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Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on October 18, 2022 a tweet
“The CDC is about to add the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • October 20, 2022
Maria Bartiromo
Maria Bartiromo
stated on February 22, 2022 a TV segment
“We have doubled our (oil) imports from Russia in the last year.”
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • February 28, 2022
Candace Owens
Candace Owens
stated on February 22, 2022 a tweet
“NATO (under direction from the United States) is violating previous agreements and expanding eastward.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • February 28, 2022
Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan
stated on July 20, 2021 a podcast episode
The government is “monitoring SMS texts for dangerous misinformation about COVID vaccines.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 26, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on July 6, 2021 a TV segment
“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 9, 2021
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on February 8, 2021 a TV segment
“You may not have stayed in a hotel in the past year, but illegals arriving since Biden’s inauguration, they get to stay free of charge.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • February 15, 2021
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 2, 2020 a Fox News broadcast
“When large numbers of people in Butler (Pa.) started killing themselves with narcotics, no one in Washington or New York or Los Angeles said a word about it.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2020
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt
stated on September 28, 2020 a radio show
President Donald Trump’s tax returns show “what any wealthy person's tax history is, if you can believe it — which is good years and bad years, years of immense taxes and years of almost no taxes at all because you carry over losses.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • September 30, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on August 11, 2020 a TV segment
Says Kamala Harris "said she believed that Joe Biden committed sexual assault against various women.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • August 13, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on July 7, 2020 a TV segment
“To children and the vast majority of young and middle-aged adults and the vast majority of teachers, (the coronavirus) poses virtually zero threat."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 13, 2020
Joe Kernen
Joe Kernen
stated on May 27, 2020 an episode of CNBC's "Squawk Box"
“We’re down near the low end of per capita deaths ... Most places are at 60 deaths per 100,000. We're at 29.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • May 28, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on April 27, 2020 a TV segment
“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on April 3, 2020 a tweet
“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on March 16, 2020 a TV segment
“Now, as it stands, our health care system has adequate ventilators, ICU beds, medical professionals.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • March 18, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 23, 2016 a fundraising email
Says a CNN anchor said that Hillary Clinton has gotten "a free ride so far from the media. We're the biggest ones supporting her campaign."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2016
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on June 28, 2016 comments on his Fox News program
"During the (Benghazi) attack, a stand-down order was given, and our troops were told to change their clothes four times."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2016
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on June 23, 2016 a comedy sketch
Says "Paul Ryan shut off the C-SPAN cameras when the Democrats started their sit-in."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 27, 2016
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on November 10, 2015 episode of Fox News' "The Five"
Says a car driving former University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe "ran through the students, hit one of them" at the MU Homecoming Parade.
Mostly False
By Adam Aton • November 18, 2015
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson
stated on April 14, 2014 a broadcast of "The Ed Show"
"We know that Sunday mornings have usually been given over to conservative white men."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 17, 2014
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on October 21, 2013 a broadcast of the Sean Hannity Show on WBAP AM
"In 45 out of 50 states, on average men are seeing their premiums double, going up 99 percent. Women up 62 percent."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2013
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