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13,847 | 5 | 90 percent of Americans "support universal background checks" for gun purchases. | October 2, 2017 | government regulation;polls and public opinion;guns | chris abele | Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office... | wisconsin | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | a tweet | "Universal" is the term for background checks to be done on every gun sale. We found support for that policy at 94 percent in the latest national poll. Support ranged between 84 percent and 89 percent in the four other most recent polls. Experts say support at or near 90 percent has been consistent for years. For a sta... |
13,411 | 1 | Last year was one of the deadliest years ever for law enforcement officers. | May 19, 2017 | after the fact;congress;criminal justice;history;crime;public safety | thom tillis | Thom Tillis is a Republican who serves as U.S. Senator from North Carolina. | north carolina | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | a press release supporting the Back The Blue Act of 2017 | Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, said a new pro-police law is needed because 2016 "was one of the deadliest years ever for law enforcement officers." That’s . In fact, 2016 saw a below-average number and rate of officer deaths compared to the last half-century. The 66 officers killed in 2016 pales in comp... |
10,882 | 0 | Bernie Sanders's plan is "to raise your taxes to 90 percent. | October 28, 2015 | taxes | chris christie | Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for ... | national | 21 | 20 | 27 | 11 | 17 | 8 | Boulder, Colo | Christie said that Sanders’s plan is "to raise your taxes to 90 percent." Sanders hasn’t released an official tax plan, either for billionaires or for anyone else. But based on his previous comments and proposals, the tax policies Sanders is advocating are targeted at corporations and affluent Americans. Sanders has di... |
20,697 | 4 | Voter ID is supported by an overwhelming majority of NYers, from all across the state, walks of life, & political parties. | December 8, 2021 | voter id laws | lee zeldin | Lee Zeldin is a Republican representing New York's 1st Congressional District. | new york | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | a Tweet | Zeldin claimed voter identification requirements are supported by an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers, from across the state, walks of life, and political parties. Zeldin backs the with a private poll of 600 New Yorkers conducted for the Conservative Party of New York. A majority of poll respondents, 57.3%, said t... |
6,095 | 2 | Says Barack Obama "robbed Medicare (of) $716 billion to pay for ... Obamacare. | August 12, 2012 | federal budget;history;medicare;retirement | mitt romney | Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. ... | national | 31 | 33 | 58 | 35 | 32 | 19 | an interview on "60 Minutes" | Romney said, "There's only one president that I know of in history that robbed Medicare, $716 billion to pay for a new risky program of his own that we call Obamacare." The only element of here is that the health care law seeks to reduce future Medicare spending, and the tally of those cost reductions over the next 10... |
19,520 | 0 | Video says COVID-19 vaccines are "weapons of mass destruction" that "could wipe out the human race. | March 28, 2021 | facebook fact-checks;coronavirus | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a video on Facebook | A video circulating on Facebook claims COVID-19 vaccines are "weapons of mass destruction" that "could wipe out the human race." The is linked to widely-debunked conspiracy theories about a group of so-called global elites’ "secret plot" to create a totalitarian world government and purge a large portion of the plan... |
5,561 | 2 | Says Jeff Reardon cut elementary school music classes, art instruction, teaching positions, basketball and volleyball programs, and he voted to raise school lunch prices. | May 8, 2012 | education;message machine 2012;voting record | mike schaufler | Rep. Mike Schaufler, D-Portland, represents Oregon House District 48. | oregon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | campaign mailer | If "Reardon’s cuts" shortchanged children, then most anyone who’s ever served on a school board probably is guilty of the same crime. As are legislators who approve K-12 budgets that result in program cuts. A decision to approve a budget -- or a bill -- that results in larger classrooms, fewer teachers, or more expensi... |
15,600 | 3 | One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north. | January 19, 2019 | immigration;corrections and updates;homeland security | donald trump | Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In N... | national | 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 | a speech | Trump said, "One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north." A 2017 report from Doctors Without Borders said 31.4 percent of women had been sexually abused during their transit through Mexico. That's based on a 2015 survey of more than 400 migrants interviewed in facilities where migrants seek... |
17,285 | 1 | It's actually the safest time to fly. | March 13, 2020 | public health;punditfact;coronavirus | ainsley earhardt | Ainsley Earhardt is a co-host of Fox News Channel's (FNC) Fox & Friends (weekdays 6-9AM/ET) alongside Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. She joined the network in 2007. | null | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | the Fox & Friends show | Earhardt said that "it's actually the safest time to fly." Officials from the CDC and WHO are advising older people and those with chronic health conditions to reconsider travel in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The State Department has issued travel advisories for several individual countries, as well... |
15,300 | 1 | We know dangerous criminals can slip through immigration at airports just like ours. Yet Joe Donnelly stood right here with the radical left against all efforts to secure our most vulnerable entry points. | October 24, 2018 | immigration | national republican senatorial committee | The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate. | national | 1 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 7 | a digital ad | NRSC said, "We know dangerous criminals can slip through immigration at airports just like ours. Yet Joe Donnelly stood right here with the radical left against all efforts to secure our most vulnerable entry points." Donnelly has stood with Republicans when it comes to immigration. He stood with Democrats and several... |
13,655 | 4 | Undocumented immigrants commit less crimes than the native born. | July 31, 2017 | immigration;corrections and updates;crime;the 2018 california governor's race | antonio villaraigosa | Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, is a candidate for California governor, former mayor of Los Angeles and former state Assembly speaker. | california | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | an interview on MSNBC | Villaraigosa said "undocumented immigrants commit less crimes than the native born." He cited a 2015 study by the National Academy of Sciences that backs up this . In a fact check last year, PolitiFact rated a similar . It cited additional studies by scholars and partisan groups that show that the foreign-born populat... |
5,700 | 1 | Says PolitiFact "listed Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin as the Governor who told the most lies" and "our own 'untruthful' Governor Chris Christie made it into Politifact's top five of 'Lie - en Governors'. | June 4, 2012 | candidate biography | loretta weinberg | Loretta Weinberg is a Democratic state senator representing Bergen County. | new jersey | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | a column on Blue Jersey | Weinberg claimed PolitiFact listed Walker as the governor "who told the most lies" and Christie made it into PolitiFact’s "top five of ‘Lie - en Governors’." Weinberg is on both counts. PolitiFact never ranked governors by their falsehoods. Though PolitiFact breaks down ratings by percentages, those figures represent ... |
11,102 | 5 | Guantanamo has "never been a key component of ISIS or al-Qaida propaganda. | December 27, 2015 | terrorism;punditfact | stephen hayes | Stephen Hayes is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, and author of The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | on "Fox News Sunday" | Hayes said, Guantanamo has "never been a key component of ISIS or al-Qaida propaganda." Experts told us that Hayes’ point has merit. Analyses of jihadist propaganda materials show that Guantanamo is rarely mentioned, especially compared to other grievances against the United States, like military airstrikes. Al-Qaida u... |
