Latest Fact Checks By Jon Greenberg

Tracking global poverty: Do we have the real numbers?

By Jon Greenberg

July 7, 2016

For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, "we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty."  

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Tom Cotton: Hillary Clinton pushed reset with Russia months after it invaded Georgia

By Jon Greenberg

July 3, 2016

Says Hillary Clinton "was literally present when we pressed the reset button with Russia just a few months after Russia had invaded Georgia."

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Democrats stretch impact of Planned Parenthood exclusion in Zika bill

By Jon Greenberg

June 28, 2016

The House Zika bill "limits access to birth control services needed to help curb the spread of the virus" in Puerto Rico.  

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David Miliband on the link between jobs, immigration and Brexit

By Jon Greenberg

June 26, 2016

"The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is…

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More schooling reduces HIV risk. But by how much?

By Jon Greenberg

June 24, 2016

"For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half."  

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Trump wrong that Clinton’s refugee plan would cost more than rebuilding all inner cities

By Jon Greenberg

June 22, 2016

"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."

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Trump right that Clinton made up story about Bosnia sniper fire

By Angie Drobnic Holan , Jon Greenberg

June 22, 2016

Says Hillary Clinton "said she was under attack (in Bosnia) but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers."

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David Beckham says Swaziland has the world’s highest rate of HIV

By Jon Greenberg

June 17, 2016

"Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world."  

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Clinton: Clinton Foundation helped 9 million with lower-cost AIDS drugs

By Jon Greenberg

June 15, 2016

"Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband."  

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Trump wrongly casts California lawyers group as strongly pro-Mexican

By Jon Greenberg

June 7, 2016

Says Judge Gonzalo Curiel "is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican."  

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Georgia’s David Perdue wrong saying more businesses closed in 2015 than opened

By Jon Greenberg

June 3, 2016

"More businesses went out of business last year than were started for the first time in our history."

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Dog meat: Regional treat or global health threat?

By Jon Greenberg

June 3, 2016

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

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