-report-shows-aggressive-tax-/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/54023884
title: US protests: Dark-clad thugs on planes and other claims fact-checked
review_date: 2020-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: BBC
publisher_site: bbc.co.uk
text:
"We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that."

textual_rating:
There have been no reports that this incident took place, and the White House has provided no evidence of such a plane


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-11-16T00:00:00Z
title: Trump wrongly claims ‘big victory’ after close down-ballot Nevada race moves toward revote
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/18/donald-trump/trump-wrongly-claims-big-victory-after-close-down-/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2023-07-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/28/joe-biden/joe-biden-said-heat-kills-more-americans-than-floo/

title:
Joe Biden said heat kills more Americans than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined. Is it true?


text: Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-04-07T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook post makes false claim about a lockdown, open borders
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/15/facebook-posts/facebook-post-makes-false-claim-about-lockdown-ope/


claimant: Travis Tritt
claim_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
title: Why Travis Tritt’s claim about Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s finances and Dominion is False
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
When elected Georgia governor in 2018, “Brian Kemp was over $7 million in debt.” Kemp “cut a deal” to select Dominion Voting Systems as Georgia’s voting machine vendor and “has never been in debt since.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/31/travis-tritt/why-travis-tritts-claim-about-georgia-gov-brian-ke/


text: "Hillary Clinton has third heart attack — docs says she ‘won’t survive’."
claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2017-07-28T00:00:00Z
title: Hillary Clinton not dead from heart attack, as fake news site claims
review_date: 2017-08-03T19:42:17Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/03/blog-posting/hillary-clinton-not-dead-heart-attack-fake-news-si/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/oct/22/fact-checking-joe-biden-cnns-town-hall/
title: Fact-checking Joe Biden at CNN’s town hall
review_date: 2021-10-22T18:19:07Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"You have 55 corporations, for example, in the United States of America making over $40 billion, don't pay a cent. Not a single little red cent."


text: Immigrants "can show up at any embassy or consulate abroad" to make their asylum claims.
claimant: Raul Labrador
claim_date: 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, immigrants cannot apply for asylum at U.S. embassies or consulates abroad
review_date: 2018-07-10T21:54:01Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/10/raul-labrador/no-immigrants-cannot-apply-asylum-us-embassies-or-/


text: “The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a ‘Federal Benefit Payment.’”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-12-27T00:00:00Z
title: Social Security payments have always been called “benefits”
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/facebook-posts/social-security-payments-have-always-been-called-b/


claimant: Wisconsin State Senate Democrats
claim_date: 2020-07-24T00:00:00Z
title: Wisconsin Democrats say lawmakers in neighboring states have done more on COVID-19 than state GOP
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Say Wisconsin Republican lawmakers have done nothing "while neighboring states like Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan have already implemented safety precautions like requiring individuals to wear masks."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/31/wisconsin-state-senate-democrats/wisconsin-democrats-say-lawmakers-neighboring-stat/


text: “Whole of Italy goes into quarantine.”
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00Z
title: In Italy, people must stay home except for work or emergencies
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/12/blog-posting/italy-people-must-stay-home-except-work-or-emergen/


claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2022-01-03T00:00:00Z
title: No, John Roberts didn’t criticize Supreme Court justices’ ‘inappropriate political influence’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Chief Justice John Roberts goes after the highest court in the land, citing their ‘inappropriate political influence.’”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/05/blog-posting/no-john-roberts-didnt-criticize-supreme-court-just/


text: “Tulsi Gabbard Venmos Nancy Pelosi $600.01 forcing the IRS to audit Pelosi’s finances.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-08-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, Tulsi Gabbard didn’t send Pelosi $600.01 via Venmo
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/19/viral-image/no-tulsi-gabbard-didnt-send-pelosi-60001-venmo/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-12-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, the Clintons and Obama didn’t give nukes and uranium to North Korea, Iran and Russia
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Bill Clinton "gave nukes to North Korea," Barack Obama "gave nukes to Iran," and Hillary Clinton "gave uranium to Russia."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/09/viral-image/no-clintons-and-obama-didnt-give-nukes-and-uranium/


text: "California Democrat Maxine Waters charged on 3 counts."
claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2017-10-06T00:00:00Z
title: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters charged with 3 ethics violations — back in 2010
review_date: 2017-11-02T15:21:13Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/02/blog-posting/us-rep-maxine-waters-charged-3-ethics-violations-b/


claimant: Priorities USA Action
claim_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
title: Democratic super PAC uses familiar political play to hit Trump on Medicare
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Donald Trump is trying to make $451 billion in Medicare cuts "in the middle of a deadly pandemic."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/29/priorities-usa-action/democratic-super-pac-uses-familiar-political-play-/


text: Sen. Kamala Harris is "supporting the animals of MS-13."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-07-02T00:00:00Z
title: Pants On Fire: White House claim Sen. Kamala Harris ‘supporting MS-13’
review_date: 2018-07-04T01:07:04Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/03/donald-trump/pants-fire-white-house-claim-sen-harris-supporting/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
title: Trump correct about natural gas trends in New York and Pennsylvania
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"From 2010 to 2017, natural gas production plummeted by nearly 70 percent in New York, but it soared almost 1,000 percent in Pennsylvania."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/04/donald-trump/trump-correct-about-natural-gas-trends-new-york-an/


text: Says former FBI Director James Comey admitted to leaking classified information.
claimant: NC GOP
claim_date: 2017-06-08T00:00:00Z
title: James Comey memo: Did the former FBI director admit to leaking classified information in hearings?
review_date: 2017-06-12T14:11:18Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jun/09/north-carolina-republican-party/james-comey-hearings-did-former-fbi-director-admit/


text: On maintaining Medicaid expansion in Ohio as part of the Affordable Care Act
claimant: Mike DeWine
claim_date: 2018-07-11T00:00:00Z
title: Ohio Republican Mike DeWine changed position on Medicaid expansion
review_date: 2018-07-20T15:02:01Z
textual_rating: Full Flop
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/20/mike-dewine/ohio-republican-mike-dewine-changed-medicaid/


text: The Benghazi victims were "left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-06-22T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton 'slept' through Benghazi attack
review_date: 2016-06-23T17:51:56Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/23/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-slept-through-be/


claimant: Barack Obama
claim_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
title: Obama says Republicans tried to 'purge' black Democrats from voter rolls in North Carolina
review_date: 2016-11-07T22:36:11Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The list of voters that North Carolina Republicans "tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/07/barack-obama/obama-says-republicans-tried-purge-black-democrats/


text: "For years, they have not been able to get tax cuts -- many, many years, since Reagan."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump wrong that no tax cuts passed since Reagan
review_date: 2017-11-30T16:49:33Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-no-tax-cuts-passed-reagan/