23,280 | 1 | Video of Hunter Biden at the White House was taken on the "same day they found cocaine. | July 11, 2023 | drugs;facebook fact-checks | instagram posts | Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters. | null | 3 | 3 | 15 | 51 | 405 | 140 | an Instagram post | Snopes has rated the that the video shows him doing drugs "miscaptioned." What we do know: This video wasn’t taken the same day cocaine was discovered at the White House. White powder found inside the White House turned out to be cocaine, the Washington Post reported , but it was discovered on July 2. The video of... |
3,122 | 1 | The president's proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president. | February 22, 2011 | deficit;federal budget;history | barack obama | Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his l... | national | 124 | 165 | 163 | 71 | 71 | 9 | Cleveland, Ohio | ‘We’ve also got to get our fiscal house in order," he said, "and that’s why I’ve put forth a budget that includes a five-year spending freeze that will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion and will get annual domestic spending down to the lowest levels since Dwight Eisenhower." So where does this leave us? The ... |
808 | 1 | The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000. | October 23, 2008 | elections | john mccain | John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilo... | national | 37 | 37 | 31 | 32 | 39 | 8 | remarks by chief strategist Steve Schmidt | Again, McCain's deficit is more than double Gore's. We don't mean to suggest that McCain can't come back and win the election. The question we sought to answer was this: Is McCain running in about the same position that Gore was at this point in the 2000 election, as the McCain campaign says? Simply put, no. We find Mc... |
4,133 | 5 | The proposed transportation bill "could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history. | August 15, 2011 | transportation | david pennington | David Pennington is mayor of Dalton, Ga. | georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | a press conference | The latest revenue projection from the tax for Pennington’s northwest Georgia region is $140 million a year. It is possible, if all 12 regions pass the tax, that it could collect more than $1 billion a year, which would be the largest tax increase that we could find. The key will be whether voters in the Atlanta region... |
19,936 | 2 | Says people are moving to Milwaukee "in record numbers | June 23, 2021 | population;sports | peter feigin | Peter Feigin is president of the Milwaukee Bucks. | wisconsin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Twitter | While it may be that the pandemic trend of people leaving larger cities for smaller ones has benefited Milwaukee, it seems more likely that it’s too early to tell. And the explosive growth during the 19th and 20th centuries is hard to beat. In one way-back decade, the city saw a 77% population increase. Our defini... |
6,551 | 5 | Says Barack Obama "said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term. That simply has not happened. | October 11, 2012 | deficit;federal budget | leonard lance | Leonard Lance is a Republican congressman representing New Jersey's 7th district. | new jersey | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | a debate | In a debate against his Democratic challenger, Lance claimed that Obama "said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term. That simply has not happened, ladies and gentlemen, and it is greatly disturbing." Lance should have said Obama made that pledg... |
8,037 | 5 | A million people … could get health insurance right away" if Texas expanded Medicaid under Obamacare. | November 6, 2013 | health care;medicaid | barack obama | Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his l... | texas | 124 | 165 | 163 | 71 | 71 | 9 | remarks at a Dallas synagogue | Obama said, "A million people … could get health insurance right away" if Texas expanded Medicaid as encouraged by the Obamacare law. Estimates show some 1.4 million to 1.7 million would be eligible immediately. We rate his statement as . – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here ... |
19,947 | 1 | 'LOL' stands for 'Lucifer our Lord.' Satanists end their prayers by saying 'Lucifer our Lord'. | June 26, 2021 | facebook fact-checks | viral image | Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny b... | null | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 | a Facebook post | "I feel confident in asserting that this is a hoax," Jarry said. NBC News also debunked the "Lucifer our Lord" in 2012 when it circulated on the social media platform Reddit. According to the Oxford English Dictionary , "LOL" was "originally and chiefly" used in "the language of electronic communications" to express... |
8,704 | 4 | David Dewhurst currently owes more than $1 million to vendors for services provided to his 2012 U.S. Senate campaign. | April 16, 2014 | campaign finance;candidate biography | dan patrick | As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston. | texas | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | a press release | Patrick said Dewhurst "currently owes more than $1 million to vendors for services provided to his 2012 U.S. Senate campaign." To be precise, it's Dewhurst's Senate campaign that had outstanding debts exceeding $1.4 million through 2013. Also, Dewhurst appears to be trying to recoup campaign dollars he has described as... |
4,529 | 1 | Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law. | November 1, 2011 | health care | barack obama | Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his l... | national | 124 | 165 | 163 | 71 | 71 | 9 | a Fox television interview | Obama said "Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law." The CBO, a nonpartisan source, predicts only 1 million people will benefit in 2012, with the significant increases coming in 2014 and 2016. Plus, the law’s future is uncerta... |
20,724 | 2 | By declining the vax, I am 100% safe from adverse reactions and 99.8% safe from COVID. | December 4, 2021 | public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus | instagram posts | Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters. | null | 3 | 3 | 15 | 51 | 405 | 140 | an Instagram post | An image shared on Instagram claimed that not getting vaccinated against the coronavirus makes a person "100% safe from adverse reactions and 99.8% safe from COVID." The appears to conflate the total survival rate of the virus in the world with an individual’s chance of survival. The COVID-19 vaccines have proven to b... |
16,506 | 1 | Says a photo shows that climate change protesters left trash all over their protest side. | September 20, 2019 | climate change;facebook fact-checks | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a Facebook post | pic.twitter.com/F1JtAqmnVO Around the same time as the 420 event in Hyde Park, climate change activists who were part of a movement called the Extinction Rebellion were protesting at various locations around central London. We found the miscaptioned trash photo in several replies to tweets from activists like Greta Thu... |
15,736 | 4 | We amass about $100 million in debt per hour, which means we've blown through 300, 400, 450 million dollars during this charade. | February 27, 2019 | debt | chip roy | U.S. Rep. Chip Roy was elected to represent Texas' 21st Congressional District in 2018. Previously he worked as vice president of strategy for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank. He also worked as a political operative for several different Texas Republicans. | texas | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | a hearing for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee | There are different ways to show the relationship between the national debt and time, but each calculation is different. Roy’s assessment of debt accrued by the hour is correct if he’s speaking generally about the average growth per hour, but not if he’s trying to literally calculate how much debt was amassed between 1... |
