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Bloggers
stated on September 15, 2014 in a post on InfoWars.com:

"The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread" of the virus.

Half-True

By Derek Tsang • September 19, 2014

Julie Pace
stated on September 11, 2014 in a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest:

The Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of."

Mostly True

By Derek Tsang • September 18, 2014

Amy Klobuchar
stated on September 14, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Children who witness domestic violence are "twice as likely to commit it themselves."

Mostly True

By Derek Tsang • September 16, 2014

Maria Cardona
stated on September 11, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history."

Half-True

By Derek Tsang • September 12, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on September 11, 2014 in a post on Facebook:

A flight from Atlanta to Houston was canceled due to a "terrorist dry run."

Pants on Fire!

By Derek Tsang • September 11, 2014

Bob Beckel
stated on September 1, 2014 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":

The United States has "the most number of deductions available to corporations" for the corporate income tax.

False

By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014

Eric Bolling
stated on September 1, 2014 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":

The United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free world."

Mostly True

By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014

Larry Elder
stated on August 20, 2014 in comments on CNN:

"If black America were a country, it’d be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world."

False

By Derek Tsang • September 2, 2014

Lou Dobbs
stated on August 19, 2014 in comments on Fox News' "America's Newsroom":

Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.

False

By Derek Tsang • August 21, 2014

Bloggers
stated on August 19, 2014 in stories:

Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.

Pants on Fire!

By Derek Tsang • August 19, 2014

Joy Reid
stated on August 4, 2014 in comments on her MSNBC show:

"So far, the war in Gaza has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead -- the population equivalent to 100 9/11s."

Mostly False

By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014

Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 3, 2014 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world."

False

By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014

Greta Van Susteren
stated on August 2, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas," because Kerry was seen as "supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League."

False

By Derek Tsang, Linda Qiu • August 4, 2014

Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 in comments on CNN:

Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."

Mostly True

By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014

Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 23, 2014 in comments on his show:

Because of the current immigration crisis, Republicans want to "repeal" a 2008 law that President George W. Bush signed and "want to be on record as not wanting to protect children from ... sex trafficking."

Mostly False

By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014

Jamie Weinstein
stated on July 18, 2014 in comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

The states that are doing "better" are the ones that have no state income tax.

Half-True

By Derek Tsang • July 28, 2014

Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 in comments on MSNBC:

"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."

Mostly True

By Derek Tsang • July 24, 2014

Stu Burguiere
stated on July 15, 2014 in comments on The Glenn Beck Radio Program:

There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."

Mostly True

By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014

Michael Eric Dyson
stated on July 9, 2014 in comments on MSNBC's "Ed Show":

"Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010 alone."

Half-True

By Derek Tsang • July 15, 2014

Peter Beinart
stated on July 6, 2014 in comments on CNN:

"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."

Mostly True

By Derek Tsang • July 10, 2014