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But people finding this supposed ad in their social media feeds appear disturbed by the fast-food offering. \"Why tho,\" the poster wrote with a sobbing emoji. \"Why!!!\" someone echoed. \"I’ll pass on that smh,\" another user said. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 30, 2024 in a post \"Samsung drops out of $1 billion advertising campaign with Olympics.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 2, 2024 This post, which has been shared more than 2,700 times, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) 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Rating: True About this rating In June 2021, news articles were published about an Italian artist who reportedly sold an invisible sculpture at auction for more than $18,000. Popular podcast host Joe Rogan posted a screenshot of one such article to their Instagram page which quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of likes. ![\\"\\"](\\" post.jpg\\")There are a number of things about this story that we can confirm. Italian artist Salvatore Garau exists. The Art Rite auction house where this sculpture was \"sold\" exists. A certificate of authenticity exists. But the sculpture? Let\'s just say we haven\'t seen enough evidence. Advertisement: According to the Art Rite auction house, this invisible sculpture, entitled Lo Sono, outdid its estimate and sold for €14,820.00 (about $18,030) on May 18, 2021, during the \"4-U new Contemporary Art Auction.\" The auction house lists all of the items sold at this auction here. You can see the listing for Garau\'s \"Lo Sono\" below. (It\'s the one that looks blank). ![\\"\\"](\\" house.jpg\\") This invisible sculpture was also put on \"display\" by the auction house. Art Rite auction allows visitors to their site to take \"3D tours\" of their auctions. The following image comes from this tour. We added a red arrow to help viewers find this invisible sculpture: Advertisement: ![\\"\\"](\\" auction.jpg\\") Advertisement: We reached out to the auction house for more information about this sale. While the name of the buyer has not been made public, the auction house wrote on its website that this anonymous buyer brought home a certificate of authenticity from the artist in addition to their intangible sculpture: ![\\"\\"](\\" Advertisement: Garau said in an interview with the auction house (translated via Google): > The “Invisible Sculptures”, what they are? > > Rather than invisible sculptures, I would define them as immaterial > sculptures. My fantasy, trained for a lifetime to feel differently the > existing around me, allows me to ‘see’ what apparently does not exist. The > intangible sculptures are works that I feel as physical. Into the void there > is a container of positive and negative possibilities that are constantly > equivalent, in short, there is a density of events. > > Furthermore, the void is nothing more than a space full of energy, even if > we empty it of electromagnetic fields, neutrinos, dark matter - in a way > that nothing remains - it stands out that according to the Heisenberg > uncertainty principle (which I recently read with enthusiasm) nothing has a > weight! Therefore, it has an energy that condenses and turns into particles, > in short, in us! The abstract and spiritual intuition I had as an artist is > then supported by science... > > Could you tell us about the creative process that led you to conceive the > “Absences”? > > For a long time, I have been attracted to what is perceived not only with > the eyes but with all the senses. Already in the black paintings of \'84 and > in the others later, black colour dissolved in a sort of ectoplasm, > indefinite amoebic presences, so that I wanted to make visible thought of > non-existent space. Advertisement: According to Artnet.com, Lo Sono is not the first invisible sculpture that Garau has created: > Lo Sono isn’t the only artwork of its kind in Garau’s oeuvre. In February of > this year, at the Piazza Della Scala in Milan, the artist exhibited BUDDHA > IN CONTEMPLATION, a similarly invisible sculpture demarcated by a square of > tape on a cobble-stoned walkway. Meanwhile, this week, he installed AFRODITE > CRIES in front of the New York City stock exchange. The effort, evidenced by > an empty white circle, was supported by the Italian Cultural Institute. Here\'s a video of the Buddha in Contemplation sculpture, which, to our untrained artistic eyes, bares a suspiciously similar resemblance to Lo Sono. > Advertisement: ### By Dan Evon Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes. ## Article Tags Joe Rogan Recommendations Advertisement: ![\\"Snopes.com\\"](\\"/design/images/logo-main.png\\") Company About Us FAQs Contact Us Submit a Topic Navigate Home Search Archive Newsletters Random Sections Latest Top Fact Checks News Account Join Login Game FactBot Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter © 1995 - 2024 by Snopes Media Group Inc. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com Terms of Use Privacy Policy DMCA Policy | An invisible sculpture from artist Salvatore Garau sold at auction for 18030 | 208 |
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He addressed hundreds of guests on the South Lawn, which according to the Trump administration and military officials, was an official White House event referred to as a “Peaceful Protest for Law and Order.” A viral Facebook post claims that attendees of this event were paid and asked to sign non-disclosure agreements: “ABC News has confirmed that attendees to Trump WH Rally were paid. $150.ea and had to sign an NDA.” Many of the attendees also participated in a “BLEXIT Back the Blue” event that took place, according to the ABC News story, “on the Ellipse between the White House and the Washington Monument,” and then later participants heard the president speak on the South Lawn. The BLEXIT Foundation, which describes itself as aiming “to uplift and empower minorities to realize the American Dream,” is an organization founded in 2018 by Candance Owens and Brandon Tatum that seeks to get black voters to join the Republican party. Owens has described the Democratic party as the “Democratic Plantation.” ABC News also reported that “Some guests … had their travel and lodging paid for” by Owens’ group. There is no mention of a $150 stipend or non-disclosure agreements. Owens promoted a BLEXIT event in an Instagram post last week, describing the event as “a massive demonstration against the media narrative.” She also adds in her caption that they will be “giving away a limited amount of travel stipends …” Owens later tweeted the following on October 10: > Um… yes. We had a small group of attendees who asked for financial help to > make the event so we secured travel stipends for them. > > Mocking people who are struggling financially is the weirdest, most elitist, > Democrat flex— possibly ever. > > — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 10, 2020 A spokesman for the White House, Judd Deere, told ABC that the White House was “not involved in covering any cost.” ABC noted that they were unsure how many of the attendees had transportation and lodging costs covered by BLEXIT. While it is true that some attendees received travel stipends, it is incorrect to say that all attendees were paid to be there, and ABC News did not report that guests had to sign a non-disclosure agreement. If you have a claim you would like to see us fact check, please send us an email at [email protected]. If you would like to suggest a correction to this piece or any other Dispatch article, please email [email protected]. 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See the sources for this fact-check After a May mass shooting at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas, a comedian raised a familiar claim about gun violence in the U.S. Bryan Callen, a podcast host, said that the U.S. is No. 3 among 193 countries in gun violence, but if not including \"the five cities with the most gun violence\" — which he named as Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis — it would significantly change the rank. \"If you were to take them out of the equation, we would not be the third, we would be the 189th. That’s pretty significant,\" Callen said. A Feb. 1 Instagram video reshared Callen’s comments, first made on a May 2023 podcast episode. ![](\\" (Screenshot from Instagram) The Instagram video was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) The 193 countries that Callan mentions match the number of United Nations member states. We found no worldwide gun violence ranking with that number of countries. The claim is similar to a meme that has been circulating since at least 2015 that we rated Pants on Fire! Subtracting the total number of firearm homicides across the five cities mentioned would reduce the 2022 U.S. gun homicide rate from 5.0 deaths per 100,000 people to 4.5 per 100,000. That means it wouldn’t reduce the rate enough for the U.S. to be on the lowest end of a global gun violence ranking. PolitiFact contacted Callen for comment but did not hear back. Where the U.S. ranks for firearm homicides There are many ways to measure gun violence rates across countries, so the U.S. ranking varies. Most criminologists use the number of shootings- per-100,000-people metric to account for differences in population size. The 2019 Global Burden Disease study includes the most recent and complete worldwide data on gun violence rates, and the number of countries and territories it includes is most similar to the number in Callen’s claim. In the study of 204 countries and territories, the U.S. ranked third for overall number of deaths caused by physical violence by firearm, behind Brazil and Mexico. When filtering by the rate per 100,000 people, the U.S. ranked 32nd. In the 2019 study, the U.S. gun homicide rate was 3.96 deaths per 100,000 people. Three years later, in 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic had driven up violent crimes, including homicides, the FBI reported that the U.S. gun homicide rate was 5.0 deaths per 100,000. If subtracting gun homicides in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis from the 2022 data, the U.S. gun homicide rate would decrease to 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people. Gun homicide data for 2022 for all countries is not yet available. But based on 2022 data about 43 countries collected by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime — which did not include the U.S. — a U.S. gun homicide rate of 4.5 per 100,000 people would put the country in 13th place, higher than 31 other countries, if it were included. That means the U.S. would not rank at the very bottom of a global list, as the Instagram post claims. Another dataset supports that conclusion. A 2021 report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations said the U.S. ranked seventh out of 65 high- income countries and territories for the rate of firearm homicides per 100,000 people. By comparison, other high-income countries have extremely low gun homicide rates per 100,000 people, including Singapore (0.01), Korea (0.02) and the United Kingdom (0.04). The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations report shows that all but 14 of the 65 high-income countries have firearm homicide rates lower than 1.0. \"Plenty of researchers have parsed the data and concluded that the U.S. homicide rate is a gross outlier among high-income countries and even much poorer countries and this shows up overwhelmingly in firearm homicide rates,\" Daniel Webster, distinguished research scholar for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, wrote in an email to PolitiFact. Even among datasets from the same year, there are differences. The 2019 Global Burden of Disease study estimated 13,001 deaths in the U.S. from physical violence by firearm, and the FBI reported 10,258 firearm homicides the same year. The FBI figures come from crime data voluntarily reported by participating law enforcement agencies nationwide, and the Global Burden of Disease figures come from more than 280,000 data sources including hospitals, governments, surveys and other worldwide databases. Subtracting the five cities from the data Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, analyzed the FBI’s 2022 gun violence data and found that 20 cities, including the five mentioned in the Instagram post, accounted for 50% of U.S. gun homicides. The FBI reported 16,800 fatal gun homicides in the U.S. in 2022, which translates to a national rate of 5.0 deaths per 100,000 people. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 30, 2024 in a post \"Samsung drops out of $1 billion advertising campaign with Olympics.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 2, 2024 The number of firearm homicides in those five cities totaled 1,816 in 2022. Subtracting that total from the overall count would lower the national firearm homicide rate from 5.0 deaths per 100,000 people to 4.5 per 100,000 people. Each of the five cities listed in the Instagram video had firearm homicide rates higher than the national rate: * St. Louis: 66.7 per 100,000 people (highest rate among more than 500 U.S. cities) * Detroit: 44 per 100,000 (fourth highest rate) * Philadelphia: 30.8 per 100,000 (13th highest rate) * Chicago: 19.7 per 100,000 (27th highest rate) * Los Angeles: 7.7 per 100,000 (134th highest rate) Two of the cities cited are in states with looser gun restrictions In the Instagram video, Callan said the five cities he cites have \"the strictest gun controls.\" The best available data is state level rather than city level, and it shows that two of the five cities are in states with looser gun restrictions. Everytown ranks states’ gun law strength by assigning points based on policies’ impact. States get more points for what Everytown considers to be foundational laws, including those requiring background checks and/or purchase permits; concealed carry permits; secure storage or child access prevention; \"extreme risk\" or laws limiting access to guns for people in crisis; and for having no \"shoot first\" laws, also called \"stand your ground.\" Everytown ranked all states, with No. 1 having the toughest gun restrictions. Here’s how the states ranked where the five cities named in the Instagram video are located: * California (ranked first): Five of five foundational laws. * Illinois (ranked third): Five of five foundational laws. * Pennsylvania (ranked 17th): Two of five foundational laws. * Michigan (ranked 20th): Four of five foundational laws. * Missouri (ranked 38th out of 50): Zero foundational laws. Everytown’s analysis found that Illinois is bordered by states with much weaker gun laws, such as Indiana, and that many guns recovered in Illinois were purchased out of state. \"We could also point to New York, which has even tighter gun (regulations) and a gun homicide rate less than the national average,\" said Philip Cook, Duke University public policy studies professor. Our ruling An Instagram post claimed that if you removed gun-related homicides in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis, the U.S. would rank 189th out of 193 countries in gun violence. Based on 2022 FBI data, removing the firearm homicides from those five cities would decrease the U.S. firearm homicide rate from 5.0 deaths per 100,000 people to 4.5 per 100,000. There is no complete global gun homicide data for 2022 yet, but based on 2022 data from 43 countries — which did not include the U.S. — a U.S. rate of 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people would put the U.S. in 13th place, higher than 31 other countries, if it were included. That means the U.S. would not rank at the very bottom of a global list. A 2021 report also showed the U.S. ranked seventh out of 65 high-income countries and territories for the rate of firearm homicides per 100,000 people. The countries at the bottom of the list have extremely low gun homicide rates, including Singapore (0.01), Korea (0.02) and the United Kingdom (0.04). The burden of proof is on the speaker, and the available evidence does not support this claim. We rate it False. **RELATED:** Is the United States third in murders and are outlier cities to blame? No. **RELATED:** Is 95% of gun violence occurring in \'inner cities\'? 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" About-Compensation-To-Terrorists-Video_thumbnail-702x336.jpg\\") Fake News, Telugu # 2018లో ఉగ్రవాదులపై వివాదాస్పద వ్యాఖ్యలు చేసిన ఒక కాంగ్రెస్ నాయకుని వీడియోను ఇటీవల జరిగిందిగా షేర్ చేస్తున్నారు 0 By Abhishek Mandadi on December 6, 2021 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit “కాంగ్రెస్ అధికారంలోకి వస్తే ఎన్కౌంటర్ లో చనిపోయిన ఉగ్రవాదులకు కోటి రూపాయలు ఇస్తాము. జైల్లో ఉన్న ఉగ్రవాదులను విడుదల చేస్తాము.” అని అంటూ ఒక వీడియోతో ఉన్న పోస్టును సోషల్ మీడియాలో బాగా షేర్ చేస్తున్నారు. ఈ కథనం ద్వారా అందులో ఎంత నిజముందో చూద్దాం. ![\\"\\"](\\" About-Compensation-To-Terrorists-Video_post.png\\") > క్లెయిమ్: “కాంగ్రెస్ అధికారంలోకి వస్తే ఎన్కౌంటర్ లో చనిపోయిన ఉగ్రవాదులకు > కోటి రూపాయలు ఇస్తాము. జైల్లో ఉన్న ఉగ్రవాదులను విడుదల చేస్తాము.” అని అంటున్న > కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ వీడియో. > > ఫాక్ట్: “కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ అధికారంలోకి వస్తే, ఎవరైతే ఉగ్రవాదం పేరిట జైలులో > ఉన్నారో వారిని బయటకు తీసుకొస్తాం. చనిపోయిన వారికి కోటి రూపాయలు ఇస్తాం” అని > కాంగ్రెస్ లీడర్ సఘీర్ సయీద్ ఖాన్ 2018లో అన్నాడు. 2018లో జమ్మూలో స్థానిక > పాత్రికేయులతో మాట్లాడుతూ, కాంగ్రెస్ లీడర్ సఘీర్ సయీద్ ఖాన్ భారతీయ జనతా > పార్టీ (బీజేపీ)ని లక్ష్యంగా చేసుకుని, జమ్మూ కాశ్మీర్ లో కాషాయ పార్టీ “అమాయక > ప్రజలపై దురాగతాలకు” పాల్పడుతోందని అన్నారు. అయితే కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ ఖాన్ చేసిన > వ్యాఖ్యలను అప్పట్లోనే తిరస్కరించింది. కావున, పోస్ట్ ద్వారా చెప్పేది తప్పుదోవ > పట్టించే విధంగా ఉంది. వీడియోను స్క్రీన్షాట్స్ తీసి రివర్స్ ఇమేజ్ సెర్చ్ చేసినప్పుడు, అదే వీడియో యూట్యూబ్లో లభించింది. 26 డిసెంబర్ 2018న ఈ వీడియోను “JK MEDIA OFFICIAL” వారు అప్లోడ్ చేసారు. కాంగ్రెస్ లీడర్ సఘీర్ సయీద్ ఖాన్ ఉగ్రవాదులకు సంబంధించి అప్పట్లో కొన్ని వివాదాస్పద వ్యాఖ్యలు చేసారు. “కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ అధికారంలోకి వస్తే, ఎవరైతే ఉగ్రవాదం పేరిట జైలులో ఉన్నారో వారిని బయటకు తీసుకొస్తాం. చనిపోయిన వారికి కోటి రూపాయలు ఇస్తాం. బులంద్ షహర్లో బజరంగ్ దళ్, ఆర్ఎస్ఎస్, భాజపా ఉగ్రవాదులకు పరిహారం లభించినప్పుడు, కాశ్మీర్ లో చనిపోయిన అమాయకులకు ఎందుకు పరిహారం ఇవ్వకూడదు.” ![\\"\\"](\\" About-Compensation-To-Terrorists-Video_image1.png\\") 2018లో జమ్మూలో స్థానిక పాత్రికేయులతో మాట్లాడుతూ, కాంగ్రెస్ నాయకుడు సఘీర్ సయీద్ ఖాన్ భారతీయ జనతా పార్టీ (బీజేపీ)ని లక్ష్యంగా చేసుకుని, జమ్మూ కాశ్మీర్ లో కాషాయ పార్టీ “అమాయక ప్రజలపై దురాగతాలకు” పాల్పడుతోందని అన్నారు. అయితే కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ అప్పటలోనే ఖాన్ చేసిన వ్యాఖ్యలను తిరస్కరించింది. “కాంగ్రెస్ సఘీర్ సయీద్ ఖాన్ ప్రకటనను తిరస్కరిస్తుంది. అతను పార్టీ ప్రతినిధి కాదు. అటువంటి సమస్యలపై మాట్లాడటానికి అతనికి అధికారం లేదు. అతనిపై చర్యలు తీసుకోవడానికి మేము మా జాతీయ నాయకత్వానికి సిఫార్సు చేస్తాము. ఉగ్రవాదంపై పోరాటంలో మేము మా భద్రతా దళాలతో నిలబడతాము” అని జమ్మూ కాశ్మీర్ కాంగ్రెస్ ప్రధాన ప్రతినిధి రవిందర్ శర్మ 2018లోనే అన్నారు. ![\\"\\"](\\" About-Compensation-To-Terrorists-Video_image2.png\\") చివరగా, “కాంగ్రెస్ అధికారంలోకి వస్తే ఎన్కౌంటర్ లో చనిపోయిన ఉగ్రవాదులకు కోటి రూపాయలు ఇస్తాము” అని 2018లో ఒక కాంగ్రెస్ లీడర్ చేసిన వ్యాఖ్యలను అప్పట్లోనే కాంగ్రెస్ తిరస్కరించింది. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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![\\"\\"](\\" news_theme/dist/assets/icons/logo.c2320657.svg\\"/) ## AAP FACTCHECK * TRUSTED![\\"\\"](\\" * ACCURATE![\\"\\"](\\" * IMPARTIAL![\\"\\"](\\" DONATE SUBSCRIBE * * * * * Fact Checks * Check the Facts * Who We Are * AAP FactCheck Team * Neutrality and Code of Practice * Organisational Structure & Funding * How We Work * Our Process * Verdicts * Request a Correction * Contact * Suggest a Fact Check ![\\"\\"](\\" content/uploads/2019/11/06164759/casual20170223001298323109-original- scaled.jpg?v=1580968083\\"/) A waitress setting up a table at a restaurant. (AAP Images/Lukas Coch) # Has the level of casual employment in the Australian workforce not changed for two decades? Greta Stonehouse, Peter Trute & James Lane November 6, 2019 ## The Statement “The claim that the workforce is now excessively casualised is simply not true. The level of casualisation hasn’t changed for about 20 years.” Jennifer Westacott, Business Council of Australia chief executive. October 31, 2019. ## The Analysis Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott says trade unions have an important role but has taken issue with what she calls “overstatements” of trends in Australia’s workforce composition. In a speech at Melbourne’s La Trobe University on October 31, Ms Westacott targeted the focus of unions on levels of casual work in Australia, saying: “The claim that the workforce is now excessively casualised is simply not true”. “The level of casualisation hasn’t changed for about 20 years,” she said. AAP FactCheck examined the claim that there has been no change in the level of casual work in Australia for approximately two decades. Ms Westacott made the claim as part of a speech titled, “Do trade unions help or harm Australia’s economy”. The speech outlined the BCA’s vision for the roles unions and business must play to improve Australia’s economy and strengthen support for the most vulnerable in society. Ms Westacott described herself as a supporter of unions and the role unions have in ensuring the wellbeing of society. While she took issue with what she described as “a short term campaigning focus” by unions and “the risk of overstatements of important trends”, Ms Westacott said there were important issues concerning underemployment, the so-called gig economy, and the rise of part-time work. [2] Casualisation and “insecure work” are contested issues in Australia, with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) claiming in 2018 that insecure work is rising and is “the biggest issue facing Australian workers”. At the time of publication the ACTU were unable to provide AAP FactCheck with a definition of “insecure work.” However in 2012 the ACTU commissioned an independent inquiry into insecure work, which was defined as “that which provides workers with little social and economic security, and little control over their working lives.” Indicators of this included unpredictable, fluctuating pay; irregular and unpredictable working hours and inferior rights and entitlements. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says “one of the main indicators for casual employment is whether an employee is entitled to paid leave, such as paid sick leave or paid annual leave”. Ms Westacott’s statement is supported by a January 2018 Parliamentary Library report, which states that from 1996 to 2016, the casual employee share of total employees increased “marginally” from 24 per cent to 25 per cent. The same report notes that “use of casual employees in Australia grew most strongly from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s”, increasing from around 13 per cent to 24 per cent. A December 2018 Parliamentary Library report, by the same author, states that casual employees comprised 25.1 per cent of total employees in August 2017 and 24.6 per cent in August 2018. The report states: “Claims have been made by some economic commentators and unions about the growing casualisation of the workforce and disproportionate growth in non-traditional or non-standard forms of employment. These claims are not supported by the latest data. While there have been periods where growth in casual employment has been stronger or weaker than permanent employment over the past 14 years, the casual share of employees and employment has not changed substantially in this time. In fact, over the whole period analysed, growth in the number of permanent employees has been stronger than growth in casual employees.” In July 2018 the ABC examined a similar statement by the then workplace minister Craig Laundy. Mr Laundy said casuals had remained at a steady 25 per cent over the last 20 years and the ABC found the claim checked out, but noted it “relied on a narrow definition of insecure work”. In 2016 The Conversation probed the Australian Industry Group who said the percentage of casuals employed in Australia had not changed since 1998 and found ABS data to confirm Ai Group’s statement. ACTU secretary Sally McManus said in a statement to AAP FactCheck that casualisation was only one of many non-standard forms of work “which by some estimates accounts for half of the total workforce in Australia”. “While the percentage of employees who are engaged as casuals is similar today to what it was 20 years ago (20.6 per cent now compared to 20.1 per cent in 1998, that percentage has risen significantly in the past 10 years when it jumped from 19 per cent to today’s levels). The real story here is the growth in numbers where casual employees have jumped from 2.2 million in 2008 to 2.6 million in 2018,” she said. Ms McManus referenced ABS figures in the December 2018 parliamentary report on trends in non-standard forms of employment and cited the change in casual share of employment. “Added to the number of workers on casual employment contracts are the number of workers on fixed-term contracts or forced into independent contractor status. These workers are not counted in the BCA’s number but they include most ‘gig’ economy workers.” Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Dr Josh Healy told AAP FactCheck that, in official statistical terms, the proportion of casual employment in Australia sits at about a quarter of the workforce and has done so for many years. Dr Healy said when viewing the situation through a wider lens, the bigger issue was about the idea of insecure employment, and the fact that casual employment figures remained about 25 per cent was still problematic. “The fact that proportion is stable is nothing to boast about, it represents a very large chunk of the workforce,” he said. Dr Healy pointed to the fact the ABS classifies a casual worker as an employee while a gig economy worker is considered a contractor, putting them in a separate data set to casual workers. Based on the evidence, AAP FactCheck found Ms Westacott’s statement that the level of casualisation in the workforce has not changed for about 20 years is true – a parliamentary library report using ABS data supports her statement. However the ACTU claims the definition of casual work is too narrow and excludes fixed-term workers and independent contractors. Ms Westacott also acknowledged there are “important issues concerning underemployment, the so- called gig economy, and the rise of part time work”. ## The Verdict Mostly True – Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem. * AAP FactCheck is an accredited member of the International Fact-Checking Network. To keep up with our latest fact checks, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" new/e5f81dc43ebbfab7c9d9b56cfba2f398.jpg\\") ![](\\" new/9fbc38bd9f4148c4e7374ecdd8d95da4.jpg\\") Tammy Baldwin stated on December 10, 2019 in a tweet: “Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-true/4ac7c61540eff5211f6a04d98a6bc93a.jpg.\\") ![\\"mostly- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * Environment * Climate Change * Federal Budget * Wisconsin * Tammy Baldwin ![\\"NOAA\\'s](\\" NOAA\'s GOES satellite shows Hurricane Irma as it moves towards Florida on Sept. 7, 2017. ![\\"Nusaiba](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan February 5, 2020 # Wisconsin Sen. Baldwin makes point with claim on costs of climate change damage in U.S. #### If Your Time is short • A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report estimates the United States incurred $400 billion in damages from weather and climate disasters from 2015 through April 6, 2018. • The NOAA calculation includes damage to buildings and public infrastructure, among other costs. The agency tracks damage from drought, flooding, freeze, severe storms, tropical cyclones, wildfires and winter storms. • Several experts from academia agreed that the NOAA numbers are probably the best available for the United States. See the sources for this fact-check When it comes to weather and climate change, there has been lots of talk about causes and consequences. In some areas of Wisconsin this winter, rapidly melting snow has overtaken roads and caused sewage to overflow, while flooding and its effects continue to be a concern. The National Weather Service in Green Bay indicated most rivers in northeastern Wisconsin have more than a 50% chance of flooding to some extent. Whether it be the toll on infrastructure or disrupting business operations, weather and climate change carries a monetary cost. On Dec. 10, 2019, the U.S. Senate Democrats’ Climate Committee sent out a tweet arguing Wisconsin roads and bridges are at risk of collapse from severe storms and flooding. That same day, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., tweeted this about the national cost: \"Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion and our economy will lose over $500 billion annually from lost labor, crop failure and damages related to extreme weather if we don’t #ActOnClimate now.\" Is Baldwin right about $400 billion-plus in damages? The source When asked for backup for the claim, Baldwin’s staff pointed to The Fourth National Climate Assessment, a 1,526-page document that examines the effects, risks and course of climate change in the United States. The Fourth National Climate Assessment is a cooperative effort between experts from academia and government agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of the Interior. On page 66, the report indicates NOAA estimates the United States incurred $400 billion in damages from weather and climate disasters from 2015 through April 6, 2018. But that figure is for different years and a longer time period (three-plus years) than Baldwin claimed. NOAA climatologist Adam Smith from the Center for Weather and Climate at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C., noted the numbers in the report are also a bit dated. He pointed us to newer figures. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on August 28, 2024 in a press conference The proposal to put golf courses, hotels in Florida state parks “was something that was leaked. … a lot of that stuff was half-baked and was not ready for prime time.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-false/6a6ef6075c162fdccf5eb960e683dcd1.jpg.\\") ![\\"barely- true\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024 Baldwin’s reference was to the \"past two years.\" She made the statement in December 2019, so examining the two-year span immediately before that, her numbers are dramatically off. NOAA estimates the U.S. experienced $137.8 billion of economic damage from 2018 and 2019 when adjusted for the consumer price index, and $135.6 billion unadjusted. However, looking at the two most recent full years before Baldwin’s claim — 2017 and 2018 — Baldwin’s figures line up. NOAA estimates the inflation- adjusted damage in those calendar years was $411.7 billion. The NOAA calculation includes damage to buildings and public infrastructure, among other costs. The agency tracks damage from drought, flooding, freeze, severe storms, tropical cyclones, wildfires and winter storms. Smith said in an email NOAA uses data from agencies such as the National Weather Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the National Interagency Fire Center. There are some types of data they do not include due to inconsistencies. \"For example, our disaster cost estimates are actually somewhat conservative, as we don’t account for losses/damages to natural capital assets, mental and physical healthcare-related costs post-disaster, or incorporate all downstream economic impacts,\" Smith wrote. We checked with several experts from academia who agreed that the NOAA numbers are probably the best available for the United States. The agency’s data shows that the number of disasters that topped $1 billion in damages has increased each decade since the 1980s. There were 119 weather and climate disasters that topped that threshold during the 2010s, up from 59 in the 2000s, even after adjusting for inflation. Over the past three years (2017 through 2019), there was an average of nearly 15 disasters that topped $1 billion in damages. Our ruling Baldwin said \"Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.\" Her claim is on target for 2017 and 2018 -- though if the two years were measured from the date of her claim, essentially covering 2018 and 2019, there was a much-lesser amount in damages. Our definition of Mostly True is \"The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.\" That fits here. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Email interview with Adam Smith, NOAA through NOAA’s Office of Communications for Satellites, Jan. 14, 2020 Email interview with Dr. Frances Moore, assistant professor at UC Davis, Jan. 15, 2020 Email interview with Dr. James Rising, research fellow at the London School of Economics, Jan. 21, 2020 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, \"Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Summary Stats,\" 2020. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, \"Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Time Series,\" 2020. Adam Smith (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), \"2010-2019: A landmark decade of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters,\" Jan. 8, 2020. ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Nusaiba Mizan slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on April 29, 2022 in a tweet: \"In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • May 9, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Westley stated on March 30, 2022 in an interview: \"We have (people detained by ICE) that have to be seen within 24 hours, while veterans are seen within months. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • April 25, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Greg Abbott stated on February 3, 2022 in a press conference: \"As compared to last year, Texas has about 15% more power generation capacity.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Nusaiba Mizan • April 4, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Morgan Luttrell stated on January 10, 2023 in a tweet: \"Energy costs are the highest in 15 years.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Nusaiba Mizan • February 16, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Sawyer Hackett stated on January 16, 2023 in a tweet: Gov. 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But thanks to Greg Abbott\'s new law, they don\'t need a license to carry anymore.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Nusaiba Mizan • July 21, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Greg Abbott stated on May 15, 2022 in a tweet: Texas\' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall. ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • July 14, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ted Cruz stated on June 4, 2022 in a tweet: \"The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • June 21, 2022 ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on May 24, 2022 in un tuit: ICE está en Uvalde, Texas, “entonces los padres indocumentados tienen que temer la deportación antes de verificar si sus hijos están vivos\". ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • May 26, 2022 ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on May 24, 2022 in a tweet: ICE is in Uvalde, Texas, “so undocumented parents have to consider arrest deportation before they go check to see if their kids are alive.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • May 25, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Beto O\'Rourke stated on April 23, 2022 in an Instagram post: \"Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Nusaiba Mizan • May 19, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on April 29, 2022 in a tweet: \"In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • May 9, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Westley stated on March 30, 2022 in an interview: \"We have (people detained by ICE) that have to be seen within 24 hours, while veterans are seen within months. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Nusaiba Mizan • April 25, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Greg Abbott stated on February 3, 2022 in a press conference: \"As compared to last year, Texas has about 15% more power generation capacity.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Nusaiba Mizan • April 4, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Morgan Luttrell stated on January 10, 2023 in a tweet: \"Energy costs are the highest in 15 years.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Nusaiba Mizan • February 16, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Sawyer Hackett stated on January 16, 2023 in a tweet: Gov. 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வருகிறது. ஆனால், இன்னும் ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயம் வெளியாகவில்லை. மேலும், படத்தில் உள்ள நாணயம் போலியாக மார்ஃபிங் முறையில் உருவாக்கப்பட்டது போன்று இருந்தது. அரசு வழக்கமாக வெளியிடும் 100 ரூபாய் நினைவு நாணயங்களை கொண்டு இந்த காயின் மார்ஃபிங் செய்யப்பட்டு இருக்கலாம் என்று தோன்றியது. நாட்டில் 10 ரூபாய் நாணயமே பல இடங்களில் வாங்க மறுக்கின்றனர். அதிக அளவில் போலி 10 ரூபாய் நாணயம் புழக்கத்தில் விடப்பட்டதாக வதந்திகள் பரவின. ரிசர்வ் வங்கி விளக்கம் அளித்த பிறகும் கூட இன்னும் பல இடங்களில் 10 ரூபாய் நாணயம் வாங்குவதில் தயக்கம் நீடிக்கிறது. இந்த நிலையில் ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயம் என்றால் கேட்கவே வேண்டாம்... ஆளாளுக்கு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயத்தை தயாரித்து வெளியிட ஆரம்பித்து விடுவார்கள். ஒவ்வொரு நாணயத்தையும் உருவாக்க ரிசர்வ் வங்கி எவ்வளவு செலவு செய்கிறது என்பதை தெரிந்துகொண்டால், ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயம் வெளியாக வாய்ப்புள்ளதா என்பதை மக்களே புரிந்துகொள்ள முடியும். ஒரு ரூபாய் நாணயத்தை உருவாக்க 1.11 ரூபாய் செலவு ஆகிறதாக ரிசர்வ் வங்கி தெரிவித்துள்ளது. இதேபோல் 2 ரூபாய் நாணயத்தை உற்பத்தி செய்ய 1.28 ரூபாயும், 5 ரூபாய் நாணயத்தைத் தயாரிக்க 3.69 ரூபாயும், 10 ரூபாய் நாணயத்தைத் தயாரிக்க 5.54 ரூபாய்ச் செலவாகிறது என ரிசர்வ் வங்கி தெரிவித்துள்ளது. இது தொடர்பான செய்தி| Archived Link ---|--- இவ்வளவு செலவு செய்து நாணயம் உருவாக்கினாலும் அதை பாதுகாப்பது மிகப்பெரிய சவாலாகவே உள்ளது. இந்தியாவின் ஐந்து ரூபாய் நாணயத்தை உருக்கி, 6 ரேசர் பிளேடுகளை வங்கதேசத்தில் உருவாக்குகின்றனர். ஒரு பிளேடை 2 ரூபாய்க்கு விற்று (12 ரூபாய் கிடைக்கிறது) லாபம் பார்த்து வருகின்றனர். அப்படி இருக்கும்போது ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயம் என்பது சாத்தியமே இல்லை என்று தோன்றியது. இது தொடர்பான செய்தி| Archived Link ---|--- இருப்பினும் ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயம் தொடர்பாக தொடர்ந்து வதந்தி பரவி வருகிறது. ரிவர்வ் வங்கி ஏதேனும் முடிவெடுத்துள்ளதா என்று தேடினோம். அப்போது லட்ச ரூபாய் நோட்டு பற்றி எந்த ஒரு அறிவிப்பும் ரிசர்வ் வங்கி வெளியிட்ட செய்தி கிடைக்கவில்லை. அதே நேரத்தில், முன்னாள் பிரதமர் வாஜ்பாய் நினைவாக, ஜாலியன்வாலா பாக் நினைவையொட்டி சிறப்பு ரூ.100 நாணயங்களை மத்திய அரசு வெளியிட்டதாக செய்தி கிடைத்தது. தொடர்ந்து தேடியபோது, ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் வெளியாக உள்ளதாக சமூக ஊடகங்களில் பரவும் தகவல் பொய்யானது என்று தினமலர் வெளியிட்ட செய்தி நமக்குக் கிடைத்தது. அதில், ரூ.1000, ஒரு லட்சம் நாணயம் வெளியிடுவது தொடர்பாக சமூக ஊடகங்களில் பரவி வரும் தகவல் பற்றி ரிவர்வ் வங்கி அதிகாரியிடம் கேட்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதற்கு அவர், \"நாணயங்கள் தயாரிப்பது ரிசர்வ் வங்கியின் கட்டுப்பாட்டில் இல்லை. அது மத்திய அரசின் கட்டுப்பாட்டில் உள்ளது. ரூ. 150, ரூ.1,000 நாணயங்கள், நாணய பிரியர்களுக்காக மட்டுமே மத்திய அரசு அச்சிட்டு வழங்குகிறது. இந்த நாணயங்களைப் பொக்கிஷமாக மட்டுமே வைக்க முடியும். சந்தையில் உபயோகப்படுத்த முடியாது. இந்த நாணயங்களைப் பெறுவதற்கு கட்டுப்பாடுகளும், நிபந்தனைகளும் உள்ளன. முன்பதிவு அடிப்படையில் மட்டுமே இந்த நாணயங்களை மத்திய அரசு வழங்கும். வாட்ஸ் ஆப்பில் வெளியான தகவல் முற்றிலும் தவறானது என கூறினார்\" என்று குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளனர். தினமலர் செய்தி| Archived Link ---|--- மேலும், இந்த வதந்தி தொடர்பாக இந்த ஆண்டு தொடக்கத்தில் இணைய தளம் செய்தி ஒன்று வெளியிட்டதும் கிடைத்தது. அதில், தினமலர் செய்தியை மேற்கோள்காட்டி பதிவிட்டிருந்தனர். இது தொடர்பான செய்தி| Archived Link ---|--- இந்த ஆதாரங்கள் அடிப்படையில், ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயம் என்பது மார்ஃபிங் செய்து உருவாக்கப்பட்டது, போலியானது என்று உறுதி செய்யப்படுகிறது. முடிவு: தகுந்த ஆதாரங்கள் அடிப்படையில், மேற்கண்ட ஃபேஸ்புக் பதிவு தவறானது என்று நிரூபிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. எனவே, நமது வாசகர்கள், இத்தகைய தவறான செய்தி, புகைப்படங்கள், வீடியோ போன்றவற்றை உறுதி செய்யாமல் மற்றவர்களுக்குப் பகிர வேண்டாம் என கேட்டுக் கொள்கிறோம். ![\\"Avatar\\"](\\" content/uploads/2022/01/False.png?w=640\\") Title:ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் நாணயம் வெளியிடும் மத்திய அரசு?- பல ஆண்டுகளாக பரவும் தகவல் Fact Check By: Chendur Pandian Result: False ![\\"\\"](\\" app-telgu.png) Coin MeltingFake CoinOne LakhRBIRupee Coins Next Story #### Similar Posts ## ![\\"Fact](\\"/images/logo.png\\") © Copyright 2022, All rights reserved. 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We are the ones who are taking back the streets. We are getting them out of our country by the thousands,\" Trump said May 15. \"Every week we\'re setting new records on — we have a ‘catch and release’ program, too. It’s called we catch them and we release them in the country they came back from, we are getting them out. Or we are putting them in prison.\" There are an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the United States. Not all are immigrants. Some are U.S. citizens who can’t be deported. Still, we wondered about Trump’s claim that MS-13 gang members are being deported \"by the thousands.\" We found that thousands of gang members have been deported under Trump’s administration. However, it’s unclear how many of them were MS-13 gang members, because U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement does not track removals by specific gang affiliation. An expert who researches gangs and criminal justice said there is a lengthy process between a gang member’s arrest and deportation. You may not realize this, but as a nonprofit news organization, we depend on — and answer to — you. Your support directly impacts our abilility to provide objective reporting on issues that matter. Donate to our Spring Campaign. Go on the record as saying facts matter! Removals data does not single out MS-13 ICE does not track gang removals by specific gang, but the agency does specifically target MS-13 members for arrest and removal on the basis of their immigration violations, said Matthew Bourke, a spokesman for the agency. Bourke said 5,396 gang members were removed in fiscal year 2017 (which includes about four months of the Obama administration, running from Oct. 1, 2016 through Sept. 30, 2017). From Oct. 1, 2017 through Dec. 16, 2017 (the latest data available), 1,082 gang members were removed. It’s impossible to determine how many of them were MS-13 gang members. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" JD Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC\'s \"Meet the Press\" A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration \"led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris\' border policies.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Amy Sherman • September 4, 2024 There is other data indicating the Trump administration’s efforts to deport MS-13 gang members, but that doesn’t necessarily support Trump’s claim. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division arrested nearly 800 MS-13 gang members in fiscal year 2017. ICE’s investigations division arrested 405 MS-13 gang members, Bourke said, citing first-quarter data for fiscal year 2018. \"The time it takes to remove a validated gang member can vary depending on whether the alien has started removal proceedings; whether the alien has a final order of removal; or whether the alien has pending criminal charges in a local jurisdiction,\" Bourke said. It’s unlikely that all of the MS-13 gang members arrested in 2017 were already deported, because of the time required to remove someone after an arrest, said Jorja Leap, an anthropologist and adjunct professor at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs who researches gangs and criminal justice. \"Most members of MS-13 that I know that have been arrested are being held in court pending trial,\" Leap said. \"The process is lengthy.\" Our ruling Trump said of MS-13 gang members, \"We are getting them out of our country by the thousands.\" It’s difficult to determine how many MS-13 members have been deported under Trump’s administration, because immigration officials don’t break down deportation data by gang affiliation. At least 1,200 MS-13 gang members were arrested from Oct. 1, 2016, through the end of Trump’s first calendar year. The time between an arrest and deportation varies per case, but an expert told us the process is lengthy. Trump’s statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False. Share the Facts 2018-05-15 20:42:37 UTC PolitiFact ![\\"PolitiFact\\"](\\" logo-big.jpg\\"/) 3 1 7 ![\\"PolitiFact](\\" mostlyfalse.jpg\\") PolitiFact Rating: Mostly False Says of MS-13 gang members, \"We are getting them out of our country by the thousands.\" Donald Trump President of the United States ![](\\" in a speech Tuesday, May 15, 2018 2018-05-15 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources C-SPAN, President Trump Remarks at National Peace Officers\' Memorial Service, May 15, 2018 Email interview, Matthew Bourke, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement spokesman, May 15, 2018 Email interview, Jorja Leap, an anthropologist and adjunct professor at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, May 15, 2018 FBI, How We’re Ganging Up on MS-13, July 13, 2005 Associated Press, AP FACT CHECK: Trump overlooks MS-13 gang’s American roots, Feb. 8, 2018 U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, DHS announces progress in enforcing immigration laws, protecting Americans, Dec. 5, 2017 PolitiFact, Trump falsely claims his administration has deported half of MS-13 gang members, June 30, 2017 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Miriam Valverde slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on April 19, 2021 in a speech: “If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on April 22, 2021 in an Instagram post: \"Mountains of data\" show drug ivermectin \"basically obliterates\" COVID-19 transmission. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on April 7, 2021 in a Facebook post: Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 15, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Pramila Jayapal stated on August 30, 2021 in an Instagram post: “The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. The vaccine is free.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Mitt Romney stated on August 29, 2021 in a CNN interview: The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners. ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference: There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 16, 2021 in a Facebook post: COVID-19 vaccinations are “a violation of the Nuremberg code.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • August 20, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference: Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference: “That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on June 4, 2021 in an Instagram post: \"920 women lose their unborn babies after getting vaccinated.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • June 8, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on May 26, 2021 in a Facebook post: Police defunding is to blame for “skyrocketing murder rates” in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Portland, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 28, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on May 25, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Biden agrees to Pelosi\'s request to resign.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 26, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on May 17, 2021 in social media posts: “Gas prices highest in a decade. Worst jobs report in 2 decades. Highest inflation in 3 decades. Highest increase in illegal immigration in 4 decades.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kevin McCarthy stated on May 12, 2021 in a statement to reporters: \"I don\'t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on May 4, 2021 in a speech: “The global cost of corruption is as much as 5% of the world\'s GDP.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • May 7, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on April 19, 2021 in a speech: “If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on April 22, 2021 in an Instagram post: \"Mountains of data\" show drug ivermectin \"basically obliterates\" COVID-19 transmission. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on April 7, 2021 in a Facebook post: Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 15, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Pramila Jayapal stated on August 30, 2021 in an Instagram post: “The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. The vaccine is free.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Mitt Romney stated on August 29, 2021 in a CNN interview: The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners. ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference: There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021 ### Donald Trump exaggerates on number of MS-13 gang members deported * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 20, 2024 in an X post: First lady Jill Biden led a Cabinet meeting for President Joe Biden and her signature appears on presidential stationery. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Samantha Putterman • September 21, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on September 19, 2024 in a video: Video claims to show Donald Trump in an interview with Diddy ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 18, 2024 in X posts: “iPhones exploding in Lebanon blowing up random people.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on September 18, 2024 in a TikTok video: “Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination” of Donald Trump. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 14, 2024 in a Facebook post: \"Taylor Swift unexpectedly lost a $125 million brand contract after a massive advertising campaign” endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Maria Briceño • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 12, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook: “Portugal lanza monedas de 7 euros para honrar al legendario futbolista Cristiano Ronaldo”. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 12, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina: Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 15, 2024 in posts: Ryan Routh\'s Instagram bio says he is a \"proud LGBTQ+ member\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Grace Abels • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 17, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Chiefs\' Coach Andy Reid criticizes Taylor Swift: ‘You’re not a good role model.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 17, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Kansas City Chiefs CEO bans Taylor Swift from attending games, calling her the team’s ‘biggest distraction.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 20, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on June 23, 2024 in a Threads post: “Brittney Griner asked Angel Reese instead of Caitlin Clark to compete in the 3x3 Olympics.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Sports * Facebook Fact-checks * Threads posts ![\\"Ciara](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke June 25, 2024 # No, Brittney Griner didn’t ask Angel Reese to join an Olympics team over Caitlin Clark #### If Your Time is short * Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner doesn’t select the U.S. women’s basketball teams for the Olympics. * Neither Caitlin Clark nor Angel Reese are eligible to play in the 3x3 or 5x5 Olympic basketball teams, according to CBS Sports. * Griner praised new WNBA rookies, including Reese and Clark. See the sources for this fact-check A recent Threads post stirs the pot of discontent over basketball phenom Caitlin Clark’s exclusion from rosters for the U.S. women’s basketball teams for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris. \"Brittney Griner asked Angel Reese instead of Caitlin Clark to compete in the 3x3 Olympics after Cameron Brink suffered an injury,\" the June 23 post said. \"I think ‘Angel Reese is better than Caitlin Clark.’\" This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) Griner, a center for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, is one of 12 players on the roster for the U.S. women’s 5x5 basketball team at the 2024 Olympics. Cameron Brink, a forward for the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks, was one of four players named to the roster for the U.S. women’s 3x3 basketball team for the Olympics. But on June 18, she tore her ACL in her left knee during a game against the Connecticut Sun and will miss both the rest of her WNBA season and the Olympics. She was replaced by another Los Angeles Sparks forward, Dearica Hamby. Neither Clark, a guard for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, nor Reese, a forward for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky, were named to either roster. USA Basketball committees selected the rosters, and CBS Sports reported that \"it’s not as simple as picking any player they want as there are specific rules regarding 3x3 eligibility.\" #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 11, 2024 in a post “ESPN has fired Shannon Sharpe.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Gideon Hess • September 13, 2024 Clark and Reese couldn’t play on the 3x3 team even if the committee wanted them to, the outlet said. \"Despite being two of the biggest rising stars in the WNBA, neither Caitlin Clark nor Angel Reese are eligible,\" CBS Sports said. The four-player rosters for each country must feature two players ranked within the top 10 in their country, according to CBS Sports, and two players ranked within the top 50 in their country or have the minimum number of ranking points, which are calculated based on results in recent International Basketball Federation-endorsed events. So, it would be unusual for Griner, an experienced player with more than a decade on the Mercury, to ask Reese to join the 3x3 team instead of Clark. Neither Reese nor Clark are eligible, Griner isn’t on the 3x3 team, and she has no power to appoint someone to the team. We found no evidence that she said this, or that she pronounced Reese better than Clark. Rather, TMZ sports reported June 2 that Griner said about rookies Reese, Clark and Brink: \"I think it\'s amazing for women’s sports with these rookies — I think it’s amazing.\" We rate claims Griner asked Reese to replace Brink over Clark False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Threads post, June 23, 2024 TMZ Sports, WNBA STAR BRITTNEY GRINER MY SON\'S GONNA BE AN ATHLETE!!!, Jue 2, 2024 CBS Sports, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese cannot replace Cameron Brink on Team USA\'s Olympic 3x3 team, but here\'s who can, June 21, 2024 ESPN, Angel Reese, visited June 25, 2024 USA Basketball, 5x5 women’s Olympics, visited June 25, 2024 USA Basketball, 3x3 women’s Olympics, visited June 25, 2024 The Athletic, Caitlin Clark left off U.S. Olympic team; A’Ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi headline roster, June 11, 2024 USA Basketball, 2024 USA Basketball 3x3 Women’s National Team Announced, June 5, 2024 NBC Los Angeles, Los Angeles Sparks rookie Cameron Brink shares heartbreaking message after tearing ACL, June 21, 2024 ESPN, Sparks rookie forward Cameron Brink suffers torn ACL, June 19, 2024 New York Post, Cameron Brink’s Sparks teammate Dearica Hamby is her US 3×3 Olympic team replacement, June 24, 2024 NBC Sports, Brink, Burdick, Howard, Van Lith make U.S. Olympic women’s 3x3 basketball team for Paris, June 5, 2024 ESPN, Brittney Griner, visited June 25, 2024 ## 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Claire McCaskill called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign for failing to disclose during his Senate confirmation hearing that as a senator he met twice with the Russian ambassador in 2016. As a point of contrast, McCaskill said, she had “no call from, or meeting with, the Russian ambassador. Ever.” As a point of fact, that turned out to be false. Within a few hours, McCaskill acknowledged in a tweet that she did meet with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, four years ago on the issue of international adoptions with other senators. McCaskill’s false Russian claim was in response to a March 1 Washington Post article on two meetings that Sessions, then a senator from Alabama, had with Kislyak in 2016. At the time, Sessions was a high-profile surrogate for Donald Trump’s campaign. “One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race,” the Post reported. The Justice Department, which is headed by Sessions, is now investigating alleged contacts between Russians and the Trump campaign. Sarah Isgur Flores, a Justice Department spokeswoman, told the Post that Sessions met with Kislyak not as a campaign surrogate, but as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “He was asked during the hearing about communications between Russia and the Trump campaign — not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee,” Flores said. The morning after the story broke, McCaskill issued a statement calling on Sessions to resign and accusing him of misleading the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing when he told the senators, “I did not have communications with the Russians.” McCaskill, who sits on the Armed Services Committee, tried to cast suspicion on Sessions’ meeting with Kislyak by noting that as a committee member she never met with the Russian ambassador. > McCaskill, March 2: It’s clear Attorney General Sessions misled the Senate — > the question is, why? I’ve been on the Senate Armed Services Committee for > 10 years, and in that time, have had no call from, or meeting with, the > Russian ambassador. Ever. That’s because ambassadors call members of Foreign > Relations Committee. Attorney General Sessions should resign. Around 7 a.m., McCaskill also tweeted about Sessions’ meeting with Kislyak and included her claim that she never met with the Russian ambassador. > I\'ve been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years.No call or meeting > w/Russian ambassador. Ever. Ambassadors call members of Foreign Rel Com. > > — Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017 It was quickly pointed out by some that McCaskill, in fact, did meet with Kislyak. Charles C.W. Cooke, editor of the National Review Online, tweeted images of two McCaskill tweets about the Russian ambassador. In 2013, McCaskill tweeted that she was “off to meeting w/Russian ambassador” on international adoptions, and in 2015 she said she had “calls with British, Russian, and German Ambassadors” in regards to the Iran nuclear deal. Shortly after 10:30 a.m., McCaskill posted two tweets that acknowledged her meeting with Kislyak. But she added, “Never met one on one w/him.” > Again, As senior member of Armed Serv, never received call or request from > Russian Amb for meeting. Never met one on one w/him. > > — Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017 > 4 years ago went to meeting of many Senators about international adoptions. > Russian Amb also attended. > > — Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017 McCaskill sought to draw a distinction between her meeting with Kislyak as part of a group of senators, and Sessions’ private meeting with the ambassador. (Sessions later in a press conference said that two of his staffers were in the meeting with him.) “The context here is that Attorney General Sessions met one-on-one with the Russian ambassador in the midst of a Russian cyber campaign against the U.S., and then misled the Judiciary Committee under oath about that meeting,” McCaskill’s spokeswoman, Sarah Feldman, told us in an email. “He then tried to excuse it by saying it was part of the normal course of his Armed Services Committee work. Claire has never met one-on-one with the ambassador, and never received a call from him. She did attend a group meeting about adoptions with other Senators, and had a brief proactive call with the ambassador amid calls to several other parties to the Iran nuclear deal. Attorney General Sessions, on the other hand, misled the Senate under oath.” Sessions has denied that he misled the senators, and we will deal with that in a separate story. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on October 8, 2020 in a Facebook post: An appellate court found Kamala Harris and police “took part in framing and prosecuting a man” for a murder he didn’t commit, paying a key witness $60,000 in relocation benefits for testifying against him. ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * Criminal Justice * Facebook Fact-checks * Viral image ![\\"Ciara](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke October 9, 2020 # Kamala Harris didn’t frame and prosecute a man for murder #### If Your Time is short * Kamala Harris was district attorney in San Francisco when Jamal Trulove was arrested and tried for murder. She did not prosecute his case, but one of her deputies did. * Prosecutors placed a key witness in witness protection, according to court filings, and paid for her room and board. * Trulove, who was found guilty, appealed his conviction, and the appellate court ruled that he deserved a new trial on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct and an ineffective lawyer. * Trulove was acquitted in the second trial, and he filed a civil suit against the city and county of San Francisco and city police, alleging officers framed him for murder. Harris was not named in the suit. * Trulove won and received $13.1 million from the city. See the sources for this fact-check Years before she became a senator and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Kamala Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco. Recent Facebook posts have drawn attention to the case of a man who was arrested and convicted during that time. \"An appellate court found Kamela Harris and San Francisco police took part in framing and prosecuting a man named Jamal Trulove for a murder he didn’t commit?\" the post says, misspelling Harris’ first name. \"Harris even paid the key witness over $60,000 in housing and relocation benefits for testifying against Jamal so she could get the conviction before election. After years behind bars and even being stabbed while in prison, Jamal was exonerated and paid a $13.1 million dollar settlement by the city of SF. Kamela Harris ruined this man’s life so she could get the vote.\" This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Here’s what we know. In October 2008, Jamal Trulove was arrested in the fatal shooting of Seu Kuka near a public housing project in San Francisco, according to an account of Trulove’s case on the National Registry of Exonerations website. A witness named Priscilla Lualemaga had said Trulove looked \"like the guy who could have shot\" Kuka after police presented her with a photo lineup and said they had identified the gunman. She later told police that her identification of Trulove was reinforced when she saw him in an episode of a reality TV show. He was charged with first-degree murder committed with a firearm. The case went to trial in January 2010, when Lualemaga said she was sure that Trulove was the killer. She said that she hadn’t originally expressed that confidence to police because she was afraid Trulove’s family or friends would seek revenge if she testified. She said the prosecution had placed her in witness protection. Harris wasn’t the prosecutor. That job fell to one of her deputies, Linda Allen, who said jurors should believe Lualemaga because she had risked her life to testify. They convicted Trulove, and he was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. The San Francisco Chronicle reported after Trulove’s conviction that Harris credited the \"brave eyewitness who stepped forward from the crowd.\" A lawyer for Trulove appealed the conviction, and the appeals court agreed with him that the prosecution had wrongly said without providing evidence that Lualemaga had faced threats that made her afraid for her life.The court also found that Trulove’s original lawyer had provided ineffective counsel. The case was remanded for a new trial. Experts who testified for the defense said in the second trial that based on ballistics evidence, Kuka was shot by someone else, and Lualemaga wouldn’t have been able to see far enough down the street to witness the killing. The jury acquitted Trulove. In January 2016, Trulove filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco and 12 police officers and inspectors for malicious prosecution. Harris wasn’t named, and neither she nor Allen was named in the court’s opinion in the case, though \"the prosecution\" is mentioned throughout. Trulove alleged that police had fabricated evidence, coerced a key witness and withheld exonerating evidence. About two years later, the court sided with Trulove, concluding that police framed him for murder. A federal jury decided that two detectives had violated his civil rights — deliberately fabricating evidence and failing to disclose exculpatory evidence — and awarded $14.5 million to Trulove and his lawyers. The case was settled for $13.1 million in exchange for the city dropping its appeal of the verdict. Trulove’s complaint in the civil case said that Lualemaga \"had been paid over $60,000 in living expenses in exchange for her testimony.