12,756 | 0 | Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: 'I Was Paid $3,500 To Protest Trump's Rally.' | November 11, 2016 | fake news | bloggers | Blog posting on the Internet | national | 8 | 18 | 24 | 53 | 233 | 396 | a post on the Internet | A web posting headlined, "Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: 'I Was Paid $3,500 To Protest Trump's Rally,' " ranks high on Google searches for the phrase "paid protesters." But the article is 100 percent fabricated, as its author acknowledges. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6e84d1d5-4fe8-48d7-bd4f-8c41... |
654 | 2 | Obama is the Senate's "most liberal. | September 3, 2008 | candidate biography | john mccain | John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilo... | national | 37 | 37 | 31 | 32 | 39 | 8 | a TV ad | If McCain had made a more general statement about Obama's ideology last year, he could have been more accurate. But McCain's statement that Obama is the "most liberal" suggests it is a cumulative rating for all of Obama's time in the Senate. But in fact, it is for only one rating for one year. Measurements for other y... |
12,433 | 1 | Says Hillary Clinton's energy agenda "will cost the U.S. economy over $5 trillion | September 24, 2016 | energy | donald trump | Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In N... | national | 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 | Roanoke, Va | Trump said Clinton’s energy agenda "will cost the U.S. economy over $5 trillion." The Trump campaign said Trump was referring to one study that looked at how much it would cost to reach Clinton’s climate goal; it referred to a high-end, 30-year estimate of implementation costs. The study did not actually measure the ef... |
12,049 | 3 | Says Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian ... refugees . . . despite the fact that there's no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from. | July 21, 2016 | immigration;homeland security;human rights;foreign policy;terrorism | donald trump | Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In N... | national | 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 | a speech at the Republican convention | Trump said Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian ... refugees ... despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from." The 550 percent figure is correct. To say that there's no way to screen them to find out who the... |
5,196 | 1 | Tonight in Ohio, more people came out to vote for Barack Obama in an unopposed race than voted for (Mitt) Romney and (Rick) Santorum combined. | March 6, 2012 | elections | david axelrod | David Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. He is now an analyst for NBC News. | national | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | an interview on NBC | Axelrod’s turned out to be off by a wide margin by the time all votes were counted and was almost certainly at the time he said it. We rate the . UPDATE : Shortly after we posted the item, Axelrod tweeted to take responsibility for his error: "Guilty as charged! I misspoke during an interview last night and PolitiFa... |
10,330 | 1 | Most polls show foreign nations have lower regard for the U.S. now than they did before Obama's time. | June 2, 2015 | polls and public opinion;punditfact | gretchen carlson | Gretchen Carlson is a co-anchor of the Fox News Channel morning show Fox & Friends. | null | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | a "Gretchen's Take" on The Real Story | Carlson said, "Most polls show foreign nations have lower regard for the U.S. now than they did before Obama’s time." We’re not sure how she got to most. The consensus among three polls shows the United States generally in higher regard today than Bush’s last year in office. The outliers would be the views of people in... |
546 | 1 | I have a perfect voting record from organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and all the other veterans service organizations. | July 7, 2008 | veterans | john mccain | John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilo... | national | 37 | 37 | 31 | 32 | 39 | 8 | Denver | At the same time, another veterans service organization cited by the McCain critic at the town hall meeting — the Disabled American Veterans — gave McCain only a 20 percent grade in its 2007 voting scorecard. McCain voted for only one of the amendments that the group tallied as key votes, while voting against the other... |
9,749 | 0 | Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis! | December 2, 2014 | corrections and updates;history;public health;science;water;punditfact | jesse ventura | Jesse Ventura is an author, a former governor of Minnesota (1999-2003) and a former professional wrestler. | null | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | an interview with Salon.com | Ventura said, "Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!" Two book authors who researched the topic, one a journalist, the other a hydrologist, found no credible of such a connection. A leading anti-fluoridation activist repudiates the story. The most commonly cited Web source for the story was a 1... |
6,331 | 1 | Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson "admitted" that Washington, D.C., "changed" him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests. | September 12, 2012 | bush administration;candidate biography;federal budget;message machine 2012 | democratic senatorial campaign committee | The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee works to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate. | wisconsin | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | a TV ad | His link to these firms is clear, and his own disclosure reports show he has made millions in the private sector as a corporate consultant and advisor, executive, investor and speaker. But we’re examining the that Thompson candidly "admitted" being "changed" by Washington into a corporate influence peddler. Our rating... |
12,186 | 4 | Says Hillary Clinton tripled the number of people with AIDS whose "lives are being saved .. and it did not cost you any more money. | July 26, 2016 | global news service;foreign policy;public health | bill clinton | Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. | null | 9 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 3 | a post on Medium | Bill Clinton said when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, she tripled the number of people with AIDS whose "lives are being saved," and it didn’t cost taxpayers any more money. Clinton took some liberties with the numbers. Treatment rose rapidly by about 250 percent. That’s not quite triple. But Clinton was right ... |
21,511 | 1 | Bill Gates planned a smallpox-type outbreak. | May 22, 2022 | public health;facebook fact-checks | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a Facebook post | A Facebook post claimed that Gates planned a smallpox-type outbreak. That’s unfounded. Gates has spoken about preparing for future pandemics, not orchestrating them. Gates has long been the target of baseless conspiracy theories by people suspicious of his work to fund and promote vaccine development. We rate this sta... |
14,183 | 4 | California is 41st in the nation in per pupil K-12 spending, but "No. 1 in per prisoner" spending. | January 13, 2018 | corrections and updates;criminal justice;education;state budget;states | delaine eastin | Delaine Eastin is a Democratic candidate for California governor. She served in the State Assembly from 1986 to 1994 and then as State Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1995 to 2003. | california | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | a town hall | Candidate for governor Delaine Eastin recently claimed California ranks 41st in per pupil K-12 spending but is "No. 1 in per prisoner" spending. She relied on a January 2017 policy center report that backs up the per pupil spending ranking, after adjusting for cost of living. Another ranking that makes a straight spend... |
20,703 | 1 | Maybe they're just calling the common cold … the omicron variant. | December 20, 2021 | public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a Facebook post | A Facebook post said, "Maybe they’re just calling the common cold … the omicron variant." Scientists are still studying the severity of the disease caused by the omicron variant of the coronavirus. But the variant is not the same as the common cold, and public health officials are not trying to pass one off as the oth... |
3,595 | 4 | On taxes, President Barack Obama wants to raise "the top rate to 44.8 percent. | May 16, 2011 | taxes | paul ryan | U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 president... | national | 11 | 16 | 24 | 23 | 7 | 5 | Chicago | So where does this leave us? On Ryan’s number, it’s possible to argue that the actual rate is as low as 42.8 percent rather than 44.8 percent, but that’s open to debate. On his description of what the number means, Ryan -- particularly given that he was working from a prepared speech -- could have been clearer by sayin... |