claimant: Mark Warner
claim_date: 2019-01-13T00:00:00Z
title: Trump wants to lift sanctions related to a Russian oligarch. Here’s why
review_date: 2019-01-15T18:58:56Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Oleg Deripaska’s) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/15/mark-warner/trump-wants-lift-sanctions-related-russian-oligarc/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
title: Social media posts misconstrue ABC News story about White House event
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“ABC News has confirmed that attendees to Trump WH Rally were paid. $150. ea and had to sign an NDA.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/12/facebook-posts/social-media-posts-misconstrue-abc-news-story-abou/


text: Footage of the Bidens celebrating Easter at the White House is fake.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-04-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/20/facebook-posts/no-presidential-seal-doesnt-prove-bidens-pretended/

title:
No, this presidential seal doesn’t prove the Bidens pretended to celebrate Easter at the White House


text: "Gloria Allred Accuser **ADMITS** She Tampered With Roy Moore’s Yearbook 'Signature.' "
claimant: The Gateway Pundit
claim_date: 2017-12-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, Roy Moore accuser didn't admit she forged his signature in her yearbook
review_date: 2017-12-08T20:50:20Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/dec/08/blog-posting/no-roy-moore-accuser-didnt-tamper-or-forge-yearboo/


text: “Military tribunals start Jan. 20, 2021.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-01-20T00:00:00Z
title: No, military tribunals didn’t start on Jan. 20
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/21/facebook-posts/no-military-tribunals-didnt-start-jan-20/


claimant: Kamala Harris
claim_date: 2020-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/20/fact-checking-third-night-2020-dnc-barack-obama-ka/
title: Fact-checking the third night of the 2020 DNC with Barack Obama, Kamala Harris
review_date: 2020-08-20T05:12:54Z
textual_rating: True based on available data
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"And while this virus touches us all, we've got to be honest. it is not an equal opportunity offender. Black, Latino and indigenous people are suffering and dying disproportionately."


text: "The truth is this tax [plan] raises middle-class taxes."
claimant: Kirsten Gillibrand
claim_date: 2017-12-15T00:00:00Z
title: Will the Republican tax law raise middle-class taxes?
review_date: 2017-12-22T21:30:27Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/dec/22/kirsten-gillibrand/will-republican-tax-law-raise-middle-class-taxes/


text: “PPP on average probably provided a grant of around $11,000 per employee."
claimant: Ron Johnson
claim_date: 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z
title: Johnson accurate in his estimation of PPP loan per employee
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/24/ron-johnson/johnson-accurate-his-estimation-ppp-loan-employee/


text: Says Tom Hanks’ name is on Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-07-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, Tom Hanks’ name is not on Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/31/facebook-posts/no-tom-hanks-name-not-jeffrey-epsteins-flight-logs/


text: “Florida man arrested for using a lost U.S. nuke to power his home for more than 27 years.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
title: This isn’t a real CNN headline about a Florida man arrested for powering his home with a nuke
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/16/viral-image/this-isnt-a-real-cnn-headline-about-a-florida-man/


text: A “default on our debt” would be unprecedented in American history.
claimant: Hakeem Jeffries
claim_date: 2023-01-08T00:00:00Z
title: Hakeem Jeffries said a U.S. debt limit default would be a historical first. He’s mostly right.
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/11/hakeem-jeffries/hakeem-jeffries-said-a-debt-limit-default-would-be/


text: Spicer: "Trump has the legal right to cancel SCOTUS because they serve at his pleasure"
claimant: USPOLN.com
claim_date: 2017-06-21T00:00:00Z
title: It's fake news that the president can disband the Supreme Court
review_date: 2017-07-06T18:24:42Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/06/blog-posting/its-fake-news-president-can-disband-supreme-court/


claimant: Laura Ingraham
claim_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/aug/25/what-was-contingency-and-crisis-response-bureau-ex/
title: What was the Contingency and Crisis Response bureau? Examining the Trump-era proposal
textual_rating: Program wasn't fully running
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"As the Taliban's gaining ground, Biden's team of incompetence killed the Trump-era program to oversee the evacuation of Americans from crisis zones around the world."


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Biden exaggerates support among economists for his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“There is a consensus among economists left, right, and center… that we can’t spend too much” on COVID-19 relief.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/18/joe-biden/joe-biden-exaggerates-support-among-economists-his/


text: Says the diversity visa lottery program is "a Chuck Schumer beauty."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
title: Is diversity visa program a 'Schumer beauty,' as Donald Trump says?
review_date: 2017-11-01T17:49:04Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/01/donald-trump/was-diversity-visa-program-schumer-beauty-donald-t/


claimant: Ellen Trioxclair
claim_date: 2017-02-23T00:00:00Z
title: Ellen Troxclair incorrectly says Austin's city taxes surged as family incomes inched up
review_date: 2017-04-07T14:50:14Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Since 2012," city of Austin "property taxes have gone up almost 30 percent while incomes have only risen 4 percent."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/07/ellen-troxclair/ellen-troxclair-incorrectly-city-taxes-incomes-fam/


text: "The primary financing mechanism of the Affordable Care Act is a tax on wealthy people."
claimant: Tom Perez
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
title: Taxes on wealthy pay for Obamacare? DNC's Perez overshoots
review_date: 2017-03-01T22:38:46Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/mar/01/thomas-perez/taxes-wealthy-pay-obamacare-dncs-perez-overshoots/


claimant: Chris Christie
claim_date: 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
title: Chris Christie says Barack Obama failed to support solutions of deficit reduction commission
review_date: 2016-07-15T15:51:10Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says President Barack Obama failed "to stand up for the bipartisan debt solutions of the Simpson-Bowles Commission."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2011/sep/29/chris-christie/chris-christie-says-barack-obama-failed-stand-prop/


claimant: Sarah Huckabee Sanders
claim_date: 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
title: White House off-base comparing African-American job growth under Obama, Trump
review_date: 2018-08-15T14:50:17Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what President Obama did (for African-American employment) in eight years."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/15/sarah-huckabee-sanders/white-house-base-comparing-african-american-job-gr/


claimant: Marco Rubio
claim_date: 2017-10-15T00:00:00Z
title: Rubio says child tax credit is key in amount of tax relief working families receive
review_date: 2017-10-19T19:05:51Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The child tax credit, if we don't do it, there will be no tax relief for working families. How much tax relief working families get under tax reform is entirely dependent on whether or not we put in place an increase to the child tax credit."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/19/marco-rubio/rubio-says-child-tax-credit-key-amount-tax-relief-/


text: “New York state has already lost 99% of its historic freshwater wetlands.”
claimant: Sean Ryan
claim_date: 2022-03-03T00:00:00Z
title: Has New York state lost 99% of its historical range of wetlands?
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/29/sean-ryan/has-new-york-state-lost-99-its-historical-range-we/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jan/08/fact-checking-donald-trumps-speech-after-iran-miss/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's speech after Iran missile strikes on US troops
review_date: 2020-01-08T20:44:54Z
textual_rating: This is False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The very defective (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) expires shortly anyway and gives Iran a clear and quick path to nuclear breakout."


