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Alcee Hastings
stated on May 16, 2016 in a House resolution:

The Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, "threatens global public health."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2016 in a press conference:

"The Nordic countries are some of the few countries" that meet development aid goals.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2016

David Miliband
stated on May 17, 2016 in a panel discussion:

"The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 23, 2016

U.S. Dairy Export Council
stated on May 9, 2016 in a press release:

Says a WHO proposal "portrays milk and dairy products as an obstacle to a healthy start in life."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2016

Usain Bolt
stated on May 18, 2016 in an interview on NBC:

Zika mosquitoes "can’t catch me."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016

Minka Kelly
stated on May 10, 2016 in a post on Instagram:

"By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • May 17, 2016

Jack Lew
stated on May 3, 2016 in an interview with Bloomberg News:

"Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year."

Mostly True

By Marta Cerava • May 17, 2016

Gwen Moore
stated on April 27, 2016 in a congressional hearing:

Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on May 2, 2016 in a post on Medium:

Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview posted on Medium:

"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 in a speech:

Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016

Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 in comments:

The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."

Mostly True

By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016

Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 in an article posted on Medium:

"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016

Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 in an op-ed in the Huffington Post:

"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016

Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 in an episode of "Redacted Tonight":

"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

ActionAid UK
stated on April 7, 2016 in a website post:

"Tax dodging costs developing countries $200 billion every year."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 in an interview with the New York Daily News:

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

True

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016

Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 in an interview with a South African journalist:

"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016

Bloggers
stated on April 4, 2016 in a informal news website:

"Evidence shows Zika virus turns fetus brains to liquid."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 18, 2016 in a post on Medium:

Congress will begin its recess "without having allocated one penny" to fight Zika.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2016

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