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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2023 un post de Facebook
“La mayor parte” del fentanilo que llega a los puertos de Estados Unidos viene desde Canadá.
False
By Maria Briceño • April 5, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 a news release
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
Mostly True
By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on February 7, 2023 a Facebook post
"Joe Biden's wide open southern border" is to blame for fentanyl deaths in the U.S.
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 10, 2023
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on January 31, 2023 a floor speech.
“You know how many children are dying across Virginia because of fentanyl poisoning? A heck of a lot more than are dying at the hands of guns.”
False
By Warren Fiske • February 7, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2023 a campaign website
As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2023
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on October 26, 2022 a tweet
Rep. Tim Ryan “wanted to decriminalize fentanyl.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • October 31, 2022
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on October 5, 2022 an ad
As attorney general, Catherine Cortez Masto “opposed tougher laws on methamphetamine dealers.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 14, 2022
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 a tweet
“Overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021.”
True
By Courtney Clingan, Samuel Russ • October 13, 2022
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 29, 2022 On Fox News
Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman’s tattoo references ‘heroin use’ and the Crips
Mostly False
October 5, 2022
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 a tweet
“More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump.”
Mostly True
By Megan Bevins, Pearse Costello • October 3, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 21, 2022 a Facebook post
"A Jackson, Tennessee, employee passed out this morning from handling a dollar bill with fentanyl on it."
False
By Andy Nguyen • July 29, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on July 19, 2022 an ad
Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”
Mostly True
July 27, 2022
Melissa Agard
Melissa Agard
stated on April 11, 2022 Twitter
Cannabis reform "is supported by the majority of the residents of our state, including a majority of Republicans."
True
By D.L. Davis • April 29, 2022
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney
stated on April 1, 2022 a press release
In 2021, “11,201 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • April 27, 2022
"Watch The Water"
stated on April 11, 2022 a film
COVID-19 is a synthetic version of “snake venom” that evil forces are spreading through remdesivir, the COVID-19 vaccines and drinking water to “make you a hybrid of Satan.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • April 19, 2022
Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on February 18, 2022 Campaign statement
"Here in Wisconsin, prescription drug costs grew at a pace of nearly twice as much as the average Wisconsinite's income from 2015-2019."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • March 8, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2022 a tweet
"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 21, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 26, 2022 a Facebook post
A molecule found in a Himalayan fungus "kills cancer cells with 40 times potency."
Half-True
By Andy Nguyen • February 15, 2022
Nicole Sirotek
Nicole Sirotek
stated on January 25, 2022 a speech
Says remdesivir is responsible for killing patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • February 10, 2022
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on February 8, 2022 a tweet
The Biden administration “is spending $30 million on crack pipes.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • February 10, 2022
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