Latest Fact-Checks By Grace Abels

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Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh
stated on February 8, 2023 in a Tennessee State House Committee Hearing:
“The youth suicide rate has increased exponentially alongside trans affirmation. Trans affirmation causes the suicide rate, not the other way around.”
Mostly False
By Grace Abels • March 8, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2022 in a Facebook reel:
Consuming “rice and beans, milk, cheese, butter and eggs” causes disease by age 30.
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels • August 5, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 29, 2022 in a Facebook post:
"The Sun is out of place, the Moon is out of place and the stars are out of place. The compasses are off" because of a shift in the Earth’s poles.
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels • August 3, 2022
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Viral image
stated on July 25, 2022 in a Facebook post:
A cure for cancer, known as a Rife machine, was found in 1934.
False
By Grace Abels • July 29, 2022
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stated on July 20, 2022 in an Instagram post:
NASA photos of the moon and Earth show that “space is fake.”
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels • July 28, 2022
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stated on July 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:
A “small area” in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico “has enough oil to fuel America for the next 200 years.”
False
By Grace Abels • July 28, 2022
Stephen King
Stephen King
stated on July 6, 2022 in a tweet:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with (the) state.”
False
By Grace Abels • July 7, 2022
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stated on June 26, 2022 in a Tweet:
J.K. Rowling tweeted, “If you American birds could keep your legs closed then maybe you wouldn’t need abortions in the first place?”
False
By Grace Abels • June 30, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:
"The Supreme Court ruled that border agents can enter anyone’s home within a 100-mile radius of the border without a warrant for any reason and federal courts cannot do anything about it."
Mostly False
By Grace Abels • June 30, 2022
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stated on June 17, 2022 in a post on Facebook:
An image shows gas prices on Jan. 6, 2021.
False
By Grace Abels • June 21, 2022
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stated on June 12, 2022 in social media posts:
Image shows Paul Pelosi, bruised, in a booking mugshot.
False
By Bill McCarthy, Grace Abels • June 14, 2022
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