\" According to the court opinion in Trulove’s appeal, she was placed in witness protection by the district attorney’s office. Lualemaga \"said she discussed her fears with a prosecutor, Fleming, before the preliminary hearing. She discussed the hardships she endured in the program, including that she, her husband, and their one year old child moved into one hotel, then another, and then another location.\" Lualemaga received $875 per month for meals and between $1,350 and $2,500 per month for lodging and storage fees. Before he was acquitted, Trulove spent years in maximum security prisons, where he was stabbed, a lawyer for Trulove said. In October 2019, when Harris was a presidential candidate, Vice published a story with the headline: \"Kamala Harris’ prosecutors sent this innocent man to prison for murder. Now he’s talking.\" Trulove said Harris was in the courtroom for his original guilty verdict and for his sentencing, according to the story. \"She even locked eyes with him at one of the proceedings, offering what seemed like a ‘smirk,’ he said.\" Vice quotes Trulove as saying Harris \"wanted to be present for a celebration of a conviction.\" The publication also cites a 2019 New York Times op-ed by law professor Lara Bazelon, who criticizes Harris’ record as a prosecutor. As attorney general of California, Bazelon wrote, \"Harris fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors.\" #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 30, 2024 in a post \"Samsung drops out of $1 billion advertising campaign with Olympics.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 2, 2024 The piece does not mention Trulove’s case. Let’s revisit the claim. The post says: An appellate court found Kamela Harris and San Francisco police took part in framing and prosecuting a man named Jamal Trulove for a murder he didn’t commit. This conflates two cases. The first case was a criminal case against Trulove, in which he successfully appealed his murder conviction and was acquitted on retrial.The second case is the civil suit Trulove filed against the city and county of San Francisco and several police officers and inspectors. The jury in that case found that police framed Trulove. Harris, who was district attorney when the criminal charges against Trulove went to trial, did not prosecute the case — one of her deputies did. But she did echo that prosecutor’s support for the witness who identified Trulove as the shooter. Harris is not named in the civil suit. The post says: Harris even paid the key witness over $60,000 in housing and relocation benefits for testifying against Jamal so she could get the conviction before election. A complaint filed by Trulove said that Lualemaga \"had been paid over $60,000 in living expenses in exchange for her testimony.\" Other court filings reported that Lualemaga was placed in witness protection by the district attorney’s office and received $875 per month for meals and between $1,350 and $2,500 per month for lodging and storage fees. The Dispatch Fact-Check, which also looked into this claim, concluded that it’s \"unclear how long these benefits lasted based on available public documents.\" We reached out to the district attorney’s office to ask about the total sum paid to Lualemaga but did not immediately receive a reply. The post says: After years behind bars and even being stabbed while in prison, Jamal was exonerated and paid a $13.1 million settlement by the city of SF. Jama did spend years in prison, and his lawyer said he was stabbed while incarcerated. After appealing his conviction, he was acquitted by the jury in a retrial. The city of San Francisco did pay him a $13.1 million settlement. Our ruling An appellate court did not find that Harris and San Francisco police framed and prosecuted Trulove for a murder he didn’t commit. But after Trulove was acquitted in a second criminal trial, he prevailed in a civil suit filed against the city and county of San Francisco and city police for framing him for murder, according to court filings. Harris didn’t prosecute the criminal case against Trulove, but she was district attorney at the time, and an appellate court concluded that he deserved a new trial because his lawyer didn’t take \"any action in the face of highly prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct.\" According to court filings, the district attorney’s office also placed Lualemaga in witness protection but we don’t know exactly how much she received from the office to pay for her room and board. The Facebook post accurately describes some elements of Trulove’s saga, but it gets other parts wrong and exaggerates Harris’ role in the case. We rate this post Half True. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Facebook post, Oct. 8, 2020 Kamala Harris Senate website, visited Aug. 8, 2020 State of California Department of Justice, Kamala D. Harris, 32nd attorney general, visited Oct. 8, 2020 The National Registry of Exonerations, Jamal Trulove, visited Oct. 8, 2020 San Fancisco Chronicle, Ex-reality show contestant convicted of murder, Feb. 10, 2010 Trulove v. City of San Francisco, Oct. 12, 2016 People v. Trulove, opinion filed Jan. 6, 2014 Trulove complaint, filed Jan. 5, 2016 The Associated Press, San Francisco pays $13.1 million to man framed for murder, March 19, 2019 NPR, San Francisco to pay $13.1 million to man framed by police for murder, March 20, 2019 Vice, Kamala Harris’ prosecutors sent this innocent man to prison for murder. Now he’s talking, Oct. 10, 2019 New York Times, Kamala Harris was not a ‘progressive prosecutor,’ Jan. 17, 2019 The Dispatch Fact-Check, Did Kamala Harris frame and prosecute a man for murder, Aug. 14, 2020 San Francisco Chronicle, SF man awarded $10 million after jury finds police framed him for murder, April 6, 2018 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Ciara O\'Rourke slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 16, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Country Music Television (CMT) has announced a permanent boycott of Taylor Swift.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 18, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on September 11, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Disney World officially moving to Nashville.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 18, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on September 16, 2024 in Threads post: Images show Sean Combs’ booking photos after Sept. 16 arrest. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 18, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on September 20, 2024 in a Threads post: “Oprah is a sex trafficker. 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She’s been caught and now has to be escorted around” by U.S. marshals ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 25, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on September 23, 2024 in a Threads post: Says John Fetterman said he’s “voting for Trump.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 25, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 22, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Taylor Swift’s concert attendance drops after Harris endorsement: ‘No Fans, just empty seats and echoes.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 25, 2024 ### Kamala Harris didn’t frame and prosecute a man for murder * ![](\\" ![](\\" Threads posts stated on September 20, 2024 in a Threads post: “Oprah is a sex trafficker. 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DATA ROUNDUP English, Fact Check, Fake News # The numbers in the post comparing terrorist activities during the UPA and NDA governments are Wrong 0 By Sai Santosh Vangala on April 23, 2019 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit A Facebook post with an image containing total incidents of terrorist attacks, soldiers killed, civilians killed and line of control violations are being widely shared on Facebook. Let’s try to verify the facts behind the statistics in the post. ![\\"\\"](\\" and-NDA-FB-Post.png\\")The archived version of the post can be found here. > Claim 1: Total terrorist attacks under UPA & NDA govt. are 109 & 626 > > Fact: Total terror related incidents under UPA & NDA govt. are 9739 & 1219. > So, the claim is FALSE. According to the 2004-05 & 2013-14 annual reports of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the total terrorist attacks (terror related incidents) under the UPA government between 2004-2014 are 9739. And the total terrorist attacks (terror related incidents) under NDA government between 2014-2018 are 1219, of these 1213 have occurred in Jammu & Kashmir. So, the total number of terrorist attacks (terror related incidents) under the UPA govt. are more than that of NDA govt. ![\\"\\"](\\" and-NDA-Chart.png\\")Source: Ministry of Home Affairs 2013-14 Annual Report Claim 2: Total soldiers killed under UPA & NDA govt. are 139 & 483 Fact: Total soldiers killed under UPA & NDA govt. are 1059 & 813.So the claim is FALSE. A total of 1059 security personnel died under the UPA government in 10 years, according to 2004-05 & 2013-14 annual reports of Ministry of Home Affairs, whereas a total of 813 security personnel died under the NDA government in 4 years, according to a Lok Sabha answer. So, the numbers given in the post are wrong. Claim 3: Total civilians killed under UPA & NDA govt. are 12 & 210 Fact: Total civilians killed under UPA & NDA govt. are 2081 & 1482. So the claim is FALSE A total of 2081 civilians were killed under the UPA government in 10 years, according to 2004-05 & 2013-14 annual reports of Ministry of Home Affairs, whereas a total of 1482 civilians were killed under the NDA government in 4 years, according to a Lok Sabha answer. So, numbers mentioned in the post are wrong. Claim 4: Total Line of control violations under UPA & NDA govt. are 563 & 5596 Fact: Total Line of control violations under UPA & NDA govt. are 517 & 2847. So the claim is FALSE A total of 517 Line of Control violations occurred under the UPA government between 2004-2013, whereas a total of 2847 Line of control violations occurred under the NDA government in 4 years, according to the South Asian Terrorism Portal SATP . So, even here, the numbers mentioned in the post are wrong. Finally, the numbers in the post comparing terrorist activities during the UPA and NDA governments are fake. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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The last story circulating on the internet indicates that the government made a website available for WhatsApp users to know who is entitled to withdraw R$ 1045 from FGTS. According to the message, you would need to enter a website (in the version that we saw was the page “agendarsaque.club”), enter some data and share a link with friends on WhatsApp. “Check if you are entitled to withdraw the *FGTS* in the amount of *R$1,045.00* Withdrawals can be made from the on 05/04/2020 *CONSULT:*”, says the message circulating online. ## Check if you are entitled to withdraw the FGTS of R$ 1045 on the website at WhatsApp? The message circulated with great force on the internet and left many people impressed. But has the government really made a website available so that you know if you are entitled to withdraw R$ 1045 from FGTS after sharing a link? The answer is no. Don't worry, we'll explain everything to you. When we came across the message, we already knew what it was about. That because we have already denied false information a few times that spoke of such FGTS withdrawal. We have already denied stories that spoke of looting for workers who worked for a certain period, related to the looting of the FGTS inactive and, more recently, there are benefits for those who suffered impacts with to Covid-19. In all cases, the plot is the same. An eye-catching message appears on networks social media with a link to a website, you are urged to enter the page, respond ask a few questions and share a link with friends in the app. Even though you follow all the steps, nothing happens in the end. The video warns of this type of scam: Just for fun, we decided to look for more details on the subject. As We expected, we even found some information related to the subject (in April, the government released the withdrawal, which will be done from June). Although, There is no website “on WhatsApp” that allows you to consult those who have right. Much less a site that “asks to share links”. In short: the story that indicates that the federal government authorized consultation with the release of R$ 1045 from FGTS for anyone who enters a website and shares a link with friends on WhatsApp is fake. This is yet another scam circulating in the internet and is related to the subject. Ps.: This article is a suggestion from Boatos.org readers. If you want suggest a topic to Boatos.org, get in touch with us via the website, Facebook and WhatsApp on phone (61) 99177-9164. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Dan Patrick stated on January 5, 2017 in remarks to reporters supporting legislation related to bathroom access: \"Martin Luther King said our lives begin to end the day we become silent on things that matter.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * Civil Rights * History * Texas * Dan Patrick ![\\"Lt.](\\" Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick attributed words to the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a Jan. 5, 2017, press conference on legislation affecting bathroom access (screen grab, Texas Senate video). By W. Gardner Selby January 6, 2017 # Half True: Dan Patrick on Martin Luther King saying lives start to \'end the day we become silent\' Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick opened his full-throated endorsement of Texas legislation targeting transgender access to bathrooms by quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Patrick, joined by the proposal’s author, state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, told reporters at the Texas Capitol on Jan. 5, 2017: \"Martin Luther King said our lives begin to end the day we become silent on things that matter. \"This legislation, the Texas Privacy Act, that Sen. Kolkhorst is filing today, is unquestionably one of the things that matters,\" Patrick said. \"It’s the right thing to do. I know it, Texans know it and Sen. Kolkhorst knows it.\" Debate over the measure--banning transgender people from using the Texas bathroom of their choice--will play out in the 2017 legislative session. We focused on the origin of Patrick’s King quotation. Patrick offers no backup We didn’t hear back from Patrick about when and where the slain civil rights leader made the singled-out statement, which went noted in the Associated Press’s account of Patrick’s remarks and quoted by the Dallas Morning News. For our part, a web search for the quotation and \"King\" suggested by a professor yielded 2,980 results including books of poetry and documentation that President Clinton similarly quoted King in an April 2000 speech and Sen. Joe Lieberman did so in the Senate in June 2003. So, Patrick was in bipartisan company in crediting the words to King. On the other hand, we were unable to confirm that King made that exact declaration. Also, it’s worth noting, King probably didn’t expound on bathrooms except toward widening access to public facilities. A photo caption We started our look into this topic by trying to gauge if King said the words aired by Patrick. Right off, a web search yielded an undated New York Daily News photo of King giving a speech. The photo caption said: \"King was engaged in a battle with Sheriff Jim Clark over voting rights and voter registration in Selma. On March 8, 1965, King spoke from the pulpit on courage: ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’\" Stanford researchers can’t confirm Separately, though, King experts either said he likely didn’t make the quoted remark or if he did, it’s hard to confirm so with ease. \"That would be a research project,\" said Clayborne Carson, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial professor of history at Stanford University and director of a research institute in King’s name. By phone, Carson told us that’s because the institute’s resources aren’t yet easily searched for a particular quotation. Put another way, he said by email, it’s \"easier to prove what King said on a particular occasion than to prove that he never said the quote in question on any occasion.\" An institute research assistant, Ellen Ingebritsen, later responded that her search of the project’s internal database and documents culled from the institute\'s King papers didn’t turn up King making the statement. Then again, she said, the institute has yet to catalogue the majority of King’s work from 1965. Otherwise, she said, King letters and telegrams from that year don’t contain the words attributed to King by Patrick. A similar confirmed King statement Story over? Not quite. Other experts helped us find that King made a similar yet less direct statement in the Brown Chapel in Selma, Ala., on Monday, March 8, 1965--the same date noted in the News’s photo caption and also the day after protesters met police violence after attempting to cross a bridge on the way to Montgomery, the state capital. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Rick Scott stated on August 28, 2024 in a post on X “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024 King, who would shortly lead a crossing of the bridge before turning around, said in part: \"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.\" Here’s King’s remark in context as we found it on an East Tennessee State University web page: \"Deep down in our non-violent creed is the conviction there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they\'re worth dying for. And if a man happens to be 36-years-old, as I happen to be, some great truth stands before the door of his life--some great opportunity to stand up for that which is right. \"A man might be afraid his home will get bombed, or he\'s afraid that he will lose his job, or he\'s afraid that he will get shot, or beat down by state troopers, and he may go on and live until he\'s 80. He\'s just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80. The cessation of breathing in his life is merely the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. He died... \"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. \"So we\'re going to stand up amid horses. We\'re going to stand up right here in Alabama, amid the billy-clubs. We\'re going to stand up right here in Alabama amid police dogs, if they have them. We\'re going to stand up amid tear gas! \"We\'re going to stand up amid anything they can muster up, letting the world know that we are determined to be free!\" To our inquiry, Doug Burgess, chairman of the university’s history department, said by phone that he posted the excerpt some 15 years ago. Burgess also helped us track down a YouTube video in which we saw King making the remarks, which the video attributes to a Nostalgia Company recording, \"The Greatest Speeches of All Time, Volume II.\" Separately, Carson told us his research took note of a similar King statement made Nov. 5, 1967, at his home church in Atlanta. King, exhorting parishioners to fight for what’s right, said a person’s failure to do so would amount to dying before death. \"You died when you refused to stand up for right, you died when you refused to stand up for truth, you died when you refused to stand up for justice,\" Carson quoted King saying. We also heard back from a King biographer, David Garrow, who said by email that his sense is that King didn’t make the statement aired by Patrick. That \"language does *NOT* in any way sound familiar to me as an exact quote,\" Garrow wrote. \"I believe it is INVALID.\" Garrow summed up: \"Your verdict on this ought to be something like \'Unproven, undocumented, & highly doubtful.’\" Texas professors: Quotation out of context Asked to assess Patrick’s quotation, University of Texas historians Don Carleton and Paul Stekler each opined that Patrick presented King’s sentiment out of historical context. Stekler, who helped produce, direct and write a documentary on the civil rights movement in 1967-68, said by email that King \"was in Selma to try and force federal action to ensure voting rights, a campaign that was successful with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the aftermath of the police riot on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He was advocating the expansion of rights for African-Americans in the South where they had been and were largely disenfranchised.\" Patrick, Stekler wrote, employed King’s purported words in support of restricting the rights of transgender people. \"One use of the quote uses it in support of the expansion of rights, the other in restricting rights,\" Stekler said. Our ruling Per Patrick, King said our lives begin to end the day we become silent on things that matter. Patrick didn’t show nor did we confirm that King made this direct statement. Then again, Patrick didn’t specify he was quote-unquote directly quoting King while King in 1965 made a longer proclamation that might later have been paraphrased in the 14 words that Patrick and others including President Clinton ultimately attributed to the civil rights icon. On balance, we rate this claim Half True. **HALF TRUE** – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Photo caption, \"Martin Luther King Jr.delivers speech, 1965,\" New York Daily News, undated (accessed Jan. 5, 2017) Telephone interview, Don Carleton, executive director, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Jan. 5, 2017 Email, Paul Stekler, professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Jan. 5, 2017 Remarks by Martin Luther King, March 8, 1965, East Tennessee State University, undated and unattributed (accessed Jan. 5, 2017) Telephone interview and email, W. Doug Burgess Jr., PhD, chairman, Department of History, East Tennessee State University, Jan. 5, 2017 Telephone interview and emails, Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial professor of history, Ronnie Lott founding director, The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, Jan. 5-6, 2017 YouTube video, \"Brown Chapel - Selma, AL. - 3/8/1965,\" Martin Luther King Jr., from a recording, \"The Greatest Speeches of All Time, Volume II,\" published Sept. 29, 2014 (accessed Jan. 4, 2017) Emails (excerpted), Dave Garrow, author, \"Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,\"Jan. 5-6, 2017 Emails, Ellen Ingebritsen, research assistant, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, Jan. 6, 2017 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by W. Gardner Selby slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" M.J. 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Mariam Talakhadze October 31, 2020 10:30 Reading Time: 2 minutes Reading Time: 2 minutes ![\\"\\"](\\" 80 VIEWS Shares ![\\"facebook](\\" ![\\"twitter](\\" ![\\"linkedin](\\" ![\\"whatsapp](\\" ![\\"telegram](\\" ![\\"messenger](\\" On October 31, 2020, the day of parliamentary election in Georgia, a Facebook user Tea Pirtskhalava published a photo of Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State of the United States. On the picture, Rice is wearing a shirt that displays number 41, while the caption says “It’s My Team. Georgian Dream”. Pirtskhalava herself captioned the photo “Thunder-Photo from Washington”. As of October 31, 16:30, Tea Pirtskhalava’s post had 233 reactions, 18 comments, and 18 shares. The post had been shared by individual users. ![\\"rgphse](\\" content/uploads/2021/02/rgphse-256x300.png\\") **The disseminated post is a photomanipulation. In fact, the photo was taken in 2012 within a National Football League (NFL) campaign “It’s my team”. Rice’s shirt actually displays number 16, not 41, and she supports Cleveland Browns, not the Georgian Dream.** ![\\"srdgv](\\" content/uploads/2021/02/srdgv-223x300.png\\") In 2012, NFL started a campaign called “It’s my team”. The campaign encouraged female supporters to support their team through a clothing line created using a design of their favorite team. The former Secretary of State of the United States, Condoleezza Rice, joined the campaign as well as appeared with a shirt of Cleveland Browns, her favorite team. Other famous women, including Melania Trump and Serena Williams, also joined the campaign. ![\\"srg](\\" content/uploads/2021/02/srg_4-300x204.png\\") Topic: Politics Violation: Visual manipulation Country: USA Tags: Condoleezza Riceelections Source ### Last News ![\\"Justin](\\" content/uploads/2024/09/gaqhalbebuli-tsitata-akhali1.jpg\\") ### Fabricated Quote of Justin Bieber About P. 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The previous Government was committed to the unions to call for 4,500 positions and the Executive of Juanma Moreno has offered 3,800. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\")Susana Díaz reviewed this Saturday on laSextaNoche the Juanma Moreno's management since he was sworn in as president at the beginning of year. In the field of Education, he has criticized the offer of public employment approved by the current Executive: “They have removed 700 teachers this year in the public offer of employment.” The Government Council approved the call for an offer of 3,800 places for the teaching staff: 2,500 places correspond to the plan stabilization of temporary employment, 290 to those authorized in 2017 and 1,010 with the replacement rate, which now stands at 65%. In total, about 3,800 places and not the 4,500 that the Executive chaired by Susana Díaz committed to convening with the unions in 2019 within the framework of the Sectoral Table. This is what Workers' Commissions recently expressed (CC.OO): “The Department of Education of the previous government had acquired the commitment to union organizations, with representation in Mesa Sectoral, with an approximate offer of 4,500 places in total for the 2019 oppositions (2,500 places in the stabilization rate and 2,000 places of the replacement rate). ![\\"free](\\"\\") What do we know about free daycare in Andalusia? With this, Susana Díaz's statement that the Andalusian Government “has removed 700 teachers this year in the public employment offer” is TRUE. ### Sources * References Government Council * Workers Commissions * Andalusian Government * Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) * Susana Díaz ### Have you seen/heard a phrase by Susana Díaz that sounded false or false to you? misleading? Write here and we will verify it Participate What did he say? Continue Where have you seen/heard it? 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The UK won’t be forced to make additional payments outside of its regular contributions. > “The EU’s unpaid obligations threaten the UK with an extra £2.4 billion bill > after the referendum.” > > Vote Leave, campaign website > > “And now we find that there is £20bn billion black hole in the EU\'s > finances.” > > Boris Johnson, 6 June 2016 #### What is the ‘black hole’? The EU had a backlog of unpaid claims worth 24.7bn euro by the end of 2014. At current exchange rates this equals £19.4bn. The bulk of the money owed was through the Cohesion Policy, which funds investment in poorer EU regions (including some parts of the UK). These unpaid claims equalled 7% of the planned cohesion budget of £347m for 2007-13. Paying out against these past claims means that the EU will have less to money to invest in schemes that run from 2014-2020. #### Why did this build up? The volume of claims increased more sharply than expected from 2011 onwards, according to the European Commission. The commission suggest the 2008 financial crisis, the 2011 Eurozone crisis and austerity measures by national governments all contributed to increasing the volume of claims. At the same time, the ceilings which set the maximum quantity of payments were dropped in 2014. #### Why could it be a problem? The main side-effect is a reduction in the money available to fund the 2014-2020 programme. The EU also has to pay some interest on late payments, and late payments damage the credibility of funding programmes. #### How will it be paid back? The majority of these payments are covered in the 2016 EU budget, so roughly 12.7% of them will be supported by the UK’s regular contribution. £2.4bn will have been supported by the UK. No country will provide additional support outside their regular contribution to the EU budget. The price being paid is having less money to spend on current priorities. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on April 30, 2018 in a press conference: \"In seven years that (nuclear) deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * National * Iran * Nuclear * Donald Trump ![\\"Jon](\\" By Jon Greenberg May 2, 2018 # Donald Trump says wrongly the Iran nuclear deal expires in 7 years President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to continue waiving sanctions against Iran under the 2015 agreement that rolled back the country’s nuclear program. At an April 30 press conference, Trump said pulling out of the deal would send the right message on American policy. \"In seven years that deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons,\" Trump said. \"That\'s not acceptable. Seven years is tomorrow. That\'s not acceptable.\" Trump is incorrect about the expiration date. The deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, puts a cap on enriched uranium until 2030, or 12 years from now. After that, other agreements limit nuclear weapons development in Iran. A focus on fuel A full nuclear weapons program needs fuel for a bomb, a warhead, and a way to deliver the warhead, such as a missile or a plane. \"By far the most important and the most difficult step is producing the fuel,\" said Matthew Kroenig at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. \"That’s why the Obama administration wanted to limit Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium. And it’s why it was so important to Iran to have the limits end after 15 years.\" Under the deal, Iran gave up 97 percent of its stockpile of enriched uranium. It also lost 14,000 of its 20,000 centrifuges, the machines used to enrich uranium, and it agreed to only enrich uranium to a level unsuitable for weapons for 15 years. For plutonium, the other possible fuel for a nuclear bomb, the agreement bans plutonium reactors for 15 years and stipulates that Iran must dismantle its current one. The White House pointed to an Associated Press article about a confidential side agreement that, according to the article, allows Iran to \"install centrifuges up to five times as efficient as the 5,060 machines it is now restricted to using.\" That would kick in at Year 11, or 2026. The article warned that this could reduce the time needed to produce weapons-grade uranium after the deal expired. The White House also noted a Brookings Institution summary that said that after 2025, Iran could \"test large numbers of, and conduct enrichment R&D with, advanced centrifuges,\" and get a space ready for running the most advanced centrifuge after 2030. So starting seven years from now, Iran could begin developing and then using better centrifuges. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on August 18, 2024 in X post Photo shows “pallets or containers of bricks have been found near locations designated for protests related to the Democratic National Convention” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Caleb McCullough • August 20, 2024 However, both of those sources noted that for 15 years, Iran could not have more than 300 kg (660 pounds) of low-enriched uranium, well below the amount experts agree is needed to make a single bomb. Why does the cap matter? Because even as Iran installed more efficient centrifuges, it could not end up with more enriched uranium than is permitted. The agreement spells out various ways to make that happen, either by diluting the uranium or sending it out of the country under international controls. The Arms Control Association, a group that supports the Iran deal, produced this timeline. The gray bars at the top show the changes in the centrifuge rules at the 10-year mark, and the limits on enriched uranium through the 15-year mark. ![](\\" iA1tJgmAumGFAcvkioJ_hefxl7x_imlgO8Liid- RMrxQPnxg45s5_5K1rTk3IelCuVesJz9fKHKIpGFRbmm5xcgkdOi0gTou41H30riXCI1hdmoMeSx6R1T0tT96\\"/) Building a bomb Trump said that in seven years Iran would be free to build nuclear weapons. But under the agreement and the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran agreed on paper at least that it would never build a nuclear weapon. Formally, it would not be free to do as it pleases. \"Some of the terms last forever,\" said nuclear arms expert Matthew Bunn at Harvard’s Kennedy School. \"The deal prohibits Iran forever from the key activities of a nuclear weapon design and manufacture program — experimenting with the relevant types of explosives, doing the relevant neutron modeling, and so on.\" Bunn added: \"And Iran’s acceptance of the broader inspections called for in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol also lasts indefinitely.\" The Additional Protocol improves international oversight of nuclear fuel, from when it is mined to when it becomes waste, and allows broader inspections, such as collecting environmental samples at any location to detect radioactive materials. Plus, many activities have to be approved by a commission that oversees the agreement. The deal does have one element that clearly ends at the 10-year mark. If Iran fully complies with the deal for a decade, the U.N. Security Council’s resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program come to an end. That is called Termination Day. The agreement itself continues in force, but the United Nations no longer has Iran’s nuclear program on its docket. The White House noted this clause. Our ruling Trump said that the Iran nuclear deal expires in seven years and after that, Iran is free to develop a nuclear weapon. The agreement’s limits on enriched uranium last for another 12 years. While some restrictions ease after seven years, the key elements that prevent Iran from enriching the uranium needed for a bomb remain until 2030. In addition, certain terms last forever, including the prohibition on ever designing or making a nuclear weapon, and remaining under the eye of international inspectors. We rate this claim False. 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Only a few quibbles, including on the minimum wage, mail-in voting and Social Security payments. By Brooks Jackson, Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald and D\'Angelo Gore Posted on August 18, 2020 * * * * * ##### Summary Our major finding from the first night of the four-day 2020 Democratic National Convention is that it wasn’t accurate to call it a “convention” at all. That word means “coming together,” and Democratic delegates stayed apart because of the still-spreading coronavirus disease. It would have been more accurate to call the two-hour show the Democratic National Diaspora. The two-hour infomercial on Aug. 17 was long on pre-recorded speeches, testimonials and musical interludes, but short on facts. Nevertheless, we found a few claims that merit a mention. ##### Analysis ##### $15 Minimum Wage Impact Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed that raising the federally required minimum wage to $15 an hour would “give 40 million workers a pay raise and push the wage scale up for everyone else.” That’s debatable, and ignores the likelihood that many low-wage workers would find themselves priced out of the job market. Sanders is once again citing a statistic generated by the Economic Policy Institute, which has backing from labor unions and advocates the $15 wage proposal. But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects a much less dramatic impact, and some probable costs. CBO estimated most recently, in a report released in July 2019, that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would “increase the wages of 17 million workers whose wages would otherwise be below $15 per hour.” That’s 17 million, not 40 million. CBO added, “Another 10 million workers otherwise earning slightly more than $15 per hour might see their wages rise as well.” That’s perhaps 10 million, not “everyone else” who would see a ripple effect. And CBO also projected the probability that 1.3 million low-wage jobs would simply be lost, something Sanders ignores. (Here CBO admitted to a wide range of uncertainty among economists, putting the odds at 2 out of 3 that the actual number of jobs lost would fall somewhere between zero and 3.7 million.) ##### Pandemic Response Team Actor Eva Longoria Baston, who served as a master of ceremonies for the night, left out some context when she said the Trump administration “disbanded the pandemic response team that was given to them.” In May 2018, the Trump administration eliminated the National Security Council’s Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense, which had been set up by the Obama administration in 2016 following an Ebola outbreak in West Africa. But as we have written, the dissolution of the office does not necessarily mean that the entire team was let go or that all of its functions ceased. At the time, the Washington Post reported that Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, who had led the unit, abruptly departed under a reorganization effort orchestrated by former National Security Adviser John Bolton. An NSC spokesman told the Post that the administration “remains committed to global health, global health security and biodefense, and will continue to address these issues with the same resolve under the new structure.” Writing in the Post earlier this year, Tim Morrison, former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense for the NSC, argued that the office had not been “dissolved.” Instead, it was one of three units consolidated into the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate, “given the obvious overlap between arms control and nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, and global health and biodefense.” Other ex-officials and experts believe the lack of a point person for a pandemic-specific response hinders the ability of the government to respond to such events. In a competing op-ed, Beth Cameron, the former senior director for the global health security and biodefense office, wrote in the _Post_ that disbanding that directorate “left an unclear structure and strategy for coordinating pandemic preparedness and response.” And the Center for Strategic & International Studies recommended restoring the global health security position on the NSC in a November 2019 report. “It remains unclear who would be in charge at the White House in the case of a grave pandemic threat or cross-border biological crisis,” the report reads, noting that such leadership is “critical in navigating challenging political issues like quarantines and travel bans and in communicating to and reassuring the American public.” We take no position on whether it was an error to eliminate the post or restructure the team. But Longoria Baston’s summary lacks the full context of what happened. ##### No Election Delay In describing President Donald Trump as authoritarian, Sanders claimed that Trump “threatened to delay the election.” If it was a threat, it was a hollow one because the president has no legal or constitutional authority to delay the election, experts told us at the time. Sanders is referring to a July 30 Trump tweet that suggested the 2020 election should be postponed. The president claimed that an avalanche of mail-in voting in 2020 would result in “the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” Trump added, “It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” But Jerry H. Goldfeder, a lawyer who teaches election law at Fordham University School of Law, told us at the time that only Congress can delay the election. “It is beyond remote that a divided Congress would postpone the election,” Goldfeder said. In an April 28 article in the New York Law Journal, Goldfeder explained: “The U.S. Constitution explicitly provides that a president’s term is four years, and the new or re-elected president is sworn in at noon on January 20th. There is no provision or precedent for a sitting president to extend his term beyond then. … Congress alone has the authority to adjust this election timeline — provided there is sufficient time for either Biden or Trump to take the oath of office at noon on Jan. 20th.” ##### Nevada Mail-in Ballots Defending Nevada’s decision to pass a new state law sending mail-in ballots to all active voters amid the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada tried to put some bipartisan sheen on that decision by noting that the state’s Republican secretary of state has sought to dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit challenging it. Trump “has challenged us in court with a meritless lawsuit,” Cortez Masto said, “one that our Republican secretary of state has asked the judge to dismiss.” It’s true that Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske asked a judge to dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit, but Cegavske opposed the law. At the time of the vote, Cegavske raised concerns about the cost of the changes, and she criticized Democrats for leaving her out of discussions and only allowing her to see a draft of the bill the day before the vote. Despite her opposition to the new law, the Trump campaign named Cegavske as a defendant in the lawsuit, as she is the state’s top elections official. The lawsuit claims the new election law, which passed along partisan lines, would “undermine the November election’s integrity.” The law was passed by the Democratic-controlled state Senate and Assembly, and the law was signed by Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak. Now, however, Cegavske — who is being legally represented by the office of Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat — is asking a judge to dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit, arguing that the elections changes are the state’s decision to make and that the Trump campaign and Republicans who filed the suit don’t have the legal standing to bring the lawsuit. ##### Social Security Payments Longoria Baston also claimed that “Social Security beneficiaries count on the post office to get their checks.” While some beneficiaries do still get paper checks in the mail, the vast majority of beneficiaries receive payments via direct deposit to a bank account or a prepaid debit card. As of August, the Social Security Administration sent paper checks to 848,003 people who get either Social Security or Supplemental Security Income payments. That’s about 1.2% of the 72,193,592 people who received payments that month, according to official data. Most beneficiaries have been required to receive their payments electronically since 2013. Editor’s Note: FactCheck.org does not accept advertising. We rely on grants and individual donations from people like you. Please consider a donation. Credit card donations may be made through our “Donate” page. If you prefer to give by check, send to: FactCheck.org, Annenberg Public Policy Center, 202 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. ##### Sources Cooper, David. “Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2024 would lift pay for nearly 40 million workers.” Economic Policy Institute. 5 Feb 2019. U.S. Congressional Budget Office. “The Effects on Employment and Family Income of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage.” Jul 2019. CDC. “2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa.” Accessed 18 Aug 2020. Robertson, Lori. “Dems Misconstrue Trump Budget Remarks.” FactCheck.org. 20 Mar 2020. Robertson, Lori, et. al. “Democrats’ Misleading Coronavirus Claims.” FactCheck.org. 3 Mar 2020. Center for Strategic & International Studies. “Ending the Cycle of Crisis and Complacency in U.S. Global Health Security.” Nov 2019. Sun, Lena H. “Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly.” Washington Post. 10 May 2018. Morrison, Tim. “No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there.” Washington Post. 16 Mar 2018. Cameron, Beth. “I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.” Washington Post. 13 Mar 2020. Goldfeder, Jerry H. “2020 Election Sidebar: Can the Election Be Postponed?” New York Law Journal. 28 Apr 2020. Goldfeder, Jerry H. Professor, Fordham University School of Law. Interview with FactCheck.org. 30 Jul 2020. Trump, Donald. @realDonaldTrump. “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” Twitter. 30 Jul 2020. Associated Press. “Nevada asks judge to dismiss Trump, GOP vote-by-mail lawsuit.” 10 Aug 2020. Complaint: Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; Republican National Committee; and Nevada Republican Party vs. Barbara Cegavske, in her capacity as Nevada Secretary of State. Filed 4 Aug 2020. Metz, Sam. “Trump slams passage of Nevada bill to mail voters ballots.” Associated Press. 3 Aug 2020. Bowden, John. “Nevada governor signs bill to allow mail-in voting after Trump promises legal challenge.” The Hill. 3 Aug 2020. Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System. “AB4: AN ACT relating to elections.” Introduced 31 Jul 2020. U.S. Social Security Administration. “Social Security Administration Beneficiaries, Supplemental Security Income Direct Deposit and Check Statistics.” Aug 2020, accessed 18 Aug 2020. 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Fast Check CL verified the origin of the claim, classifying it as Real. ## If you don't have time: * An image of the retired admiral and former commander of the Chilean Navy, Edmundo González, went viral on social networks, along with a phrase attributed to him: "If they let us act, we will end terrorism in 72 hours." * The iconography also contained the logo of “Jóvenes X la Derecha”, the Instagram account that initially published it. * The origin of the sayings is found in an interview, recorded on YouTube, carried out by the El Nacional-Libertario channel * In this way, the Fast Check CL team classifies the statement as Real. By Paula Altamirano O. "If they let us act, we will end terrorism in 72 hours," says the image containing a logo of “Jóvenes X la Derecha”, next to the photograph of the retired admiral and former commander in chief of the Chilean Navy, Edmundo González, to whom this statement is attributed. One of the people who shared the iconography on their Twitter account was the councilor for the commune of Ñuñoa, Camilo Brodsky, on February 24. > \"let us act and we will deal with state terrorism, which is the only > terrorism that works well here\" pic.twitter.com/ARLFiObxh3 > > — Camilo Brodsky. Councilor for Ñuñoa 2021. (@CamiloBrodsky) February 24, > 2021 Similarly, accounts from the same social network also shared the image, like that of Luis Mariano Rendón, candidate for constituent for district 13, and Chacón Brigade, among others. ## The origin of the image The assertion of the former commander in chief of the Navy about the so-called "Mapuche conflict", finds its origin in an Instagram post "Young X la Derecha", dated Wednesday, February 24, where it is described: "STATE OF SITE IN ARAUCANÍA AND ARAUCO AREA! NOW! @gobiernodechile @sebastianpinerae». ![\\"\\"](\\" Screen-2021-02-26-at-08.11.40.png\\")Image from the publication of «Young "X the Right" In the description of the publication they refer to the source of the sayings: an interview with Edmundo González, conducted by El Nacional-Libertario, a YouTube channel. ## Edmundo González's interview The interview was carried out by Johannes Kaiser, brother of Axel Kaiser, executive director of the Foundation for Progress. The conversation took place live, on January 4, and had as name «Chilean politics and geopolitics with Admiral Edmundo González Robles", where around minute 51 he pronounces the following words: > «If you (referring generally) gave the green light to the Forces > Armed so that we would control the eradication of terrorist acts, > that question is asked in 72 hours _»_. > > Edmundo González, retired admiral and former commander in chief of the Navy > from Chile. ![\\"\\"](\\" Screen-2021-02-26-a-las-14.30.09.png\\")Image of the video where González He issues his sayings. Although his exact words were not "If they let us act, we end up with terrorism in 72 hours", what the former commander expressed has the same connotation, which is why Fast Check CL classified the viralized statement as Real. If you want to see the exact moment of González's statements, you can check it here: Video where González broadcasts his sayings. During the interview, González also maintained that "the issue of Araucanía It is not an issue of indigenous peoples, that is where narcoterrorism got into us. And if we don't control it in time it will be the same thing that happens to Colombia with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). And he added: «We have a problem that is not police, which is not inefficiency of the armed forces (…) is a matter of political will, nothing further". Regarding the treatment that the Government of Sebastián Piñera has given, to the problems in Araucanía, proposing anti-terrorist law projects, González has stated the opposite on his Twitter account: > Nowhere in the civilized world are laws or projects required. > these, to establish or reestablish the rule of law “within the > national territory”. It is only a matter of imposing public order and > citizen security that the Constitution demands!!! > pic.twitter.com/2cuWiK4Eco > > — ⚓️Edmundo González®️ (@edmundog190) February 23, 2021 Tweet from Edmundo González ![\\"\\"](\\" content/uploads/2021/02/Suscribete-2021-1024x536.png\\") ## Admiral Edmundo González and his role in the 2010 tsunami Edmundo González Robles is a Chilean sailor, retired admiral and former commander in chief of the Chilean Navy. He served in that position from June 18, 2009, and left on June 18, 2013. González became known after being part of the team that faced the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on February 27, 2010, when there was questioning from the Chilean population, after the authorities, among them the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA) will raise a tsunami warning, ending in the outcome that already we all know. After the tragedy, the then commander, the head of the Navy, informed the press about the situation, Radio U. de Chile, on May 6, 2010, recorded: > _«_ The alert was canceled at 04:46, that is, it was in effect for > space of one hour five minutes. Following subsequent events > we can conclude that the cancellation of the tsunami warning was hasty > and that although certain technical criteria were used in the analysis of the > background considered, a thorough evaluation of the > all that the SHOA had available at that time _»_. > > Edmundo González, Radio U. de Chile. Likewise, some time later, in May 2013, he declared in a speech in commemoration of naval glories, published by El Mostrador, which _«_ all The responsibility is mine and I feel at peace. I have given my battle and I have fought without rest or pettiness for what I have believed to be right and necessary. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Mike Rogers stated on March 30, 2017 in a press release: \"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * Immigration * National * Economy * Homeland Security * Mike Rogers ![\\"In](\\" In this Feb. 24, 2015 photo, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agents patrol along the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border near Rio Grande City, Texas. AP Photo ![\\"Miriam](\\" By Miriam Valverde April 11, 2017 # Congressman proposes new tax on remittances to pay for Trump\'s border wall. We checked his numbers While President Donald Trump maintains that Mexico will pay for a border wall, Republican lawmakers are looking for other ways to help fund the president’s signature campaign promise. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., introduced the Border Wall Funding Act of 2017 to levy a 2 percent fee on money sent by individuals in the United States to recipients in nations \"south of the U.S. border,\" funds known as remittances. \"This bill is simple – anyone who sends their money to countries that benefit from our porous borders and illegal immigration should be responsible for providing some of the funds needed to complete the wall,\" Rogers said in a March 30 press release. He added some large numbers about remittances to bolster his case. \"Remittances, or wire transfers, are commonly used by illegal immigrants to move money from the U.S. to their home countries,\" Rogers said. \"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their GDPs in the form of remittances.\" Remittances serve as a source of income for migrants’ families who generally use the money to pay for housing, food and other living expenses. To an extent, Rogers’ two-fold statement is backed by data. The exception is his point about South America — we could not find any countries on that continent with remittances anywhere near 15 percent of GDP. Money sent to Mexico checks out Rogers’ bill seeks to tax immigrants living in the United States illegally who send money back to their countries, according to a press release from his office. The text of the bill itself does not explicitly address how people here unlawfully could be targeted. Experts have told us that while undocumented immigrants do send remittances, it’s hard to determine how much they send, since U.S. citizens and immigrants living here legally also send money. Mexico receives more money from U.S. residents than does any other nation, by far. Rogers’ statement about remittances sent to Mexico is based on data from the World Bank. The World Bank has for several years estimated the bilateral flow of remittances from its member countries. The latest number is actually higher than what Rogers said. Mexico received more than $25.6 billion in remittances from individuals in the United States in 2015, according to the most recent World Bank estimates. Mexico also topped the list as the country receiving the most remittances from the United States from 2010-15, according to a May 2016 Congressional Research Service report. China came in second and India placed third. Money sent to South and Central American countries Rogers claimed that some South and Central American countries receive more than 15 percent of their gross domestic product, or GDP, in the form of remittances. We asked what countries he had in mind. A spokesperson pointed to Haiti, a poor island in the Caribbean, as well as Honduras and El Salvador in Central America. (The spokesperson added that Rogers\' statement was actually based on 2015 data, not 2014.) A country’s GDP is an indicator of the health and size of its economy. Comparing remittances to a country’s GDP can be helpful in understanding the economic effects of foreign labor migration and money sent to residents across countries. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 18, 2024 in a speech in New York When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2024 In other words, a large remittance total may be less eye-popping when it’s compared to the broader economy — and vice versa. \"For example, if I tell you that in 2015, Mexico received $26 billion in remittances and Haiti received $2.2 billion, you might think that remittances are far more important to the Mexican economy than they are to Haiti\'s,\" said Roy Germano, a New York University professor who has researched migrants’ remittances. \"But the fact is, Mexico\'s economy is much larger than Haiti\'s (as is its population).\" Remittances to Haiti represent a much greater share of income for the country than they do in Mexico. In 2015, remittances from the United States accounted for more than 15 percent of Haiti’s GDP and about 2.2 percent of Mexico’s GDP. Small island states or small, impoverished countries are most likely to have shares of remittances at 15 percent or more of GDP, said Catalina Amuedo- Dorantes, professor and chair of the economics department at San Diego State University. Tajikistan, in Central Asia, has depended on remittances since years-long armed conflict in the 1990s claimed more than 100,000 lives, noted the Congressional Research Service’s report. Tajikistan topped a CRS list as the country with the greatest percentage of its 2014 GDP in form of remittances (from all places), at nearly 42 percent. Rogers’ office did not provide any examples of countries from South America with remittances via the United States that amount to more than 15 percent of GDP. We crunched the numbers for South America and found that none came close to 15 percent. Here’s a sample: Percent of Guyana’s GDP in form of remittances? 5.9 percent. Ecuador: 1.02 percent. Colombia: 0.5 percent. Bolivia: 0.4 percent. Brazil: 0.04 percent Venezuela: 0.01 percent (based on 2013 GDP/remittances data) Our ruling Rogers said, \"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their GDPs in the form of remittances.\" Based on World Bank estimates, Mexico did receive more than $24 billion in remittances from the United States in 2015 (the year Rogers meant to use). Rogers would have been on safer ground in the second part of his statement had he described nations south of the border more generally. According to the latest data, a couple of countries in Central America — El Salvador and Honduras — received at least 15 percent of their GDP from remittances. Haiti, in the Caribbean, also received at least 15 percent. No country from South America reached that threshold. We rate Rogers\' statement Half True. Share the Facts Politifact ![\\"Politifact\\"](\\" logo-big.jpg\\"/) 3 7 ![\\"Politifact](\\" facts/rating_images/politifact/tom-halftrue.jpg\\") Politifact Rating: Half True \"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances.\" Mike Rogers Representative ![](\\" in a press release Thursday, March 30, 2017 03/30/2017 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources The World Bank, Migration and Remittances Data Pew Research Center, Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2015, Aug. 31, 2016 Rep. Mike Rogers’ website, Rogers Introduces Bill to Tax Illegal Immigrants, Help Fund Border Wall, March 30, 2017 BBVA Research, Remittances reached US$24.77 billion in 2015, 4.8% up on the previous year, Feb. 3, 2016 Congressional Research Service, Remittances: Background and Issues for Congress, May 9, 2016 Email exchange, Shea Miller, communications office for Rep. Mike Rogers, April 4, 2017 Email interview, Roy Germano, a New York University professor, April 4, 2017 Email interview, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, professor and chair of the economics department at San Diego State University, April 4, 2017 Email interview, Manuel Orozco, Director of Migration, Remittances and Development at Inter-American Dialogue, April 4, 2017 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Miriam Valverde slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on April 19, 2021 in a speech: “If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on April 22, 2021 in an Instagram post: \"Mountains of data\" show drug ivermectin \"basically obliterates\" COVID-19 transmission. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on April 7, 2021 in a Facebook post: Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 15, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Pramila Jayapal stated on August 30, 2021 in an Instagram post: “The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now # Fact-checking Ron DeSantis\' 2024 presidential campaign kickoff on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk * Immigration * National * Education * Crime * Race and Ethnicity * Military * Florida ![\\"Florida](\\" Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talks with reporters May 13, 2023, during a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, in Sioux Center, Iowa. (AP) ![\\"Matthew](\\" By Matthew Crowley May 25, 2023 ![\\"Louis](\\" By Louis Jacobson May 25, 2023 ![\\"Maria](\\" By Maria Ramirez Uribe May 25, 2023 ![\\"Amy](\\" By Amy Sherman May 25, 2023 Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’ presidential announcement lurched before it launched — technical problems had the Twitter Spaces audio cutting in and out for 15 minutes, sometimes leaving long silences. When the audio finally steadied, DeSantis promised success. \"If you nominate me, you can set your clock to Jan. 20, 2025, at high noon,\" he said, \"because on the west side of the U.S. Capitol, I will be taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States. No excuses.\" DeSantis filed his paperwork to run for president in the afternoon of May 24 and then held the Twitter discussion with platform CEO Elon Musk, moderated by DeSantis supporter and tech entrepreneur David Sacks. As hundreds of thousands of people crowded into the virtual room, DeSantis continued his long-running promise to fight \"woke ideology\" and fielded questions from conservative activists about immigration, COVID-19 shutdowns, school book bans and The Walt Disney Co. Here are seven claims that caught our attention. \"We eliminated critical race theory from our K through 12 schools.\" DeSantis is referring to a 2022 law, HB 7, known as the \"Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act\" or the \"Stop W.O.K.E. Act\". The bill bans workplaces and schools from teaching that anyone \"must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress\" based on their race as a result of actions by others in the past. The bill text doesn’t mention critical race theory by name. Critical race theory is a broad set of ideas about systemic bias and privilege. The theory, which has existed in academia for decades, holds that racism is part of a broader pattern in America: It is woven into laws, and it shows up in who gets a job interview, the sorts of home loans people are offered, how they are treated by police, and other facets of daily life large and small. More than one dozen states have banned critical race theory in public schools. A state House of Representatives staff bill analysis said that state Board of Education standards consider the the teaching of critical race theory as a distortion of historical events. Opponents of critical race theory suggest that the theory is pervasive in K-12 schools, but University of Missouri education professor LaGarrett King previously told us that the problem is blown out of proportion. \"The majority of teachers are not even familiar with what critical race theory is, nor do they teach it in their classrooms,\" King said. \"So the whole book ban thing is a hoax. There\'s not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.\" This is misleading. Although there have been some exaggerated or false online claims about Florida book bans, DeSantis’ statement downplays book removals that his own administration has acknowledged. \"Fact: School districts are required to report the number of books removed from schools based on legislation passed in 2022,\" a DeSantis administration press release said March 8. \"Of the 23 districts that reported removing materials, the most removed were tied at 19 in Duval and St. Johns Counties — not even close to a whole classroom library. Of the 175 books removed across the state, 164 (94%) were removed from media centers, and 153 (87%) were identified as pornographic, violent, or inappropriate for their grade level.\" On May 17, PEN America, a group that tracks book bans and advocates for free expression, joined book publisher Penguin Random House in suing Florida’s Escambia County school district and its school board after several books on LGBTQ+ topics were removed from school libraries. \"Biden’s politicized the military and caused recruiting to plummet.\" This ignores that the military struggled with recruitment for years before President Joe Biden took office in 2021. In 2014, we fact-checked former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush who correctly said that \"too many\" tattoos \"on visible body parts\" disqualified applicants from serving in the military. PolitiFact found in 2014 and 2011 that not meeting physical fitness requirements also kept applicants out of the military. A 2020 Pentagon study found that 77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver because they were considered to be overweight or had health or drug use problems. U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told House members in April that the Army surveyed 2,400 people ages 16 to 28 about their views on obstacles to service. \"What we found was the number one fear was fear of death or injury,\" Wormuth said. \"There was, sometimes, a fear of psychological harm, or a fear of leaving friends and family, and then after that it was, sort of, a fear of the Army, somehow putting your life on hold.\" Wormuth said that concerns about \"wokeness in the military or the COVID vaccine mandate, for example, those were relatively low on the list of barriers to service.\" \"In Florida, our crime rate is at a 50-year low.\" DeSantis’ statistic is rooted in official data, but the quality of that data comes with some major caveats. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement shares crime data from local law enforcement agencies with the FBI for its Uniform Crime Reporting program. Data from 2021 showed Florida had a crime rate of about 1,952 crimes per 100,000 residents — nearly a 10% decrease from 2020. That 2021 crime rate was the lowest recorded in Florida since 1971. But the quality of these numbers depends on the accuracy of the information supplied to the state, and local agencies have made errors before. Police agencies have been transitioning to a new way of collecting the data. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said that not all agencies responded with data amid the transition. \"The drastic differences in numbers of agencies reporting, and the different way that crime data is recorded, means that comparing 2021 data to earlier years is problematic,\" Lyndsay Boggess, a criminology professor at the University of South Florida, told us. \"Even 2020 is challenging and potentially unreliable given the pandemic, quarantine, and shifts in peoples’ behaviors.