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Latest Fact-Checks By Tom Kertscher

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stated on July 26, 2020 a Facebook post:
"Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization."
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 30, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 18, 2020 a Facebook post:
“American coronavirus vaccine killed five Ukrainians.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 30, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 24, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Walmart has just pledged $100 million to Black Lives Matter.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2020
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Viral image
stated on July 22, 2020 a viral image:
Says Joe Biden is formally listed as criminal suspect in Ukraine case involving his son.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2020
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Viral image
stated on July 21, 2020 a viral image:
The CDC said it “made a mistake” and reduced its count of Florida COVID-19 cases from 90,000 to 11,000.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 28, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Two stamps needed for mail-in ballots.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • July 23, 2020
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stated on July 20, 2020 a viral image:
Says Barack Obama "signed the law authorizing federal agents to snatch protesters off the streets” in Portland, Ore.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 22, 2020
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stated on July 17, 2020 a viral image:
Nine “antifa members arrested” in Portland, Ore.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 14, 2020 a Facebook post:
"Wrong" COVID-19 case count by Orlando Health "explains the 'outbreak' in Florida."
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 16, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 a post on Facebook:
“No other country” is having a “second wave” of COVID-19 “because they are not trying to unseat a President in November.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 14, 2020
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Viral image
stated on July 13, 2020 a video on Facebook:
“Registered Republican not allowed to vote.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 14, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 7, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Hillary Clinton is on trial, she (supposed) to have killed” a 10-year-old girl.
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • July 13, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 7, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says COVID-19 testing could be done with mouth swabs, so maybe deeper swabbing is “implanting something.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • July 13, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 a Facebook post:
“The CDC may have to stop calling COVID-19 an ‘epidemic’ due to a remarkably low death rate.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 13, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 9, 2020 a speech:
“And I heard that just yesterday, Joe Biden said that well-armed police in his words ‘become the enemy’ and he said that he would ‘absolutely cut funding for law enforcement.’”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Tom Kertscher • July 10, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 7, 2020 a Facebook post:
“New Zealand let health experts” rather than politicians make decisions about how to deal with COVID-19, “and as of today they have zero COVID cases.”
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • July 10, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2020 a Facebook post:
“For the first time, the Honor Guard soldiers that march at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery have been issued live ammunition.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 8, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on June 29, 2020 a Facebook post:
Black Lives Matter demonstrators attack “elderly man wearing oxygen.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • July 7, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 5, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says Melania Trump’s dress at Mount Rushmore speech was designed from “drawings of several young victims of sex trafficking.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 6, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 2, 2020 a Facebook post:
“The national coin shortage was done intentionally, the Mint is no longer releasing coins into circulation aka this is the beginning of the end of paper money.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 6, 2020
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