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Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Tim Ziemer
Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 in an article posted on Medium:
"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 in an op-ed in the Huffington Post:
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Brooklyn, N.Y.:
"We spend about 75 percent of the entire cost of the military aspect of NATO."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016
ActionAid UK
ActionAid UK
stated on April 7, 2016 in a website post:
"Tax dodging costs developing countries $200 billion every year."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 in a tweet:
"The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 5, 2016 in an interview on ABC's "the View":
"I have 2 and a half million more votes than he (Sanders) does."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Marcus Low
Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 in an interview with a South African journalist:
"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 4, 2016 in a informal news website:
"Evidence shows Zika virus turns fetus brains to liquid."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:
"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2016
Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist
stated on March 24, 2016 in a Fox Business interview:
Under Hillary Clinton, State Department "officials were sending official thank-yous to people who gave to the Clinton Foundation."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 18, 2016 in a post on Medium:
Congress will begin its recess "without having allocated one penny" to fight Zika.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:
(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview on CNN:
"Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons because the United States of America" said it would "ensure (its) territorial integrity from Russia."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 23, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:
As a sign of "extraordinary progress," "there are half as many (primary-age) children out of school today as there were 15 years ago."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 10, 2016 in the Republican debate in Miami:
"I opposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and have always opposed TPP."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 in the Democratic debate at Miami Dade College:
When Honduran children came into this country, "Secretary Clinton said send them back."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2016
Keep the Promise 1 PAC
Keep the Promise 1 PAC
stated on February 17, 2016 in an attack ad:
Says Donald Trump said the government is going to pay for everybody to have health care.
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 7, 2016
Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle
stated on February 29, 2016 in an op-ed:
U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce "political instability and violence" by "40 percent" in recipient nations.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2016
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
stated on February 29, 2016 in a page on the hospital's website:
The Chris Hani Baragwanath in South Africa is "the world’s third-biggest hospital."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 29, 2016
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