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# Fact-checking the fourth 2024 Republican presidential primary debate * National ![\\"Republican](\\" Republican presidential candidates from left, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy participate in Republican presidential primary debate Dec. 6, 2023, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP) By PolitiFact Staff December 7, 2023 Fingers pointed and tempers flared as Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential nomination faced off during the fourth primary debate. The debate, held in solidly Republican Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was the last GOP presidential debate of 2023 and came just 40 days before Jan. 15, when the first official votes will be cast in the Iowa caucuses. In this debate, the Republican field was whittled down to four qualifying candidates: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. The candidates squabbled over electability, corruption and support for Israel. They also discussed former President Donald Trump’s recent comments on immigration, inflation and how he’d handle a second presidency. Trump, the GOP front-runner, skipped this debate, as he had the previous three. Here, we fact-check the candidates’ claims. LGBTQ+ DeSantis: \"I did a bill in Florida to stop the gender mutilation of minors. It’s child abuse and it\'s wrong. (Haley) opposes that bill. She thinks it\'s fine and the law shouldn\'t get involved with it.\" This claim has two parts, and each needs more context. In May 2023, the Florida Legislature passed a bill that banned gender- affirming surgeries for minors. Experts told PolitiFact that gender-affirming surgeries are not the same as genital mutilation. And the law didn’t ban just surgeries — it banned all gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which are supported by most major U.S. medical organizations. Surgeries are rarely provided as part of gender-affirming care for minors. In a June CBS interview, Haley said when it comes to determining what care should be available for transgender youth, the \"law should stay out of it and I think parents should handle it.\" She followed up by saying, \"When that child becomes 18 if they want to make more of a permanent change they can do that.\" Haley’s campaign pointed to a May ABC television appearance in which she said that a minor shouldn’t have a \"gender-changing procedure\" and opposed \"taxpayer dollars\" funding one. Haley: \"I said that if you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, you should have to be 18 to have anything done to change your gender.\" During the debate, Haley likened her position on gender-affirming care for minors — that it should be up to parents until the child is 18 — to age requirements for getting a tattoo: \"I said that if you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, you should have to be 18 to have anything done to change your gender.\" We’ve heard that comparison before. Two-thirds of U.S. states allow minors to get tattoos if their parents consent. And medical experts have told us gender- affirming care is in many cases considered medically necessary, while tattoos are cosmetic. DeSantis: \"South Carolina had a bill to try to say that men shouldn’t go into girls’ bathrooms, and (Haley) killed that bill.\" DeSantis has a point that the bill died and Haley had criticized it. As governor, Haley said in 2016 that she didn’t believe it was \"necessary\" to pass a Senate bill that would have required people to use the bathroom that aligned with their sex. A similar law in North Carolina, H.B. 2, had sparked backlash and boycotts. The South Carolina bill, which would have applied to public and school restrooms, stalled in committee, so it never reached Haley’s desk. In a 2022 appearance on Fox News, Haley said that she \"strong-armed\" the bill and that schools should resolve the issue with parents. Moderator Megyn Kelly, to Christie: \"When you were governor in 2017, you signed a law that required new guidelines for schools dealing with transgender students. Those guidelines required schools to accept a child\'s preferred gender identity, even if the minor’s parents objected. And it said that there is no duty for schools to notify parents if their son or daughter changes their gender identity, allowing this serious issue to remain a secret between the school and a child. Christie: \"That\'s simply not true. That law was put into effect in 2018 and regulated in 2018 after I was out of office.\" This needs clarification. In July 2017, Christie signed into law a bill passed by the Democratic-led New Jersey Legislature that required the state’s Department of Education to issue guidance to public schools for policies regarding transgender students. The Legislature asked for guidelines on several topics, including the use of restrooms and locker rooms, and whether students should be required to use facilities that conflicted with their gender identities. It also required guidance on privacy, \"including ensuring that school personnel do not disclose information that may reveal a student\'s transgender status.\" It did not specifically mention parental notification. The department’s guidelines came in 2018, during Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration, when Christie was no longer governor. That guidance said a school district should accept a student’s stated gender identity and that \"parental consent is not required.\" \"There is no affirmative duty for any school district personnel to notify a student’s parent or guardian of the student’s gender identity or expression,\" it said. ![](\\" Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, left, talks with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, during a commercial break at a Dec. 6, 2023, Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama. (AP) Ramaswamy: \"Transgenderism is a mental health disorder.\" PolitiFact rated Ramaswamy’s claim False after he introduced it at the second primary debate. In the past, medical professionals viewed the experience of being transgender as a \"disorder,\" but they no longer agree on that categorization. In the last decade, diagnostic manuals published by the World Health Organization and American Psychiatric Association contained updated language to clarify that being transgender is not a mental illness. Experts told us that persistent gender dysphoria can cause other mental health problems, but it is not itself a mental health disorder. Israel Haley: \"Fifty percent of adults 18 to 25 think that Hamas was warranted in what they did with Israel\" in the Oct. 7 attacks. Haley’s claim appears to stem from a Harvard-Harris poll of 2,116 respondents conducted after the Hamas attacks. It asked, \"Do you think the Hamas killing of 1,200 Israeli civilians can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians or is it not justified?\" Fifty-one percent of respondents 18 to 24 (not 25 as Haley said) said the attacks were justified; 49% said the attacks were not justified. But this statistic carries several caveats. First, the sample size for this age group was small, about 199 people. That means the 51% to 49% result could be much wider because of sampling error. Second, not one of three other polls conducted around the same time, revealed support for Hamas among young people to be that high. Finally, 18-to-24-year-olds in the Harvard-Harris poll gave wildly inconsistent answers to other questions. By 2-1 margins, those respondents said Hamas’ Oct. 7 action \"was a terrorist attack\"; that the attacks \"were genocidal in nature\"; that Israel has \"a responsibility\" to retaliate \"against Hamas terrorists\"; and that Hamas \"is a terror group that rules Gaza with force and fear and is not supported by them.\" Dritan Nesho, founder and chief executive officer of HarrisX, the polling company, told PolitiFact these seemingly contradictory views might stem from younger Americans’ relatively unformed views on the conflict and its political complexities. This extra information is why we rated a similar claim from Ramaswamy about young Americans’ purported support for Hamas Mostly False. Haley: \"The idea that (three university presidents) would go and allow that kind of pro-Hamas protest or agree with the genocide of Jews and try and say that they needed context on that? There is no context to that.\" Haley was referring to a Dec. 5 congressional hearing in which Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., pressed the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania on whether they would discipline students who called for the genocide of Jews. In back-and-forth exchanges, the three university presidents responded similarly — disciplinary action for statements about genocide would depend on the context. The presidents did not say they agreed with the genocide of Jews. When Stefanik asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews constituted bullying or harassment, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill said, \"It is a context-dependent decision.\" Responding to the same question, Harvard President Claudine Gay said, \"The rules around bullying and harassment are quite specific and if the context in which that language is used amounts to bullying and harassment, then we take action against it.\" Again to the same question, MIT president Sally Kornbluth said, \"I have not heard calling for the genocide of Jews on our campus.\" Stefanik responded, \"But you’ve heard chants for intifada.\" (Intifada is an Arabic word that means uprising. Some people see this word as a call for violence against Jewish people.) Kornbluth said, \"I’ve heard chants which can be antisemitic depending on the context when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people.\" The White House, elected officials and academics criticized the university presidents for their responses. ![](\\" Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks Dec. 6, 2023, during Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama. (AP) Immigration Haley: \"All of the 7 or 8 million illegals that have come under Biden’s watch absolutely have to go back.\" This misinterprets available data. From February 2021, Biden’s first month in office, to October 2023, immigration authorities encountered migrants almost 8 million times at and between ports of entry. But that doesn’t mean 8 million people have entered the country. Customs and Border Protection’s data tracks events, not people. If one person tries crossing the border three times, for example, that would register as three encounters. Immigration data also doesn’t tell us how many people have entered and stayed in the U.S. under Biden. Customs and Border Protection data shows that millions of encounters led to removals. DeSantis: \"Nikki Haley said the other day there should be no limits on legal immigration and that corporate CEOs should set the policy on that.\" This is misleading. Haley has not called for unlimited immigration. At a rally and in an interview with the conservative outlet Breitbart, she said legal immigration should be \"based on merit\" and not on an \"arbitrary number.\" Every year, the U.S. allows a specific number of immigrants to enter the country for permanent employment. But Haley said that debating what is the best number is \"the wrong way to look at\" legal immigration. \"Yes, the fabric of America is legal immigration,\" Haley said at a November rally in New Hampshire. \"But let’s get the right ones in that are going to make America better.\" Haley said the U.S. should ask the agriculture, tourism and technology sectors what they need. The focus should be on \"those who will lift our economy,\" Haley told Breitbart in August. Claims of corruption Ramaswamy used his opening statement to claim that Haley was \"bankrupt\" when she left her post as United Nations ambassador in 2018, but quickly became a millionaire. \"After you left the U.N. you became a military contractor. You actually started joining service on the board of Boeing, whose back you scratched for a very long time, and then gave foreign multinational speeches like Hillary Clinton is, and now you\'re a multimillionaire,\" Ramaswamy said. \"That math does not add up. It adds up to the fact that you are corrupt.\" Haley responded, \"My husband is in the military and I served our country as U.N. ambassador and governor. It may be bankrupt to him, but it certainly wasn\'t bankrupt to us.