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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 30, 2024 a Facebook post:
Hacker Hamza Bendelladj was executed.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 3, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 29, 2024 a Facebook post:
Photos show the scene of an accident that left an unidentified woman in a coma after a “hit and run incident.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 30, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 15, 2024 a moderated conversation:
“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • April 22, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on April 11, 2024 a post on X:
An X post that said, “I did it” was “the last thing O.J. Simpson tweeted before he passed.”
False
By Madison Czopek • April 12, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2024 a speech:
"Crime is down in Venezuela by 67% because they're taking their gangs and their criminals and depositing them very nicely into the United States.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 10, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 5, 2024 a statement on his website:
On Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol “protestors carried no weapons.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 29, 2024 an Instagram post:
The FBI admitted that Venezuela emptied its prisons and sent the inmates to the U.S.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • April 4, 2024
Nancy Mace
Nancy Mace
stated on March 30, 2024 a post on X:
“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 7, 2024 Public appearance:
“We’re facing situations these days where you have to have two officers in the evidence room in case there’s an accidental (fentanyl) exposure.”
True
By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 3, 2024 an Instagram post:
A new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • March 11, 2024
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on February 11, 2024 an interview:
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act led to “a 12% reduction in urban homicides in this country.”
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2024
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on February 1, 2024 Public appearance:
Minnesota incarcerates “about a third of what Wisconsin does.”
True
By Laura Schulte • February 14, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 8, 2024 a statement to the media:
“I cooperated far more” than Joe Biden in the classified documents investigations.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 4, 2024 an Instagram post:
“Epstein List” shows 166 people connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
False
By Loreben Tuquero • February 1, 2024
Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
stated on January 8, 2024 a press release:
Police made ‘no arrests’ of protesters who blocked Durham Freeway
False
By Paul Specht • January 19, 2024
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on November 18, 2023 a social media post:
Under New York’s Clean Slate Act “violent crimes … will now be automatically sealed after a set time - like they never happened.”
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 1, 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on December 6, 2023 the Republican presidential primary debate in Alabama:
“Jan. 6 now does look like it was an inside job.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 7, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 19, 2023 a statement on X:
In Florida, “any woman who has an abortion after six weeks — and any doctor who gives her care — will be guilty of a felony.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2023
Clay Higgins
Clay Higgins
stated on November 15, 2023 a congressional hearing:
A "ghost bus … filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • November 21, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 9, 2023 a Facebook post:
“There is a serial killer in Cincinnati.” Seven bodies were found “chopped up.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • November 10, 2023
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