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/oct/08/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claims-about-syria-and/
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s claims about Syria and US troop withdrawal
review_date: 2019-10-08T20:29:32Z
textual_rating: Misleads
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate."


text: Rep. Adam Kinzinger “admits Trump won” the 2020 presidential election.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-08-15T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kinzinger didn’t say Trump won the election
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/17/facebook-posts/no-kinzinger-didnt-say-trump-won-election/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's tweet saying Democrats 'don’t mind executing' babies after birth
review_date: 2019-02-28T18:06:26Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/28/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweet-saying-democrats/


text: Video shows a poll worker committing voter fraud in Delaware County, Pa.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-11-05T00:00:00Z
title: Pennsylvania poll worker was copying information from a damaged ballot, to ensure it was counted
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/06/facebook-posts/pennsylvania-poll-worker-was-copying-information-d/


text: A $15-per-hour minimum wage would raise the price of a Taco Bell burrito to $38.
claimant: Jordan Rachel
claim_date: 2021-01-16T00:00:00Z
title: Minimum wage increases and the myth of the $38 burrito
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/20/jordan-rachel/minimum-wage-increases-and-myth-38-burrito/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-10-29T00:00:00Z
title: Virginia Democratic party, McAuliffe campaign not involved in white supremacist stunt
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Virginia Democrat operatives” and Terry McAuliffe campaign staffers posed as white supremacists and stood by Republican Glenn Youngkin’s bus.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/01/facebook-posts/virginia-democratic-party-mcauliffe-campaign-not-i/


claimant: Marco Rubio
claim_date: 2017-04-09T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump's Syria strike looks a lot like Barack Obama's plan, despite what Rubio, others say
review_date: 2017-04-12T15:48:51Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
the Obama administration’s 2013 Syria airstrike proposal "had no clear objective," while Trump’s Syria strike "had a clear strategic objective."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/12/marco-rubio/trumps-strikes-syria-look-lot-obamas-2013-proposal/


claimant: Rick Scott
claim_date: 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z
title: Rick Scott blames Democrats for expanding the debt. But it was a bipartisan feat
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Democrats are responsible for the massive spending and debt growth, they alone need to take responsibility for raising the debt limit.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/27/rick-scott/rick-scott-blames-democrats-expanding-debt-it-was-/


text: Says Hillary Clinton is "wrong" to say he mocked a disabled reporter.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is 'wrong' to say he mocked a disabled reporter
review_date: 2017-04-11T19:32:43Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/20/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-wrong-say-he-moc/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-12-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, AT&T was not conducting an audit of Dominion Voting Systems near Nashville explosion
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The Nashville bombing was an attempt to stop an AT&T audit into Dominion software to cover up the corruption of the election.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/29/facebook-posts/no-t-was-not-conducting-audit-dominion-voting-syst/


text: If you know someone's name and date of birth you can change their votes on Oregon’s voting website.
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2020-10-18T00:00:00Z
title: 4chan users spread false information about Oregon’s election website
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/20/blog-posting/4chan-users-spread-false-information-about-oregons/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kamala Harris didn’t attack Joe Biden on China during a primary debate
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Anyone remember Kamala telling Joe during the debate: ‘You will do whatever the Chinese tell you! They gave your son over a billion dollars.’”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/30/facebook-posts/no-kamala-harris-didnt-attack-joe-biden-china-duri/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jan/22/donald-trumps-team-misleads-tying-international-te/
title: Donald Trump’s team misleads in tying international terrorism report to immigration
review_date: 2018-01-22T17:20:07Z
textual_rating: Misleads
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"New report from DOJ & DHS shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are foreign-born."


text: Video shows interview with Elon Musk about making “passive income” with “Quantum AI.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
title: Altered video appears to show Elon Musk talking about a ‘passive income’ opportunity. It’s fake.
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/31/viral-image/altered-video-appears-to-show-elon-musk-talking-ab/


claimant: Colorado Citizens for Accountable Government
claim_date: 2016-10-14T00:00:00Z
title: Group says Colorado Senate candidate 'voted to use taxpayer dollars for China trip.' She never went
review_date: 2016-10-20T01:06:29Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"When Rachel Zenzinger was on the Arvada City Council, she voted to spend taxpayer funds for a junket to China."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/20/colorado-citizens-accountable-government/group-says-colorado-senate-candidate-voted-use-tax/


text: “Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens — it has overtaken cars.”
claimant: Ashey Beasley
claim_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
title: Gun violence surpasses car accidents as the leading cause of death for people ages 1 to 19
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/29/ashbey-beasley/gun-violence-surpasses-car-accidents-leading-cause/


claimant: Gordon Hintz
claim_date: 2021-02-06T00:00:00Z
title: Wisconsin Assembly Minority Leader right on relationship between mask mandates and COVID-19 cases
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“We know mask mandates work. There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/gordon-hintz/wisconsin-assembly-minority-leader-right-relations/


claimant: Club for Growth
claim_date: 2019-03-10T00:00:00Z
title: Did O’Rourke support a plan in El Paso to bulldoze community, enrich his father-in-law?
review_date: 2019-03-14T15:03:00Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Beto O’Rourke did his father-in-law’s bidding on the El Paso City Council, pushing a downtown redevelopment scheme to bulldoze a poor Hispanic neighborhood while enriching developers like his father-in-law."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/14/club-growth/did-beto-orourke-plan-el-paso-bulldoze-communit/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/oct/22/fact-checking-joe-biden-cnns-town-hall/
title: Fact-checking Joe Biden at CNN’s town hall
review_date: 2021-10-22T18:19:07Z
textual_rating: Ignores Jim Crow rules
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
We have seen the "greatest assault on voting rights in the history of the United States, for real, since the Civil War."


claimant: Michael Bennet
claim_date: 2019-05-30T00:00:00Z
title: Michael Bennet is right that a majority say the effects of global warming are happening
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The vast majority of Americans believe that climate change is real and we need to do something about it."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/06/michael-bennet/michael-bennet-right-majority-say-effects-global-w/


claimant: Andrew Yang
claim_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/jun/28/fact-checking-2nd-night-democratic-debate-miami/
title: Fact-checking the 2nd night of the Democratic debate in Miami
review_date: 2019-06-28T16:49:26Z
textual_rating: not the only reason
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and we're about to do the same thing to millions of retail jobs, call center jobs, fast food jobs, truck driving jobs and on and on through the economy."


