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Facebook posts
stated on March 28, 2015 posts on social media

Facebook has unveiled new rules to stop their users from creating posts related in any way to religion.

Pants on Fire!

By Audrey Bowler • April 10, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on April 7, 2015 a speech announcing his presidential campaign

"Debt doubled" under Bush "and now it’s tripling under Barack Obama’s watch."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • April 9, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview with the 'New York Times.'

"Iran’s defense budget is $30 billion. Our defense budget is closer to $600 billion."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 9, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation."

Seventy percent of Americans "don't have a college degree."

True

By Katharina Fiedler • April 8, 2015

Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America
stated on April 7, 2015 an ad

"Rand Paul supports Obama's negotiations with Iran."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • April 7, 2015

Chain email
stated on April 6, 2015 a chain email

Says Hillary Clinton will receive her "congressional salary until she dies" and the Secret Service pays her mortgage.

Pants on Fire!

By Lauren Carroll • April 6, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 a town hall in Austin, Texas

"In this last election in November, ... 63 percent of the American people chose not to vote, ... 80 percent of young people, (and) 75 percent of low-income workers chose not to vote."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2015

Occupy Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 a meme on social media

Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota "is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on March 29, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week"

In the United States, we’ve had "12 years in a row of wages declining."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on March 25, 2015 a speech

The Affordable Care Act is "a major reason why we’ve seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2015

Mike Pence
stated on March 29, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"

Says Barack Obama voted for the "very same language" of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation "doesn't have anything to do with this law."

Half-True

By Katie Sanders • March 29, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 23, 2015 a Tweet

"From 2013-2015, the richest 14 Americans increased their net wealth by more than $157 billion, yet the Republican budget would not require these Americans to contribute one penny to deficit reduction."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • March 27, 2015

Bloggers
stated on March 21, 2015 posts on social media

Say Michelle Obama "mandates" weighing children in day care.

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on March 24, 2015 an interview on the Kelly File

Says according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself."

Mostly False

By Katharina Fiedler, Lauren Carroll • March 25, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 23, 2015 a speech at Liberty University

"Small businesses (are) going out of business in record numbers."

False

By Steve Contorno • March 24, 2015

David Simas
stated on March 18, 2015 an interview on CNN's "New Day"

Job growth in the United States is now at the "fastest pace in this country's history."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2015

Ron Dermer
stated on March 22, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Says Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "didn't change his position" on a two-state solution.

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • March 22, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 17, 2015 an interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers"

"Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there’s been zero warming."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week"

"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2015

Mitch McConnell
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

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