\" \"Biden’s opened the southern border.\" This is incorrect. The southern border is not open. A combination of physical barriers such as fences, surveillance technology such as drones and about 20,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents help limit who and what comes into the United States. Under U.S. immigration law, immigrants who try to cross the border illegally can be quickly turned back if they do not have a credible fear of returning to their home country. Some people enter the country undetected — that’s happened under multiple administrations. But that’s not because of \"open border\" policies; that would negate the work done by Border Patrol agents and the billions of dollars that have been invested over decades to track movements at the southwest border. \"We are the No. 1 state for net in-migration.\" This is accurate. In the most recent annual Census Bureau data, for 2022, Florida gained 318,855 more people from other states than it lost to other states. The only other state with a six-digit total for net in-migration was Texas, with 230,961. Metro areas in Florida also dominated the list of those that saw the biggest net in-migration flows. Cape Coral-Fort Myers-Naples ranked first; North Port-Sarasota ranked second; Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona ranked seventh; and Jacksonville, which included portions of Florida and Georgia, ranked 15th. \"We have in Florida, more Black-owned businesses than any state in the nation.\" This is accurate, partly because Florida is the nation’s third-most populous state. According to a Pew Research Center analysis of 2020 Census data, Florida had 15,149 Black-owned businesses, defined as a Black owner having at least a 51% equity share. California ranked second, with 13,729, and New York placed third, with 12,636. However, Florida isn’t first for Black-owned businesses as a percentage of all businesses in the state. The top three places are the District of Columbia, Georgia and Maryland, each with percentages exceeding 5%. **RELATED** : Ron DeSantis is running for president in 2024. 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Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:41 WIB ![](\\" * Share * ![\\"image](\\" * ![\\"image](\\" * ![\\"image](\\" * ![\\"image](\\" ![\\"\[Fakta](\\" Photos of planes claimed to have been rented to transport 212 Reunion participants circulated on social media. The photo was spread ahead of the 212 Reunion by Alumni Brotherhood 212 or PA 212 at Monas, Jakarta, on Monday, December 2 2019. One of the accounts that distributed the photo was Alex Lumajang's Facebook account, namely on December 1 2019. The photo is in the capture image upload screen of another Facebook account. ![](\\" screenshot of Alex Lumajang's account upload on Facebook. X The photo in the picture shows a small, medium-sized plane parked and surrounded by hundreds of people. While the narration in the picture reads, "70 transport planes, 80 cruise ships, 40 submarines and 5,000 buses from various countries were hired to accompany the 212 Reunion participants. No cebong panic.\" Alex's account shared a screenshot of the upload with narrative, "Can the pool members hold a reunion like this?" Until this article loaded, Alex's account upload has been liked 168 times and commented on 200 times. Is it true that the plane in the photo above was rented to transport the 212 Reunion participants? FACT CHECK To check the claim above, the Tempo CekFakta Team included the photo reverse image tools Yandex. As a result, the photo was published on the site Wikipedia. In the statement, the photo was a photo of the Antonov plane The An-132D was launched on 20 December 2016. After tracing it, the photo published on Wikipedia came from a photo page flights from Ukraine, Spotters. The photo was taken by Oleg V. Belyakov at Sviatoshyn airfield, Kiev, Ukraine, on December 20, 2016. ![](\\" Tempo also published photos of the launch of the Antonov An-132D aircraft photo article entitled "Getting to Know the An-132D Aircraft Made in Ukraine" was published on December 21, 2016. The photos in this article are from the news agency Reuters. Quoted from the official website of UkrOboronProm, Ukrainian Defense Industry, project manufacture of the Antonov An-132D cargo aircraft was launched in May 2015. After completed, this aircraft was introduced on December 20 2016. That aircraft too flew for the first time on March 31, 2017. UkrOboronProm made the plane in collaboration with giants global aviation, starting from Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Liebherr- Aerospace Toulouse SAS, to Dowty Propellers. UkrOboronProm is also a partner with Saudi Arabia. The Antonov An-132D aircraft is designed for short and medium distance routes. This aircraft has a cruising speed of 500 kilometers per hour and altitude maximum cruising range of up to 9 thousand meters. The plane also has cargo maximum up to 9.2 tons. CONCLUSION Based on the fact check above, the plane in the photo uploaded by Alex's account not related to the 212 Reunion. This photo is a launch photo Antonov An-132D aircraft in Ukraine on December 20, 2016. Thus, The account upload was erroneous. IBRAHIM ARSYAD You have different data/information, criticism or input for a fact check article This? 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Analysts have said the decrease can mostly be attributed to a drop in the price of crude oil, which has declined largely because of concerns that the global economy may soon experience a downturn, reducing demand for oil. Also, survey data indicate that high gasoline prices have caused many U.S. motorists to drive less, and less demand for gasoline helps lower prices as well, one expert told us. ![\\"\\"](\\" gasprices-503x355.jpg\\")A gas pump at a gas station in Detroit, Michigan, on Aug. 11. Photo by Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. On multiple occasions, however, President Joe Biden and members of his administration have touted the falling gasoline prices, suggesting that the decrease was because of the president’s policies. “Gas prices are coming down,” Biden said in Aug. 5 remarks about the July jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example. “They’re down almost a dollar a gallon … from where they were just a month ago. And, you know, we’re making progress.” At the time of Biden’s remarks, average gasoline prices were down about 61 cents from the same week a month earlier, according to weekly data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As of the week ending Aug. 15, the average price was almost $3.94. That’s more than $1 less than the high point of $5.01 in the second week of June, but still over 76 cents more than the average price during the week ending Aug. 16, 2021. But as we’ve written before, U.S. presidents have little control over the price that consumers pay for gasoline. That is why it was inaccurate for Republicans to claim that Biden was the reason that gasoline prices spiked earlier this year. It’s also why Biden can’t claim much credit for falling prices now. “No administration really has a lot of sway over gas prices,” Andrew Gross, a spokesman for the AAA automotive organization, told FactCheck.org in an interview. In an early August tweet, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for the fuel-price tracking service GasBuddy, told his Twitter followers that “the decline in #gasprices is thanks to the free market that also caused high prices.” In July, he tweeted that “NO POLITICIAN can take credit for this,” referring to prices falling to less than $4 a gallon at thousands of gas stations across the country. ## Why Have Gasoline Prices Decreased? Gasoline prices are mainly determined by the price of crude oil, and the price of crude oil is set on the global market based chiefly on supply and demand. Prices for crude oil and gasoline declined along with economic activity during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when mitigation efforts limited travel around the world. But when countries ended their lockdowns and the global economy began to recover, the demand for oil increased faster than the available supply – leading to higher oil and gasoline prices. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, which resulted in the U.S. and other nations putting sanctions and bans on Russian oil, created more instability in the market and pushed prices even higher. But oil prices have come down considerably since reaching more than $120 per barrel in early June. As of Aug. 15, the price for West Texas Intermediate crude, which is the U.S. oil benchmark, was down to $92.24, according to the EIA’s most recent daily figures. That same day, Brent crude, the international standard, was $98.25 per barrel – down from over $129 roughly two months earlier. More recent figures show WTI and Brent crude were trading at around $89 and $95, respectively, as of Aug. 16. Those declines have contributed to lower gasoline prices. “Oil makes up about 60% of what you pay at the pump,” AAA’s Gross told us. “If oil comes down in price, that really takes a lot of the pressure off what people pay at the pump.” Experts have said that a major reason that oil prices have declined is because oil traders fear that major economies worldwide may be headed for an economic downturn that could reduce demand for oil. In the U.S., gross domestic product has declined for two consecutive financial quarters, for instance. “I would submit that the current pricing now factors in a shallow recession,” Tom Kloza, the global head of energy analysis and a co-founder of the Oil Price Information Service, told us in an email. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York publishes an almost weekly Oil Price Dynamics Report that looks at the fluctuations in prices based on supply and demand factors. The majority of its reports since late June indicated that oil prices declined due to an increase in anticipated oil supply and a decrease in oil demand expectations. In its Short-Term Energy Outlook published on Aug. 9, the EIA also said that crude oil prices came down in July “as concerns of slower economic growth or a recession become more prevalent.” Likewise, the International Energy Agency said in its Oil Market Report for August that “rising oil supplies and escalating concerns over the deteriorating economic outlook have knocked around $30/bbl off prices from a peak in June.” IEA said that world oil supply reached a post-pandemic high of 100.5 million barrels per day in July. Production was up by 530,000 barrels per day from OPEC+, an alliance between the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and a separate group of 10 non-OPEC members, including Russia. In Russia, production and exports were higher than the previously forecast, the IEA said. For non-OPEC+ nations, production was up 870,000 barrels per day. But those are not the only factors contributing to lower gasoline prices in the U.S., Gross said. “The other factor is [gasoline] demand is down because people have really changed their driving habits to cope with these high gas prices,” he told us. An AAA survey published July 22 found that 64% of surveyed adults reported changing their driving habits due to higher prices. Of those people, 88% reported driving less and 74% said they had combined errands to reduce trips and save money. EIA data also show that, as of Aug. 12, the four-week average of finished gasoline supplied, which is an approximation of U.S. demand, was down more than 4% from the same week in August 2021. “So you have less [gasoline] demand and the [oil] supply is a little less expensive, and you’re going to get these dropping prices,” Gross said. ## What Impact Has Biden Had? Despite those factors, Biden and the White House have been touting the declining prices and suggesting that his policies are responsible. “I promised I’d address Putin’s price hike at the pump, and I am,” Biden’s presidential Twitter account tweeted on Aug. 11. “We’ve used our strategic petroleum reserve to get relief to families fast – and we rallied our allies and partners around the world to do the same. More work remains, but prices are dropping.” > I promised I\'d address Putin\'s price hike at the pump, and I am. > > We\'ve used our strategic petroleum reserve to get relief to families fast – > and we rallied our allies and partners around the world to do the same. > > More work remains, but prices are dropping. > > — President Biden (@POTUS) August 11, 2022 To counter a decline in the global supply of oil that contributed to price increases, the White House announced in late March that Biden had authorized the release of about 1 million barrels of crude per day from the federal reserve for six months. Around the same time, other nations in the IEA agreed to collectively release 60 million barrels of their own reserve oil. But the experts we consulted said it’s unknown how much Biden’s strategy has helped with gas prices. Kloza told us that calculating the per barrel impact of the oil releases is a “completely subjective” exercise. “I’ve said that the White House move to sell SPR crude over six months was and is a gambit — we’ll see if market balances are better when the sales stop this fall,” he said. Gross also said it was difficult to quantify the emergency oil’s impact. “There is no denying that since they did it that gas prices have come down,” he said in an interview. “But there have been other factors at play as well. But it certainly didn’t hurt, and it probably helped. But we have no way of knowing how much.” In an analysis published July 26, the Treasury Department estimated that the SPR releases, in conjunction with the additional releases from other IEA nations, lowered the price of gasoline in the U.S. between 17 cents and 42 cents per gallon. Kloza said that other administration efforts, such as the Environmental Protection Agency issuing and extending an emergency waiver that allows the sale of gasoline with a 15% ethanol blend, as well as Biden proposing a temporary federal gas tax holiday, which Congress did not adopt, had “little” influence. “So in the end, what a president does usually has a muted impact on retail prices and that works on the way up, or the way down,” he said. ## Where Do Prices Go From Here? Kloza said it was difficult to predict with certainty what happens now that oil prices have seemingly “congested or coalesced” in the range of $90 to $102 per barrel. “Threading the needle for moderate oil prices is difficult since there is a veritable gauntlet (Putin, hurricanes, worries about output from Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, and Libya) to move through,” he said. A hurricane or other supply disruptions in any of the major oil producing countries could push oil and gasoline prices higher. In addition, GasBuddy’s De Haan said in an Aug. 15 analysis that increasing wholesale prices for gasoline, which is the price that retailers pay to refining companies, could mean that retail gasoline prices will also increase soon. “For the ninth week straight, gas prices have continued to fall, but the streak is at great risk of being broken this week with wholesale gasoline prices having bounced back up some 40 cents per gallon as oil prices have rebounded,” he wrote. “That means the decline in average prices could wrap up soon, with some price increases possible as early as this week, especially in areas of the Great Lakes,” he continued. “While the West Coast and some areas of the Rockies may see prices continue to drift lower, I do believe the national average could tick higher this week as the better than expected jobs report last week likely means less demand destruction than anticipated.” The EIA projects that retail prices will average $4.29 a gallon through the third quarter of 2022 and drop to an average of $3.78 in the fourth quarter. 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This so-called antibody-dependent amplification, ADE, has long been known from experiments with corona vaccines in cats. ##### Our verdict There’s no evidence antibody-dependent amplification is an issue in humans with Covid-19, and the use of plasma therapy suggests that it is not. ##### What was claimed The studies into Covid-19 vaccines are too short to see if there are late effects. There were narcolepsy cases after the swine flu vaccination, and similarly this vaccine could put millions at risk. ##### Our verdict It’s true that the swine flu vaccine was associated with a small increase in the risk of narcolepsy in children and young people. But the vaccine’s effects will continue to be monitored as it is rolled out, and so far it is not being given to children. ##### What was claimed The mRNA vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). 70% of people develop antibodies against this substance—this means many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination. ##### Our verdict It’s true that the vaccine contains this, but in very small amounts. In some rare cases people are allergic to PEG and one study found 72% of samples were found to contain mostly low levels of antibodies against it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that many will have an allergic reaction. __1 of 3 claims We’ve been asked to check a number of claims about the new Covid-19 vaccine and its ingredients. Several websites have claimed the Pfizer vaccine contains “PEG” which could cause large numbers of allergic reactions, and also that the vaccine may cause infertility. The sites also claim any Covid-19 vaccine may make the disease worse, and that the studies are too short to check the vaccine is safe. There isn’t proper evidence behind any of these claims. Honesty in public debate matters You can help us take action – and get our regular free email Sign up ## Polyethylene glycol > “The mRNA vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). > 70% of people develop antibodies against this substance – this means that > many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the > vaccination.” It’s true that the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine does contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). This substance is used in some vaccines but is safe in these quantities. It’s also safely used at higher concentrations as a laxative, and has a range of other uses from food to cosmetics. It’s true that in rare cases people can have allergic reactions to PEG, but these are usually to medications where the PEG is the main ingredient, for example in solutions to prepare for colonoscopies. In the vaccine, PEG is just an “excipient”, so not an active ingredient that makes the vaccine work, but present in a small amount to allow the manufacture or storage of the vaccine. A 2016 paper describes finding anti-PEG antibodies in 72% of the human samples tested, albeit mostly in very low levels. That doesn’t necessarily mean that many people will experience an allergic reaction. The paper looks at the potential for PEG allergies in those who might be given therapeutics containing PEG. It concluded that “under certain threshold concentrations, low to perhaps even modest levels of circulating anti-PEG [antibodies] in most individuals would not adversely affect the safety and efficacy of PEG-modified therapeutics.” At the time of writing, the MHRA have advised on a precautionary basis that people with “a significant history of allergic reactions” do not get the vaccine, after two NHS workers with a history of serious allergies had a reaction to the injection. ## Antibody-dependent amplification > “The formation of so-called “non-neutralizing antibodies” can lead to an > exaggerated immune reaction, especially when the test person is confronted > with the real, “wild” virus after vaccination. This so-called antibody- > dependent amplification, ADE, has long been known from experiments with > corona vaccines in cats, for example. In the course of these studies all > cats that initially tolerated the vaccination well died after catching the > wild virus.” Put simply, an antibody is made by the body’s immune system, and attaches to something on the surface of a virus, usually attacking it or rendering it harmless. Most vaccines work by giving the body a harmless version of a protein on the surface of the virus so it can make these antibodies, which would speed up the body’s ability to fight infection if it gets the real disease later. You can get these antibodies from having had the infection, having been vaccinated, or being treated with blood plasma from people who’ve had the infection which contain them. “Non-neutralising antibodies” are antibodies that can attach to these proteins on the surface of a virus, but don’t actually kill or harm them. It has been found that in some cases in cats, they may actually help the infection take hold. Antibody-dependent amplification, or ADE, is a very rare example of these non- neutralising antibodies making the infection worse. As well as some observations in cats, there’s solid evidence this happens in humans with Dengue fever. It’s true that a vaccine against a different kind of coronavirus in cats did kill those cats that were vaccinated sooner than those not. But the mechanisms of ADE are not well understood, and this could have been down to a number of different factors. Despite this, there isn’t much evidence that ADE is a problem in human coronavirus infections. ADE happening with a different disease in a non-human animal does not indicate it would happen in humans with a Covid-19 vaccine. There is also quite substantial evidence that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) antibodies don’t make the infection worse, due to the use of plasma from people who have had Covid-19 as a treatment for those suffering with an infection. Studies of how effective this is are ongoing, but if ADE were a risk here it’s likely that would have been observed by now. ## Length of trials > “The much too short duration of the study does not allow a realistic > estimation of the late effects. As in the narcolepsy cases after the swine > flu vaccination, millions of healthy people would be exposed to an > unacceptable risk if an emergency approval were to be granted and the > possibility of observing the late effects of the vaccination were to > follow.” There are many reasons why this Covid-19 vaccine has been quicker to develop than any other vaccines. The vaccine has been trialled extensively as all vaccines are, but much of the analysis is happening simultaneously and being reviewed on a rolling basis, to speed things up due to the pandemic. There are other practical reasons it’s been so fast, for example the mRNA technology used meant testing candidate vaccines could start just days after the virus was genetically sequenced, and the familiarity of the virus, because of how closely it’s related to diseases like SARS and MERS. When the Pfizer vaccine was approved in the UK, Prof Clive Page, President- Elect of the British Pharmacological Society said: “It’s important to note that in this case, speed was the result of focused and sustained effort in research, development and regulation – no safety shortcuts were taken.” And as with all vaccines in the UK, its safety will be continually monitored as it is rolled out to the public, via the yellow card scheme (where information about potential side effects and adverse reactions are monitored and evaluated). It’s true that the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix has been associated with a small increase in narcolepsy in children and young people. The vaccine was given to some healthy children and some young people particularly vulnerable to flu in the UK in late 2009, before studies in Finland emerged potentially linking the jab to the sleep disorder. A study in the UK later found that the risk of narcolepsy that could be attributed to this vaccine was between one in 57,500 and one in 52,000. Following a legal case, those who developed narcolepsy in the UK after getting the vaccine are eligible for compensation and it’s thought that around a hundred people in the UK were affected. In the UK, the approved Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is “not routinely recommended for children and young people under 16 years of age”. There may be some cases, for example, if children have complex needs and spend lots of time in specialised residential units where giving them the vaccine may be appropriate. ## Infertility > “The vaccinations are expected to produce antibodies against spike proteins > of SARS-CoV-2. However, spike proteins also contain syncytin-homologous > proteins, which are essential for the formation of the placenta in mammals > such as humans.” There’s no evidence that the vaccine can cause infertility, and it almost certainly won’t. We’ve written extensively about this here. Correction 22 January 2021 We previously wrote that we had not found evidence of 70% of people having antibodies against PEG. A reader pointed us towards such a study, and we have now included reference to that paper. * By Grace Rahman * Share this: * Twitter * Facebook ## Was this helpful? Full Fact fights for good, reliable information in the media, online, and in politics. 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See the sources for this fact-check New college graduates had just moved their tassels from one side to the other when they were hit with a cold reality check about student loans. It came in this attack from the left on President Joe Biden: \"Biden just dropped student debt cancellation down to zero. That’s right, the Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt.\" The claim was made May 24 in a tweet that was widely shared on Instagram, including in a post that was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Biden did not include student debt forgiveness, one of his campaign promises, in his 2022 federal budget proposal. But he is still pursuing forgiveness options, including determining whether it would be legal to do so through an executive order and calling on Congress to act. The White House has asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to review the president’s legal authority to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt per borrower. Biden promised to forgive student debt The critical tweet came from the Gravel Institute, whose \"mission is to build the institutions the left needs to win.\" It is named for Democrat Mike Gravel, the former Alaska senator and presidential candidate. The tweet was followed by another stating that Biden took student loan cancellation out of his budget because Congress won\'t pass it — an apparent reference to the difficulty of getting Republican support for such legislation in the Senate. Hopes for relief are high because of the rise in student debt and Biden’s pledge to tackle it. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on August 29, 2024 in a post on Instagram “BREAKING: Illegal Aliens in San Diego, California, tried to hijack 2 school buses filled with children.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Madison Czopek • September 4, 2024 Student loan debt exceeded $1.73 trillion in the first quarter of 2021, nearly double what it was 10 years earlier, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The median amount of education debt in 2020 among those with any outstanding debt for their own education was between $20,000 and $24,999, according to a Federal Reserve Board survey. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden promised \"for debt-holders earning up to $125,000\" to \"forgive all undergraduate tuition-related federal student debt\" from two- and four-year public colleges and universities; and from private historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions. He also pledged to take other steps to help student borrowers. No move yet to erase student debt Less than a month after Biden took office, a widely shared Facebook post claimed that Biden \"really did wipe away\" student loan debt. We rated it False. He extended a pause on federal student loan payments, but did not cancel debt. Three days before the Gravel Institute’s tweet, the Washington Post reported that student loan debt forgiveness was expected to be left out of Biden’s 2022 federal budget proposal, according to four people who spoke on condition of anonymity. Biden’s budget was released May 28 and contained no mention of student loans. But for student debt forgiveness, Biden is also pursuing a possible executive order and has expressed desire for Congress to take action. He has also drawn limits. New York Times columnist David Brooks recently interviewed Biden and described him as suspicious of generous college debt forgiveness plans suggested by the left. \"The idea that you go to Penn and you’re paying a total of 70,000 bucks a year and the public should pay for that? I don’t agree,\" Biden said, referring to the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League school. Bankrate said the news of Biden’s budget plan led \"experts to believe that cancellation may not happen anytime soon.\" White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in April: \"The President continues to call on Congress to cancel $10,000 in debt for student loan borrowers. That’s something Congress could take an action on and he’d be happy to sign. We’re still taking a closer look at our options on student loans.\" Our ruling A widely shared social media post claimed: \"The Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt.\" Biden’s 2022 federal budget proposal does not include a provision for student debt forgiveness. But Biden is still considering options, including an executive order, for student debt forgiveness. For a statement that contains only an element of truth, our rating is Mostly False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Instagram, post, May 25, 2021 Twitter, Gravel Institute tweet, May 24, 2021 PolitiFact, \"Joe Biden has not canceled student loan debt,\" Feb. 4, 2021 Washington Post, \"White House budget plan set to leave out some health care proposals from campaign,\" May 21, 2021 Mother Jones, \"Joe Biden Has Publicly Trashed Student Debt Forgiveness. But Behind the Scenes, He’s Made Democrats Hopeful,\" May 28, 2021 CNBC, \"Biden asks Education secretary to see if he can legally cancel student debt,\" April 1, 2021 The White House, \"Budget of the U.S. Government — fiscal year 2022\" May 28, 2021 The White House, \"Fact Sheet: The President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2022,\" May 28, 2021 Bankrate, \"Federal student loan forgiveness update: See where the latest policies and proposals stand,\" May 26, 2021 Fox News, \"White House investigating Biden\'s authority to cancel student debt,\" April 1, 2021 New York Times, \"Has Biden Changed? 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credible evidence of biological weapons.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • July 18, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 26, 2023 in a Facebook post: Video suggests Canada wildfires were deliberately set to advance “smart cities” push. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 30, 2023 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on August 26, 2023 in a video: Women vaccinated against COVID-19 face \"unknown side effects that could perpetually go down through the lineage\" to their children. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2023 in a Facebook post: As of Aug. 25, \"Luis Rubiales has resigned as the president of the Spanish Football Federation.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2023 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on August 24, 2023 in an Instagram post: The World Health Organization said there is \"a possible causal relationship\" between COVID-19 vaccines and multiple sclerosis. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 28, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 9, 2023 in a Facebook post: Video shows military planes over Nashville \"dispersing materials into the atmosphere\" for geoengineering. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 23, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 20, 2023 in a Facebook post: “Official statement — Putin assassinated in the Kremlin!” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Tom Kertscher • August 22, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 8, 2023 in a Facebook post: \"The federal government has just declared a major food shortage emergency\" in six states. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 16, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Steve Kirsch stated on August 8, 2023 in a blog post: COVID-19 vaccines have killed 676,000 Americans. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Tom Kertscher • August 14, 2023 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on August 6, 2023 in a viral image: California passed a law “reducing penalties for oral, anal sex with willing children.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 9, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on June 22, 2023 in a post: A new law allows people to permanently erase unpaid debt older than two years from their credit records. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 1, 2023 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on July 28, 2023 in a video: “Skin cancer is a relatively new phenomenon in the last 60 years or so.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 1, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on July 26, 2023 in a Facebook post: Says Bill Gates said, “We’re taking things that are genetically modified organisms, and we’re injecting them into little kids’ arms” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • July 31, 2023 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on July 19, 2023 in an Instagram post: A wind turbine must “spin continually for over four years just to replace the energy it took to manufacture it.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on July 15, 2023 in un video en TikTok: \"Biden elimina ‘tráfico sexual de menores’ como una de las prioridades del Departamento de Justicia de su gobierno”. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Maria Briceño • July 25, 2023 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on July 17, 2023 in an Instagram post: \"Florida to ban mRNA vaccines as credible evidence of biological weapons.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • July 18, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 26, 2023 in a Facebook post: Video suggests Canada wildfires were deliberately set to advance “smart cities” push. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 30, 2023 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on August 26, 2023 in a video: Women vaccinated against COVID-19 face \"unknown side effects that could perpetually go down through the lineage\" to their children. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2023 in a Facebook post: As of Aug. 25, \"Luis Rubiales has resigned as the president of the Spanish Football Federation.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2023 ### Student debt forgiveness is not in Biden’s 2022 budget, but it’s still in play * ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on September 22, 2024 in una publicación enTikTok: En el sur de Filadelfia, la campaña de Kamala Harris “está pagando a la gente $700 por semana para viajar y asistir a todos sus eventos”. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Maria Briceño • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 25, 2024 in an Instagram post: Hurricane Helene was the product of intentional weather modification. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 25, 2024 in a post: Video shows footage of Hurricane Helene ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Grace Abels • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Vote No on 3 stated on September 7, 2024 in a TV ad: Florida’s Amendment 3 is “the monopoly amendment.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Samantha Putterman • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Jared Moskowitz stated on September 19, 2024 in una audiencia en la Cámara de Representantes: “El Proyecto 2025 quiere deshacerse de la NOAA” y del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Maria Briceño • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on September 24, 2024 in social media posts: Vice President Kamala Harris responded, “Next question please,” when asked about the economy during an Aug. 29 CNN interview. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sofia Ahmed • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Threads posts stated on September 18, 2024 in a Threads post: Melania Trump “was an escort.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 23, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Serena Williams reportedly passes away following tragic car crash in Texas.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 25, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Elon Musk silences Taylor Swift: Shocking ban wipes out 1 million followers and costs her a staggering $72 million!” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on April 23, 2019 in a tweet: \"In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"pants- fire\\"](\\" * National * Economy * History * Polls and Public Opinion * Donald Trump ![\\"President](\\" President Harry Truman, shown at his 1949 inauguration, experienced nearly two years of low unemployment and low approval ratings, due largely to the Korean War. (Wikimedia Commons) ![\\"Louis](\\" By Louis Jacobson April 23, 2019 # No, Donald Trump is not the first president with low approval amid a good economy During an hours-long tweetstorm, President Donald Trump complained that he wasn’t getting enough credit for presiding over a strong economy. In an early morning tweet on April 23, Trump wrote, \"In the ‘old days’ if you were President and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism. Remember, ‘It’s the economy stupid.’ Today I have, as President, perhaps the greatest economy in history...and to the Mainstream Media, it means NOTHING. But it will!\" > In the “old days” if you were President and you had a good economy, you were > basically immune from criticism. Remember, “It’s the economy stupid.” Today > I have, as President, perhaps the greatest economy in history...and to the > Mainstream Media, it means NOTHING. But it will! > > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2019 We wondered whether Trump was right that historically, \"if you were President and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism.\" (His mention of \"It\'s the economy, stupid,\" was something Bill Clinton\'s 1992 presidential campaign team would say to remind themselves to stay on message.) Short answer: Trump is wrong. Looking at approval ratings For starters, we’ll note that \"criticism\" of government leaders is virtually inevitable given the First Amendment, which protects \"freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\" \"Presidents have never been ‘immune’ to criticism, regardless of the economy,\" said Jeremi Suri, a historian at the University of Texas and its Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. \"From Washington to Trump, every president has faced serious criticism from domestic adversaries and various groups. That is as American as apple pie.\" But even if you define the issue more broadly, Trump’s statement lacks evidence. For a quick-and-dirty analysis, we looked at two statistics that measure the strength of the economy and public support for every post-World War II president: the unemployment rate, and the president’s approval rating from the polling firm Gallup. We found four presidents -- Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush -- who experienced roughly similar low unemployment rates as Trump but whose approval percentages ranged from the low 20s to the high 30s. Here’s a summary: ![](\\" NHhE1IlkzD8HxRiLkdRLG6JKWnQaWlm4aUZKWRhzXo4WZr5Pg7CNQ8xe-jrWd- XdfW__97vxTsIovRdhrodSVxTZF2gtwvoEH9HHFPEeun7pz-50T\\"/) #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on September 11, 2024 in an Instagram post \"Debate moderators made the false claim to Donald Trump that there is nowhere in the United States where abortion is legal up until birth.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • September 13, 2024 Truman’s strong-economy doldrums lasted for the better part of two years, Johnson’s for a year and a half, Nixon’s for a couple of months, and Bush’s for about six months. What they all shared is a major issue other than the economy that sapped public support. \"If a president has a good economy, it gives them the chance to get a good approval rating -- but it’s not a guarantee,\" said Jeffrey A. Engel, director of the Southern Methodist University Center for Presidential History. For Truman, Johnson and Bush, a war proved unpopular. For Nixon, it was Watergate. \"War, when it is protracted, tends to be a downer for presidential approval,\" said Bert A. Rockman, an emeritus political science professor at Purdue University. \"All things being equal, a booming economy is a help to a president, unless they are caught up in conflicts that produce high numbers of casualties over a protracted period of time and that seem to be at an impasse.\" Johnson faced problems beyond the Vietnam War. \"I think he could have survived the war if not for race riots and assassinations,\" Engel said. \"It wasn’t just one thing. It was the multiplicity of them.\" Even presidents who maintain their approval ratings aren’t immune from \"criticism\" during good economic times, Suri said. Johnson and Bill Clinton \"were presidents during two of the best economic periods in post-war U.S. history, but both faced intensive criticism from Republicans and some Democrats,\" Suri said. \"The Republicans impeached Clinton at a moment of very low unemployment, strong economic growth, and even a budget surplus.\" (Clinton’s approval rating on the eve of his impeachment vote in the House was 63 percent.) Low unemployment rates don’t guarantee that everyone will be happy with the economy, either, Suri added. \"There is also the question of who benefits from good economic numbers,\" he said. \"Growing inequality, despite low unemployment, has been a source of criticism for all presidents since at least Nixon.\" The White House did not respond to an inquiry. Our ruling Trump said, \"In the ‘old days’ if you were President and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism.\" Even setting aside the constitutionally protected right of Americans to petition the government with their grievances, Trump lacks basic evidence for his assertion. At least four prior presidents served during good economic times yet had approval ratings lower than Trump’s are currently, usually because of wars or scandal. We rate the statement Pants on Fire. Share the Facts 2019-04-23 20:14:16 UTC PolitiFact ![\\"PolitiFact\\"](\\" 1 1 7 ![\\"PolitiFact](\\" pof.png\\") PolitiFact Rating: Pants on Fire \"In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism.\" Donald Trump President ![](\\" a tweet Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2019-04-23 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Donald Trump, tweet, April 23, 2019 Text of the First Amendment Gallup, Presidential Job Approval Center, accessed April 23, 2019 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, national unemployment rate, accessed April 23, 2019 Email interview with Bert A. Rockman, emeritus political science professor at Purdue University, April 23, 2019 Email interview with David Greenberg, Rutgers University historian, April 23, 2019 Email interview with Jeremi Suri, historian at the University of Texas and its Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, April 23, 2019 Interview with Jeffrey A. Engel, director of the Southern Methodist University Center for Presidential History, April 23, 2019 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Louis Jacobson ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in su discurso de aceptación en la Convención Nacional Demócrata: El expresidente Donald Trump “tiene la intención de promulgar lo que, en efecto, es un impuesto nacional sobre las ventas…que elevaría los precios para las familias de clase media a casi $4,000 al año”. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 5, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a campaign event in Glendale, Ariz.: “There’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: Former President Donald Trump \"intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Sheehy stated on September 27, 2024 in an ad: U.S. Sen. Jon Tester “voted to give taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 25, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC: “Even before the pandemic, (Donald Trump) lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Sheehy stated on September 10, 2024 in an op-ed: Jon Tester “supported slashing Social Security benefits” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on September 21, 2024 in in Bethlehem, Pa.: “Donald Trump added more to the national debt than any other president, ever.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Senate Leadership Fund stated on September 17, 2024 in a TV ad: “Two years ago, Bob Casey promised us his vote will reduce inflation. ... Casey’s vote for reckless spending” made inflation worse. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on September 21, 2024 in an event in Bethlehem, Pa.: “The last union member on a national ticket (was) Ronald Reagan.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 12, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina: Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jon Tester stated on September 6, 2024 in a Facebook ad: “Tim Sheehy told us his health care plan: ‘We need to return health care to pure privatization.’ That would eliminate Medicare.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 13, 2024 in a rally in Las Vegas: Vice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Sheehy stated on August 21, 2024 in an X post: The “‘Inflation Reduction Act’ increased inflation and drove prices sky high!” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jon Tester stated on September 8, 2024 in a Facebook ad: Tim Sheehy “would let politicians like him ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape or to save a woman’s life, and criminalize women.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 7, 2024 in a rally in Mosinee, Wis.: Vice President Kamala Harris “cast the tiebreaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing a typical American family $28,000.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in su discurso de aceptación en la Convención Nacional Demócrata: El expresidente Donald Trump “tiene la intención de promulgar lo que, en efecto, es un impuesto nacional sobre las ventas…que elevaría los precios para las familias de clase media a casi $4,000 al año”. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 5, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a campaign event in Glendale, Ariz.: “There’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: Former President Donald Trump \"intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Sheehy stated on September 27, 2024 in an ad: U.S. Sen. Jon Tester “voted to give taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 25, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC: “Even before the pandemic, (Donald Trump) lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Sheehy stated on September 10, 2024 in an op-ed: Jon Tester “supported slashing Social Security benefits” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024 ### No, Donald Trump is not the first president with low approval amid a good economy * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on September 30, 2024 in a Threads post: Image shows a photo of former President Donald Trump wading through floodwater after Hurricane Helene. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • October 2, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2024 in a rally in Erie, PA: Kamala Harris \"let in the 13,099 convicted murderers and opposes all efforts to find them and to remove them.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Marta Campabadal Graus • October 2, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 25, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Georgia coach Kirby Smart\'s family ends relationship with Taylor Swift: ‘We do not support her endorsement.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • October 1, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on September 20, 2024 in a Facebook post: “TD Jakes MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHES: The search for the renowned bishop begins!” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • October 1, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 29, 2024 in X posts: A biolab caught fire in Georgia right before the 2024 election. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • October 1, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2024 in a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania: Vice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" House Majority PAC stated on September 9, 2024 in a television ad: Laurie Buckhout is “trying to get to Congress to pass a national abortion ban, allowing politicians to ban abortions with no exceptions and prosecute women if they get an abortion, treating women right here like criminals.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Paul Specht • October 1, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump Jr. stated on September 9, 2024 in a post: “Less than three months ago, Kamala Harris and her administration blocked 300,000 unvetted Haitian migrants from being deported out of our country.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • September 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 30, 2024 in an X post: Photo shows President Joe Biden lounging on the beach \"while towns all over America were being wiped out” by Hurricane Helene. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Samantha Putterman • September 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on September 30, 2024 in in social media posts: “Biden Announces: ‘2.4 billion more to Ukraine’ but ‘no more aid for Hurricane Helene.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • September 30, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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Skip to content W.A. ![\\"Boatos.org-logo-1](\\" content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-Boatos.org-logo-1-2023.png\\") Search for... * About * Contact * Advertise Search for... W.A. ![\\"Boatos.org-logo-1](\\" content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-Boatos.org-logo-1-2023.png\\") Search for... * About * Contact * Advertise Search for... You are in: Home > World > **Tattoo artist from Germany gives tattoos free from Putin to Ukrainian patients #rumor** # Tattoo artist from Germany gives free Putin tattoos to Ukrainian patients #rumor * World * 06/16/2023 * by Edgard Matsuki ![\\"Tatuador](\\" from-Germany-gives-free-Putin-tattoos-to-Ukrainian-patients-says rumor.jpg\\") Rumor – Deutsche Welle video shows that one of the oldest tattoo artists in Germany is giving free Vladimir Putin tattoos to Ukrainians. Much of the disinformation about the Ukraine war has been through narratives created by “lie machines” (any similarity to the Brazil is not a mere coincidence). The one we are going to talk about today tries to instill the idea that Vladimir Putin would be the target of a “promotion”. A video attributed to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle is circulating online social. It tells the story of a German tattoo artist who would be giving free tattoos of Putin's face to Ukrainians who are hospitalized. The objective would be to make “Putin die with the people”. Read excerpts from the message circulating online (originally in English): _One of Germany's oldest tattoo artists gives Putin and Kadyrov tattoos to a Ukrainian patient for free Patients thus demonstrate their support for Ukraine. These people call themselves “living voodoo dolls”. Your tattoos they are portraits of Russian leaders._ ## Tattoo artist from Germany gives free Putin tattoos to Ukrainian patients? > ## Ancelmo Gois wrote a text criticizing Eduardo Paes? We check The somewhat picturesque story spread on social media. However, it is genuine fake news. The truth came to light when we decided to look for the alleged information in Deutsche Welle itself. Not only did we not find it, but We also found a denial. In reality, this story went viral in 2022. At the time, DW made a article pointing out that the story is not true, that there is false information in the video and that it was not created by the German public broadcaster. DW pointed out that the scenes, in addition to not being from the network, do not show a palliative care center. They show, in reality, the history of the most old man being tattooed in the world. Furthermore, the tattoo artist is identified in a wrong, there are errors in Portuguese and even in the typography of the German broadcaster. I.e: It's the complete package of fakes. In short: it is false that there is a German tattoo artist doing tattoos of Vladimir Putin for free for elderly Ukrainians. Neither the story is real nor Deutsche Welle spoke on the subject. 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The Government approved pan-India implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), a centrally sponsored conditional cash transfer scheme in May. As per the information available, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) is implementing PMMVY with the objectives of * providing partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of cash incentive so that the woman can take adequate rest before and after delivery of the first child; and * the cash incentive provided to improve health seeking behaviour amongst the Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers (PW&LM). While the total number of beneficiaries enrolled for the scheme is 56.29 lakh as of December 2018, the number of beneficiaries who got paid the money are 46.54 lakh. A similar program existed during the UPA, known as the Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY). The Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) was also implemented during the UPA. JSY was seen to have given positive results. > Claim: Providing economic support to pregnant women and lactating > mothers.Fact: The PMMVY scheme is for providing partial compensation for the > wage loss in terms of cash incentive so that the woman can take adequate > rest before and after delivery of the first child. Hence, the claim is TRUE. > However, similar schemes existed during the UPA as well and the PMMVY is > applicable during the birth of the first child only. What is the amount of cash incentive being given to pregnant women? The second claim is that ‘cash incentive of 6000 rupees to the pregnant/lactating women to help her recover’. According to an answer in Lok Sabha ‘the maternity benefit under PMMVY is available to the eligible beneficiaries for first living child of family. Normally, the first pregnancy of a woman exposes her to new kinds of challenges and stress factors. Hence, the scheme provides support to the mother for the safe delivery and immunization of her first child. Under the scheme Rs. 5,000 is provided to the eligible beneficiary in three installments. The eligible beneficiary also receives the remaining cash incentive as per approved norms towards maternity benefit under Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) after institutional delivery so that on an average, a woman gets Rs.6,000’. > Claim: Cash incentive of 6000 rupees to the pregnant/lactating women to help > her recover.Fact: The eligible beneficiaries of the scheme receive Rs. 5000 > in 3 installments. An additional Rs. 1000 given to the beneficiary under the > Janani Suraksha Yojana, which was launched in 2005 during the UPA. Hence, > the claim is MISLEADING. Is the scheme ensuring timely check-ups? The third claim is that it is ‘ensuring timely check-ups’. One of the three conditions of being eligible for the scheme is that the woman must have received at least on ante-natal check-up (after 6 months of pregnancy). The other two are early registration of pregnancy and registration of the child birth & vaccination of the child. The money is paid in three installments depending on the beneficiary meeting the criteria. This guarantees one check- up. The entire scheme of check-ups and other criteria is very similar to the Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY). > Claim: Ensuring timely check-ups.Fact: One of the preconditions of the > scheme is that the woman must have received at least on ante-natal check-up > (after 6 months of pregnancy). This mandates only one check-up 6 months > after the pregnancy and no continuity. And also, almost all the criteria are > similar to the UPA scheme Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana. Hence, the > claim that PMMVY ensures timely check-ups is MISLEADING. How many women are benefitting every year? The fourth claim is that ‘more than 50 lakh women expected to benefit every year’. The maternity benefits under PMMVY are available to the eligible beneficiaries for first living child of family. About 51.70 lakh beneficiaries are covered annually under PMMVY. However, it has to be noted that this is the expected number of beneficiaries every year and the actual number of women who received the amount could be higher or lower than 50 lakh. > Claim: More than 50 lakh women expected to benefit every year.Fact: About > 51.70 lakh beneficiaries are covered annually under PMMVY. Hence, this is > the number of people covered and not the number of people might receive the > cash transfer. Hence, the claim that the scheme is expected to benefit more > than 50 lakh is TRUE. This story is part of a larger series on the 4-years of the Modi government. This series has been made possible with the flash grant of the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN). 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On October 22, the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti ran a story on President Vladimir Putin giving an order to draw up a list of counter- sanctions against Ukraine in retaliation for that country’s sanctions against Russia. RIA Novosti cited a statement on the Kremlin’s website which described the measures as a response to “actions of Ukraine that are unfriendly and contrary to international law, (and) are related to the introduction of restrictive measures against citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation.\" According to the RIA Novosti story, relations between the two countries soured after a “coup,” the “return” of Crimea to Russia, and the “beginning of the conflict in the Donbas.” At no time is Russian complicity in the latter two developments mentioned. First, Polygraph.info and others have thoroughly refuted the claim that the 2014 Maidan revolution was a coup. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a coup as “a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics,” such as “the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.” In the case of Ukraine, there is ample evidence to show that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled from Kyiv and finally from Ukraine altogether not because he feared for his life or was threatened with actual violence, but rather on his own volition to avoid prosecution for numerous crimes he had allegedly committed while in office. ![\\"UKRAINE](\\" UKRAINE – A pro-European integration supporter washes a banner with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin near a barricade in Independence Square where the supporters are holding a rally, in Kyiv January 9, 2014 Protests did not turn violent until after government snipers and riot police killed several protestors on February 20. Security camera footage and eyewitness testimony shows Yanukovych had prepared to leave Kyiv the day before, and two days prior to the signing of the February 21 agreement, which was to end the violence on the streets of the capital. Yanukovych fled Kyiv in the early morning hours of February 22, not long after signing the agreement. ![\\"Ukraine](\\" Ukraine - Uniformed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, march outside a Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalnoye outside Simferopol, March 5, 2014 As for Crimea, it did not “return” to Russia. Putin’s government staged a largely bloodless takeover of the peninsula, taking control of the local parliament in Simferopol using military force, and then within a few weeks staged a “referendum” which was not observed by any reputable international election monitors. The United Nations adopted a resolution stating the referendum had “no validity,” and so most of the world’s nations recognize Crimea as a territory of Ukraine under Russian occupation. Lastly, Russian officials have denied involvement in the military conflict in Donbas despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Russian claims that the conflict in eastern Ukraine was a spontaneous local uprising have been contradicted by some of the key Russian operatives involved. The “rebels” have been shown to possess large numbers of serviceable tanks, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery, among other military hardware. Russian authorities have yet to come up with a plausible explanation for the “rebels’” surplus of Russian military equipment, although on one occasion they claimed all this was dug out of abandoned mines. ![\\'UKRAINE](\\" UKRAINE -- \"Pro-Russian rebel\" tank takes part in a military exercise on a shooting range near Luhansk, September 25, 2018 Given the loss of its territory and the fact that the war in Donbas has killed over 10,000 people and displaced nearly two million others, it is Russia, not Ukraine, that objectively bears responsibility for the worsening of relations. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Sean Ryan stated on March 1, 2017 in a press conference: \"Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" true/3d4df195c595a07e3fd69b5e4aab3e3c.jpg.\\") ![\\"true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * Immigration * New York * Sean Ryan ![\\"Members](\\" Members of the Assembly and advocates rally for state funding for refugee resettlement agencies in New York on Mar. 1, 2017. By Dan Clark March 4, 2017 # Here\'s where refugees settled in New York state in 2016 A group of state lawmakers wants Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to include $12 million for refugee resettlement agencies in the next state budget. Federal funding for those agencies could be at risk if the U.S. places a temporary ban on refugees entering the country. President Donald Trump, in his January executive order on immigration, placed a temporary 120-day suspension on refugees entering the United States as well as a travel ban on seven mostly Muslim countries. That order has been halted by a federal judge. Trump also ordered limiting to 50,000 the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. in 2017. The number allowed into the U.S. was 110,000 under former President Barack Obama. The federal money goes to resettlement agencies when they receive new refugees. That funding could dry up with a refugee ban in place and if fewer refugees are placed in New York state. The state does not provide funding to these agencies. Assemblyman Sean Ryan, D-Buffalo, called the funding especially important for upstate communities, where most refugees are placed. \"We know that refugees are a great economic driver in the communities we represent,\" Ryan said at a press conference. \"Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.\" That number does not include the number of immigrants who entered New York last year. Immigrants are typically people who move somewhere by choice to improve their lives while refugees are trying to escape from persecution or armed conflict, like in Syria. Is Ryan right about how many refugees resettled in New York state last year? Federal fiscal year data New York state accepted 5,026 refugees in the federal fiscal year that ran from October 2015 through September 2016, the third most in the country, according to the Department of State. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Byron Donalds stated on August 6, 2024 in an interview \"Tim Walz signed into law driver\'s licenses for illegal immigrants in Minnesota.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" true/3d4df195c595a07e3fd69b5e4aab3e3c.jpg.\\") ![\\"true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Maria Briceño • August 9, 2024 Upstate New York accepted 4,722, or 94 percent, of the refugees. New York City accepted 5.6 percent of them. The few remaining refugees went to Long Island or the New York City suburbs. Thirty-six percent of the refugees went to Erie County. Onondaga County took in the second-highest percentage of refugees, almost 25 percent. Calendar year data Ryan did not say if he was talking about the 2016 federal fiscal year or the 2016 calendar year. The data is typically reported by federal fiscal year. We checked both. During the 2016 calendar year, 5,830 refugees were resettled in New York state. Upstate New York accepted 5,430, or 93 percent, of them. Downstate New York accepted the rest. Erie and Onondaga counties also accepted the most refugees. Erie County took 1,966 of the state’s refugees. Onondaga accepted 1,092 refugees. Our ruling Ryan said, \"Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York State, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.\" Department of State figures, collected during the refugee vetting process, support Ryan’s point. The numbers closely match data from both the federal fiscal year and the calendar year. We rate his claim as True. Share the Facts Politifact ![\\"Politifact\\"](\\" logo-big.jpg\\"/) 0 6 ![\\"Politifact](\\" facts/rating_images/politifact/tom-true.png\\") Politifact Rating: True \"Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.