Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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NK traffic lady

Are long gas lines forming in North Korea, as Donald Trump says?

September 19, 2017
"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."
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Young Cons screenshot

Website passes along dubious claims about fraudulent New Hampshire votes

September 15, 2017
"Mass voter fraud just discovered, to the amount that could void Hillary’s victory In New Hampshire."
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Babylon Bee

No, ISIS didn’t lay down its arms after Katy Perry encouraged world peace

September 8, 2017
"ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’"
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Irma eye

Hurricane Irma can’t be a Category 6 storm

September 6, 2017
"Hurricane Irma could be a Category 6 by the time it hits East Coast."
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Immigration center photo

Jeff Sessions’ questionable claim that DACA helped cause spike in minors at border

September 5, 2017
Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."
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Slave photo

Viral post gets it wrong about extent of slavery in 1860

August 24, 2017
"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned…
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Trump speaking in Phoenix

Donald Trump wrongly says U.S. is a net energy exporter

August 23, 2017
"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."
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UVA torchlight

Donald Trump wrong that Charlottesville counter-protesters didn’t have a permit

August 17, 2017
White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."
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Donald Trump retells Pants on Fire claim about Gen. Pershing ending terrorism for 35 years

August 17, 2017
"Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"
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Donald Trump said wages ‘haven’t gone up for a long time,’ but that’s wrong

August 17, 2017
Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."
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Moore voting

Alabama’s Roy Moore says whole communities in Midwest are under Sharia law

August 16, 2017
"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana…
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Johnson Hanks 2020

Did Dwayne the Rock Johnson officially file to run for president in 2020?

August 14, 2017
"Dwayne 'The Rock' (Johnson) Has Officially Filed For The 2020 Presidential Campaign"
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