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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2023 a Facebook post:
“When fentanyl burns it smells like popcorn.”
False
By Sara Swann • April 28, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 21, 2023 una publicación en Facebook:
Este video enseña “las primera palabras” de Gustavo Petro junto a Joe Biden.
False
By Maria Briceño • April 27, 2023
Paul Tonko
Paul Tonko
stated on March 20, 2023 a press release:
“Individuals released from incarceration are 129 times more likely to die of a drug overdose during the first two weeks after release.”
Half-True
By Conor Amendola • April 26, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 5, 2023 a tweet:
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45.”
Mostly True
By Aarón Torres • April 24, 2023
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, Jeff Cercone • 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
By Michael Majchrowicz • 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
By Tom Kertscher • 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
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