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Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on September 24, 2025 remarks to reporters
"Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on October 3, 2024 a X post
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg banned private drones from flying over areas affected by Hurricane Helene.
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By Maria Briceño • October 4, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 12, 2024 a speech to county officials
The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act “attracted $640 billion in private companies’ investments.”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 29, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 10, 2023 a Facebook post
Electric vehicles are a "giant computer that can be controlled remotely from some cloud-based central grid."
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May 27, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on April 11, 2023 an Instagram reel
The RESTRICT Act would allow the U.S. government to “charge you with a felony and $1 million for having a VPN.”
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By Sara Swann • April 19, 2023
Debbie Lesko
Debbie Lesko
stated on August 30, 2022 a tweet
Electric vehicles are unaffordable because “the average cost of replacing an electric vehicle battery is over $10,000, while the average cost of replacing the battery of a gas-powered car is $100 to $200.”
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By Haley Tenore • October 19, 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.”
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By Bill McCarthy • July 26, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 5, 2021 a Facebook post
Google and Apple maps won’t give directions to Washington, D.C. because “they don’t want you going to a certain big rally.”
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January 6, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2020 posts on Facebook
Michigan House “passes bill to ‘voluntarily’ begin placing human implantable microchips into the bodies of all state government employees”
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By Madison Czopek • July 27, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 10, 2020 a Facebook post
Nancy Pelosi said "Congress shall not vote remotely because it is not secure!" while also saying that “Americans should all vote for president by mail!”
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May 27, 2020
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 18, 2020 an Instagram post
Says “Bill Gates and other globalists, in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies, are reportedly working to push tracking bracelets and ‘invisible tattoos’ to monitor Americans during an impending lockdown.”
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By Samantha Putterman • April 9, 2020
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 17, 2020 social media posts
“While all COVID-19 news has been going on, the U.S. Government has been sneakily trying to remove end-to-end encryption” which means “the government will be able to see all of your messages and listen to all of your calls.”
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By Patrick Orsagos • April 9, 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.”
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By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on September 9, 2019 a congressional newsletter
"Statistics indicate Americans have experienced 29.3 (billion) illegal robocalls so far this year, marking a 64 percent increase since 2016."
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By Libby Stanford • September 20, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 8, 2019 a Facebook post
Migrants at the U.S. border are "able to pay cell phone bills" after a "two-month excursion across four separate countries."
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By Daniel Funke • July 10, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on June 28, 2019 an interview
"There’s a hacking conference that’s held every year in Las Vegas, where I think a 14- or 15-year old-girl from Florida hacked into a replica of Florida’s election system in less than 15 minutes."
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July 3, 2019
Brian Joseph
Brian Joseph
stated on February 10, 2019 a newspaper interview
"The catalytic converter used in automobiles was invented in West Virginia."
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By Kenneth Harmonay, Patrick Downey • March 27, 2019
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on August 7, 2018 a speech
"I am the only (state attorney general) in America fighting to hold the big tech companies accountable for their behavior."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 14, 2018
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on July 18, 2018 a TV ad
Says Richard Cordray "secretly collected hundreds of millions of credit card accounts and mortgages. Worse, Cordray failed to protect our information. It was hacked over 200 times."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 14, 2018
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna
stated on May 26, 2018 in a tweet
"Amazon Echo is recording every conversation in a person's home and transmitting it to the cloud."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • May 31, 2018
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