\" Sean Ryan Assemblyman ![](\\" New York Wednesday, March 1, 2017 03/01/2017 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Email conversation with Assemblyman Sean Ryan Data obtained from the Department of State’s Refugee Processing Data Interactive Data tool, Feb. 21, 2017 Email and phone conversation with the Department of State Communications Office Email and phone conversation with Timothy Ruffinen from the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance Information on the refugee admittance process from the Department of State, Accessed Feb. 21, 2017 Pres. Donald J. Trump\'s Executive Order on Immigration, Jan. 27, 2017 \'Refugee or Migrant - Which is Right?\' From the UN Refugee Agency \"President Obama to Increase Refugees Admitted to U.S. by 30%\", Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2016 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Dan Clark slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tom King stated on March 26, 2018 in a radio interview: A bill in Congress \"will ban all semi-automatic weapons, including pistols and shotguns. So, yes, they are coming to take away our guns.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • March 29, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Andrew Cuomo stated on March 12, 2018 in a press conference: \"The only housing authority in the state that we have actually given money to is NYCHA.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • March 23, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Cynthia Nixon stated on March 20, 2018 in her announcement to run for governor: \"Since taking office, Andrew Cuomo has given massive tax breaks to corporations and the super rich.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • March 23, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on May 30, 2018 in a tweet: Rep. Dan Donovan \"voted for Tax Cuts\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • June 4, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Christine Quinn stated on May 23, 2018 in a presentation at the State Democratic Convention: New York state has the \"second highest millionaires tax in the nation.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • May 31, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on May 10, 2018 in a tweet: \"Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Edward Cox stated on May 1, 2018 in an interview on The Capital Pressroom: Marc Molinaro \"has cut taxes, his budget now is lower than it was six years ago\" in Dutchess County ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Hakeem Jeffries stated on April 29, 2018 in an interview on CNN: President Donald Trump’s budget \"threatened to cut $2 trillion from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • May 4, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Chele Farley stated on April 23, 2018 in an interview on Capital Tonight: \"Kirsten Gillibrand has put forward 331 bills since she\'s been in Congress. Do you know how many of them have been passed into law? Zero!\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • May 4, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" James Tedisco stated on April 13, 2018 in a blog post : After the minimum wage for tipped workers was raised in Maine, the state \"reversed that decision due to restaurant employees organizing en masse against the measure.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • April 26, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kirsten Gillibrand stated on April 20, 2018 in a tweet: \"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Andrew Cuomo stated on April 11, 2018 in a conversation with reporters: \"I think we\'re actually ahead\" on legalizing marijuana for recreational use in New York state. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • April 17, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Marc Molinaro stated on April 2, 2018 in a conversation with reporters: New York has \"among the highest tax burdens of any state in the nation\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • April 12, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Brian Kolb stated on March 31, 2018 in a statement on the state budget: This year’s state budget \"continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • April 9, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Cynthia Nixon stated on March 26, 2018 in a press conference: Four years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised universal pre-K, \"79 percent of 4-year olds outside New York City lack full-day pre-K.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • March 30, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tom King stated on March 26, 2018 in a radio interview: A bill in Congress \"will ban all semi-automatic weapons, including pistols and shotguns. So, yes, they are coming to take away our guns.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • March 29, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Andrew Cuomo stated on March 12, 2018 in a press conference: \"The only housing authority in the state that we have actually given money to is NYCHA.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • March 23, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Cynthia Nixon stated on March 20, 2018 in her announcement to run for governor: \"Since taking office, Andrew Cuomo has given massive tax breaks to corporations and the super rich.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • March 23, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on May 30, 2018 in a tweet: Rep. Dan Donovan \"voted for Tax Cuts\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • June 4, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Christine Quinn stated on May 23, 2018 in a presentation at the State Democratic Convention: New York state has the \"second highest millionaires tax in the nation.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Dan Clark • May 31, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on May 10, 2018 in a tweet: \"Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018 ### Here\'s where refugees settled in New York state in 2016 * ![](\\" ![](\\" J.D. Vance stated on August 7, 2024 in a campaign event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Grace Abels • August 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Threads posts stated on August 25, 2024 in Threads post: Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Kamala Harris used to be a man named Kamal Aroush. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • August 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Jeffrey Barke stated on August 23, 2024 in an Instagram post: Food and Drug Administration approval for updated COVID-19 vaccines requires a public health emergency declaration. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • August 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Jesse James stated on May 13, 2024 in News conference: In Wisconsin, “a legislative committee cannot release funding.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Laura Schulte • August 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 14, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Nike announces termination of contract with Brittney Griner after ‘strong backlash’ from online community.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 27, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Threads posts stated on August 23, 2024 in a Threads post: Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison said on CNBC, “If conservatives do not like our values, they should take their money to Home Depot.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • August 26, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 20, 2024 in a Facebook post: “All students who knelt during the national anthem were rounded up and removed from scholarships” at the University of Texas. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 26, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on August 19, 2024 in a post: Kamala Harris has adopted the Nazi-rooted phrase “Strength Through Joy” as her campaign slogan. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • August 26, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 22, 2024 in Facebook posts: Jason Aldean rejected a $500 million music collaboration with Taylor Swift. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • August 26, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 21, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook: “Elon Musk pide la prohibición de ‘The View’, ‘prefiero caminar descalzo sobre asfalto caliente que ver The View’”. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Marta Campabadal Graus • August 26, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" Ganganagar-Police-Station-Thumbnail-702x336.jpg\\") Fake News, Telugu # 2014లో పాకిస్తాన్ లో తప్పిపోయిన బాలుడి ఫోటోని తప్పుడు కథనంతో ఇప్పుడు మళ్ళీ షేర్ చేస్తున్నారు 0 By Anusha Rao on March 20, 2024 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit ఒక బాలుడు తప్పిపోయి 45 రోజుల నుండి రాజస్థాన్ రాష్ట్రం గంగానగర్ పోలీస్ స్టేషన్ లో ఉంటున్నాడు అని క్లెయిమ్ చేస్తూ ఒక ఫోటోని సోషల్ మీడియాలో షేర్ చేస్తున్నారు (ఇక్కడ, ఇక్కడ, ఇక్కడ). ఈ ఫోటోని ఇతరులకి షేర్ చేసి ఈ బాలుడు తన తల్లిదండ్రులని చేరుకునేలా సాయం చేయమని ఆ ఫోటో కింద అభ్యర్థిస్తున్నారు. ఆ క్లెయిమ్ లో ఎంతవరకు నిజం ఉందో చూద్దాం. ![\\"\\"](\\" Ganganagar-Police-Station-Claim-Image.jpg\\") > క్లెయిమ్: 45 రోజుల నుండి గంగానగర్ పోలీస్ స్టేషన్ లో ఉంటున్న తప్పిపోయిన > బాలుడి ఫోటో. > > ఫాక్ట్ (FACT): వైరల్ అవుతున్న ఫోటో సోషల్ మీడియాలో 2015 నుండే షేర్ అవుతోంది. > తప్పిపోయిన బాలుడు రాజస్తాన్ రాష్ట్రంలోని శ్రీ గంగానగర్ జిల్లా పోలీసులు > కస్టడీలోకి తీసుకోలేదని శ్రీ గంగానగర్ జిల్లా పోలీస్ స్టేషన్, అప్పటి భారత > విదేశాంగ మంత్రి సుష్మ స్వరాజ్ కూడా వివరణ ఇచ్చారు. పాకిస్థాన్ లోని చార్ సద్దా > జిల్లాకి చెందిన ఈ బాలుడు 6 జూన్ 2014లో తప్పిపోయాడు. 2015లో కొంతమంది ఇదే > ఫోటోను సోషల్ మీడియాలో షేర్ చేసి మక్కా, ఖోర్రంధార మరియు ఇతర పోలీస్ స్టేషన్ > లలో ఈ బాలున్ని పోలీసులు కస్టడీలోకి తీసుకున్నట్టు చెప్పారు. కావున, పోస్టులో > చేసిన క్లెయిమ్ తప్పు. తప్పిపోయాడని వైరల్ అవుతున్న బాలుడి ఫోటోని రివర్స్ ఇమేజ్ సెర్చ్ చేయగా, ఇదే ఫోటో 2015 నుండే సోషల్ మీడియాలో షేర్ అవుతూ కనిపించింది. దానికి సంబంధించిన పోస్టులను ఇక్కడ, ఇక్కడ చూడవచ్చు. ఈ పోస్టులలో కూడా ఈ బాలుడు తన ఇంటినుండి తప్పిపోయి, 45 రోజుల నుండి గంగానగర్ పోలీస్ స్టేషన్ లో ఉన్నట్టు పేర్కొన్నారు. ఈ ఫోటో గురించి మరింత సమాచారం కోసం వెతకగా ఫరా ఖాన్ అనే ఒక జర్నలిస్ట్ ఇదే బాలుడి ఫోటోని 2016లో ట్వీట్ చేసి ఏడేళ్ల బాలుడు, రెండు సంవత్సరాల క్రితం పాకిస్థాన్ నుండి తప్పిపోయి భారతదేశంలో ఉన్న రాజస్థాన్ రాష్ట్రంలో కనుగొనబడ్డాడని పేర్కొంది. ![\\"\\"](\\" content/uploads//2024/03/Twitter-1024x864.jpg\\") పైన లభించిన సమాచారంతో ఇంటర్నెట్ లో వెతకగా పాకిస్తాన్ కి చెందిన ‘DAWN’ అనే ఒక న్యూస్ వెబ్సైటులో 29 మే 2016న ప్రచురించిన ఈ బాలుడి ఫోటోతో కూడిన ఒక కథనం లభించింది. ఈ కథనం ప్రకారం ఫోటోలో ఉన్న బాలుడి పేరు తుఫాయిల్ ఇస్మాయిల్, చార్ సద్దాకి చెందిన ఇతడు ఐదేళ్లు ఉన్నపుడు వాళ్ళ కుటుంబం సర్దర్యాబ్ నుండి టెర్నాబ్ కి ఇల్లు మారుతున్నప్పుడు తప్పిపోయినట్టు తెలిసింది. 6 జూన్ 2014న తప్పిపోయిన ఇతడు రెండు సంవత్సరాల తరువాత భారత్ లోని రాజస్థాన్ రాష్ట్రంలో గంగా నగర్ పోలీస్ కస్టడీలో ఉన్నట్టు ఈ కథనం పేర్కొంది. ఇదే విషయాన్ని 30 మే 2016న భారత దేశంలోని ఇతర న్యూస్ వెబ్సైటులు కూడా ప్రచురించాయి (ఇక్కడ మరియు ఇక్కడ). ![\\"\\"](\\" Ganganagar-Police-Station-Image-2.jpg\\") సోషల్ మీడియాలోని పోస్టులు చూసి రాజస్థాన్ లోని గంగానగర్ పోలీస్ స్టేషన్ లో తమ కొడుకు ఉన్నాడని నమ్మిన బాలుడి తల్లిదండ్రులు తనని ఇంటికి తీసుకురావడానికి సహాయం చేయాలని అప్పటి పాకిస్తాన్ ప్రధాని నవాజ్ షరీఫ్, భారత ప్రధాని నరేంద్ర మోదీకి విజ్ఞప్తి చేశారు. పాకిస్తాన్ అవామీ నేషనల్ పార్టీ అధ్యక్షుడు అస్ఫంద్యార్ వాలీ ఖాన్ కూడా బాలుడిని వెంటనే పాకిస్తాన్ కి రప్పించడానికి అప్పటి భారత విదేశాంగ మంత్రి సుష్మా స్వరాజ్కు లేఖ రాసారు. కానీ గంగానగర్ జిల్లా పోలీసులు మాత్రం తాము పాకిస్తాన్ కి చెందిన బాలుడిని కస్టడీలోకి తీసుకున్నట్టు వస్తున్న వార్తలని ఖండించారు. శ్రీ గంగానగర్ పోలీస్ సూపరింటెండెంట్ రాహుల్ కాటకే 30 మే 2016న మీడియాతో మాట్లాడుతూ పాకిస్తాన్ కి చెందిన ఆ బాలుడు గంగానగర్ జిల్లా పోలీసుల కస్టడీలో లేడని, ఇవి కేవలం సోషల్ మీడియాలో షేర్ అవుతున్న పుకార్లు అని పేర్కొన్నారు. అప్పటి భారత విదేశాంగ మంత్రి సుష్మా స్వరాజ్ కూడా ఫోటోలో ఉన్న అబ్బాయి గంగానగర్ లో లేడని ట్వీట్ చేసారు. ![\\"\\"](\\" Ganganagar-Police-Station-Image-3.jpg\\") > He is not in Ganganagar.@dawn_com > > — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) June 11, 2016 2015లో కొంతమంది ఇదే ఫోటోను సోషల్ మీడియాలో షేర్ చేస్తూ అతను మక్కా, ఖోర్రంధరా మరియు ఇతర పోలీసు స్టేషన్ ల కస్టడీలో ఉన్నట్టు షేర్ చేసారు (ఇక్కడ మరియు ఇక్కడ). ఇదే విషయం పై వివరణ ఇస్తూ ఖోర్రంధరా పోలీసులు సోషల్ మీడియాలో వస్తున్న ఆ వార్తలలో నిజం లేదని, తాము బాలున్ని కస్టడీలోకి తీసుకోలేదని చెప్పారు. ప్రస్తుతం ఈ బాలుడు ఎక్కడ ఉన్నాడనే విషయం తెలియకపోయినా, తను గంగానగర్ పోలీసుల కస్టడీలో లేడని నిర్ధారించవచ్చు. చివరగా, 2014లో పాకిస్తాన్ లో తప్పిపోయిన బాలుడి ఫోటోని తప్పుడు కథనంతో ఇప్పుడు మళ్ళీ షేర్ చేస్తున్నారు. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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BBC Homepage * Skip to content * Accessibility Help * Your account * Home * News * Sport * Earth * Reel * Worklife * Travel * More menu More menu Search BBC * Home * News * Sport * Earth * Reel * Worklife * Travel * Culture * Future * Music * TV * Weather * Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu * Home * Israel-Gaza war * War in Ukraine * Climate * Video * World * Asia * UK * Business * Tech More * Science * Entertainment & Arts * Health * World News TV * In Pictures * BBC Verify * Newsbeat * BBC Verify # California recall election: Fact-checking Governor Newsom and his challengers * Published 15 September 2021 Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Related topics * BBC Verify ![\\"Gavin](\\" source, Getty Images Image caption, Governor Newsom held rallies across the state By Jake Horton BBC Reality Check California\'s Democrat Governor, Gavin Newsom, appears to have got enough votes to defeat a move to replace him as leader of the state. His handling of the pandemic had been criticised, which fuelled a long Republican-led effort to remove him as governor. BBC News looks at some of the claims that were made by Governor Newsom and his challengers during the campaign. ## Gavin Newsom: \'We have among the lowest positivity rates in America... We have one of the lowest case rates.\' Governor Newsom was comparing California\'s Covid record with those of states with Republican governors. In contrast to California, he said in late August, Texas, Florida and Mississippi had some of the country\'s highest case and test-positivity rates in the US. The positivity rate shows the proportion of Covid tests that come back positive. In California, the latest seven-day average proportion of Covid tests that came back positive is 2.9% - the third lowest reported of all US states, according to Johns Hopkins University., external ![\\"California](\\" source, Getty Images Image caption, There have been protests in California over mask mandates and other Covid restrictions Meanwhile, Texas and Mississippi have test-positivity rates of 15-20% and Florida 10-15%, the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control, external shows. Over the course of the pandemic, California has recorded more Covid cases than any other state. But it also has the largest population in the US. And 34 of the 49 other states, including Florida, Texas and Mississippi, have higher per-capita case rates. Those with lower rates, however, do include states with Republican governors, such as West Virginia and Maryland. ## Gavin Newsom: Voting to recall me \'elects an anti-vax Republican\' On 30 August, Governor Newsom released a campaign advert, external saying voting to recall him would help elect an \"anti-vax\" Republican governor. But all of his Republican challengers have been vaccinated. * California\'s governor faces recall election * Gavin Newsom challenged by Larry Elder and others And the leading Republican candidate, Larry Elder, said: \"I\'m not anti-vax. \"I\'ve been vaccinated because of my age, because of a blood condition I have, and my doctor strongly advised me to become vaccinated.\" ![\\"Larry](\\" source, Getty Images Image caption, Larry Elder was the top Republican contender in the race Mr Elder has said he does not believe children need to be vaccinated. And all the Republican challengers have said they would roll back vaccine mandates put in place by Governor Newsom for state, school and healthcare workers. ## Larry Elder: \'We have rising crime\' Launching his campaign in July, Mr Elder said crime in California was rising under Governor Newsom - a claim his challengers have reinforced throughout the race. Certain crimes have increased significantly since Governor Newsom took office, in January 2019. But this is a trend seen in many other parts of the country too. In 2019, California had its fewest homicides since 1966. The following year, the rate rose 31% - while across the country there were 25% more murders - although other offences such as property crime fell by 7.7%. Overall, violent crime - including murder, robbery, aggravated assault and rape - rose by 0.8% in California in 2020, compared with 2019. But it remains far below its 1990s peak. And it rose about 3% across the US as a whole. Before the pandemic, California\'s violent crime rate ranked 12th nationwide, external and was higher than the national average. ## Larry Elder: \'People are leaving California for the first time in our state\'s 170-year history\' Mr Elder made this claim on 5 September, saying under Governor Newsom, for the first time, fewer people were coming to live in California than moving away. This did happen in 2019 and 2020 under Governor Newsom, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, external, but it was also the case in 2018 under the previous governor. More people also left than moved to the state in other periods - between 2004 and 2010 and between 1992 and 1996. The state\'s population growth has been slowing for 20 years. In 2020, California recorded its first population decline since records began, according to state census data, external, as natural population increase didn\'t outpace people moving out. 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Why? The state needs to come up with $98,000,000 to pay for free health insurance for illegal aliens.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * Immigration * Health Care * Homeland Security * Facebook Fact-checks * Ryan Fournier ![\\"California](\\" California Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his first state budget during a news conference Jan. 10, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli) ![\\"Miriam](\\" By Miriam Valverde October 30, 2019 # California’s health mandate penalty and coverage of immigrants in the state illegally, explained A leader of a student group that supports President Donald Trump claimed that California is \"putting illegals first\" when it comes to health care. \"Starting January 1, 2020, California will tax legal citizens if they don’t have health insurance. Why? The state needs to come up with $98,000,000 to pay for free health insurance for illegal aliens. Why do Democrat’s (sic) keep putting illegals first?\" tweeted Ryan Fournier, founder and co-chairman of Students for Trump. > Starting January 1, 2020, California will tax legal citizens if they don’t > have health insurance.Why?The state needs to come up with $98,000,000 to pay > for free health insurance for illegal aliens. Why do Democrat’s keep putting > illegals first? 🤔 > > — Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 20, 2019 A screenshot of the tweet was posted on Facebook Oct. 21. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Fournier told PolitiFact his claim was based on two June articles, one from a TV station in Los Angeles and the other from USA Today. The KTLA article said the California legislature voted to tax Californians who don’t have health coverage starting Jan. 1, 2020. The USA Today story said California would become the first state to offer health coverage to low-income adults living illegally in the country and that the plan would cost $98 million. Overall, the state does plan to impose a tax penalty on people without health care insurance, and it also plans to expand coverage for immigrants living illegally in the state. But the two moves aren’t directly related. Revenues from the tax will go toward subsidies to help Californians reduce the cost of their health care coverage. Other revenues are being used to pay for health care for unauthorized immigrants. California’s health care mandate A new mandate in California, effective Jan. 1, 2020, will require Californians to have health insurance throughout the year. Californians who don’t have health coverage in 2020 — and who don’t qualify for exemptions — would have to pay a penalty in 2021 when they file their 2020 state income tax return. The requirement is modeled after the individual mandate that was included in the federal Affordable Care Act, but effectively eliminated by Congress after Trump took office. California’s penalty is expected to generate about $317 million beginning in 2020-2021, said an Oct. 17 report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the California legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal and policy advisor. Those revenues will help offset the cost of new state subsidies that will be available to Californian households with incomes up to 600% of the federal poverty level, said the report. The subsidies were created to help households reduce the cost of health care coverage bought through the state’s health insurance marketplace, Covered California. \"To the extent that any penalty is collected, all of that money is going to fund additional affordability assistance in Covered California,\" said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a health care consumer advocacy coalition. The subsidies will go \"to legally residing Californians up and down the income stream, including those above 400% of the poverty level that otherwise would not qualify for assistance,\" Wright said. The vast majority of the new subsidies will benefit Californians with incomes between 400% and 600% of the poverty line, said Scott Graves, director of research for California Budget and Policy Center. \"These residents — unlike people with lower incomes — do not qualify for any federal financial assistance even though they often face high monthly premiums as well as large out-of-pocket costs,\" Graves said. The new state subsidies sunset after 2022, but the mandate and related penalty will continue. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on August 29, 2024 in a post on Instagram “BREAKING: Illegal Aliens in San Diego, California, tried to hijack 2 school buses filled with children.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Madison Czopek • September 4, 2024 Covered California’s website said that immigrants not lawfully present in the United States do not qualify for a health plan through Covered California (though they may qualify for the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal). Coverage for immigrants in the country illegally Another portion of California’s 2019-20 budget expands health coverage for young adults in the country illegally. Medi-Cal, funded by state and federal taxes, offers free or low-cost health care coverage for low-income children and adults in California. The state has \"restricted scope\" and \"full-scope\" Medi-Cal; the restricted version covers emergency and pregnancy-related services, and the full-scope is more comprehensive, including medical, dental and eye care. California in 2016 began offering full-scope Medi-Cal to all children under 19 years old, regardless of immigration status. This year, the state expanded full-scope Medi-Cal to adults 19 to 25 years old who are illegally in the country and meet the income requirements. In 2019-20, this expansion is expected to cost California about $98 million, with an estimated $74 million coming from the state’s general fund. The state funds will support the full-scope Medi-Cal services ineligible for federal aid, Graves said. The additional funding, beyond the approximately $74 million from the state’s general fund, will come from the federal government and be used to pay for emergency and pregnancy-related services, he said. \"As with the prior expansion, the general fund cost of this new expansion will be paid for with tax revenues that are generated by California’s current tax system, with no tax increase,\" Graves said. Almost all tax revenue that flows into the state’s general fund comes from the personal income tax, the sales and use tax, and the corporation tax, he said. The Legislative Analyst’s Office projected that on an ongoing basis, the Medi- Cal expansion for young adults would increase general fund spending by around $225 million annually across the Medi-Cal and In-Home Supportive Services program. The full-scope expansion is expected to benefit about 100,000 people. Some California state lawmakers and immigrant advocates wanted to offer health coverage to all immigrants living illegally in the state, but those broader plans were curtailed during budget negotiations. California’s budget has a surplus of more than $20 billion. Our ruling Fournier said, \"Starting January 1, 2020, California will tax legal citizens if they don’t have health insurance. Why? The state needs to come up with $98,000,000 to pay for free health insurance for illegal aliens.\" Californians will be required to have health care coverage in 2020, and if they don’t, they’ll pay a tax when they file their state income taxes in 2021. (There are some exemptions.) Revenue from the penalty will be used to pay for subsidies that will become available to Californians to help them reduce the cost of health care coverage. The subsidies will be for Californians who buy insurance through Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace. Immigrants in the country illegally are not allowed to purchase insurance through Covered California. California in 2020 will also expand health care coverage for young adults in the country illegally with low income. That’s estimated to cost around $98 million in the first year, drawing about $74 million from the state’s general fund. Fournier’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. 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Jerry Brown claimed?, Dec. 18, 2018 MercuryNews.com, California budget: More than $2 billion in new state taxes even with $21 billion surplus?, June 10, 2019 Covered California website, Immigration Status and Health Coverage Legislative Analyst’s Office, The 2019‑20 Budget: California Spending Plan Health and Human Services (HHS) Spending Plan, Oct. 17, 2019 California Franchise Tax Board, Prepare now for new state individual health care mandate, Oct. 18, 2019 Phone and email interview, James Scullary, Communications and Public Relations, Broadcast and Media Relations Branch Chief, Covered California, Oct, 25, 29, 2019 Email interview, Anthony Wright, executive director, Health Access California | Health Access Foundation, Oct. 28, 2019 Email interview, Rachel Linn Gish, director of communications, Health Access California, Oct. 28-29, 2019 Email interview, Scott Graves, director of research, California Budget and Policy Center, Oct. 29, 2019 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Miriam Valverde slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on April 19, 2021 in a speech: “If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on April 22, 2021 in an Instagram post: \"Mountains of data\" show drug ivermectin \"basically obliterates\" COVID-19 transmission. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on April 7, 2021 in a Facebook post: Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • April 15, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Pramila Jayapal stated on August 30, 2021 in an Instagram post: “The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. The vaccine is free.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Mitt Romney stated on August 29, 2021 in a CNN interview: The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners. ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference: There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 16, 2021 in a Facebook post: COVID-19 vaccinations are “a violation of the Nuremberg code.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • August 20, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference: Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference: “That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on June 4, 2021 in an Instagram post: \"920 women lose their unborn babies after getting vaccinated.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • June 8, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on May 26, 2021 in a Facebook post: Police defunding is to blame for “skyrocketing murder rates” in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Portland, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 28, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on May 25, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Biden agrees to Pelosi\'s request to resign.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • May 26, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on May 17, 2021 in social media posts: “Gas prices highest in a decade. 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The vaccine is free.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Mitt Romney stated on August 29, 2021 in a CNN interview: The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners. ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference: There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021 ### California’s health mandate penalty and coverage of immigrants in the state illegally, explained * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 13, 2024 in a post: Vice President Kamala Harris’ college professors disparaged her as their “worst student.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 17, 2024 in a post: Photo shows Kamala Harris posing beside Sean “Diddy” Combs. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 18, 2024 in Instagram posts: “BREAKING: Police found ‘explosives’ in car near former President Donald Trump’s rally site on Long Island.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Dave McCormick stated on September 13, 2024 in an X post: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, “has grown by 2,000% due to an influx in migrants.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Caleb McCullough • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 13, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook: \"El gran respaldo de Taylor Swift\" a Kamala Harris \"le cuesta $125 millones en acuerdos de marca\". ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Maria Briceño • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Threads posts stated on September 16, 2024 in an Instagram post: Taylor Swift “lost 17 million followers by endorsing Kamala.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Kari Lake stated on September 13, 2024 in a post on X: Rep. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on December 21, 2020 in in a Facebook post: Says COVID-19 relief bill “provides more funding to foreign governments and to American arts centers, than to the American people.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-false/6a6ef6075c162fdccf5eb960e683dcd1.jpg.\\") ![\\"barely- true\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Federal Budget * Facebook Fact-checks * Coronavirus * Facebook posts ![\\"Miriam](\\" By Miriam Valverde December 22, 2020 # Facebook posts wrongly say COVID-19 bill includes foreign aid, arts funding #### If Your Time is short * The post conflates provisions of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill with provisions of a separate, $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill. Both were part of a broader $2.3 trillion package approved by Congress. * The overall spending bill included funding for American arts centers and foreign aid, but that funding was not included in the COVID-19 relief bill. It was part of the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill. See the sources for this fact-check Shortly after lawmakers agreed on sending $600 stimulus checks to many Americans, Facebook users said the COVID-19 relief bill put foreign interests and the arts above the needs of the American people. \"Every American left and right should be calling for a #VETO of this stimulus ‘deal’— which provides MORE funding to foreign governments and to American arts centers, than to the American people,\" said a Dec. 21 post. The post included a picture listing domestic entities and foreign countries appropriated millions if not billions of dollars, juxtaposed with just $600 for the \"American people.\" Under domestic funding, for instance, it listed the \"Kennedy Center — $26,400,000.\" The post mentioned at least eight foreign countries receiving aid, including Egypt, Sudan, and Ukraine. According to the post, Egypt would get $1.3 billion. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post is right that Congress appropriated funds for foreign aid and for American arts centers, and Americans are free to disagree that taxpayer money is allotted in this way. But it’s wrong to suggest that such funding is in the COVID-19 relief bill. On Dec. 21, lawmakers in both chambers of Congress passed a $2.3 trillion spending package: a roughly $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill — consisting of 12 different bills to fund the government during fiscal year 2021 — and a separate, approximately $900 billion bill specifically for COVID-19 relief. Lawmakers also passed several other smaller bills. It’s the $1.4 trillion part of the package that included funding for U.S. policies and priorities within the country and abroad. The Facebook post conflates provisions of the COVID-19 relief bill with provisions in the omnibus spending bill. COVID-19 relief bill It’s been about nine months since a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump. Some members of Congress were frustrated that legislative leaders released the new bill — 5,593 pages long — just hours before they were expected to vote on it. Some people argue that Americans should be getting more than $600 in direct payments, and the Facebook posts echo that sentiment. At the same time, the posts don’t mention the other forms of relief that will be available to some Americans, including unemployment assistance. Overall, the COVID-19 relief bill totals more than $900 billion. Americans who meet specific income criteria are expected to get $600. The relief bill includes about $166 billion for the stimulus checks, according to a breakdown from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Here’s the group’s breakdown of what else is in the bill: • $325 billion in aid to small businesses (includes Paycheck Protection Program) • $120 billion for unemployment assistance ($300 a week for 11 weeks) • $82 billion for education (such as K-12 education grants) • $56 billion for health care (includes funding for states to do COVID-19 testing) #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on July 23, 2024 in a Threads post As of July 23, 2024, “Trump has announced he won’t debate Kamala Harris.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Mia Penner • July 24, 2024 • $45 billion for transportation (includes payroll support program for airline workers) • $83 billion for other spending (such as rental assistance, nutrition programs) • $40 billion for other tax cuts (such as the Extend and Expand Employee Retention Tax Credit) Funding for foreign countries, arts is in other spending bill The Facebook post says that lawmakers provided aid to at least eight foreign countries in the COVID-19 relief package, including $1.3 billion to Egypt. That’s not part of the COVID-19 relief bill. The omnibus spending bill, under the header \"Foreign Military Financing program,\" says that $1.3 billion is to remain available until Sept. 30, 2022, and should be made available for assistance for Egypt. It stipulates several conditions for the disbursement of those funds. For instance, $225 million will be withheld until the secretary of state certifies and reports to Congress that the Egyptian government has taken steps to improve the rule of law, democratic institutions, and human rights. Appropriation bills usually include foreign aid, commonly for military and humanitarian aid, said Steve Ellis, president of the nonpartisan budget watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. Our reporting has shown that foreign aid historically represents about 1% of the overall federal budget. Polling has shown that average Americans assume the U.S. spends about 31% of its budget on foreign aid. The omnibus spending part of the package passed by Congress also calls for $26.4 million to remain available until Sept. 30, 2022 for the John F. Kennedy Center’s operation, maintenance, and security. The Facebook post flags that appropriation, but omits that it’s part of the omnibus spending bill, not part of the COVID-19 relief bill. The \"domestic funding\" and \"foreign countries\" funding in the post are part of the omnibus spending bill, not the COVID-19 relief bill. The total of the \"foreign aid\" and \"domestic funding\" mentioned in the Facebook post is not greater than the funding in the COVID-19 relief bill. No pay raise for Congress Other Facebook posts also claimed, wrongly, that Congress snuck a pay raise for its members into the new legislation. It did not. The same claim was made about the CARES Act in March. As we’ve reported, congressional pay raises are fixed to the Employment Cost Index, which measures changes in wages. Pay increases are automatic unless Congress votes them down, which it has done repeatedly since 2009, according to the Congressional Research Service. Section 7 of the legislation says: \"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no adjustment shall be made under section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501) (relating to cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress) during fiscal year 2021.\" Our ruling A Facebook post claimed that a COVID-19 relief bill \"provides more funding to foreign governments and to American arts centers, than to the American people.\" The post conflates provisions of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill with provisions of a separate, $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill. Both were part of a broader $2.3 trillion package approved by Congress. The overall spending bill included funding for American arts centers and foreign aid, but that funding was not included in the COVID-19 relief bill. It was part of the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill. The Facebook post contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False. 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Accessibility statementSkip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness Sign in Advertisement clockThis article was published more than **5 years ago** Democracy Dies in Darkness fact checkerAboutArchive fact checkerAboutArchive # Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony: What was misleading, what was not The Fact Checker\'s guide to the accuracy of several statements made by Brett Kavanaugh that opponents say undermine his credibility. (Video: Meg Kelly/The Washington Post) Analysis by Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo October 5, 2018 at 3:00 a.m. EDT Here’s a guide to the credibility of 14 statements made under oath by Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh that have become an issue during the nomination battle over his elevation to the Supreme Court. Opponents have seized on various statements to suggest Kavanaugh misled the Senate, but in several cases the problems have been overstated or are wrong. In other cases, the discrepancies might appear inconsequential or unimportant to supporters of Kavanaugh. One woman, Christine Blasey Ford, says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her after drinking heavily in high school. Another, Yale University classmate Deborah Ramirez, says he exposed himself during a drunken evening, though her memory of what happened is not clear. As of Oct. 4, no eyewitness who has confirmed the allegations of sexual misconduct by Ford or Ramirez has been identified. Beyond the sexual assault allegations, Kavanaugh had been challenged on his answers concerning work he did while serving in the George W. Bush administration, including his efforts to confirm conservative judges. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement We have previously fact-checked some of these issues and so have provided a summary as well as a link to the original fact check. ### Misleading “I never attended a gathering like the one Dr. Ford describes in her allegation. … She and I did not travel in the same social circles.” ✅ Follow Fact-checking politicians Follow What’s controversial: In his testimony, Kavanaugh tried to minimize the possibility that he and Ford ever interacted. Analysis: Kavanaugh’s own calendar lists a small gathering July 1, a Thursday, for “skis” — brewskis, or beer — that includes two people Ford named as being present in the house during the alleged attack — Patrick “P.J.” Smyth and Mark Judge. Also in attendance: “Squi,” Chris Garrett, who Ford said she was dating that summer. Thus it’s not credible for Kavanaugh to claim that such a gathering did not take place or that he and Ford were not in the same social circle. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement “Dr. Ford’s allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there, including by a longtime friend of hers. … The witnesses who were there say that it didn’t happen.” What’s controversial: Kavanaugh stretched the meaning of “refuted.” Analysis: Ford named four people who she said attended the gathering: Kavanaugh, Smyth, Judge and Leland Keyser. Judge, according to Ford, was in the room at the time of the attack. Kavanaugh denied it happened but the other three only said they had no memory of the gathering. “I do not recall the events described by Dr. Ford in her testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee today,” Judge wrote in a letter to the committee. “I never saw Brett act in the manner Dr. Ford describes.” Keyser told The Washington Post that she believes Ford’s account. “I don’t expect that P.J. and Leland would remember this evening,” Ford said during her testimony. “It was a very unremarkable party.” Kavanaugh’s language went beyond the evidence — which is inappropriate for a judge. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement “That yearbook reference [Renate Alumnius] was clumsily intended to show affection, and that she was one of us. But in this circus, the media’s interpreted the term is related to sex. It was not related to sex.” What’s controversial: Kavanaugh provided an interpretation disputed by other classmates. Analysis: In his high school yearbook, Kavanaugh listed himself as “Renate Alumnius,” which classmates said was a sexual reference to Renate Dolphin. She attended a nearby Catholic girls school, and her name appears at least 14 times in the 1983 edition of the Georgetown Prep yearbook. If it was really intended to show affection, that was news to Dolphin; she told the New York Times that she was hurt and offended by it. A lawyer for Kavanaugh said the two shared a brief kiss; she denied that. It’s unclear why Kavanaugh would not admit forthrightly that this was inappropriate, juvenile humor. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement “You’d have to ask him.” What’s controversial: Kavanaugh sidestepped a direct question about whether he was “Bart O’Kavanaugh,” referenced in a memoir of alcoholism written by Judge, as having “puked in someone’s car the other night.” The book is described as “based on actual experiences,” but uses pseudonyms for people. Analysis: Kavanaugh suggested that “Bart” was a figment of Judge’s imagination. But the New York Times later reported that this was a nickname for Kavanaugh in high school after a teacher botched the name Brett. A letter obtained by the Times, written by Kavanaugh about planning for renting a house for Beach Week, was signed “Bart.” It’s not clear what Kavanaugh gained by refusing a direct response. Story continues below advertisement “I knew Mr. Miranda, as he and many other Senate staffers were part of regular meetings, telephone calls and emails about the judicial confirmation process. These meetings, calls and emails were typical of how judicial confirmations have been handled in past administrations. I never knew or suspected that he or others had obtained information from Democratic computer files.” Advertisement What’s controversial: Kavanaugh has claimed at three Senate hearings since 2004 and in written answers to senators’ questions that he never suspected that a Republican ally, Manuel Miranda, was sending him sensitive, stolen, insider information from Democrats on the Judiciary Committee in the early 2000s. Analysis: Kavanaugh’s claims of ignorance warrant heavy skepticism. Miranda, a Republican Senate staffer working to confirm Bush’s judicial nominees in the early 2000s, for nine months sent Kavanaugh and other GOP allies a steady stream of intel on Democrats’ plans for stumping nominees. Included in this trove were the contents of a confidential letter Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) had received about one nominee, and a nearly 4,000-word memo written by one of Leahy’s staff lawyers that went on in breathtaking detail about the Democrats’ strategy on another nominee. Kavanaugh was an elite political operative, a White House lawyer working intensely on Bush’s nominations at the time, and it strains credulity for him to claim that these extraordinary leaks seemed normal. (Kavanaugh earned Three Pinocchios.) Story continues below advertisement “I didn’t know about the memos or see the memos that I think you’re describing.” Advertisement What’s controversial: Democrats say Kavanaugh misled then-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) at a 2006 hearing by testifying that he hadn’t seen any Democratic memos provided by Miranda, when he clearly had received at least one full-length memo from Leahy’s staff. Analysis: A March 18, 2003, email from Miranda to Kavanaugh — which was not released to the public until this year for Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination — casts serious doubt on Kavanaugh’s claim at the 2006 hearing. Miranda wrote, “For use and not distribution” in the subject line and appended the full, nearly 4,000-word memo from Leahy’s nominations counsel, Lisa Graves. The memo covered the Democrats’ entire playbook for stumping Bush’s nomination of Miguel Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Kavanaugh did not respond to this email, according to the records made public by the Senate, so it’s not clear whether he saw it. But he was working hard on Estrada’s nomination, and the Graves memo was a gold mine of intelligence about the other side’s strategy: the kind of stuff that would have prepared Kavanaugh immensely for the Estrada fight. Story continues below advertisement “I was not the associate counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office assigned to Judge [Charles] Pickering’s nomination.” Advertisement What’s controversial: Democrats say Kavanaugh misled then-Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) by testifying in 2006 that he was not “assigned” or was not “primarily handling” Pickering’s nomination. Analysis: Pickering was a sitting federal judge who asked lawyers practicing in his court, including lawyers with open cases, to write letters to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of his nomination to fill an appeals court vacancy. Asked about this ethical lapse, Kavanaugh testified at a 2006 hearing that he was not “primarily handling” the nomination. He later reiterated to Feingold in response to written questions that he was not the White House lawyer “assigned” to Pickering’s nomination. These responses were misleading. Records released for his Supreme Court nomination show that Kavanaugh was fairly consumed with the Pickering nomination even though he was not the White House lawyer with primary responsibility. He coordinated meetings about the nomination, wrote an op-ed for then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales about Pickering, and had a hand devising the overall strategy, among other contributions. ### On the fence “I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone.” Advertisement Story continues below advertisement What’s controversial: Ford and Ramirez both say the attacks happened after Kavanaugh had been drinking heavily. His statement closed off the possibility that he was ever too drunk to remember. Analysis: Friends and former classmates have offered diametrically opposed recollections in media interviews, making it difficult to reach a final judgment. Three high school or college friends said Kavanaugh was a social drinker who never drank to excess; six college classmates said he was a stumbling, sometimes nasty drunk. At Yale, “Brett was a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker. … There are many times that he could not remember what was going on,” said Charles “Chad” Ludington, a former basketball player at Yale who said he socialized frequently with Kavanaugh while they were at that university. Ludington and two other classmates wrote an opinion article in The Washington Post saying that “we felt it our civic duty to speak the truth and say that Brett lied under oath while seeking to become a Supreme Court justice.” “I think with respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that or the legal memos that subsequently came out until the summer, sometime in 2004 when there started to be news reports on that. This was not part of my docket, either in the Counsel\'s Office or as staff secretary.” What’s controversial: Democrats say Kavanaugh misled the Judiciary Committee by testifying in 2006 that he had no role in the Bush administration’s detainee-torture policy. Analysis: Kavanaugh’s responses to Durbin and Leahy about this issue were problematic. He told Durbin, “I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.” His answer to Leahy was slightly broader: Kavanaugh said he “was not aware of any issues” regarding “the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees” until news reports about it were published. After this hearing, The Washington Post reported in 2007 that Kavanaugh did have a role in one aspect of the Bush administration’s internal debate over detainee treatment. He offered his assessment of how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy might vote on the Supreme Court if the Bush administration denied access to counsel to detainees. Since he told Leahy he “was not aware of any issues” regarding “policies relating to the treatment of detainees,” and since access to legal counsel could fairly be described as a factor in the treatment of detainees, Kavanaugh’s response arguably was misleading. “I am familiar generally with Mr. [Bill] Pryor, but that was not one that I worked on personally.” What’s controversial: Democrats say Kavanaugh misled Kennedy by testifying in 2004 that Pryor’s nomination “was not one that I worked on personally.” Analysis: Pryor had disparaged some Supreme Court rulings and once called Roe v. Wade the “worst abomination in the history of constitutional law.” Kavanaugh did have a role in the Pryor fight — and recommended Pryor for the appeals court to begin with — although he was not the White House lawyer with primary responsibility for the nomination. This particular response he gave Kennedy in 2004 was false, since Kavanaugh did work on the Pryor nomination personally. But Kavanaugh later told Kennedy at the same hearing that he may have attended a moot court session to prepare Pryor for his Senate confirmation hearing. In response to Kennedy’s written questions, Kavanaugh clarified months later, “I participated in moot court preparation for Judge Pryor.” Kavanaugh also disclosed in response to Durbin’s written questions in 2004 that he worked on Pryor’s nomination and those of 18 other judicial nominees. He also disclosed that all White House lawyers handling nominations participated in discussions about all nominees. In sum, Kavanaugh disclosed some of the work he did in a lawyerly, guarded fashion, but omitted other relevant details. ### Not problematic “I have no connections there [Yale]. I got there by busting my tail.\" What’s controversial: The Intercept reported that Kavanaugh’s grandfather had attended Yale University, leading some media to say he was a “legacy” candidate. Analysis: Many universities only consider candidates to be legacy if a parent attended — and Yale is among them. “For admission to Yale College, we consider a ‘legacy applicant’ to be the son or daughter of a Yale alumnus or alumna,” said university spokesman Thomas Conroy. “We do not consider a connection through the grandparent to be defined as a ‘legacy.’” “I know Jim Haynes, but it was not one of the nominations that I handled. I handled a number of nominations in the counsel’s office. That was not one of the ones that I handled.” What’s controversial: Democrats say Kavanaugh misled Durbin by testifying in 2006 that Jim Haynes’s nomination “was not one of the ones that I handled.” Analysis: As general counsel of the Department of Defense, Haynes had a role devising the Bush administration’s policy of torturing detainees. Kavanaugh accurately said he did not “handle” the Haynes nomination in the White House. Another associate White House counsel at the time was the lead on Haynes. The limited records released as part of his Supreme Court nomination show that Kavanaugh had a minor role in the Haynes nomination nonetheless. Although Durbin says Kavanaugh’s response in 2006 was not accurate, Kavanaugh had stated in response to Durbin’s written questions in 2004 that he had had some involvement in the Haynes nomination. Then, at the same 2006 hearing, Kavanaugh told Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) point-blank that he was involved in the Haynes nomination. Kavanaugh’s responses in sum were confusing and lawyerly at several points but overall accurate. “Nothing at all.” What’s controversial: Democrats say Kavanaugh misled Leahy by testifying in 2006 that he had seen “nothing at all” about a Bush-era warrantless surveillance program to track terrorists until the New York Times uncovered it in December 2005. Analysis: The lone piece of evidence that Kavanaugh might have known about this program before the Times article is an email he sent to John Yoo at the Justice Department in the days after 9/11, asking about the Fourth Amendment “implications of random/constant surveillance of phone and email conversations of non-citizens who are in the United States when the purpose of the surveillance is to prevent terrorist/criminal violence.” The warrantless wiretapping program did not exist when Kavanaugh sent this email, and multiple Bush administration officials have stated on the record that Kavanaugh was not “read into” the Terrorist Surveillance Program once it was up and running. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, White House lawyers were sending a flurry of questions to the Justice Department to research the president’s powers to combat terrorist threats. Kavanaugh’s email to Yoo appears to have been part of that preliminary work. “It was a technical matter of filling out a form, in that case with — that — they said filling out the form would make them complicit in the provision of the abortion-inducing drugs that they were — as a religious matter, objected to.” What’s controversial: Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) claimed that the use of the word “abortion-inducing drugs” was “a dog whistle for going after birth control.” Analysis: Kavanaugh was merely quoting from the plaintiff’s position in a lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to provide contraception as part of health insurance coverage for employees. A plain reading of Kavanaugh’s answer during the hearings showed that it was broadly consistent with his written opinion. Though Harris suggested Kavanaugh opposes contraception, in that opinion Kavanaugh wrote that the government appeared to have “a compelling interest in facilitating women’s access to contraception.” (Harris earned Four Pinocchios.) 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برو به محتوای اصلی * فکتنامه چیست؟ * روش کار ما English * خانه * فکتخانه * پروفایلها * ویدیوها * مکتبخانه * گزارشها * درباره ما * فکتنامه چیست؟ * روش کار ما * بلاگها پادکست حالت شب جستجوجستجو خانهفکتخانهدرستیسنجی ![\\"علی](\\" Bahadori.width-300.format-png.png\\") علی بهادری جهرمی سخنگوی دولت جمهوری اسلامی ایران از ۲۰۱۵ تا کنون دستکم ۲۵۰ زن با وحشیگری پلیس آمریکا بدون محاکمه و در خیابان به قتل رسیدهاند. درستیسنجی ۲۵ آذر ۱۴۰۱ زمان خواندن: ۲ دقیقه ![\\"\\"](\\" web.width-300.format-png.png\\") گمراهکننده ![\\"\\"](\\" jpeg.jpg\\") # ادعای گمراهکننده سخنگوی دولت درباره قتل ۲۵۰ زن در خیابانهای آمریکا بهدست پلیس علی بهادری جهرمی سخنگوی دولت میگوید: که «از ۲۰۱۵ تا کنون دستکم ۲۵۰ زن با وحشیگری پلیس آمریکا، در خیابان و بدون محاکمه به قتل رسیدهاند؛ «لئونا هیل» مادر باردار ۲۶ ساله، یکی از آنهاست.» > ۱- یکسوم زندانیان زن جهان، در آمریکا زندانی هستند.۲- از ۲۰۱۵ تا کنون دستکم > ۲۵۰ زن با وحشیگری پلیس آمریکا، در خیابان و بدون محاکمه به قتل رسیدهاند؛ > «لئونا هیل» مادر باردار ۲۶ ساله، یکی از آنهاست.۳- آمریکا بانی تعلیق عضویت > ایران از کمیسیون #مقام_زن شد!#استاندارد_چندگانه > > — علی بهادری جهرمی (@alibahaadori) December 14, 2022 زمینه این ادعا، انتقاد از طرح آمریکا برای اخراج ایران از کمیسیون مقام زن سازمان ملل متحد در روز ۲۳ آذر ۱۴۰۱ است. این اقدام به درخواست نهادهای حقوق بشری در واکنش به نقض گسترده حقوق زنان در جمهوری اسلامی و سرکوب اعتراضات پس از کشته شدن مهسا امینی انجام شد. ### آیا از سال ۲۰۱۵ تا الان ۲۵۰ زن در آمریکا توسط پلیس کشته شدهاند؟ آمار گفته شده، یعنی کشته شدن ۲۵۰ زن توسط پلیس مربوط به سالهای ۲۰۱۵ تا ۲۰۲۰ است. بعد از سال ۲۰۲۰ این آمار افزایش پیدا کرده است. لئونا هیل، فردی که سخنگوی دولت در توییت خود به او اشاره کرده، زن بارداری بود که بهار امسال با تیراندازی توسط پلیس کشته شد. پلیس میگوید او در جریان درگیری مسلحانه با پلیس هدف قرار گرفته است. رسانههای آمریکایی این خبر را پوشش داده و گزارشهای زیادی در این باره منتشر شده است. برخی شاهدان میگویند او هنگام تیراندازی تسلیم شده بود. اما دوربین پلیس نشان میدهد او هنگام هدف قرار گرفتن مسلح و در حال فرار بوده است. اما صرف نظر از آنچه بر سر لئونا هیل آمده، سوال این است که آیا سرکوب زنان در اعتراضات پس از کشته شدن مهسا امینی در ایران قابل مقایسه با پرونده این زن و سایر زنانی است که توسط پلیس کشته میشوند؟ دست کم سه دلیل وجود دارد که ثابت میکند این مقایسه قیاس معالفارق است: اول، تا آنجایی که ما گشتیم هیچ موردی از کشته شدن یک زن در جریان بازداشت به دلیل نوع پوشش، یا شرکت در اعتراضات پیدا نکردیم. دوم، تردیدی در بالا بودن آمار قربانیان خشونت پلیس در آمریکا نیست، اما آن را باید با رفتار پلیس سایر کشورها، از جمله ایران هنگام بازداشت و تعقیب جرم مقایسه کرد. سوم، به دلیل آزادی حمل سلاح در آمریکا، بسیاری از درگیریهای پلیس با افراد تحت تعقیب، مسلحانه است. در سایر کشورها، از جمله ایران نیز پلیس برای تعقیب افراد مسلح دستورالعملهای خاص خود را دارد. با این اوصاف فکتنامه به این ادعای سخنگوی دولت که «از ۲۰۱۵ تا کنون دستکم ۲۵۰ زن با وحشیگری پلیس آمریکا بدون محاکمه و در خیابان به قتل رسیدهاند» نشان گمراهکننده میدهد. ![\\"\\"](\\" web.width-300.format-png.png\\") گمراهکننده گفته یا آمار، نادرست نیست اما به گونهای بیان شده تا بر فکت مهمی سرپوش بگذارد یا واقعیت را منحرف کند. درباره نشانهای میرزاروش کار ما پرش به فهرست ![\\"\\"](\\"/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FsendFact.ac3cafbc.png&w=3840&q=75\\")فکتنامه اولین سایت درستیسنجی (فکتچکینگ) سیاسی درباره ایران است.پیشنهاد سوژه ## آخرین گزارشها * ![\\"\\"](\\" ### واژهنامه دروغپراکنی: «پیشبینی» نابودی اسرائیل به دست ایرانیها گزارش ۱۰ مهر ۱۴۰۳ * ![\\"\\"](\\" ### واژهنامه دروغپراکنی: «تحلیلگران غرب» با رهبر همنظرند گزارش ۲۷ شهریور ۱۴۰۳ * ![\\"\\"](\\" ### واژهنامه دروغپراکنی: «مردم جهان» به سردمداری ما قیام کردهاند گزارش ۱۳ شهریور ۱۴۰۳ ## فکتنامه فکتنامه اولین سایت درستیسنجی (فکتچکینگ) سیاسی درباره ایران است. درباره ما * فکتنامه چیست؟ * روش کار ما * نشانهای میرزا * تیم ما راهنمای سایت * خانه * فکتخانه * پروفایلها * ویدیوها * مکتبخانه * بلاگها * جستجو * پیشنهاد سوژه پروژهای از ![\\"\\"](\\"/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FifcnBadge.f5b94c03.png&w=3840&q=75\\") حریم خصوصی این وبسایت تحت پروانه کریتیو کامنز اختیار-غیرتجاری اشتراک همانند 4.0 بین المللی است. | Since 2015 at least 250 women have been killed in the street without trial by American police brutality | 262 |
