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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2024 in Facebook posts:
Residents in states across the U.S. are eligible for a $2,200 holiday stimulus payment.
False
December 20, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 24, 2024 in an Instagram reel:
"Missouri registered 78,421 in just one week of February of this year. Out of that number, 23,253 were dead people!"
False
By Andy Nguyen • October 4, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Photo shows a missing child in Pike County, Missouri.
False
July 2, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Kansas City Chiefs said they refuse to participate in Pride Month because ‘it’s extremely woke.’
False
June 10, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 3, 2024 in an Instagram post:
A new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • March 11, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 18, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Video shows Republican Missouri state senators using flamethrowers to burn books.
False
By Sara Swann • September 21, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on April 18, 2023 in a Tweet:
Missouri’s attorney general has a website “where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them.”
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • April 20, 2023
Team PAC
Team PAC
stated on February 7, 2022 in an ad:
Eric Schmitt “sponsored a bill to spend $480 million of your tax dollars” on cargo hub for airlines "owned by China's Communist Party” and "voted to let China buy up Missouri farmland."
Half-True
February 9, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 23, 2021 in a post:
A Kansas City tourism sign had a terrible typo.
False
November 17, 2021
Missouri House Democratic Caucus
Missouri House Democratic Caucus
stated on March 22, 2021 in a tweet:
"An average of nearly 5,000 Missourians were contracting COVID every day in November."
Mostly False
By William Skipworth • April 24, 2021
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on April 4, 2021 in remarks on "Fox News Sunday":
The proposal by President Joe Biden would put the U.S. “No. 2 in the world” for the highest corporate tax rate.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2021
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on March 21, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Under H.R. 1, the Federal Election Commission “for the first time ever, instead of being an equal number of Republicans and Democrats (would be) three of one side and two of the other."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2021
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on March 2, 2021 in an interview on 97.1 KTFK:
By ending the Keystone XL Pipeline project, President Joe Biden “imperiled one of Donald Trump's most significant achievements, which was that we had achieved American energy independence.”
Mostly False
By William Skipworth • March 19, 2021
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on February 25, 2021 in a tweet:
Says his amendment on a budget bill “would have helped get kids back in school after teachers were vaccinated. Every single Senate Democrat voted against it.”
Half-True
By William Skipworth • March 10, 2021
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on January 6, 2021 in a U.S. Senate speech:
“Last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 8, 2021
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on January 4, 2021 in a tweet:
Says activists threatened his family and “screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door.”
Mostly False
By William Skipworth • January 8, 2021
Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on November 12, 2020 in a press conference:
“Schools that are consistently implementing COVID-19 mitigation strategies remain among the safest places for our students.”
Mostly True
By Simone Esters • December 17, 2020
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on November 24, 2020 in an Interview with the Southeast Missourian:
“The president got the highest percentage of minority votes of any Republican candidate for president in over 100 years."
False
By Simone Esters • December 8, 2020
Liberty Alliance
Liberty Alliance
stated on October 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:
"Beware - George Soros is starting a Fake News site in Missouri”
False
By William Skipworth • December 4, 2020
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on November 6, 2020 in a tweet:
Unemployment report shows “America is bouncing back.”
Mostly True
By Veronica Mohesky • November 18, 2020
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