\" Was she really bankrupt? According to Haley’s 2018 financial disclosure, she carried different kinds of debt, including: $25,000 to $65,000 in credit card debt; a $250,000 to $500,000 line of credit; and a mortgage of $250,000 to $500,000. The form also showed a $1 million mortgage on an investment property she took on from her parents in 2017, but sold in 2018 for $1.2 million. Haley’s office told the Post and Courier, a Charleston, South Carolina, newspaper, that her finances were not why she resigned from the U.N. and that her overall debt was less than $500,000. Haley’s net worth has quickly risen since then, and is now estimated to be around $8 million, according to Forbes. Her income increased by giving high- paying speeches, writing books and joining corporate boards, including for aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co. and homebuilder United Homes Group, her financial disclosures show. Ramaswamy has the second-highest estimated net worth of the Republican presidential candidates, Forbes reported, at $880 million. (Former President Donald Trump’s is at $2.6 billion.) Ramaswamy started his career investing in biotech stocks before founding a drug development company in 2014 that’s now worth close to $7 billion. Haley and DeSantis accuse each other of China loyalties DeSantis and Haley repeated familiar attacks on China. DeSantis quipped that Haley wrote a \"love letter\" to recruit Chinese business to South Carolina when she was governor. Fox News reported that Haley wrote to Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai in 2014 during her governorship, writing, \"We consider your country a friend and are grateful for your contributions on the economic front.\" She recruited multiple Chinese companies to the state, including a fiberglass company with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Haley countered that DeSantis accepted campaign support from a \"Chinese\" refrigerant company. McClatchy reported DeSantis held a 2022 rally at iGas USA, a Tampa-based refrigerant company, which has \"backing from China.\" CEO Xianbin (Ben) Meng wrote DeSantis a check in August for more than $11,000, McClatchy reported. As Haley continued, DeSantis said fact-checkers have not found \"one instance of me recruiting a Chinese business\" to Florida. That’s consistent with what PolitiFact reported in November. ![](\\" Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy speaks Dec. 6, 2023, during a Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama. (AP) Ukraine Ramaswamy: \"These people want to send your sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine. They’ve been arguing for it for a year.\" The other candidates have not said this. In the second Republican debate, on Sept. 27, DeSantis said, \"It\'s in our interest to end this war. And that\'s what I will do as president. We are not going to have a blank check. We will not have U.S. troops.\" Haley said at an August campaign stop, \"I don’t think we need to put troops on the ground. But what we do need to do is get with our allies and make sure they have the equipment and ammunition they need to win.\" Although Christie has strongly supported Ukraine in its fight against Russia, we couldn’t find an instance in speeches and other public statements in which he backed sending U.S. troops to fight there. Policy and legislation DeSantis: President Joe Biden wants \"a central bank digital currency.\" This is misleading. Biden has not proposed a central bank digital currency. In March 2022, he issued an executive order directing a feasibility study for one, however. As a result, the Federal Reserve is studying a central bank digital currency’s pros and cons, as are dozens of countries. The Federal Reserve said a central bank digital currency would not replace cash. It also said it has not decided to institute such a system and that congressional approval would be required to create one. DeSantis also said during the debate that a central bank digital currency would take away Americans’ privacy and regulate their purchases. Bryan Griffin, then DeSantis’ press secretary, told PolitiFact in April the fact that the Fed is studying it \"leaves plenty of room for concern.\" But experts we spoke with in March said current U.S. laws wouldn’t permit the kind of control and surveillance DeSantis described. Haley: DeSantis \"tried to push a law that would stop anonymous people from talking to the press and went so far to say bloggers should have to register with the state if they’re gonna talk about, write about elected officials.\" Haley got some things right and some things wrong. DeSantis did push a Florida bill that would have suppressed journalists’ use of anonymous sources and make it easier to sue news organizations for defamation. The measure, filed in February, died in committee. It would have removed many protections journalists have against defamation claims, including being able to refuse to identify anonymous sources in most cases. It also would have declared that anonymously sourced statements are \"presumptively false for purposes of a defamation action.\" But DeSantis didn’t support a failed bill that would have required bloggers to register with the state. The legislation, filed in February by state Sen. Jason Brodeur, R-Lake Mary, required journalists to submit reports if they are paid to write about elected officials, or face fines. DeSantis said in a press conference shortly after the bill’s filing that he’s never supported the measure. It also died in committee. DeSantis: \"100% of the things I promised as governor, I delivered on those promises.\" This is inaccurate. DeSantis has followed through on some of his campaign promises, but not all, PolitiFact’s DeSant-O-Meter promise tracker shows. Of the 15 promises PolitiFact tracked, DeSantis kept five and compromised on six. We’ve rated one Stalled and one In the Works. His remaining two pledges were rated Promise Broken. DeSantis failed to follow through on his 2018 promise to lower the corporate tax rate in Florida. The rate dropped temporarily from 2019 to 2021 before rebounding in 2022 to 5.5% — the rate it was before he took office. We also rated Promise Broken his pledge to reduce the state’s communication services tax. The tax is levied on services such as cable and satellite television, video and music streaming and telephone and mobile communications. Florida’s total communications services tax rate of 7.44% has consistently ranked as one of the nation\'s highest. It hasn’t budged during DeSantis’ governorship. ![](\\" Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie makes a point Dec. 6, 2023, during Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. (AP) Elections Ramaswamy: \"The 2020 election was indeed stolen by Big Tech.\" This is wrong. Allegations of a rigged or stolen 2020 election have been rebutted by audits, judges, and officials in Trump’s administration. We contacted Ramaswamy’s campaign during the debate to ask for his evidence and received no immediate response. On NBC’s \"Meet the Press\" on Aug. 27, Ramaswamy said, \"There\'s hard data showing that many voters, many independent voters, would have changed their result enough to influence the outcome of the election if they had been exposed to what we now know to be the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop story.\" The laptop was left at a Delaware computer repair shop, and some of the laptop’s contents were reported by the New York Post in October 2020, weeks before the presidential election. The laptop story was suspected to be Russian-planted disinformation, but subsequent reporting contradicts that premise. Twitter blocked users from sharing the story. Executives at the tech giant now say that was done errantly. Since the 2020 election, news organizations such as CBS News, The New York Times and The Washington Post have independently verified at least some of the laptop’s contents. But there isn’t evidence that Twitter’s actions resulted in the election being stolen. A 2022 poll by a self-identified \"right-leaning outfit\" found that among a group of people who had been following the story, 28% would have been \"very likely\" to change their vote had they known the laptop was not disinformation, and 25% were \"somewhat likely.\" However, the pool of respondents who answered this question leaned Republican more strongly than the general population, so most of these voters would not have been voting for Biden in the first place. Ramaswamy: \"Jan. 6 now does look like it was an inside job.\" This is Pants on Fire. Numerous investigations into what happened Jan. 6, 2021, including by a congressional committee, have found the U.S. Capitol attack was orchestrated and executed by people who supported Donald Trump’s presidency and believed or pushed false claims that the 2020 election was \"stolen.\" Extensive court records involving more than 1,200 defendants also back this up. The public record for hundreds of defendants shows that many considered their actions patriotic; they believed they were on the front lines of a revolution or civil war. Rioters scaled walls, broke windows, forced their way into the building and clashed with police. Among people sentenced for seditious conspiracy are multiple members of far- right groups including the Proud Boys extremist group and militia groups including the Oath Keepers. History DeSantis: When Calvin Coolidge was president, \"the country was in great shape.\" Historians disagree about the success of Coolidge’s presidency, which ran from 1923 to 1929. Coolidge’s reputation has risen in the past two decades, especially among conservatives, who value his record of balanced budgets, low taxes, light regulation and limited government. Biographer Amity Shlaes, who chairs the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, wrote that, under Coolidge, Americans began buying cars and electric appliances, and patents \"increased dramatically.\" Coolidge’s hands-off approach appeared to be reasonably popular with Americans. But the Roaring ’20s ended abruptly with the Great Depression five months after Coolidge left office. This sequence of events has been hard for historians to ignore: A periodic survey of historians currently places Coolidge 24th in the ranking of presidents, just below average. \"Much was happening both at home and abroad, and one must ask whether Coolidge’s policy of apparent inertia was really appropriate for a twentieth- century presidency,\" wrote Peter Clements, author of \"Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal.\" Coolidge \"spoke in his inaugural address of problems such as lynching, child labor and low wages for women. Yet he did nothing to overcome any of these issues.\" David Greenberg, another Coolidge biographer and a Rutgers University historian, has faulted Coolidge failing to help farmers in the run-up to the Depression and for a foreign policy approach that failed to forestall fascism’s rise in Europe. Guest moderator Tom Fitton on approval ratings for federal agencies Citing an \"arrangement with the Republican National Committee,\" debate moderator Megyn Kelly introduced Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, to briefly question the candidates. As he spoke about Trump’s legal cases, Fitton contrasted approval ratings for the FBI, Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Service: \"A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans think more highly of the U.S. Postal Service than they do the FBI or Justice Department.\" This is accurate, although people have viewed the Postal Service favorably for years, according to Gallup polling. In September 2023, Gallup asked 1,016 adults living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., to rate the performance of 16 federal agencies \"excellent,\" \"good,\" \"only fair,\" \"poor\" or \"no opinion.\" Four of 16 agencies received positive ratings from a majority of people surveyed. The Postal Service got the highest percentage of positive feedback; 62% of respondents rated its job performance \"excellent\" or \"good.\" By comparison, 46% of Gallup poll respondents rated the FBI \"excellent\" or \"good.\" Thirty-three percent of respondents rated the Justice Department \"excellent\" or \"good.\" Among all 16 agencies, the Justice Department had the highest percentage of \"poor\" ratings. Reporting by Grace Abels, Marta Campabadal Graus, Jeff Cercone, Madison Czopek, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman, Sara Swann and Loreben Tuquero. | Nikki Haley said the other day there should be no limits on legal immigration and that corporate CEOs should set the policy on that | 1 |
