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Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 19, 2021 a speech:
“If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021
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Viral image
stated on April 26, 2021 a Facebook post:
Says the Memphis Police Department “will no longer respond” to crimes including larceny, breaking and entering, and motor vehicle theft.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 27, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2021 a Facebook post:
By clicking on a link from a fake USPS text message, “you are sending your precise location to sex traffickers in your local area” so they can kidnap you.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • April 26, 2021
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stated on April 15, 2021 a Facebook post:
Police say there is a suspected serial killer in Baton Rouge.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 16, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 11, 2021 a Facebook post:
A serial killer is targeting women in Hot Springs, Ark.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 13, 2021
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Viral image
stated on April 11, 2021 a Facebook post:
“George Floyd’s younger brother, Dejywan Floyd, has been arrested in North Carolina for a ‘road rage’ shooting of a white couple, killing the mother of six sitting in the passenger seat.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 12, 2021
Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
stated on April 1, 2021 a TV segment:
“The Biden administration is engaging in human trafficking because they are enabling this to happen” at the southern border.
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 6, 2021
Joy Behar
Joy Behar
stated on March 23, 2021 a TV segment:
"In 2004, George W. Bush lifted the ban on those (AR-15 type) rifles, and since then, the number of massacres has increased 183%. During the ban, there were 12 incidents. Since he lifted the ban, there were 34 incidents."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • March 25, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2021 Facebook posts:
The “president of Drag Queen Story Hour” was “arrested, charged with child pornography.”
False
By Noah Y. Kim • March 24, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on March 20, 2021 a speech:
“There was no violence on the Senate side, in terms of the chamber.”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • March 23, 2021
Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro
stated on March 20, 2021 a TV segment:
The southern U.S. border “is now open to anyone from anywhere in the world who wishes to enter our country.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 23, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on March 16, 2021 in a tweet:
“Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Allegedly Using almost 500k in Donations For Personal Use.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 19, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 17, 2021 a Facebook post:
The Atlanta shooting suspect wrote an anti-China post on Facebook prior to the shootings.
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 18, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 4, 2021 a Facebook post:
Says El Chapo testified in court that he paid off Nancy Pelosi to keep the U.S.-Mexico border open for drug cartels.
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • March 12, 2021
Doug LaMalfa
Doug LaMalfa
stated on March 2, 2021 a constituent email.:
Voting-rights legislation proposed by Democrats in Congress called H.R. 1 “would force states to restore the voting rights of convicted felons—including violent felons convicted of murder or rape.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • March 4, 2021
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on February 26, 2021 a CPAC speech:
The Biden administration “halted deportations for all illegal aliens — murderers, rapists, terrorists, MS-13 gang members are not being deported."
False
By Miriam Valverde • February 26, 2021
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 22, 2021 a TV segment:
"There's no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That's a lie.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 23, 2021
Greg Kelly
Greg Kelly
stated on February 8, 2021 a Newsmax TV segment:
“Only one person died on that day” during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 9, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2021 remarks:
"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2021
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 8, 2021 an interview with Ohio reporters:
Summer “protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response. While ... rioters were able to breach the Capitol.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2021
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