claimant: Chuck Schumer
claim_date: 2021-01-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/06/day-crisis-us-capitol-fact-checked/
title: A day of crisis at the US Capitol, fact-checked
review_date: 2021-01-07T00:23:08Z
textual_rating: This is correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"President Trump and his allies have suffered the defeat, a defeat in court after court across the country losing no fewer than 62 legal challenges and I might add many Republican-appointed judges, some appointed by President Trump rendered those decisions."


claimant: Tweets
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
title: No, Biden did not receive thousands of mysteriously surfaced votes in Michigan
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Joe Biden received a sudden influx of 138,339 votes in Michigan while Donald Trump received none.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/04/tweets/no-biden-did-not-receive-thousands-mysteriously-su/


claimant: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
claim_date: 2019-09-29T00:00:00Z
title: Did Thom Tillis vote to let Trump administration raid $80 million from NC military projects?
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Thom Tillis voted to support Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the border wall even though it would "raid $80 million from North Carolina."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/06/democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee/did-nc-senator-vote-let-trump-administration-raid-/


claimant: AFL-CIO
claim_date: 2020-04-13T00:00:00Z
title: Widespread Facebook post blames 2006 law for US Postal Service’s financial woes
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/15/afl-cio/widespread-facebook-post-blames-2006-law-us-postal/


text: Kathy Manning gave "nearly $1 million to liberals"
claimant: Ted Budd
claim_date: 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
title: Budd relies on Manning's husband for claim about her donations
review_date: 2018-10-27T17:46:17Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/26/ted-budd/budd-relies-mannings-husband-claim-about-her-donat/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-03-28T00:00:00Z
title: No, empty hospital beds do not indicate COVID-19 is 'fake crisis'
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Pictures and reports of “empty hospitals” prove COVID-19 spread is “fake crisis for real government planned agendas.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/03/facebook-posts/hospital-beds-being-kept-empty-prepare-covid-influ/


claimant: Nikki Bowmar
claim_date: 2019-03-30T00:00:00Z
title: Taking stock of small businesses' impact on the W.Va. economy
review_date: 2019-04-25T06:18:08Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/24/nikki-bowmar/taking-stock-small-businesses-impact-wva-economy/


text: The mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, was a “false flag.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-07-04T00:00:00Z
title: Highland Park shooting wasn’t a 'false flag'
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/07/facebook-posts/highland-park-shooting-wasnt-false-flag/


claimant: Gary Johnson
claim_date: 2016-08-03T00:00:00Z
title: Is it true that marijuana hasn't caused any deaths, while prescription drugs have caused 100,000?
review_date: 2016-08-16T20:31:29Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Legal prescription drugs "statistically kill 100,000 people a year, (but) there are no documented deaths due to marijuana."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/16/gary-johnson/gary-johnson-claims-marijuana-cant-kill-and-prescr/


claimant: Greta Neubauer
claim_date: 2022-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: Republican leaders have made clear they don’t think Wisconsin’s electoral votes can be rescinded
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Republican leadership has not been clear about whether they support Rep. Ramthun’s illegal and undemocratic resolution” on the 2020 election.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/greta-neubauer/republican-leaders-have-made-clear-they-dont-think/


claimant: Marco Rubio
claim_date: 2018-10-15T00:00:00Z
title: Marco Rubio wrong about Andrew Gillum's response to 2016 hurricane in Tallahassee
review_date: 2018-10-16T19:24:02Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
After Hurricane Hermine in 2016, Tallahassee "didn’t have power for weeks because (Mayor Andrew Gillum) stood in the way of crews being able to come in and restore power, because they weren’t members of the right union or something."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/16/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-wrong-about-andrew-gillums-response-20/


text: "Hidden in the CARES Act was an obscure $135 billion tax break for 43,000 millionaires."
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, the CARES Act has a tax break that benefits 43,000 millionaires
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/26/facebook-posts/yes-cares-act-has-tax-break-benefits-43000-million/


claimant: Kamala Harris
claim_date: 2020-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/08/fact-checking-2020-vice-presidential-debate-kamala/
title: Fact-checking the 2020 vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris vs. Mike Pence
review_date: 2020-10-08T05:12:24Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There are estimates that by the end of the term of this administration, they will have lost more jobs than almost any other presidential administration."


text: On leaks and the release of secret information.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z
title: Trump's flip-flop on leaks and the release of secret information
review_date: 2017-02-16T21:45:48Z
textual_rating: Full Flop
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/16/donald-trump/trumps-flip-flop-leaks-and-release-secret-informat/


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
title: Trump backers paid nearly all the $6 million cost of Ariz. ballot review
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The audit of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., “cost the taxpayers $6 million.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/30/instagram-posts/trump-backers-paid-nearly-all-6-million-cost-ariz-/


claimant: Democratic National Committee
claim_date: 2019-09-20T00:00:00Z
title: DNC off on Trump, Wisconsin manufacturing jobs
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Donald Trump is breaking a campaign pledge to bring manufacturing jobs back to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania since the two states "have lost the most manufacturing jobs in the past year."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/18/democratic-national-committee/dnc-trump-manufacturing-jobs/


claimant: Colin Kaepernick
claim_date: 2017-10-08T00:00:00Z
title: NFL's Colin Kaepernick incorrectly credits Winston Churchill for quote about lies
review_date: 2017-10-09T21:43:51Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Winston Churchill said, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/09/colin-kaepernick/nfls-colin-kaepernick-incorrectly-credits-winston-/


text: Photo shows “Earth, Venus and Jupiter as seen from Mars.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t a real photo of Earth, Venus and Jupiter from Mars
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/24/viral-image/no-isnt-real-photo-earth-venus-and-jupiter-mars/


text: "We are investing more money into education than ever before in the history of Wisconsin."
claimant: Scott Walker
claim_date: 2017-02-08T00:00:00Z
title: Testing Scott Walker claim on record education funding in Wisconsin
review_date: 2017-05-17T15:19:03Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/17/scott-walker/testing-scott-walker-claim-record-education-findin/


claimant: Tim Ryan
claim_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/27/tim-ryan/gop-senate-hopeful-jd-vance-paid-political-adviser/

title:
GOP Senate hopeful JD Vance paid political adviser to run nonprofit that did little to fight opioids


text: “Arizona trooper found 50,000 ballots in dumpster all for President Trump!!”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-11-05T00:00:00Z
title: No, Arizona troopers didn’t discover 50K ballots for Trump in a dumpster
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/06/facebook-posts/no-arizona-troopers-didnt-discover-50k-ballots-tru/


