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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 16, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“BREAKING: ANTHONY FAUCI is set to be arrested!!!”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • March 20, 2023
DeSantis Watch
DeSantis Watch
stated on March 4, 2023 in a digital advertisement:
"Ron DeSantis wants to raise the retirement age to 70."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • March 15, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 3, 2023 in a post:
“Breaking: John Fetterman RESIGNATION Announcement.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • March 6, 2023
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on February 9, 2023 in a Tweet:
53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020.
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 25, 2023
DeSantis Watch
DeSantis Watch
stated on February 8, 2023 in a Facebook post:
"Ron DeSantis voted to cut $473 billion from Medicare."
Half-True
By Yacob Reyes • February 22, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 7, 2023 in a post on Facebook:
"In the month since Republicans took the House majority," they are trying to "impose a 30% tax on everything."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2023
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 7, 2023 in an ad:
President Joe Biden “cheated on his taxes and got away with it.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on February 1, 2023 in a House committee hearing:
Illinois “received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • February 3, 2023
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 30, 2023 in an Instagram post:
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Instagram needs to “TERMINATE…a right-wing media page posting CONSERVATIVE content.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 29, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“BREAKING GOP approves resolution to expel Omar from Congress! It’s over for her!”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 23, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Video shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crying after “Ted Cruz gets up and humiliates her to her face.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 26, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 22, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Sen. Josh Hawley told professor, “I will not use your pronouns.”
Pants on Fire!
By Jeff Cercone • January 26, 2023
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on January 22, 2023 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
“Classified documents can never be taken out of a (sensitive compartmented information facility), ever.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 10, 2023 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:
“When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2023
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on January 8, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
A “default on our debt” would be unprecedented in American history.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2023
Karine Jean-Pierre
Karine Jean-Pierre
stated on December 9, 2022 in a press conference:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema "voted with the president 93% of the time."
Mostly True
By Yacob Reyes • December 14, 2022
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on November 27, 2022 in an interview on CNN:
“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • December 2, 2022
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on November 28, 2022 in a statement on a website:
Herschel Walker “is heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, raking in more than $140,000 in donations from Big Oil and other energy interests."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 1, 2022
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Warnock
stated on November 19, 2022 in a speech:
Herschel Walker “wants a nationwide ban on abortion” and said no exceptions “not even for rape or incest or life of the mother.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2022
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on October 19, 2022 in Political ad:
Says "Ron Johnson is making excuses for rioters who tried to overthrow our government, even calling them ‘peaceful protests.’”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 3, 2022
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