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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2023 a video shared on Facebook.:
Video shows a van “‘Queer testing’ kids without parental approval … (that) involves clothing removal.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • July 27, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority:
Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2023 a Facebook reel:
Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club.
False
By Sara Swann • July 21, 2023
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
stated on July 5, 2023 a chyron:
Gender Queer on NEA Summer Reading List for Kids.
False
By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 11, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 29, 2023 a tweet:
Donald Trump is an “affirmative action advocate.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Jeff Cercone • June 30, 2023
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on June 18, 2023 a TV interview:
“Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”
False
By Sevana Wenn • June 22, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on June 4, 2023 a CNN town hall:
Having "biological boys … in their locker rooms” is a reason why “a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 22, 2023 a post:
Video shows boxes of books removed from a middle school library that were “banned by the DeSantis regime in Florida.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • June 1, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 24, 2023 a Twitter Spaces event:
“There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Matthew Crowley • May 31, 2023
Francis Suarez
Francis Suarez
stated on May 21, 2023 a TV interview:
“Just last year,” Miami-Dade Public Schools “had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.”
True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 23, 2023
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 9, 2023 a news conference:
The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 18, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2023 a CNN town hall:
“Many of these teachers are soldiers, ex-soldiers, ex-policeman.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2023 a video shared on Facebook:
U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.
False
By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2023
North Carolina state House Democratic Caucus
North Carolina state House Democratic Caucus
stated on February 8, 2023 a tweet:
“North Carolina ranks last in the country in K-12 funding.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • April 7, 2023
Brandon Creighton
Brandon Creighton
stated on March 19, 2023 Interview with WFAA:
When discussing education savings accounts, "We would be 31st in the nation to have these policies going forward on behalf of kids.”
Half-True
By Aarón Torres • March 30, 2023
Tommy Tuberville
Tommy Tuberville
stated on March 2, 2023 a speech at the CPAC conference:
"Half the kids in this country, when they graduate, can’t read their diploma.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2023
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on February 3, 2023 a news release:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposes to “ban chocolate milk.”
Mostly True
By Cameron Carr, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Stanley Litow
Stanley Litow
stated on February 7, 2023 a news release:
“Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Kat Cammack
Kat Cammack
stated on March 2, 2023 a speech at CPAC:
The Justice Department has been “calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • March 2, 2023
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Viral image
stated on February 20, 2023 a Facebook post:
Canada has only “had 11 school shooting deaths … in history.”
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 23, 2023
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