Fact Check Posts – Page 286

Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"Congress quietly repealed the McCarran Warner Act of 1952 forbidding Muslims from holding office."

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 27, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2019 in posts online:

ATM users in distress can enter their PIN backwards to secretly call the police.

By Julianna Rennie • March 26, 2019

Viral image
stated on March 18, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Shows a photo of two similar Wall Street Journal newspapers with different headlines about President Donald Trump, and describes the editions as, "Same paper, same dates, different markets. What did you just learn? Feeling manipulated yet?"

By Samantha Putterman • March 26, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on March 17, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says a photograph of Harriet Tubman shows she was a "gun-toting, Democrat-shooting, 2nd Amendment-supporting Republican."

By Samantha Putterman • March 25, 2019

Toni Preckwinkle
stated on March 19, 2019 in a debate:

"Nationally, they predict prison populations on the basis of third-grade achievement."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 24, 2019

Bloggers
stated on March 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"We could build 30 walls with the $150 billion Obama gave to Iran."

By Jon Greenberg • March 22, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019

Katie Pavlich
stated on March 19, 2019 in in a panel discussion:

"America came along as the first country to end (slavery) within 150 years."

By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on March 18, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."

By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says the Looney Tunes cartoon character Yosemite Sam was banned from television for being too violent.

By Samantha Putterman • March 21, 2019

Matthew Birmingham
stated on March 16, 2019 in a press release:

"Now there is a new threat that we’re seeing up close: the risk of exposure to powerful drugs that can kill in even tiny amounts."

By Colin Meyn • March 20, 2019

David Crowley
stated on February 24, 2019 in a TV interview:

''Over 40 percent of African-American men in (Milwaukee County) have been going to prison for low-level drug offenses, and I think a hundred times that in the city of Madison."

By D.L. Davis • March 19, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on March 13, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Florida drivers who have their cell phones "in hand" can be ticketed $250 and sent to "driving school."

By Samantha Putterman • March 18, 2019

North Carolina Republican Party
stated on March 12, 2019 in an email:

"Democrats have forced a special election"

By Paul Specht • March 15, 2019

Dan Crenshaw
stated on March 9, 2019 in a tweet:

Says HR 1 would "legalize" the kind of fraud found in North Carolina

By Paul Specht • March 13, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2019 in a text post on Facebook:

Says 228 House Democrats voted "to allow illegal aliens to have right to vote"

By Amy Sherman • March 13, 2019

Joni Ernst
stated on March 6, 2019 in a speech:

"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in 1789."

By Tom Kertscher • March 12, 2019

Viral image
stated on March 5, 2019 in a post on Facebook:

Says Sinclair Lewis said, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 12, 2019

Viral image
stated on March 6, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Winston Churchill said, "When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place."

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 8, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on February 26, 2019 in Facebook posts:

Says the WIC program was created by the Black Panthers to help feed single mothers and children in their communities.

By Samantha Putterman • March 5, 2019

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