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Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 24, 2014 a chain email
"More than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in the last 27 months. This is more than the combined total of the nine years before."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2014
Mike McFadden
Mike McFadden
stated on April 17, 2014 a TV ad
Says Al Franken "voted to exempt himself and Congress from enrolling in (the Affordable Care Act marketplaces)."
False
By Julie Kliegman • April 24, 2014
Texas Right to Life
Texas Right to Life
stated on March 21, 2014 an email blast
"In 2005, Dan Branch tried to expand third-trimester abortions in Texas."
False
By Sue Owen • April 24, 2014
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed
stated on April 20, 2014 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
"Social science is irrefutable" that children are better off being raised by a mom and a dad.
False
By Julie Kliegman • April 22, 2014
Todd Starnes
Todd Starnes
stated on April 17, 2014 an interview on "Hannity"
Liberals have figured out a Facebook algorithm and "all the people getting banned from Facebook are somehow conservatives."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2014
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2014 a tweet
"ObamaCare enrollment lie: Obama counts an enrollee as a web user putting a plan in ‘their online shopping carts.’"
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 21, 2014
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on April 17, 2014 a speech
"In the last couple of days, notices were sent (by officials in Ukraine) to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as Jews."
False
By Julie Kliegman • April 18, 2014
Betsy Miller-Jones
Betsy Miller-Jones
stated on April 4, 2014 a newsletter
"Did you know that in 2013 over 50 percent of all babies born in Oregon were Hispanic?"
False
By Dana Tims • April 17, 2014
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on April 12, 2014 a speech at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit
"Eighty percent of Wall Street executives and their spouses' donations go to Democrats."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2014
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on March 7, 2014 an interview
"The big Wall Street banks, the big corporations" give "many times more" political donations to Democrats than Republicans.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 16, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on April 5, 2014 a campaign email
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s repeal of a 2009 law has left Wisconsin as "one of five states without an equal pay law protecting women from gender discrimination in their paycheck."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • April 13, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on March 13, 2014 a campaign ad
Says the Koch brothers want to "protect tax cuts for companies that ship our jobs overseas."
False
By Steve Contorno • April 11, 2014
John E. Sununu
John E. Sununu
stated on April 6, 2014 a panel on "Meet the Press"
The health care law reduces "the number of uninsured in America by 3 percent for how much money? $2 trillion."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 10, 2014
Dick Morris
Dick Morris
stated on April 7, 2014 in a broadcast of Fox News' "Hannity"
A North Carolina study proves that "probably over a million people voted twice in (the 2012) election."
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 10, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on March 28, 2014 a TV ad
"Before Congress, (Tom) Cotton got paid handsomely working for insurance companies and corporate interests."
False
By Julie Kliegman • April 9, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on April 1, 2014 a Facebook post
Says Charlie Crist supports "cuts to the Medicare Advantage program."
False
By Amy Sherman • April 9, 2014
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on March 27, 2014 a radio interview.
Says the Medicaid fraud rate in Virginia was "fact-checked" and found to be "0.47 percent."
False
By Sean Gorman • April 8, 2014
Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney
stated on April 6, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The numbers of people that support Obamacare and like it have been steadily dropping."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 6, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 1, 2014 an interview
A poll taken "a few months ago" found "70 percent approval or higher" for the Act 10 collective bargaining law.
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 6, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 4, 2014 a chain email
This is the first time since World War II that five nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were docked together.
False
By Elizabeth Meyer • April 4, 2014
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