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Facebook posts
stated on August 26, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Video showed police thank (Kyle Rittenhouse) & give him water prior to the killings”
True
By Eric Litke • August 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use
Half-True
By Eric Litke • August 27, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 25, 2020 a Facebook post:
“BLM rioters just burned down a black church in a black community with a BLM sign out front.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 27, 2020
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stated on August 26, 2020 a Facebook post:
Photos show that the person who shot three people during a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake is a police officer.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 26, 2020
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stated on August 25, 2020 a Facebook post:
These photos show Jacob Blake posing with a gun.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 26, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2020 a Facebook post:
Clicking on this link in a text message lets sex traffickers track you.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 26, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2020 an interview with ABC News:
Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2020
Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
stated on August 20, 2020 a TV segment:
“QAnon violence! There is none.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 24, 2020
George P. Bush
George P. Bush
stated on August 13, 2020 a tweet:
Says a video shared to his social media shows vehicles with broken windows in a parking garage used by state agencies in Texas on “the same night the City of Austin voted to cut $150 million” from the police department.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 24, 2020
Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
stated on July 30, 2020 a radio interview:
“Cal Cunningham has been silent on this on defunding the police; I assume his silence is consent.”
False
By Paul Specht • August 19, 2020
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stated on June 1, 2020 a Facebook post:
Photo shows Barack Obama and George Clooney in a compromising situation with a child.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 17, 2020
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stated on August 9, 2020 a Facebook post:
A graph shows the number of human trafficking arrests increased dramatically under President Donald Trump.
False
By Noah Y. Kim • August 12, 2020
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stated on July 24, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, “The age of consent for sexual acts must be lowered to age 12 years old.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 25, 2020 a Facebook post:
Black Lives Matter "injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage."
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 7, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 31, 2020 a Facebook post:
Scores of politicians and others are on a “list” of sex cases from newly unsealed Ghislaine Maxwell court documents.
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 on social media:
Say that according to the Los Angeles Times, “95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens,” more than two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles County “are to illegal alien Mexicans” on Medicaid, “nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal,” and Nancy Pelosi “wants to put a windfall tax” on retirement fund profits.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 17, 2020 a blog post:
“12 white female bodies in garage freezer tagged ‘Black Lives Matter.’”
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 20, 2020
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stated on July 17, 2020 a Facebook post:
Photo shows “Chuck Schumer kissing this child on Epstein island!”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 18, 2020
Sunny Hostin
Sunny Hostin
stated on July 15, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View":
“Homicides are intraracial. When you look at white-on-white crime, it's 84%. Right? Homicides. White people kill white people.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • July 17, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 remarks in the White House Rose Garden:
A Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “unity” policy document shows “they want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2020
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