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True
0% 28 Checks
Mostly True
0% 42 Checks
Half True
0% 0 Checks
Mostly False
0% 48 Checks
False
0% 31 Checks
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0% 6 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Missouri

Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2024 in Facebook posts:
Residents in states across the U.S. are eligible for a $2,200 holiday stimulus payment.
False
December 20, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 24, 2024 in an Instagram reel:
"Missouri registered 78,421 in just one week of February of this year. Out of that number, 23,253 were dead people!"
False
By Andy Nguyen • October 4, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Photo shows a missing child in Pike County, Missouri.
False
July 2, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Kansas City Chiefs said they refuse to participate in Pride Month because ‘it’s extremely woke.’
False
June 10, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 3, 2024 in an Instagram post:
A new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • March 11, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 18, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Video shows Republican Missouri state senators using flamethrowers to burn books.
False
By Sara Swann • September 21, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on April 18, 2023 in a Tweet:
Missouri’s attorney general has a website “where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them.”
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • April 20, 2023
Team PAC
Team PAC
stated on February 7, 2022 in an ad:
Eric Schmitt “sponsored a bill to spend $480 million of your tax dollars” on cargo hub for airlines "owned by China's Communist Party” and "voted to let China buy up Missouri farmland."
Half-True
February 9, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 23, 2021 in a post:
A Kansas City tourism sign had a terrible typo.
False
November 17, 2021
Missouri House Democratic Caucus
Missouri House Democratic Caucus
stated on March 22, 2021 in a tweet:
"An average of nearly 5,000 Missourians were contracting COVID every day in November."
Mostly False
By William Skipworth • April 24, 2021
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