You are in: Home Page > Health > **Cut onion in the fridge is bad and becomes a magnet for flu bacteria #rumor** # Cut onion in the refrigerator is harmful and becomes a magnet for flu bacteria #rumor * Health * 03/20/2022 * by Edgard Matsuki ![\\"Cebola](\\" cut-in-the-refrigerator-is-harmful-and-becomes-a-magnet-of-flu-bacteria-says rumor.jpg\\") Rumor – Storing the onion in the refrigerator to consume the next day is a great danger. As it is a magnet for bacteria (such as the flu), onions in refrigerator become a poison and harms people. Today we are going to talk, without a doubt, about one of the greatest classics when it comes to rumors on the internet. It is a message that tells an incredible story and talks about onions, flu, refrigerators and health. The text in question (which goes viral throughout the year, including in 2020) “tells a short story” that points out that a farmer decided to get rid of the “flu bacteria” with a very simple initiative: placing the onions in the corners of the house. After the “incredible feat”, a doctor would have tried to understand what had happened happened and discovered that onions are a magnet for bacteria. More than that, he discovered that because of the farmer's story, an onion should never be placed in the refrigerator because it would become poisonous, a magnet for bacteria, etc. etc etc. Read the message circulating online: LIVING AND LEARNING Here's something we do and it's so dangerous! ONIONS! I had never heard that one! In 1919, when the flu killed 40 million people there was a doctor who visited many farmers to see if he could help them fight the flu, as many of them who had contracted the disease had died. ATTENTION. On a visit to another farmer's property in the same region, the The doctor was surprised to learn of the good state of health he found there. All they were very healthy. When the doctor asked the farmer what they what they were doing to protect themselves from the flu, his wife promptly replied that she put a cut onion (unpeeled) on plates and distributed them in the rooms of the house. The Doctor couldn't believe what he heard. He asked the farmer to hand over one of the onions he was using and put it under his microscope, when then observed enormous numbers of flu bacteria accumulated there. Taken to a pulmonologist, he explained that onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially raw onions. In short, never keep sliced onions to be used the next day, even if placed in closed, airtight bags or in the refrigerator. Your consumption it must be immediate, as it could be dangerous to consume them afterwards. In addition Furthermore, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs can't metabolize onions. Remember: it is dangerous to cut an onion and consume it the next day. The onion becomes highly poisonous, even after a single night, and creates bacteria toxic. These bacteria can cause adverse stomach infections because excess bile secretions and food poisoning. Pass this Message to everyone you love and care about! ## Onion cut in the refrigerator is harmful and becomes a magnet for bacteria, such as flu? It's incredible how this same information continues, even with countless debunked, circulating on the internet year after year. Just for this comment, you You can already imagine that the story that says you shouldn't eat onions placed in the refrigerator because of bacteria is more fake than a three-dollar bill real. Don't worry, we'll explain everything to you. Just to give you an idea, this is the seventh time we have discussed this subject. We already talked about the “legend of the onion” in 2013, in 2017 (denying a print from a printed publication), in 2018 (using the name of a doctor on one occasion and through an audio in another), in 2019 (mentioning the name of another doctor) and through a video. As all explanations on the subject have already been put, remember what was said on each occasion: 2013: Let's get to the facts: the text does not cite many reliable details. Doesn't say where this story happened, who was the doctor and who was the pulmonologist who proved the thesis of onions as a magnet for bacteria. At a time when the world was being ravaged by a pandemic, these people would certainly be famous people such as, for example, Oswaldo Cruz, who spread the fever vaccine yellow in Brazil. The message also has some errors in Portuguese and, mainly, in agreement. Worse than that, the text talks about “flu bacteria”. In In reality, influenza is a disease caused by a viral agent, as can be seen on the website of doctor Dráuzio Varella. This shows that the text was not written by an expert. When looking for some reference about the effectiveness of onion against the flu, no results were found. An article from Veja He even mentions that eating onions to prevent flu is a myth. 2017: Focusing only on the “danger of onions” part, we can say based on three points that the story is false. The first is that the text does not have much coherence. What is the cause-consequence relationship between the story of 1919 and the onion? be fatal? Even if the tale were true (and it isn't), one thing doesn't have nothing to do with anything else. The second point is the number of deaths caused by a chopped onion and consumed later. Do you know how many reported cases there are in the world? If You said none, you got it right. If you believe this means the danger It's not that big, you got it right too. Add this to a text that does not have authorship and that “asks for sharing” (characteristics of rumors) and we have more a bullshit. 2018: You can already see that the story is false and fake. Now let's get to the authorship. The woman who recorded the audio is not an infectious disease specialist at Emílio Ribas. We have two proofs for this (besides the obvious one, which is the fact that the onion story is fake and her name is wrong). The first is that the story has been debunked by the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases. The second is that we know who recorded the audio. This is the same woman who spread false stories like the one that Dr. Dráuzio Varella said that mammograms cause cancer. In other words: it is a source full of fake news. 2018 (II): As per “tradition”, let’s not waste too much time with rumors now denied. The only differences between the 2013 and 2017 denials and the today it is the “moral of the story” that circulated online and the first sentence of the text. 2019: We return to talk about the “part” that attributes the authorship of the audio to Dr. Juliana Miguita. Two reasons lead us to the conclusion that it is false. The first is searching the social networks of the doctor (who works at the Hospital of Clinics). On some occasions (2018 and 2019), she denied authorship of the text. The second reason was presented when we denied that the same audio had was actually created by Dr. Marinella Della Negro. Remember: “we Know who recorded the audio. This is the same woman who spread stories false ones like the one that pointed out that Dr. Dráuzio Varella said that mammography causes cancer. In other words: it is a source full of fake news”. After so many denials, we don't even have anything else to say. We just have to reinforce that the story that points out that putting onions in the fridge is a danger and that onions are a bacteria magnet are false. It's just another rumor that always insists on circulating on the internet. P.S.: 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. | Never keep sliced onions for use the next day even if placed in sealed airtight bags or in the refrigerator Their consumption must be immediate as it can be dangerous to consume them afterwards | 2 |
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Bruce Poliquin voted to \"force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * National * Candidate Biography * Congress * Drugs * Health Care * History * Medicare * Voting Record * End Citizens United ![\\"C.](\\" By C. Eugene Emery Jr. August 30, 2016 # PAC ad say Bruce Poliquin voted to force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs The political action committee End Citizens United has launched a multi- pronged attack ad against Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, accusing the businessman of making health care more costly for older Americans. In a 30-second television commercial, the PAC says Poliquin voted for a Medicare proposal that would \"force seniors to pay thousands more.\" \"He’d even force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs,\" the ad says. Poliquin\'s office objected to the ad, saying in a news release, \"Congressman Poliquin has been working to get prescription drug prices down, not up. That’s why he strongly supported Medicare coverage for prescription drugs for our seniors.\" Who\'s right here? Both sides are spinning the truth. End Citizens United spokesman Adam Bozzi says the claim is a reference to Poliquin\'s March 25, 2015, vote for a Republican budget that called for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The measure passed the House, but it had no shot of passing the Senate and surviving the veto of President Barack Obama Obama. The language of the ad itself if difficult to understand. We watched the ad several times and weren’t entirely sure if the ad said, \"He’d even force seniors to pay …\" or \"He even forced seniors to pay …\" The wording difference might mislead voters as to what Poliquin did or hoped to do. Either way, End Citizens United says a vote to repeal Obamacare is a vote to force seniors to pay more for drugs because repealing Obamacare would eliminate a fix to Medicare Part D known as the prescription drug doughnut hole. Here\'s what they’re talking about. In 2010, seniors had to pay full price for the first $310 worth of prescription drugs purchased. Between $310 and $2,830, insurance kicked in and Medicare paid 75 percent of the cost. But once the bill exceeded $2,830, seniors had to pay the full price of their drugs until the annual bill reached $4,550 (the doughnut hole). Then catastrophic insurance kicked in and insurance covered 95 percent of the cost. So the \"hole\" was the $1,720 gap between $2,830 and $4,550. In 2006, 4 million seniors ended up paying full price for some of their prescriptions because of the gap. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2024 in a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania Vice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2024 The health care law, passed in 2010, sought to shrink and eliminate that gap in coverage. The gap is in the process of being phased out and will close completely in 2020. But even closing it gradually, combined with other features of Obamacare saved nearly 10.7 million seniors more than $20 billion on drug costs, according to a February 2016 estimate by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That\'s nearly $2,000 per senior since the law was enacted. Repealing Obamacare would cost seniors in other ways, as we outlined two years ago. Poliquin’s campaign argued that Poliquin actually voted against an attempt to repeal Obamacare in February 2015, because there was no plan to replace it. He voted for repeal the following month because the Republican budget had a better plan that would have kept traditional Medicare \"as a plan option\" for people in or near retirement but privatized part of the program. There was another vote on repealing Obamacare on Jan. 6, 2016. Poliquin voted in favor of it. His spokesman, Michael Byerly, said that wasn\'t really a vote to repeal \"as it technically only repealed the harmful taxes and provisions that have caused prices to go up.\" But sponsor Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia, opened debate on the measure by saying, \"For the first time since the law was enacted, Congress is one vote away from sending a broad repeal of Obamacare to the president’s desk.\" Byerly, Poliquin\'s spokesman, also argued that prescription drug prices have gone up because of Obamacare itself, referring us to a 2010 letter from the Congressional Budget Office predicting a 1 percent increase for established drugs. Democrats, in turn, have argued that Obamacare has kept health costs lower than they would have been without the legislation. As we\'ve reported in the past, such arguments are debatable. To sum it up, Poliquin never voted to raise drug prices directly. He voted to repeal the health care law -- a show vote that could have resulted in drug prices going up for Medicare recipients. Our ruling End Citizens United\'s ad says Poliquin voted to \"force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs.