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Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings
stated on May 16, 2016 a House resolution
The Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, "threatens global public health."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2016 a press conference
"The Nordic countries are some of the few countries" that meet development aid goals.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2016
David Miliband
David Miliband
stated on May 17, 2016 a panel discussion
"The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 23, 2016
U.S. Dairy Export Council
U.S. Dairy Export Council
stated on May 9, 2016 a press release
Says a WHO proposal "portrays milk and dairy products as an obstacle to a healthy start in life."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2016
Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt
stated on May 18, 2016 an interview on NBC
Zika mosquitoes "can’t catch me."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016
Minka Kelly
Minka Kelly
stated on May 10, 2016 a post on Instagram
"By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • May 17, 2016
Jack Lew
Jack Lew
stated on May 3, 2016 an interview with Bloomberg News
"Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year."
Mostly True
By Marta Cerava • May 17, 2016
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on April 27, 2016 a congressional hearing
Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 2, 2016 a post on Medium
Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview posted on Medium
"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 a speech
Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016
Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 comments
The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."
Mostly True
By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016
Tim Ziemer
Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 an article posted on Medium
"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016
Lee Camp
Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 an episode of "Redacted Tonight"
"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016
ActionAid UK
ActionAid UK
stated on April 7, 2016 a website post
"Tax dodging costs developing countries $200 billion every year."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News
"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."
True
By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016
Marcus Low
Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 an interview with a South African journalist
"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 4, 2016 a informal news website
"Evidence shows Zika virus turns fetus brains to liquid."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 18, 2016 a post on Medium
Congress will begin its recess "without having allocated one penny" to fight Zika.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2016
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