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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
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 5, 2018 a blog post
"Facebook removes, censors Declaration of Independence as ‘hate speech’"
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2018
Mike McCabe
Mike McCabe
stated on April 18, 2018 a podcast
Wisconsin is "49th in the country in internet speed."
Half-True
By Taylor Palmby • June 20, 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
Jack Posobiec
Jack Posobiec
stated on March 20, 2018 a tweet
Says Donald "Trump decided to *not* work with Cambridge Analytica during the election."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2018
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on December 31, 2017 an interview on Face the Nation
Says "50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2018
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on February 7, 2018 campaign website
In Georgia, "25 percent of rural residents" are "without access to high speed internet."
True
By Miriam Valverde • February 12, 2018
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on January 24, 2018 a tweet
"No state generates as much solar power as California, or has as many people whose jobs depend on it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2018
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on September 8, 2017 a tweet
"Nearly 2/3 of rural Missourians don’t have access to broadband. That needs to change."
True
By Katelyn Brown, Patrick Mueller • September 15, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on July 20, 2017 a TV interview
"We're flying 1987 planes with 1987 technology."
Half-True
By Alan Hovorka • September 6, 2017
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on August 14, 2017 a press release
"Foxconn tax break could exceed $1 million per job."  
Half-True
August 16, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on August 7, 2017 a tweet
Wisconsin's $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is "the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company."
Half-True
August 15, 2017
Melissa Sargent
Melissa Sargent
stated on August 2, 2017 a tweet
On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job."  
False
August 11, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on July 14, 2017 a TV interview
Says Scott Walker "has taken money away from internet expansion in our state."
Mostly False
By Devi Shastri • August 10, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet
"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."  
Half-True
July 27, 2017
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
stated on June 30, 2017 a tweet
"Twitter reaches only 15 percent of the population."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 26, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 3, 2017 Internet posts
Australia is microchipping its public.
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • July 6, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 21, 2017 an episode of "Fox and Friends"
Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • May 23, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 15, 2017 a tweet
"Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has said the app is for rich people, don't want to expand in poor countries like India and Spain."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 17, 2017
Fight for the Future
Fight for the Future
stated on March 28, 2017 a tweet
"215 members of Congress just voted to let your ISP spy on what type of underwear you buy and sell that data to advertisers." 
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 30, 2017
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