Skip to content W.A. ![\\"Boatos.org-logo-1](\\" content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-Boatos.org-logo-1-2023.png\\") Search for... * About * Contact * Advertise Search for... W.A. ![\\"Boatos.org-logo-1](\\" content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-Boatos.org-logo-1-2023.png\\") Search for... * About * Contact * Advertise Search for... You are in: Home > World > **Garden of Tibet Himalayas blooms every 400 years and brings luck for 2020 #rumor** # Tibet Himalayan garden blooms every 400 years and brings luck for 2020 #rumor * World * 12/30/2019 * by Edgard Matsuki ![\\"Jardim](\\" Tibet-Himalayas-blooms-every-400-years-and-brings-luck-for-2020-says rumor.jpg\\") Rumor – Video shows a garden in the Tibet Himalayas that blooms every 400 years. The place looks beautiful and brings luck for 2020 to whoever sends the images. With the turn of the year, many people are also looking for a “change in life”. For this, sympathies such as jumping seven waves, eating lentils or wearing white already are being prepared. And, at the end of 2019, a message has brought a new sympathy, as strange as those previously mentioned. According to a text that circulated on the internet and is accompanied by a video very beautiful in a very colorful forest, there is a “garden in Tibet Himalayas” which blooms every 400 years. More than that: whoever sends the video will have luck, health, joy etc for 2020. Read the message circulating online: Version 1: _This is a garden in Tibet- Himalayas that, every 400 years, blooms and it is full of flowers. They believe that sending the images brings luck. So, I wish you lots of luck, health and joy throughout the new year. 2020!_ Version 2: _This garden in Tibet-Imalaya only blooms like this every 400 years, it is the Perfection of God_ ## Tibet Himalayan Garden blooms every 400 years and brings luck for 2020? Sending good luck is always nice. What is not good is sending good luck with wrong information. We are saying this because the “garden” in the video is not in Himalayas (or Tibet) and it doesn't bloom every 400 years. For you to understand OK, let's get to the facts. Right away, the message made us suspicious. This is because she has some of the main characteristics of online rumors. In addition to being vague, it is alarmist, with errors in Portuguese, does not cite reliable sources and asks a lot sharing (even selling “good luck” with this sharing). Another point that caused us suspicion is the history of rumors involving very rare flowers and “precious shipments”. About flowers, we have, among others, the story that talks about the Baobab flower, the flower in the shape of a woman and even of another Himalayan flower. In common is the fact that all stories which involved the flowers being fake. Based on these suspicions, we sought more details about the “garden of the Tibet Himalayas.” When searching for references about the story, we found, in English, denials like this one from the Snopes website or the fact-checking service from AFP. In other words: not only did we not find anything that supports the thesis about this garden that blooms every 400 years, as we also found to be denied. When searching for the video, we discovered that it is not from the Himalayas. As it shows In this People’s Daily China publication, the images are of a forest in Apricot Valley in Yili City, Xinjang Autonomous Region. There's nothing to see with Himalayas. See the video below: It is worth mentioning that the flowers in the image also do not bloom every 400 years. As shows this article from a British travel website, the local flowers appear every spring. The flowers are apricot and cover the area with color. of pink. In short: the story that points out that the forest in the video is a garden in Tibet (or in the Himalayas) that blooms every 400 years is false. We don't know if the message in question will bring good luck, but we know that it brings a wrong information. Ps.: This article is a suggestion from Boatos.org readers. If you want suggest a topic to Boatos.org, get in touch with us via the website, Facebook and WhatsApp on phone (61)99177-9164. 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Amid continued political polarization, and with opinion polls showing an uneasy public, President Joe Biden aimed to deliver a sense of fiscal and social relief during his State of the Union address. He used the speech, his first to a divided Congress, to call for improving police training and accountability and leveling the tax burden by raising levies on the wealthy. By working together, Biden repeatedly said, Congress could \"finish the job\" his administration started when it pushed through major legislation to create jobs and infrastructure and bolster technology. But Biden’s calls for bipartisan cooperation, including on raising the debt ceiling, seemed to rankle some Republicans. His warnings about what some congressional GOP members want to do with Medicare and Social Security led U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to shout, \"Liar!\" PolitiFact fact-checked Biden’s claim about desired GOP changes to the social programs and several others about the health of the economy, the infrastructure law and an assault weapons ban. > \"Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want > Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I’m not saying it’s the majority.\" House and Senate Republican leaders say they don’t support this, but at least one senator has broadly floated the idea. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., released a plan in 2022 that stated \"all federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.\" (Scott’s plan is a policy document that he is promoting again for his 2024 reelection.) Scott’s proposal does not specifically call for a phase-out of Medicare and Social Security, which were created generations ago through federal legislation. And it doesn’t have widespread support among his party; Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader in the Senate, in 2022 said it would not be part of the party’s agenda. Some House Republicans have left open the possibility of changing the programs, including raising the eligibility age. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., suggested in August that Congress approve Social Security and Medicare annually rather than as an automatic entitlement. But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Jan. 29 during a CBS \"Face the Nation\" interview that cuts to Social Security or Medicare are \"off the table.\" > \"Thirty million workers had to sign noncompete agreements for the jobs they > take. Thirty million. So a cashier at a burger place cannot walk across town > and take the same job at another burger place and make a few bucks more. > They just changed it, because we exposed it.\" This has some significant errors. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that up to 30 million workers have been required to sign non-compete agreements that bar them from working for a competing firm for a certain period after leaving their current job. But when Biden brought up fast-food workers, he confused noncompete clauses with a different legal restriction, no-poach clauses. Until 2017, no-poach clauses were included in the agreements that local fast- food franchise owners signed with the parent company. The clauses barred them from luring workers away from fellow franchisees. The workers never saw those contracts, much less ever signed one. The agreements did limit workers’ opportunities to receive higher wages. Still, nothing barred a McDonald’s worker, for example, from taking a better paying job with Burger King. Fast-food companies began phasing out the no- poach clauses after 2017. That isn’t something that \"just\" happened, and it had nothing to do with the Biden administration. It came after a McDonald’s worker took the company to court. ![](\\" Brandon Tsay, who disarmed the accused gunman in a mass shooting last month in California, is recognized by President Joe Biden as he delivers his State of the Union speech. (AP) > \"I stand here tonight after we’ve created, with the help of many people in > this room, 12 million new jobs — more jobs created in two years than any > president’s created in four years.\" Biden is correct about 12 million jobs created, but his comparison with previous presidents is Half True. In raw numbers, Biden did oversee greater job growth than any post-World War II president’s first or second term in office. However, this achievement comes with asterisks. Population growth skews the calculation, with Biden benefiting from a larger population. Measured by percentage increase from the time the president took office, which reduces the impact of population size, Biden rates in the middle of the pack. And although Biden has outpaced every post-World War II president in job gains per year, he benefited by taking office on the upswing of a deep recession. He also has not faced a recession yet, something most of his predecessors experienced during their longer terms. > \"Nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to > accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one. Those > are the facts, check it out.\" This is Half True. Biden’s number checks out, but the figure leaves out important details and context. Assigning debt to a particular president can be misleading. Much of the debt traces back to decades-old, bipartisan legislation that set the parameters for Social Security and Medicare. Also, the largest single spikes in the federal debt came in 2020 from the initial rounds of coronavirus pandemic relief legislation. Former President Donald Trump signed those laws, but they passed with broad bipartisan support. Meanwhile, other ways of analyzing the data undermine his point. If you look at the raw amount of debt added during a presidency, Barack Obama, who governed with Biden as vice president, ranks first and Trump ranks second. Obama’s figure is so much larger than Trump’s partly because he served eight years, while Trump served only four. If you divide the debt accumulated during each president’s tenure by the number of years they served, Biden, with only two years in office, has seen the largest rise in debt, with Trump second and Obama third. > \"In the last two years, my administration cut the deficit by more than $1.7 > trillion.\" This needs context. Biden has a point that his administration has presided over smaller deficits than those under Trump’s administration, based on Congressional Budget Office estimates. But Biden’s remark leaves out important context. The Congressional Budget Office’s most recent estimate projects a 2022 deficit of about $944 billion. That’s much less than the $2.7 trillion the previous year. However, the debt had risen in 2021 because of a temporary phase of unusual federal spending because of the coronavirus pandemic. In absolute dollars, the current deficit is much more in line with what it was in pre-pandemic 2019. ![](\\" Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., reacts as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address. (AP) > \"Inflation has fallen every month for the last six months while take home > pay has gone up.\" The first part is accurate: Year-over-year inflation peaked around 9% in June and has since fallen to a little higher than 6%. Whether \"take-home pay has gone up\" is more complicated. High inflation has hurt workers by cutting into their wages. For the first 18 months of Biden’s presidency, inflation-adjusted wages fell, from $373 a week to $359. Over the past two quarters, which equals six months, wage gains finally started to outpace inflation, rising to $364 per week. Also, the numbers are averages. Many workers receive yearly salaries or wages that don’t adjust more than once a year, and they wouldn’t necessarily have received wage increases during the high-inflation period to which Biden was referring. > \"In 2020, 55 of the largest corporations in America — the Fortune 500 — > made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal taxes.\" This is Mostly True. A study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concluded that at least 55 large companies paid zero federal income taxes in 2020. Critics say that the financial disclosures used to compile the report are imperfect estimates of what the companies actually paid in taxes, since the accounting rules are different for the two types of filings. Separate data from the Joint Committee on Taxation, which is based on actual tax returns, has supported the study’s general point that many big companies have small tax bills. > \"In the 10 years the (assault weapons) ban was law, mass shootings went > down. After we let it expire under a Republican administration, mass > shootings tripled.\" This is Mostly True. Studies that examined mass shooting deaths found that deaths fell during the 10 years the ban was in place, from 1994 to 2004, and rose dramatically when the ban expired. Data in a key 2019 study showed that mass shooting deaths more than tripled in the decade after the ban ended. Compared with the decade before the ban, there was a modest decline of 15 deaths during the ban. But the death toll from mass shootings went from an average of 4.8 per year during the ban years to an average of 23.8 per year in the decade afterward. Some research suggests that limits on large-capacity magazines are the most important factor in reducing mass shooting deaths. However, experts say it is difficult to determine whether the ban drove the decline in mass shooting deaths. ![](\\" A joint session of Congress convenes to hear President Joe Biden\'s State of the Union address. (AP) > \"We came together to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the largest > investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway > System.\" This is partially accurate, depending on how it’s counted. The law includes $110 billion in funding to repair roads and bridges and support major projects, like a bridge connecting Kentucky and Ohio and a tunnel between New York and New Jersey. There are two ways to assess the impact: by the scale of individual projects, or the total spending on roads and bridges. The infrastructure bill has allowed long-delayed projects to proceed, but comparing total spending over the years presents a challenge. Biden is correct if you take the last big infrastructure push in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which provided $27.5 billion for roads and bridges — a quarter of what’s in the 2021 infrastructure bill. But the 2009 money came on top of funds that started flowing in 2005. When Adie Tomer, a researcher at the Brookings Institution think tank, ran the numbers, he found that as a percentage of GDP, total spending on roads and bridges reached 0.3% in 2010. The estimate for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as a percentage of GDP is projected to reach a high of 0.24% in 2027. Viewed that way, although the money in the bill is a relatively large amount, the actual spending from multiple bills was higher in 2010. The Eisenhower Interstate Highway System was funded at $25 billion in 1956. That would equal about $275 billion today, but Biden didn’t say the 2021 bill surpassed the Eisenhower-era legislation. He said it was the most significant since then. > \"We’ve launched a new border plan last month. Unlawful migration from Cuba, > Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela has come down 97% as a consequence of that.\" This is based on limited data. Preliminary numbers from the Department of Homeland Security show a 97% decline in encounters with migrants from these four countries from December 2022 to January. But there’s only about one month’s worth of data available so far, so it’s difficult to attribute declines exclusively to the new policy changes, experts say. Biden said Jan. 5 that every month, 30,000 immigrants in total — from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua — will be allowed to enter the U.S. and work for two years under a parole program if they have a sponsor in the U.S. At the same time, Mexico also agreed to take 30,000 immigrants a month from these countries if they are expelled by U.S. authorities under the Title 42 public health order. The announcement came in response to the high number of migrants from these countries reaching the southern U.S. border in fiscal year 2022. > \"We’re finally giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices.\" That\'s a touch too broad. Although the Inflation Reduction Act will allow Medicare for the first time to negotiate prescription drug prices with manufacturers, the provision will not take effect until 2026. The initial group of negotiable drugs will be limited to 10 that year. More drugs will be added to the negotiation list each year. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is barred from negotiating on prescription drugs in the Medicare program until they\'ve been on the market for several years. > \"I’ve visited the devastating aftermath of record floods, droughts, storms > and wildfires, from Arizona to New Mexico to all the way up to the Canadian > border. More timber has been burned that I’ve observed from helicopters than > the entire state of Missouri.\" His claim about the fires isn’t supported by federal data and the White House provided PolitiFact with no data to back up the assertion. In 2022, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, 7,577,183 acres burned across the country because of wildfires. That\'s equivalent to 11,839 square miles. Missouri has a total land and water area of 69,707 square miles. To get a Missouri-sized collection of wildfire acreage, you would need to include most of the past six years worth of wildfires, from 2017 to 2022. But Biden didn’t specify that he was referring to the past six years, which would have included four years in which he wasn’t in office and wouldn’t have been inspecting any wildfires by helicopter. There have been about 22,973 square miles of wildfire damage during Biden’s presidency, a size still smaller than Missouri. > \"Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely > to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no > matter their background they came from.\" This is Mostly True. There is one study that backs this up, and experts agreed that it’s credible. Other studies of preschool programs have also shown gains in college attendance, but the rates have been lower, ranging from 12% to 18%. As a general pattern, experts said, the more socioeconomically disadvantaged the group of students is, the bigger the boost preschool provides for future college attendance. Louis Jacobson, Jon Greenberg, Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Yacob Reyes and Madison Czopek contributed reporting. Click here to read a Spanish version of this story. **RELATED** : The state of Joe Biden’s economy in 15 charts Sign Up For Our Weekly Newsletter ### Our Sources See sources linked within fact-checks. Politico, House GOP\'s 2023 forecast: Fiscal warfare, Oct. 24, 2022 Fox News, Republicans eye using debt limit hike to overhaul entitlement programs if entrusted with majority, Oct. 19, 2022 The Hill, GOP divisions over Social Security, Medicare cuts forecast tough fights ahead, Jan. 12, 2023 Bloomberg, Republicans Eye Debt Deal for Social Security, Medicare Panels, Feb. 6, 2023 Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, White House Should Stop Demagoguing Social Security and Medicare, Feb. 6, 2023 Clip of Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., on Fox Business, Jan. 9, 2023 Transcript: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on \"Face the Nation,\" Jan. 29, 2023 Office of Rep. 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• August 13, 2014 ![](\\" independentgroup___________________30/af233e7724c24a832a46d3f00a1fffae.jpg\\") ![](\\" independentgroup___________________30/09f60aaf546dfa4c5a29d8f29cb6f6b1.jpg\\") Georgia Department of Transportation stated on July 19, 2011 in a press release: The Northwest Corridor highway project in Cobb and Cherokee counties \"is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • August 10, 2011 ![](\\" rnc_/f782b8c4c3829f1a6c1c11601e86de60.jpg\\") ![](\\" rnc_/b41e073f13757280ee111c55cd387dca.jpg\\") Republican National Committee stated on June 5, 2008 in in a news release: Obama couldn\'t have afforded his home without Rezko\'s help. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • June 17, 2008 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on December 8, 2021 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt: Gas prices were \"$1.86 when I left\" the White House. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • December 8, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Louise Slaughter stated on September 5, 2017 in a tweet: Rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program \"will harm our economy.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • September 10, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on March 2, 2017 in a headline: \"Doctors who discovered cancer enzymes in vaccines all found murdered.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By PolitiFact Staff • April 4, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" David Menchetti stated on November 28, 2016 in testimony before the Illinois House Labor and Commerce Committee: \"The causation standard in Indiana is exactly the same as it is in Illinois.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • December 19, 2016 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kasim Reed stated on September 16, 2016 in a White House press conference: \"If you look at any real analysis,\" the Trans-Pacific Partnership is \"going to generate better-paying jobs that are more stable.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By PolitiFact Staff • September 30, 2016 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kasim Reed stated on November 17, 2015 in press release: While the smoking rate nationally has fallen, more than 18 percent of Georgians still light up. ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By PolitiFact Staff • November 30, 2015 ![](\\" ![](\\" NextGen Climate Action Committee stated on August 8, 2014 in a campaign ad: Says Rick Scott \"is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions\" despite troubled power plants. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By PolitiFact Staff • August 13, 2014 ![](\\" independentgroup___________________30/af233e7724c24a832a46d3f00a1fffae.jpg\\") ![](\\" independentgroup___________________30/09f60aaf546dfa4c5a29d8f29cb6f6b1.jpg\\") Georgia Department of Transportation stated on July 19, 2011 in a press release: The Northwest Corridor highway project in Cobb and Cherokee counties \"is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • August 10, 2011 ![](\\" rnc_/f782b8c4c3829f1a6c1c11601e86de60.jpg\\") ![](\\" rnc_/b41e073f13757280ee111c55cd387dca.jpg\\") Republican National Committee stated on June 5, 2008 in in a news release: Obama couldn\'t have afforded his home without Rezko\'s help. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • June 17, 2008 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on December 8, 2021 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt: Gas prices were \"$1.86 when I left\" the White House. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • December 8, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Louise Slaughter stated on September 5, 2017 in a tweet: Rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program \"will harm our economy.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By PolitiFact Staff • September 10, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on March 2, 2017 in a headline: \"Doctors who discovered cancer enzymes in vaccines all found murdered.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By PolitiFact Staff • April 4, 2017 ### Fact-checking Joe Biden\'s 2023 State of the Union address * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 12, 2024 in an Instagram post: A video shows a body that Israel embedded with a bomb exploding during a Palestinian funeral procession. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 11, 2024 in a post: “ESPN has fired Shannon Sharpe.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Gideon Hess • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Threads posts stated on September 12, 2024 in a post on Threads: An image shows Travis Kelce responding to Elon Musk X post that followed Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Madison Czopek • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 12, 2024 in an Instagram post: Former President Donald Trump admitted during the Sept. 10 presidential debate that he “blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 10, 2024 in a Facebook post: Patron, Don Julio and Pink Whitney tequila recalled because they contained fecal matter. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Elissa Slotkin stated on September 11, 2024 in a TV ad: Mike Rogers supported “laws that could eliminate IVF and birth control.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Caleb McCullough • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 11, 2024 in an Instagram post: \"Debate moderators made the false claim to Donald Trump that there is nowhere in the United States where abortion is legal up until birth.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 12, 2024 in a Facebook post: ABC News fired presidential debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sofia Ahmed • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Yes on 4 stated on September 10, 2024 in a TV ad: Florida’s six-week abortion law has “no real exceptions. Not for her health. Not even for rape.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Samantha Putterman • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 11, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook: Imagen muestra carnet del Partido Comunista de la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Maria Briceño • September 13, 2024 Load more #### Offices District of Columbia 1800 I Street NW Washington, DC 20006 Florida 801 3rd St. S St. Petersburg, FL 33701 727-821-9494 #### People * Joe Biden * Kamala Harris * Donald Trump * Mitch McConnell * Hakeem Jeffries * Ron DeSantis #### State Editions * California * Florida * Iowa * Michigan * New Hampshire * New York * North Carolina * Pennsylvania * Texas * West Virginia * Wisconsin #### About Us * Our Process * Our Staff * En Español * Who pays for PolitiFact? * Advertise with Us * Corrections and Updates * Newsletters #### RSS Feeds * Recent Articles and Fact-checks * Recent Fact-checks Suggest a Fact-check #### Follow us The Facts Newsletter Sign up Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy Copyright ©All Rights Reserved Poynter Institute 2020, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization ![\\"\\"](\\" * * * ✕ | We’ve launched a new border plan last month Unlawful migration from Cuba Haiti Nicaragua and Venezuela has come down 97 as a consequence of that | 264 |
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(AP/Susan Walsh) ![\\"Louis](\\" By Louis Jacobson October 25, 2018 # Donald Trump said many presidents don\'t get to appoint a justice. He\'s wrong One of President Donald Trump’s most significant achievements in office has been the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Trump took a victory lap during an Oct. 24 rally in Mosinee, Wis., reminiscing about the two justices he had nominated for the court, Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. \"A lot of people say that\'s the most important decision a president can make,\" Trump said (at about the 25-minute mark in this video). \"Now, I would say war and peace. ... But it is a very, very important decision. And they are two great people and I\'m very honored. You know, many presidents don\'t get a chance to put a Supreme Court justice on. Here we are less than two years and we put two of them on.\" We wondered if Trump is right that \"many presidents don\'t get a chance to put a Supreme Court justice on.\" He’s not. We looked at the full list of Supreme Court justices and found that only four presidents failed to nominate a justice during their tenure in the White House. Put another way, more than 90 percent of presidents have sent at least one justice to the court. And during the last 150 years, there has been only one such unlucky president. Here’s the rundown of presidents who didn’t get one of their nominations on the Supreme Court: • William Henry Harrison, the ninth president. Harrison died after serving only 31 days in office. • Zachary Taylor, the 12th president. Taylor died after serving a year and four months in office. • Andrew Johnson, the 17th president. Johnson succeeded the assassinated Abraham Lincoln and spent less than a full term in office. • Jimmy Carter, the 39th president. Carter served one term before losing reelection. Putting at least one justice on \"is not at all uncommon\" for a president, said Rutgers University presidential historian David Greenberg. Here’s a list of post-World War II presidents and the number of successful Supreme Court appointments each had. President Number of Supreme Court justices placed Harry Truman 4 Dwight Eisenhower 5 John F. Kennedy #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on August 5, 2024 in an X post Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • August 6, 2024 2 Lyndon B. Johnson 2 Richard Nixon 4 Gerald Ford 1 Jimmy Carter 0 Ronald Reagan 3 George H.W. Bush 2 Bill Clinton 2 George W. Bush 2 Barack Obama 2 Donald Trump 2 The White House did not respond to an inquiry for this article. Our ruling Trump said, \"Many presidents don’t get the chance to put a Supreme Court justice on.\" Only four presidents out of 45 have failed to place a justice on the high court, which doesn’t come close to the description \"many.\" In the past 150 years, only one president has missed a chance, Jimmy Carter. We rate the statement False. Share the Facts 2018-10-25 20:17:37 UTC PolitiFact ![\\"PolitiFact\\"](\\" 2 1 7 ![\\"PolitiFact](\\" false.jpg\\") PolitiFact Rating: False \"Many presidents don’t get the chance to put a Supreme Court justice on.\" Donald Trump President ![](\\" a rally in Mosinee, Wis. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2018-10-24 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Donald Trump, remarks at a rally in Mosinee, Wis., Oct. 24, 2018 Supreme Court, \"Justices 1789 to Present,\" accessed Oct. 25, 2018 uscourts.gov, \"Judgeship Appointments by President,\" accessed Oct. 25, 2018 White House, list of presidents, accessed Oct. 25, 2018 Email interview with David Greenberg, Rutgers University presidential historian, Oct. 25, 2018 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Louis Jacobson slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on July 13, 2024 in a statement to the media: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Byron Donalds stated on July 7, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: Kamala Harris \"co-sponsored, fully sponsored\" the Green New Deal. ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on April 4, 2024 in a post on TikTok: Donald Trump’s plan is “cutting Social Security for you.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: Former President Donald Trump \"intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" J.D. Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC\'s \"Meet the Press\": “Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you\'re ultimately much better off.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 21, 2024 in a Truth Social post: “The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on August 6, 2024 in un mitin de campaña en Filadelfia: \"El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump\". ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on August 6, 2024 in a rally in Philadelphia: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on July 30, 2024 in a rally in Atlanta: Donald Trump “intends to cut” Medicare. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on August 2, 2024 in a written statement: \"Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on July 30, 2024 in an event in Atlanta: \"Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Pete Buttigieg stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: “Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on July 18, 2024 in a speech in North Carolina: “Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on July 18, 2024 in a campaign event in North Carolina: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on July 13, 2024 in a statement to the media: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Byron Donalds stated on July 7, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: Kamala Harris \"co-sponsored, fully sponsored\" the Green New Deal. ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on April 4, 2024 in a post on TikTok: Donald Trump’s plan is “cutting Social Security for you.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: Former President Donald Trump \"intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" J.D. Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC\'s \"Meet the Press\": “Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you\'re ultimately much better off.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 21, 2024 in a Truth Social post: “The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2024 ### Donald Trump said many presidents don\'t get to appoint a justice. He\'s wrong * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on August 27, 2024 in an Instagram post: California S.B. 1174 eliminates the requirement for voter ID at polling places. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sofia Ahmed • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on August 29, 2024 in X posts: President Joe Biden “did a campaign ad at the graves in Arlington in 2020.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on August 16, 2024 in a video: Video shows “Kamala Harris describing how she can ruin lives with the \'swipe of a pen.’\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2024 in a post: Kamala Harris’ “plan to tax unrecognized Capital Gains mean(s) if your house goes up in value you will have to pay that Tax Even if you don’t sell your House!” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2024 in a Facebook post: “There’s no such thing as menopause.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Madison Czopek • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on August 27, 2024 in an Instagram post: “Hollywood actor Kurt Russell just said: ‘It is now proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden CHEATED in the 2020 election with mail-in ballots.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Caleb McCullough • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: Former President Donald Trump \"intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on August 27, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Kurt Russell forms a new non-woke actors alliance with Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on August 23, 2024 in an X post: Photo of former President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt was generated by artificial intelligence. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on August 28, 2024 in an X post: C-SPAN captions for a JD Vance speech said, “Single person clapping.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 30, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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(AP) By D.L. Davis November 13, 2020 # Wisconsin Democrats jump the gun with claim that absentee ballot rejections are down #### If Your Time is short * In April 2020, 23,196 absentee ballots were rejected, 1.8% of total ballots. That\'s down from 2.5% in April 2016. * But we don\'t know yet how many ballots were rejected Nov. 3, and won\'t know until mid-December. See the sources for this fact-check As Democrats celebrate the unofficial victory of President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 presidential election, claims of subterfuge, trickery and outright fraud involving absentee ballots continue to rain down. Thus far, there has been no evidence of widespread fraud presented, but Wisconsin lawmakers plan to issue their first subpoenas in years as part of an investigation into the election here. Ben Wikler, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, rejected the fraud allegations in a Nov. 8 appearance on WISN-TV’s UpFront program. But he added another detail that caught our eye. \"Across the state the rejection rate for ballots went way down because so much work and so much care was taken both by voters themselves and clerks around the state,\" Wikler said. Is his claim that the rejection rate for ballots is down correct? Let’s take a look. The claim When asked to back up the claim, Courtney Beyer, spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Democratic Party of Wisconsin, cited a Oct. 28, 2020, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article that reported 23,196 absentee ballots were rejected in the April 2020 election, about 1.8% of total ballots. Democrats believe there are signs it would be much lower for the November election. \"At least 23,000 ballots were rejected in April,\" Beyer said in an email. \"We don’t know exactly how many absentee ballots were rejected from this election (and won’t for a while), but preliminary counts had it around 1,000. Significantly less.\" Beyer also cited a Nov. 3 tweet from WisPolitics.com journalist Pat Poblete, who said \"Administrator Meagan Wolfe says as of this afternoon, 970 absentee ballots have been returned with a deficiency that would lead to them being rejected.\" But Wikler’s claim was made while discussing the Nov. 3 election. Viewers would have had no reason to believe he was referencing data from the April primary. So let’s review what we know about absentee rejection Nov. 3. No data yet for Nov. 3 election Elections Commission public information officer Reid Magney said the jury is still out on the absentee rejection count. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on August 5, 2024 in an X post Tim Walz “changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • August 6, 2024 \"We believe the numbers will be low, but we won’t know the rejection rate for several weeks,\" he said. \"Clerks have 45 days (after the election) to enter that data into the statewide voter database.\" Magney said the 970 absentee ballots referenced as flagged \"was a preliminary, pre-election figure - ballots marked for rejection if the voters didn\'t fix problems.\" In other words, it doesn’t give any general insight on how often ballots were rejected overall. However, there is an indication that the number of rejected absentee ballots could drop. The Oct. 28 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article points out that in April 2016, 5,860 absentee ballots were rejected — 2.5% of the total absentee ballots. And in April 2020, 23,196 absentee ballots were rejected. It’s a much higher raw number, but because so many more people used absentee ballots it was actually a smaller portion of total ballots — 1.8%. Our ruling Wikler said, \"Across the state the rejection rate for ballots went way down.\" According to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, it’s too early to know how many ballots were rejected. It may very well be true that the absentee ballot rejection rate was lower than past elections, but for now, the commission says there is no data to confirm that. By looking at the 2016 rejected ballot rate compared with the improved April 2020 rate, there is a possibility the rejection will also be down for November 2020, but there is no data yet to confirm that. Even Democrats subsequently acknowledged, \"We don’t know exactly how many absentee ballots were rejected from this election (and won’t for a while).\" For a statement that contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is Mostly False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, \"Ballot clerks asked for help. Lawmakers didn’t act. Disinformation followed,\" Nov. 10, 2020. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel \"More than 23K absentee ballots were rejected in April; election officials expect smaller percentage to have problems in November,\"Oct. 28, 2020. PolitiFact, \"Fact-checking a conspiracy theory about ballot counting in battleground states,\" Nov. 4, 2020. WISN \"UpFront,\" Nov. 8, 2020. Email, Courtney Beyer, spokeswoman Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Nov. 11, 2020 Email, Reid Magney, Wisconsin Elections Commission, Nov. 10, 2020 Twitter, WisPolitics.com Pat Poblete, Nov. 3, 2020 Wisconsin Elections Commission \"Correcting misinformation about Wisconsin’s election,\" Nov. 10, 2020. ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by D.L. Davis slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tony Evers stated on March 8, 2023 in Twitter: The money for upgrades to the Milwaukee Brewers stadium in Evers’ budget is \"a bipartisan plan.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • March 28, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joan Ballweg stated on January 24, 2023 in Twitter: \"Wisconsin has seen over 63 billion dollars of federal pandemic-related funding funnel into our state over (Gov. Tony Evers\') tenure.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • March 14, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tony Evers stated on December 27, 2022 in Twitter: \"During my time in office, we\'ve increased per pupil aid by more than $300 per student. Now, our schools have returned to the top 10 in the country after falling to 17 under the previous administration.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • February 7, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on May 16, 2024 in News release: \"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • July 13, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron Johnson stated on April 15, 2024 in Podcast: \"Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By D.L. Davis • May 17, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Lisa Subeck stated on February 16, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2024 ![](\\" new/e5f81dc43ebbfab7c9d9b56cfba2f398.jpg\\") ![](\\" new/9fbc38bd9f4148c4e7374ecdd8d95da4.jpg\\") Tammy Baldwin stated on February 1, 2024 in Facebook post: “Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Robin Vos stated on January 7, 2024 in TV interview: “The law in Wisconsin (on abortion time limit) is 20 weeks. That is way outside the international bounds.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • February 9, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Cindi Duchow stated on November 9, 2023 in Wisconsin Assembly: \"Unfortunately during COVID, the clerks in Madison and Milwaukee told their constituents that they were actually indefinitely confined and did not have to come and vote, which was incorrect.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron Tusler stated on September 12, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter: Wisconsin Republicans are backing “a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. ... Republicans, Democrats, and the Governor pushed this plan last time redistricting happened in 2020.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • December 8, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Rebecca Cooke stated on September 1, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter: \"Derrick Van Orden is one of the only members of Congress who participated in the deadly January 6th insurrection. He now serves in the building he tried to burn down.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • October 11, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" LaKeshia Myers stated on June 6, 2023 in News release: During the spring 2020 election in Milwaukee, a reduction to only five polling locations “came days before the election and was done without proper notice to voters.” ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • September 8, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kelda Helen Roys stated on April 26, 2023 in Twitter: Infertility is treated differently than other issues and \"often excluded from insurance coverage\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By D.L. Davis • May 26, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Robin Vos stated on March 9, 2023 in Podcast: “When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game\'s salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Paul Ryan stated on February 23, 2023 in TV interview: \"WOW county swing suburban voters (in Wisconsin) don\'t vote for Donald Trump.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By D.L. Davis • April 18, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tony Evers stated on March 8, 2023 in Twitter: The money for upgrades to the Milwaukee Brewers stadium in Evers’ budget is \"a bipartisan plan.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • March 28, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joan Ballweg stated on January 24, 2023 in Twitter: \"Wisconsin has seen over 63 billion dollars of federal pandemic-related funding funnel into our state over (Gov. Tony Evers\') tenure.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • March 14, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tony Evers stated on December 27, 2022 in Twitter: \"During my time in office, we\'ve increased per pupil aid by more than $300 per student. Now, our schools have returned to the top 10 in the country after falling to 17 under the previous administration.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • February 7, 2023 ![](\\" ![](\\" Joe Biden stated on May 16, 2024 in News release: \"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By D.L. Davis • July 13, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron Johnson stated on April 15, 2024 in Podcast: \"Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By D.L. Davis • May 17, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Lisa Subeck stated on February 16, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2024 ### Wisconsin Democrats jump the gun with claim that absentee ballot rejections are down * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on August 27, 2024 in an Instagram post: California S.B. 1174 eliminates the requirement for voter ID at polling places. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sofia Ahmed • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on August 29, 2024 in X posts: President Joe Biden “did a campaign ad at the graves in Arlington in 2020.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on August 16, 2024 in a video: Video shows “Kamala Harris describing how she can ruin lives with the \'swipe of a pen.’\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2024 in a post: Kamala Harris’ “plan to tax unrecognized Capital Gains mean(s) if your house goes up in value you will have to pay that Tax Even if you don’t sell your House!” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2024 in a Facebook post: “There’s no such thing as menopause.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Madison Czopek • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on August 27, 2024 in an Instagram post: “Hollywood actor Kurt Russell just said: ‘It is now proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden CHEATED in the 2020 election with mail-in ballots.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Caleb McCullough • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: Former President Donald Trump \"intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on August 27, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Kurt Russell forms a new non-woke actors alliance with Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on August 23, 2024 in an X post: Photo of former President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt was generated by artificial intelligence. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on August 28, 2024 in an X post: C-SPAN captions for a JD Vance speech said, “Single person clapping.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 30, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Image-Thumbnail--702x336.jpg\\") English, Fake News # An edited photo is shared falsely claiming that a Pakistan flag was waved during the victory celebrations of the Congress Party in Amravati 0 By Varun Borugadda on June 7, 2024 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit Social media is abuzz with a photo that allegedly shows the Pakistan flag being waved during the victory celebrations of the Congress party in Amravati. After Congress’ Balwant Wankhede registered a win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Amravati Lok Sabha constituency, this photo went viral on social media. We fact-check this claim through this article. ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Claim--753x1024.jpg\\")An archived version of this can be found here. > Claim: Pakistan’s National flag was waved in Amravati during the Congress > party’s victory celebration rally after the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha > elections. > > Fact: This is an edited photo. To create this fake photo, a Pakistan flag > was digitally added to a keyframe from a video shot in Rajkamal Chowk, > Amravati. Hence, the claim made in the post is False. To check the veracity of the viral claim, we first performed a reverse image search on the viral photo. This search led us to a YouTube video and a Facebook post that contained the same visuals as the viral photo, except that they did not contain the Pakistan flag, as seen in the viral photo. ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Claim-Image-01--1024x576.jpg\\") These posts (archive link) also identified the location as Amravati. To determine the authenticity of these posts, we performed a keyword search on the internet. Through this search, we learned that a victory celebration rally was held by the Congress party in Rajkamal Square or Chowk, Amravati, after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections result. Media outlets reported (here, here, and here) that the Teosa MLA Yashomati Thakur attended a road show rally with the Amravati MP-elect Balwant Wankhede. We also found a few social media posts (here and here) that contained recent videos of the Congress party/Maha Vikas Aghadi’s 2024 Lok Sabha election victory celebrations, identifying the location as Rajkamal Chowk, Amravati. ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Image-02--932x1024.jpg\\") The love ‘Amba Nagari’ sign board present in the Rajkamal Chowk, Amravati, can be seen in this video and also in the media reports of the roadshow conducted by Balwant Wankhede and Yashomati Thakur. This confirms that a roadshow was conducted in the Rajkamal Chowk after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections victory. ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Claim-Image-04--1024x576.jpeg\\") ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Claim-Image-03-989x1024.jpg\\") Further, by comparing the photos of Rajkamal Chowk in Google Maps, we concluded that the viral video was also shot in the same location. Although we could not independently verify if the video was shot after the 2024 Lok Sabha election, it is clear that the video was shot in Rajkamal Chowk, Amravati. ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Image-05-1024x576.jpg\\") There are no news reports of a Pakistan flag being hoisted or waved at a rally in Rajkamal Chowk. Also, as we determined in the beginning, the original video did not contain a Pakistan flag. A keyframe from this video from around the 6-second mark was taken and edited by adding a Pakistan flag to support the viral fake claim. Additionally, we learned that members of the VHP and Bajrang Dal submitted a memorandum to the local Commissioner of Police, Amravati, to take action against ‘hooligans’ that created a ‘ruckus’ at Rajmahal Chowk on 4 June 2024 during the victory procession of Mahavikas Aghadi candidate Blawant Wankhede. ![\\"\\"](\\" hoisted-in-Amravati-Image-06-1024x789.jpg\\") To sum up, an edited photo is falsely shared to claim that a Pakistan flag was waved during a victory rally of the Congress party after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Amravati. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Accessibility statementSkip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness Sign in Advertisement clockThis article was published more than **1 year ago** Democracy Dies in Darkness fact checkerAboutArchive fact checkerAboutArchive # New Trump campaign, same old falsehoods 14 min Former president Donald Trump announced the start of his 2024 campaign on Nov. 15. Here’s a round-up of false or misleading claims during the remarks. (Video: Adriana Usero/The Washington Post) ![\\"\\"](\\" apps/imrs.php?src= authors/washpost/44f31222-8f22-4a07-b0eb-c77cbf11540a.png&h=196&w=196\\"/) Analysis by Glenn Kessler November 16, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. EST Donald Trump is running for president again — and he’s singing from the same hymn book of falsehoods. With few exceptions, many of the factual claims made in his announcement speech could have been plucked from a campaign-rally speech in the waning days of the 2020 election campaign — or even from his announcement speech in 2015. Here’s a guide to 19 claims he made on Tuesday night, in the order in which he made them. **“When the virus hit our shores, I took decisive action and saved lives and the U.S. economy.”** Trump did not take decisive action. For weeks, he played down the threat of a pandemic, telling reporters in February 2020 that in April the virus would “miraculously” go away. Story continues below advertisement **“Importantly, after decades of rising energy costs, the United States had finally attained the impossible dream of American energy independence, which soon would have turned into energy dominance.”** Advertisement This is false. Under Trump, the United States continued to import millions of barrels of oil per day, with 48 percent coming from Canada and 11 percent from Persian Gulf countries. Trump appears to be basing this statement on the fact the United States exported more crude and refined products than it imported. That’s still the case. In 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration, the United States imported about 8.47 million barrels per day of petroleum, compared to exports of 8.63 million barrels per day. But the country still relies on other countries for its energy needs. ✅ Follow Fact-checking politicians Follow Refiners on the Gulf Coast, for instance, have been optimized for Venezuelan crude, which has a high sulfur content. When the Trump administration put sanctions on Venezuelan petroleum, refiners started importing Russian petroleum products because they are roughly similar to U.S. petroleum products. Story continues below advertisement **“China was paying billions and billions of dollars in taxes … No president had ever saw or received one dollar for our country from China until I came along.”** Advertisement China is not the one paying. Tariffs are generally paid by importers, such as U.S. companies, who in turn pass on most or all of the costs to consumers or producers who may use Chinese materials in their products. So, ultimately, Americans are footing the bill for these tariffs, not the Chinese. Through the end of Trump’s presidency, the tariffs garnered about $75 billion on products from China. Biden has not removed the tariffs, so the total has now grown to $161 billion, according to Customs and Border Protection. Contrary to Trump’s claim that “no president” had ever done this, tariffs have been collected on Chinese goods since the early days of the Republic. President George Washington signed the Tariff Act of 1789, when trade between China and the United States was already established. Story continues below advertisement **“Because the border was so tight, drugs were coming into our country at the lowest level in many, many years.”** Advertisement The flow of drugs over the border was not at its lowest level under Trump. Under Biden, according to Customs and Border Protection statistics, overall drug seizures have dropped, especially for marijuana, but have increased substantially for fentanyl — the drug most responsible for overdose deaths. Both the decrease in marijuana seizures and the increase in fentanyl seizures reflect trends that started under Trump. Most drugs come into the United States across the southern border with Mexico. But a wall does not limit this illegal trade, as much of it travels through legal borders or under tunnels unaffected by any possible physical barrier. Even if the wall could curb illicit drug trafficking, it would have a minimal impact on the death toll from drug abuse. Story continues below advertisement **“Gas prices have reached the highest levels in history, and expect them to go much higher now that the strategic national reserves, which I filled up, have been virtually drained to keep gasoline prices lower.”** Advertisement Trump exaggerates. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve hit a high of 726 million barrels under Barack Obama and never got higher than 695 million barrels under Trump. (He did propose to add more but couldn’t get funding approved by Congress.) As of August, the latest figure available, it stood at 445 million barrels. **“Our southern border has been erased, and our country is being invaded by millions and millions of unknown people, many of whom are entering for a very bad and sinister reason.”** Story continues below advertisement Trump is exaggerating how many people illegally cross the border. Moreover, most independent research contradicts the idea that illegal immigrants bring more crime. A 2018 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Criminology, led by Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, examined whether places with higher percentages of undocumented immigrants have higher rates of violent crime such as murder or rape. The answer: States with larger shares of undocumented immigrants tended to have lower crime rates than states with smaller shares in the years 1990 through 2014. Similar results were found in another peer-reviewed study by the same researchers that looked at nonviolent crime, such as drug arrests and driving under the influence (DUI) arrests. Advertisement **“We lost lives, left Americans behind and surrendered $85 billion worth of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world.”** Trump falsely claims United States left behind $85 billion of weapons during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. We have previously given this claim Three Pinocchios, as it is ridiculously high. The $85 billion number reflects all spending appropriated for Afghanistan Security Forces since the U.S. invasion in 2001. But even that is high; a smaller figure, $75 billion, actually had been disbursed. Moreover, a 2017 government report estimated that about 29 percent of the funds spent on the Afghan security forces between 2005 and 2016 went to equipment and transportation. The exact figure of equipment left behind is unknown. Given the passage of time, however, some of this equipment may be obsolete or have been destroyed — or may not be usable, given the shortage of maintenance crews. Story continues below advertisement **“They say the ocean will rise one eighth of an inch over the next two hundred to three hundred years.”** Advertisement Trump greatly minimizes how climate change is expected to affect global mean sea levels. Global mean sea level already has risen about eight to nine inches since 1880; as of 2021, it is 3.8 inches above 1993 levels, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. At the current pace, the global sea level will be one foot higher by the end of this century. **“We had practically, just about, not that I can think of, no Islamic attacks, terrorist attacks during the Trump administration.”** Trump is wrong. On Dec. 6, 2019, a Saudi military student, Ahmed Mohammed al- Shamrani, went on a shooting rampage at a Navy flight school in Pensacola, Fla., killing three people and wounding 13. Attorney General William P. Barr said the attack was “an act of terrorism” motivated by “jihadist ideology.” Al-Shamrani had visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York City and posted a message on social media on the anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks stating that “the countdown has started.” Advertisement Story continues below advertisement **“We actually got it [inflation] to exactly one percent. The perfect number one thing every economist agrees don’t have it. You have it like at one percent. They would say one to two. But I said, let’s do one. And we had it at one percent and we had it there for a long period of time …. Inflation was nonexistent.”** This is not correct. During the Trump presidency, annual inflation generally was a little higher or lower than 2 percent a year. A president generally has little control over inflation, while the Federal Reserve only has crude tools, such as raising interest rates, to affect it. Whether the Fed acted fast enough to combat inflation — or whether Biden’s covid relief package exacerbated inflation — is still under debate. Trump appointed the current Fed chairman. After the pandemic, inflation soared in most countries around the world, and Trump likely would have faced a similar rise in prices. **“The socialist disaster known as the Green New Deal, which is destroying our country, and the many crippling regulations that it has spawned, will be immediately terminated.”** Advertisement Story continues below advertisement The Green New Deal, a sweeping environmental plan proposed by liberals, was never enacted. Biden opposed the Green New Deal though he has enacted some climate-change legislation. **“But one of the reasons we had so much success at the border was because of the fact that we got Mexico to give us free of charge 28,000 soldiers.”** No Mexican troops were given “free of charge” to the United States. Mexico deployed 26,000 soldiers, split between the U.S. border and Mexico’s southern border, to stem illegal immigration from central American countries. **“Under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, they were unable to take them out because their country is where they came from, wouldn’t take them. And I learned about that. And my first day I actually say what I learned about it. And I said, which countries? And it was Honduras and Guatemala. It was El Salvador, some others. And I said, How much do we pay them, sir? You pay them $750 million a year. It’s a lot of money. I said, all right, stop payment. We’re not paying them anymore because they wouldn’t accept them … And I get a call the next morning from the presidents of every country that are talking about. Sir, there seems to be a misunderstanding. What’s the problem? Is ... there anything we can do?”** Trump often fabricates conversations in which he stuns various heads of state with his knowledge or negotiating skills and they bend to his will. His claim that El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras “wouldn’t take” deportees before the Trump administration is flat-out false. The three countries accepted hundreds of thousands of returnees from the United States every year, before Trump’s term, official statistics show. From 2013 to 2018, such deportations totaled 550,186. In fact, the Obama administration prioritized the deportations of gang members and individuals with criminal records. Trump, upon taking office, scrapped that priority list and allowed officials to prioritize nonviolent immigration offenders over violent ones. **“Businesses were pouring back because of our historic tax and regulation cuts, the biggest in both categories in history, bigger even than what Ronald Reagan was able to produce. And he produced a lot.”** Neither of these claims is correct. Trump’s claim about tax cuts was his second favorite falsehood during his presidency; his remarks at his departure ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base marked the 296th time he said it. Even before Trump’s tax cut was crafted, he promised it would be the biggest in U.S. history — bigger than Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax cut. Reagan’s tax cut amounted to 2.9 percent of the gross domestic product and none of the proposals under consideration came close to that level. Yet Trump persisted in this fiction even when the tax cut was eventually crafted to be the equivalent of 0.9 percent of GDP, making it the eighth largest tax cut in 100 years. As for regulations, there is no reliable metric on which to judge this claim — or to compare Trump to previous presidents. Many experts say the most significant regulatory changes in U.S. history were the deregulation of airline, rail and trucking industries during the Carter administration, which are estimated to provide consumers with $70 billion in annual benefits. A detailed November 2020 report by the Penn Program on Regulation concluded that “without exception, each major claim we have uncovered by the President or other White House official about regulation turns out to be exaggerated, misleading, or downright untrue.” The report said that Trump Administration had not reduced the overall number of pages from the regulatory code book, and it completed far more regulatory actions than deregulatory ones once the full data are examined. **“I made big promises to the American people. And unlike other presidents, I kept my promises.”** Despite his bravado, Trump broke many of his campaign promises. According to The Washington Post Trump Promise Tracker, Trump kept less than one-third of 60 key promises he announced during the 2016 campaign — and he broke half of them. **“Every drug dealer during his or her life on average will kill 500 people with the drugs they sell, not to mention the destruction of families.”** As we have documented, this is a dubious figure that makes little sense. About 600,000 people died of drug overdoses from 2010 to 2020, according to the National Institutes of Health. Doing the math, Trump’s statistic would suggest that there are only 1,200 drug dealers in the United States. But the federal government prosecutes nearly 20,000 drug traffickers a year. **“I rebuilt our entire military, which nobody talks about. When I got there, we had jet fighters that were forty eight years old. We had bombers that was 60 years old. We had bombers where their grandfathers flew them when they were new. And now the grandchild is flying the bomber, but not anymore.”** Trump often falsely claims he\'s “totally rebuilt” the U.S. military. As for the bomber, Trump appears to be referring to the B-52 Stratofortress bomber, built during the Kennedy Administration, which are receiving upgrades could keep the remaining fleet of Cold War bombers going until 2050. But Trump errs in suggesting that he is replacing the B-52 or ordered new planes to replace it. The Obama administration pushed forward with a new bomber, the B21, which will function alongside the B-52. **“I said, why didn’t you raid Bush’s place? Why didn’t you raid Clinton? Thirty two thousand emails. Why didn’t you raid Clinton’s place? Why didn’t you do? Obama took a lot of things with him.”** Trump is under investigation for taking classified documents from the White House to his home in Florida, rather than turn than over the National Archives as required by law. When Trump began suggesting his actions were no different than previous president, the Archives issued a statement saying he was wrong. “All such temporary facilities [for previous president records] met strict archival and security standards, and have been managed and staffed exclusively by NARA employees,” the statement said. “Reports that indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession of the former Presidents or their representatives, after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading.” **“I will ask for a permanent ban on taxpayer funding of campaigns. A lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and Cabinet. No, I see what they make. They leave the White House or they leave Congress. They’re paid millions and millions and millions of dollars a year. Now you have to have a ban.”** Trump talks a good game on restricting lobbying by former officials. But with hours left in his term, Trump rescinded the executive order he had signed on Jan. 28, 2017 that had limited federal administration officials from lobbying the government or working for foreign countries after they leave their posts, undoing one of the few measures he had instituted to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to “drain the swamp.” (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter The Fact Checker is a verified signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network code of principles ### The 2022 Midterm Elections Georgia runoff election: Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) won re-election in the Georgia Senate runoff, defeating Republican challenger Herschel Walker and giving Democrats a 51st seat in the Senate for the 118th Congress. Get live updates here and runoff results by county. Divided government: Republicans narrowly won back control of the House, while Democrats will keep control of the Senate, creating a split Congress. What the results mean for 2024: A Republican Party red wave seems to be a ripple after Republicans fell short in the Senate and narrowly won control in the House. Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign shortly after the midterms. Here are the top 10 2024 presidential candidates for the Republicans and Democrats. 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בדקנו. \- פרסומת - לאחרונה הסברנו כי השינויים במחירי הדירות נמדדים באמצעות מדד מחירי הדירות שמפרסמת הלמ\"ס מדי חודש. הנתון הזה מבטא שינוי דו חודשי במחירי הדירות על סמך עסקאות שבוצעו בחודשים קודמים. לפני כשלושה שבועות פורסם המדד לחודשים פברואר ומרץ, וכפי שציין כהן הוא שיקף עלייה שנתית של מחירי הדירות שהסתכמה ב-16.3% (העלייה החודשית עמדה על 1.9%). ומה לגבי תקופתו של כחלון כשר אוצר? הוא נכנס לתפקיד במאי 2015 ולמעשה כיהן בו במשך חמש שנים, עד מאי 2020. עם זאת, את שנתו האחרונה בתפקיד הוא עשה כחלק ממשלת מעבר, כך שבבדיקה בחנו רק את ארבע שנותיו הראשונות בתפקיד (אליהן גם התייחס כהן): מאי 2015 עד מאי 2019. מנתוני הלמ\"ס עולה שבניגוד לדבריו של כהן, בסיכומן של ארבע שנות כהונת כחלון כשר אוצר, מדד מחירי הדירות דווקא רשם עלייה של 13.6%, ולא ירידה של 2%. ![\\" \\"](\\" עוד בנושא המשרוקית * חיסול נסראללה: יצרני הפייקים ניסו לכתוב את המציאות מחדש * האם החוק לא מעמיד תנאי כשירות לממלא־מקום יו\"ר הרשות השנייה * מה בג\"ץ אמר על החזקת גופות מחבלים? הוא לא התנגד לרעיון * מהם הפיתוחים פורצי הדרך בתחום הצנתורים, המסתמים ואי ספיקת לב? אז למה ככל הנראה התכוון כהן? אם בוחנים לעומק את תקופתו של כחלון אפשר לראות שלקראת סוף כהונתו, בין החודשים ספטמבר 18 לדצמבר 18, נרשמו שלושה מדדים רצופים שבהם הייתה ירידה שנתית של כ-2% (כל מדד מתייחס לתקופה של 12 החודשים האחרונים). זה אכן הישג שכחלון יכול לרשום לזכותו, במיוחד על רקע העובדה שהפעם הקודמת שבה נרשמה ירידה שנתית במדד מחירי הדירות הייתה יותר מעשור קודם לכן, במהלך במאי-יוני 2007 (אז נרשמה ירידה של 2.9% במדד). יחד עם זאת, כמובן שמדובר בירידה שמייצגת תקופה מצומצמת יחסית, ולא כזאת שמצביעה על כלל תקופתו של כחלון בתפקיד, במהלכה, כאמור, מחירי הדירות רשמו עלייה. ח\"כ כהן מסר לנו בתגובה שבדבריו הוא הדגיש שבשנה אחת של הממשלה הנוכחית מדד מחירי הדירות עלה בשיעור חד יותר מכל תקופת הכהונה של כחלון. בשורה התחתונה: דבריו של כהן לא נכונים ברובם. בארבע השנים הראשונות של כהונת כחלון כשר אוצר, מדד מחירי הדירות לא ירד, אלא עלה בכ-14%. נתון הירידה של 2% שאותו הזכיר כהן מתייחס לירידה שנתית, שנרשמה בעיקר במהלך שנת 2018. \- פרסומת - תחקיר: יובל אינהורן ## לבדיקה המלאה לחצו כאן שם: אלי כהןמפלגה: הליכודתוכנית: השיטה, גלי ישראלתאריך: 29.5ציטוט: \"במהלך ארבע שנים של כחלון כשר אוצר, מחירי הנדל\"ן ירדו ב2%. כאשר אנחנו מדברים על שנה אחת בלבד של הממשלה הזאת, עלייה של 16%\"ציון: לא נכון ברובו על רקע העלייה במחירי הדירות, ח\"כ אלי כהן התראיין לגלי ישראל והעלה מספר הצעות לבלימת עליית מחירי הדירות. אלא שבשלב מסוים, המראיין הזכיר לו שעד לא מזמן כהן עצמו היה חלק ממקבלי ההחלטות: \"... כל מאזין עכשיו שואל את עצמו: \'איפה הייתה התוכנית הזאת כש[כהן] היה שר הכלכלה, כשהוא היה ליד המושכות?\'\". בתגובה, כהן השיב שהוא סייע לשר האוצר דאז, משה כחלון, שלדבריו באמת עשה מאמצים להוריד את מחירי הדיור: לראיה, כהן ציין כי \"במהלך ארבע שנים של כחלון כשר אוצר, מחירי הדל\"ן ירדו ב-2%\" - ולעומת זאת: \"כאשר אנחנו מדברים על שנה אחת בלבד של הממשלה הזאת - עלייה של 16%\". האם מחירי הדירות אכן היו נמוכים ב-2% לאחר ארבע שנות כהונה של כחלון כשר האוצר בהשוואה לרמתם בתחילת כהונתו? בעבר הסברנו שהשינויים במחירי הדירות נמדדים באמצעות מדד מחירי הדירות שמפרסמת הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה (למ\"ס) מדי חודש. הנתון הזה מבטא שינוי דו-חודשי במחירי הדירות על סמך עסקאות שבוצעו בחודשים קודמים. לפני כשלושה שבועות פורסם מדד מחירי הדירות לחודשים פברואר ומרץ - וכפי שציין כהן, הוא שיקף עלייה שנתית של מחירי הדירות שהסתכמה ב-16.3% (העלייה החודשית עמדה על 1.9%). ומה לגבי תקופת כהונת כחלון כשר אוצר? כחלון נכנס לתפקידו כשר אוצר במאי 2015 ולמעשה כיהן בתפקיד במשך חמש שנים, עד מאי 2020. אולם בפועל בשנתו האחרונה בתפקיד, הממשלה בה הוא היה חבר תפקדה כ\"ממשלת מעבר\". לכן, בבדיקה נבחן את ארבע שנותיו הראשונות בתפקיד (אליהן גם התייחס כהן) - מאי 2015 עד מאי 2019 (כלומר, ממדד מאי-יוני 2015 עד מדד מאי-יוני 2019). מנתוני הלמ\"ס עולה שבניגוד לדבריו של כהן, בסיכומן של ארבע שנות כהונת כחלון כשר אוצר, מדד מחירי הדיור עלה ולא ירד: מנתון שעמד על 364.5 במאי-יוני 2015, המדד עלה ל-414.1 במאי-יוני 2019 - עלייה של 13.6%. אז מה מלמדת ההשוואה של עליית המדד הנוכחית לתקופות עבר? ראשית, כפי שמצאנו בבדיקה קודמת, מזה למעלה מעשור לא נרשמה עלייה שנתית חדה כל כך במחירי הדירות - ולמעשה מאז אמצע שנות ה-90 היו רק שתי תקופות בהן נרשמו חודשים עם עליות שנתיות גבוהות יותר מהעלייה הנוכחית: בשנים 1995-1996 ובשנים 2009-2010. בנוסף, כהן הפנה אותנו לגרף שמתאר את השינוי השנתי במחירי הדירות - והוא עומד בהלימה לנתוני הלמ\"ס (גרף כזה מופיע גם בבדיקה הקודמת שלנו). מהגרף עולה שבתקופת כחלון, בשלוש פעמים המדד רשם ירידה שנתית של כ-2% (בין החודשים ספטמבר-דצמבר 2018). ירידה שנתית כזו לא נרשמה מאז מאי-יוני 2007 (אז הירידה הייתה 2.9%). ח\"כ אלי כהן מסר בתגובה שבדבריו הוא הדגיש שבשנה אחת של הממשלה הנוכחית, מדד מחירי הדירות עלה בשיעור חד יותר מכל תקופת הכהונה של כחלון. לסיכום, בניגוד לדבריו של כהן, בארבע השנים הראשונות של כהונת כחלון כשר אוצר, מדד מחירי הדירות לא ירד, אלא עלה בכ-14%. יחד עם זאת, העלייה השנתית הנוכחית בגובה 16.3% אכן גבוהה יותר מהעלייה הכוללת בתקופת כחלון, במהלכה אף נרשמו שלוש פעמים בהן הייתה ירידה שנתית של כ-2%. לכן דבריו של כהן לא נכונים ברובם. ![](\\"\\"/) מהם הפיתוחים פורצי הדרך בתחום הצנתורים, המסתמים ואי ספיקת לב? 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Skip to content ![\\"Mexicana](\\" content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-png-bild-d5cff37a966e-1-13.png\\") Mexican Art We spread artistic work * Fact check * Agenda * Calls * Cultural Policy * Opinion * * #SomosMexicana * #SomosMexicana *Who we are * What we do * What we do *I verify, then publish * #UntilWeFindThem * Mexican Art Festival * Revelation: the new Mexican voices * Katzarava's Voice Festival * Return *X *Facebook * Instagram * Google News ![\\"\\"](\\" content/uploads/2021/07/comunicado-7-e1625202460118.jpeg?w=1238\\") # It is false that theaters are closing on the recommendation of the Government of the CDMX Published by Mexicana de Arte July 2, 202July 12, 2021 Leave a comment on It is false that theaters are closing on the recommendation of the CDMX Government Statement: “[…] in compliance with the recommendations of the authorities health due to the rise (sic) of infections in Mexico City COVID19, the production of SIE7E in conjunction with the Pepsi Center WTC, aware of this situation and in solidarity with all of you we inform you that we have made the decision as socially responsible companies to assume these recommendations taking care of our talent, staff and public stopping performances starting this Saturday, June 26 »Author: Production of the work SIE7E. Statement signed by Carlos Hernández, Sergio Mayer and Eitan Téllez.Rating: False. The play SIE7E premiered on June 24 at the Pepsi Center of the World Trade Center in Mexico City. The event had a great media coverage. The message published by the production allows us to understand that the suspension of work is due to recommendations of the Government of Mexico City, without However, this is misleading since there is no communication about it. published by the capital administration in this regard, nor by the Government from Mexico. According to the epidemiological traffic light and the statements of the Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum, theaters in CDMX will be able to operate at 40% of the capacity of the venues. Producers, actresses and news anchors have hinted that the suspension of work in SIE7E production is due to low sales, but this statement could not be verified. In recent days it has emerged that members of the cast, specifically the actress and singer Michelle Rodríguez, could have been infected by SARS-CoV-2. Mexicana de Arte sought the still deputy and producer Sergio Mayer, however, no information about it. • ### Share: * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to email link to a friend (Opens in new window) ### Related Published by Mexicana de ArteJuly 2, 202July 12, 2021Published inNews, Fact checkTags: Sergio Mayer, SIE7E ## Post navigation Previous entry Previous entry: For Josu and Ana Next entry Next entry: It was false that Regina Blandón made a tweet against childhoods with cancer ## Leave a comment ### Cancel reply Δ Look for: ## Subscribe for free Enter your email address to receive news from the international artistic endeavor. Email address: Subscribe me for free Join 2,685 other subscribers Mexican Art, Create a website or blog on WordPress.com * Follow us on Google News * Download the latest edition * Previous editions * Comments * Subscribe Subscribed * ![\\"\\"](\\" Mexican of Art Join 79 other subscribers Subscribe me * Do you already have a WordPress.com account? Sign in. * * ![\\"\\"](\\" Mexican Art * Customize * Subscribe Subscribed * Sign up * Login * Copy short link * Report this content * View post in Reader * Manage subscriptions * Collapse this bar ![\\"\\"](\\" \"/) | in compliance with the recommendations of the health authorities due to the rise sic of COVID19 infections in Mexico City the production of SIE7E in conjunction with the Pepsi Center WTC aware of this situation and in solidarity with All of you inform you that we have made the decision as socially responsible companies to assume these recommendations taking care of our talent staff and public by stopping functions starting this Saturday June 26 | 272 |