text: Says that in South Bend, Ind., the "black poverty fell by more than half on my watch."
claimant: Pete Buttigieg
claim_date: 2019-12-09T00:00:00Z
title: Pete Buttigieg wrongly claims South Bend’s black poverty rate fell more than half
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/dec/12/pete-buttigieg/fact-checking-pete-buttigieg-south-bends-black-pov/


claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: Study does not show that COVID-19 mask wearing raises risk of stillbirths, other health problems
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Face masks may raise risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline, study warns.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/28/instagram-posts/study-does-not-show-that-covid-19-mask-wearing-rai/


text: "The price of insulin has been jacked up by Big Drug Corporations.”
claimant: Tammy Baldwin
claim_date: 2022-03-16T00:00:00Z
title: Baldwin pins blame for high insulin prices on big drug corporations, but there are other factors
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/08/tammy-baldwin/baldwin-pins-blame-high-insulin-prices-big-drug-co/


text: "Governor Tony Evers gave counties the green light to defund Wisconsin's police departments."
claimant: Republican Governors Association
claim_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
title: Democrat Evers didn’t give Wisconsin counties 'the green light' to defund police
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/12/republican-governors-association/democrat-evers-didnt-give-wisconsin-counties-green/


text: John Hagee calls for "prosecuting women who say God’s name during intercourse."
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2017-02-10T00:00:00Z
title: Mega pastor John Hagee wants to jail women who use God’s name during sex? That’s fake news
review_date: 2017-02-22T15:37:10Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/feb/22/blog-posting/mega-pastor-john-hagee-wants-jail-women-who-use-go/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
title: Map showing Trump winning election with 410 electoral votes is bogus
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
People in Germany saw this electoral map that shows Trump beating Biden with 410 electoral votes before Dominion’s servers were seized.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/08/facebook-posts/map-showing-trump-winning-election-410-electoral-v/


text: “No state gets back less from Washington than New York state.”
claimant: Andrew Cuomo
claim_date: 2021-01-14T00:00:00Z
title: Does New York get less from the federal government than any state?
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/11/andrew-cuomo/does-new-york-get-less-federal-government-any-stat/


text: "Democrats announce they will abolish ICE if they win 2020 election."
claimant: yournewswire.com
claim_date: 2018-03-11T00:00:00Z
title: Website claims Democrats plan to abolish ICE if they win 2020 election
review_date: 2018-03-15T20:30:40Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/15/blog-posting/website-claims-democrats-plan-abolish-ice-if-they-/


text: “Senate Republicans’ plan" would "end Social Security" and "end Medicare."
claimant: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
claim_date: 2022-03-29T00:00:00Z
title: Democratic ad exaggerates GOP embrace and scope of Scott's proposal on Social Security, Medicare
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/06/democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee/plan-republican-senate-campaign-leader-rick-scott-/


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
title: Chicago ID card does not allow voting by immigrants in the country illegally
review_date: 2019-03-04T22:10:52Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Chicago now has City ID Cards which allow illegal immigrants to vote in local, state & federal elections."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/04/blog-posting/chicago-id-card-does-not-allow-illegal-voting-cont/


text: “Do you know that New York State pays out way more than they ever get back?”
claimant: Nathan McMurray
claim_date: 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
title: Is New York a 'giver state' to federal treasury?
review_date: 2018-11-02T20:56:49Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/nov/02/nathan-mcmurray/new-york-giver-state-federal-treasury/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence Clint Eastwood said this about Barack Obama
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Clint Eastwood called Barack Obama an "incompetent, lying, insincere, narcissistic, double-talking, socialist hypocrite, and fiscally irresponsible moron who spent eight years in the White House trying to … turn our wonderful country into a Muslim loving, socialist sh--hole like the one he came from, and I don’t mean Hawaii!"

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/05/facebook-posts/no-evidence-clint-eastwood-said-barack-obama-was-t/


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
title: Viral post compares dates on when Trump admitted coronavirus was a problem
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The CDC issued its first warning on Jan 8. The first time Trump admitted the coronavirus might be a problem was Mar 13."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/09/facebook-posts/viral-post-compares-dates-when-trump-admitted-coro/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
title: Democrats aren’t ‘refusing’ to return from vacation. All of Congress is in recess
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Democrats are on vacation until May 4 and “refuse to come back” to sign a bill to help small businesses.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/21/facebook-posts/democrats-arent-refusing-return-vacation-all-congr/


text: Says the New York bike path assault "was the ninth vehicle assault used by ISIS."
claimant: Michael McCaul
claim_date: 2017-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Michael McCaul makes Half True claim that New York attack the ninth vehicular assault "by ISIS"
review_date: 2017-11-10T16:32:59Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/10/michael-mccaul/michael-mccaul-makes-half-true-claim-new-york-atta/


text: “AARP endorses Biden and gives financial support to Planned Parenthood.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-09-28T00:00:00Z
title: AARP didn’t endorse Biden, donate to Planned Parenthood
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/06/facebook-posts/aarp-didnt-endorse-biden-donate-planned-parenthood/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, shedding tears from your right or left eye doesn’t reveal whether you’re happy or sad
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“When a person cries, if the first drop of the tears come from the right eye, it’s happiness. But when it comes from the left eye, it’s pain.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/13/viral-image/no-shedding-tears-your-right-or-left-eye-doesnt-re/


claimant: Bernie Sanders
claim_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Bernie Sanders on a $15 minimum wage
review_date: 2019-03-01T19:38:06Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/01/bernie-sanders/fact-checking-bernie-sanders-15-minimum-wage/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-06-22T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump flubs claim that Hillary Clinton deleted her support of trade deal from her book
review_date: 2016-06-23T20:39:55Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/23/donald-trump/donald-trump-flubs-claim-hillary-clinton-deleted-h/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-06-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/aug/15/donald-trumps-speech-about-fighting-radical-islami/
title: Donald Trump's speech about fighting 'radical Islamic terrorism,' fact-checked
review_date: 2016-07-11T22:08:06Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Hillary Clinton has been given tens of millions of dollars by countries that "treat women horribly ... and countries that kill gays."


