Fact Check Posts – Page 4

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stated on January 4, 2020 a post on Facebook

An image shows animals burning in the Australia wildfires

By Samantha Putterman • January 6, 2020

Bloggers
stated on November 24, 2019 a story

Says Koalas are "functionally extinct" as bushfires in Australia continue to destroy their habitat.

By Samantha Putterman • December 16, 2019

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stated on November 19, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a photo shows a pack of wolves walking in a single line in the snow being led by the sick.

By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2019

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stated on August 29, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a photo shows a driver and passengers wearing moose heads in a truck with a man strapped to the roof that caused 16 accidents on I-35.

October 24, 2019

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stated on August 25, 2019 a Facebook post

Red Bull contains bull sperm.

October 3, 2019

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stated on June 19, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a photo shows a dog who has slept by his master’s grave every night for seven years.

September 26, 2019

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stated on August 28, 2019 a Facebook post

"A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and nobody can figure out why."

September 10, 2019

Jimmy Anderson
stated on May 29, 2019 a tweet

Republicans on the budget-writing committee "did nothing" to address oversight of large-scale farms, "as literal manure is coming out of people’s faucets.

By Mica Soellner • June 11, 2019

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stated on May 8, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a deer became "riddled with tumors from eating plants sprayed with Monsanto’s Roundup."

By Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2019

Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 a U.S. House hearing

"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.

By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019

Jim Justice
stated on November 5, 2018 a tweet

"Hunters contribute more than $500 million" to West Virginia.

By Douglas Soule • December 10, 2018

Alexander Strenger
stated on October 1, 2018 response cited in an interactive voter guide

Says 60 percent of Austin’s "waterways are found to be contaminated with fecal matter and deemed unsafe to swim."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2018

Bloggers
stated on July 11, 2018 a blog post

"Giant rats plague New York City as 4 homeless men found eaten alive"

By Katie Akin • July 16, 2018

Southwest Farm Press
stated on January 22, 2018 a news story

"Texas is home to more feral pigs than any other state — an estimated 50 percent to 75 percent of all feral swine in the nation."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 1, 2018

X posts
stated on January 4, 2018 a tweet

"White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel" for President Donald Trump.

By Jon Greenberg • January 5, 2018

Ann Hudspeth
stated on April 26, 2017 A letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman

"Texas leads the country in animal deaths by sodium cyanide M-44s."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2017 an interview with 'The Economist'

The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2017

Will Herring
stated on March 6, 2017 a San Antonio Express-News news story

"There’s not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2017

Betsy DeVos
stated on January 17, 2017 her Senate confirmation hearing

"I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school (in Wapiti, Wyo.) to protect from potential grizzlies."

By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2017

Sid Miller
stated on July 9, 2016 as quoted in a commentary by Ken Herman of the Austin American-Statesman

Says that since lawmakers acted, "we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 12, 2016

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