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Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
stated on January 31, 2022 in a TV segment:
"The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • February 1, 2022
Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie
stated on January 30, 2022 in a tweet:
Says Voltaire said, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 31, 2022
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on January 27, 2022 in a radio show segment:
“There's never been a president (before Joe Biden) that has made race and gender the defining factor” for a Supreme Court nomination.
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 28, 2022
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on November 21, 2021 in a TikTok post:
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi planned “the ethnocide of the peoples of Europe” through “the encouragement of mass non-white immigration.”
False
By Luiz Romero • January 24, 2022
Doug Wilder
Doug Wilder
stated on January 3, 2022 in a radio interview.:
“When I became mayor of the City of Richmond in 2004, the crime rate was at its highest. When I left in 2008, it was at its lowest.”
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • January 10, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 29, 2021 in a post:
“Stalin once ripped all the feathers off a live chicken as a lesson to his followers.”
False
By Luiz Romero • November 16, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 3, 2021 in a news conference.:
“No governor in Virginia has ever won when...he or she is the same party as the sitting president.”
False
By Warren Fiske • November 12, 2021
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 in Twitter:
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"Tennessee new law passed 48 hours ago now makes it illegal to teach Black history in the grades K-12."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on September 22, 2021 in Twitter:
Says the U.S. National Archives put a ‘harmful content’ warning on our nation’s Founding documents.
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • September 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Thalidomide was FDA-approved for pregnant women in the 1960s.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • August 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says the white man who wanted Rosa Parks’ seat on the bus was suffering from ADHD and anxiety.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • August 2, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on July 6, 2021 in a TV segment:
“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 9, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 23, 2021 in a White House announcement:
"The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 21, 2021 in a post on Facebook:
Says President John F. Kennedy said, “There are people in Washington, D.C., in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not.”
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 22, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on May 4, 2021 in TV interview:
Terry McAuliffe favors “taking the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4th of July out of the (school) curriculum.”
False
By Warren Fiske • June 3, 2021
Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears
stated on May 13, 2021 in a TV interview.:
“The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church.”
False
By Warren Fiske • May 27, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • April 19, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 30, 2021 in Instagram post:
“56 million defenseless people ‘rounded up and exterminated’ in the 20th Century because of gun control.”
False
By Michael Majchrowicz • April 9, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2021 in remarks:
"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2021
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