Human Rights

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true
0% 9 Checks
mostly-true
0% 16 Checks
Half True
0% 12 Checks
mostly-false
0% 16 Checks
false
0% 30 Checks
Pants on Fire
0% 7 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Human Rights

Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
stated on July 27, 2025 in remarks:
“There is no starvation in Gaza.”
Pants on Fire!
July 29, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 18, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:
"ONU ordena despenalizar a los" pedófilos.
False
June 29, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on April 19, 2023 in an Instagram post:
"U.N. calls for decriminalizing sex with minors.”
False
April 21, 2023
Tom Fitton
Tom Fitton
stated on April 4, 2023 in a segment on Fox Business:
“President Trump is officially a political prisoner.”
False
April 6, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2023 in the State of the Union:

“In the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker. Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 9, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on November 14, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“Iran sentences 15,000 protesters to death.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 15, 2022
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
stated on February 24, 2022 in an address to the nation announcing the attack on Ukraine:
Ethnic Russians face “genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2022
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 16, 2021 in a radio show segment:
Joe Biden intentionally “let it fall apart” in Afghanistan because he “wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • August 19, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:
U.S. sanctions mean “Cuba can’t trade with any country or any company whatsoever.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • July 19, 2021
Survival International
Survival International
stated on April 22, 2021 in a website press release:
With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 7, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 29, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“South Korea sprays rioters with dye so they can be identified & arrested later.”
Mostly False
September 8, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 19, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Says "Muhammad owned many slaves" while Robert E. Lee was "against slavery."

 
False
By Samantha Putterman • August 27, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 12, 2019 in a podcast:

29 states still don’t have "comprehensive protections" for people in the LGBTQ community.
True
By Mica Soellner • March 28, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 22, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"'Caravan' Migrant Army Paint Swastika on American Flag, Burn It in the Street."

 
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 25, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 27, 2018 in a blog post:

"Clinton campaign official arrested by FBI on child rape/trafficking charges"
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2018
WashingtonSources
WashingtonSources
stated on May 7, 2018 in a headline:

"Trump votes for death penalty for being gay."
False
By Amy Sherman • May 10, 2018
Don Blankenship
Don Blankenship
stated on May 1, 2018 in a debate:

"Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2018
Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com
stated on April 9, 2018 in an article on the Antiwar.com website:

"Red Crescent Says No Evidence of Chemical Attack in Syria’s Douma."
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 13, 2018
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on October 25, 2017 in a radio appearance:

The North Carolina bathroom bill "was really never repealed."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • November 22, 2017
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on February 15, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2017
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