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-06-18T00:00:00Z
title: Did Hillary Clinton take money from countries that treat women, gays poorly?
review_date: 2017-04-11T19:08:42Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Hillary Clinton has been given tens of millions of dollars by countries that "treat women horribly ... and countries that kill gays."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/11/donald-trump/did-hillary-clinton-take-money-countries-treat-wom/


text: Due to U.S. Senate rules, Democrats need "more than a majority ... to codify Roe vs. Wade."
claimant: Kelda Roys
claim_date: 2022-05-08T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, Democrats do need ‘more than a majority ... to codify Roe vs. Wade’
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/11/kelda-helen-roys/yes-democrats-do-need-more-majority-codify-roe-vs-/


text: Kobe Bryant tweeted, "I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton."
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-01-26T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kobe Bryant didn’t tweet about having dirt on Hillary Clinton before his helicopter crashed
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/27/viral-image/no-kobe-bryant-didnt-tweet-about-having-dirt-hilla/


claimant: Senate Leadership Fund
claim_date: 2017-08-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kelli Ward isn't a chemtrails conspiracy theorist
review_date: 2017-08-29T14:44:54Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Kelli Ward hosted a town hall on "chemtrail conspiracy theories" and is open to sponsoring chemtrails legislation.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/25/senate-leadership-fund/no-kelli-ward-isnt-chemtrails-conspiracy-theorist/


claimant: Kevin Brady
claim_date: 2019-10-12T00:00:00Z
title: Is income inequality growing or shrinking in the United States?
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the Associated Press was wrong to report that "Income Inequality grew to largest in 50 years" because in a "new Census report all four measures of income inequality SHRUNK, reversing rise over past five decades."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/12/kevin-brady/income-inequality-growing-or-shrinking-united-stat/


text: "There are 1,600 new coal-fired power plants being constructed as I speak around the world."
claimant: Cecil Roberts
claim_date: 2019-09-04T00:00:00Z
title: Are 1,600 new coal-fired power plants being constructed today?
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/20/cecil-roberts/are-1600-new-coal-fired-power-plants-being-constru/


text: “Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.”
claimant: Chris Coons
claim_date: 2023-07-30T00:00:00Z
title: How strong is consumer confidence under Joe Biden?
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/03/chris-coons/how-strong-is-consumer-confidence-under-joe-biden/


text: “Myanmar used Dominion Voting Systems.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
title: No, Myanmar didn’t use Dominion Voting Systems for its election
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/02/facebook-posts/no-myanmar-didnt-use-dominion-voting-systems-its-e/


text: Says HR 1 would "legalize" the kind of fraud found in North Carolina
claimant: Dan Crenshaw
claim_date: 2019-03-09T00:00:00Z
title: Crenshaw falsely says HR1 would legalize the type of election fraud found in NC
review_date: 2019-03-13T19:45:44Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/13/dan-crenshaw/crenshaw-falsely-says-hr1-would-legalize-type-elec/


text: Says "Snoop Dogg arrested for conspiracy after talking about his ‘murder Trump’ video."
claimant: Internet rumors
claim_date: 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
title: Snoop Dogg wasn’t arrested over comments about shooting Donald Trump in music video
review_date: 2017-03-23T19:46:03Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/mar/23/blog-posting/snoop-dogg-wasnt-arrested-over-comments-about-shoo/


text: “7 MINUTES AGO: Mel Gibson Cries For PROTECTION From Hollywood Elite After Sound of Freedom.”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-07-23T00:00:00Z
title: Video doesn’t show Mel Gibson seeking protection from ‘Hollywood elite’ after ‘Sound of Freedom’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/24/facebook-posts/video-doesnt-show-mel-gibson-seeking-protection-fr/


text: Video shows Fox News host Sean Hannity saying an impostor is pretending to be President Joe Biden.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-05-06T00:00:00Z
title: This Instagram post twists Sean Hannity’s words. He didn’t say Biden had been replaced.
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/11/viral-image/this-instagram-post-twists-sean-hannitys-words-he/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
title: Kohl’s has a T-shirt line that promotes racial equality, but it’s not affiliated with BLM
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Kohl's confirmed that they will be selling BLM merchandise” but are not selling “back the blue” at this time.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/03/facebook-posts/kohls-has-t-shirt-line-promotes-racial-equality-it/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-08-27T00:00:00Z
title: Social media posts spread unfounded rumors about Obamas, their late personal chef Tafari Campbell
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Video shows former first lady Michelle Obama “accidentally reveals what really happened to their chef.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/30/facebook-posts/social-media-posts-spread-unfounded-rumors-about-o/


text: Says Travis County’s sheriff refuses to enforce 8 USC 1373.
claimant: Greg Abbott
claim_date: 2017-02-06T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-03-01T19:17:27Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/mar/01/greg-abbott/greg-abbott-falsely-says-travis-county-not-enforci/

title:
Greg Abbott falsely says Travis County not enforcing communication law about unauthorized immigrants


text: Joe Diffie’s death was labeled “as a COVID-19 death and it wasn’t!”
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-04-13T00:00:00Z
title: Joe Diffie died from COVID-19 complications
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/22/facebook-posts/joe-diffie-died-covid-19-complications/


claimant: Glenn Grothman
claim_date: 2020-10-04T00:00:00Z
title: U.S. Rep. Grothman off base with claim that COVID bill strips states' right to administer elections
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says the U.S. House’s COVID-19 relief bill, advanced by Democrats, “strips states of their right to administer elections.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/09/glenn-grothman/us-rep-grothman-base-claim-covid-bill-strips-state/


claimant: Scott Walker
claim_date: 2017-05-17T00:00:00Z
title: Walker: Tax cuts will exceed $8 billion if budget proposal passes
review_date: 2017-07-12T16:26:48Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget "will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/12/scott-walker/walker-tax-cuts-will-exceed-8-billion-if-budget-pr/


claimant: Instagram post
claim_date: 2021-05-30T00:00:00Z
title: There’s no evidence airlines met to ‘discuss the risks’ of letting vaccinated people fly
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Airlines are meeting today to discuss the risks of carrying vaxed passengers due to the risk of clots and the liabilities involved.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/07/instagram-posts/theres-no-evidence-airlines-met-discuss-risks-lett/


text: West Virginia is the state with the oldest population.
claimant: Jim Justice
claim_date: 2020-07-27T00:00:00Z
title: Is West Virginia the ‘oldest’ state, as Jim Justice says?
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/29/jim-justice/west-virginia-oldest-state-jim-justice-says/


text: “Ashli Babbitt is alive and well.”
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
title: Ashli Babbitt died in fatal U.S. Capitol shooting Jan. 6, 2021; she’s not alive as posts claim
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/09/instagram-posts/ashli-babbitt-died-in-fatal-us-capitol-shooting-ja/


text: Says Ted Cruz is the "same senator who once supported a ban on sex toys."
claimant: New York Post
claim_date: 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
title: Mostly False: Ted Cruz 'same senator who once supported a ban on sex toys'
review_date: 2017-09-21T12:17:58Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/sep/21/new-york-post/mostly-false-ted-cruz-same-senator-who-once-suppor/


claimant: Joe Biden
claim_date: 2020-02-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/feb/26/free-all-fact-checking-south-carolina-democratic-p/
title: Free-for-all: Fact-checking the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate
review_date: 2020-02-26T04:47:49Z
textual_rating: Wrong meeting
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Barack Obama was abroad in a town meeting. He did not in any way suggest that there was anything positive about the Cuban government. He acknowledged they did increase life expectancy, but he went on and condemned the dictatorship."


