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JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 24, 2025 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 a press conference
Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
stated on March 30, 2024 an X post
“Joe Biden banned ‘religious themed’ eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 1, 2024
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan
stated on March 26, 2024 her vice presidential announcement speech
If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 12, 2024 an Instagram post
"Google proves that no one ever went to the moon.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 16, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 26, 2024 an Instagram post
"Last time Democrats removed a Republican from the ballot” was Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
False
February 6, 2024
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 31, 2024 a radio interview
If Texas says, “‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore’ … that’s their decision to make.”
False
By Sara Swann • February 5, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2023 a video shared on Facebook
U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.
False
By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2023
North Carolina Republican Party
North Carolina Republican Party
stated on February 24, 2023 an email
“The left is determined to erase Mount Rushmore from our history books.”
False
By Paul Specht • March 14, 2023
Louise Lucas
Louise Lucas
stated on January 18, 2023 a tweet.
Glenn Youngkin is “the first sitting Governor in the modern era to have their party have less legislative seats than when they were elected.”
False
By Warren Fiske • January 31, 2023
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on October 31, 2022 a campaign rally,
In his election as governor, “We won cities that no Republican had ever won.”
False
By Warren Fiske • November 11, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 12, 2022 a Facebook post
Images of Plymouth Rock prove sea levels are not rising.
False
By Madison Czopek • July 20, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 11, 2022 a Facebook post
The U.S. government’s inaction over buffalo killing that harmed Native American populations in the 1800s shows it is now “is creating food shortages” so that Americans are more “dependent on the government.”
False
By Madison Czopek • May 19, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2022 a press conference
“You couldn’t buy a cannon when, in fact, the Second Amendment passed."
False
By Yacob Reyes • April 12, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 1, 2022 a Facebook post
John D. Rockefeller coined the term “fossil fuel” to trick people into thinking that his product was scarce and drive up the price when fossil fuels are actually “the second most abundant liquid on the planet.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 8, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 8, 2021 Facebook posts
Says Thomas Jefferson said, “If serving in an elected office ever becomes a career, corruption will surely follow.”
False
February 23, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 6, 2022 a Facebook post
President John F. Kennedy “was planning to end the Federal Reserve.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 21, 2022
Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie
stated on January 30, 2022 a tweet
Says Voltaire said, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 31, 2022
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on January 27, 2022 a radio show segment
“There's never been a president (before Joe Biden) that has made race and gender the defining factor” for a Supreme Court nomination.
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 28, 2022
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on November 21, 2021 a TikTok post
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi planned “the ethnocide of the peoples of Europe” through “the encouragement of mass non-white immigration.”
False
January 24, 2022
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