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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 26, 2024 Instagram post
Ronald Reagan’s Federal Communications Commission abolished the Fairness Doctrine and gave rise to Fox News.
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By Tatevik Lazaryan • June 18, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 24, 2023 a post shared on Facebook
BlackRock owns 59 million shares of Dominion Voting Systems and 45.7 million shares of Fox News. BlackRock sued itself and fired Tucker Carlson as part of the lawsuit.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • April 26, 2023
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on August 25, 2022 a tweet
Gov. Ron DeSantis raised "taxes on the middle class by more than $1.5 billion while giving away $624 million to big corporations."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • September 2, 2022
Democratic Underground
Democratic Underground
stated on August 17, 2021 an Instagram post
“The second-largest investor in Regeneron” is a firm whose CEO is Ron DeSantis’ “number one political donor.”
Mostly False
August 19, 2021
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on April 4, 2021 remarks on CNN's "State of the Union"
President Joe Biden’s corporate tax rate increase would "put us in line with other industrial nations."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 2, 2020 an Instagram post
“Companies that use prison labor: Whole Foods, McDonald’s, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, AT&T, Bank of America, Starbucks, Wendy’s.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • June 22, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 14, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Chick-fil-A funds the National Christian Foundation, which "paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers" with a bill that would impose the death penalty for homosexuality.
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • October 25, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 5, 2019 a Facebook post
Says every time someone purchases a Bang energy drink, a portion of the money is donated to help re-elect Donald Trump and "goes to the fund campaign for MAGA!"
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • August 13, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on July 31, 2018 a TV ad
"New reports show Kevin Nicholson made over $1 million advising companies that shut down Wisconsin plants and laid off 1,900 people."  
Mostly False
August 7, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 22, 2018 an appearance on UpFront with Mike Gousha
Says Wisconsin ‘could compel’ Foxconn to install solar panels that would power 33,000 homes.
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • June 6, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 11, 2018 a tweet
Says Paul Soglin took Madison backward -- "businesses have left and murders have gone up."  
Mostly False
January 31, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."  
Mostly False
September 6, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 28, 2017 an interview
Says Foxconn didn't keep a promise to build a plant in Pennsylvania because "Pennsylvania changed governors."  
Mostly False
August 25, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 8, 2017 a tweet
"‘TrumpCare’ would allow insurance execs to personally make millions off your health care."
Mostly False
March 13, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 31, 2017 a speech
Says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got a "government service golden parachute" payment of $180 million "from Exxon Mobil that he would have to forfeit had he taken a job elsewhere."    
Mostly False
February 10, 2017
John Skvarla
John Skvarla
stated on October 24, 2016 a speech in Charlotte
Says HB2 "hasn’t moved the needle one iota" on North Carolina’s economy.
Mostly False
By Will Doran • October 28, 2016
Robin Wright
Robin Wright
stated on May 25, 2016 an event at the Rockefeller Center
Says Apple products are currently "90 percent conflict-free," and "Intel is 100 percent conflict-free."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • June 15, 2016
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on October 9, 2015 a blog post
"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."  
Mostly False
October 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet
The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."  
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015
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