6,940 | 1 | When the Affordable Care Act was signed, 17 million American children" had a pre-existing condition and were "uninsurable. | January 31, 2013 | children;families;health care | tammy baldwin | Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madi... | wisconsin | 10 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 0 | a speech | Baldwin went further than Obama, not implying but declaring that 17 million children could not be insured. Our rating Baldwin said: "When the Affordable Care Act was signed, 17 million American children" had a pre-existing condition and were "uninsurable." It’s possible that as many as 17 million children have a pre-ex... |
16,746 | 0 | Says President Obama used government funds to pay for his personal vacations for the next 20 years and Trump sent him a bill. | October 29, 2019 | fake news;facebook fact-checks | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a Facebook post | According to CBS News White House reporter Mark Knoller, who keeps records of presidential travel, President Obama took 29 vacation trips over his eight years in the White House. The trips spanned all or part of 235 days (not 692). He also made 39 visits to Camp David, totaling around 93 days. Even though the original ... |
9,432 | 3 | Says Rick Scott "pled the Fifth 75 times to avoid jail for Medicare fraud. | September 19, 2014 | corrections and updates;legal issues | charlie crist | Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign. As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campa... | florida | 15 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 11 | 2 | a campaign commercial | Crist said Scott "pled the Fifth 75 times to avoid jail for Medicare fraud." If you haven’t heard by now, Scott did invoke his Fifth Amendment rights 75 times in a deposition to avoid discussing a Medicare fraud case. But Crist’s ad is pushing the envelope to say he did it to avoid jail. No one went to prison for the M... |
5,044 | 2 | Says "as of November, we were ranked 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. | January 25, 2012 | jobs | barbara buono | Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001. | new jersey | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | a column | In a column, Buono claimed that "as of November, we were ranked 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics." Her representative sent us data showing that New Jersey ranked 43 for the percentage of jobs created between November 2009 and November 2011. But that still doe... |
1,888 | 1 | Tarpon Springs takes its homeless to St. Petersburg. | May 13, 2010 | poverty;urban | leslie curran | Leslie Ann Curran is chairwoman of the St. Petersburg City Council. | florida | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | a city council meeting | Four shelters confirmed his records. He takes the majority of the homeless people he finds to shelters, which aren't in St. Petersburg. What we're assessing is Curran's that Tarpon Springs takes all of its homeless to St. Petersburg. And we find no to substantiate her blanket statement. We rate her statement . |
16,200 | 2 | As you know, we apprehended over 144,000 people in a single month. That is a pace, which if it continues for 12 months, would put us on a pace for nearly 2 million apprehensions on the border. | June 21, 2019 | immigration | ted cruz | Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney... | texas | 8 | 22 | 21 | 48 | 47 | 11 | a press release | Cruz said, "As you know, we apprehended over 144,000 people in a single month. That is a pace, which if it continues for 12 months, would put us on a pace for nearly 2 million apprehensions on the border." Cruz’s assessment of the number of apprehensions includes figures for people who presented themselves to federal o... |
934 | 4 | President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.' | May 21, 2009 | military | dick cheney | Dick Cheney served as Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush. | national | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | a speech at the American Enterprise Institute | Cheney also failed to mention that Blair opposes the use of the controversial interrogation techniques, that he thinks the damage they have caused far outweigh the benefits gained and that they "are not essential to our national security." Cheney neglected to give a full account of Blair's comments. But even that addit... |
21,113 | 4 | Make no mistake: The current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin. | March 14, 2022 | gas prices;foreign policy;ukraine;russia | joe biden | Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee.... | null | 25 | 64 | 65 | 52 | 55 | 7 | a speech to the National League of Cities | Biden said, "Make no : The current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin." By current, Biden means very current. The most recent spike in gas prices has stemmed largely from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. But gas prices were rising before the Russian troop buildup around Ukraine became front-page ne... |
13,742 | 2 | Says Aaron Rodgers "is not the highest tax rate payer" in Wisconsin, it's "the single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids who will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she goes and takes a job. | August 21, 2017 | jobs;poverty;welfare;taxes | paul ryan | U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 president... | wisconsin | 11 | 16 | 24 | 23 | 7 | 5 | a town hall | In Racine, Ryan drew headlines for criticizing remarks made by President Donald Trump about racial violence nine days earlier in Charlottesville, Va. But a portion of the CNN town hall was spent discussing taxes. More on Ryan, Rodgers and taxes In Context : Scott Walker, Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre : Ryan says the U... |
20,447 | 1 | Indiana State Police offers to hire Chicago officers who REFUSE TO COMPLY with vax mandate. | October 21, 2021 | facebook fact-checks;coronavirus | viral image | Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny b... | null | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 | an Instagram post | " A day earlier, Indiana Sen. Mike Braun tweeted something similar: "My office stands ready to help connect Chicago police officers to an Indiana police department that is hiring now and doesn’t have a vaccine mandate. " Fifield’s tweet has since been deleted , but both his and Braun’s drew headlines like one from th... |
19,761 | 1 | Black Lives Matter says it stands with Hamas terrorists in Israeli conflict. | May 19, 2021 | israel;facebook fact-checks | viral image | Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny b... | null | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 | an Instagram post | (always have. And always will be). " In the May 19 edition of the CNN newsletter Reliable Sources, media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote that "Fox stealth-edited the significant error out of its piece, and only attached a weak editor’s note to the article after I reached out for comment on why it hadn’t done so already. "... |
17,323 | 2 | Italy has decided not to treat their elderly for this virus. | March 14, 2020 | public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a Facebook post | A Facebook post claiming Italy had decided to stop treating elderly COVID-19 patients goes too far. Overwhelmed by the number of cases, the country was relying on guidelines to give priority for some treatments, such as ventilators, to those patients most likely to survive. We rate the . |
16,523 | 3 | For the first time in history, most new hires of prime working age are minorities and women. | September 22, 2019 | economy | donald trump | Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In N... | national | 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 | a speech | Trump said, "For the first time in history, most new hires of prime working age are minorities and women." Trump’s re-election campaign said Trump’s is based on an analysis by the Washington Post. But Trump’s phrasing is off. The Post reported that according to data collected by the government since the 1970s, most ne... |
