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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 5, 2020 a Facebook post:
“More than 20 police officers are dead now because of the riots.”
False
By Emily Venezky • June 10, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 remarks to reporters at the Capitol:
“If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2020
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on May 7, 2020 an interview with Mother Jones:
“Since the reopening of (Georgia), we’ve seen our COVID rate skyrocket by 40%.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 15, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 23, 2020 a post on TikTok:
“It’s not the coronavirus that’s killing people. It is the economy.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2020
Mike Turzai
Mike Turzai
stated on May 9, 2020 a video:
“Guess what, [children are] not at risk unless they have an underlying medical issue.”
False
By Jessica Calefati • May 14, 2020
X posts
X posts
stated on May 10, 2020 a tweet:
Barack Obama “is the first ex-president to ever speak against his successor.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2020 a Fox News virtual town hall:
Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 a post on Facebook:
“President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 2020
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on April 15, 2020 an interview on "Fox & Friends":
"This is COVID-19, not COVID-1, folks. And so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that."
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 15, 2020
Candace Owens
Candace Owens
stated on April 6, 2020 a tweet:
“Everyone is only dying of coronavirus now.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2020
Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters
stated on March 31, 2020 comments made during an episode of "The Five" on the Fox News Channel:
“We were slow with the testing, but very quick with the travel ban. And that's been much more critical in saving lives.”
False
By Shefali Luthra • April 3, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2020 a White House press conference:
The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2020
Joy Behar
Joy Behar
stated on March 9, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View":
“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them?”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 12, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2020 posts on social media:
“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.
False
By Emily Venezky • March 11, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2020 a meeting at the White House:
“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing” on the coronavirus.
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 29, 2020 a speech at CPAC:
Says the media cut out his request of Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s emails “right at the end so that you don’t see the laughter, the joke.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 6, 2020 a story:
Says with his guilty impeachment vote, Senator Mitt Romney “could be removed from office.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 7, 2020
Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo
stated on January 24, 2020 an NPR interview:
When asked if he’s defended former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, "I've defended every single person on this team."
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2020 a tweet:
"The Democrat controlled House never even asked John Bolton to testify."
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 27, 2020
Pat Cipollone
Pat Cipollone
stated on January 21, 2020 remarks in the Senate impeachment trial:
"Not even (House Intelligence Chairman Adam) Schiff’s Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF" during the House impeachment investigation.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2020
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