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Desde falsos pucherazos hasta supuestos pactos, a continuación recopilamos los bulos que hemos detectado que se están moviendo ### Es falso que las papeletas de las elecciones del 10N en las que pone «noviembre 19» sean nulas Nos habéis preguntado mucho por un vídeo viral y una cadena de WhatsApp que se está difundiendo y que afirman que varias papeletas electorales para las elecciones del 10N en las que puede leerse «Noviembre 19» son nulas. Esto es FALSO. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") El 19 hace referencia al año y no, como se da a entender en el vídeo y se indica en la cadena viral, al día. Además, desde Infoelectoral, el portal de información de los procesos electorales dependiente del Ministerio del Interior, explican a Newtral.es que estas papeletas son perfectamente correctas y validadas por la Junta Electoral Provincial de turno. También lo ha advertido el Ministerio de Interior en su cuenta de Twitter: ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") La Audiencia de Madrid ratifica la condena a Guillermo Rocafort por intromisión en el honor de Ana Pastor > 📣 Sobre las papeletas del #10N Para diferenciarlas de las de abril, en el > encabezado se incluye el mes: noviembre🗳 En algunas provincias tras el mes > aparece 2019 y en otras solo 19✔️ Todas son válidas. Han sido aprobadas por > las Juntas Electorales❌ Cuidado con lo bulos pic.twitter.com/BXb8YA7Yg8 > > — Ministerio Interior (@interiorgob) November 10, 2019 Puedes leer aquí la verificación ### No han movilizado a guardias civiles del Escuadrón de Caballería a Sevilla para que no puedan votar Durante la jornada de reflexión está circulando un audio en el que una mujer asegura que a su yerno y a todos sus compañeros del Escuadrón de Caballería de la Guardia Civil los han desplazado a Sevilla «para que no puedan votar». Según cuenta, esto también ha ocurrido con agentes de toda España que pertenecen Grupos de Reserva y Seguridad (GRS). Por último concluye que «todos esos votos los pierde Vox». ![\\"Vídeos](\\"\\") Vídeos e imágenes fuera de contexto: los bulos del conflicto entre Israel, Líbano y otros países de la región Tanto desde el Ministerio del Interior como desde la Asociación Unificada de Guardias Civiles han asegurado a Newtral que el contenido de este audio es falso. Desde la Asociación explican que para los guardias civiles desplazados y que no pudieron pedir el voto por correo se ha establecido un mecanismo para ejercer su derecho a votar en las elecciones. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") Puedes leer aquí la verificación ### No se pueden manipular los resultados del 10-N «adulterando los patrones de imágenes de actas de escrutinio» Una publicación en Facebook habla de un supuesto método de «pucherazo» de las próximas elecciones del 10-N. En concreto, la publicación que incluye una captura de Twitter dice lo siguiente: «El fraude no lo harán en el centro de cómputo del Correo sino adulterando los patrones de imágenes de actas de escrutinio de cada urna escaneada en las escuelas. Se transmitirán a una ip enmascara de un servidor secreto donde el soft cambiará cifras y retransmitirá al correo». Es FALSO. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") La publicación de Facebook que comparte la captura del mensaje pertenece a un tuit de un usuario que habla sobre los comicios en Argentina. Sin embargo, la captura de pantalla ha sido utilizada para advertir de este supuesto «pucherazo» el 10-N. Te lo contamos aquí ### No han movilizado a guardias civiles del Escuadrón de Caballería a Sevilla para que no puedan votar Durante la jornada de reflexión está circulando un audio en el que una mujer asegura que a su yerno y a todos sus compañeros del Escuadrón de Caballería de la Guardia Civil los han desplazado a Sevilla «para que no puedan votar». Según cuenta, esto también ha ocurrido con agentes de toda España que pertenecen Grupos de Reserva y Seguridad (GRS). Por último concluye que «todos esos votos los pierde Vox». Tanto desde el Ministerio del Interior como desde la Asociación Unificada de Guardias Civiles han asegurado a Newtral que el contenido de este audio es falso. Desde la Asociación explican que para los guardias civiles desplazados y que no pudieron pedir el voto por correo se ha establecido un mecanismo para ejercer su derecho a votar en las elecciones. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") Puedes leer aquí la verificación ### El censo electoral no aumenta porque el Gobierno «nacionaliza a 200.000 nuevos españoles» Nos habéis preguntado a través de nuestro servicio de verificación de Whatsapp (+34 682 58 96 64) si es cierto que el gobierno en funciones de Pedro Sánchez ha cometido una «manipulación descara del censo desde el 1 de enero de 2019″ para ganar los comicios del 10 de noviembre. ¿Cómo? Según el vídeo, «en menos de 9 meses» el gobierno habría permitido que se nacionalizaran «200.000 nuevos españoles«, hecho que relaciona con la «impresionante cantidad de inmigrantes ilegales que han entrado en España en el último año». Pero esto es FALSO. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") Aunque el censo sí ha aumentado, de hecho lo ha hecho en 225.393 personas desde el 1 de enero al 1 de septiembre de 2019, esto no se puede relacionar con el número de inmigrantes irregulares que han entrado desde la misma fecha, que ha sido de 24.159 personas. Además, según informó el pasado 26 de septiembre el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), el aumento de electores se debe a las personas que han cumplido la mayoría de edad desde las pasadas elecciones del 28 de abril. Puedes leer más al respecto aquí ### Vuelve el bulo del falso pacto secreto entre partidos para bajar las pensiones En los días previos a las elecciones generales del 28 de abril estuvo circulando una cadena de WhatsApp que empezaba así: «OJO PENSIONISTAS !!! Ayer se supo que el Partido Popular despidió a su informático por hacer público el pacto secreto que tienen con C,s y VOX si ganan las elecciones«. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") La información que supuestamente habría revelado este ingeniero era un acuerdo para «una bajada del 20% de las pensiones para el año 2020 y un 10% para el 2021». Pero, como ya desmentimos, este mensaje es FALSO. De hecho, en mayo de este año se volvió a difundir pero como si el pacto fuera entre PSOE, Unidas Podemos y Bildu. Ahora vuelve a la carga con Más País, el reciente partido formado por Íñigo Errejón: «Ayer se supo que el PSOE despidió a su informático por hacer público el pacto secreto que tienen con PNV y el nuevo partido de ERREJÓN si ganan las elecciones». De nuevo, es FALSO. Puedes leer aquí la verificación ### El censo electoral no aumenta porque el Gobierno «nacionaliza a 200.000 nuevos españoles» Nos habéis preguntado a través de nuestro servicio de verificación de Whatsapp (+34 682 58 96 64) si es cierto que el gobierno en funciones de Pedro Sánchez ha cometido una «manipulación descara del censo desde el 1 de enero de 2019″ para ganar los comicios del 10 de noviembre. ¿Cómo? Según el vídeo, «en menos de 9 meses» el gobierno habría permitido que se nacionalizaran «200.000 nuevos españoles«, hecho que relaciona con la «impresionante cantidad de inmigrantes ilegales que han entrado en España en el último año». Pero esto es FALSO. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") Aunque el censo sí ha aumentado, de hecho lo ha hecho en 225.393 personas desde el 1 de enero al 1 de septiembre de 2019, esto no se puede relacionar con el número de inmigrantes irregulares que han entrado desde la misma fecha, que ha sido de 24.159 personas. Además, según informó el pasado 26 de septiembre el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), el aumento de electores se debe a las personas que han cumplido la mayoría de edad desde las pasadas elecciones del 28 de abril. Puedes leer aquí la verificación ### El vídeo del supuesto pucherazo en Melilla de 2015 que vuelve a moverse Circula por redes sociales un vídeo en el que se acusa a una mujer de entregar «un taco» de votos por correo. El fragmento se comparte con diferentes mensajes pero dando a entender que se trata de un intento de pucherazo durante las elecciones generales de este 28 de abril. Pero el vídeo NO ES DE 2019, sino que está grabado en 2015. Ahora se difunde insinuando que Pedro Sánchez está comprando votos. La grabación puede encontrarse en YouTube desde mayo de 2015 durante el contexto de las elecciones municipales, celebradas el 24 de mayo de ese año. El hecho se sitúa en una oficina de correos en la que una mujer es acusada de pedir que le escondiesen «un tocho de votos» favorables al Partido Popular. Puedes leer aquí la verificación ### No te creas el audio que dice que Pedro Sánchez ha impedido a Vox enviar propaganda electoral Nos habéis hecho llegar a nuestro servicio de WhatsApp (+34 682 58 96 64) el audio de un supuesto trabajador de Correos que asegura que el presidente del Gobierno en funciones, Pedro Sánchez ha cambiado la ley prohibiendo a Vox acceder al censo electoral y, por lo tanto, no ha podido enviar propaganda a los electores. La persona que graba el audio asegura que el resto de partidos ha podido enviarla debido a que conservaban las direcciones de los votantes del censo de las anteriores elecciones, mientras que el partido de extrema derecha no. Esto es FALSO. Además, Vox concurrió, como el resto de los partidos más veteranos, a los comicios del pasado 28 de abril. ![\\"Pedro](\\"\\"/) Aquí puedes leer la verificación 128 Likes Más en Newtral * ![\\"Vídeos](\\" Vídeos e imágenes fuera de contexto: los bulos del conflicto entre Israel, Líbano y otros países de la región * ![\\"Presupuestos](\\" Sémper acusa al Gobierno de incumplir la Constitución al no presentar los presupuestos a tiempo, algo que Rajoy también hizo * ![\\"sánchez](\\"\\") Pedro Sánchez logra los avales necesarios para ser reelegido como secretario general del PSOE * ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") La Audiencia de Madrid ratifica la condena a Guillermo Rocafort por intromisión en el honor de Ana Pastor * ![\\"Ayuso](\\"\\") Qué sabemos sobre el centro de acogida de menores inmigrantes de Fuenlabrada que enfrenta a ayuntamiento y comunidad * ![\\"vicepresidentas](\\"\\") De Palacio (PP) fue la primera española vicepresidenta de la Comisión aunque con distintas competencias que Ribera * ![\\"origen](\\"\\") Alguien que escuchó a un vecino que lo había leído en algún lado: el origen del bulo sobre los haitianos que comen mascotas * ![\\"pp](\\"\\") El PP registra un recurso de inconstitucionalidad contra la Ley de Amnistía * ![\\"óscar](\\"\\") Óscar López asumirá el Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y Función Pública como relevo a Escrivá * ![\\"Pedro](\\"\\") Cuando Sánchez tachó de “error” nombrar como gobernador del Banco de España a un “exresponsable político” * Bulos * Ciudadanos (Cs) * Más País * Partido Popular (PP) * Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) * Resultados electorales * VOX 128 Likes Más en Newtral * ![\\"Vídeos](\\"\\") Vídeos e imágenes fuera de contexto: los bulos del conflicto entre Israel, Líbano y otros países de la región * ![\\"Presupuestos](\\"\\") Sémper acusa al Gobierno de incumplir la Constitución al no presentar los presupuestos a tiempo, algo que Rajoy también hizo * ![\\"sánchez](\\"\\") Pedro Sánchez logra los avales necesarios para ser reelegido como secretario general del PSOE * ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") La Audiencia de Madrid ratifica la condena a Guillermo Rocafort por intromisión en el honor de Ana Pastor * ![\\"Ayuso](\\"\\") Qué sabemos sobre el centro de acogida de menores inmigrantes de Fuenlabrada que enfrenta a ayuntamiento y comunidad * ![\\"vicepresidentas](\\"\\") De Palacio (PP) fue la primera española vicepresidenta de la Comisión aunque con distintas competencias que Ribera * ![\\"origen](\\"\\") Alguien que escuchó a un vecino que lo había leído en algún lado: el origen del bulo sobre los haitianos que comen mascotas * ![\\"pp](\\"\\") El PP registra un recurso de inconstitucionalidad contra la Ley de Amnistía * ![\\"óscar](\\"\\") Óscar López asumirá el Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y Función Pública como relevo a Escrivá * ![\\"Pedro](\\"\\") Cuando Sánchez tachó de “error” nombrar como gobernador del Banco de España a un “exresponsable político” Siguiente * Inicio * Aviso legal * Privacidad * Cookies * Contacto * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * YouTube * Telegram | The electoral roll increases because the Government nationalizes 200000 new Spaniards | 273 |
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Months later, one of these stories returns to circulation on the internet. According to a video that is going viral on social media, Chinese people are selling frogs out of pickup trucks now that “things are back to normal” (which, by the way, didn’t happen). Proof of this would be the footage that shows the crowd of people in search of the “delicacy”. Read some versions of message circulating online: Version 1: HERE IN BRAZIL THE CHICKEN EGG CAR PASSES! THERE IN CHINA THE TOAD CAR. Version 2: Meanwhile in China, everything is returning to normal, Even the frog car is already passing through all the streets... 30 frogs for $10 Version 3: In Brazil there is the egg car, in China there is the frog car 5 per 10…!! ## Chinese sell live frogs in trucks after Covid-19 pandemic? The video was widely viewed on social media and many people started talking about it. that this would be the beginning of “Covid-20”. But is the video in question really recent and was it recorded in China? The answer is no. Calm down and we'll explain everything for you. So it is. Since the coronavirus emerged in China, there has been no shortage of things here in Boatos.org was a video of “exotic” animals being sold as food and assigned to the country. We have already denied, for example, false stories that said from “dog fair”, “bat being with me” and “rats as food”. Despite that, in fact, some “exotic” animals are consumed in China, the videos were from other countries. As in the other cases, this is what happened. We managed to find out more details on the subject with an analysis in the video. More exactly in “frog truck” sign. In addition to being written with characters that are not are Chinese, there is one word: “Khonkaen”. From there, we searched for name and we arrived at a city in Thailand. When searching for the name of the city plus the words “frog market” frogs), we discovered that, in fact, there is the sale and consumption of live frogs in location. More than that, we discovered that AFP in English also denied the information and confirmed that the sale took place in Thailand. In short: the story that shows that live frogs were being sold in China after the Covid-19 pandemic is false. The images are actually from Thailand and it is a type of traditional commerce in the place. Ps.: This article is a suggestion from Boatos.org readers. If you want suggest a topic to Boatos.org, get in touch with us via the website, Facebook and WhatsApp on phone (61) 99177-9164. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Jeff Sessions stated on July 18, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland: \"We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-true/4ac7c61540eff5211f6a04d98a6bc93a.jpg.\\") ![\\"mostly- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * National * Economy * Jobs * Jeff Sessions ![\\"Sen.](\\" Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., talks to reporters after a sound check before the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ![\\"Louis](\\" By Louis Jacobson July 19, 2016 # Jeff Sessions says lowest percentage of Americans are working in 40 years In his Republican National Convention speech in Cleveland, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., tied his signature issue -- curbing illegal immigration -- to the national employment picture. \"The fact is, we don’t have enough jobs for the people who are here,\" Sessions said. \"Doesn’t this help to explain why our wages have fallen and why we have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years? Our duty as elected officials is to get our people jobs first.\" We wondered whether he was right that \"we have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years.\" Taken literally, the correct economic statistic to use for answering this question is the employment-to-population ratio, or EPOP for short. This divides the number of employed Americans by the total civilian noninstitutional population at least 16 years of age. By this measurement, Sessions isn’t correct. Here’s a chart of the statistic going back to 1948, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: ![](\\" JJMS4szTJSpXR_Qf-iq0PVfK5VG5dREWNedsiWSJVY4tQ8XnISasFHJwXrBuQBN9_lwWZ\\"/) As you can see, the statistic was higher than its current rate through much of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. However, the chart shows a few other things worth noting. First, it indicates that since the end of the Great Recession, the employment- to-population ratio has been climbing, slowly but fairly steadily. After bottoming out at 58.2 percent in 2010 and 2011, the trend line has zigzagged upward. It currently stands at 59.6 percent, or 1.4 percentage points above its low point about five years ago. Second, Sessions has exaggerated the length of time since the previous low point. It was last as low as 58.2 percent in August 1983, which was 33 years ago. And the last time it was as low as its current level -- 59.6 percent -- in August 1984, or about 32 years ago. Both are shorter periods than the 40 years Sessions cited. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" JD Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC\'s \"Meet the Press\" “Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you\'re ultimately much better off.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024 We expect that Sessions was instead referring to a different statistic -- the labor force participation rate -- since that is a common talking point for Republicans. This takes the number of people either working or trying to work and divides it by the total civilian noninstitutional population age 16 and up. Currently, this number is 62.7 percent. It was last that low in February 1978, which is a bit over 38 years -- close to the 40 years Sessions referred to. Here’s the chart for that statistic: ![](\\" jzBCK4nk8ck17P6YKFCrxMQcASJeLqOiTKMdcyhbW2PcG20x4tO1lEciul8jiWk_NO_Q_1DwXK- BAIYuVTeeNt3G1hW9lce\\"/) Economists say this measurement captures important aspects of the job market. When the civilian labor force participation rate is low, it’s a concern, because it means there are fewer working Americans to support non-working Americans. But it’s worth adding some context as well. As we’ve noted before, a notable factor in the decline of the labor-force participation rate is the aging of the Baby Boom generation. As more adults begin moving into retirement age, the percentage of Americans who work is bound to decline. When we last looked at this question in 2013, Gary Burtless, a Brookings Institution economist, told us he had estimated that the labor-force participation rate would have fallen in recent years on the basis of aging alone. Still, the recession undoubtedly exacerbated that decline. In a weak job market, some people who might otherwise want a job may return to school, become full-time parents or retire early. Our ruling Sessions said, \"We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years.\" Sessions has worded his statement inartfully. If you use the correct statistic for the way he phrased it, the length of time is somewhat exaggerated and it ignores a recent improvement over the past five years or so. But if you can look past his looseness with economic terminology, Sessions has a point. Using a related statistic, he’s on target, and the larger issue he’s addressing -- declining rates of work in the population -- is something economists worry about, though much of it has to do with the graying of America. We rate his statement Mostly True. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Jeff Sessions, remarks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 18, 2016 Bureau of Labor Statistics, \"Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey,\" accessed July 18, 2016 PolitiFact, \"Ted Cruz says U.S. has \'lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977,\' \" Jan. 14, 2016 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Louis Jacobson slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on August 6, 2024 in un mitin de campaña en Filadelfia: \"El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump\". ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on August 6, 2024 in a rally in Philadelphia: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on July 30, 2024 in a rally in Atlanta: Donald Trump “intends to cut” Medicare. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 12, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina: Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jon Tester stated on September 6, 2024 in a Facebook ad: “Tim Sheehy told us his health care plan: ‘We need to return health care to pure privatization.’ That would eliminate Medicare.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 13, 2024 in a rally in Las Vegas: Vice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Sheehy stated on August 21, 2024 in an X post: The “‘Inflation Reduction Act’ increased inflation and drove prices sky high!” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jon Tester stated on September 8, 2024 in a Facebook ad: Tim Sheehy “would let politicians like him ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape or to save a woman’s life, and criminalize women.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 7, 2024 in a rally in Mosinee, Wis.: Vice President Kamala Harris “cast the tiebreaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing a typical American family $28,000.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in su discurso de aceptación en la Convención Nacional Demócrata: El expresidente Donald Trump “tiene la intención de promulgar lo que, en efecto, es un impuesto nacional sobre las ventas…que elevaría los precios para las familias de clase media a casi $4,000 al año”. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 5, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a campaign event in Glendale, Ariz.: “There’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: Former President Donald Trump \"intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" JD Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC\'s \"Meet the Press\": “Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you\'re ultimately much better off.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 21, 2024 in a Truth Social post: “The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on August 6, 2024 in un mitin de campaña en Filadelfia: \"El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump\". ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Walz stated on August 6, 2024 in a rally in Philadelphia: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on July 30, 2024 in a rally in Atlanta: Donald Trump “intends to cut” Medicare. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 12, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina: Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jon Tester stated on September 6, 2024 in a Facebook ad: “Tim Sheehy told us his health care plan: ‘We need to return health care to pure privatization.’ That would eliminate Medicare.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 13, 2024 in a rally in Las Vegas: Vice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2024 ### Jeff Sessions says lowest percentage of Americans are working in 40 years * ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on September 21, 2024 in a video: Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Samantha Putterman • September 22, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 20, 2024 in an X post: First lady Jill Biden led a Cabinet meeting for President Joe Biden and her signature appears on presidential stationery. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Samantha Putterman • September 21, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on September 19, 2024 in a video: Video claims to show Donald Trump in an interview with Diddy ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 18, 2024 in X posts: “iPhones exploding in Lebanon blowing up random people.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on September 18, 2024 in a TikTok video: “Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination” of Donald Trump. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 14, 2024 in a Facebook post: \"Taylor Swift unexpectedly lost a $125 million brand contract after a massive advertising campaign” endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Maria Briceño • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 12, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook: “Portugal lanza monedas de 7 euros para honrar al legendario futbolista Cristiano Ronaldo”. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 12, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina: Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 15, 2024 in posts: Ryan Routh\'s Instagram bio says he is a \"proud LGBTQ+ member\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Grace Abels • September 20, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 17, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Chiefs\' Coach Andy Reid criticizes Taylor Swift: ‘You’re not a good role model.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 20, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on December 15, 2023 in a Facebook post: Video shows Donald Trump advertising $6,400 spending cards. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Facebook Fact-checks * Facebook posts ![\\"Sara](\\" By Sara Swann December 21, 2023 # No, this video doesn’t show Trump promoting $6,400 spending cards #### If Your Time is short * This video was altered. That is not former President Donald Trump promoting free $6,400 spending cards. See the sources for this fact-check Ahead of the 2024 election, social media users are claiming that former President Donald Trump is giving out thousands of dollars to Americans. A Dec. 15 Facebook video starts with a short clip of Trump talking, followed by clips of a phone screen showing $6,400 and people holding cash. \"Regardless of what you think of me, this can help everyone,\" Trump supposedly says in the video. \"I’m about to put over $6,400 in your pocket that you need before Christmas. This new program is an economic incentive program that is open for every single one of you, and most people don’t even know about it.\" The video then urges people to act now by \"clicking the link below,\" claiming \"Americans have until this END OF DAY\" to collect the money offer before it expires. It claims this money can be used on rent, groceries and other personal expenses \"with no strings attached.\" The Facebook post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) ![](\\" (Screengrab from Facebook) Don’t be fooled, though. It’s not Trump’s voice in the video. The audio has been edited to make it look as if he is promoting this $6,400 giveaway. A reverse-image search found that the video of Trump is from a May CNN town hall. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on August 19, 2024 in a Facebook post “Travis Kelce kneels during national anthem fined $10 million and thrown out of the game.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 21, 2024 Misleading posts promising free and fast money are common on social media. PolitiFact has debunked many similar claims. The Facebook post says to receive the $6,400, people can click the link, answer two questions and talk on the phone with a representative. The link leads to a website with the URL \"subsidyplan.com.\" Without answering any questions, the site automatically says, \"Congratulations! It looks like you qualify!\" To claim the $1,400 monthly subsidy and $0 health plan, the site says to call and talk with a licensed agent. The website does not mention Trump or a $6,400 giveaway. We also found no news articles or announcements from Trump about this offer. A disclaimer says the website is a \"connecting platform,\" not an insurance or operating company. It says some of the plans offered are covered by Medicare Advantage, which is different from Medicare, the federal health insurance program for older adults and people with disabilities. Private insurance companies that sell certain plans, including Medicare Advantage, are allowed to offer customers a prepaid debit card, sometimes referred to as a spending card or flex card. But there’s no evidence that Trump is advertising $6,400 spending cards. We rate this claim False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Facebook post (archived), Dec. 15, 2023 SubsidyPlan.com archived site, Dec. 20, 2023 Reverse image search using Google, Dec. 20, 2023 CNN, \"The moments from Trump\'s CNN town hall you don\'t want to miss,\" May 11, 2023 PolitiFact, \"Promises of $16,800 payments from the U.S. government are a scam,\" Dec. 18, 2023 PolitiFact, \"No, this video doesn’t show Jada Pinkett Smith promoting free health spending cards,\" Oct. 11, 2023 PolitiFact, \"Medicare ‘flex cards’ are not as advertised,\" Jan. 12, 2022 PolitiFact, \"Social media hoax promises cash allowance for health care,\" Aug. 22, 2022 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, \"Understand Medicare Advantage Plans,\" November 2020 MedicareFAQ.com, \"Does Medicare Have a Flex Card for Seniors,\" Oct. 23, 2023 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Sara Swann slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on July 31, 2024 in a post: Vice President Kamala Harris “was born in Canada.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • August 1, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on July 29, 2024 in a post: Video shows “thousands of Christians in France gathered to pray after Olympics opening mocked Jesus Christ.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • July 30, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on July 28, 2024 in a post: Kamala Harris said, “Today we celebrate the Olympics. Because Olympians are Olympic.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • July 29, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 10, 2024 in a debate: “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • September 11, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on September 7, 2024 in a post: CNN reported that the Apalachee High School shooting suspect was motivated by a “lack of trans acceptance.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 11, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on September 5, 2024 in a post: Video shows Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz dancing to Beyoncé in a cowboy hat and crop top. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 6, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on August 31, 2024 in a post: McDonald’s “said they have no record whatsoever of Kamala Harris ever working at any of their locations.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 5, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 29, 2024 in a post: Vice President Kamala Harris was fired from McDonald’s for stealing. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • September 4, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on August 26, 2024 in a post: Four government agencies donated nearly $900,000 of taxpayer money to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 3, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2024 in a post: Kamala Harris’ “plan to tax unrecognized Capital Gains mean(s) if your house goes up in value you will have to pay that Tax Even if you don’t sell your House!” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • August 30, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on August 19, 2024 in a post: Kamala Harris has adopted the Nazi-rooted phrase “Strength Through Joy” as her campaign slogan. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • August 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on August 6, 2024 in a post: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill “redefining ‘sexual orientation’ to include pedophiles.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • August 16, 2024 ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on August 14, 2024 in a post: Photo from an Aug. 14 campaign event in Michigan shows “JD Vance couldn’t fill a small room.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • August 15, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" JD Vance stated on August 7, 2024 in a speech: “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • August 9, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 1, 2024 in a Truth Social post: In negotiating releases of Americans held abroad, “(I) gave the opposing country NOTHING — and never any cash.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 7, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on July 31, 2024 in a post: Vice President Kamala Harris “was born in Canada.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • August 1, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on July 29, 2024 in a post: Video shows “thousands of Christians in France gathered to pray after Olympics opening mocked Jesus Christ.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • July 30, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on July 28, 2024 in a post: Kamala Harris said, “Today we celebrate the Olympics. Because Olympians are Olympic.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • July 29, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kamala Harris stated on September 10, 2024 in a debate: “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Sara Swann • September 11, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on September 7, 2024 in a post: CNN reported that the Apalachee High School shooting suspect was motivated by a “lack of trans acceptance.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 11, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on September 5, 2024 in a post: Video shows Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz dancing to Beyoncé in a cowboy hat and crop top. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 6, 2024 ### No, this video doesn’t show Trump promoting $6,400 spending cards * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 12, 2024 in an Instagram post: A video shows a body that Israel embedded with a bomb exploding during a Palestinian funeral procession. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 11, 2024 in a post: “ESPN has fired Shannon Sharpe.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Gideon Hess • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 12, 2024 in an Instagram post: Former President Donald Trump admitted during the Sept. 10 presidential debate that he “blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 10, 2024 in a Facebook post: Patron, Don Julio and Pink Whitney tequila recalled because they contained fecal matter. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Elissa Slotkin stated on September 11, 2024 in a TV ad: Mike Rogers supported “laws that could eliminate IVF and birth control.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Caleb McCullough • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 11, 2024 in an Instagram post: \"Debate moderators made the false claim to Donald Trump that there is nowhere in the United States where abortion is legal up until birth.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jeff Cercone • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 12, 2024 in a Facebook post: ABC News fired presidential debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Sofia Ahmed • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Yes on 4 stated on September 10, 2024 in a TV ad: Florida’s six-week abortion law has “no real exceptions. 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> > — Gopal yadav (@Gopaly_) April 24, 2024 ### तथ्य जाँच ## आयुष्मान कार्ड बनवाने की पात्रता क्या है? आयुष्मान कार्ड की पात्रता की जाँच करने के लिए आपको सबसे पहले इस वेबसाइट पर जाना होगा- . यहां लॉग-इन करने के बाद आपसे राशन कार्ड (फैमिली आईडी) और आधार कार्ड नंबर पूछा जाएगा। जब आप यहां अपनी जानकारी देंगे, तब एक विंडो खुलेगा जिसमें आयुष्मान कार्ड की पात्रता सूची आएगी। अगर इस सूची में आपका नाम है, तो आप आयुष्मान कार्ड बनवाने के लिए पात्रता रखते हैंं, लेकिन अगर लाभार्थी (beneficiary) में आपका नाम नहीं आता है, तो आप आयुष्मान कार्ड के लिए योग्य नहीं हैं। आयुष्मान कार्ड बनवाने के लिए राशन कार्ड होना अनिवार्य है क्योंकि इसी आधार पर आयुष्मान कार्ड को बनाया जाता है। राशन कार्ड में परिवार के सदस्यों की सारी जानकारी होती है, मतलब कि एक राशन कार्ड पर परिवार के सभी सदस्य और उनका आधार कार्ड संख्या अंकित होता है, जिससे पात्रता की जाँच भी हो जाती है। ## राशन कार्ड की पात्रता क्या है? सरकार द्वारा तीन तरह के राशन कार्ड बनाने का प्रावधान है- 1. पीला कार्ड 2. नारंगी कार्ड 3. सफेद कार्ड राशन कार्ड बनवाने के लिए कुछ निम्नलिखित पात्रता है- * शहरी क्षेत्र में रहने वाले परिवार की वार्षिक आय रु. 15,000/ तक होनी चाहिए। * झुग्गी-झोपड़ियों के निवासी * फल और फूल बेचने वाले सड़क विक्रेताओं, कूड़ा बीनने वाले, मोची और घरेलू कामगार * अंत्योदय अन्न योजना (एएवाई) से लाभ लेने वाले। * मजदूर या श्रमिका, BPL श्रेणी के लोग * कच्चे घरों में रहने वाले लोग * भूमिहीन लोग (ध्यान रहे कि विभिन्न राज्यों में लाभ लेने के इच्छुक व्यक्ति के पास कितनी भूमि होनी चाहिए यह भी निर्धारित कर दी जाती है) यह ध्यान रखना महत्वपूर्ण है कि पात्रता मानदंड अलग-अलग राज्यों में भिन्न हो सकता है। सरकार समय-समय पर मौजूदा आर्थिक स्थितियों के आधार पर इन मानदंडों की समीक्षा और बदलाव करती है। इसके अतिरिक्त, विभिन्न प्रकार के राशन कार्डों के लिए पात्रता निर्धारित करने के लिए राज्यों के पास अन्य विशिष्ट मानदंड भी हो सकते हैं, जैसे- महाराष्ट्र में परिवार के किसी भी सदस्य का पेशा डॉक्टर, वकील, आर्किटेक्ट या चार्टर्ड अकाउंटेंट नहीं होना चाहिए। चूंकि पात्रता मानदंड परिवर्तन के अधीन हैं इसलिए लाभ की इच्छा रखने वाले लोगों को नवीनतम जानकारी के लिए स्थानीय अधिकारियों या संबंधित राज्य के खाद्य और नागरिक आपूर्ति विभाग की आधिकारिक वेबसाइट से जांच करने की सलाह दी जाती है। सरकार ONE NATION ONE RATION CARD (ONOR) योजना लाना चाहती है ताकि राशन कार्ड के लिए एक समान पात्रता हो सके मगर अभी इसे लागू नहीं किया गया है इसलिए हर राज्यों की अपनी अलग-अलग पात्रता होती है, जिसके तहत नागरिक राशन कार्ड बनवाते हैं और फिर आयुष्मान कार्ड बनवाते हैं। ## क्या परिवार में 6 से कम लोग होने पर नहीं बनेगा आयुष्मान कार्ड नहीं, आयुष्मान कार्ड बनवाने के लिए परिवार के आकार, आयु या लिंग पर कोई प्रतिबंध नहीं है। अगर परिवार में 6 से कम लोग हैं या 6 से ज्यादा लोग हैं, तो वो आयुष्मान कार्ड से मिलने वाले लाभ से वंचित हो जाएगा। अगर किसी व्यक्ति के पास राशन कार्ड है, तो ही वो आयुष्मान कार्ड योजना के तहत लाभ लेने का पात्र है। अगर आयुष्मान कार्ड बनवाना चाहते हैं, तो इसके लिए आप ऑनलाइन तरीके से आवेदन कर सकते हैं या फिर नजदीकी जन सेवा केंद्र पर जाकर पंजीकरण करवा सकते हैं। बस ध्यान रहे कि अपने साथ आधार कार्ड, निवास प्रमाण पत्र, राशन कार्ड और एक मोबाइल नंबर जरूर लेकर जाएं। हमने आयुष्मान कार्ड योजना के लिए टॉल फ्री नंबर 14555 पर भी बात की, जहां हमने ये जानकारी मिली कि आयुष्मान कार्ड योजना का लाभ लेने के लिए राशन कार्ड होना अनिवार्य है। वहां हमसे राशन कार्ड नंबर, आधार कार्ड नंबर की जानकारी मांगी गई और इसी आधार पर बताया गया कि जब तक beneficiary की सूची में नाम नहीं दिखाई देता, तब तक आप आयुष्मान कार्ड योजना का लाभ नहीं ले सकते। हमने इस विषय पर और जानकारी के लिए कुछ लोगों से बात की, जिन्होंने अपना आयुष्मान कार्ड बनवाया है। हाजीपुर बिहार के रहने वाले निशांत कुमार बताते हैं कि उनके परिवार में 6 लोग हैं और उनका आयुष्मान कार्ड बना है। इसके लिए उन्हें केवल राशन कार्ड की जरुरत पड़ी। वहीं मुजफ्फरपुर के रवि बताते हैं कि उनके परिवार में चार लोग हैं लेकिन उनका आधार कार्ड भी बना है, जिसके लिए उन्हें केवल राशन कार्ड की जरुरत पड़ी। अतः उपरोक्त तथ्यों के आधार पर कहा जा सकता है कि आयुष्मान कार्ड के लिए 6 सदस्यों की पात्रता को लेकर जो भ्रम फैलाया जा रहा है, वो बिल्कुल गलत है। अगर आपके पास राशन कार्ड है, जिसकी पात्रता हर राज्य के लिए भिन्न होती है, तो आपका आयुष्मान कार्ड बन सकता है। हमने पहले भी आधार कार्ड से जुड़े भ्रामक दावों की तथ्य जाँच की है। जैसे – चुनावों से पहले आयुष्मान कार्ड को कचरे का डिब्बा कहना उचित है और केंद्र सरकार हर महीने राशन कार्ड धारकों को 2500 रुपये देगी. 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The boy in the video suffered from malingering. * By: Ankita Deshkar * Published: Apr 14, 2022 at 04:10 PM * Share * * * * * ![\\"vishvasnews\\"](\\" content/themes/vishvasnews-advanced/images/google-news-img.png\\") ![\\"vishvasnews\\"](\\" content/themes/vishvasnews-advanced/images/whatsapp-channel-english.png\\") ![\\"vishvasnews\\"](\\" content/uploads/2022/04/Fake_News_April14_16.jpg\\") New Delhi (Vishvas News): Vishvas News came across a video of a boy being circulated on various social media platforms. In the video a boy could be seen moving his hands staring blankly in the space, it is being claimed that the condition of boy is such because of addiction to the PUBG game. Vishvas News in its investigation found the claim to be fake. Claim: Facebook user পংকজ পাঠক posted a video on April 10 and wrote in Bengali: PUBg ক খেলা এটা শিশুৰ কি হল চাওঁক । ।।। আজিয়েই শিশুক মোবাইল দিয়া বন্ধ কৰক , নহলে আপুনিও এনেকুৱা দিন দেখিবলৈ পাব ।। Translation: _See what happened to the boy playing PUBG. … Stop giving mobile phones to children today, otherwise you will have to see such days in future_ Check the post and its archive version here. Investigation: Vishvas News started its investigation by uploading the video in InVid tool and then taking the keyframes. We ran a Google Reverse Image search on the screengrabs. Vishvas News found an article on ETVBharat, published on April 8, 2022. The article in Telugu was titled: Addicted to ‘Free Fire’ .. the analogy is the same disturbance .. firing a gun in the gall … Read the article here. We also found an article on the website of Times of India. The article was titled: Video of boy not ‘PUBG addiction’, say doctorsThe article was published on April 8, 2022. The article said, “While many claimed it was due to PUBG addiction, doctors denied it saying it was a case of malingering wherein the patient may have intentionally pretended to act in that manner.” The story also had a clarification from deam of Tirunelveli MCH, Dr M Ravichandran where the boy was admitted. In the next step of investigation, we contacted P Sudhakar, a senior journalist from The Hindu. He informed that this case happened a week ago. “ _The boy was initially admitted to Tirunelveli MCH, the parents unhappy with the diagnosis then shifted him to a private hospital. The doctors had clearly stated that this was not a case of PUBG addiction but that of malingering or a hysterical convulsion reaction_.” In the last step of investigation Vishvas News did a social background check of the Facebook user, পংকজ পাঠক (Acharya Pankaj Pathak) is a managing director at Sanjeevani Herbs, Gauhati. Conclusion: The video being widely circulated on internet claiming to be that of a PUBG addicted boy is false. The boy in the video suffered from malingering. * Claim Review : See what happened to the boy playing PUBG. … Stop giving mobile phones to children today, otherwise you will have to see such days in future * Claimed By : পংকজ পাঠক (Acharya Pankaj Pathak) * Fact Check : Misleading Misleading Symbols that define nature of fake news * True * Misleading * False * Fact Check By * Ankita Deshkar * __deshkar_ankita * Re-Checked by * Pallavi Mishra * __pallavimishraa_ ![\\"vishvasnews\\"](\\" principles.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/storage/badges/F4763216-516B-7CF2-C4EB-5045191A979E.png\\") ## Know the truth! If you have any doubts about any information or a rumor, do let us know! Knowing the truth is your right. 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Skip to content Close * Explore * Science * Public Money * Policy * International * Climate Change * Rights * Economy * Equality * Energy * Women's Sports * Verification * Fact-checks * Fakes * You ask us about... * Methodology and Transparency * Verification equipment * Transparent *Salary finder * What the search engine is and how it works * Public Money * Parliament * Law search * What it is and how it works * Signatures * Disinfodemic * Silver or Lead * Algorithm * Fact-Fiction *Only in America *Implicit Content * Behind the Net * About us * What is Newtral.es? * Innovation and technology projects * Newtral Education * Subscribe Interest * Lebanon * US elections * Venezuela * Israel-Palestine * Russia-Ukraine # Pablo Casado: “Before Maragall and Zapatero, no one in Catalonia advocated not even the modification of the 1980 Statute” > \"Before Maragall and Zapatero, no one in Catalonia even advocated > the modification of the Statute of 1980\" \"Before Maragall and Zapatero, > nobody in Catalonia advocated or... > > ![\\"Pablo](\\" > married-white-4efa1a66ce3f10ea6a3f8f011850eb69.jpg\\"/) > > Pablo Casado Deputy ![\\"Share\\"](\\" content/themes/newtral/dist/assets/images/icons/share.png?x95607\\") ![\\"False\\"](\\" check-false.svg?x95607\\") Fake ![\\"WhatsApp\\"](\\"\\"/) WhatsApp ![\\"Facebook\\"](\\"\\"/) Facebook ![\\"Twitter\\"](\\"\\"/) Twitter ![\\"Meneame\\"](\\"\\"/) Wiggle me ![\\"Mail](\\"\\"/) Email ![\\"Link](\\"\\"/) Direct linkCopy By Brenda ValverdeJuly 7, 2019 | 3 min read ![](\\" FLICKR-PP-WEB-20180423-3_20181008173553_328-1920x520.jpg?x95607\\") By Brenda ValverdeJuly 7, 2019 | 3 min read * Catalonia * Statute of Autonomy * Pablo Casado It is FALSE, the debate on the reform of the Catalan basic norm was in the Catalan political news at least since 1983. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The president of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado, participated on Monday, July 1 at the inauguration of the FAES summer course held in San Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid). Casado said that the PSOE of _“last decade did what that until then he had not tried to do even the nationalism of [Jordi] Pujol: a new statute for Catalonia”_. He then stated: _“Before Maragall and Zapatero, no one in Catalonia even advocated the modification of the Statute of 1980″_. It is FALSE: the reform debate was present in the Catalan political debate at least since 1983. We reviewed the newspaper archive to verify if anyone advocated the modification of the Statute of Catalonia - approved in 1979 - before the years in which Pasqual Maragall and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero coincided as president of the Generalitat (since 2003) and of the Government (2004). In 2006 there was the reform of the norm that is still in force. ![\\"Session](\\"\\") The “unique” financing of Catalonia and immigration mark the first control session to the Government of the political course 1983 Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) evaluates proposing a reform of the Statute As stated in this chronicle published by El País, the reform of The law was already a cause of debate, both within the parties themselves and in the Parliament. The leader of ERC at the time, Heribert Barrera, even announced that his parliamentary group in the Chamber would promote an initiative to promote the reform of the Statute, although he did not carry it out later. 1987 ![\\"calendar](\\"\\") School calendar in Catalonia: these are the dates for the 2024-2025 return La Vanguardia reported that Antoni Subirà, president of the parliamentary group of Convergència i Unió, did not rule out the reform of the text, although it did not see it necessary to advance self-government. 1995 Another example that we find in the newspaper archive is how the socialist Joaquim Nadal was talking about reforming the Statute and how Jordi Pujol and other politicians did it they criticized. 1999 Maragall was already part of the opposition to Pujol in the Parliament. That year celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Statute of 1979. The headlines of the time They highlighted that the anniversary coincided with a division of opinions regarding to the reform of the text. El País explained: “In recent weeks, all parties have referred to this autonomous text, either to pronounce on favor of its current wording (PP); to propose modifying it, as is the case of the PSC, IC-V and ERC, or to propose its rereading (CiU)”. The Vanguard headlined with Maragall's request for reform. In an interview with Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, who held the position of Minister of Government in Catalonia, he was asked to analyze the situation of the parties against the Statute reform. Duran i Lleida answered: “I believe that in the debate on the 20 years of the Statute there was coherence in almost all the speeches that have been formulated in recent years. Ribó said what He always says, and I highlight this positively. Carod Rovira bet, as it comes betting ERC, for the reform of the Statute, and Convergència i Unió, both in the intervention of his spokesperson as in that of the president of the Generalitat, stressed what his thesis has been: not to reject the reform of the Statute, but bet on its rereading.” 2002 This year the debate was still on the table. It is the parliamentary group of Jordi Pujol, CiU, who threatens to ask for reform because of the »climate of "autonomous involution" that existed between the PP and PSOE. Also Carod Rovira (ERC) asked Pujol to take a first step to reform the Statute. Therefore, the references show that since practically the approval of the 1979 Statute, the conversation to reform it was present in the Catalan politics. We have asked the PP what Casado was referring to specifically. with this statement, but they have not yet responded to us. Sources: * Convergencia leaders consider that the reform of the Statute of Catalonia is inevitable (8/14/1983, El País) * Subirà does not rule out a reform of the Statute (9/2/1987, La Vanguardia) * Pujol remembers that Joaquim Nadal opposed reforming the Statute (10/29/1995, La Vanguardia) * Harsh criticism of Nadal for proposing the reform of the Catalan statute * The Parliament celebrates 20 years between requests for reform * Maragall surpasses Pujol and commemorates the anniversary of the Statute by asking for its reform (12/10/1999, La Vanguardia) * CiU will ask for the reform of the Statute if the Government does not make new transfers (10/2/2002, La Vanguardia) * Carod asks Pujol to take a first step to reform the Statute (10/2/2002) * Catalonia * Statute of Autonomy * Pablo Casado ### Have you seen/heard a phrase by Pablo Casado that sounded false or false to you? misleading? Write here and we will verify it Participate What did he say? Continue Where have you seen/heard it? 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After the verification process, and based on the data, we award one of these categories: * ![\\"Misleading\\"](\\"\\") Misleading The statement contains correct data, but ignores very important elements or is mixed with incorrect data giving a different, inaccurate or false * ![\\"Fake\\"](\\"\\") Fake The statement is false * ![\\"TRUE](\\"\\") half truth The statement is correct, although it needs clarification, additional information or context * ![\\"TRUE\\"](\\"\\") TRUE The statement is rigorous and there is no lack of context or additional data significant. > \"Before Maragall and Zapatero, no one in Catalonia even advocated > the modification of the Statute of 1980\" \"Before Maragall and Zapatero, > nobody in Catalonia advocated or... > > ![\\"Pablo](\\" > married-white-4efa1a66ce3f10ea6a3f8f011850eb69.jpg\\"/) > > Pablo Casado Deputy ![\\"Share\\"](\\" content/themes/newtral/dist/assets/images/icons/share.png?x95607\\") ![\\"False\\"](\\" check-false.svg?x95607\\") Fake ![\\"WhatsApp\\"](\\"\\"/) WhatsApp ![\\"Facebook\\"](\\"\\"/) Facebook ![\\"Twitter\\"](\\"\\"/) Twitter ![\\"Meneame\\"](\\"\\"/) Wiggle me ![\\"Mail](\\"\\"/) Email ![\\"Link](\\"\\"/) Direct linkCopy * Fakes * Fact-check Following * Start * Legal notice * Privacy * Cookies * Contact * Twitter *Facebook * Instagram * YouTube *Telegram | Before Maragall and Zapatero no one in Catalonia even advocated the modification of the 1980 Statute | 279 |
