Fact Check Posts – Page 35

Facebook posts
stated on August 27, 2014 in 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 July 18, 2014 in 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 July 14, 2014 in 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 June 5, 2014 in 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 April 25, 2014 in a meme shared on social media:

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

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on April 2, 2014 in 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

Facebook posts
stated on March 10, 2014 in a post from Being Liberal:

Says Marco Rubio believes the earth is 9,000 years old and that humans hunted dinosaurs to extinction; says Rand Paul believes the earth is 10,000 years old and God removed dinosaurs "to make space for humans."

By Tim Ryan • March 25, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on March 19, 2014 in a Facebook meme:

President Barack Obama spent "$5 billion paying Ukrainians to riot and dismantle their democratically elected government."

By Katie Sanders • March 19, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on January 16, 2014 in Facebook posts:

Says Nancy Pelosi said, "Waiting long hours in the emergency room will allow you to make new friends!"

By Julie Kliegman • February 26, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on February 3, 2014 in a photo-quotation posted to Facebook:

Says Michele Bachmann said "English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible."

By Sue Owen • February 12, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on December 5, 2013 in a meme on the Internet:

Says Vladimir Putin said, "President Obama and his fellow Democrats are either idiots or deliberately trying to destroy their own economy."

By Lilly Maier • December 5, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on October 1, 2013 in viral posts on the Internet:

Says a man opted out of Obamacare after the marketplace launched on Oct. 1, 2013, and was informed he owed a $4,000 fine.

By Lilly Maier • October 4, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on December 16, 2012 in a Facebook posting:

"Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 6, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on June 10, 2012 in a widely circulated posting:

"Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in U.S. are illegals."

By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2012 in on the Internet:

"More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals."

By Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on April 24, 2012 in a Facebook post:

"Bank of America could create 878,300 jobs with benefits if they spent their 2010 bonuses on job creation."

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2012 in a post on Facebook:

"In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight."

By Erin O'Neill • April 15, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on October 23, 2011 in an Internet post:

Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but "zero on job creation."

By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2011

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