Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

Georgia’s David Perdue said elections were stolen from him and Trump. Pants on Fire!

By Amy Sherman

March 29, 2022

The 2021 Georgia Senate runoff and the 2020 presidential election “were stolen.”

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Marsha Blackburn misleads about Jackson’s record on releasing criminals during the pandemic

By Amy Sherman

March 22, 2022

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson advocated that “each and every criminal defendant in D.C. Corrections custody should be released.”

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Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake wrongly says Jan. 6 defendants are in prison without charges

By Amy Sherman

March 17, 2022

Jan. 6 defendants “are being held in prison without being charged.”

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No, this video on Facebook doesn’t show someone ‘counting Biden’s votes at 2 a.m.’

By Amy Sherman

March 10, 2022

Facebook video shows “counting Biden’s votes at 2 a.m.”

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Fact-checking Biden’s claim that there are 9,000 unused oil drilling permits (updated)

By Amy Sherman , Yacob Reyes

March 9, 2022

The oil industry has "9,000 permits to drill now. They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year."

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Ohio’s Josh Mandel repeats false claim of stolen 2020 election

By Amy Sherman , Jon Greenberg

March 1, 2022

The 2020 election “was stolen from Donald J. Trump.”

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Fact-checking Louisiana Democrat’s claim about Black Americans and the right to vote

By Amy Sherman

February 15, 2022

"One in 13 Black Americans are deprived of the right to vote."

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Fact-checking a claim that Nevada ranks close to last on election integrity

By Amy Sherman

February 14, 2022

“Nevada ranks 50th in election integrity ratings.”

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GOP lawmaker’s proposal to decertify Arizona election won’t change anything about 2020

By Amy Sherman

February 11, 2022

Arizona House bill to “decertify” 2020 results “could effectively recall the Biden electors.”

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Fact-checking Stacey Abrams on a Texas mail-in ballot denial

By Amy Sherman

February 3, 2022

“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he…

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Facebook post wrongly says Pennsylvania mail-ballot court ruling means Biden lost

By Amy Sherman

February 3, 2022

“Pennsylvania had 2.6 million mail in votes that the court of appeals of PA held to be unconstitutional. Umm that alone means Biden lost PA.”

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Why it’s wrong to call the voting rights bill a federal takeover

By Amy Sherman

January 24, 2022

The Freedom to Vote Act is “a sprawling takeover of our whole political system.”

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