Fact Check Posts – Page 325

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-09-18 a Facebook meme:

Congress includes 36 people accused of spousal abuse, 84 arrested for drunk driving in the past year, 71 with terrible credit and more.

By Lauren Carroll • September 24, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-09-11 a Facebook graphic:

"There is no state in the U.S. where a 40-hour minimum wage work week is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment."

By Steve Contorno • September 18, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-09-11 a post on Facebook:

A flight from Atlanta to Houston was canceled due to a "terrorist dry run."

By Derek Tsang • September 11, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-09-10 posts on Facebook:

"Fox admits they lie" and, under the First Amendment, "have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves."

By Linda Qiu • September 10, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-08-27 a Facebook meme:

"McDonald’s hamburgers are only 15 percent ‘real beef.’ The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer."

By Linda Qiu • September 3, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-08-25 a meme on social media:

Police in the United States are allowed to use tear gas even though it "has been classified as a chemical weapon and banned in international conflict since 1993."

By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2014

X posts
stated on 2014-08-13 posts on Twitter:

The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent."

By Aaron Sharockman • August 14, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-08-07 a meme on social media:

"In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."

By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-07-27 a meme on social media:

"97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-07-18 a meme on social media:

Says former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that "if the workers are more insecure, that's very healthy for the society" because "they'll serve the masters gladly and passively."

By Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-07-16 a meme on social media:

Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are "unable to visit Europe due to outstanding warrants."

By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-07-14 posts on Facebook:

Fox News is "banned in Canada" because it violates a law that "prevents ‘news’ channels from lying to their viewers."

By Linda Qiu • July 14, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-07-03 a Facebook post:

An image of nine white, blond women shows "the amazing diversity of Fox News anchors."

By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-06-16 a post on Facebook:

"For the cost of the Iraq War we could’ve ended world hunger for 30 years."

By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-06-16 a meme on social media:

"Gun homicide is down 49 percent in the past 12 years."

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-06-05 posts on Facebook:

Says Michele Bachmann said on Fox News, "This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again."

By Katie Sanders • June 5, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-05-27 a meme on social media:

"For every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps."

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-05-01 a meme shared on social media:

"Every single one of the 41 Republican senators who just blocked a raise in the minimum wage will receive a $2,800 cost-of-living adjustment on January 1, 2015."

By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-04-25 a meme shared on social media:

"Over 300K home owner suicides attributed to foreclosures."

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on 2014-04-02 a Facebook meme:

Says Rep. Michele Bachmann said President Barack Obama might be to blame for the Fort Hood shootings.

By Katie Sanders • April 10, 2014

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