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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 24, 2022 an Instagram post:
Image claims to show a list of "Republican members of Congress whose PPP loans were forgiven."
True
By Andy Nguyen • August 30, 2022
Pitbull
Pitbull
stated on September 25, 2020 an interview:
The COVID-19 pandemic was planned, and a 2019 simulation called Event 201 was a rehearsal for it.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • August 26, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on August 22, 2022 a tweet:
Image shows Trump is representing himself in a lawsuit against the United States government related to the FBI search of his Florida home.
False
By Andy Nguyen • August 25, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 7, 2022 News release:
"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • August 25, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 16, 2022 remarks at the White House:
The American Rescue Plan “helped create nearly 10 million new jobs.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 17, 2022 Instagram post:
"Biden is adding more IRS agents to investigate your taxes than we have detectives investigating every crime in the country.”
False
By Michael Majchrowicz • August 23, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 12, 2022 Facebook posts:
“Free health allowance is available at no cost.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • August 22, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 15, 2022 a Facebook video:
Video implies talk between Barack Obama and Kamala Harris has coded references to pedophilia.
Pants on Fire!
By Andy Nguyen • August 19, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 15, 2022 una publicación en Facebook:
“El congreso acaba de aprobar un reciente proyecto de ley para todos los que tengan más de $10,000 de deuda”.
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 19, 2022
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on August 13, 2022 Twitter:
Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.”
True
By Laura Schulte • August 19, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 16, 2022 a press release:
The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann • August 17, 2022
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on August 10, 2022 an interview on Fox News:
“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 3, 2022 a Facebook post:
"Send your postcards to 5 key states to decertify fraud” in the 2020 election.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • August 16, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 29, 2022 a Facebook post:
Empty store shelves at a Walmart in South Carolina were because of a meat shortage.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • August 16, 2022
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 12, 2022 a statement to the media:
"President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!"
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2022
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on July 29, 2022 Email:
"Governor Tony Evers gave counties the green light to defund Wisconsin's police departments."
Mostly False
By Alan Hovorka • August 12, 2022
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on August 9, 2022 a tweet:
“Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 11, 2022
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 10, 2022 a statement:
On taking the Fifth Amendment
Half Flip
By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 2, 2022 a Facebook post:
Former President Donald Trump asked “for troops around the Capitol to make sure everyone is safe,” on Jan. 6, 2021, but was “turned down by the Democrats.”
False
By Madison Czopek • August 10, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on July 17, 2022 Debate:
“We have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now.”
Mostly True
By Kelly Smits • August 9, 2022
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