18,536 | 2 | Says Susan Collins "pushed for policies that benefited her husband's lobbying business. | September 16, 2020 | campaign finance;ethics;taxes | sara gideon | Democrat Sara Gideon has served in Maine’s state House since 2013 and as its speaker since 2016. She is a 2020 candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Maine. | null | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | an ad | Gideon claimed Collins "pushed for policies that benefited her husband’s lobbying business." Neither piece of cited in the ad proves Collins acted to benefit the business directly. Two actions taken by Collins, prior to marrying her husband, were bipartisan and broad. While her future husband’s lobbying firm, Jefferso... |
6,894 | 4 | Says since Australia passed tough gun laws, "homicides by firearm have declined almost 60 percent. | January 25, 2013 | crime;government regulation;public safety;guns | stephen king | Novelist Stephen King has published over 50 books since the early 1970s, starting with horror novel Carrie. He lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. | national | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | a Kindle Single essay, 'Guns' | King, urging his readers to support an American assault weapons ban, said that since Australia passed tough gun laws, "homicides by firearm have declined almost 60 percent." The raw numbers back him up — but cause and effect are much peskier questions. Scholars we spoke with say the leans King’s way, but is less than ... |
15,190 | 0 | Says a photo shows Bill Clinton and Christine Blasey Ford posing for a camera and smiling together. | October 8, 2018 | fake news;facebook fact-checks | viral image | Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny b... | null | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 | a post on Facebook | The sharer notes that the picture "keeps disappearing from my timeline" and encourages others to take their own photos of the image and share it -- which appears to be exactly what happened in the post that, when we reviewed it, had generated nearly 362,000 shares. In reality, the image is a photo of Clinton and Sen. K... |
14,363 | 3 | The Koch brothers have given" Paul Ryan "$500,000 in campaign contributions. | February 24, 2018 | campaign finance;elections | bernie sanders | Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large Distr... | wisconsin | 21 | 62 | 48 | 26 | 18 | 0 | a campaign appearance | Our rating At a campaign rally for one of the candidates running for Ryan’s U.S. House seat, Sanders said "the Koch brothers have given" Ryan "$500,000 in campaign contributions." It wasn’t the two Koch brothers but rather one of the brothers, and his wife, who contributed $495,400. The money was given to a joint fundr... |
8,960 | 2 | $3 billion over the next five years will be taken out of our public schools and be put into vouchers. | May 10, 2014 | children;education;poverty | nan rich | Nan Rich won a seat on the Broward County Commission in 2016. She served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000-2004 and then was elected to the Florida Senate. She served as leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus 2010-2012 and then was term limited. Rich lost a Democratic primary for governor in 2014. | florida | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | a speech | Rich said that "$3 billion over the next five years will be taken out of our public schools and be put into vouchers." There's not $3 billion in funding that's being removed from a public schools budget and put into a voucher program budget. Instead, Rich was referring to the state’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program, whi... |
16,700 | 1 | Says President Trump donated his "second quarter salary to rebuild military cemeteries" and that the media ignored it and every other story of him donating his salary as POTUS. | November 13, 2019 | fake news;military;veterans;facebook fact-checks | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a Facebook post | Q2: Small Business Administration; Q3: National Institutes of Health; Q4: Department of Homeland Security2019 2019 Q1: U.S. Department of Agriculture; Q2: HHS/Office of the Surgeon General The photo of Trump with the child, by the way, is from Memorial Day in 2017 at Arlington National Cemetery. We rate this post . |
12,914 | 1 | Wisconsin's middle class is the "most diminished" in the United States. | January 10, 2017 | families;income;jobs | peter barca |
Peter Barca, a Kenosha native and Democrat, has served two stints in the state Assembly. He was first elected in 1984 before resigning after winning a U.S. House seat in 1993. He served one term in Congress, losing re-election to Mark Neumann. Barca served in various governmental and private-sector posts before winn... | wisconsin | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | a news conference | Thus, while Wisconsin had the biggest decline of middle class households between 2000 and 2013, its performance in recent years shifts the outcome. Our rating Barca said Wisconsin has "the most diminished middle class" in the United States. An analysis by a respected, nonpartisan research organization found the percent... |
3,326 | 4 | Says Jeff Stone = Scott Walker. | March 18, 2011 | candidate biography;state budget;taxes | chris abele | Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office... | wisconsin | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | a television ad | Abele’s strongest comes from Stone himself, who has aligned himself closely with Walker’s agenda and politics. Their voting histories are very similar, and they win very similar ratings from interest groups. They are not indistinguishable, though: The transit issue illustrates Stone’s willingness to step out from Repu... |
4,824 | 4 | Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European. | December 28, 2011 | economy | mitt romney | Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. ... | national | 31 | 33 | 58 | 35 | 32 | 19 | an editorial board meeting with an Iowa newspaper | Gross domestic product per capita may not offer the fairest comparison between the U.S. and Europe, mainly because it doesn’t take into account the European trade-off between income and leisure and because it effectively gives heavier weight to a small number of very rich Americans. In addition, there are a number of w... |
5,577 | 0 | 20 million people could lose their current coverage" … "including our senior citizens who are on Medicare. | May 9, 2012 | health care;medicare;message machine 2012;tampa bay 10 news | u.s. chamber of commerce | From the chamber's Web site: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations. More than 96% of U.S. Chamber members are small businesses with 100 employees or fewe... | florida | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | a TV ad | The ad from the U.S. Chamber makes it sound like 20 million older Americans will lose coverage under the health care law. We found no that Medicare beneficiaries will lose coverage under the health care law, and the ad’s points to one cherry-picked statistic that applies to employer-provided insurance, not Medicare. ... |
15,675 | 2 | Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while. | February 13, 2019 | crime | donald trump | Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In N... | national | 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 | a speech | Trump said, "Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while." Violent crime has been on a downward trajectory for some time, with an occasional uptick. Official FBI data shows that the violent crime rate went down very slightly — by less than 1 percent — between 2016 and 2017. But that statistic has... |
7,268 | 5 | Despite having their budget increased by over 40 percent since 2009 … pending claims for benefits with the (Department of Veterans Affairs) have increased from 391,000 to 890,000 under the Obama Administration. | April 23, 2013 | veterans | tom graves | Tom Graves represents Georgia's 9th Congressional District. | georgia | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | a ZPolitics op-ed | In sum, Graves’ numbers are correct. The VA’s budget has increased by more than 40 percent, and the number of pending claims has skyrocketed from some 391,000 to 890,000 under the Obama administration. Graves also was accurate in noting that the increase took place under the president’s watch. While the VA’s benefits s... |
314 | 4 | George Bush sent people to war without body armor. | January 31, 2008 | iraq | hillary clinton | Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husba... | national | 72 | 76 | 70 | 43 | 31 | 9 | Los Angeles | In March 2007, Clinton and fellow Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia sent a letter to the Comptroller of the United States, calling on him to initiate a GAO investigation to reassess the body armor systems used by the military. The following month, the GAO issued a report, which concluded that "Army and Marine Corps ... |
