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Human Rights

Scorecard

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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 remarks:
“There is no starvation in Gaza.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • July 29, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 18, 2023 una publicación en Facebook:
"ONU ordena despenalizar a los" pedófilos.
False
By Jeff Cercone • June 29, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on April 19, 2023 an Instagram post:
"U.N. calls for decriminalizing sex with minors.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • April 21, 2023
Tom Fitton
Tom Fitton
stated on April 4, 2023 a segment on Fox Business:
“President Trump is officially a political prisoner.”
False
By Madison Czopek • April 6, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2023 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 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 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 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 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 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 a Facebook post:
“South Korea sprays rioters with dye so they can be identified & arrested later.”
Mostly False
By Noah Y. Kim • September 8, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 19, 2018 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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Latest promises about Human Rights

Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Increase refugee admissions
Joe Biden keeps promise to raise refugee admissions to 125,000 | July 6, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Reverse family separation policies
Biden fulfills promise to end Trump policy that led to family separations | January 27, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Immediately rescind the “Muslim bans”
Joe Biden signs proclamation revoking Trump’s travel ban | January 21, 2021
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
41 prisoners remain at Gitmo as Obama leaves office | January 20, 2017
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Create loan sanctions to stop private creditors from lending to repressive regimes
White House has yet to implement new type of loan sanction | January 16, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Work for the release of international dissidents
U.S. has helped many dissidents, though not all, go free | December 11, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
38 Republicans vote against ratification, but treaty could get another vote next year | December 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
End the use of extreme rendition
Extraordinary rendition officially ruled out, but secrecy makes its elimination hard to prove | December 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Provide $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS
Spending is less than promised, but more people receive medical treatment and care | July 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
Goals, timetables on the way | June 20, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Open new consulates “in the tough and hopeless corners of the world”
None shuttered and two opened where life is hard | March 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
End the use of torture
Wide agreement that Obama’s torture ban has held | November 14, 2011
Latest promises about Human Rights