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Latest Fact-Checks In Race and Ethnicity

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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 15, 2024 an Instagram post:
Abraham Lincoln’s coin is copper because he ended slavery. Figures on other U.S. coins “face left because they turned their backs to him in protest.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • January 17, 2024
Dave Murphy
Dave Murphy
stated on November 7, 2023 Wisconsin Assembly:
"Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a three-year contract for $186 million. He and his family, being African American, could receive benefits under affirmative action.”
Mostly False
By Ricardo Torres • January 17, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 8, 2024 a speech:
“The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 12, 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on December 6, 2023 a debate:
“The great replacement theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory. But a basic statement of the Democratic Party's platform.”
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • December 13, 2023
Dean Phillips
Dean Phillips
stated on November 13, 2023 a speech at Dartmouth College:
"Half of American high school students are not familiar with the Holocaust."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 27, 2023 a video shared on Instagram:
“New court documents reveal that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose.”
False
By Madison Czopek • November 3, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority:
Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on July 11, 2023 a video:
“COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 19, 2023
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on April 11, 2023 Senate Banking Committee press release:
“For African American families in particular, the homeownership rate remains relatively unchanged since 1968, the year the Fair Housing Act was signed into law.”
True
By Matthew Crowley • May 19, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 21, 2023 an interview with Noticias Telemundo:
"Latino small businesses are 1 in 4 new businesses, but only 1% of venture capital funding goes to Latino businesses."
Mostly True
By Marta Campabadal Graus • May 16, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on May 7, 2023 a post:
California has approved $1.2 million in reparations for every Black resident.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • May 12, 2023
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 20, 2023 a speech at John Jay College of Criminal Justice:
“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”
True
By Cameron Carr • April 25, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2023 a headline shared on Facebook:
Silicon Valley Bank “donated $73M to 'BLM Movement'”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 22, 2023
Scott Adams
Scott Adams
stated on March 8, 2023 a tweet:
The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “an American intel op against Trump.”
Pants on Fire!
By Gabrielle Settles • March 10, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 17, 2023 an Instagram post:
“Joe Biden changes the name of Black History Month.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 23, 2023
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 16, 2023 an Instagram post:
KFC tweeted an image of a chicken drumstick for Black History Month.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 17, 2023
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 6, 2023 in a TV segment:
“No administration has ever looked less like America, just by the numbers, than the Biden administration.”
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 17, 2023
Sawyer Hackett
Sawyer Hackett
stated on January 16, 2023 a tweet:
Gov. Abbott “signed a bill last year eliminating the requirements for Texas schools to teach MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.”
Half-True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 14, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on February 1, 2023 a House committee hearing:
Illinois “received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • February 3, 2023
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 29, 2023 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
"I got a list of 20 jurisdictions that defunded the police to the tune of over $1 billion total."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • February 1, 2023
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