17,276 | 1 | (Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them? | March 9, 2020 | public health;pundits;punditfact;coronavirus | joy behar | A co-host on the ABC talk show The View. | national | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | an episode of ABC's "The View" | Behar said Obama "set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus" and "Trump closed 37 of them." News reports in 2018 said the CDC was planning to shrink its operations to help foreign countries prevent infectious diseases because it didn’t expect to ... |
14,842 | 1 | The Electoral College is much more advantageous for Democrats. | July 16, 2018 | elections | donald trump | Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In N... | national | 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 | Helsinki | Trump said that "the Electoral College is much more advantageous for Democrats." There may have been a popular misperception prior to the 2016 election that Democrats had a large number of solidly blue states that made it much easier for them to reach 270 than the Republicans. But professional handicappers never consid... |
16,404 | 3 | A federal pilot program to DNA test illegal immigrants showed "something like 30% (of test subjects) are fake families. | August 22, 2019 | immigration | ken cuccinelli | Ken Cuccinelli became acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli, a Republican, was Virginia's attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, he lost the general election for governor to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. In 2016, he was a adisver to the presidential campaign of Sen.... | national | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 1 | a panel discussion | Cuccinelli said a federal pilot program to DNA test illegal immigrants showed "something like 30% (of test subjects) are families." It’s not entirely clear where Cuccinelli’s 30% figure comes from. The Associated Press reported that in the latter half of April, border officials identified around 100 possible cases of... |
21,196 | 1 | Pfizer staged the Will Smith and Chris Rock confrontation at the Academy Awards because it "has a new alopecia medication coming out. | March 28, 2022 | facebook fact-checks | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| null | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a post | But neither drug will be available to the public in the near future. The earliest anticipated date for federal regulatory approval of either drug is 2023. Media reports have said there is no to support the that Will Smith’s slap was staged. The Academy has initiated disciplinary proceedings against Smith, and he apol... |
9,740 | 4 | President Barack Obama "said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority" to act as he did on immigration. | December 2, 2014 | immigration | michael mccaul | Michael McCaul was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004. | texas | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | a committee hearing | McCaul said Obama "said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority to" act as he did on immigration. The Texan’s count is too high – we see less than 15 solid examples from 2010 into 2014 – but his statement is spot-on about Obama often saying he couldn’t do more absent congressional action. We rate the . |
18,029 | 1 | Wayfair CEO steps down. | July 10, 2020 | facebook fact-checks | viral image | Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny b... | null | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 | a Facebook post | The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) Wayfair’s CEO and co-chairman, Niraj Shah, founded the company with Steve Conine in 2002, according to descriptions of Wayfair’s executive leadership team on its we... |
21,652 | 1 | A photo shows two men on the run who pretend to be homeless and then "attack and rob you. | July 9, 2022 | facebook fact-checks | viral image | Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny b... | ohio | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 | a Facebook post | " We did a reverse image search for one of the booking photos in the post about Columbus, Ohio, and found a May 26 news story about the men, who are accused of wearing clown masks during a deadly shooting in Volusia County, Florida. Both men were indicted on first-degree murder charges, so it would be unlikely that ... |
7,346 | 0 | Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried "not far" from President Kennedy's grave. | May 10, 2013 | history;islam;crime;pundits;religion;terrorism | john depetro | John DePetro is a talk-show host on WPRO. | rhode island | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | a comment on WPRO radio | Saying that Kennedy is buried "not far" from Tsarnaev is like saying Newport is not far from the eastern tip of Cape Cod, that Rhode Island's State House is not far from Derry, N.H., or that the site of the Boston Marathon bombing is "not far" from the the southernmost tip of Narragansett, R.I. And to say that such a d... |
18,856 | 1 | CNN says Dick Cheney will be advising Biden on foreign policy. | November 7, 2020 | elections;facebook fact-checks | viral image | Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny b... | null | 4 | 13 | 35 | 53 | 711 | 331 | a Facebook post | Former President George W. Bush, whom Cheney served with, is one of the few senior Republicans who have congratulated Biden on his victory. But there’s nothing to support the claims in these posts, and CNN hasn’t reported on Cheney joining the Biden team. We rate them . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US ... |
1,780 | 0 | Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure. | May 26, 2010 | transparency | jim demint | Jim DeMint is a former U.S. Senator from South Carolina. He is now president of The Heritage Foundation . | national | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | YouTube video of a floor speech | Indeed, those unfamiliar with Senate procedures might be shocked to learn that even 56 percent of legally binding bills passed the chamber without debate. But DeMint wasn't content to limit himself to such . In making his point, he ran up the score. Ultimately, we find that DeMint's goals, laudable though they may be, ... |
23,337 | 4 | Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. | July 20, 2023 | corrections and updates;education;history;race and ethnicity | kamala harris | Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. Harris was elected as a senator from California in 2016. She previously was California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. From 2004 until 2011, she was the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris received a bachelor’s degree in political science and econom... | florida | 2 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority | Harris said Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery." That is not the only lesson Florida students would be taught under the standards that also include many other aspects of Black history and slavery. But the one Harris cited is included, and has drawn signifi... |
14,217 | 4 | On taxes, "if you go back and look 50 years ago, individuals paid about 7 percent of the total and corporations paid 5 percent. Fast forward 50 years: individuals still 7 percent, corporations (are) down to 2 percent. | December 14, 2017 | wealth;taxes | richard cordray | Richard Cordray is running for Ohio governor in 2018. Cordray was appointed as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during President Barack Obama's administration. He is the former attorney general of Ohio and a Democrat. | ohio | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | a speech | Cordray said in a speech, "If you go back and look 50 years ago, individuals paid about 7 percent of the total and corporations paid 5 percent. Fast forward 50 years: individuals still 7 percent, corporations (are) down to 2 percent." He was referring to taxes paid as a percentage of GDP, which wasn’t clear from his re... |