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-12-02T00:00:00Z
title: Congress didn't stiff retirees and give itself a raise
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Congress rejects $336 (per) month increase in" Social Security and disability benefits "but approves $8,872 (per) month increase for themselves."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/02/facebook-posts/congress-didnt-reject-336-increase-social-security/


text: "Mask mandates on children lead to learning loss that harms early childhood development."
claimant: Scott Fitzgerald
claim_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/19/scott-fitzgerald/lawmakers-claim-mask-mandates-harm-early-childhood/

title:
Lawmaker's claim that mask mandates harm early childhood development falls short of scientific proof


text: "Democrats Filing TREASON Charges Against Trump, McConnell, Giuliani, & Comey."
claimant: Realtime Politics
claim_date: 2016-12-11T00:00:00Z
title: Websites offer false headlines about treason 'charges' for Trump, Comey, others
review_date: 2016-12-19T15:13:58Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/15/realtime-politics/websites-offer-false-headlines-about-treason-c/


text: Ghislaine Maxwell’s co-defendants include Beyonce and Kanye West.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2021-12-09T00:00:00Z
title: No, Beyonce and Kanye West aren’t Ghislaine Maxwell’s co-defendants in her human trafficking trial
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/09/viral-image/no-beyonce-and-kanye-west-arent-ghislaine-maxwells/


claimant: TikTok User
claim_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
title: Rainbow disconnection: Roseanne Barr didn’t share conspiracy theory about arcs in the sky
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Roseanne Barr made a video of a rainbow in a sprinkler questioning 'what the heck is in our water supply.'

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/31/tiktok-posts/rainbow-disconnection-roseanne-barr-didnt-share-co/


text: Says Rick Scott "cut $700 million from water management."
claimant: Florida Democrats
claim_date: 2018-08-05T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, Rick Scott did cut $700 million from Florida’s water management districts
review_date: 2018-08-14T17:17:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/14/florida-democratic-party/yes-rick-scott-did-cut-700-million-floridas-water-/


claimant: League of Conservation Voters
claim_date: 2020-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: League of Conservation Voters ad oversimplifies Trump’s position on PFAS clean up in Wisconsin
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Donald Trump has opposed plans to clean up “Toxic chemicals that cause cancer (that) are in the water …. (and) put Wisconsin at risk.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/12/league-conservation-voters/league-conservation-voters-ad-oversimplifies-trump/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/jul/21/seven-misleading-statements-donald-trump-ma/
title: 7 misleading statements Donald Trump may repeat in his convention speech
review_date: 2016-05-11T17:10:22Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Mexico can afford to build a wall because the country's trade deficit with America is billions of dollars.


claimant: Andrew Napolitano
claim_date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
The impeachment inquiry hearings "going on behind closed doors over which Congressman Schiff is presiding—they are consistent with the rules" of the U.S. House of Representatives.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/28/andrew-napolitano/fox-news-analyst-correct-impeachment-inquiry-follo/

title:
Fox News analyst correct: Impeachment inquiry is following rules by questioning witnesses in private


text: America’s federal business tax rate is the highest "in the world."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-12-13T00:00:00Z
title: Pledging cuts, Donald Trump says at Wisconsin rally that U.S. has highest corporate tax rate
review_date: 2016-12-15T20:24:50Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/15/donald-trump/pledging-cuts-donald-trump-says-wisconsin-rally-us/


claimant: Andrew Cuomo
claim_date: 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
title: Cuomo claims Buffalo has seen a surge in young people
review_date: 2019-03-25T13:53:18Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
There’s been a "20 percent increase in young people coming back to Buffalo after a decade where we lost 10 percent of our young people."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/23/andrew-cuomo/cuomo-claims-buffalo-has-seen-surge-young-people/


text: Donald Trump would "engage in a risky scheme to privatize Social Security."
claimant: Tim Kaine
claim_date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
title: Tim Kaine Mostly False on Donald Trump's Social Security stance
review_date: 2016-10-05T05:00:41Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/05/tim-kaine/tim-kaine-mostly-false-donald-trumps-social-securi/


claimant: Gina Raimondo
claim_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
title: Limited data support Gina Raimondo's claim that motorists save when illegal immigrants get licenses
review_date: 2016-10-07T14:45:28Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"In other states (where illegal immigrants have been allowed to get driver's licenses) their insurance premiums for everybody have gone down."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/07/gina-raimondo/limited-data-support-gina-raimondos-claim-motorist/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2020-06-15T00:00:00Z
title: A history of hoaxes: Fake Craigslist ads that solicit minority actors for Trump rallies
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Donald Trump is recruiting “excited and enthusiastic MINORITY actors and actresses” to appear at his campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla.

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/15/viral-image/history-hoaxes-fake-craigslist-ads-solicit-minorit/


text: Gov. Doug Ducey wants to use "taxpayer dollars to increase the salaries of private prison guards."
claimant: Arizona House Democrats
claim_date: 2016-06-20T00:00:00Z
title: Arizona’s House Democrats claim governor wants to increase private prison salaries
review_date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/29/arizona-house-democrats/arizonas-house-democrats-claim-governor-wants-incr/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking a claim about Trump, fired scientists, Anthony Fauci and China
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
“Trump administration just FIRED 54 scientists & cut off 77 grants at Fauci's NIH for not disclosing their ties to Communist China!”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/18/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claim-about-trump-fired-scientists-a/


text: "Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly … $800 billion last year alone."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2016-07-21T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump says goods trade deficit was almost $800 billion in 2015
review_date: 2016-07-22T03:52:31Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jul/22/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-goods-trade-deficit-was-almost-8/


text: Says Vicks VapoRub caused a child’s death.
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2016-11-25T00:00:00Z
title: Parenting blog falsely claims Vicks VapoRub was fatal
review_date: 2017-01-06T18:29:15Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jan/06/blog-posting/parenting-blog-falsely-claims-vicks-vaporub-was-fa/


text: Says Nancy Pelosi said, "Building a wall will violate the rights of millions of illegals."
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2017-08-23T00:00:00Z
title: Pelosi didn’t say ‘building a wall will violate the rights of millions of illegals’
review_date: 2018-09-19T16:12:20Z
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/sep/18/viral-image/pelosi-didnt-say-building-wall-will-violate-rights/