\" It gives the misleading impression that he voted on that specific issue when, in fact, he was voting to repeal the 2010 health care law. If the repeal bill had become law — it didn’t — it would have removed provisions phasing out a prescription drug doughnut hole for Medicare recipients. End Citizens United’s claim is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate it Half True. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Emails, Adam Bozzi, spokesman, End Citizens United, Aug. 25-29, 2016 Emails, Michael Byerly, spokesman, Bruce Poliquin, Aug. 25-29, 2016 YouTube, \"Wall Street Playbook,\" End Citizens United channel, Aug. 22, 2016 End Citizens United, \"ME-02 TV Spot: \"Wall Street Playbook,\" accessed Aug. 25, 2016 Bangor Daily News, \"Poliquin defends votes on astere GOP budget bills, touts constitutional amendment,\" March 25, 2015 PolitiFact, \"Health care bill will gobble up doughnut hole -- eventually,\" March 26, 2010 and \"Tom Cotton says he wouldn\'t back changes for those on Medicare, but the ACA repeal he supports would,\" Oct. 16, 2014 Department of Health and Human Services news release, \"Over 8.2 million seniors have saved more than $11.5 billion on prescription drugs since 2010,\" July 29, 2014 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, \"More than 10 million people with Medicare have saved over $20 billion on prescription drugs since 2010,\" Feb. 8, 2016 Bloomberg, \"House Republicans Seek Medicare Cuts That Senate Is Sure to Reject,\" March 17, 2015 PolitiFact, \"Sen. Ron Johnson voted for Paul Ryan plans to make Medicare a voucher program, Democratic Party says,\" June 10, 2016 and \"Gwen Moore says Obamacare created lowest-ever inflation in health care costs,\" Dec. 5, 2014 Congressional Budget Office, Letter to Paul Ryan on projected prescription drug prices, Nov. 4, 2010 Congressional Record, January 6, 2016, \"Restoring Americans\' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015\" The Washington Times, \"House votes to gut Obamacare through budget process,\" Oct. 23, 2015 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by C. Eugene Emery Jr. ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on October 25, 2016 in a speech: \"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By C. 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Become a Member Dark Mode Become a Member * Naukri Crisis * Uncovering Hate * Haryana Election * Manipur Conflict * Jammu and Kashmir Election * Climate Change * Members Only * WebQoof * My Report * More * Brand Studio * FIT * Gender * Opinion * Videos * Entertainment * Sports * World * Explainers * More * Podcasts * Politics * The Quint Lab * Graphic Novels * Law * Education * Members\' Opinion * South Asians * NEON Dark Mode Become a Member * Home * Naukri Crisis * Haryana Election * Uncovering Hate * About Us * T&C * Privacy Policy ## BECOME A MEMBER Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019 FOLLOW US ON About UsContact UsPrivacy Policy ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD # Did Mamata Say Will ‘Show How to Make Hindus Cry’? No, It’s Fake ## The actual headline mentions her talking about “shaking Delhi”. Aditi Parida Updated: 03 May 2019, 5:17 PM IST WebQoof 3 min read ![\\"story-hero- img\\"](\\" i Aa Aa Small Aa Medium Aa Large ![\\"The](\\"\\") Don’t fall for fake news, click here to check out The Quint’s WebQoof stories. CLAIM A newspaper clipping of a leading Bangla daily, Bartaman, made rounds on social media with the headline: “Give me 42 seats and I’ll show you how to make the Hindus cry: Mamata”. Madhu Kishwar tweeted about this clipping, asking “is this for real?”. > Is this for real? Mamta says give me 42 seats and I will show you how to > make Hindus cry! pic.twitter.com/UshzbGwNyt > > — MadhuPurnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) May 1, 2019 This clipping was shared on Facebook as well. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Sourced from Facebook.(Photo: Screenshot) Also Read ### If Mamata Wants to Return to NDA, We’ll Take a Call: Vijayvargiya ![\\"alsoRead-img\\"](\\"\\") ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD TRUE OR FALSE? The clipping is a photo-shopped image where the actual headline has been doctored. The actual headline for the newspaper read: “Give me 42 seats and I’ll show you how to shake Delhi: Mamata”. WHAT WE FOUND OUT On going through the website of the daily newspaper, Bartaman Patrika, The Quint found the original article. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Original article with the correct headline.(Photo: Screenshot of original news article from Bartaman’s website) The original headline that the newspaper carried stated that Mamata Banerjee said, “Give me 42 seats and I’ll show you how to shake Delhi.” The doctored image has replaced two words from the original headline which alters the meaning completely. The following image shows the photo-shopped image. Here the words highlighted are “Hindus” and “Weep/Cry”. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Photo-shopped Headline(Photo: Screenshot) The following is the actual headline produced by the newspaper. The highlighted words are “Delhi” and “Shake”. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Actual headline.(Photo: Screenshot) Thus, “Delhi” was replaced by “Hindus” and “Shake” was replaced by “Weep/Cry”. With further research, The Quint also came across a clarification regarding the photo-shopped image that the daily put out. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Bartaman responding to the photo-shopped news clipping.(Photo: Screenshot of Bartaman’s website) The headline reads: “Fabricated news item of \'Bartaman\' made viral on social media”. > They also mention how distorting the headline made it “provocative” and can > lead to disturbing the communal harmony of the state. On Tuesday, Bartaman filed a written complaint on this matter with the state\'s Chief Election Officer (CEO) Ariz Aftab and Lalbazar\'s cyber crime cell. Also Read ### No, Raveena Tandon Did Not Say Hindus Are Becoming a Minority! ![\\"alsoRead-img\\"](\\"\\") (Not convinced of a post or information you came across online and want it verified? Send us the details on WhatsApp at 9910181818, or e-mail it to us at [email protected] and we\'ll fact-check it for you. You can also read all our fact-checked stories here.) (At The Quint, we question everything. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by **becoming a member** today.) ### Read Latest News and Breaking News at The Quint, browse for more from news and webqoof ### Topics: Delhi Mamata Banerjee Fake Published: 03 May 2019, 3:00 PM IST Read Full Article Speaking truth to power requires allies like you. Become a Member Check Member Benefits Read More Loading Comments... ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD Stay Updated ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD × × SECTIONS * FIT * Gender * Opinion * Videos * Entertainment * Sports * World * Explainers * Podcasts * Politics * The Quint Lab * Graphic Novels * Law * Education * Members\' Opinion * South Asians * NEON TRENDING TOPICS * Anti-Cheating Law * Rasika Dugal Interview * Arundhati Roy * Euro 2024 * T20 World Cup * Kohli, Rohit & Jadeja Retire * Climate Change News * Electoral Bonds News * Rahul Gandhi * ‘Kill’ Review * PM Modi * Robert F Kennedy Jr * Rahul Dravid FOLLOW US ON Quint Hindi FIT About Us Contact Us Privacy Policy T&C | West Bengal CM said she will make Hindus cry if her party wins 42 seats | 5 |
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See the sources for this fact-check Sitting outside in a checkered shirt, celebrity heart surgeon and onetime U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz appears to promote diet pills to combat obesity in a video shared May 1 on Facebook. \"To address these issues, we developed this product,\" Oz appears to say. \"It helps dissolve fat throughout the day, even while you sleep. No need for dieting or exercise.\" The Facebook account sharing the video, \"Keto Slimmer,\" wrote: \"Dr. Oz’s exclusive pills is key to your success in shedding those extra pounds.\" 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.) #### 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 The video in the post is altered. PolitiFact found the original posted March 26 on Oz’s TikTok account. \"If you’re feeling down or depressed this time of year you’re not alone,\" Oz said in the original video. \"It happens to everyone. Feelings like this are a sign to pay attention to something that’s just not working in your life. So, use it as a way to focus in on what needs to change in your life, like pain or sadness, anxiety — it’s a clue to find what’s not working so you can make a different choice. If you can’t change what’s bringing you down, that’s a time to ask your family, your friends, or even your health care team for help. There’s lots of people who want you to do your best and want you to succeed. So don’t hesitate to reach out.\" Oz has been the target of altered videos before, including some that appeared to show him promoting a coffee weight loss supplement and hawking a diabetes cure, We rate claims this video shows him promoting diet pills False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Facebook post, May 1, 2024 TikTok post, March 26, 2024 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Ciara O\'Rourke slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on September 21, 2024 in an X post: Video shows Vice President Kamala Harris using a teleprompter. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 24, 2024 ![](\\" black/4590875651af69b2c789ceab409664dd.jpg\\") ![](\\" black/72988380e8c8bd188dc360d11552e4a0.jpg\\") X posts stated on September 18, 2024 in an X post: Photo shows a toilet after “some Hezbollah operative blew up.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 24, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on September 21, 2024 in an Instagram post: “A staffer reveals that Kamala Harris doesn’t actually own a gun.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 23, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") 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 • September 27, 2024 ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/322c808c00e73c217d17772ddd5a0eb5.jpg\\") ![](\\" Instagram_logo_2016.svg/8b142c91ebe468a84a192e6df2b7b994.jpg\\") Instagram posts stated on September 23, 2024 in an Instagram post: Haitians are responsible for the disappearance of 16 cats in Bangor, Maine. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 15, 2024 in a Facebook post: Photos show a toddler “saved” by Deputy Tyler Cooper. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 26, 2024 ![](\\" logo-black-01/b6cedac93f6e57c68ecc025e5ec29d57.jpg\\") ![](\\" logo-black-01/438dbf066033f99de07598cbcc77ddcb.jpg\\") Threads posts stated on September 24, 2024 in a Threads post: Says Donald Trump said, “Women are miserable — not sexy, not safe.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 21, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Taylor Swift faces a 10-game NFL ban following controversial political involvement.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 26, 2024 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 23, 2024 in a Facebook post: Photo shows missing couple Raymond Peterson and his wife, Sophie. