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Kayla Young
Kayla Young
stated on November 5, 2025 in 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 in an Instagram post:
“The population in Gaza has increased by 2.02% since Oct. 7, 2023.”
False
By Sofia Ahmed • December 6, 2024
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 20, 2021 in 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 in 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2020 in 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
By Tom Kertscher • June 17, 2020
Gene Wu
Gene Wu
stated on December 31, 2019 in a tweet:
"About a third of Texas has seen a 20-25% population loss in the last 5 years."
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • January 10, 2020
Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr.
stated on November 1, 2019 in a Tweet:
"Tens of thousands" of people leave New York every week.
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 8, 2019
Bill Brady
Bill Brady
stated on June 18, 2019 in a speech:
Says that after "the last income tax increase in the state of Illinois, we saw the largest exodus of middle-income families."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 23, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:
In 20 years "there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president."
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2019
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on September 16, 2018 in remarks at a teachers' rally:
West Virginia has "more veterans per capita" than any state.
False
By Emily Martin • October 11, 2018
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on September 12, 2018 in a TV ad:
Scott Wallace wants to tax families of five for 'irresponsible breeding'
False
By Sarah Anne Hughes • September 14, 2018
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on January 9, 2018 in a talk radio appearance:
"Chicago now has the highest employment in the private sector in the history of the city."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 22, 2018
Evan Smith
Evan Smith
stated on July 10, 2017 in as quoted in a story in The New Yorker:
"The last majority-Anglo high school class in Texas graduated in 2014."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2017
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on September 13, 2016 in In a press release:
McGinty previously told a local community newspaper in her native Philadelphia that she 'has found an alarming undercurrent of misinformed people in the 'T' part of the state' outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
False
By Mark Dent • September 16, 2016
Delia Garza
Delia Garza
stated on October 21, 2014 in as quoted in a news story:
"Families in Del Valle, who are City of Austin residents, have to drive to Bastrop to go to the closest grocery store."
False
By Dylan Baddour • November 6, 2014
Roberto Alonzo
Roberto Alonzo
stated on July 16, 2014 in a press release:
"Latinos now make up the majority population in Texas."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2014