3,155 | 5 | The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9% or higher unemployment [and] 2.6 million jobs have been lost," since the stimulus bill was signed. | February 17, 2011 | jobs | george allen | George Allen was a U.S. senator from 2001-2007. He was governor of Virginia from 1994-1998. | virginia | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | a press release | Allen said "the American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9 percent or higher unemployment," and that "2.6 million jobs have been lost" since the stimulus bill was signed in February 2009. The unemployment moved above 9 percent in May 2009 and has been at that level or higher for 21 months. Since March 2009... |
22,154 | 2 | Mark Kelly "voted to allow prison inmates to receive stimulus checks five separate times. | October 11, 2022 | federal budget;ad watch | saving arizona pac | Saving Arizona PAC is a political action committee with at least $13.5 million in backing from billionaire Peter Thiel. It supports Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Blake Masters. | arizona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | an ad | Saving Arizona PAC claimed Kelly "voted to allow prison inmates to receive stimulus checks five separate times." Stimulus checks have been sent to Americans three times in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Inmates were eligible to receive all three payments. There weren’t five votes by Kelly or five payments to inm... |
15,409 | 3 | This election marks the largest Senate gains for a president's party in a first midterm election since at least President Kennedy's in 1962. | November 7, 2018 | elections | donald trump | Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In N... | national | 36 | 85 | 120 | 194 | 360 | 179 | a press conference | If the results hold and Republicans win in Mississippi, Florida and Arizona, Trump would be correct that Republicans’ Senate gains in the 2018 midterms (+3) represent the largest first midterm Senate pickup since President John F. Kennedy’s Democratic party gained four seats in 1962. Those races are not yet called, tho... |
5,848 | 5 | Fireworks have never been safer, and their use continues to increase each year. | June 26, 2012 | economy;financial regulation;patriotism;regulation | bill weimer | Bill Weimer is the vice president of Youngstown, Ohio,-based Phantom Fireworks, the nation's largest retailer of consumer fireworks. | ohio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | a newspaper column | But, the statistical record shows that the rate of injury from fireworks declined nationally while their use increased dramatically, and while laws governing their consumer use loosened. There still are injuries, but the annual rate has plateaued even while consumption continues to grow. We found no stronger explanatio... |
8,763 | 1 | Many" of the founding fathers were "very actively involved" in cockfighting. | April 3, 2014 | animals;history | matt bevin | 46-yearold investment manager. | national | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | a radio interview | Bevin said that "many" of the founding fathers were "very actively involved" in cockfighting. In looking at the most prominent founders, we found no indications that any of the founders were avid and frequent participants. We rate the . |
7,715 | 5 | State law says that once the state appraises a piece of property, they can only pay it a certain amount above appraisal. | August 7, 2013 | city government;corrections and updates;sports | kasim reed | Kasim Reed is Mayor of Atlanta. | georgia | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | an interview | Or will "some other resources," as Reed described them in the interview, come into play. Stay tuned. Reed’s statement is based largely on the state attorney general’s interpretation of a portion of the Georgia Constitution, which is appropriate because the land will be purchased by a state agency. Given that, we revers... |
10,635 | 4 | The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout. | August 5, 2015 | elections | bruce elfant | Bruce Elfant won election as Travis County tax assessor-collector in 2012. | texas | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | an interview with Dick Ellis, KOKE FM, Austin | Elfant said the U.S. is "about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout." Texas is nearly last among the states in voter registration and turnout and U.S. voter turnout ranks low internationally, though that's among all nations... |
1,329 | 5 | The State of Texas does not even use the E-Verify system to determine if someone is legally in our country when they apply for a job. | January 14, 2010 | immigration | kay bailey hutchison | Kay Bailey Hutchison, initially elected to the U.S. Senate in 1993, did not seek re-election in 2012. She ran for governor in 2010, losing the Republican nomination to incumbent Rick Perry. | texas | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | a debate | Ten states require their state agencies to participate in E-Verify; three more — South Carolina, Arizona and Mississippi — require all employers to use it, too. In 2008, though, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour aired these misgivings: "I am concerned about mandating the E-Verify system as the sole source from which an em... |
3,728 | 0 | Because Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a 30-bill job creation package, "New Jersey ranks 50th in the nation in job creation. | May 12, 2011 | jobs | lou greenwald | Lou Greenwald is a Democratic state Assemblyman representing parts of Burlington and Camden counties. He also serves as the Assembly Majority Leader. | new jersey | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | a message on Facebook | Yet when we look at three- and six-month periods, the Garden State is faring a little bit better. But Greenwald’s biggest here is to blame Christie’s vetoes from February and March for employment changes that occurred several months earlier. That makes the not just , but . ! To comment on this ruling, join the conve... |
2,590 | 0 | Patrick Rose "voted to explore a state income tax. | October 17, 2010 | message machine 2010;voting record;taxes | jason isaac | Jason Isaac was initially elected in 2010 to represent District 45 in the Texas House. He's a 2018 candidate for the U.S. House seat to be vacated by Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio. | texas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | a TV ad | Can't get any plainer than that." Our take: Isaac would have had a legitimate point if he'd limited himself to saying Rose voted to study a property tax mechanism that's related to income. But his statement grossly overstates things. Indeed, we'd suggest, if Watson's proposal had even been judged the back door to an in... |
18,008 | 1 | The Supreme Court ruled today NO VOTING BY MAIL !!! | June 26, 2020 | corrections and updates;elections;public health;supreme court;coronavirus;texas | facebook posts | Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
| california | 24 | 50 | 108 | 245 | 1,410 | 570 | a Facebook post | A Facebook post suggested the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down voting by mail nationwide. That’s far from the . The high court rejected an expansion of mail-in voting in Texas in late June. It also voted down an effort to make the practice easier in three counties in Alabama in early July. But those rulings in no w... |
8,269 | 4 | If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes" under the state income-tax cut, but "it didn't show up in your paycheck. | December 5, 2013 | state budget;taxes | kathleen vinehout | Democrat Kathleen Vinehout is a Wisconsin state senator from Alma, in western Wisconsin. The former university professor and dairy farmer was elected to the Senate in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. She ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to run against Gov. Scott Walker in the gubernatorial recall election i... | wisconsin | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | a speech | The average income she cites is slightly high but within reasonable rounding range. She uses a reliable source for her tax-change numbers, and they are on target or very close, with the caveat that the analysis is set up for income ranges rather than a precise income. She’s right that the tax cut did not just show up i... |
1,270 | 0 | A recent Obama executive order could "lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials. | January 4, 2010 | homeland security;foreign policy | newt gingrich | Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012. | national | 7 | 11 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 12 | an interview on 'The O'Reilly Factor' | While the Times did report on the executive order, the story debunked many of the claims being made about it. Charlie Savage, the reporter who wrote the story, wrote in a Twitter message : "Debunking hysterical conspiracy theories about Obama's Interpol executive order." That's exactly what Gingrich's claims are: consp... |