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Chemtrails’ are not causing diseases. They’re not real.
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Chemtrails are being put into the atmosphere and are trickling down into soil and water, becoming “the real cause of disease.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/27/facebook-posts/chemtrails-are-not-causing-diseases-theyre-not-rea/


text: "At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, Democrats didn't ask for a steel barrier, as Donald Trump said
review_date: 2019-01-09T20:21:35Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/09/donald-trump/no-democrats-didnt-ask-steel-wall-donald-trump/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-08-05T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kevin McCarthy didn’t say Japan has no mass shootings due to a lack of video games
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Quotes Rep. Kevin McCarthy as saying "there are no mass shootings in Japan because there are no video games there."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/aug/12/facebook-posts/no-kevin-mccarthy-didnt-say-japan-has-no-mass-shoo/


claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
title: No, these aren’t real NYC Sanitation ads
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"These are real ads running in New York City calling for the removal of ‘trash’ which includes white people, Trump supporters, and Christians."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/06/viral-image/no-these-arent-real-nyc-sanitation-ads/


claimant: Jacky Rosen
claim_date: 2018-06-08T00:00:00Z
title: Did Nevada's Heller back bill to cut pre-existing conditions protections?
review_date: 2018-06-13T19:12:19Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Says Dean Heller helped "craft a partisan repeal bill that also would have slashed coverage protections for people with pre-existing conditions."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jun/13/jacky-rosen/did-nevadas-heller-back-bill-cut-pre-existing-cond/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2019-02-11T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, Democrats held majority almost every time Congress approved a minimum wage increase
review_date: 2019-02-14T17:09:15Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/14/facebook-posts/yes-democrats-held-majority-almost-every-time-cong/


text: A photo shows President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holding hands.
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-02-20T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of Biden, Zelenskyy holding hands was altered
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/22/viral-image/photo-biden-zelenskyy-holding-hands-was-altered/


text: The Wall Street Journal reporting proves that “Pizzagate” is real.
claimant: Instagram posts
claim_date: 2023-07-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, The Wall Street Journal didn’t confirm that ‘Pizzagate is real’
textual_rating: Pants on Fire
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/11/instagram-posts/no-the-wall-street-journal-didnt-confirm-that-pizz/


claimant: Rick Scott
claim_date: 2022-02-15T00:00:00Z
title: In Durham filing, Scott exaggerates proof of Clinton campaign spying on Trump
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"The latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign … actually spied on the president of the United States.”

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/21/rick-scott/durham-filing-scott-exaggerates-proof-clinton-camp/


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: Old South African warning repurposed as a US Census hoax
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"There is a group going to homes and pretending to be officials from home affairs. They have documents with the letterhead Department of Home Affairs and claim to be confirming that everyone has a valid ID for the upcoming census. They are robbing homes."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/25/facebook-posts/old-south-african-warning-repurposed-us-census-hoa/


claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2021-03-29T00:00:00Z
title: Georgia voting law does not make it a crime to drop off grandma’s ballot
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
Georgia’s new voting law “makes it a JAIL-TIME CRIME to drop off grandma’s absentee ballot in a dropbox.”
truefalse

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/facebook-posts/georgia-voting-law-does-not-make-it-crime-drop-gra/


text: "Super Bowl L by everybody's estimation is a $500 million economic impact to the state of Florida."
claimant: Ron Book
claim_date: 2013-03-06T00:00:00Z
title: Dolphins lobbyist says Super Bowl L is a '$500 million economic impact' to Florida
review_date: 2016-05-24T15:27:02Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/mar/14/ron-book/dolphins-lobbyist-says-super-bowl-50-everybodys-es/


claimant: Hillary Clinton
claim_date: 2016-06-27T00:00:00Z
title: Hillary Clinton says American 401(k)s lost $100 billion after Brexit vote
review_date: 2016-06-28T21:22:29Z
textual_rating: Mostly True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
After Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, "within 24 hours, Americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/28/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-american-401ks-lost-100-billi/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-08-09T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Donald Trump's misleading tweet about U.S. nuclear arsenal
review_date: 2017-08-09T20:27:47Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/09/donald-trump/under-donald-trump-us-nuclear-arsenal-far-stronger/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-08-09T00:00:00Z
title: Trump’s claim that U.S. nuclear arsenal is ‘now far stronger and more powerful’
review_date: 2017-08-09T20:57:36Z
textual_rating: Four Pinocchios
language_code: en
publisher_name: Washington Post
publisher_site: washingtonpost.com
text:
"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."

url:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/09/trumps-claim-that-u-s-nuclear-arsenal-is-now-far-stronger-and-more-powerful/


claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/nov/30/fact-checking-trumps-whopper-laden-interview-maria/
title: Fact-checking Trump’s whopper-laden interview with Maria Bartiromo
review_date: 2020-11-30T22:52:33Z
textual_rating: Biden got 80 million
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Joe Biden did not get 16 million more votes than Barack Hussein Obama. He didn't get it. Joe Biden did not get 14 million more votes than Hillary Clinton."


text: "We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump wrongly says U.S. is a net energy exporter
review_date: 2017-08-23T21:33:46Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/23/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrongly-says-us-net-energy-exporte/


claimant: Reince Priebus
claim_date: 2016-08-28T00:00:00Z
title: Reince Priebus says Clinton campaign and supporters started the birther movement
review_date: 2016-08-29T20:35:16Z
textual_rating: Half True
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
text:
"Her campaign and her supporters in her campaign were the ones that borne out the birther movement."

url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/29/reince-priebus/reince-priebus-says-clinton-campaign-and-supporter/


text: Says the Human Rights Campaign is secretly funded
claimant: Pat McCrory
claim_date: 2016-05-24T00:00:00Z
title: Gov. Pat McCrory questionably says 'we don't know who funds' the Human Rights Campaign
review_date: 2016-05-27T23:37:40Z
textual_rating: Mostly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/may/27/pat-mccrory/gov-pat-mccrory-wrongly-says-we-dont-know-who-fund/


text: “Israel dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on the port of Beirut.”
claimant: Bloggers
claim_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence Israel hit Beirut with a nuclear missile
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/05/blog-posting/no-evidence-israel-hit-beirut-nuclear-missile/


text: Elon Musk is offering people the opportunity to make $1 million “in 90 days while sleeping in.”
claimant: Viral image
claim_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
title: Don’t be fooled; Elon Musk isn’t linked to this get-rich-quick scheme
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: PolitiFact
publisher_site: politifact.com
url:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/14/viral-image/dont-be-fooled-elon-musk-isnt-linked-to-this-get-r/


