Latest Fact Checks By Linda Qiu

Santorum: UN climate head debunked widely cited 97% climate change consensus figure

By Linda Qiu

September 2, 2015

The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on…

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Santorum cites flawed climate change figure, and misquotes it

By Linda Qiu

September 1, 2015

"The most recent survey of climate scientists said about 57 percent don’t agree with the idea that 95 percent of the change in the climate…

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Bobby Jindal: ‘I’m the only candidate that has actually reduced the size of government’

By Linda Qiu

August 30, 2015

"I'm the only (Republican) candidate that has actually reduced the size of government."

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Trump says U.S. companies ‘moving into Mexico more than almost any other place right now’

By Linda Qiu

August 27, 2015

"Our companies are moving into Mexico more than almost any other place right now."

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Donald Trump’s campaign manager: 400,000 ‘anchor babies’ born in U.S. every year

By Linda Qiu

August 23, 2015

Says "there’s 400,000" anchor babies born in the United States a year, which are "individuals coming to our country and having their children so their children can…

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No, Michele Bachmann did not say there are no ‘illegal Mexicans in China’ thanks to the Great Wall

By Linda Qiu

August 20, 2015

Says Michele Bachmann said, "The Chinese built a Great Wall 5,000 years ago. You don't see any illegal Mexicans in China."

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Trump says illegal immigrants get $4.2B in tax credits but doesn’t count their taxes paid

By Linda Qiu

August 18, 2015

"The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011."

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Ben Carson says the number of Americans who ‘believe in socialism…is increasing’

By Linda Qiu

August 16, 2015

The number of people who "believe in socialism ... is increasing."

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Marco Rubio slams Dodd-Frank, gets his numbers wrong

By Linda Qiu

August 12, 2015

"Over 40 percent of small and mid-size banks that loan money to small businesses have been wiped out since Dodd-Frank has passed."

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Republican presidential nominee hasn’t won over women since 1988, says progressive pundit

By Linda Qiu

August 9, 2015

"The Republican presidential nominee hasn’t won women since 1988."

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Obamacare ‘robbed’ Medicare of $700B, says Huckabee

By Linda Qiu

August 7, 2015

"$700 billion was robbed (from Medicare) to pay for Obamacare."

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Did George W. Bush ‘borrow’ from Social Security to fund the war in Iraq and tax cuts?

By Linda Qiu

August 3, 2015

Say President George W. Bush " ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in…

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