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stated on January 4, 2020 in a post on Facebook:
An image shows animals burning in the Australia wildfires   
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • January 6, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 24, 2019 in a story:
Says Koalas are "functionally extinct" as bushfires in Australia continue to destroy their habitat.
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • December 16, 2019
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stated on November 19, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says a photo shows a pack of wolves walking in a single line in the snow being led by the sick.  
False
By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2019
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stated on August 29, 2019 in 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.
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 24, 2019
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stated on August 25, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Red Bull contains bull sperm.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 3, 2019
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stated on June 19, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says a photo shows a dog who has slept by his master’s grave every night for seven years.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • September 26, 2019
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stated on August 28, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and nobody can figure out why."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • September 10, 2019
Jimmy Anderson
Jimmy Anderson
stated on May 29, 2019 in 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. 
Half-True
By Mica Soellner • June 11, 2019
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stated on May 8, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says a deer became "riddled with tumors from eating plants sprayed with Monsanto’s Roundup."
False
By Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2019
Joe Cunningham
Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 in a U.S. House hearing:
"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on November 5, 2018 in a tweet:
"Hunters contribute more than $500 million" to West Virginia.
Mostly True
By Douglas Soule • December 10, 2018
Alexander Strenger
Alexander Strenger
stated on October 1, 2018 in 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."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 11, 2018 in a blog post:
"Giant rats plague New York City as 4 homeless men found eaten alive"
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Akin • July 16, 2018
Southwest Farm Press
Southwest Farm Press
stated on January 22, 2018 in 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."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 1, 2018
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X posts
stated on January 4, 2018 in a tweet:
"White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel" for President Donald Trump.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • January 5, 2018
Ann Hudspeth
Ann Hudspeth
stated on April 26, 2017 in A letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman:
"Texas leads the country in animal deaths by sodium cyanide M-44s."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2017 in an interview with 'The Economist':
The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2017
Will Herring
Will Herring
stated on March 6, 2017 in 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."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2017
Betsy DeVos
Betsy DeVos
stated on January 17, 2017 in her Senate confirmation hearing:
"I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school (in Wapiti, Wyo.) to protect from potential grizzlies."
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2017
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on July 9, 2016 in 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."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 12, 2016
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