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Population

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0% 26 Checks
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0% 22 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Population

Marc Molinaro
Marc Molinaro
stated on February 14, 2026 an X post:
New York leads the nation in population loss.
Half-True
By Holden Turek • April 1, 2026
Kayla Young
Kayla Young
stated on November 5, 2025 an X post:
West Virginia is “the only state losing population.”
False
By Trent Ao • November 21, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on December 5, 2024 an Instagram post:
“The population in Gaza has increased by 2.02% since Oct. 7, 2023.”
False
By Sofia Ahmed • December 6, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 6, 2024 an X post:
“In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa” because they were “fleeing” the state under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 15, 2023 a speech:
"Twenty-six out of every 100 students” in K-12 speak Spanish.
Half-True
By Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • June 21, 2023
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
stated on June 24, 2022 an interview on Fox News:
“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2022
Lee Zeldin
Lee Zeldin
stated on April 12, 2022 a tweet:
“New York leads the U.S. in population loss.”
True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • May 6, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on April 5, 2022 a tweet:
“With the money Elon Musk spent to buy Twitter shares, he could have given every American family $100,000 and still had enough left over to cancel all student debt.”
Pants on Fire!
By Andy Nguyen • April 8, 2022
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 20, 2021 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
“I represent more, or just as many or more, people than Joe Manchin does.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 22, 2021
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 7, 2021 an article:
"Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth” in an “unedited 2010 TED Talk video"
False
By Gabrielle Settles • October 11, 2021
Kurt Bauer
Kurt Bauer
stated on June 27, 2021 TV interview:
“We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • August 10, 2021
J.D. Scholten
J.D. Scholten
stated on July 21, 2021 a tweet:
“By 2040, 70% of the population is expected to live in just 15 states.”
Mostly True
By Sabine Martin • August 6, 2021
Peter Feigin
Peter Feigin
stated on June 23, 2021 Twitter:
Says people are moving to Milwaukee “in record numbers”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • July 2, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on May 21, 2021 a radio interview.:
“Over the last few years, more Virginians are moving away from Virginia than are moving to Virginia from the other 49 states.”
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • June 17, 2021
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on March 4, 2021 a tweet:
West Virginia “is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years”
True
By Duncan Slade • March 25, 2021
James Tedisco
James Tedisco
stated on January 5, 2021 a news release:
“New York leads the nation in out-migration of residents, with 126,000 people leaving last year and over one million in the past decade.”
Half-True
By Landon Allison, John Pullano • January 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 the first presidential debate:
“Suburbs are by and large integrated.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2020
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on July 27, 2020 a press conference:
West Virginia is the state with the oldest population.
Half-True
By Patrick Orsagos • July 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2020 a Facebook post:
“The point of defunding the Police in Minneapolis is that Minnesota is where Obama settled 1 Million Islamics. They want Sharia Law.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • June 17, 2020
MSNBC
MSNBC
stated on March 5, 2020 an MSNBC segment:
“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • March 6, 2020
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