3,434 | 4 | Hackers broke into Virginia's prescription-drug database (and) ... obtained more than 8.2 million patient records and a total of nearly 36 million prescriptions. | April 14, 2011 | drugs | rick scott | Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. | florida | 15 | 36 | 42 | 42 | 38 | 8 | testimony before Congress | The Virginia Department of Health Professions did send a notification letter to all persons whose prescription records in the database contained a nine-digit number that could have been a Social Security number. None of the database information was lost, Powers said, and the PMP continues to operate. So a hacker did br... |
4,701 | 2 | We have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil. | November 16, 2011 | energy;new hampshire 2012 | jon huntsman | Jon Huntsman was the governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. He served as ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011. He is a Republican candidate for president in 2012. | national | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | an editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph | We don't know whether Huntsman meant "proved" resources, estimates of technically recoverable resources or production totals when comparing U.S. gas to Saudi oil. Using the first two measures, his numbers fall short. If he was talking about production, he is correct, although Huntsman used the word "has," and not "prod... |
14,917 | 2 | Says he made "a record investment in schools. | June 19, 2018 | education;state budget | scott walker | Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights. He won re-election to a four-year te... | wisconsin | 26 | 45 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 11 | a TV ad | He refers to the $11.5 billion being spent on kindergarten-through-12th grade schools in his 2017-’19 state budget. In raw dollars, that is a record in Wisconsin. But inflation, of course, is crucial in measuring dollars over time. On that score, seven state budgets spent more on schools than Walker’s current budget do... |
747 | 5 | Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget. | October 7, 2008 | federal budget | barack obama | Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his l... | national | 124 | 165 | 163 | 71 | 71 | 9 | Nashville, Tenn | Another report found that appropriations bills in fiscal year 2008 included $16.5 billion for earmarks. Those numbers are lower than previous years because earmarking dropped considerably following the congressional lobbying scandals of 2005 and 2006. But even at their peak in 2005, when earmarks hit $52-billion, accor... |
2,619 | 2 | Says Washington's reach extends to "even telling us what kind of light bulb we can use. | November 2, 2010 | legal issues;regulation;technology | rick perry | Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016. | texas | 26 | 24 | 43 | 30 | 31 | 18 | a book | Not yet, though the 2007 law steps up efficiency requirements and that's expected to result in consumers purchasing and using different bulbs. These factors give Perry's statement an element of . We rate it . Editor's note: This statement was rated when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for th... |
19,913 | 1 | Sen. Raphael Warnock "voted for welfare for politicians plan. Up to $25 million of government money for Warnock's own political campaign. | June 22, 2021 | national;campaign finance;congress;elections | national republican senatorial committee | The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate. | georgia | 1 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 7 | an ad | The NRSC ad says Warnock "voted for welfare for politicians plan. Up to $25 million of government money for Warnock’s own political campaign." It’s to call the public financing for political campaigns "welfare." The goal of public campaign finance is to reduce the influence of rich donors and give more power to averag... |
9,826 | 5 | January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded. | December 17, 2014 | environment;climate change;energy;history;science;weather | sheldon whitehouse | Sheldon Whitehouse is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. | rhode island | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | a Senate floor speech | It may not feel like global warming is a problem when below average cold is sending a collective shiver through much of the United States. But the U.S. makes up only 6 percent of Earth's land mass and less than 2 percent of its surface area. Whitehouse reported the data accurately. We rate his as . (If you have a yo... |
20,777 | 1 | As a youth, "I got arrested" protesting for civil rights. | January 11, 2022 | candidate biography;race and ethnicity | joe biden | Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee.... | null | 25 | 64 | 65 | 52 | 55 | 7 | Atlanta | Biden said that as a youth, "I got arrested" protesting for civil rights. Biden may have participated in one of two flare-ups over racial discrimination in housing that occurred near his home in Delaware when he was in a teenager. However, there is no that Biden was actually arrested in the sense of being booked at a... |
5 | 4 | New Mexico moved "up to" sixth in the nation in job growth. | May 10, 2007 | null | bill richardson | Bill Richardson is the former governor of New Mexico, having served two terms in that position from 2003-2011. Richardson is also a former congressman, U.S. secretary of energy, and ambassador to the United Nations. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and was President Barack Obama... | national | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | a TV Ad | Richardson is correct, but doesn't mention the fine print. In touting his economic record as New Mexico's governor, Richardson's campaign produced a TV ad noting the pace of the state's job growth while he's been in office. Although the state was ranked sixth in August 2006 for job growth, it most recently ranked 15th.... |
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LIAR2
The LIAR dataset has been widely followed by fake news detection researchers since its release, and along with a great deal of research, the community has provided a variety of feedback on the dataset to improve it. We adopted these feedbacks and released the LIAR2 dataset, a new benchmark dataset of ~23k manually labeled by professional fact-checkers for fake news detection tasks. We have used a split ratio of 8:1:1 to distinguish between the training set, the test set, and the validation set, details of which are provided in the paper of "An Enhanced Fake News Detection System With Fuzzy Deep Learning". The LIAR2 dataset can be accessed at Huggingface and Github,
Example Usage
You can load each of the subset as follows:
import datasets
dataset = "chengxuphd/liar2"
dataset = datasets.load_dataset(dataset)
statement_train, y_train = dataset["train"]["statement"], dataset["train"]["label"]
statement_val, y_train = dataset["validation"]["statement"], dataset["validation"]["label"]
statement_test, y_test = dataset["test"]["statement"], dataset["test"]["label"]
Citation
If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:
@article{xu2024enhanced,
author={Xu, Cheng and Kechadi, M-Tahar},
journal={IEEE Access},
title={An Enhanced Fake News Detection System With Fuzzy Deep Learning},
year={2024},
volume={12},
number={},
pages={88006-88021},
keywords={Fake news;Fuzzy logic;Benchmark testing;Social networking (online);Deep learning;Task analysis;Natural language processing;Classification algorithms;Deep learning;fuzzy deep learning;fake news;fake news detection;fact-checking;NLP;classification systems;benchmark},
url={https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3418340},
doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3418340}}
@inproceedings{xu2023fuzzy,
author = {Xu, Cheng and Kechadi, M-Tahar},
title = {Fuzzy Deep Hybrid Network for Fake News Detection},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400708916},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3628797.3628971},
doi = {10.1145/3628797.3628971},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology},
pages = {118–125},
numpages = {8},
keywords = {Classification Systems, Deep Learning, Hybrid Learning Models, Fuzzy Deep Learning, Fake News Detection},
location = {<conf-loc>, <city>Ho Chi Minh</city>, <country>Vietnam</country>, </conf-loc>},
series = {SOICT '23}
}
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