C. Eugene Emery Jr.

C. Eugene Emery Jr.

PolitiFact correspondent

C. Eugene Emery Jr. joined PolitiFact national to help cover the 2016 presidential election after 40 years as reporter for the Providence Journal. He was a founding staff member of PolitiFact Rhode Island. While at the Journal, he was a science and medical writer, covered municipal governments throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, and managed the Journal’s Massachusetts bureau. He was part of the Journal’s Commerce & Consumer team, then its Breaking News team, before joining PolitiFact Rhode Island in 2010. He has done freelance medical writing for Reuters since 1982. Emery has a bachelor of science degree in biology and a bachelor of arts degree in political science, both from Brown University in Providence.

gemery@cox.net

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Bloggers
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stated on November 5, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
"(George) Soros Provides Migrants With Prepaid Debit Cards To Fund Illegal Journeys"  
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 13, 2018
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Bloggers
stated on October 31, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
"Caravan Violence: Invaders Shoot At Police, Set Fire To Immigration Checkpoint"  
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 13, 2018
Infowars
Infowars
stated on November 5, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
"Election fraud: Democrats are voting twice in Maryland"
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 8, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 2, 2018 in :
Says border patrol agent recently killed in ambush.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 4, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 4, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
Veterans should vote Republican "because the damn Democrats blocked the VA Healthcare bill again."  
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 3, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 12, 2018 in post on Facebook:
Say Socialist candidate Norman Thomas said in 1944 that the Democratic Party had adopted the Socialist platform.  
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 2, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 21, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
The migration of Hondurans toward the United States "was funded by Democrat activists."  
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2018
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 October 11, 2018 in :
If you get a flu shot, you're "poisoning yourself."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 25, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 2, 2018 in :
Says Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not a document for the government to restrain the people: it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."  
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 19, 2018
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