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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 a Facebook post
“Cannabis may stop coronavirus from infecting people, study finds.”
Mostly False
May 18, 2020
X posts
X posts
stated on April 5, 2020 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 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
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 19, 2020 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 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 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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Viral image
stated on January 30, 2020 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
February 7, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 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, Shefali Luthra • February 5, 2020
Paul Maner
Paul Maner
stated on January 20, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Jordan Davis, son of Georgia Congresswoman Lucy McBath, was killed in "a drug deal gone bad."
Pants on Fire!
January 24, 2020
Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt
stated on November 25, 2019 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 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 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 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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Viral image
stated on April 28, 2019 a Facebook post
A photograph shows a woman doing cocaine with a child.
Pants on Fire!
September 26, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 15, 2019 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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Viral image
stated on August 23, 2019 a Facebook post
"Popeyes manager arrested for allegedly dipping chicken in cocaine based flour to increase business sales."
Pants on Fire!
August 23, 2019
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
stated on July 26, 2019 a website post.
"African Americans are three to four times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and nine times more likely to be imprisoned."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • August 6, 2019
Turning Point USA
Turning Point USA
stated on July 1, 2019 a Facebook post
"San Francisco has spent $72.5 million this fiscal year cleaning up human waste and drug paraphernalia" and "there are more drug users on their public needle program than high school graduates."
False
By Daniel Funke • July 16, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 5, 2019 an interview
"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."
True
July 11, 2019
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on June 11, 2019 a tweet
"Texas remains one of the most severely impacted states from drug trafficking. Nearly 3,000 Texans died from drug related deaths in 2017 – with half being overdoses involving opioids."
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 21, 2019
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