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stated on November 5, 2025 an X post
West Virginia is “the only state losing population.”
False
By Trent Ao • November 21, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on December 5, 2024 an Instagram post
“The population in Gaza has increased by 2.02% since Oct. 7, 2023.”
False
December 6, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 6, 2024 an X post
“In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa” because they were “fleeing” the state under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 15, 2023 a speech
"Twenty-six out of every 100 students” in K-12 speak Spanish.
Half-True
By Maria Briceño • June 21, 2023
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
stated on June 24, 2022 an interview on Fox News
“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2022
Lee Zeldin
Lee Zeldin
stated on April 12, 2022 a tweet
“New York leads the U.S. in population loss.”
True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • May 6, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on April 5, 2022 a tweet
“With the money Elon Musk spent to buy Twitter shares, he could have given every American family $100,000 and still had enough left over to cancel all student debt.”
Pants on Fire!
By Andy Nguyen • April 8, 2022
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 20, 2021 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
“I represent more, or just as many or more, people than Joe Manchin does.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 22, 2021
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 7, 2021 an article
"Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth” in an “unedited 2010 TED Talk video"
False
By Gabrielle Settles • October 11, 2021
Kurt Bauer
Kurt Bauer
stated on June 27, 2021 TV interview
“We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • August 10, 2021
J.D. Scholten
J.D. Scholten
stated on July 21, 2021 a tweet
“By 2040, 70% of the population is expected to live in just 15 states.”
Mostly True
August 6, 2021
Peter Feigin
Peter Feigin
stated on June 23, 2021 Twitter
Says people are moving to Milwaukee “in record numbers”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • July 2, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on May 21, 2021 a radio interview.
“Over the last few years, more Virginians are moving away from Virginia than are moving to Virginia from the other 49 states.”
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • June 17, 2021
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on March 4, 2021 a tweet
West Virginia “is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years”
True
By Duncan Slade • March 25, 2021
James Tedisco
James Tedisco
stated on January 5, 2021 a news release
“New York leads the nation in out-migration of residents, with 126,000 people leaving last year and over one million in the past decade.”
Half-True
By Landon Allison, John Pullano • January 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 the first presidential debate
“Suburbs are by and large integrated.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2020
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on July 27, 2020 a press conference
West Virginia is the state with the oldest population.
Half-True
By Patrick Orsagos • July 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2020 a Facebook post
“The point of defunding the Police in Minneapolis is that Minnesota is where Obama settled 1 Million Islamics. They want Sharia Law.”
False
June 17, 2020
MSNBC
MSNBC
stated on March 5, 2020 an MSNBC segment
“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • March 6, 2020
Denver Riggleman
Denver Riggleman
stated on January 23, 2020 a radio interview.
“Over 50% of the people now in the House and state Senate have not been born in Virginia.”
True
By Warren Fiske • February 12, 2020
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