Latest Fact-Checks By Mary Alice Truitt

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Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth."

Half-True

By Cade Moisey, Davis Versprille, Mary Alice Truitt, Patrick Orsagos • May 17, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on March 5, 2019 in posts on the Internet:

"Right here (in West Virginia), they are building new houses … so that 321 Syrian Muslims can move down into this neighborhood in two months. … (A funeral home) is to be torn down in two months, and a mosque is going to built there."

Pants on Fire!

By Liz Newton, Mary Alice Truitt, Patrick Orsagos • March 27, 2019

Joe Manchin
stated on October 14, 2018 in an op-ed:

The United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them."

Mostly True

By Mary Alice Truitt • December 3, 2018

E. Gordon Gee
stated on September 20, 2018 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:

In public approval, "the press is rated right now below that of Congress, and that is very low; it’s in the single digits."

False

By Mary Alice Truitt • October 29, 2018