Fact Check Posts – Page 76

Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2020 a viral image circulating on social media attributing comments to Barack Obama

Says President Barack Obama "signed the medical appliance tax bill that forced companies to outsource manufacturing of masks, gowns, gloves and ventilaors [sic] to China, Europe and Russia to avoid the tax.”

By Victoria Knight • May 1, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 a Facebook post

“Pelosi was in (Wuhan) China 6 days after the impeachment HOAX failed.”

By Amy Sherman • April 30, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 28, 2020 a video

Says a video shows Joe Biden lolling his tongue.

By Daniel Funke • April 30, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2020 comments made during a White House briefing

“We’ve tested more than every country combined.”

By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 30, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 13, 2020 a Facebook post

Quotes Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as saying, “Now is not the time to live by the Constitution, it’s time to put that damn thing in a shredder.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 29, 2020

Bloggers
stated on April 24, 2020 a Facebook post

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared Trump to Jesus, calling both “con artists.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 28, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 a Facebook post

“Joe Biden was involved in a plot to kidnap JFK Jr. according to the just declassified FBI files, and also made several threats."

By Bill McCarthy • April 27, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 on social media

The government must have planned the coronavirus pandemic because the coronavirus relief bill had been introduced three years earlier.

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2020

Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 a post on Facebook

“People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 11, 2020 a Facebook post

Says Bill O'Reilly wrote a post claiming that the coronavirus was created as a bioweapon by the Chinese government.

By Samantha Putterman • April 23, 2020

Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post

Photo shows packed beach of re-opened Jacksonville Beach on CNN.

By Samantha Putterman • April 23, 2020

Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post

“My wife is suffering from coronavirus and she is pregnant. The doctor said she won’t survive it.”

April 21, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post

News photo from stay-at-home protest was doctored to add Confederate flag.

April 20, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 3, 2020 a Facebook post

Walmart is adopting a staggered shopping schedule by age group during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Samantha Putterman • April 17, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2020 a Facebook post

Says Nancy Pelosi called Social Security recipients “leeches” and “burdens on society.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 17, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 in a White House briefing

Says as president he has “total” authority to re-open states amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Amy Sherman • April 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2020 a Facebook post

Says there’s an 800 number you can call to track the status of your stimulus check.

By Samantha Putterman • April 14, 2020

Kathy Hochul
stated on April 8, 2020 a television interview

Gov. Andrew Cuomo “was simply saying if we can share 20 percent of your excess, your non-used ventilators, to help people in other parts of the state on a voluntary basis, that would be great. Of course, there was a reaction to that, which was not positive."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 14, 2020

X posts
stated on April 5, 2020 social media posts

Say televangelist Pat Robertson said some young people “are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex organs. When people do that, they transfer all kinds of chemicals from ladies’ private parts and that’s where I think the (corona)virus came from.”

By Anna Peterson • April 13, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2020 a Facebook post

“Same little boy died of COVID-19 in three different countries. Still don’t believe the media is #fakenews?”

April 13, 2020

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