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 26, 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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Fast Check CL investigated the information and confirmed its falsehood. By Gabriela Tapia In times of pandemic, many workers have had to reinvent their jobs. No stranger to this phenomenon, Juan Andrés Salfate, publicist and TV panelist, changed his usual theories about UFOs and life outside the planet, due to covid-19 theories. On December 8, through his Twitter account, Salfate assured that had censored a revealing scientific article. Supposedly, this would demonstrate that in 2020 there were no excess deaths due to the pandemic and deaths were “falsely attributed to the pandemic.” > They censor a scientific article that shows that many #Deaths have been > falsely attributed to the #Pandemic and were due to #Heart Diseases, > respiratory and #Flu![VIDEO] ¡Have access > exclusive to my videos by subscribing to my channel! #Censorship > pic.twitter.com/oHsv0baxlo > > — Juan Andrés Salfate (@RinconSalfate) December 9, 2020 ## The source of misinformation The video talks about a document from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, a media outlet students of the study house. This was written based on the talk “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data“, by Genevieve Briand, deputy director of the Program Master's degree in Applied Economics. The document mentions that in 2020 “deaths related to covid-19 They exceeded deaths from heart disease. This was very unusual already that heart disease has always prevailed as the main cause of death.” The phrase indicated in the previous paragraph mainly summarizes the video of Save yourself. However, this question has a fairly simple: people with prevalent illnesses – such as heart problems and respiratory – has a higher risk of death from covid. It should be noted that the document to which Salfate refers was never censored, but withdrawn from circulation due to errors. It is even still found available on the News-Letter page. ## Clarification from Johns Hopkins After a series of conspiracists who drew erroneous conclusions, the Johns Hopkins University itself referred to the issue. In a clarification, They assured that Briand's statements are incorrect: “there is no evidence that COVID-19 has created excess deaths.” “This statement is incorrect and does not take into account the increase in the count gross deaths from all causes compared to previous years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there has “There have been almost 300,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19,” The Johns noted. Hopkins News-Letter. Furthermore, regarding the alleged miscategorization of deaths, they indicated that “Covid-19 disproportionately affects people with medical conditions.” pre-existing conditions, so people with those underlying conditions have statistically more likely to be severely affected and die at cause of the virus." ![\\"\\"](\\" briand-500x500-1.jpg\\")Genevieve BriandSource: Johns Hopkins University ## Excess deaths in Chile Taking this issue to a more local level, it is possible to observe in Chile that this year there has been an increase in deaths linked to covid-19. According to information of the Department of Statistics and Health Information (DEIS) of the Ministry of Health, the total number of deaths had remained at an average of 106,642 deaths per year between 2016 and 2019. 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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates 17 million workers would be “directly affected” by increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 — those workers would otherwise earn less than that. But the number in poverty would decline by 900,000. Those working full-time and earning the current federal minimum wage — $7.25 an hour — would be below the federal poverty guideline of $17,420 for a family of two. Such a worker would earn only $14,500 if working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year. A White House spokesperson referred us to those poverty guidelines, while another spokesperson told PolitiFact.com that Biden was referring to families of four. Workers earning between $11 and $13 an hour and in a family of four with no other income would still be below those poverty guidelines. But those earning $14 an hour — $28,000 a year — would be above the federal poverty level of $26,500 for a family of four. Federal guidelines include higher thresholds for Alaska and Hawaii. In those states, workers earning $14 or $15 an hour in a family of four would be below the poverty guidelines. Biden made the claim in an interview with CBS News that aired on Feb. 5. He said he expected a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour — which was part of his COVID-19 relief package — would not be included in the final legislation, the American Rescue Plan. “My guess is it will not be in it,” Biden said. But he went on to say that he supported the policy. “I am prepared, as president of the United States on a separate negotiation on minimum wage, to work my way up from what it is now, which is — look, no one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage. And if you’re making less than $15 an hour, you’re living below the poverty wage,” Biden said, without specifying the size of the worker’s family. ![\\"\\"](\\" guidelines2.jpg\\") Our calculations above show gross income, before taxes. Federal, state and local government programs offering assistance to low-income individuals may use before- or after-tax thresholds for eligibility. The Census Bureau uses before-tax money income and slightly different poverty thresholds to determine its poverty measure. While the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009, 29 states plus Washington, D.C., Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands have set higher minimums, and some cities have enacted their own minimum wage hikes. Washington state currently has the highest statewide minimum wage at $13.69, while the wage is $15 in Washington, D.C. ##### Impact of Minimum Wage Increase As we said, raising the minimum wage as Biden proposes would lift some workers out of poverty, and raise the wages of millions more. But it also would cause job losses, according to a Feb. 8 report by the CBO. That also contradicts Biden’s claim in the CBS News interview that working up to a $15 minimum wage “all the economics show, if you do that, the whole economy rises.” The Washington Post Fact Checker wrote about that claim, explaining that economists disagree on the impact of a minimum wage hike, with liberal economists finding little to no job loss but competing research concluding employment would decline. The CBO estimated the effects of a Senate bill to increase the federal minimum wage annually, reaching $15 an hour by June 2025. In that year, the number of people in poverty would decline by 900,000, but employment would also drop by 1.4 million people, according to CBO’s average estimate. The report said there is a 33% chance that between zero and 1 million jobs would be lost, and a 33% chance that between 1 million and 2.7 million jobs would be lost. The “17 million workers whose wages would otherwise be below $15 per hour would be directly affected, and many of the 10 million workers whose wages would otherwise be slightly above that wage rate would also be affected,” the CBO said. Among the 10 million workers, “wages for many of those workers would increase as employers sought to retain some of the differences in pay that had previously existed among those workers.” The Economic Policy Institute, which receives some of its funding from labor unions, analyzed the same congressional proposal as the CBO but found more workers would see higher wages. It estimated the legislation would raise the pay of nearly 32 million workers and “meaningfully reduce the number of families in poverty.” EPI also argues that a single, full-time worker without kids needs $15 an hour “to achieve a modest but adequate standard of living.” Biden worded his claim differently in remarks on Jan. 22. He said: “No one in America should work 40 hours a week making below the poverty line. Fifteen dollars gets people above the poverty line. We have so many millions of people working 40 hours a week — working — and some with two jobs, and they’re still below the poverty line.” A $15 minimum wage would get some people “above the poverty line,” as the CBO report shows. But not everyone earning under $15 is below the poverty guidelines. 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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It does not represent all non-domestic transmission and it is misleading to suggest this. __1 of 2 claims > “NEU analysis of ONS figures shows that virus levels are now 9 times higher > amongst primary pupils and an astonishing 50 times higher amongst secondary > pupils.” > > National Educational Union, 2 November 2020. > “Just 4% of infections outside the home trace back to pubs and restaurants. > But by contrast, 38% of infections are caught in schools, by far the biggest > means of transmission.” > > Skwawkbox, 9 October 2020. As England prepares for another lockdown, but this time with educational settings remaining open, our readers have asked us about claims around the levels of coronavirus transmission in schools. We’ve written about the evidence on how Covid-19 is transmitted in schools before. 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On 1 September this rate was 0.04%, so the NEU is right that there has been a fiftyfold increase. The data also shows that 1.04% of children aged between two years-old and school Year 6 in England have tested positive for coronavirus by 23 October. Primary school pupils are included within this bracket, but it is worth noting that not all of the children in this category are primary school-aged. On 1 September this rate was 0.11%. ## Skwawkbox claims on school transmission Our readers have also asked us to check a blog post from Skwawkbox, which claimed that 38% of infections caught outside the home are in schools, compared to 4% in pubs and restaurants. When this article was published on 9 October, the latest weekly Public Health England (PHE) Covid-19 surveillance report said educational settings accounted for the 38% of Covid-19 acute respiratory infection (ARI) incidents reported to Health Protection Teams. However, ARI incidents are reported based on situations where two or more laboratory confirmed cases are linked to a particular setting, or an outbreak is suspected. This means that the data does not cover all Covid-19 cases linked to settings outside of the home, such as isolated cases. It also doesn’t necessarily mean that if a case was linked to, say, a school, that it would have been caught in a school. Therefore it’s incorrect to claim that 38% of all non-domestic infections are caught in schools. It’s also important to note that “educational settings” does not only cover schools in this case, but also colleges and universities. PHE also notes that a national school helpline began operating on 17 September, and a universities helpline on 7 October, which it said “is likely to have had an impact on the number of situations/outbreaks being reported”. 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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 ![](\\" ![](\\" Clay Higgins stated on November 15, 2023 in a congressional hearing: A \"ghost bus … filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Crime * Jan. 6 * Clay Higgins ![\\"Rioters](\\" Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP) ![\\"Madison](\\" By Madison Czopek November 21, 2023 ![\\"Amy](\\" By Amy Sherman November 21, 2023 # Why a Republican\'s claim about ‘ghost buses’ of FBI informants on Jan. 6 is dubious #### If Your Time is short * Hundreds of rioters, many wearing Trump-branded apparel, stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. * Experts said they were unfamiliar with the term \"ghost bus\" and that there are reasons the FBI would not bus a group of informants to an event. * FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Nov. 15 that the agency’s sources and agents were not responsible for violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. See the sources for this fact-check Nearly three years after the violent breach on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a lawmaker presented FBI director Christopher Wray with a new theory about how people arrived at the Capitol that day. \"Do you know what a ‘ghost vehicle’ is?\" Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., asked during a Nov. 15 House Committee on Homeland Security hearing. \"You’re the director of the FBI, you certainly should. Do you know what a ‘ghost bus’ is?\" Wray said he wasn’t familiar with the term. Higgins expounded. \"These (ghost) buses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, deployed onto our Capitol on Jan. 6,\" Higgins said. Higgins said that he had long sought a \"definitive answer\" from federal officials about whether FBI confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters were at the Capitol. But he barely gave Wray time to answer. \"If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is an emphatic no,\" Wray said before Higgins cut him off. Numerous investigations into what happened Jan. 6, 2021, including by a congressional committee, have found the attack on the U.S. Capitol was orchestrated and carried out by people who supported Donald Trump’s presidency and believed or pushed false claims that the 2020 election was \"stolen.