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stated on August 2, 2020 in a post on Facebook:
Says Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, George Soros and Jeffrey Epstein are connected with Moderna, Inc., and its efforts to create the coronavirus vaccine.
Pants on Fire!
By Patrick Orsagos • August 13, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2020 in a tweet:
Under an executive order, “expensive insulin went from big dollars to virtual pennies … especially (for) our seniors.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2020
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on June 29, 2020 in a tweet:
“Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug ( remdesivir)."
True
By Madeline Heim • July 23, 2020
Monica Wallace
Monica Wallace
stated on June 8, 2020 in a newspaper interview:
Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.
True
By John Pullano • June 18, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Cannabis may stop coronavirus from infecting people, study finds.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • May 18, 2020
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X posts
stated on April 5, 2020 in a post:
Says Rudy Giuliani "bought $2M in shares of Novartis, a primary supplier of hydroxychloroquine" in early February.
False
By Daniel Funke • April 9, 2020
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 11, 2019 in a tweet:
"Prescription drug companies are charging Americans prices that are on average 4x higher than what's charged in other countries."
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • March 5, 2020
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stated on January 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says an image of a pile of needles is from Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district in San Francisco.
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 15, 2019 in a Facebook post:
“If you have the Flu… get these two items… Sambucol (and) Oscillococcinum… in 48 hours you will feel better. In 72 hours you will be almost symptom-free.”
Mostly False
By Emily Venezky • February 27, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 9, 2016 in a story:
Ninety pounds of cocaine was found on a boat owned by Mitch McConnell's family and that they are “financing his Senate campaigns with their cocaine drug profits.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • February 26, 2020
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stated on January 30, 2020 in an Instagram post:
Says John F. Kennedy “smoked cannabis in the White House, while president, because he suffered from severe back pain and Addison's disease."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 7, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union:
Last year, "for the first time in 51 years, the cost of prescription drugs actually went down."
Mostly False
By Shefali Luthra • February 5, 2020
Paul Maner
Paul Maner
stated on January 20, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Jordan Davis, son of Georgia Congresswoman Lucy McBath, was killed in "a drug deal gone bad."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • January 24, 2020
Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt
stated on November 25, 2019 in a roundtable:
"You have literally 140 people dying every day of opioid-related overdoses."
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek • December 31, 2019
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on November 20, 2019 in a radio interview.:
"We now have the first decline in overdose deaths due to drugs in 30 years - since 1990."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • November 26, 2019
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on October 13, 2019 in an article in a local newspaper:
"$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs."
Mostly True
By Matthew Digby, Minh Do • November 18, 2019
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on September 10, 2019 in a tweet:
"Meth production in MO has cratered over last decade. MO Hwy Patrol reported 1,326 meth lab seizures in 2006, only 50 in 2018."
True
By Greta Serrin • October 10, 2019
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stated on April 28, 2019 in a Facebook post:
A photograph shows a woman doing cocaine with a child.
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • September 26, 2019
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Facebook posts
stated on May 15, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says police are warning shoppers to use wipes to clean their carts over deadly risk of fentanyl residue.
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 26, 2019
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stated on August 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"Popeyes manager arrested for allegedly dipping chicken in cocaine based flour to increase business sales."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 23, 2019
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