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Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on February 6, 2023 in a tweet:
"It's President Biden who is proposing to cut Medicare Advantage."
False
By Madison Czopek, Yacob Reyes • February 15, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 18, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“The average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds” of stool stuck in their gut.
False
By Madison Czopek • January 27, 2023
America First Legal
America First Legal
stated on October 9, 2022 in a radio advertisement:
"Joe Biden and the New Left even promote surgery on teens and young adults, removing breasts and genitals."
False
By Blake Farmer • November 8, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 18, 2022 in a video shared on Facebook:
A New England Journal of Medicine study found that vaccinated people are “5X more contagious than the unvaccinated 10 days after SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
False
By Madison Czopek • August 24, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 3, 2022 in an image on Facebook:
The CDC has classified monkeypox as an airborne form of herpes that can lead to paralysis.
False
By Madison Czopek • August 5, 2022
Kat Cammack
Kat Cammack
stated on July 21, 2022 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:
“In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited.”
False
By Julie Rovner • August 4, 2022
American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2022 in an advertisement:
Sen. Joe Manchin and AARP “support government price-setting schemes” to divert money from Medicare to “unrelated government programs or pad big insurers’ profits.”
False
By Colleen DeGuzman, Victoria Knight • July 25, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 31, 2017 in a video interview:
"ADHD does not exist."
False
By Ellie Borst • July 13, 2022
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on March 31, 2022 in a Twitter thread:
“The price of insulin increases as waistlines increase.”
False
By Colleen DeGuzman, Victoria Knight • April 21, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 2, 2022 in a press conference:
Wearing masks is “COVID theater” and “not doing anything.”
False
By Yacob Reyes • March 4, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on January 31, 2022 in Twitter posts:
Research from Japan shows “ivermectin is effective against omicron in Phase III trial.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • February 2, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on December 22, 2021 in a tweet:
“WHO Director-General: The vaccines are being used to kill children.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • December 23, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on December 6, 2021 in an Instagram post:
Deaths from vaccines have totaled 1,621 from Johnson & Johnson, 4,799 from Moderna, 13,039 from Pfizer and 73 from unknown vaccines. And this is an undercount because “only 1% of deaths are reported.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • December 10, 2021
60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on September 20, 2021 in a commercial shown on television and online:
Insurance companies and Washington bureaucrats “are working together to swipe $500 billion from Medicare to pay for Pelosi and Schumer’s out-of-control spending spree.”
False
By Victoria Knight • September 28, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 30, 2021 in an executive order:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance on students and masking “lacks a well-grounded scientific justification.”
False
By Victoria Knight • August 10, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 25, 2021 in social media:
CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.”
False
By Victoria Knight • July 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 22, 2021 in a social media post:
“The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine.”
False
By Victoria Knight • June 24, 2021
Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra
stated on May 12, 2021 in testimony before a House subcommittee:
"There is no law that deals specifically with the term ‘partial-birth abortion.’”
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 3, 2021 in remarks on the American Families Plan:
For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, “there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”
False
By Victoria Knight • May 11, 2021
Buck Sexton
Buck Sexton
stated on February 8, 2021 in a blog item posted on Facebook:
The science says “open the schools, stop wearing masks outside, and everyone at low risk should start living normal lives."
False
By Victoria Knight • February 19, 2021
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