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Latest Fact-Checks In Missouri

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2024 Facebook posts:
Residents in states across the U.S. are eligible for a $2,200 holiday stimulus payment.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • December 20, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 24, 2024 an Instagram reel:
"Missouri registered 78,421 in just one week of February of this year. Out of that number, 23,253 were dead people!"
False
By Andy Nguyen • October 4, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2024 a Facebook post:
Photo shows a missing child in Pike County, Missouri.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 2, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2024 a Facebook post:
Kansas City Chiefs said they refuse to participate in Pride Month because ‘it’s extremely woke.’
False
By Jeff Cercone • June 10, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 18, 2023 an Instagram post:
Video shows Republican Missouri state senators using flamethrowers to burn books.
False
By Sara Swann • September 21, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 23, 2021 a post:
A Kansas City tourism sign had a terrible typo.
False
By Jeff Cercone • November 17, 2021
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on November 24, 2020 an Interview with the Southeast Missourian:
“The president got the highest percentage of minority votes of any Republican candidate for president in over 100 years."
False
By Simone Esters • December 8, 2020
Liberty Alliance
Liberty Alliance
stated on October 14, 2020 a Facebook post:
"Beware - George Soros is starting a Fake News site in Missouri”
False
By William Skipworth • December 4, 2020
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on September 2, 2020 an interview with FM 93.9 “The Eagle”:
“We're starting to reach almost herd immunity in this nation, so we'll be on the downside of this virus very soon."
False
By Benjamin Brink • October 23, 2020
Caleb Rowden
Caleb Rowden
stated on September 22, 2020 an online campaign ad:
Says he “fully funded Missouri K-12 education for the first time in state history.”
False
By Minh Connors • October 16, 2020
Uniting Missouri PAC
Uniting Missouri PAC
stated on September 2, 2020 a campaign ad:
Says Nicole Galloway's campaign “is being bankrolled by the same extremists who want to defund our police."
False
By William Skipworth • October 14, 2020
Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on August 18, 2020 a press conference:
“All Missouri’s high-risk areas have mask mandates in place.”
False
By William Skipworth • October 6, 2020
Anthony Rogers
Anthony Rogers
stated on September 15, 2020 a Facebook post:
"Cori Bush is a career criminal and a con artist.”
False
By Veronica Mohesky • September 29, 2020
Mun Choi
Mun Choi
stated on August 28, 2020 a press conference:
“The number of ICU beds is larger in Boone County by a factor of three” compared to Orange County for the University of North Carolina.
False
By Simone Esters • September 16, 2020
Patricia McCloskey
Patricia McCloskey
stated on August 24, 2020 a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention:
Democrats and Joe Biden “want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 25, 2020
Louis Riggs
Louis Riggs
stated on April 21, 2020 an opinion piece in the Missouri Times:
“Nearly half of (Missouri) counties have not reported positive (COVID-19) cases.”
False
By Sara Dingmann • May 13, 2020
Cindy O’Laughlin
Cindy O’Laughlin
stated on March 22, 2020 a Facebook post:
“I see no time in the history of this country when perfectly healthy people have been basically confined to their homes or only able to do essential things as in Kansas City or St. Louis.”
False
By Jack Kosowski • May 4, 2020
Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on February 14, 2020 a speech:
“Right now we have over 40,000 new jobs in a little over 18 months” in Missouri.
False
By Jack Kosowski • March 16, 2020
Kay Hoflander
Kay Hoflander
stated on October 11, 2019 a fundraising email:
"All signs seem to point to Hillary (Clinton) laying the groundwork to run for president again."
False
By Madison Czopek • November 15, 2019
Dave Griffith
Dave Griffith
stated on February 12, 2019 a hearing:
"Every county in the state of Texas has a veterans court."
False
By Gaëlle Fournier • April 25, 2019
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