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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 19, 2014 stories
Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.  
Pants on Fire!
By Derek Tsang • August 19, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on August 17, 2014 a segment on his show, "Last Week Tonight"
"The number of SWAT raids have gone up by 1,400 percent since the 1980s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2014
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell
stated on August 17, 2014 an episode of NBC's "Meet the Press"
In Ferguson, Mo., "you've got three black officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American."  
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • August 17, 2014
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on August 9, 2014 a broadcast of "Fox and Friends Weekend."
"Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 15, 2014
X posts
X posts
stated on August 13, 2014 posts on Twitter
The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent."  
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • August 14, 2014
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The Islamic State, or ISIS, was "cast off by al-Qaida because" it was "considered too extreme."  
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • August 13, 2014
Moms Rising
Moms Rising
stated on August 5, 2014 a tweet
"Having a baby is a leading cause of poverty spells in the United States."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 28, 2014 a blog post
Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • August 11, 2014
Mark Emmert
Mark Emmert
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"More (student-athletes) graduate than the students who aren't student-athletes."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 10, 2014
Joy Reid
Joy Reid
stated on August 4, 2014 comments on her MSNBC show
"So far, the war in Gaza has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead -- the population equivalent to 100 9/11s."  
Mostly False
By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014
D’Banj
D’Banj
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"The music industry is the biggest export from Africa after oil and gas."
False
By Linda Qiu • August 7, 2014
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world."  
False
By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014
James Woods
James Woods
stated on August 5, 2014 a tweet
"The leader of ISIS was imprisoned by American troops and ordered released to Iraq by Obama administration in 2009."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 6, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 3, 2014 an article posted on Infowars.com
President Barack Obama’s latest executive order "mandates the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’ "
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 6, 2014
Oxfam Ireland
Oxfam Ireland
stated on July 22, 2014 an info-graphic tweet
Women "own just 1 percent of the world’s land."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 5, 2014
Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
stated on June 18, 2014 an article on Townhall.com
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • August 5, 2014
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren
stated on August 2, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas," because Kerry was seen as "supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League."
False
By Derek Tsang, Linda Qiu • August 4, 2014
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
The people who want President Barack Obama impeached "are all white, they're all older, and guess what, they're in the far right wing of the Republican Party."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2014
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 comments on CNN
Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 23, 2014 comments on his show
Because of the current immigration crisis, Republicans want to "repeal" a 2008 law that President George W. Bush signed and "want to be on record as not wanting to protect children from ... sex trafficking."    
Mostly False
By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
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