\" Evidence from court documents — including information that led to charges against 1,200 defendants, more than half of whom have been found guilty so far — shows, person-by-person, who ransacked the Capitol and fought with police officers. The rioters’ goal was preventing Congress from accepting the results of the election showing that Trump had lost. In 17 key findings, the House committee investigating the attack determined Trump himself disseminated false allegations about the election and summoned supporters to the Capitol and directed them to \"take back\" the country. Higgins’ statement about a \"ghost bus\" furthers the falsehood that FBI agents \"intentionally entrapped\" Americans, instigated or orchestrated the Capitol attack. Although evidence shows FBI informants were at the Capitol that day, none shows informants instigated the violence that followed. Experts familiar with the FBI told PolitiFact they were unfamiliar with the term \"ghost bus.\" They said it would make no sense for the FBI to pack informants into a bus together because that would draw attention to them and they generally work independently. On Jan. 6, 2021, Higgins wrote on Twitter that \"violence and lawlessness\" was unacceptable. Since then, he has used his influence to request leniency for the people arrested in the Capitol attack and in June accused the Justice Department of wanting \"J6 again,\" saying it had targeted Trump supporters with \"persecution and further entrapment.\" Higgins did not respond to PolitiFact’s request for comment. But he told HuffPost that the buses unloaded men with muscular physiques dressed as Trump supporters, and the buses were abandoned in the garage. \"They orchestrated what they orchestrated and don’t put words in my mouth,\" Higgins told HuffPost. The FBI directed PolitiFact to Wray’s testimony that FBI sources and agents did not incite violence at the Capitol. What is a ‘ghost bus’? Explaining \"ghost bus\" during the Nov. 15 hearing, Higgins, a former sheriff’s office captain, said it is \"pretty common in law enforcement,\" for vehicles to be \"painted over\" and \"used for secret purposes.\" Higgins pointed to a photo board with an image of buses in a parking garage, singling out two buses he said were \"painted completely white\" and the first to arrive at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on Jan. 6, 2021. But experts, including an FBI spokesperson, told PolitiFact the term \"ghost bus\" was unfamiliar. We searched Google and the Nexis database for use of the term \"ghost bus\" from before Higgins made the claim and found no FBI-related references. One common use of the term refers to a frustrating public transportation phenomenon, in which an online application shows that a bus has nearly arrived — only for it to abruptly disappear or report significant delays. Searches for \"stealth vehicle\" revealed a law enforcement connotation: Some police departments use vehicles for covert operations that are emblazoned with stealth graphics they describe as \"ghost graphics\" because they blend in with the vehicle’s paint color, making them harder to see. Journalist Trevor Aaronson, who writes for The Intercept and has reported on the FBI for years, told PolitiFact the agency has undercover vehicles but that he had \"never heard of the FBI using buses specifically.\" He also said the FBI wouldn’t collectively bus informants to an event. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" 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.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-false/6a6ef6075c162fdccf5eb960e683dcd1.jpg.\\") ![\\"barely- true\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2024 \"Informants don\'t know who the other informants are,\" Aaronson said in an email. \"This sometimes results in comic situations for the FBI: Informants start targeting other informants in investigations. So the idea that the FBI arranged some sort of field trip with a bunch of informants? Absurd.\" Mike German worked 16 years for the FBI, including 12 as an undercover agent investigating white supremacists and far-right groups. He said he also had never heard the term \"ghost bus\" and found the notion of putting \"a bunch of undercover agents or FBI informants together on a bus to send them to a rally\" to be \"ludicrous from a covert operations perspective.\" \"When you are doing undercover work you are trying to blend in,\" said German, who wrote a book critical of the FBI and now works for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. German said that FBI informants generally work alone. And though he has heard of perhaps two or three working together, a bus full would be \"highly unlikely.\" What we know about Jan. 6, 2021, rioters Numerous federal investigations and years of reporting on the attack have not revealed evidence to support the conspiracy theory that the Capitol attack was a false flag event orchestrated by the FBI to entrap Trump supporters. Court filings, news reports and other information for hundreds of Jan. 6, 2021, defendants show that many considered their actions patriotic; they believed they were on the front lines of a revolution or civil war. Rioters scaled walls, broke windows, forced their way into the building and clashed with police. Among people sentenced for seditious conspiracy are multiple members of far- right groups including the Proud Boys extremist group and militia groups including the Oath Keepers. These groups, and other Americans, responded to Trump’s invitations to convene on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ![](\\" In this Jan. 6, 2021 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington. (AP) The FBI’s role on Jan. 6, 2021 Government reports have criticized the FBI for failing to sound the alarm about Jan. 6, 2021, despite repeated tips in the preceding weeks that violence could occur. Steven D’Antuono, the former assistant director-in-charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, told the House Judiciary Committee in June that the agency had maybe a \"handful\" of informants present in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021 — some the agency knew about ahead of time, some it did not. When asked about the theory that the FBI directed the attack, he replied \"that is furthest from the truth.\" Allegations that FBI informants played a key role in the day’s events have proved to be false. One viral claim repeated by some lawmakers involved Ray Epps, an Arizona man whom some people had identified as a possible undercover FBI agent or informant. But no evidence supported that claim and Epps’ own statements to the House committee investigating the attack rebutted it. The New York Times reported in 2021 that confidential records showed that the FBI had an informant in the crowd among the Proud Boys as its members marched to the Capitol. The informant texted his FBI handler during the day. Proud Boys’ defense attorneys claimed in court filings that there may have been eight informants inside the group in the months surrounding the attack. But evidence singled out Proud Boys, not FBI agents, for their actions: In May, a jury found former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members guilty of seditious conspiracy for their role in the day’s events. ![](\\" Supporters of former President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP) Our ruling Higgins said a \"ghost bus ... filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.\" FBI experts said they were unfamiliar with the term \"ghost bus,\" and cast doubt on the idea that the agency would pack informants onto a bus. Such a scenario would challenge informants’ ability to be inconspicuous and gather information independently. Higgins’ statement furthers the falsehood that FBI agents instigated or orchestrated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Numerous investigations into the day’s events, including a congressional review and federal cases involving 1,200 defendants, many of whom have been found guilty, show the attack was led by and executed by people who believed or perpetuated false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. There has been no credible evidence to support that the violence carried out at the Capitol that day was the work of the FBI. The onus is on Higgins to back up his statement with evidence, and he has failed to do that. We rate this statement False. PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. 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DATA ROUNDUP Amit Shah, BJP, Elections, Fact Check, India, NOTA, Others, Stories # Fact Check: Amit Shah is wrong. BJP lost only 6 seats with a margin less than NOTA 0 By Rakesh Dubbudu on May 23, 2018 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit > _BJP National President Amit Shah claimed that BJP lost 13 seats (6 in > Bengaluru) in the recently concluded Karnataka polls where the margin was > less than NOTA. The ECI data shows that the claim is wrong and BJP lost only > 6 seats where the margin was less than NOTA and none in Bengaluru._ [orc] BJP National President, Amit Shah, claimed in a press conference in Delhi that BJP has lost 13 seats where the margin is less than the NOTA, including 6 in Bengaluru region in the recently concluded Karnataka assembly election. Below is a screenshot from the press release uploaded on the BJP website.![\\"Amit](\\" wrong-about-Karnataka-Elections_1.jpg\\") The video uploaded by the BJP also confirms that Amit Shah did make this claim. NOTA numbers in Karnataka Election NOTA accounted for just over 3 lakh votes in this election which is 0.9% of the total votes polled. The 0.9% for NOTA in the 2018 Karnataka election is on the lower side when compared to the votes polled for NOTA in other state elections. For instance, NOTA polled 1.8% of the votes in Gujarat (2017), 2.5% in Bihar (2015) and 1.52% in West Bengal (2016). NOTA polled the highest in Bangalore South constituency. Here, NOTA polled 15829 votes and was in the 4th place after the three major parties. In 28 other constituencies, NOTA polled more than 2000 votes. Majority of these constituencies are in the urban areas.![\\"\\"](\\" content/uploads//2018/05/NOTA-2018-Karnataka.png\\") How many seats did BJP lose where NOTA vote was more than the margin? As per data released by the Election Commission of India (ECI), NOTA vote was more than the victory margin in only seven (7) constituencies in Karnataka. These include Aland, Badami, Gadag, Hirekerur, Kungdol, Maski and Pavagada. Out of these constituencies, six were won by the Congress while Aland was won by the BJP.![\\"\\"](\\" Victory-margin-2018-Karnataka.png\\") What about seats in the Bengaluru region? The 2nd claim is about BJP losing 6 such seats in the Bengaluru area. Out of the 28 seats in the Bengaluru region, elections were held in 26 while elections to two other seats were postponed. Out of the 26, BJP won 11 seats, Congress 13 seats and JD(S) won the remaining 2 seats. Out of the seats won by Congress & JD(S), there was not a single seat where the margin was less than the NOTA vote. In fact, except in Vijay Nagar, the margin exceeded the NOTA vote by at least 1000 votes. In Vijay Nagar, the margin exceeded the NOTA vote by 808 votes. Show 102550100 entries Search: Name of the Constituency| Winning Party| NOTA| Margin of Victory ---|---|---|--- Yelahanka| BJP| 2051| 42503 K.R.Puram| Congress| 2464| 32729 Byatarayanapura| Congress| 2154| 5671 Yeshvanthapura| Congress| 1453| 10711 Dasarahalli| JD(S)| 2011| 10675 Mahalakshmi Layout| JD(S)| 1739| 41100 Malleshwaram| BJP| 2157| 54000 Hebbal| Congress| 1450| 21140 Pulakeshinagar| Congress| 1402| 81626 Sarvagnanagar| Congress| 2405| 53304 Showing 1 to 10 of 26 entries PreviousNext Fact Check – Claim 1 The claim that BJP lost 13 seats where the margin is less than NOTA is WRONG. As noted above, BJP lost only 6 seats where the margin is less than NOTA. Fact Check – Claim 2 The claim that the BJP lost 6 seats in Bengaluru region where the margin is less than NOTA is also WRONG. As explained above, BJP did not lose a single seat in Bengaluru where margin was less than NOTA. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Some Republicans have misleadingly suggested that the amount of drugs seized is a negative development attributable to the immigration policies of President Joe Biden. But the steep rise started in mid-2020 under then-President Donald Trump. Rep. Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference, was one of the Republicans citing fentanyl seizures in October as a sign of “Biden’s Border Crisis,” even though more pounds of illegal fentanyl were seized by border officials the previous October when Trump was president. > Over 800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our Southern Border in October. > > This is Biden’s Border Crisis. > > — Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) November 29, 2021 Weeks earlier, on Nov. 1, Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is the co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, tweeted: “Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where 10,000 pounds of fentanyl hv been seized by Customs & Border patrol so far this fiscal yr which is enough to kill over 2 billion ppl or more than 1/4 of the world’s population.” There were 899 pounds of fentanyl seized at the border with Mexico in October, as Stefanik said, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It’s also plausible, as Grassley tweeted, that 10,000 pounds of pure, high- concentration fentanyl would be enough to cause the deaths of billions, assuming a fatal dose for most people is just 2 milligrams, as the U.S. Drug and Enforcement Administration has said. However, the DEA also said that much of the illegally made fentanyl being seized, particularly at the southwest border, has a very low concentration. “The stuff that’s seized at the southwest border is highly impure,” Bryce Pardo, a drug policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, told FactCheck.org in an interview. If they are seizing 10,000 pounds, the amount of pure fentanyl is a small fraction of that, he said. More important, if stopping large amounts of fentanyl from being distributed to Americans is indicative of a “crisis” at the southwest border, as those tweets imply, it’s a problem that Biden largely inherited from his predecessor. Border officials seized nearly as much fentanyl in the last nine full months of Trump’s presidency as had been seized during the first nine full months of Biden’s. ## Fentanyl Seizures Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that the DEA says is many times stronger than morphine and heroin. Pharmaceutical fentanyl is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a pain reliever and anesthetic, historically for use by cancer patients and during or after surgery. But the drug also is illegally manufactured in liquid, powder and pill form and trafficked into the U.S. from countries such as China, India and Mexico. CBP data show the amount of fentanyl seized at the southwest border — where well over 90% of total seizures occur — has more than doubled each fiscal year since 2019, when 2,633 pounds were confiscated. The vast majority of the illicit fentanyl is discovered during vehicle inspections at ports of entry by CBP’s Office of Field Operations. Smaller amounts are regularly found by agents for the U.S. Border Patrol at interior checkpoints and during apprehensions of people who illegally cross the border between the legal ports. The amount seized accelerated dramatically toward the end of fiscal 2020, while Trump was still president, when there was a 190% increase from 233 pounds seized in May to 676 pounds in June. May 2020 was the last time there were fewer than 600 pounds of fentanyl seized at the southwest border in a single month, and the largest monthly haul to date was 1,171 pounds in October 2020, the start of the 2021 fiscal year. In fact, southwest border officers seized 6,408 pounds of fentanyl from April 2020 to December 2020, the last full nine months of the Trump administration. That is about 83% of the 7,684 pounds seized from February 2021 to October 2021, the first full nine months of the Biden administration, which is the most recent CBP data available. An additional 682 pounds were seized in January 2021, when Trump was president for about 20 days. ## ‘Biden’s Border Crisis’? Republicans other than Stefanik and Grassley also have framed the increase in the amount of fentanyl being seized as a cause for concern and a failure of the Biden administration. Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, tweeted on Nov. 18, “899 lbs of fentanyl and 15,631 lbs of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in October alone. That much fentanyl is the equivalent of 204 MILLION lethal doses. We need border security!” Later that month, on Nov. 29, Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana tweeted, “.@CBP seized enough fentanyl to kill the entire U.S. population 7 times over at the border THIS YEAR. When will Biden prioritize the safety of Americans? We need to #BuildTheWall.” We’ve already reported the reasons some experts doubt that a border wall would have much of an impact on smuggling — starting with the fact that much of the illicit drugs are known to come through legal ports of entry, as our chart above illustrates. In addition, as we noted earlier, Pardo from the RAND Corporation told us that lethality estimates are a “little bit misleading” because it assumes the seized fentanyl is 100% pure, which it is not. “It’s highly, highly impure stuff,” he said. But one also might wonder: Why is seizing more fentanyl an indictment of border security, rather than a sign that border security is working as intended? The RNC’s rapid response director, Tommy Pigott, described the GOP’s position in a Nov. 18 blog post criticizing “misguided” Democrats who have mocked the Republican claims and applauded the large amounts of fentanyl being impounded. “As anyone who pays even the smallest attention to the border knows, fentanyl seizures are used as a proxy for illicit drug trafficking,” Pigott said. “In other words, more seizures means more fentanyl is being smuggled across the border into the U.S., not less.” “This shows how little Democrats know about the border, and how little the American people can trust them to address the crisis Biden created,” he wrote. Sen. Rob Portman, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, raised a similar point about the level of undetected drugs in a Nov. 17 Senate hearing, in which he referenced the more than 40% increase in fentanyl seized at the southwest border this year, from September to October. “Can you give us a sense of what you think the amount of drugs are that are coming in that are not being seized?” Portman asked Diane Sabatino, deputy executive assistant commissioner for the Office of Field Operations. “If it’s 42% increase in seizures, what is it overall?” Sabatino did not provide a figure at the hearing, nor did CBP respond when we contacted its press office for this story. It’s likely the answer is unknowable. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has said that, while the seizures data can help determine how and where illicit drugs enter the country, “There are no comprehensive data on the total quantity of foreign- produced illicit drugs smuggled into the United States at or between official ports of entry (POEs) because these are drugs that have generally evaded seizure by border officials.” “And because we can’t measure total flow, it’s pointless to try to say we’re doing a good job or a bad job,” Pardo said. “My sense is that drug trafficking organizations in Mexico are increasing their fentanyl production because it’s cheap, it’s easy to do and it’s more profitable than heroin in the short term. So, it’s likely that flows are increasing, but we don’t know that for sure.” He said fentanyl seizures also may have increased because the U.S., due to COVID-19, restricted inbound land border crossings from Mexico for all but essential travel. “Because of that, you’ve essentially doubled your enforcement capacity if you’ve essentially restricted the movement of people, but you have the same amount of officers on the front lines there,” he said. “That’s probably one reason why we’re seeing more seizures. It remains to be seen what happens now that you’ve opened up the border, but that could be one of the contributing factors.” Portman and other GOP lawmakers also have linked more fentanyl seizures to a nationwide increase in overdose deaths. “Over 100,000 people in the last year have died from drug overdoses,” Rep. John Katko, the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said in a Nov. 28 interview, referencing provisional figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating there were that many fatalities from April 2020 to April 2021. “The vast majority of them had been laced with fentanyl. They seized enough fentanyl at the border in the last year to kill every man, woman and child in the United States seven times over. Think about that,” Katko said. “And, given the fact that we seize that much, I know for a fact that when you seize that much, that much more is getting through. So, it’s a crisis that this administration has created, and he is not doing anything about it.” The CDC predicts that almost two-thirds of the overdose deaths were due to synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl. However, Biden was president for only three of the months in that one-year period. The CDC’s figures also show there were already about 95,000 overdose deaths from January 2020 to January 2021. In addition, border officials were on pace to seize record levels of fentanyl in fiscal 2021 prior to Biden taking office. An average of almost 1,040 pounds of the drug per month were seized at the southwest border during the first quarter of that fiscal cycle, from October 2020 to December 2020. The per month average under Biden has been about 854 pounds seized. Republicans may not agree with Biden’s approach on border security, or think he has done enough to reduce the flow of deadly drugs into the country. But if seizing more fentanyl before it gets to the public is an indicator of a much larger drug issue, the data show it’s a problem that preceded Biden rather than being one he “created,” as Katko and others have claimed. “We’ve had an opioid crisis for a while now that spans four administrations,” Pardo said. “To say it’s any one administration is kind of politics.” 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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Although the number of homicides reached a record high in Mexico in 2017, the homicide rates were higher in numerous other countries in that region — let alone around the world. Trump’s tweet came as Congress attempts to pass a temporary budget bill to avert a government shutdown. The House on Jan. 18 passed a temporary spending bill, and the issue now moves to the Senate. One of the sticking points to a budget bill is Trump’s insistence that it include funding for a border wall, a demand Democrats have opposed. Trump made his case for wall funding in a Jan. 18 tweet. > We need the Wall for the safety and security of our country. We need the > Wall to help stop the massive inflow of drugs from Mexico, now rated the > number one most dangerous country in the world. If there is no Wall, there > is no Deal! > > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018 As we have written before, the bulk of illicit drugs passes undetected through legal ports of entry, mostly in hidden compartments of passenger vehicles and tractor trailers. But here, we are focusing on Trump’s erroneous claim that Mexico is “now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world.” Trump’s tweet drew quick rebuke from Mexico’s Foreign Ministry, which released a press release stating that it is “manifestly false that Mexico is the most dangerous country in the world.” > Mexico’s Foreign Ministry, Jan. 18: While Mexico has a significant problem > of violence, it is manifestly false that Mexico is the most dangerous > country in the world. According to UN figures for 2014 (the most recent > international report), Mexico is far from being one of the most violent > countries. In Latin America alone, other countries have homicide rates > higher than Mexico’s (16.4), which is far below several countries in the > region. The press release went on to say that Mexico’s problem with violence is a “shared problem” caused by “the high demand for drugs in the United States and supply from Mexico (and other countries).” Trump’s claim is “just not defensible,” said David Shirk, a global fellow at the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and a professor at the University of San Diego. Although data from