Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on September 18, 2021 in a TikTok video:
Says 86% of COVID-19 cases in Israel in July were in fully vaccinated individuals.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2021
Don Lemon
Don Lemon
stated on September 29, 2021 in an exchange between CNN hosts:
Says Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema “are Republicans … Just look at the way they vote.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2021
Common Sense Leadership Fund
Common Sense Leadership Fund
stated on September 17, 2021 in an attack ad:
Democrats “want to tax your retirement funds to pay for their new trillion dollar power grab.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on September 23, 2021 in an op-ed:
“Democrats are responsible for the massive spending and debt growth, they alone need to take responsibility for raising the debt limit.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 27, 2021
Gary Palmer
Gary Palmer
stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks during a House hearing:
“As a result of the massive decline in natural gas prices, we’re saving 11,000 lives per year in the U.S.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks at an event in Gainesville, Fla.:
People who “have recovered (from COVID-19) have very strong immunity.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2021
Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg
stated on September 3, 2021 in an column in the Wall Street Journal:
“The frequency of hurricanes making landfall in the continental U.S. has declined slightly since 1900...There aren’t more powerful hurricanes either.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 9, 2021
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on August 31, 2021 in a statement via Twitter:
“If these (telecom and internet) companies comply with the Democrat order to turn over private information, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 2, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 18, 2021 in an interview with ABC News:
“We had already issued several thousand Special Immigrant Visas .. to the (Afghan) translators, when I came into office.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • August 19, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 30, 2021 in a press release:
Says Joe Biden and Democrats “have done absolutely nothing to help families struggling to keep up with inflation.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 4, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 26, 2021 in a press release:
“Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 29, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"Income taxes are voluntary."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2021
House Republicans
House Republicans
stated on July 21, 2021 in a tweet:
“President Biden says he wants to ban handguns.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on July 20, 2021 in remarks to reporters.:
Questions about whether she’s been vaccinated are “a violation of my HIPAA rights.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on July 20, 2021 in a tweet:
Says “Jeff Bezos will put 300 (metric tons) of carbon into the atmosphere for 180 seconds in space.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 20, 2021
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on June 29, 2021 in a tweet:
"Crime is escalating to a level we haven’t seen in decades as a direct result of Democrats’ defund the police movement and Biden-Harris open-border policies."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 23, 2021 in a White House announcement:
"The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2021 in an Instagram post:
Says Greta Thunberg said, "the climate crisis doesn’t exist."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2021
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on June 7, 2021 in an op-ed:
The Biden administration “ignores the negative environmental impact created by lithium mining.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 9, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 2, 2021 in a press conference:
Says Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried “spent millions of dollars to put her face on every gas pump across this state.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 4, 2021
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