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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2017 in a blog post:
Says President Donald Trump "signs a visa-free travel policy" for Ghana and Malawi.  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2017
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 2, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:
Says ExxonMobil "fought to kill" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 24, 2017 in a tweet:
"It would take $135 billion to eradicate global poverty."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 7, 2017
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on January 18, 2017 in a senate confirmation hearing:
"All of our taxpayers are paying roughly 22% of the U.N. budget."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2017
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on January 24, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:
Says Donald Trump's abortion rule "puts at risk 15 times more funding and millions more women and families ... than previous similar policies by Republican presidents."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2017
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 18, 2017 in a Senate confirmation hearing:
"Some countries are contributing (peacekeeping) troops because they're making money off of them."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 24, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 11, 2017 in a Senate confirmation hearing:
"We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 17, 2017
Nick Seymour
Nick Seymour
stated on January 7, 2017 in an op-ed:
Tuberculosis recently passed "HIV/AIDS as the leading infectious killer globally."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 4, 2017 in a blog post:
Says Donald Trump warned outgoing Ghana President against last-minute job appointments.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • January 10, 2017
Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney
stated on December 28, 2016 in a website op-ed:
"Asia ... has less freshwater per capita than any other continent, except Antarctica."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 25, 2016 in a blog post:
Says Vicks VapoRub caused a child’s death.
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2017
Lumos
Lumos
stated on December 19, 2016 in a factsheet:
"An estimated 8 million children worldwide live in orphanages or residential institutions. Shockingly, 80 percent of these children are not orphans."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • January 4, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 15, 2016 in a blog post:
Say Bill Gates is linked to HPV vaccine related deaths in India.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2016
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on October 26, 2016 in a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs:
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."
True
By Jon Greenberg • November 9, 2016
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 in a speech:
Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster,  . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster."
Half-True
By Joseph Cariz • October 28, 2016
Foodmentum
Foodmentum
stated on October 10, 2016 in a tweet:
"Europe and U.S. households waste 15 times more food than a person in Africa."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 27, 2016
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
stated on October 12, 2016 in a press release:
A World Health Organization report shows "that more people are dying of TB."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on October 16, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":
"In exchange for five minutes with Bill Clinton, the government of Qatar was going to give $1 million to the Clinton Foundation."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • October 16, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 in a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees:
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
True
By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
William Ruto
William Ruto
stated on September 9, 2016 in a speech at a political rally:
"Cancer and matters to do with kidney failure kill more people in Kenya today than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 13, 2016
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