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It goes start to finish. We can’t say to one football coach you’re fired if you kneel in silent prayer at the end of the game, but to a player, if you kneel in protest to a game, you’re celebrated.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * National * Religion * Sports * James Lankford ![\\"Manuela](\\" By Manuela Tobias October 2, 2017 # Sen. James Lankford\'s misleading comparison about NFL protests, firing of high school football coach What’s the difference between a football coach kneeling in prayer and an NFL player taking a knee in protest? A reader asked us to look into this question after Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., suggested the two were being treated differently under the law at a press conference on Sept. 25, 2017. \"Now the First Amendment’s the First Amendment. It goes start to finish. We can’t say to one football coach, you’re fired if you kneel in silent prayer at the end of the game, but to a player, if you kneel in protest at a game, you’re celebrated,\" Lankford said. Is the First Amendment setting a double-standard being set when it comes to kneeling and football games? Not quite. Lankford’s comparison is misleading, as the First Amendment is only applicable to one of these cases. In addition, he doesn’t have all of the facts straight. The football coach Lankford said high school coaches have kneeled in silent prayer and have \"been fired.\" There’s one case that fits the description, though it’s wrong to say the coach in question was fired. Lankford was referring to Joseph Kennedy, an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Wash. Kennedy led students in locker-room prayers before and after most games and prayed on the 50-yard line after games. He also gave motivational speeches on the 50-yard line that he said \"likely constituted prayers,\" according to subsequent court documents. \"Students, coaches, and other attendees from both teams were invited to participate. During the speeches, the participants kneeled around Kennedy, who raised a helmet from each team and delivered a message containing religious content,\" according to court documents. The school only let him pray on the 50-yard line after students and parents had left the field, which he did for awhile, but eventually returned to praying before they departed. When it came time for annual review, \"the athletic director recommended that Kennedy not be rehired because Kennedy ‘failed to follow district policy’ and ‘failed to supervise student-athletes after games due to his interactions with (the) media and (the) community,’\" according to court documents. In the end, Kennedy wasn’t fired. After his contract expired, alongside the five other assistant football coaches’ year-long contracts, the district opened up his position and Kennedy did not reapply. Instead, Kennedy \"sought an injunction ordering the district to ‘cease discriminating against him in violation of the First Amendment.’\" The district court denied the injunction and the 9th Circuit panel upheld that decision. Lankford, co-chair of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, drafted a challenge to the school district in 2015 on the issue. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on August 12, 2024 in an Instagram post Kamala Harris posted about banning Barron Trump’s friend from X because he wore a “Biden Loves Minors” shirt. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Sofia Ahmed • August 14, 2024 Lankford’s office did not provide additional examples that fit the description of his claim. The First Amendment The First Amendment protects the expression of private citizens, which the coach would have exercised if praying in the stands or the sidelines, according to Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum’s First Amendment Center. Students (in this case comparable to the NFL players) are free to pray silently, but as public employees, coaches are only allowed to do so under circumstances in which they don’t offer an overt endorsement of their religious views. \"When Kennedy kneeled and prayed on the 50-yard line immediately after games while in view of students and parents, he spoke as a public employee, not as a private citizen, and his speech therefore was constitutionally unprotected,\" the 9th Circuit wrote in its opinion denying Kennedy’s injunction claim. The court found that Kennedy \"took advantage of his position to press his particular views upon the impressionable and captive minds before him.\" While there may be disagreements with the court’s ruling (like Lankford’s), the key distinction between the coach’s case and NFL players is that restriction of free speech by the First Amendment only applies to the former, as it constitutes government action. The First Amendment doesn’t apply to a privately owned company like the NFL. When kneeling, NFL players are acting as private individuals, so they enjoy the same free speech and free exercise rights that Kennedy’s players would enjoy. However, the First Amendment isn’t enough to protect them against their employers because their employers aren\'t the government. Only state laws, and in some cases employment contracts, can rein in the limits set by their employer, experts told us. \"It does not violate the First Amendment for a private employer (or for customers/fans) to disapprove of an employee\'s speech,\" said Richard Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame University. So while some fans may celebrate players’ kneeling in protest, it’s up to the NFL whether to take action. ![\\"\\"](\\"//pixel.watch/uqy6\\") Our ruling Lankford said, \"Now the First Amendment’s the First Amendment. It goes start to finish. We can’t say to one football coach you’re fired if you kneel in silent prayer at the end of the game, but to a player, if you kneel in protest to a game, you’re celebrated.\" His complaint of the First Amendment’s double standard is misleading because the First Amendment only applies to government action, or the public high school football coach. The First Amendment doesn’t protect NFL players’ speech, which is under the purview of their employer. Additionally, the football coach Lankford discussed wasn’t fired; he failed to reapply once his contract ended. We rate this statement Half True. Share the Facts 2017-10-02 18:05:20 UTC PolitiFact ![\\"PolitiFact\\"](\\" logo-big.jpg\\"/) 4 1 7 ![\\"PolitiFact](\\" halftrue.jpg\\") PolitiFact Rating: Half True \"The First Amendment’s the First Amendment. It goes start to finish. We can’t say to one football coach you’re fired if you kneel in silent prayer at the end of the game, but to a player, if you kneel in protest to a game, you’re celebrated.\" James Lankford U.S. senator, R-Okla. ![](\\" In a press conference Monday, September 25, 2017 2017-09-25 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Youtube, Senators Lankford, Tillis, Hatch Introduce the SUCCEED Act, Sept. 25, 2017 Email interview with Darrell Jordan, Communications Director for Sen. 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By FactCheck.org Posted on March 16, 2020 | Corrected on March 16, 2020 * * * * * ##### Summary The first head-to-head debate of the Democratic presidential primary between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders focused on the government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. We sorted through competing claims the two front-runners made about the pandemic, as well as other topics including Social Security, super PACs and bailouts. * Biden denied Sanders’ claim that he ever talked on the Senate floor “about the necessity” of “cutting Social Security.” In 1984, Biden called for a one-year spending freeze that would have included Social Security, and he boasted about that position from the Senate floor in 1995. But Sanders went too far in claiming Biden has a history of “advocat[ing]” for such cuts. * Biden misleadingly claimed that he “did not” help write a 2005 bankruptcy bill that made it easier for credit card companies to collect debt, but decided it was better to work with Republicans to improve the bill because a Republican president was expected to sign it. * Biden said Sanders has “nine super PACs” and Sanders said, “I don’t have any.” Sanders may not have nine super PACs supporting his campaign, but he has some. * Biden said Sanders “voted against the bailout to the automobile industry,” when in fact Sanders supported a $15 billion aid package for automakers in 2008. * Sanders alternatively said that “at least 30,000” and “up to 60,000” people die in a year due to lacking health insurance. There’s insufficient evidence to pin down an exact figure, though several studies have estimated that thousands of deaths annually are related to lacking coverage. * Biden said he had a “100% rating” from the abortion-rights group NARAL. That’s true of some of his years as a senator, but not all, as a line of questioning by Sanders pointed out. * Sanders correctly noted that average inflation-adjusted wages are close to what they were 45 years ago. But that masks the fact that wages haven’t been flat over that time: They dropped from their peak in the early 1970s and have been on a general upward trend since hitting bottom in 1996. * In speaking about climate change, Biden incorrectly stated that his home state of Delaware “is 3 feet above sea level.” While parts of Delaware are that low-lying, most of the state is not, and the average elevation is 60 feet above sea level. The two candidates also repeated claims we have checked before on health care, climate change, defense spending and gun control. The March 15 debate was hosted by CNN and Univision. ##### Analysis ##### Sanders Attacks Biden on Social Security In a fiery back-and-forth over Sanders’ claim that Biden has a long history of support for cuts to Social Security, both candidates massaged the facts. Biden denied Sanders’ claim that he ever talked on the Senate floor “about the necessity” of “cutting Social Security.” In 1984, Biden called for a one-year spending freeze that would have included Social Security, and he boasted about that position in 1995 during debate about a balanced budget amendment. But Sanders also went too far with his claim that Biden has “advocated” such cuts. > Sanders: Have you been on the floor of the Senate … time and time again, > talking about the necessity, with pride, about cutting Social Security, > cutting Medicare, cutting veterans programs. > > Biden: No. > > Sanders: You never said that? > > Biden: No. Sanders implored viewers to go to YouTube to check. He’s reaching deep into Biden’s legislative past to make his point. As we wrote in our Jan. 24 story, “Biden vs. Sanders on Social Security and Medicare,” back in 1984 when Ronald Reagan was president, then-Sen. Biden co- sponsored a measure (along with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and others) seeking a one-year, across-the-board freeze on defense and domestic spending as a way to reduce budget deficits. The proposal, which failed, would have eliminated cost-of-living increases for one year for Social Security and Medicare. Fast forward a decade to 1995, and Biden twice cited that proposal to explain his support for a balanced budget amendment and to prove his bona fides as someone serious about reducing deficits. For example, on Jan. 31, 1995, Biden said from the floor of the Senate, “When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans benefits. I meant every single solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice. I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time. Somebody has to tell me in here how we are going to do this hard work without dealing with any of those sacred cows, some deserving more protection than others. I am not quite sure how you get from here to there. I am sure that we should tell the American people straight up that such an amendment is going to require some big changes.” So Biden has spoken on the Senate floor about his one-time support for a one- year freeze to Social Security. But there’s more to Biden’s record, and both Sanders and Biden picked from it selectively. Sanders noted that Biden was a “fan” of the Balanced Budget Amendment, which Sanders said “called for cuts in Social Security.” But the issue is more nuanced than Sanders suggests. Back in 1996, Biden was among the Democrats who voted for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. The resolution fell just short of the two- thirds majority needed to pass, 64-35. Biden supported an amendment that sought to protect the Social Security system from any cuts enacted as part of the balanced budget plan. Even though that amendment failed and Biden voted for the balanced budget resolution anyway, it’s not accurate for Sanders to say the balanced budget proposal “called for cuts in Social Security.” The balanced budget amendment resolution did not mention Social Security, only that “[t]otal outlays for any fiscal year shall not exceed total receipts for that fiscal year” unless three-fifths of both the House and Senate agreed to exceptions. Sanders also accused Biden of taking the position that “everything was on the table” in budget negotiations with Republicans, “including in your judgment, cuts to Social Security.” This likely refers to Biden’s comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on April 29, 2007, when then-presidential candidate Biden told host Tim Russert that he would “absolutely” put “age of eligibility” and “cost of living” for Social Security and Medicare on the table during discussions on reducing the deficit. And Biden was also involved in so-called “Grand Bargain” negotiations between then-President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner that would have reduced the deficit through a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts — and even changes to Social Security. The New York Times reported that the Grand Bargain would have raised the retirement age and changed the formula for calculating benefits. But, as the Times reported, the deal fell through as members of Boehner’s caucus objected to raising taxes. During the debate, Biden said that none of those instances resulted in cuts to Social Security, and that he never voted to cut Social Security. “I know, because people like me helped me stop that,” Sanders said. “All that I’m saying is you were prepared to cut and advocate for the cuts.” Saying that Biden was prepared to “advocate” cuts to Social Security is misleading. As we wrote in our story about Biden’s history on Social Security, we don’t know what Biden might have been willing to compromise on since those deals never happened. Agreeing to leave an issue “on the table” prior to a negotiation isn’t the same thing as agreeing to do it. We should note that in his 2020 bid, Biden has proposed a plan that would increase revenue for Social Security by eliminating the payroll tax cap and expand benefits for some of the oldest seniors. During the debate, Biden asked Sanders to “acknowledge” that his campaign had taken “out of context” Biden’s comments about a tax plan championed by former House Speaker Paul Ryan. We agreed those comments were used misleadingly in a Sanders campaign newsletter to suggest Biden supported the Ryan plan. But as we wrote at the time, Biden’s comments over time make clear that he has at least been willing to keep cuts to Social Security and Medicare as negotiating chips, while other Democrats have taken a harder line that any cuts cannot be part of budget negotiations. ##### Biden’s Bankruptcy Law Spin Two days before the debate, Biden said he would support Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to change a bankruptcy law that he had backed as a senator in 2005. Warren’s plan would make it easier for people to obtain debt relief — allowing student loan debt, for example, to be discharged in bankruptcy. Univision’s Ilia Calderón, one of the debate moderators, asked Biden why he had changed his position and now supported Warren’s plan. As Biden told it, he made the decision to improve a bill that he knew a Republican-controlled Congress would pass and Republican President George W. Bush would sign into law. > Biden: I had a choice, it was going to pass, Republican president, > Republican Congress, and I offered two amendments to make sure that people > under $50,000 would not be affected and women and children would go to the > front of the line on alimony and support payments. That’s what I did. It > passed overwhelmingly. I did not like the rest of the bill, but I improved > it, number one. Later, Sanders noted that Biden had “helped write” the 2005 bankruptcy bill, which Warren called “terrible for families in need” when she announced her plan to undo parts of the law. > Sanders: Joe, if my memory is correct, you helped write that bankruptcy > bill. > > Biden: I did not. The fact is, Biden had a long history with the legislation and his support for it predated Bush. In fact, Biden helped draft a version of the bankruptcy bill that Congress sent to President Bill Clinton in 2000, only to have the Democrat president pocket veto the bill before leaving office. Let’s take a look at Biden’s involvement in the bankruptcy bill. On March 15, 1999, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley announced that he had introduced the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999 with the support of Democratic Sens. Robert Torricelli and Biden. “Sen. Chuck Grassley today introduced a bipartisan plan to improve the nation’s bankruptcy system,” the Republican senator announced in a press release. “Sens. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey and Joe Biden of Delaware joined Grassley as co-sponsors of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999.” In 2000, Biden was a member of the House-Senate conference committee that resolved the differences between the chambers’ bankruptcy bills before sending a final version to Clinton. On the Senate floor the day the bill passed on Dec. 7, 2000, Sen. Orrin Hatch singled out Biden, among others, for his work on the bill — crediting its passage to Biden’s “unwavering dedication to accomplishing the important reforms in this bill.” For his part, Biden urged Clinton to reconsider his veto threat and touted provisions of the bill “to protect families below the median income” and make it easier for women and children to receive alimony and child support from husbands and fathers who file for bankruptcy. These were the very things that Biden claimed during the debate that he pushed for in 2005 in order to win his support. “[A] feature of this legislation that I think deserves much more emphasis is its historic improvement in the treatment of family support payments — child support and alimony,” Biden said on Dec. 7, 2000. After Clinton vetoed the bill, Grassley reintroduced the Bankruptcy Reform Act in July 2001 and Biden co-sponsored it. Biden was a member of an informal conference committee to work on the bankruptcy bill, and the committee was scheduled to have its first meeting on Sept. 12, 2001 — which, as it turned out, was the day after the 9/11 terrorist attack. At the time, Congressional Quarterly described Biden as “one of the measure’s most vocal supporters.” It wasn’t until 2005 that the bankruptcy bill became law. As he did in 2000, Hatch praised Biden for his help on the bill on the day that the Senate passed the legislation. Hatch said Biden had worked “tirelessly for years on this legislation, and they have taken some tough votes to get it done.” And, as he did in 2000, Biden spoke in support of the bill’s provisions that made it easier for women and children to collect alimony and child support. “I am here again today to show that, contrary to a lot of the rhetoric that has been tossed around, this bill actually improves the situation of women and children who depend on child support,” Biden said. Contrary to his claims during the debate, Biden helped write the bankruptcy law, and it wasn’t just because he knew the bill was going to become law under a Republican president and Republican Congress. He was involved over the years in many attempts to enact the legislation. ##### Super PAC Support During an exchange about campaign contributions and potential federal funding of elections, Biden and Sanders disagreed over the number of super PACs supporting Sanders for president. “Why don’t you get rid of the super PAC that you have right now?” Sanders said to Biden. “You’ll get rid of the nine super PACs you have,” Biden then said to Sanders, who responded: “I don’t have nine super PACs. I don’t have any super PACs.” Biden does have at least one super PAC supporting his campaign. Unite the Country was started by former Biden aides in 2019, and it has so far spent more than $10 million promoting Biden’s candidacy. But Sanders also has super PACs supporting his campaign, although not nine of them — at least not according to the documentation provided by Biden’s campaign. The campaign emailed us a list of eight progressive organizations, and several of their affiliates, that are backing Sanders for president. The eight main groups are: Center for Popular Democracy Action, Democratic Socialists of America, Dream Defenders, Make the Road, Our Revolution, People’s Action, Progressive Democrats of America and Sunrise Movement. Those groups, and another, Student Action, are all part of a coalition called “People Power for Bernie,” which launched at the end of January. But according to the Biden campaign’s own documentation, only four of their affiliates are technically super PACs, which can raise unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals and can spend that money on ads that advocate for or against the election of political candidates. (And half of them have not been active during the 2020 cycle.) The rest of the groups on the list are mostly 501(c)4 social welfare organizations. As 501(c) nonprofits, the groups also may raise unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions and individuals, but their political activity is supposed to be more limited. On Twitter, Sunrise Movement, one of the groups in the pro-Sanders coalition, called Biden’s claim a “smear” against “grassroots organizations like us.” Unlike super PACs, 501(c)4 groups — sometimes called “dark money” groups — are not required to disclose the names of their donors, although some of them do. Also, super PACs report to the Federal Election Commission, while 501(c) groups report to the Internal Revenue Service. It’s unclear how much money all of the groups cited by the Biden campaign have spent supporting Sanders during the 2020 cycle. In addition to the groups cited by Biden’s campaign, Sanders also has the support of Vote Nurses Value PAC, a super PAC affiliated with the largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United. That super PAC has spent more than $733,000 in support of Sanders, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The center also lists three other super PACs backing Sanders in 2020, but none of them have spent any money. ##### Biden’s Auto Bailout Stretch Biden stretched the facts when he said “Bernie voted against the bailout to the automobile industry” in addition to opposing the 2008 Economic Stabilization Act. In fact, Sanders supported a $15 billion measure specifically aimed at aiding the troubled auto industry in December 2008, in the midst of the worst economic slump since the 1930s. That bill failed to pass the Senate. It’s true that earlier, Sanders opposed a Wall Street bailout bill providing $350 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. President George W. Bush announced later that he would use TARP funds to aid the auto industry, too. Sanders could not have known that when he voted against the funds. Biden is referring to Sanders’ vote in January 2009 to block release of a second $350 billion in TARP funds, again mainly to aid financial institutions. This time it was clear that some of that would aid automakers — but it amounted to only $4 billion of the total. This isn’t the first time Sanders has been unfairly accused of opposing the auto bailout. Hillary Clinton made the same charge in her 2016 campaign, and we wrote about it in greater detail then. ##### Sanders on Deaths Among the Uninsured While talking about health care in the context of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Sanders pushed for his Medicare for All proposal by citing two specific — and different — figures for the number of annual deaths linked to lacking insurance coverage. “And bottom line here is, in terms of Medicare for all, despite what the vice president is saying, what the experts tell us is that one of the reasons that we are unprepared and have been unprepared is we don’t have a system. We’ve got thousands of private insurance plans,” Sanders said. “That is not a system that is prepared to provide health care to all people. In a good year, without the epidemic, we’re losing up to 60,000 people who die every year because they don’t get to a doctor on time. It’s clearly this crisis is only making a bad situation worse.” Later, the Vermont senator offered a different figure: “You know what, last year at least 30,000 people died in America because they didn’t get health care when they should because we don’t have universal coverage. I think that’s a crisis.” But, as we’ve written several times, it’s hard to pin down the precise number of deaths in the U.S. attributable to lacking insurance — although multiple studies have estimated thousands of excess deaths from absent insurance coverage. PolitiFact looked last year specifically at Sanders’ claim that “30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost” and found it “lacks meaningful support either way. It could be true. But it also could easily not be.” Our fact-checking colleagues traced the figure to Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates for a single-payer health care system. PNHP cited the findings of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a study in which some people in the state were given Medicaid by lottery and others remained uninsured. But while that study “yielded important findings,” the death rate differential was not statistically significant, PolitiFact noted, citing Benjamin Sommers, an associate professor of health policy and economics at Harvard. Therefore, it didn’t “generate sufficient evidence spelling out the link between insurance coverage and mortality” — so it couldn’t be confidently applied to the country. We wrote in 2009 about another study by researchers with the Harvard Medical School — two of whom had strong connections to PNHP — that claimed 45,000 deaths a year could be attributed to the lack of health insurance. We found that was at the high end of estimates, but earlier studies also put the figure in the thousands. The higher figure cited by Sanders — “60,000” — may refer to a recent study from Yale researchers that examined Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal. That study looked at uninsured populations and the notion that “uninsured people experience a 40% elevation in age-specific mortality risk,” and concluded that “universal coverage would save 68,531 lives” annually. ##### Biden’s NARAL Voting Record Discussing women’s reproductive rights, Biden touted a “100% rating” from the group NARAL Pro-Choice America. While it’s true that the former vice president received that voting record rating from the advocacy group during some of his years in the Senate, that was not always the case — a point made by Sanders. > **Biden:** I think it is a woman’s right to choose. I think it’s a woman’s > opportunity to be able to make that decision. And in fact, I’ve gotten a > 100% rating from NARAL as well. > > **Sanders:** Excuse me, you have a lifetime 100% voting record from NARAL? > > **Biden:** I know my record of late from NARAL has been 100%. I don’t know > whether it was 25 years ago. The rating highlighted by Biden was selective, though he didn’t technically claim to have a lifelong 100% voting record rating with the group. It was Sanders who added the “lifetime” qualifier. Still, the exchange called for further context — and NARAL’s president chimed in on Twitter to provide it. Ilyse Hogue said that while Biden has “been evolving over time,” his record was not always perfect in the group’s eyes. > .@JoeBiden has been evolving over time but his lifetime rating from @naral > is not 100%. His last year in Congress he had a 100%. Annual ratings are > entirely dependent on what votes come up in any given session. Not what a > candidate feels about any given issue. #DemDebate2020 /2 > > — Ilyse Hogue is @ilyseh everywhere (@ilyseh) March 16, 2020 As Hogue points out, the group gives ratings to members of Congress based on their legislative activity in a given year. And Biden’s ratings reflected a mixed record. In the years 1996 and 1997, for example, Biden’s voting record score from the group was 43% and 34%, respectively, according to VoteSmart.org. He got a 90% rating in 2000 — and had mostly high marks in the years to follow, save for a 36% rating in 2003. After three straight years of 100% ratings, he was given a 75% rating in 2007. In his last year as a senator, based on three key votes in the Senate, Biden again received a 100% voting record rating, according to an archived version of the group’s 2008 Congressional Record on Choice report. Sanders, meanwhile, has maintained a 100% rating since 1996. ##### Sanders’ Wage Claim Sanders was correct in saying that average inflation-adjusted wages are nearly the same today as they were 45 years ago, but that leaves the misleading impression that wages haven’t budged over those decades. Real wages dropped from their peak in the early 1970s but began to rise back up again beginning in the mid-1990s. > Sanders: Why is it that over the last 45 years, despite the huge increase in > productivity and technology, the average worker today is not making a nickel > more in real dollars? Average weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in inflation-adjusted (1982-84) dollars were $319.90 for February, the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics figures available. In February 1975 — 45 years ago — the average weekly earnings were $314.90. The peak was actually a few years earlier, in 1973 at $345.95. Average weekly wages hit the low point 24 years ago — at $263.73 in January 1996. They have fluctuated, but generally have been on an upward trend since. Despite Sanders’ claim, real average wages are up 21.3% since hitting that bottom of the curve. For more on how there are different ways to look at wage data, see our June 2019 story, “Are Wages Rising or Flat?” ##### Biden Overstates Delaware’s Low Elevation When the two candidates tussled over their plans to tackle climate change, Biden went too far in describing the low elevation of his home state of Delaware. > Biden: My, my state is 3 feet above sea level. I don’t need a lecture on > what’s going to happen about rising seas. I know what happens; I watched the > whole Delmarva Peninsula, just like it is in South Carolina and the rest. Delaware is the lowest-lying state in the U.S. and is highly susceptible to sea level rise from climate change. But, as we explained back in November when Biden made a similar claim, while there are some areas that dip as low as 3 feet above sea level, for the most part, the state sits higher. The average elevation across the state is 60 feet above sea level. A Delaware Geological Survey map shows that a relatively small portion of the state, mostly along the coast, is 5 feet or less above sea level. This time, Biden also referenced the Delmarva Peninsula, which is the piece of land that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean south of New Jersey. The name comes from the three states that make up the peninsula: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. As the U.S. Geological Survey notes, the peninsula was “significantly affected” by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which research suggests was made more intense by climate change. ##### More Repeats Health Care Spending. Sanders repeated his well-worn, and exaggerated, talking point that the U.S. spends “twice as much as any other country” on health care. Normally, he adds “per capita.” The U.S. spends twice as much as most countries, but not all. As we’ve said before, U.S. per capita spending on health care totaled $10,586 in 2018, according to the most recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data. That’s twice as much as the OECD average and every country except for six: Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Austria and Denmark. **Not a ‘Game Changer.’** Biden repeated one of his go-to lines for touting his record on climate change. “I wrote the first climate change bill that was in the Congress,” he said, adding that “PolitiFact said [it] was a game changer.” As we’ve written on multiple occasions, the fact-checking site called Biden a “climate change pioneer” in response to his more modest claim of being “one of the first guys” to introduce a climate change bill, but did not use the word “game changer.” In fact, the article explains that the bill, which set up a presidential task force, was a “plan to make a plan” — not a piece of comprehensive legislation that addressed lowering carbon emissions or climate change adaptation. Trade Agreements and Jobs. Sanders again blamed two trade agreements – the North American Free Trade Agreement and the permanent normal trade relations with China – for the loss of “over 4 million good-paying jobs.” But, as we wrote after he made the same claim during the January Democratic Debate and during the 2016 primary, it’s unclear how many jobs have been affected by those deals. Sanders’ claim is supported by the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute. The EPI estimated that by 2017 the U.S. has lost 3.4 million jobs since the U.S. granted permanent normal trade relations with China in 2001. The institute also estimated that NAFTA cost the U.S. 682,900 jobs, as of 2013. But other researchers disagree. The Congressional Research Service determined that NAFTA did not have a significant impact on jobs, saying in a 2017 report that the “net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP.” A 2017 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the job losses in manufacturing since China joined the Word Trade Organization in 2001 have been partly offset by job gains in other parts of the economy. Underinsured. Sanders repeated his claim that there are 87 million “uninsured or underinsured” Americans. As we’ve written in our coverage of past debates, this figure comes from a study by The Commonwealth Fund. The study found that “[o]f the 194 million U.S. adults ages 19 to 64 in 2018, an estimated 87 million, or 45 percent, were inadequately insured.” The 87 million is composed of three categories: 24 million people uninsured, 43.8 million “underinsured,” and 19.3 million people who had insurance but had been uninsured at some point in the past year. Defense Spending. Sanders misleadingly used a military spending figure when discussing the issue of climate change. “Instead of spending $1.8 trillion on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we should pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change,” he said. As we have explained before, that figure is not solely for weapons. It’s the 2018 total world military expenditure, as calculated by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a think tank that researches conflict, armaments and more. The group says it “discourages the use of terms such as ‘arms spending’ when referring to military expenditure, as spending on armaments is usually only a minority of the total.” Gun Manufacturer Lawsuits. Biden again accused Sanders of voting to allow gun manufacturers to be exempt from lawsuits. “This man is the only — one of the few Democrats I know who voted to exempt the gun industry from being able to be sued,” Biden said. “We cannot sue the gun manufacturers because he voted for that years ago.” It is true that Sanders, as a member of the House then, voted in favor of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act — which protects licensed manufacturers, dealers, sellers of ammunition and firearms, as well as trade associations from civil lawsuits over the misuse of guns or ammunition — in 2003 and 2005. However, as we have explained, the bill includes six exceptions where civil suits may be granted, such as cases in which a firearm seller acted with negligence. Biden did acknowledge that Sanders has since expressed regret over his vote on the bill, and Sanders has indeed called his vote “a bad vote.” As for Biden’s claim that Sanders is “one of the few Democrats I know” who voted to enact the bill, the majority of House Democrats voted against it. But in 2003, 63 Democrats voted “yea” and 59 did so in 2005. Sanders is not included in those counts, because he was (and still is) an independent. Correction, March 16: In the original version of this story, we incorrectly quoted Biden when the former vice president was discussing how he would respond to the novel coronavirus as president. Biden said, “We just pass a law saying that you do not have to pay for any of this, period.” Sanders replied, “As a matter of fact, that’s not true. That law has enormous loopholes. I understand that Nancy Pelosi did her best, Republicans prevented it.” We misheard it, and apparently so did Sanders. Biden said “pass” – not “passed” – and he was referring to his plan, not to the House bill. — by Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Rem Rieder, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Angelo Fichera, Katherine Hartzell, Isabella Fertel and Mitchell Aronoff ##### Sources Cochrane, Emily and Jim Tankersley. “Here’s What’s in Congress’s Emergency Coronavirus Bill.” New York Times. 14 Mar 2020. Foran, Claire et. al. “House passes coronavirus relief bill after Trump announces his support.” CNN. 14 Mar 2020. Hirsch, Lauren. “The Senate has not yet scheduled a vote for the coronavirus relief bill already passed by the House.” CNBC. 15 Mar 2020. Hogue, Ilyse (ilyseh). “.@JoeBiden has been evolving over time but his lifetime rating from @naral is not 100%. His last year in Congress he had a 100%. Annual ratings are entirely dependent on what votes come up in any given session. 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(Josie Hollingsworth/PolitiFact) ![\\"Jon](\\" By Jon Greenberg February 5, 2020 ![\\"Miriam](\\" By Miriam Valverde February 5, 2020 SOMERSWORTH, N.H. — Joe Biden did not, in his words, \"sugarcoat\" his failure to finish in the top three in Iowa. \"We took a gut punch,\" he told supporters in a turn-of-the-century ballroom. \"I know there are an awful lot of folks out there who are trying to write off this campaign. Well, I’ve got news for them. I’m not going anywhere.\" As he has from the start, Biden emphasized his experience and his skill at turning ideas into signed laws. He contrasted himself on both fronts with Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two apparent leaders in Iowa. In a dig at Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., Biden said taking on the presidency was no place for on-the-job training. And for Sanders, he derided his \"Medicare for All\" plan as not merely hugely expensive, but as a bill that is \"not going anywhere.\" \"He has yet to move the ball a single solitary inch in the United States Congress,\" Biden said. PolitiFact is traveling through New Hampshire this week to fact-check Democratic candidates ahead of the state’s Feb. 11 primary. _RELATED_ : We analyzed the stump speeches of Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. We fact-checked several of Biden’s statements in Somersworth, including direct aims at Sanders. Says when Sen. Bernie Sanders was asked on national television about the cost of his health care proposal, he answered \"nobody knows.\" Sanders did make this remark in a Jan. 24 CBS interview when asked about the cost of his multi-pronged agenda, which includes \"Medicare for All.\" Here’s the exchange with \"CBS Evening News\" anchor Norah O\'Donnell: O\'Donnell: \"Your agenda has promised free health care for everybody, free college tuition, and to pay off people\'s college loans. The price tag for that is estimated to be $60 trillion over ten years, correct?\" Sanders: \"Well, look. We have political opponents.\" O\'Donnell: \"You don\'t know… You don\'t know how much your plan costs?\" Sanders: \"You don\'t know. Nobody knows. This is impossible to predict.\" O\'Donnell: \"You\'re going to propose a plan to the American people, and you\'re not gonna tell \'em how much it costs?\" Sanders: \"‘Course I will. Do you know exactly what health care costs will be, one minute, in the next 10 years if we do nothing? It will be a lot more expensive than a Medicare for All single-payer system.\" One of his competitors in the Democratic primary contest \"voted against the Brady Bill five times.\" This is aimed at Sanders, and it is True. We looked into this back in 2015 when Hillary Clinton made the same claim during a Democratic primary presidential debate. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act mandated a five-day waiting period for background checks for gun purchases. The bill underwent many transformations before it became law in 1993. Sanders, then Vermont’s sole representative in the U.S. House, voted against the bill in its entirety five times, from 1991 to 1993. The Sanders campaign in 2015 said Sanders voted against the bill because he was against a national waiting period and had to answer to the people of Vermont, a rural state with high gun ownership. The night before Biden spoke in Somersworth, Sanders told his supporters he would end \"the sale and distribution of assault weapons.\" _RELATED_ : Fact-checking Bernie Sanders in Milford, NH before the primary Gun makers are \"the only major manufacturer in the world, in the United States, whether it\'s the tobacco industry or drug industry or any other industry, that can\'t be sued.\" This exaggerates gun makers’ legal protections. A 2005 law protects gun dealers and manufacturers from lawsuits when their products are misused. For example, if a person buys a gun legally and then uses the gun to intentionally kill someone, the gun dealer and manufacturer cannot be held liable for the crime under the law. But in other cases, they can be sued. The law does not protect gun dealers who transfer a gun knowing it would be used for criminal purposes, nor those who knowingly break state or federal law if the violation results in harm. And gun makers remain vulnerable to defective product suits. Biden was also off target when he said only the gun industry has this protection. Congress gave liability relief to online service providers, small aircraft makers, and vaccine makers, and the nuclear industry benefits from a $13 billion cap on damages from an accident. \"I passed one of the first climate change bills in the United States Senate in 1987.\" This is True. While a non-binding resolution passed the Senate in 1985, Biden’s Global Climate Protection Act, which called on the president to set up a task force to plan how to mitigate global warming, became the first such law in 1987. At the time, Biden warned that \"even a small rise in temperature could disrupt the entire complicated environment that has nurtured life as we know it.\" His bill, however, demanded little. One professor described it as a \"plan to make a plan,\" and it never materialized. \"We make up 15% of the world\'s problem (with greenhouse gas emissions). That\'s important. We\'re the second-largest emitter in the world, but guess what? 85% comes from the rest of the world.\" This is accurate. The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research shows that for 2018 the United States produced about 14% of greenhouse gas emissions, compared to about 30% for China, the largest emitter. Speaking of the Affordable Care Act, \"20 million people finally for the first time have access to health care.\" This is Mostly True. From 2013, the year before the Affordable Care Act took effect, to 2017, the number of Americans with health insurance increased by 26.6 million, according to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on health care policy. But the Affordable Care Act doesn’t necessarily take all the credit for that change. Gains in Medicare and from employer-sponsored health care account for a portion of that increase in the insured population. 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These are people who are truck drivers and who are nail technicians and nurses’ aides.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Hillary Clinton stated on September 6, 2022 in a tweet.: “I had zero emails that were classified.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Scott stated on August 10, 2022 in an interview on Fox News: “The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bob Good stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.: “Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Warren Fiske • August 17, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tucker Carlson stated on November 8, 2022 in election night coverage on Fox News: “Electronic voting machines didn\'t allow people to vote” in Maricopa County, Arizona. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jon Greenberg • November 9, 2022 ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on November 8, 2022 in a tweet: “There is no chain of custody” for ballots placed in Box No. 3 at Maricopa, Arizona, polling sites. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Jon Greenberg • November 8, 2022 ![](\\" ![](\\" Tim Ryan stated on November 1, 2022 in a town hall event: “J.D. 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" Switching-VVPAT-Slips-Thumbnail-702x336.jpg\\") English, Fake News # An old video of VVPAT slip handling process as per ECI guidelines is shared to claim foul play in the current 2024 elections 0 By Chaitanya on April 24, 2024 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit Amidst the ongoing 2024 general elections, a social media post with a video showing alleged BJP supporters tampering with VVPAT slips in EVM machines is circulating widely (here & here). The video shows individuals extracting VVPAT slips. In this article, we examine the veracity of the claims linked to the video. ![\\"\\"](\\" Switching-VVPAT-Slips-Claim.jpg\\")The archived version of this post can be found here > Claim: Recent video from 2024 depicting BJP supporters tampering with VVPAT > slips in EVM machines. > > Fact: The video is from 2022. At that time, officials verified that the > footage does not show any misconduct. Instead, it captures workers adhering > to the standard protocol of removing VVPAT slips from their respective > machines and placing them into a black envelope for storage. Hence, the > claim made in the post is FALSE. The viral video does show individuals extracting VVPAT slips and placing them in another envelope, however, the individuals are not BJP supporters. The people seen in the video are doing it as per the official guidelines. Moreover, the video is not related to the ongoing 2024 elections but is an old video from 2022. We could not find any reports about such irregularities during the ongoing 2024 elections. When the same video went viral claiming EVM fraud, during the Gujarat elections in 2022, the Deputy Election Officer of Bhavnagar clarified that the video did not depict any wrongdoing; instead, the workers were simply following established procedures, as reported by BOOM. Additionally, the District Magistrate and Collector of Bhavnagar, D.K. Parekh, stated that the video was recorded by an unauthorized individual and they initiated an inquiry into the incident. He also emphasized that there is no foul play in the process shown in the video. > @rakeshfilm pic.twitter.com/1Q4KcXEZzd > > — Collector & District Magistrate, Bhavnagar (@Collectorbhav) December 15, > 2022 What do the conduct of election rules say? Section 94(b) of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, states that subject to any direction to the contrary is given by the Election Commission or by a competent court or tribunal, election-related papers such as used and unused ballot papers, counterfoils of used ballot papers, marked copies of electoral rolls, and registers of voters shall be retained for one year. However, this rule does not specifically mention VVPAT slips. Section 94(c), which addresses all other election papers not mentioned above (including VVPAT slips), states that they can be retained for a period as directed by the Election Commission unless the Election petition/Court case is Pending. ![\\"\\"](\\" Switching-VVPAT-Slips-Image-2.jpg\\") Therefore, following the EC guidelines regarding the management of VVPAT slips post-vote count (here), it can be deduced that the video in the post does not show the destruction of VVPAT slips or any related election materials. Rather, it illustrates the extraction of VVPAT slips from their respective machines and their subsequent storage in a black envelope. To sum up, an old video of VVPAT slip handling process as per ECI guidelines is wrongly claimed to show foul play in current elections. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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A: No. A Libertarian opponent filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, claiming CNN’s town hall event with O’Rourke was worth $10 million. ##### FULL ANSWER Beto O’Rourke, the Texas Democrat challenging Sen. Ted Cruz for his seat in the U.S. Senate, appeared in an hourlong town hall event on CNN on Oct. 18. Prior to the town hall, a false headline started circulating on Facebook saying: “CHARGES FILED AGAINST BETO O’ROURKE FOR ACCEPTING ILLEGAL $10 MILLION CONTRIBUTION.” There were no “charges” filed, but a complaint was filed with the Federal Election Commission about the CNN town hall with O’Rourke. Here’s what happened: On Oct. 11, CNN announced its lineup of political specials for the midterm elections. Among them was a town hall moderated by CNN’s Dana Bash with O’Rourke taking questions from the audience. A spokeswoman for CNN told FactCheck.org that the network had invited Cruz to appear in his own town hall program, but he declined. Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, confirmed in a tweet that Cruz was “unable to participate” in “back to back town halls.” But, Roe added, “the Cruz campaign proposed that @CNN host one of the Cruz-O’Rourke debates. The O’Rourke campaign declined.” Following CNN’s programming announcement, Neal Dikeman, the third candidate in the race who is seeking the seat on the Libertarian line, wrote an open letter to CNN asking to be included in the televised town hall. Dikeman later filed a complaint with the FEC against CNN and O’Rourke, claiming that the town hall event would amount to an illegal $10 million campaign contribution if it aired as scheduled. In response, CNN attorney David C. Vigilante wrote a letter to Dikeman saying Cruz and O’Rourke are the “only two viable candidates,” based on polling, and that the CNN town hall was within the “press exemption” of campaign finance laws. Vigilante cited a case from 2009 that made similar allegations, which the FEC dismissed. So, while it’s true that the FEC has gotten a complaint about the town hall program with O’Rourke, no “charges” have been filed against the candidate. And it’s far from certain that the town hall could be considered an “illegal $10 million contribution” since the FEC hasn’t yet ruled on the complaint. Editor’s note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on the social media network. FactCheck.org also collaborates with CNN’s “State of the Union” on fact- checking videos hosted by “State of the Union” anchor Jake Tapper. ##### Sources “CHARGES FILED AGAINST BETO O’ROURKE FOR ACCEPTING ILLEGAL $10 MILLION CONTRIBUTION.” iamatexan.com. 16 Oct 2018. Ventresca, Rachel. “CNN to host prime-time political events ahead of midterm elections.” CNN. 11 Oct 2018. Dikeman, Neal. Complaint to the Federal Election Commission. 15 Oct 2018. Vigilante, David. CNN Senior Vice President — legal department. 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וזה כשהמדינה התערבה אגרסיבית - רק לא לטובת הציבור\". עלייה של 250% פירושה הכפלת המחיר פי שלושה וחצי. האם זה השינוי שנרשם במחיר דירה ממוצעת בישראל בעשור האחרון? בדקנו. > כשאנחנו מדברות על יוקר המחיה, אחד הגורמים המובהקים הוא הדיור. בעיני אגב, זה > המשבר הכי קשה פה.המדינה היא המונופול הגדול על הקרקע, ועדיין, בעשור עלו מחירי > הדיור ב250%!!! וזה כשהמדינה התערבה אגרסיבית- רק לא לטובת הציבור. המדינה במו > ידה רק העמיקה את המשבר- צריכות לדבר גם על זה.>> > > \- Naama Lazimi - נעמה לזימי💜 (@naamalazimi) February 12, 2022 הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה מפרסמת מדי חודש נתונים לגבי מחירי הדירות, שמשקללים דירות חדשות ודירות יד שנייה, תוך ניפוי חריגים. המדד לא מציין את מחירי הדירות עצמם, אלא מציג את השינוי במחיר ביחס לנקודת ההתחלה שהוגדרה ל-1993. הנתונים האחרונים שכבר אינם נחשבים לארעיים (כלומר, שלא צפויים להתעדכן בשל דיווח על עסקאות נוספות) הם אלו של ספטמבר-אוקטובר 2021, לכן כדי לבדוק עשור אחורה חזרנו לספטמבר-אוקטובר 2011. הנתונים שקיבלנו רחוקים מאוד מ-250%. בין שתי התקופות הללו מחירי הדירות בישראל עלו ב-62%. ![\\" \\"](\\" \- פרסומת - ליתר ביטחון בדקנו גם את נתוני ה-OECD שהם רבעוניים. גם כאן קיבלנו נתונים דומים: עלייה של 60% במשך עשור, ובשקלול האינפלציה עלייה של כ-49.5%. ערכנו גם בדיקה שנוגעת למחירי השכירות, היות שלזימי כתבה באופן כללי על \"מחירי הדיור\". אולם אלה, כידוע, עולים בקצב איטי יותר ממחירי הדירות, ובין הרבעון הרביעי של 2011 לרבעון הרביעי של 2021, נרשמה בהם עלייה של 17% בלבד. אז על מה התבססה לזימי כשכתבה על עלייה של 250%? מטעמה נמסר לנו כך: \"ראשית אנחנו מתנצלים על הטעות, הסתמכנו על מקור שהתברר כלא מדויק. לאחר בדיקה אנחנו יכולים לתקן ולומר שעל פי מרכז המחקר והמידע של הכנסת, מאז 2007 עלו מחירי הדיור ב-121.5%. כלומר, המחיר הממוצע לדירה יותר מאשר הכפיל את עצמו\". במילים אחרות, לפי הנתון הזה מחירי הדירת עלו פי 2.2 במשך 14 שנה, ולא פי 3.5 בעשור. נציין גם כי למרות ההתנצלות על הטעות, נכון לרגע זה ציוצה של לזימי לא נמחק, ולא נוסף לו תיקון. עוד בנושא המשרוקית * חיסול נסראללה: יצרני הפייקים ניסו לכתוב את המציאות מחדש * האם החוק לא מעמיד תנאי כשירות לממלא־מקום יו\"ר הרשות השנייה * מה בג\"ץ אמר על החזקת גופות מחבלים? הוא לא התנגד לרעיון * AI, איכות תמונה ושליטה בבית החכם: עולם המסכים לא עוצר כמובן שעצם העובדה שהעלייה היא \"רק\" של כ-60% בעשור, לא אומרת שלא מדובר בנתון גבוה. כדי לקבל פרספקטיבה השוונו את העלייה הזאת למה שקרה על פני אותה תקופת זמן במדינות ה-OECD. הנתון של ישראל מציב אותה במקום ה-14 מתוך 36 מדינות הארגון שלגביהן פורסמו נתונים. העלייה הממוצעת ב-OECD בתקופת זמן זו עמדה על 39.4%. בשורה התחתונה: דבריה של לזימי לא נכונים. לפי נתוני הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה, מחירי הדירות בישראל עלו בעשור האחרון ב-62% ולא ב-250%. לפי נתוני ה-OECD, בערכים ריאליים, כלומר בשקלול האינפלציה, מדובר בעלייה של 49.5%. ## לבדיקה המלאה לחצו כאן שם: נעמה לזימימפלגה: העבודהמקום: טוויטרתאריך: 12.2.22ציטוט: \"בעשור עלו מחירי הדיור ב-250%\"ציון: לא נכון ח\"כ נעמה לזימי צייצה שרשור בטוויטר על הצורך לטפל במשבר הדיור, ופתחה בדברים האלו: \"כשאנחנו מדברות על יוקר המחיה, אחד הגורמים המובהקים הוא הדיור. בעיני אגב, זה המשבר הכי קשה פה. המדינה היא המונופול הגדול על הקרקע, ועדיין, בעשור עלו מחירי הדיור ב250%!!! וזה כשהמדינה התערבה אגרסיבית- רק לא לטובת הציבור\". הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה מפרסמת מדיי חודש נתונים לגבי מחירי הדירות, שמשקללים דירות חדשות ודירות יד שנייה, תוך ניפוי חריגים. המדד לא נותן את מחירי הדירות בפני עצמם, אלא בכמה הם עלו לעומת 1993. כלומר, נקבע שב-1993 מחירי הדירות היו 100, ובהתאם לשינוי במחירי הדירות מדיי חודש מעדכנים את המספר (כלומר, אם בתקופה מסוימת מחירי הדירות היו גבוהים ב-2% מאלו של 1993, אז המספר לאותו חודש יהיה 102). בכל חודש מופיעים שני חודשים בצמוד (לדוגמה: ינואר-פברואר), כשאמצע התקופה הנבדקת היא תחילת החודש השני. בגלל שהקבצים של הלמ\"ס הולכים רק 9 שנים אחורה בכל פעם, השתמשנו בשני קבצים: אחד מנובמבר 2018 ואחד, העדכני ביותר, שמעודכן לנתוני פברואר 2022. הנתונים האחרונים שכבר אינם נחשבים לארעיים (כלומר, שלא צפויים להתעדכן בשל דיווח על עסקאות נוספות) הם אלו של ספטמבר-אוקטובר 2021. לכן, בדקנו החל מספטמבר- אוקטובר 2011. אז מחירי הדירות עמדו על 290.7, ועשור לאחר מכן הם עמדו על 471. הדבר מהווה עלייה של 62% במשך עשור. עם זאת, הדבר מראה שמחירי הדירות בספטמבר- אוקטובר 2021 היו גבוהים פי 4.7 לעומת מה שהיו ב-1993, פחות משלושה עשורים. ליתר ביטחון בדקנו גם את נתוני ה-OECD, שהם רבעוניים ונקודת ה-100 בהם היא מחירי הדירות ב-2015. הנתונים העדכניים ביותר שיש לגבי ישראל הם של הרבעון השלישי של 2021, ולכן בדקנו מהרבעון השלישי של 2011. במחירים נומינליים, אז מחירי הדירות עמדו על 79.6, ועשור לאחר מכן על 127.5, כלומר עלייה של 60% במשך עשור. במחירים ריאליים (כלומר, בחישוב אינפלציה), הם עלו מ-82.5 ל-123.3, כלומר עלייה של כ-49.5%. הדבר מצביע על כך שנתוני הלמ\"ס הם ללא חישוב אינפלציה, למרות שהדבר לא מצוין בקובצי הנתונים. אם נבדוק מחירי שכירות, אותם ניתן לבדוק כבר בין הרבעון הרביעי של 2011 לרבעון הרביעי של 2021, נקבל עלייה מ-92.54 ל-108.37, קרי עלייה של 17% בלבד. פנינו ללזימי כדי לקבל מקור לטענה שמחירי הדיור עלו ב-250%, כלומר פי 3.5, בעשור בודד. מטעמה הופנינו למסמך של מרכז המחקר והמידע של הכנסת (ממ\"מ) מיולי 2021, בו נכתב: \"בשנים 1997 עד 2007 מדד מחירי דירות בבעלות ירד בשיעור ריאלי של כ-24.5% ובשנים 2007 עד 2021 עלה בכ-121.5%\". המחקר גם מצביע על כך שמאז ספטמבר 2020 העלייה במחירי הדירות הייתה חדה במיוחד. עם זאת, מדובר בעלייה של פי 2.2, ולא 3.5, ב-14 שנה ולא בעשור בודד. התגובה המלאה שנשלחה מטעם לזימי הייתה: \"ראשית אנחנו מתנצלים על הטעות, הסתמכנו על מקור שהתברר כלא מדויק. לאחר בדיקה אנחנו יכולים לתקן ולומר שעל פי מרכז המחקר והמידע של הכנסת, מאז 2007, עלו מחירי הדיור ב-121.5%, כלומר המחיר הממוצע לדירה יותר מאשר הכפיל את עצמו. חשוב לזכור כמובן שבאזורים מסוימים מחירי הדיור עלו בצורה חדה יותר, וכן שעלייה כללית של המחירים במשק בשנה האחרונה תרמה לשחיקת השכר כך שהעלות הריאלית למשק בית עלתה אפילו יותר\". ואולם, במסמך של הממ\"מ מצוין במפורש שהחישוב של מחירי הדירות נעשה במחירים ריאליים. כמו כן הוסיפה: \"רק אציין שמחירי הדיור הם 221.5% ממה שהם היו\". אכן זו משמעות העלייה של 121.5%, אך זו לא המשמעות של הדברים בציוץ של לזימי, שכן היא התייחסה לעלייה. יש להוסיף שבכתבה קודמת של המשרוקית הראינו שבעשור האחרון עליית מחירי הדירות בישראל (במחירים ריאליים) הייתה במקום ה-13 בגובהה מבין מדינות ה-OECD. אז יכולנו להגיע רק עד לרבעון השני של 2021. בחישוב הרבעון השלישי של 2011 עד הרבעון השלישי של 2021, ישראל יורדת למקום ה-14 (צ\'ילה וניו זילנד לא נכללו בחישוב שכן הנתונים שלהן מעודכנים עד הרבעון השני של 2021). העלייה הממוצעת ב-OECD בתקופת זמן זו עמדה על 39.4%. לסיכום, במהלך העשור האחרון מחירי הדירות בישראל עלו בין 49.5 ל-62 אחוז, תלוי במדידה. לפי הממ\"מ מאז 2007 מחירי הדירות עלו ביותר מ-120%, בשקלול אינפלציה. לכן דבריה של לזימי לא נכונים. תחקיר: אוריה בר-מאיר ![](\\"\\"/) AI, איכות תמונה ושליטה בבית החכם: עולם המסכים לא עוצר #### הוספה לנושאים שמעניינים אותי מחירי הדירות שוק הדיור יוקר המחיה מפלגת העבודה ## רוצה להתעדכן בנושאים הקשורים לכתבה? לחיצה על הנושא תוסיף אותו לרשימת \"הנושאים שמעניינים אותי\", שם ניתן לקרוא ולנהל את ההתראות כשמתפרסמת כתבה בנושא. לצפייה בכתבות וניהול הנושאים, יש ללחוץ על כפתור ![](\\" בסרגל העליון הבנתי, תודה! 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" PM-Modi-Thumbnail-702x336.jpg\\") English, Fake News # Select visuals from the recent BJP chief ministers’ meeting are being shared claiming UP CM Yogi Adityanath ignored and didn’t greet PM Modi 0 By Akshay Kumar Appani on August 1, 2024 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit Recently, on 27 & 28 July 2024, the BJP held a two-day meeting for its chief ministers and deputy chief ministers at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi. Along with the chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of BJP-ruled states, top BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP President JP Nadda, attended the meeting. In this context, a video from the meeting is being widely shared across social media platforms, claiming that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ignored Prime Minister Narendra Modi and did not greet him (here, here, here, and here). Through this article, let’s fact-check the claim made in the post. ![\\"\\"](\\" PM-Modi-claim.jpg\\") > Claim: Video showing Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath ignoring PM Modi and > not greeting him during the July 2024 BJP chief ministers’ meeting at the > BJP headquarters in New Delhi. > > Fact: Visuals from another angle of the same meeting, shared on BJP’s > official X (Twitter) handle and PM Modi’s official YouTube channel, show > that all the leaders present, including Yogi Adityanath, greeted Prime > Minister Modi with folded hands (Namaste gesture). Hence, the claim made in > the post is FALSE. To learn more about this viral video, we conducted a reverse image search using keyframes from the video. This search led us to a similar video shared on the official X (formerly Twitter) handle of the BJP on 28 July 2024. The caption of the video reads: ‘Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi held a meeting with BJP Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers at BJP Headquarters, New Delhi.’ This video shows visuals from a different angle compared to the viral clip. In this video, we can clearly see that as soon as Prime Minister Narendra Modi enters, Yogi Adityanath, along with other leaders, greets him. > Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi held a meeting with BJP Chief Ministers > and Deputy Chief Ministers at BJP Headquarters, New Delhi. > pic.twitter.com/bHLoEPKVfs > > — BJP (@BJP4India) July 28, 2024 We also found a video of this meeting shared on the official YouTube channel of PM Modi on 28 July 2024, titled ‘PM Modi attends a meeting of BJP CMs and Deputy CMs.‘ This video also shows visuals from a different angle compared to the viral clip, where we can clearly see that as soon as Prime Minister Narendra Modi enters, Yogi Adityanath, along with other leaders, greets him with folded hands (Namaste gesture). From this, it is evident that all the leaders present at the meeting, including Yogi Adityanath, greeted Prime Minister Modi with folded hands (Namaste gesture). ![\\"\\"](\\" PM-Modi-img2-1.png\\") Below is a comparison of the viral video clip with the video showing the same visuals from a different angle, shared on the official YouTube channel of PM Modi: ![\\"\\"](\\" PM-Modi-img3-1024x407.jpg\\") To sum up, selected visuals from the recent BJP chief ministers’ meeting are being shared with the claim that Uttar Pradesh’s CM Yogi Adityanath ignored and didn’t greet PM Modi. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Friday, 26 April 2019 18:42 WIB ![](\\" * Share * ![\\"image](\\" * ![\\"image](\\" * ![\\"image](\\" * ![\\"image](\\" ![\\"\[Fakta](\\" Video of a man being injured with a narrative that the man was the perpetrator 100 ballots cast in Madura went viral on the social network Facebook. The video was uploaded to Mayang Sari's account on April 22 2019. ![](\\" a man was injured with the narrative that the man was the perpetrator voting on 100 ballot papers in Madura which went viral on Facebook. Mayang Sari stated in her upload that the incident occurred at Madurese. He also stated that the injured man was a voter 100 sound cards. The man had his hand cut off by residents. Mayang Sari also uploaded a screenshot of the conversation in one of them Whatsapp Group with a similar narrative. "The incident in Madura... the person who cast 100 voting cards for 01... had his hand cut off by residents," wrote Mayang Sari's account. FACT CHECK Based on Tempo.co's search, this video has been circulating on YouTube for a long time. Ridho Roma's account published this video on February 16 2019 or two months before the 2019 election voting. Ridho Roma's account captioned the video: Madurese Carok Victim. But videos it can no longer be watched. When opened there is a video description This is in the category not worth watching for some users. Since uploaded on February 16, 2019, the video has been viewed more than 45,000 times. The detik.com page reported that in the April 17 2019 voting, Panwascam Masalembu, Sumenep, Madura, discovered suspected fraud carried out by KPPS. The alleged fraud was in the form of ballot papers that had been marked for Regency DPRD as many as 69 sheets, Provincial DPRD as many as 68 sheets, DPR There are 59 RIs, and there are as many presidential candidate ballots number 01 70 sheets. The Sumenep KPU plans a repeat voting (PSU) in the Masalembu Islands, Sumenep, Madura. The PSU was carried out after a recommendation from the relevant Bawaslu ballot papers were marked, allegedly by KPPS. Chairman of the Sumenep KPU A Waris said that the PSU plan was carried out at TPS 3 in Masalima Village, Pulau District Masalembu, Sumenep. PSU is planned to be held on H+6 or H+7. \"According to rule, maximum H+10. But we are planning for H+6 or H+7," said Waris to detikcom, Friday (19/4/2019). For this PSU, said Waris, his party directly coordinate with the Provincial KPU regarding the recommendations of Bawaslu Sumenep the. As well as preparing logistics for ballot papers to carry out PSU the. Meanwhile, regarding the technical implementation of the PSU, the Sumenep KPU has not yet decided whether to appoint a new KPPS or have it taken over by PPK or PPS Masalembu. "We have not yet decided whether to appoint a new KPPS or take over the PPK and PPS there," explained Waris. East Java Regional Police Public Relations has also confirmed that the video is a hoax. The following is a written statement from the East Java Regional Police regarding this matter: X It has been circulating on social media about the incident of hand cutting in Madura by residents because they cast 100 ballots. This information is not true, aka a hoax. In Madura there has never been an incident the. CONCLUSION Based on existing sources, the video being spread is not about men who had his hand cut off because he cast 100 ballots, so that's information We conclude this is wrong. 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It reopened July 5. See the sources for this fact-check Red and black plumes rise from a volcano and cover the sky in a photo shared July 6 that appears to show a current volcanic eruption. \"Mount Etna ERUPTS in Sicily. Catania Airport closes as ash blankets the city,\" the caption of the Facebook post sharing the photo read. ![](\\" (Screenshot from Facebook) This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) The photo does show Mount Etna erupting, but not in July 2024. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on July 29, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram Este video muestra un robo de votos en la elección del 2024 en Venezuela. ![\\"true\\"](\\" rulings/tom_ruling_falso/7afe5367c2d46afca69ca3f17ae24296.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" rulings/tom_ruling_falso.png\\") By Maria Briceño • July 30, 2024 A reverse-image search shows the photo was featured in two news reports about Mount Etna erupting in February 2021. Mount Etna did erupt in July 2024, and the resulting volcanic ash fallout caused the Catania Airport to suspend arrivals and departures temporarily, as it announced at 1:30 a.m. Eastern Time on July 5. At 7:25 a.m. Eastern Time the same day, the airport said it had reopened for departures while limiting arrivals to two per hour. In its last update at 10:33 a.m. July 5, the Catania Airport said it has \"fully reopened,\" though it warned about temporary delays. But the Facebook post’s photo is years old and doesn’t show Mount Etna’s July 2024 eruption. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on October 11, 2019 in a Facebook post: Says a photo shows \"25,000 outside all to hear the POTUS speak!\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Party Support * Facebook Fact-checks * Viral image ![\\"Ciara](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke October 16, 2019 # This is a photo of the Cleveland Cavaliers victory parade, not outside a Trump rally At a campaign rally in Minneapolis, President Donald Trump marveled at the crowd size. \"So we have 20,000-plus inside,\" he said. \"We set a new record. And we have 25,000 people we still love outside. And close to 100,000 wanted to come tonight.\" An Oct. 11 Facebook post seized on that line. \"20,000 inside, 25,000 outside, all to hear the POTUS speak!\" it says. \"Ask yourself, does this look like a country that wants to impeach our president?\" An image below the text shows the streets packed with people outside of an arena. ![](\\" #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 30, 2024 in a post \"Samsung drops out of $1 billion advertising campaign with Olympics.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 2, 2024 This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) We’re not fact-checking Trump’s claim about the crowd size here but Minnesota Public Radio has looked at his boast. In short: the Target Center where Trump appeared can hold approximately 20,000 people, but a precise count of how many people were there is difficult. Even if more than 20,000 attendees were in the center that day, it’s not the first time — a basketball game and a U2 concert drew 20,412 and 20,200, respectively. As for those who didn’t make it inside the arena, Minnesota Public Radio reported that \"the president’s assertion that 25,000 were left on the outside is dubious given that an overflow space wasn’t full and reporters on the outside of the arena saw nothing nearing that number.\" The accuracy of the photo, however, is easier to fact-check. It’s not showing the Trump crowd. It’s not outside the Target Center, where the Minnesota Timberwolves play. It’s in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 22, 2016, during a victory parade after the Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA championship. Angelo Merendino shot the photo for Getty Images. 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Accessibility statementSkip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness Sign in Advertisement clockThis article was published more than **7 years ago** Democracy Dies in Darkness fact checkerAboutArchive fact checkerAboutArchive # Are 80 percent or 0.1 percent of the 9th Circuit Court’s decisions overturned? (Carlos Barria/Reuters) ![\\"\\"](\\" apps/imrs.php?src= authors/washpost/c2d68e88-b854-4336-a57e-e89bdb4783c9.png&h=196&w=196\\"/) Analysis by Michelle Ye Hee Lee March 21, 2017 at 3:00 a.m. EDT “Part of the much-overturned 9th Circuit Court … that 9th Circuit — you have to see. Take a look at how many times they have been overturned with their terrible decisions.”— President Trump, remarks at a rally in Tennessee, March 15, 2017 “In fact, we had to go quicker than we thought because of the bad decision we received from a circuit that has been overturned at a record number. I have heard 80 percent.”— Trump, news conference, Feb. 16, 2017 “Of course, none of what the president has charged about the 9th Circuit is true. The 9th Circuit is as well organized as any in the country. Of the very few 9th Circuit cases the Supreme Court takes up, a significant portion are overturned, but that’s true for every circuit, several of which are overturned at a higher rate than the 9th Circuit. And overall, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of 9th Circuit decisions are overturned by the Supreme Court.”— House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democratic member John Conyers Jr. (Mich.), opening remarks during House hearing, March 16, 2017 Advertisement Story continues below advertisement One measure of an appeals court’s record is the rate at which its decisions are reversed by the Supreme Court. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against his original executive order on immigration, President Trump has criticized the court as a rogue one with an excessively high 80 percent reversal rate. ✅ Follow Fact-checking politicians Follow But it’s more complex than that. The 9th Circuit is unique in its structure, which is reflected in its record of overturned cases. (More on that below.) During a recent House committee hearing, ranking Democrat John Conyers Jr. (Mich.) said “less than one-tenth of 1 percent” of the circuit court’s decisions are overturned by the Supreme Court. Story continues below advertisement So which is it: 80 percent or one-tenth of 1 percent? We checked out the facts and found it’s a denominator game. ### The Facts First, some important caveats. Advertisement Each court’s reversal rate changes every year, so it’s easy to cherry-pick data from different years to support your case. And looking at just the raw numbers is not that helpful. For example, in the 2014-2015 term, four courts had 100 percent of their cases reversed, but the raw numbers were small (one case for the 2nd Circuit, three for the 3rd Circuit, three for the 7th Circuit and five for the 11th Circuit). The court with the second-highest reversal rate was the 8th Circuit, with seven of eight cases reversed. The 9th Circuit had six of 10 cases reversed. Story continues below advertisement Most cases reviewed by the Supreme Court get reversed, so the number or rate of reversals is not necessarily reflective of the court’s performance. While the Supreme Court weighs different factors in granting review of an appellate court’s decision, “the most important influence on whether Supreme Court review is granted is the existence of a conflict among different circuits over how to interpret a section of a federal statute or a constitutional provision,” according to SCOTUSblog. And the Supreme Court reviews only a small percentage of cases per year from each circuit. From 1999 through 2008, the Supreme Court reviewed an average of 64 cases per year, which was about 0.106 percent of all decisions by federal courts of appeals, according to a 2010 analysis by the American Bar Association. Advertisement Now, to the 9th Circuit’s numbers. Story continues below advertisement Since John G. Roberts Jr. became chief justice in 2005, the 9th Circuit court has not set a “record” for reversals. The 9th Circuit’s reversal rate was usually higher than the average in a given term, but not always. And since 2005, the 9th Circuit has not had the highest reversal rate (100 percent) in any term. In the 2014-2015 term, the 9th Circuit’s reversal rate was about 60 percent, below the average rate of 72 percent. In the 2015-2016 term, the latest year of data available, the 9th Circuit court’s reversal rate was 80 percent, and the average rate was 67 percent. This is the figure that Trump cites. But the 80 percent figure represents a small fraction of the cases that the 9th Circuit hears in a given term — roughly one-tenth of 1 percent. This is the figure that Conyers cites. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement The Supreme Court reviewed less than 0.1 percent of cases terminated in the 9th Circuit in 2015, according to an analysis by EmpiricalSCOTUS.com. But that is not unique. The highest review rate of terminated cases that year was approximately 0.3 percent, for the 10th Circuit and the D.C. Circuit, according to the analysis. The raw number of reversals by the 9th Circuit is high because the circuit is larger than many other circuits. It covers most of the western states, Hawaii, Alaska, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It’s so big that lawmakers are proposing to split up its jurisdiction and create a another appeals court. Still, the number of 9th Circuit cases on the docket is proportionate to the size of the circuit’s caseload. Since 2005, the 9th Circuit comprised about 20 percent of the Supreme Court’s docket. In 2015-2016, the share of cases commenced or terminated by the 9th Circuit was roughly 20 percent (about 12,000 out of about 60,000). “Reversal rates have nothing to do with circuit administrative performance,” said Sidney R. Thomas, chief judge for the 9th Circuit, in a March 16 written testimony to Congress. “The question of how a court would decide the merits of a handful of cases is not reflective of court administration. It is not a proper measure, under any circumstances, of whether a circuit should be structurally divided.” Advertisement Story continues below advertisement The White House did not respond to our request for comment. A spokeswoman for Conyers said: “Mr Conyers pointed out that only 1/10 of 1 percent of cases from the 9th Circuit are reversed in order to show that you cannot draw a reasonable conclusion about how well a court is functioning by comparing the handful of cases that ever reach the Supreme Court since it is such a small percentage of the overall docket. This would be true of any Circuit.” ### The Pinocchio Test Although the reversal rate is one way to measure a court’s record, using figures such as 80 percent or one-tenth of 1 percent does not add much to the debate. The 9th Circuit is not the most overturned court by the annual reversal rate. It does have a high raw number of reversals or number of cases on the Supreme Court docket. But it also reviews more cases than other circuits, is larger than other circuits and terminates far more cases than other circuits. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Generally, politicians citing accurate statistics that lack context qualify for at least Two Pinocchios. Conyers provides more context than Trump does by noting that several other circuits are overturned at a higher rate than the 9th Circuit. Still, the usage of the one-tenth of 1 percent figure is not very helpful. The Supreme Court already reviews a small percentage of cases every year, so the number of reversals will reflect a tiny portion of the circuit court’s total number of cases per year. Trump ventures into Three- to Four-Pinocchio territory when he says the 9th Circuit has been “overturned at a record number.” But recently, he has said more generally that the 9th Circuit has a high rate of reversal. We’ll award Two Pinocchios to both Trump and Conyers for their use of the different reversal rates, which only give one side of the story. ### Two Pinocchios (About our rating scale) Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Send us facts to check by filling out this form Keep tabs on Trump’s promises with our Trump Promise Tracker Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter Share the Facts Washington Post ![\\"Washington](\\" facts/logos/washington_post_logo.png\\"/) 3 6 ![\\"Washington](\\" facts/rating_images/washpo/washpo_pinnochios_2.png\\") Washington Post Rating: Two Pinocchios “Part of the much overturned 9th Circuit Court … that 9th Circuit — you have to see. Take a look at how many times they have been overturned with their terrible decisions.” Donald Trump President of the United States ![](\\" Opinion/Images/518238610-1267.jpg\\") during a rally in Tennessee Wednesday, March 15, 2017 03/15/2017 Read More info Share the Facts Washington Post ![\\"Washington](\\" facts/logos/washington_post_logo.png\\"/) 3 6 ![\\"Washington](\\" facts/rating_images/washpo/washpo_pinnochios_2.png\\") Washington Post Rating: Two Pinocchios \"Overall less than one-tenth of one percent of 9th Circuit decisions are overturned by the Supreme Court.” John Conyers, Jr. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member (D-Mich.) ![](\\" head-shot-large-169.jpeg\\") opening remarks during House hearing Thursday, March 16, 2017 03/16/2017 Read More info Share ![\\"\\"](\\"/dr/resources/images/generic-newsletter-signup.png\\") ![\\"\\"](\\"/dr/resources/images/generic-newsletter-signup.png\\") Sign up Advertisement Advertisement live updatespolitics![\\"\\"](\\" apps/imrs.php?src= washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/34GPOUTQBGPJDTBZOSU6XT4H5M.JPG&w=767\\")3:42 PM #### Vance refuses to say Trump lost in 2020, sparking debate’s biggest clash 3:38 PMIn debate, Walz struggles to answer question on his time in Hong Kong 3:31 PMVance peddles Trump agenda in softer tones, misleading ways during debate 3:20 PMWho won the Vance-Walz VP debate? 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DATA ROUNDUP English, Fake News # No, Amul did not fire 1.38 lakh workers for eating beef 0 By Abhishek Mandadi on July 15, 2021 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit A post is being widely shared on social media claiming that Amul Milk’s owner Anand Seth had fired 1.38 lakh workers for eating Beef. Let us fact-check the claim made in the post. ![\\"\\"](\\" By-Anand-Seth-For-Eating-Beef_post.jpg\\") > Claim: Anand Seth, Amul Milk’s owner had fired 1.38 lakh workers for eating > Beef. > > Fact: Amul is the flagship brand of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing > Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), an apex organisation of the Dairy Cooperatives of > Gujarat. Since it is a cooperative society, it is not owned by any one > individual. There are 36 lakh milk producer members in the GCMMF. There are > no recent news reports about Amul firing any of its workers. Hence, the > claim made in the post is FALSE. Amul is the flagship brand of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), India’s largest food products marketing organisation. Amul Milk is one such brand. GCMMF is the Apex organisation of the Dairy Cooperatives of Gujarat, popularly known as ‘AMUL’. Since it is a cooperative society, it is not owned by any one individual. In fact, its present chairman is Shamalbhai B Patel, Vice Chairman is Valamjibhai R Humbal. The Managing Director of the cooperative is RS Sodhi. So, there is no mention of Anand Seth as the owner of Amul Milk. ![\\"\\"](\\" By-Anand-Seth-For-Eating-Beef_image1.png\\") There is no recent news report about Amul having fired its workers. Amul is one of the most popular brands in India. If at all it fired 1.38 lakh workers, it would have been reported by various news organisations. Even official social media handles of Amul, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram did not mention anything about firing its workers recently. 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برو به محتوای اصلی * فکتنامه چیست؟ * روش کار ما English * خانه * فکتخانه * پروفایلها * ویدیوها * مکتبخانه * گزارشها * درباره ما * فکتنامه چیست؟ * روش کار ما * بلاگها پادکست حالت شب جستجوجستجو خانهفکتخانهدرستیسنجی ![\\"مهران](\\" ahmadi.width-300.format-png.png\\") مهران احمدی بازیگر و کارگردان کل هنرپیشههای سینما و تلویزیون که از راه بازیگری امرار معاش میکنند بیش از ۷۰ نفر نیستند. درستیسنجی ۱۲ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۹ زمان خواندن: ۶ دقیقه ![\\"\\"](\\" web.width-300.format-png.png\\") نادرست ![\\"\\"](\\" ahmadi.width-1200.format-jpeg.jpg\\") # تعداد بازیگران حرفهای ایران بیش از آن چیزی است که مهران احمدی میگوید مهران احمدی بازیگر و کارگردان سینما و تلویزیون، روز ۵ اردیبهشت سال ۱۳۹۹ در برنامه دورهمی با اجرای مهران مدیری، به انتقادها علیه سینماگران که از پرداخت مالیات سرباز میزنند پاسخ داد. او گفت برخی با مقایسه مهران مدیری و یک راننده تاکسی میگویند چرا این طرف بی ام و سوار میشود و مالیات نمیدهد آن یکی تاکسی دارد و باید مالیات بدهد؟ او با بیان اینکه این مقایسه اشکال دارد و نباید انجام شود، مدعی شد: «کل هنرپیشههای سینما و تلویزیون حرفهای اعم از خانم و آقا که از این راه امرار معاش میکنند بیش از ۷۰ نفر نیستند.» او کار این ۷۰ نفر را خاطره سازی برای نسلهای آتی خواند و انتقادها در خصوص چرایی مالیات ندادن هنرپیشهها را بیمورد دانست. آیا تعداد کل هنرپیشههای حرفهای سینما و تلویزیون، که از این راه امرار معاش میکنند ۷۰ نفر است؟ آیا تعداد افراد یک صنف یا نوع حرفه در پرداخت یا معافیت مالیاتی اثرگذار است؟ فکتنامه در این گزارش میکوشد به این دو پرسش پاسخ دهد: ۱- تعداد هنرپیشههای حرفهای سینما و تلویزیون با یک جستوجوی ساده در اینترنت میتوان اسامی هنرپیشههای حرفهای و شناخته شده سینما و تلویزیون را استخراج کرد، این بخش ماجرا چندان پیچیده نیست. نگاهی به وب سایت خانه سینما نیز میتواند مرجع خوبی برای یافتن تعداد فعالان این حوزه باشد. براساس اطلاعات منتشر شده در خانه سینما، این صنف بیش از ۳ هزار عضو دارد. شرط عضویت در خانه سینما فعالیت حرفهای در یکی از بخشهای تولید، توزیع و نمایش سینمای ایران است. البته روشن نیست چند نفر از این ۳هزار عضو خانه سینما، را هنرپیشهها تشکیل میدهند اگر ده درصد آنها بازیگر باشند بیش از ۳۰۰ بازیگر حرفهای داریم. نگاهی به اسامی بازیگرانی که در چند سال اخیر در فیلمها و سریالها حضوری مستمر داشتهاند نشان میدهد که در تاریخ سینما، تلویزیون و تئاتر ایران نام بیش از ۷۰۰ هنرپیشه را ثبت کرده که در این لینک اسامی آنها در دسترس است. خیلی از آنها دیگر فعال نیستند برخی از آنها نیز فوت کردهاند ولی روشن نیست دقیقا کدام یک از آنها از این راه امرار معاش میکنند ولی قاعدتا آنها که این روزها در سینما و تلویزیون حضوری مستمر دارند و در پروژههای گوناگون ایفای نقش میکنند را بتوان بازیگران حرفهای دانست که از این راه امرار معاش میکنند هرچند ممکن است برخی از آنها در سایر حرفهها مثل رستوران و کافهداری یا برجسازی و … نیز دستی داشته باشند ولی نمیتوان آنها را بازیگران غیرحرفهای دانست. بلکه آنها از سرمایه و شهرت خود در حرفههای دیگر نیز استفاده میکنند و البته مالیات آن را نیز جداگانه باید پرداخت کنند. بنابراین برای روشن شدن ادعای مهران احمدی و فقط برای نمونه (افراد دیگری نیز میتوانند در این جدول باشند و یا ممکن است برخی از این افراد ادعا کنند که سینما حرفه آنها نیست و میتوانند ما را تصحیح کنند) اسامی ۱۰۵ بازیگر حرفهای که طی سالهای اخیر در سینما و تلویزیون حضوری مستمر داشتهاند در جدول زیر آمده است. ![\\"\\"](\\" ۲- آیا بازیگران از پرداخت مالیات معافاند؟ آیا تعداد افراد یک صنف یا نوع حرفه در پرداخت یا معافیت مالیاتی اثرگذار است؟ مطابق ماده ۱ قانون مالیاتهای مستقیم، افراد زیر باید مالیات پرداخت کنند: ۱- کلیه مالکین اعم از اشخاص حقیقی و حقوقی نسبت به اموال یا املاک خود واقع در ایران ۲- هر شخص حقیقی ایرانی مقیم ایران نسبت به کلیه درآمدهایی که در ایران یا خارج از ایران تحصیل میکند. ۳- هر شخص حقیقی ایرانی مقیم خارج از ایران نسبت به کلیه درآمدهایی که در ایران تحصیل میکند. ۴- هر شخص حقوقی ایرانی نسبت به کلیه درآمدهایی که در ایران یا خارج از ایران تحصیل مینماید. ۵- هر شخص غیر ایرانی (اعم از حقیقی یا حقوقی) نسبت به درآمدهایی که در ایران تحصیل میکند و همچنین نسبت به درآمدهایی که بابت واگذاری امتیازات یا سایر حقوق خود و یا دادن تعلیمات و کمکهای فنی و یا واگذاری فیلمهای سینمایی (که به عنوان بها یا حق نمایش یا هر عنوان دیگر عاید آنها میگردد) از ایران تحصیل میکند. بنابراین تمام افراد جامعه از هر صنف و حرفهای که باشند باید مالیات درآمد خود را پرداخت کنند و قانون استثنایی قائل نشده است. ماده ۲ قانون مالیاتهای مستقیم اشخاصی که مشمول پرداخت مالیات نیستند را به این شرح اعلام کرده است: وزارتخانهها و موسسات دولتی، دستگاههایی که بودجه آنها بوسیله دولت تامین میگردد، شهرداریها و بنیادها و نهادهای انقلاب اسلامی دارای مجوز معافیت مالیاتی از رهبر فعلی و پیشین انقلاب اسلامی. غیر از این ۴ بخش تمام اشخاص حقیقی و حقوقی باید مالیات پرداخت کنند و از این حیث میان رانندگان تاکسی و بازیگران شناخته شده و کمتر شناخته شده سینما و تلویزیون وجود ندارد. طبق ماده ۸۱ قانون مالیاتهای مستقیم تنها درآمد حاصله از فعالیت کشاورزی از پرداخت مالیات معاف است. بنابراین درآمد اشخاص حقیقی و حقوقی از هر صنف که باشند مشمول مالیات است تنها قانون بودجه سالیانه مشخص میکند که چه سقفی از درآمد از پرداخت مالیات معاف است. یعنی کم درآمدها از پرداخت مالیات معاف اند ولی اینکه چه میزانی از درآمد، کم و معاف از مالیات محسوب میشود را قانون در بودجه سنواتی تعیین میکند. بر اساس تبصره ۶ قانون بودجه امسال (سال ۱۳۹۹)، سقف معافیت مالیاتی موضوع ماده ۸۴ قانون مالیاتهای مستقیم سالانه ۳۶ میلیون تومان تعیین شده است. یعنی افرادی که کمتر از ۳ میلیون تومان در ماه درآمد دارند از پرداخت مالیات معاف هستند ولی درآمد بیش از ۳ میلیون به صورت پلکانی تا ۳۵ درصد باید مالیات پرداخت کنند بنابراین هر چه درآمد بیشتر باشد مالیات نیز بیشتر خواهد بود. در بند «ل» ماده ۱۳۹ گفته شده «فعالیتهای انتشاراتی و مطبوعاتی و قرآنی (دارای مجوز از وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد و دستگاههای ذیربط)، فرهنگی و هنری که به موجب مجوز وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامی انجام میشوند، از پرداخت مالیات در آئیننامه اجرایی این بند که به تصویب هیات وزیران رسیده در بخش تولید، تکثیر و نمایش فیلم، علاوه بر بازیگری، مشاغل «فیلمنامهنویسی، تهیهکنندگی، کارگردانی، صدابرداری، صداگذاری، فیلمبرداری، طراحی صحنه، و لباس، تدوینگری، مدیریت تدارکات، فیلمبرداری، جلوههای ویژه، بدلکاری، چهره پردازی، خدمات لابراتوار فیلمسازی، عکاسی، گویندگی، منشی گری صحنه، مدیریت تولید فیلم، آهنگسازی، دوبلوری، انیمیشن سازی، مستندسازی، مونتاژگری، بازیگردانی، نورپردازی، دستیاری کارگردان و صدابرداری و نمایش فیلم 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DATA ROUNDUP Fake News - Kannada # ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೋವಿಡ್ ಮೆಡಿಕಲ್ ಕಿಟ್ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು ಅಗತ್ಯ ಎಂಬ ಸಂದೇಶ ಟಾಟಾ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ನದಲ್ಲ 0 By Mutturaj on July 26, 2020 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೋವಿಡ್ ಮೆಡಿಕಲ್ ಕಿಟ್ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು ಅಗತ್ಯ ಎಂಬ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಹಲವಾರು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಜಾಲತಾಣ ಬಳಕೆದಾರರು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸಂದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ನ ಮೂರು ಹಂತಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆಗಾಗಿ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಾದ ಪರಿಕರಗಳನ್ನು ವಿವರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಅನ್ನು ಟಾಟಾ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಕಳಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಲಿಂಕ್ನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಶಿಫಾರಸ್ಸುಗಳನ್ನು ಟಾಟಾಹೆಲ್ತ್ ನೀಡಿದೆ ಎನ್ನಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಟಾಟಾಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಈ ರೀತಿಯ ಶಿಫಾರಸ್ಸಗಳನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದೆಯೇ ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸೋಣ ಬನ್ನಿ. ![\\"\\"](\\" Medical-Kit-Kannada-717x1024.jpg\\")ಈ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಅನ್ನು ಆರ್ಕೈವ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿರುವ ಆವೃತ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣಬಹುದು > **ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದನೆ** : ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ನ ಮೂರು ಹಂತಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆಗಾಗಿ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ > ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಾದ ಪರಿಕರಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಟಾಟಾಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಸೂಚನೆ ನೀಡಿದೆ. > > **ನಿಜಾಂಶ** : ಸಂದೇಶದೊಂದಿಗಿರುವ ಲಿಂಕ್ ತಮ್ಮ ಕಂಪನಿಯದ್ದಾಗಿದೆ, ಆದರೆ ಆ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು > ಕಂಪನಿ ಕಳಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಟಾಟಾ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟಪಡಿಸಿದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಮೇಲಿನ ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದನೆ > ತಪ್ಪಾಗಿದೆ. ಆ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಟ್ವಿಟ್ಟರ್ ಬಳಕೆದಾರರೊಬ್ಬರು ಟಾಟಾ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಗೆ ಟ್ಯಾಗ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಸಂದೇಶದ ಅಧಿಕೃತತೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿದಾಗ ಆ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ತಾವು ಕಳಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಟಾಟಾ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟಪಡಿಸಿದೆ. > We are sorry but the above message received by you is not from Tata Health. > Kindly inform the same to the group from where you received this message. > > — Tata Health (@tatahealth) June 13, 2020 ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಟ್ವೀಟ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸಲಾಗದ ಮಾಹಿತಿಯನ್ನು ನಮ್ಮ ವೆಬ್ ಸೈಟ್ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಆ ಸಂದೇಶಕ್ಕೂ ಟಾಟಾ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಗೂ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಸಂಬಂಧವಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಎಚ್ಚರಿಕೆ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಿದೆ. “ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸಲಾಗದ ಈ ಮಾಹಿತಿಯನ್ನು ಬಳಸುವ ಮುನ್ನ ಕೋವಿಡ್ 19ಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಾಗಿ ಹತ್ತಿರದ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ ಅಥವಾ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ವೈದ್ಯರನ್ನು ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಿ.” ಎಂಬುದು ಟ್ವೀಟ್ ನ ಪಠ್ಯ. > Please consult a doctor online or at a hospital nearby regarding doubts and > queries related to COVID-19 before resorting to unverified > information.Visit: > pic.twitter.com/G2bsXPjfuO > > — Tata Health (@tatahealth) June 16, 2020 ಸಂದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿರು ವಕೋವಿಡ್ -19ನ ಮೂರು ಹಂತಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹುಡುಕಿದಾಗ ಯಾವುದೇ ಖ್ಯಾತಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಆ ಕುರಿತು ವಿವರಿಸಿರುವ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಕಂಡುಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿಗಳು ವೈರಸ್ ರೋಗಿಯ ದೇಹದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಲ್ಬಣಗೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮೂರು ಹಂತಗಳ ಕುರಿತು ಚರ್ಚಿಸಿರುವುದು ಕಂಡುಬಂದಿದೆ.ಅದರಂತೆ * ಮೊದಲಹಂತ: (ಸೋಂಕಿನಹಂತ) ದೇಹದಲ್ಲಿ ವೈರಸ್ ಹಲವು ಪಟ್ಟು ಹೆಚ್ಚಳಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಣ್ಣ ಮಟ್ಟದ ರೋಗಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ. ಅದು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಶೀತ ಅಥವಾ ಜ್ವರ ಇರಬಹುದೇ ಎಂಬ ಗೊಂದಲ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. * ಎರಡನೇಹಂತ (ಶ್ವಾಸಕೋಸದ ಹಂತ): ಇದು ರೋಗನಿರೋಧಕ ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ಮೇಲೆ ತೀವ್ರ ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತದೆ.ಇದರಿಂದ ಪ್ರಾಥಮಿಕ ಹಂತದ ರೋಗಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳಾದ ಒಣಕೆಮ್ಮು, ಉಸಿರಾಟದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಮತ್ತು ಆಮ್ಲಜನಕ ಕೊರತೆ ಉಂಟಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. * ಮೂರನೇಹಂತ (ಉಲ್ಬಣಗೊಂಡ ಹಂತ): ರೋಗ ತೀವ್ರವಾಗಿ ಹೃದಯ, ಕಿಡ್ನಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರ ಅಂಗಾಂಗಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲದೇ ಸಂದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಿಕೊಂಡಂತೆ, ಕೋವಿಡ್ 19 ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಹಬೆಯನ್ನು ಉಸಿರಾಟದ ಮೂಲಕ ಎಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು, ಬಿಸಿನೀರಿನ ಮೂಲಕ ಗಾರ್ಗ್ಲಿಮ್ಗ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಮತ್ತಿತರ ವಿಧಾನಗಳ ಕೋವಿಡ್ ನಿಂದ ಗುಣಮುಖರಾಗಲು ಪರಿಣಾಮಕಾರಿ ಎಂಬುದರ ಕುರಿತು ಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಟ್ಲಿ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಟ್ ಚೆಕ್ ನಡೆಸಿದೆ. ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಬಹುದು. ಒಟ್ಟಾರೆಯಾಗಿ ಹೇಳುವುದಾದರೆ, ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾದೇಶದ ಹುಡುಗನೊಬ್ಬ ಜಿಂಕೆಮರಿಯನ್ನು ರಕ್ಷಿಸುವ ಹಳೆಯ ಫೋಟೋಗಳನ್ನು ಅಸ್ಸಾಂನ ಯುವ ಬಾಹುಬಲಿ ಎಂದು ತಪ್ಪಾಗಿ ಬಿಂಬಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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DATA ROUNDUP 48 Months of Modi Government, Fact Check, Government of India, Health, India, Life, Stories, Women # Fact Checking Government claims about Mission Indradhanush 0 By Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta on April 2, 2019 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit > _The BJP government has published an infographic on the 48-months portal > that makes five claims about eliminating diseases & vaccination. This > article is a fact check of the claims_. [orc] The BJP government has published an infographic on the 48-months portal that makes five claims about eliminating diseases & vaccination. This article is a fact check of the claims. ![\\"\\"](\\" Indradhanush_infographic.jpg\\") Has India eliminated maternal and neo-natal tetanus? The first claim is that ‘India has validated elimination of maternal and neo-natal tetanus in May 2015, before the global target of December 2015’. A response in Lok Sabha from August 2016 stated that ‘WHO has certified Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE) in India in May 2015, well before the global target date of December 2015. WHO has also certified India to be free from YAWS, a chronic bacterial disease, in May 2016’. > Claim: India has validated elimination of maternal and neo-natal tetanus in > may 2015, before the global target of December 2015. > > Fact: WHO has certified Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE) in > India in May 2015, well before the global target date of December 2015. > Hence, the claim is TRUE. Have action plans for elimination of leprosy, measles and TB been implemented? The second claim is that ‘action plans to eliminate leprosy by 2018, measles by 2020 and Tuberculosis by 2025 implemented’. An answer given in the Lok Sabha to a similar question in December 2017, shows that target years have been set by the government to eliminate Leprosy, Measles and Tuberculosis. It states that ‘Elimination of Leprosy i.e., 1 case/ 10000 population at National level was already achieved in the year 2005. The short term target is reduction of Grade II disability cases to less than one million population, as per WHO document on Global Leprosy Strategy, 2016 – 2020’. It also states that ‘as on 18th December 2017, more than 6.5 crore children have been vaccinated with MR vaccine (against measles) in 13 States/UTs’. It also finally points out that ‘the incidence of TB has reduced from 217 per lakh per year in 2015 to 211 per lakh per year in 2016 and mortality has reduced from 36 per lakh per year in 2015 to 32 per lakh per year in 2016’. These action plans are continuous works of various governments and they have been implementing action plans and vaccination programmes. For example, ‘Government of India introduced measles vaccine across the country in 1985 under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). To further reduce the measles burden, a second dose of measles vaccine was introduced in the country in the year 2010’. > Claim: Action plans to eliminate leprosy by 2018, measles by 2020 and > Tuberculosis by 2025 implemented. > > Fact: Actions plans have been implemented to eliminate Leprosy by 2018, > measles by 202 and TB by 2025. Hence, the claim is TRUE. However, these > action plans are continuous works of various governments and they have been > implementing action plans. What is mission Indradhanush? The third claim is that ‘Mission Indradhanush completed four phases covering 528 districts’ Immunization Program in India was introduced in 1978 as ‘Expanded Program of Immunization’ (EPI) by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. In 1985, the program was modified as ‘Universal Immunization Program’ (UIP) to be implemented in phased manner to cover all districts in the country by 1989-90 with the one of largest health programs in the world. Despite being operational for many years, UIP has been able to fully immunize only 65% children in the first year of their life. According to the National health portal of Government of India, to strengthen and re-energize the program and achieve full immunization coverage for all children and pregnant women at a rapid pace, the Government of India launched ‘Mission Indradhanush’ in December 2014. As per the portal, the ultimate goal of Mission Indradhanush is to ensure full immunization with all available vaccines for children up to two years of age and pregnant women. An answer in Lok Sabha from April 2017 has stated that ‘in order to realize the objective set under Mission Indradhanush, the Government has completed three phases of Mission Indradhanush across 497 districts and the fourth phase is ongoing in 68 districts across 8 north eastern states since February’17’. Another answer is Lok Sabha from August 2018 has pointed out that ‘No separate funds are allocated for Mission Indradhanush. Funds allocated for Routine Immunization under part C of Programme Implementation Plan (PIP) are being utilized by the states to carryout activities under Mission Indradhanush’. In other words, though the program has been given a new name, it is being implemented with fund allocated for routine immunization. > Claim: Mission Indradhanush completed four phases covering 528 districts. > > Fact: A total of 565 districts have been covered under the scheme. Hence, > the claim is TRUE. However, though the program has been given a new name, it > is being implemented with fund allocated for routine immunization and no > special funds have been earmarked. Have 80 lakh pregnant women been immunized? The fourth claim, related to the previous claim is that ‘80.63 lakh pregnant women immunized’. According to an answer provided in Lok Sabha from August 2018, a total of 81.78 lakh pregnant women have been immunized under mission Indradhanush. > Claim: 80.63 lakh pregnant women immunized. > > Fact: A total of 81.78 lakh pregnant women have been immunized under mission > Indradhanush. Hence, the claim is TRUE. Have 3 crore children been vaccinated? The last claim, also related to the earlier claim is that ‘3.15 crore children vaccinated’. In an answer provided in the Lok Sabha in August 2018, it is stated that ‘319.28 lakh children have been immunized by August 2018’.But this is not the first time that such large scale vaccination drives have taken place in India. The immunization program is one of the oldest government programs. For instance, 7.78 crore children across India were vaccinated in 109 districts for Japanese Encephalitis between 2006 & 2010\. In 2013-14, 1.2 crore children were vaccinated with Measles vaccine in 45 districts in 13 States with 87.2% coverage. During Phase II, 3.6 crore children were vaccinated in 152 districts in 14 States. The Phase III of the campaign 11.8 crore children (85%) had been vaccinated in 167 districts in 5 States i.e. Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Bihar. > Claim: 3.15 crore children vaccinated. > > Fact: 319.282 lakh (3.19 crore) children have been immunized by August 2018. > Hence, the claim is TRUE. However, this is not the first time that such a > large scale immunization programme has been taken up and implemented. This story is part of a larger series on the 4-years of the Modi government. This series has been made possible with the flash grant of the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN). Read the rest of the stories in this series here ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Read more here ![\\"democrat_symbol\\"](\\"/design/images/democrat_symbol.png\\"/) Fact Check # Did a Michigan School District Install Litter Boxes in Bathrooms? ## The Michigan GOP seized upon the uncorroborated claims of a Midland woman about the presence of the \"furry\" subculture in local schools. ### Dan MacGuill ### Published Jan. 24, 2022 Updated Sept. 15, 2022 ![\\"European](\\" European cat, Felis catus, brown tabby kitten in litter tray. (Photo by: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Claim: As of late 2021 or early 2022, at least one bathroom in one public school in Midland, Michigan, contained a litter box installed for the use of students adopting a feline alter ego. Rating: False About this rating ### Origin In January 2022, a Republican party official in Michigan shared the remarkable claim that in Midland public schools, officials were accommodating \"furries\" — people who sometimes dress as animals or adopt animal alter egos — by leaving litter boxes in bathrooms so that certain students, while adopting a feline persona, could defecate in them. Advertisement: On Jan. 20, Michigan GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock shared a video of a Midland Public Schools board of education meeting, along with the following description: \"Kids who identify as \'furries\' get a litter box in the school bathroom. Parent heroes will TAKE BACK our schools.\" Later that day, Midland Public Schools Superintendent Michael Sharrow firmly denied those claims. In a message circulated to district staff and parents, and also published on Facebook, he wrote: \"There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools.\" Snopes has not yet been able to find any evidence to corroborate the claim that a school or schools in Midland, Michigan, have accommodated students adopting a feline alter ego by placing litter boxes in bathrooms. The person most prominently responsible for making that claim — a local woman named Lisa Hansen — did not provide any such evidence to Snopes when we asked her for it. We cannot completely rule out the possibility that a litter box might briefly have been placed in a public school bathroom as a joke or a prank, with its presence there subsequently being misinterpreted or misrepresented as being part of a broader policy or trend, but no evidence has surfaced to support that speculation. Advertisement: ### What Did a Midland, Michigan, Woman Claim About Litter Boxes in Schools? Hansen made the claim in question during the public comment segment of a Dec. 20, 2021, meeting of the Midland School District Board of Education. Her contribution can be watched in full below, and an excerpted transcript follows: > ...I\'m still wrapping my brain around this a little bit, but yesterday I > heard something and I was stunned. And today I am equally stunned and a > little bit upset — well, not a little bit, a lotta bit upset — furious, I > would even use that word. But I want to talk about the fact that — and I > know this is going on nationwide, so it\'s just not for your, for this > board, but our community needs to understand that the agenda that is being > pushed through our schools is...somewhat nefarious when it comes to some of > the activities. > > So let\'s talk about furies —furries [laughs]. It was addressed by a child a > couple of months ago that they are put in an environment where there are > kids that identify as a furry — a cat or a dog, whatever. And so, yesterday > I heard that at least one of our schools, in our town, has a — in one of the > unisex bathrooms —a litter box for the kids that identify as cats. And I am > really disturbed by that. > > I will do some more investigation on that, I know it\'s going on nationwide, > I know it is. It\'s part of the agenda that\'s being pushed. I don\'t even > want to understand it, but I think that people need to be aware of it, > because I am really upset, as a parent, that my child is put in an > environment like that. You know, I\'m all for creativity and imagination, > but when someone lives in a fantasy world and expects other people to go > along with it, I have a problem with that. So, I\'m just putting that out > there. I will investigate more... [Emphasis is added]. Advertisement: Advertisement: After Hansen\'s claims were shared widely on social media, Sharrow unequivocally refuted them, writing: > At the December 20 Board of Education meeting, a community member addressed > the Board of Education. During her comments she stated that litter boxes > were provided within MPS student restrooms for those who identify themselves > as “furries.” Let me be clear in this communication. There is no truth > whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter > boxes within MPS schools. Snopes asked Hansen whether she could provide any concrete evidence to support her claims. Responding by email, Hansen did not provide the evidence requested, but wrote: > I had heard previously from my child and others that there were disruptive > behaviors at school by self identified “furries” (kids identifying as a cat > or dog) and this seems to be accommodated by school officials. I had never > heard of such a thing and it sounded so bizarre. However, since school board > meetings, many students, school employees, and others have confirmed that > this or some variation of it is tolerated at our schools, along with other > disruptive behaviors. Asked whether she could put us in contact with anyone who could attest to the presence of the litter box in the bathroom, Hansen said she would try to find witnesses. We will update this fact check if we receive corroborating (or contradictory) accounts. Advertisement: #### Sources Wall, Kim. “It’s Not about Sex, It’s about Identity: Why Furries Are Unique among Fan Cultures.” The Guardian, 4 Feb. 2016. The Guardian, animal-costumes. #### Updates Update [Sept. 15, 2022]: Rating revised from \"Unproven\" to \"False,\" as no evidence has emerged to support the claim. ### By Dan MacGuill Dan Mac Guill is a former writer for Snopes. 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Former President Donald Trump has made illegal immigration and its impact on the U.S. a focus of his campaign – but several of his talking points are wrong or misleading. Here’s what we found among his immigration claims at recent events in the electoral swing states of Arizona and Nevada. * Trump falsely said that a proclamation by President Joe Biden to limit asylum eligibility “establishes an annual minimum of approximately 2 million illegal alien border crossers.” * He distorted how a mobile app for asylum appointments operated, saying it allows “free entry to be released into the United States at the push of a button.” Applicants are screened, and appointments are limited. * Trump offered wildly exaggerated border crossing statistics. For instance, he said that in April, “border crossings were up 1,000% compared to the same month last year.” Apprehensions, which are a proxy for illegal crossings, were down by 30%. If Trump meant April 2020 instead of “last year,” that’s misleading. Apprehensions plunged that month due to the pandemic. * He distorted reporting by the New York Times to misleadingly claim that “88,000” unaccompanied minors who came to the U.S. illegally and were processed by the Biden administration “are missing” and “many of those children are dead.” * Trump claimed that “more drugs are coming into our country right now than at any time in our history.” Federal data for drug seizures by weight are trending down under Biden. As a proxy for drug smuggling, that data suggest that fewer drugs, not more, are coming into the country. Fentanyl seizures, however, have increased significantly under both Trump and Biden. * Trump claimed that “300,000 people are dying a year” in the U.S. from drugs, and said the figure is “probably more than that.” A federal agency reported that there were 107,941 drug overdose deaths in 2022, and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher previously told us that any undercount “should be relatively small.” * He falsely claimed that “virtually 100% of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens.” Since Biden became president in January 2021, employment of U.S.-born workers has increased more than employment of foreign-born workers, which includes those in the U.S. legally. * Trump claimed that real, meaning inflation-adjusted, income and wages for the Black population are down 6% under Biden. But the most recent government data show real income is up for Black households, while real wages for full-time Black workers are down by less than what Trump said. * The former president claimed that illegal immigration under Biden had created “flat-out economic warfare” on Black and Hispanic Americans by “taking the jobs” of those workers, and he said unions were “being absolutely slaughtered.” Employment and union membership data show no evidence of that. Trump first spoke at a June 6 town hall in Phoenix hosted by groups affiliated with Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit organization. Three days later, he spoke at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on June 9. We’re focusing only on Trump’s immigration-related assertions in those speeches. In addition to the claims below, Trump repeated his unsubstantiated talking point that “the entire world is emptying their prisons and jails, insane asylums, and mental institutions” and sending those people to the U.S. He has provided no evidence for that explosive claim, as we’ve written several times. ## Biden’s Immigration Proclamation In his Phoenix remarks, Trump wrongly said that a recent Biden proclamation to limit asylum eligibility “establishes an annual minimum of approximately 2 million illegal alien border crossers,” and he further inaccurately claimed that those crossing the southern border illegally are “coming in totally unchecked, unvetted.” ![\\"\\"](\\" Biden’s June 4 immigration proclamation limits asylum eligibility for those caught trying to cross the southern border illegally when the number of people apprehended reaches a daily average of 2,500 encounters or more for seven straight days. The new rules went into effect immediately, because apprehensions were already higher than that threshold. As we’ve explained, the proclamation allows the Department of Homeland Security to deny asylum eligibility and remove migrants who are apprehended when the limits are in effect. There are exemptions, according to DHS — including unaccompanied children, victims of “a severe form of trafficking,” noncitizens with visas or other lawful means of entering the country, and noncitizens who enter at a legal port of entry using a DHS-approved process, such as the CBP One app (more on that later). There is also a broader exemption for people who “express a fear of return to their country or country of removal, a fear of persecution or torture, or an intention to apply for asylum” if they “establish a reasonable probability of persecution or torture in the country of removal.” The restrictions will be lifted 14 days after the daily average of apprehensions drops to 1,500 encounters or less for seven consecutive days. But the daily monthly average hasn’t been that low since July 2020. None of this calls for a minimum 2 million border crossers. Even if the 2,500 threshold is reached every day for a year, that totals under 1 million, and those apprehended are processed and screened, not simply allowed to come into the country no questions asked. Trump’s claim is similar to his false claims about the bipartisan Senate immigration deal earlier this year, which would have restricted asylum eligibility when apprehensions reached 5,000 per day for a week. As Republican Sen. James Lankford, one of the architects of that failed legislation, said of the measure in February, “It’s not that the first 5,000 [migrants encountered at the border] are released, that’s ridiculous. The first 5,000 we detain, we screen and then we deport. … If we get above 5,000, we just detain and deport.” The idea that migrants are “coming in totally unchecked, unvetted” — either before or after Biden’s proclamation — is also wrong. Immigration experts explained to us that those who are apprehended trying to cross illegally are interviewed, have criminal record checks and provide biometric data. Depending on their circumstances and asylum claims, migrants could be released with a notice to appear in immigration court, processed for expedited removal or asked if they want to be returned to Mexico. At both his Phoenix and Las Vegas events, Trump repeated a false claim he has often made — that the U.S. “had the most secure border we’ve ever had” when he left office. “When I ran in 2016, I ran largely on the border. Border was really bad. I fixed it,” he said in Phoenix. Apprehensions on the southern border, figures used as a proxy for illegal immigration, went up under Trump by 14.7% in his last year compared with 2016. ## CBP One Mobile App The Biden administration has tried to steer those seeking asylum to an application method at legal ports of entry that requires people to sign up for a limited number of appointments through the CBP One mobile app. They are then screened at those appointments. Trump claimed that the app allows “free entry to be released into the United States at the push of a button. Pretty hard, you go like this, ‘Ding, I’m here.’ Congratulations. Welcome to America.” That’s not how it works. Trump also falsely said that Biden’s recent immigration proclamation “dramatically expands” the CBP One app, but it doesn’t. Appointments have been capped at 1,450 per day since last June. The Customs and Border Protection press office confirmed to us that there has been no change in the number of daily appointments available. The CBP One app was launched in January 2023 to accept appointments for migrants who are in Mexico and want to request asylum or parole. DHS calls this “safer, humane, and more orderly” than processing between ports of entry, where migrants cross the border illegally and wait to be apprehended. Migrants must submit information about themselves in order to get the appointment, including contact information and a photo. At the appointment, they are screened and could be subject to expedited removal, but the majority are released into the U.S. with a notice to appear in immigration court, Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that researches immigration issues, told us when we wrote about immigration in February. As of the end of April 2024, more than 591,000 people have made appointments with the app, CBP says. ## Border Stats Trump offered some wildly exaggerated statistics on illegal border crossings in his Phoenix remarks. He claimed that 18 million people had been allowed into the U.S. under Biden. “I think that’s the real number as of now, 18 million people.” There’s no evidence for such a figure. We asked the Trump campaign about this claim, and others cited in this article, but we didn’t receive a response. According to data from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, there were 6.5 million apprehensions by Border Patrol of migrants trying to cross the southern border illegally from February 2021, the month after Biden took office, to February of this year. (The figure doesn’t correspond to that same number of people because of repeat crossing attempts by the same people. For example, the recidivism rate was 27% in fiscal year 2021, according to the most recent figures from CBP.) ![\\"\\"](\\" speaking at the “Chase the Vote” town hall at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 6. Photo by Gage Skidmore. Over that 2021-2024 time period, there were also 923,000 “inadmissibles” who arrived at legal ports of entry but didn’t have legal permission to enter the U.S. Of those 7.4 million total encounters at the border, 2.9 million were removed by CBP and 3.2 million were released with notices to appear in immigration court or report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the future, or other classifications, such as parole. As we’ve explained before, there are also estimates for “gotaways,” or migrants who crossed the border illegally and evaded the authorities. Based on an average annual apprehension rate of 78%, which DHS provided to us, that would mean there were an estimated 1.8 million gotaways from February 2021 to February 2024. The gotaways plus those released with court notices or other designations would total 5 million, a far cry from 18 million. There were also 407,500 transfers to HHS, which is responsible for children who cross the border on their own, unaccompanied by adult family members or legal guardians, and 883,000 transfers to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE transfers include those who are then booked into ICE custody, enrolled in “alternatives to detention” (which include technological monitoring) or released by ICE. So, we don’t know how many of those were released into the country with a court notice. But even if we include those figures, it still doesn’t get us to anywhere near 18 million. Also, these figures reflect what initially happens when migrants have come to the border. In many cases, the final decision on whether a migrant will be allowed to stay or will be deported comes later, particularly since there is a yearslong backlog of immigration court cases. Trump also falsely claimed that in April, “border crossings were up 1,000% compared to the same month last year, 1,000% compared to last year. And by the way, last year, it was 1,000% compared to the year before.” In April, apprehensions of those trying to cross illegally were 30% lower than they were in April 2023. And the April 2023 figure was down 9.6% compared with the year before. Update, June 18: If Trump meant the April of his last year in office, he would get closer to his 1,000% figure, but his claim would be misleading. Apprehensions by Border Patrol, which are used as a proxy for illegal immigration, plunged in April 2020 to 16,182, because of the pandemic and restrictions worldwide. Comparing April 2024 to the pandemic low in April 2020 produces a 696% increase in apprehensions, and a 951% increase when looking at all border encounters, including those deemed inadmissible at legal ports of entry. However, Michelle Mittelstadt, director of communications for the Migration Policy Institute, told us for a story we did two months ago when Trump cherry- picked the April 2020 figure: “Any complete reading of what took place at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2020 would have to note the emergence of a global pandemic that dramatically chilled mobility of all forms in its early phase.” There’s no doubt border apprehensions have gone up significantly under Biden, but not 1,000%. In our quarterly “Biden’s Numbers” articles, we compare yearly figures to even out seasonal changes in these statistics. By that measure, apprehensions for the past 12 months ending in April are 286% higher than during Trump’s last year in office. ## Migrant Minors In February 2023, the New York Times reported that the Department of Health and Human Services was not able to get in contact with more than 85,000 children whom department officials had placed with relatives or other sponsors in the U.S. after the minors illegally came to the country unaccompanied in 2021 and 2022. In Phoenix, Trump distorted those facts and claimed without any evidence that all of the children “are missing” and that “many” of them are now deceased. “Because of Biden’s policies, millions and millions of children have been separated from their families and pushed into the hands of the coyotes and the cartels,” Trump said. “And, you know, 88,000, I don’t know if you — if it were me, it would be the biggest story — 88,000 children are missing. … 88,000 children are missing under this administration, and they have no idea. And unfortunately, many of those children are dead.” That’s not what the Times reported. Its article said: “While H.H.S. checks on all minors by calling them a month after they begin living with their sponsors, data obtained by The Times showed that over the last two years, the agency could not reach more than 85,000 children. Overall, the agency lost immediate contact with a third of migrant children.” The Office of Refugee Resettlement, the HHS agency that manages the program for unaccompanied children, says its “custodial relationship with the child terminates” once he or she is placed with a sponsor. However, before closing a case file, ORR says that 30 days after releasing the child, the office should make a “Safety and Well Being Follow Up Call” and document the results, including noting if the child or sponsor could not be reached “after reasonable efforts have been exhausted.” But if a call goes unanswered or is not returned, that doesn’t necessarily mean the child is missing. The Times said it interviewed more than 100 minors who had been released from ORR custody. Many were working dangerous jobs “in violation of child labor laws.” As for deaths, the Times said it “found a dozen cases of young migrant workers killed since 2017.” There was little information provided on when they died or who was president when they came to the U.S. Based on the details the Times provided for four deaths that were highlighted in its story, we were able to determine that two of the children died in work-related accidents during the Trump administration. And at least one of those two reportedly came to the U.S. during the Obama administration. The two other deaths highlighted in the Times story occurred, or likely occurred, during the Biden administration. The Washington Post Fact Checker wrote about this claim, noting that HHS also couldn’t reach children under the Trump administration. ## Drug Smuggling Trump claimed that there has been a large increase in drugs coming into the U.S. because drug smugglers do not fear the Biden administration. “More drugs are coming into our country right now than at any time in our history, times five or times six,” he said in Phoenix. “We’ve never had massive amounts of drugs pouring into our country. We fought it like hell.” And in Las Vegas, he claimed that under Biden “now the drugs are pouring into our country.” Comprehensive data on the total quantity of illicit drugs smuggled into the U.S. do not exist. But CBP does track the amount of drugs seized by border officials, most of which comes through legal ports of entry. Some use the seizure data as a proxy for how much enters the country undetected. When more drugs are seized, that is seen as an indication that more drugs are coming into the country. Trump may have been referring only to fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that is lethal in small doses. He mentioned that drug in his remarks in Phoenix and Las Vegas. The amount of fentanyl seized by border officials has increased by about 462% under Biden, going from almost 4,800 pounds seized in fiscal year 2020 to roughly 27,000 pounds in fiscal 2023. There were about 700 pounds of fentanyl seized in FY 2016, the last full fiscal cycle before Trump took office, so there was a 586% increase in seizures of that drug when he was president. Overall, federal data show that the total amount of drugs seized nationwide has declined each fiscal year under Biden. As we’ve written, there were nearly 1.1 million pounds of drugs seized by the Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations in fiscal 2020, Trump’s last full fiscal cycle as president. That was an increase from the 901,000 pounds of drugs seized in fiscal 2019. Under Biden, there were about 913,000 pounds of drugs seized in fiscal 2021, which is the highest total during his administration. The amount of drugs seized then declined to almost 656,000 pounds in fiscal 2022 and about 549,000 pounds in fiscal 2023. As of April, more than 320,000 pounds of drugs had been seized through the first seven months of fiscal 2024. That’s more drugs seized than in the same period the prior year, but it’s still well below the totals interdicted during the end of Trump’s presidency. ## Drug Overdoses Trump again inflated the number of people dying each year in the U.S. from drug overdoses, claiming that such deaths are significantly underreported. In Phoenix, he said: “300,000 people are dying a year. Those are the real numbers. They like to say 100[,000]. They like to say 90[,000]. It’s been that number for a long time. It’s 300,000 people, and it’s probably more than that, and we’re going to have to take very strong action because we can’t let that happen.” Officially, there were 107,941 deaths from drug overdoses in 2022, up from 106,699 in 2021, according to the most recent figures from the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The total did not top 90,000 deaths until 2020, during Trump’s administration. When we fact-checked a similar Trump claim in March 2023, Christopher Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, told us that he had “not yet seen convincing evidence that the number of overall drug deaths is drastically underreported.” Ruhm wrote in a 2018 paper that incomplete death certificates previously led to drug deaths from opioids being “understated,” but in our interview with him he said that “undercount has fallen over time” because the reporting on death records improved. Merianne Spencer, then a CDC researcher, also told us last year that there was no evidence hundreds of thousands of drug-related deaths were not being counted. “While we believe that there could be an undercount due to some overdose deaths still pending investigation at the close of the mortality files at the end of each year, any undercount should be relatively small,” she said in an email. ## Native- and Foreign-Born Employment In Las Vegas, Trump falsely claimed that all of the jobs added in the U.S. during the Biden administration have been filled by people residing in the U.S. illegally. “Virtually 100% of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens. Did you know that?” Trump said in his remarks. “100% of the new jobs have gone to illegal aliens, can you believe it?” But he’s wrong. According to estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, total employment for the native-born population has increased by almost 7.4 million under Biden. The employment level for people born in America was at 123,065,000 in January 2021, when Biden took office, and it was up to 130,445,000, as of May 2024. Meanwhile, employment of foreign-born workers increased by about 5.6 million – from an estimated 25,318,000 in January 2021 to 30,896,000 in May 2024. BLS says the foreign-born population, meaning those who weren’t citizens at birth, includes “legally-admitted immigrants, refugees, temporary residents such as students and temporary workers, and undocumented immigrants.” There is no employment breakdown for just people in the U.S. illegally. Trump may have been referring to a February analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that favors low immigration, which found that, when comparing the fourth quarter of 2019 with the fourth quarter of 2023, the U.S.-born employment level declined by 183,000 and the immigrant employment level increased by 2.9 million. But Biden did not become president until more than a year after the fourth quarter of 2019; he took office when the U.S. economy was still recovering from millions of job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. So, the CIS analysis does not illustrate the change in employment under Biden. It also does not include employment data for only people without legal status. ## Black Income and Wages After falsely claiming that “illegal aliens” have taken all of the new jobs, Trump said, “Meanwhile, real wages of African Americans and the workers from all over the world that came here legally, they’re down 6% under Crooked Joe.” Three days before that in Phoenix, Trump claimed that “real income for African Americans is down more than 6%” under Biden. But as of 2022, the real median income for Black-only households was $52,860, according to the latest inflation-adjusted figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. That was up about 2% from $51,880 in 2020 and $51,750 in 2019. (Figures for 2023 should be out in September.) On the other hand, more recent data from the BLS show that real wages for Black Americans are down – but by less than Trump claimed. For Black full-time workers, real median usual weekly earnings, when adjusted for inflation and measured in dollars valued at their average level in 1982-84, were $293 in the first quarter of 2024. That was down 3.6% from $304 during the fourth quarter of 2020. However, some economists argue that wage statistics were inflated in 2020 because low-wage workers disproportionately lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. With millions of low-wage workers out of the workforce, average and median wages appeared to increase because workers with higher earnings kept or gained jobs. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, which was before the pandemic started in early 2020, the real weekly earnings of Black full-time workers are currently down just 0.3%. ## Black and Hispanic Unemployment Unemployment rates under Biden — overall and by race — are low, as we recently reported. The rates for Black and Hispanic Americans reached or tied record lows. Yet Trump claimed, without evidence, that migrant border crossings under Biden had created “flat-out economic warfare” on Black and Hispanic Americans by “taking the jobs” of those workers. He also claimed, as he said in Phoenix, “Unions are being absolutely slaughtered because people are coming in, and they’re taking those union jobs.” The data on union membership rates don’t show a slaughtering in recent years. In Las Vegas, Trump claimed that “with his border nightmare, Joe Biden is also waging an all-out war on the workers of America, especially African-Americans and Hispanic Americans.” In Phoenix, he added, “These people are taking the jobs of African Americans. They’re taking the jobs of Hispanic Americans, and it’s — they’re tremendously affected.” Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t support that. The Black unemployment rate was 9.3% when Biden took office, and it’s now 6.1% as of May. Over that time, it hit a record low of 4.8% in April 2023. The current 6.1% rate is the same as the pre-pandemic rate in February 2020. The Hispanic or Latino unemployment rate was 8.5% when Biden took office and has dropped to 5% as of May. In September 2022, it tied a record rate of 3.9%, which was first hit under the Trump administration. The rate now is 0.7 percentage points above the pre-pandemic rate of 4.3%. There are also more job openings in the U.S. than job seekers: 8.1 million job openings in April and 6.5 million unemployed job seekers the same month. The number of unemployed Black Americans has gone down under Biden, from 1.9 million people when he took office to 1.3 million in May. The level of Hispanic or Latino unemployment dropped from 2.5 million to 1.6 million over the same time period. As for Trump’s claim that people who have crossed the border illegally are taking union jobs, the available statistics don’t back that up, either. Our fact-checking colleagues at Politifact interviewed economists and labor experts on this issue, who said migrants who come to the U.S. aren’t likely to take union jobs and instead work in lower level jobs such as being a day laborer. A 2022 Cato Institute working paper posited that immigration overall from 1980 to 2020 led to a 5.7 percentage point reduction in union density in the U.S. because immigrants “have lower preferences for unionization and increase diversity in the working population that, in turn, decreases solidarity among workers.” That paper doesn’t show immigrants are taking union jobs, but rather having an effect on unionization. (And one of the authors of the report noted on the Cato website that there were other issues to consider, such as whether “unions reduce immigration rather than immigration reducing unions.”) Regardless, the yearly rates of union membership among wage and salary workers under Biden don’t show evidence that unions are being “slaughtered,” as Trump claimed. In 2023, 10% of wage and salary workers were union members, down from 10.8% in 2020, the year before Biden took office. But the rate has been declining for several decades; it was 20.1% in 1983, according to BLS figures. The rate declined under Trump, too, until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The union membership rate was 10.7% in 2016, before Trump took office, and it dropped to 10.3% in 2019. The following year, when a union job could have offered more security than others during the pandemic, as researchers found, the rate went up to 10.8%. The question of how immigration overall, not only illegal immigration, affects the U.S. economy and jobs has long been debated and studied. We wrote about the issue in 2010 and found: “Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy, expanding demand for goods and services that the foreign-born workers and their families consume, and thereby creating jobs. There is even broad agreement among economists that while immigrants may push down wages for some, the overall effect is to increase average wages for American-born workers.” A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released in 2016 largely reiterated those conclusions. It said there was “little evidence that immigration significantly affects the overall employment levels of native-born workers,” according to a press release on the report, and that the impact on wages over a 10-year or longer period was “very small.” However, the National Academies said there was “some evidence that recent immigrants reduce the employment rate of prior immigrants” and that if there is a negative impact on wages, it’s “most likely to be found for prior immigrants or native-born workers who have not completed high school—who are often the closest substitutes for immigrant workers with low skills.” Those conclusions, too, are for all of the foreign-born in the U.S., not solely those who entered the U.S. illegally. Those in the country illegally don’t have legal authorization to work — but many do anyway. A 2022 Congressional Research Service report said most of those in the country illegally participate in the labor force, and their jobs are “highly concentrated in certain industries, including agriculture, construction, leisure/hospitality, services, and manufacturing.” (Those who have applied for asylum have to wait six months to receive a work authorization.) Update, June 18: We updated this story to include more information, including in the bullet at the top, regarding Trump’s inaccurate statement about apprehensions at the southern border in April. Editor’s note: FactCheck.org does not accept advertising. We rely on grants and individual donations from people like you. Please consider a donation. Credit card donations may be made through our “Donate” page. 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See the sources for this fact-check Here are some things Adolf Hitler didn’t say: that the best way to control people is \"to take a little of their freedom at a time,\" or that under a national gun registration \"our streets will be safer.\" We know because we fact-checked both statements attributed to the Nazi leader. Another apocryphal quote that we haven’t checked — but it certainly isn’t new — has recently been spreading on social media. It tells the story of what it describes as Hitler telling his soldiers that \"even in his death\" he would start World War III. \"One of his soldiers asked ‘how?’\" the grammatically problematic April 12 Facebook post says. \"Hitler replied, ‘The day mankind finds out what I was trying to defend this nation, Germany from then thats the day World War 3 will start.’\" What follows is an exchange between Hitler and the soldier. Hitler says that \"mankind will learn that I was trying to save my Nation from The Free Masons, the Illuminati, the Jews\" and that \"if the Americans win the war, then they will conquer the world and forever be a slave to the Jews and they will try to conquer God.\" He later tells the soldier that \"America has stolen the Jews. The Jews of God. His jewelry. The Negroes. They are the True Hebrews.\" This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 30, 2024 in a post \"Samsung drops out of $1 billion advertising campaign with Olympics.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 2, 2024 No source is given for the quote, but citations have surfaced in other places. Both Snopes, which looked into this in 2017, and Reuters, which did in 2020, found they weren’t accurate. We found no evidence that Hitler said this. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Nazis persecuted Black people in Africa \"depite their relatively small presence in Germany.\" They \"forcibly sterilized a group of Afro-German children whom they derogatorily called ‘the Rhineland Bastards,’\" the museum says. And after the the Nazi regime came to power, Black Germans were marginalized, socially and economically isolated, and discriminated against. _RELATED VIDEO_ In \"Mein Kampf,\" Hitler’s 1925 manifesto, he mentions \"negroes\" three times, but not in the context that appears in the Facebook quote. \"The Jews were responsible for bringing negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate,\" he wrote at one point. 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