December are not yet available, Shirk told us the number of homicides in Mexico in 2017 apparently will top 28,000. That would be the highest number in the country’s history, and would be at or near a record on a per capita basis, he said. That’s an alarming rise. But it’s still about 50 percent lower than the number of homicides in Brazil, Shirk said. And considered per capita, other countries in the region including El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have far higher rates of homicide, according to the latest Global Study on Homicide compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That’s just homicides. These figures don’t include war-related killings and deaths from internal conflicts, which are far higher in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, Shirk said. Nor are homicides alone a full measure of a country’s violence. Mexico is ranked the 22nd least peaceful country in the Institute for Economics and Peace’s 2017 Global Peace Index. And Mexico did not appear in the Top 20 of the least “safe and secure” countries ranked in the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report. We reached out to the White House press office for support for the president’s claim, but we did not hear back. That leaves us once again guessing what the president may have been referring to. Back in June, Trump tweeted that “Mexico was just ranked the second deadliest country in the world, after only Syria.” > Mexico was just ranked the second deadliest country in the world, after only > Syria. Drug trade is largely the cause. We will BUILD THE WALL! > > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017 That was based on a report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies that concluded, “Mexico’s 2016 intentional homicide total, 23,000, is second only to Syria.” But that report was subsequently removed because, the group explained on its website, “there was a methodological flaw in our calculation of estimated conflict fatalities that requires revision.” In a press release issued on June 23, IISS said it anticipated its recalculation would result in Mexico’s “conflict remaining among the ten most lethal in the world, by estimated fatalities attributable to an armed conflict.” An IISS spokesperson told us via email that the recalculation of Mexico’s 2016 fatalities figure has not been completed. Nonetheless, as the June press release went on to explain, its surveys “do not measure homicides on either an absolute or per capita basis. We estimate deaths directly related to conflict. We do not provide an assessment of the levels of violence in any country.” A Mexico Daily News story speculated that Trump could have been referring to a recently revised travel advisory for Mexico issued by the U.S. State Department, which warns against travel to five Mexican states due to high crime. Those states received the highest Level 4 warning, the same as given to countries like Afghanistan and Somalia, the New York Times noted. But overall, Mexico was ranked as a Level 2 country, which recommends travelers “exercise increased caution.” Specifically, the travel advisory says, “Violent crime, such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery, is widespread.” But, as the New York Times notes, that Level 2 ranking is the same for countries such as France, Italy and Britain. Again, we don’t know what prompted the president to claim that Mexico is “now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world.” All available independent analyses we found contradicted the president’s claim. We’ll update this item if the White House responds. Share the Facts 2018-01-19 22:43:49 UTC FactCheck.org ![\\"FactCheck.org\\"](\\" 7 1 11 ![\\"FactCheck.org](\\" facts/rating_images/factcheck.org/false.png\\") FactCheck.org Rating: False Mexico is “now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world.” Donald Trump President of the United States ![](\\" Twitter Thursday, January 18, 2018 2018-01-18 Read More info * Categories * FactCheck Posts * Location * Mexico * Issue * crime * homicide * People * Donald Trump Previous StoryOprah’s 2013 Quote on Racism, in Context Next StoryFake Denzel Washington Story Ask SciCheck Q: Are wind farms harmful to the environment? A: Like all energy sources, wind farms have some negative environmental impacts. 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DATA ROUNDUP Coronavirus, Coronavirus English, English, Fake News # Janata Curfew: Clapping hands will not kill Coronavirus, it is just to express gratitude 4 By Akhil Reddy on March 22, 2020 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit A post is being shared widely on social media with a claim that there is science behind the 5 PM clapping proposed by PM Modi. While Modi has asked people to clap as a sign of gratitude to the various groups working to eradicate COVID-19, some people are posting that clapping will create vibrations which will then kill Coronavirus by making it lose all potency. Also, it is being claimed the event was planned on a Sunday (i.e. on 22 March 2020) as it is ‘Amavasya’ (New Moon Day). Let’s try to analyze the claim made in the post. ![\\"\\"](\\" virus-FB-Post.jpg\\")The archived version of the post can be found here. > Claim: There is science behind PM Modi’s 5 PM clapping initiative: Clapping > generates vibration which can kill Coronavirus. Also, 22 March 2020 is > Amavasya. > > Fact: There is no scientific evidence to prove that vibration from clapping > hands can kill Coronavirus. The Press Information Bureau of India has > clarified that the message is fake. Also, Amavasya is not on 22 March 2020. > Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE. Astrological Claim: First, let’s check whether Amavasya is on 22 March 2020. It was found on the internet that ‘Amavasya’ is from 23 March 220 (12:30 PM) – 24 March 2020 (02:58 PM), not on 22 March 2020. So, the theory that ‘22nd March is Amavasya, darkest day in a month. All virus, bacteria and evil forces have maximum potential and power on such days’ will not apply to 22 March 2020 as it is not Amavasya. Also, Revathi Nakshatra is from 25 March 2020 (04:19 AM) – Mar 26 March 2020 (07:16 AM). Similar dates (Amavasya on 24 March 2020 and Revathi Nakshatra on 25 March 2020) can be also found on the ‘Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams’ website. So, the astrological significance mentioned in the post is false. ![\\"\\"](\\" virus-Panchangam-1024x451.jpg\\") Scientific Evidence: Now, let’s check whether there is any scientific evidence to prove that clapping can kill Coronavirus. From various articles on the internet, it is found that ultrasound and laser pulses are being tested around the world to kill bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. But no concrete evidence was found to prove that the vibration created from clapping hands can kill Coronavirus. If vibration from clapping hands could kill virus then WHO would have suggested the same. But no such preventive guidance can be found on the WHO website. Also, as the message went viral, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has clarified that ‘the vibration generated by clapping together **will not destroy Coronavirus** infection’. > NO ! The vibration generated by clapping together will NOT destroy > #Coronavirus infection#PIBFactCheck: The #JantaCurfew clapping initiative at > 5pm is to express gratitude towards the Emergency staff working selflessly > to counter #coronavirusinindia #Covid19India pic.twitter.com/WHfK4guxys > > — PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) March 22, 2020 To sum it up, vibration from clapping hands will not kill Coronavirus. _Did you watch our new video?_ ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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It’s sad that even educated people are supporting this. 3. ![\\"\\"](\\" Vikkranth on March 22, 2020 8:28 pm Arrest her or put a duct tape her mouth n throw into current Corona Epicenter 4. ![\\"\\"](\\" Santosh on April 19, 2020 12:44 pm you are taking wrong meaning of vibration. its not vibration generates while you clapping. its vibration of unconscious mind. vibration of corona fight. its all mater of unconscious mind. * ![](\\" ![](\\" * ### RECENT POSTS * ![\\"\\"](\\" Review: Delhi HC Rules That Arbitration Tribunal Cannot Direct for Production of ‘Top Secret’ Documents, Except in Exceptional Circumstances October 2, 2024 __0 * ![\\"\\"](\\" PLFS Data: Reported Number of Average Working Hours A Week for Men Was Consistently Over 50 Hours September 30, 2024 __0 * ![\\"\\"](\\" Data: Between 1999 & 2024, Indian Prime Ministers Visited 79 Different Countries September 27, 2024 __0 * ![\\"\\"](\\" Review: Allahabad HC Says Desertion Cannot be Established Solely on Grounds That Parties Are Living Apart Due to Their Jobs September 25, 2024 __0 * ![\\"\\"](\\" Review: NITI Aayog’s Expert Group Releases a Report With Action Plan for a 100-Day Response to Any Future Outbreak or Pandemic. 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मेंबर बनें डार्क मोड मेंबर बनें * अनकवरिंग हेट * नजरिया * राजनीति * वेबकूफ * मेंबर्स के लिए * दुनिया * स्पेशल प्रोजेक्ट * Quint Hindi Lab * बिजनेस * और देखें * एंटरटेनमेंट * वीडियो * कुंजी * My रिपोर्ट * शिक्षा * फिट हिंदी * पॉडकास्ट डार्क मोड मेंबर बनें * होम * न्यूज * वीडियो * नजरिया * पॉडकास्ट * कुंजी * खुल्लम खुल्ला * सड्डा हक * शिक्षा * दुनिया * और देखें ## मेंबर बनें Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019 हमें फॉलो करें हमारे बारे मेंसंपर्क करेंगोपनीयता नीति ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD # नौसेना दिवस पर शेयर की गई युद्धपोत की ये फोटो, भारत नहीं अमेरिकी युद्धपोत की है ## फोटो में दिख रहा शिप अमेरिकी नौसेना का है, जिसे बीजेपी और कांग्रेस के कई नेताओं ने शेयर किया है अर्पिता घोष Published: 05 Dec 2021, 4:05 PM IST वेबकूफ 3 min read ![\\"story-hero-img\\"](\\" hindi%2F2021-12%2F1633eee7-e538-4be9-9bf8-8b0f95844918%2FLast_year_in.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720\\") i अ अ छोटा अ मध्यम अ बड़ा कांग्रेस के वरिष्ठ नेता सुनील देशमुख, पीसी शर्मा, भारतीय जनता पार्टी (BJP) के नेता मुकेश पटेल सहित कई दूसरे राजनेताओं ने नौसेना दिवस पर एक नेवी जहाज की फोटो शेयर की. 1971 में हुए भारत-पाकिस्तान युद्ध (Indo-Pak War) में भारतीय नौसेना ने कराची पर हमला किया. इस ऑपरेशन को ‘ऑपरेशन ट्राइडेंट’ नाम दिया गया. ये ऑपरेशन 4 दिसंबर को शुरू किया गया था. इसलिए, इस दिन को नौसेना दिवस (Navy Day) के रूप में मनाया जाता है. ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD हालांकि, हमने पड़ताल में पाया कि फोटो में दिखने वाला शिप भारतीय नौसेना का नहीं है. ये अमेरिकी नौसेना का फ्रीडम क्लास लिटरल कॉम्बैट शिप है, जिसे एयरोस्पेस कंपनी लॉकहीड मार्टिन ने डिजायन किया है. ## दावा इस फोटो को बीजेपी से कांग्रेस में शामिल हुए वरिष्ठ नेता सुनील देशमुख ने इस कैप्शन के साथ शेयर किया है, \'\'नौसेना दिवस पर, मैं हमारी रक्षा करने और हमें सुरक्षित रखने के लिए भारतीय नौसेना को सलाम करता हूं. आपके निस्वार्थ प्रयासो और समर्पण के लिए धन्यवाद! #NavyDay2021\'\' ![\\"फोटो](\\"\\") पोस्ट का आर्काइव देखने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें (सोर्स: स्क्रीनशॉट/ट्विटर) बीजेपी जम्मू और कश्मीर (यहां), बीजू जनता दल का यूथ विंग (यहां), कांग्रेस नेता और विधायक पीसी शर्मा (यहां), गुजरात के कृषि, ऊर्जा और पेट्रोकेमिकल मंत्री मुकेश पटेल (यहां), लेखक और एक्स-आर्म्ड फोर्स ऑफिसर कुलप्रीत यादव (यहां) ने भी इस फोटो को शेयर किया है. इस फोटो को 2016 और 2017 में भी बीजेपी के ऑफिशियल ट्विटर पेज पर शेयर किया गया था. इस फोटो को स्टेट ब्रॉडकास्टर डीडी न्यूज ने 2019 में नौसेना दिवस के मौके पर ट्वीट किया था. और पढ़ें ### क्या कोरोना के नए वैरिएंट \'ओमिक्रॉन\' पर 1963 में ही बन चुकी है फिल्म?गलत है दावा ![\\"alsoRead-img\\"](\\"\\") ## पड़ताल में हमने क्या पाया हमने फोटो को रिवर्स इमेज सर्च किया. हमें ये फोटो इमेज होस्टिंग वेबसाइट Flickr पर एयरोस्पेस कंपनी लॉकहीड मार्टिन की ऑफिशियल प्रोफाइल पर मिली. वेबसाइट पर लॉकहीड मार्टिन के उपलब्ध कराए गए EXIF डेटा के मुताबिक, ये तस्वीर 3 अगस्त 2018 को खींची गई थी. इसके कैप्शन में लिखा था, \'\'लिटरल कॉम्बैट शिप, फ्रीडम (LCS 1), फर्स्ट इन क्लास कोस्टल सरफेस कॉम्बैंट के लिए बिल्डर्स सी ट्रायल में स्पीड टेस्ट के दौरान\". ![\\"फोटो](\\"\\") Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1) (सोर्स: स्क्रीनशॉट/Flickr) इसके बाद, हमने कीवर्ड के साथ इमेज सर्च किया और हमें ये फोटो कई दूसरी वेबसाइटों पर भी मिली. Daily Mail में 2015 को पब्लिश एक आर्टिकल, जिसका टाइटल था \'\'The ultimate maritime fighting machine: US Navy puts powerful new warship through its paces for first time\'\', में भी इस फोटो का इस्तेमाल किया गया था. ![\\"फोटो](\\"\\") Littoral combat ship (सोर्स: स्क्रीनशॉट/Daily Mail) और पढ़ें ### हिंदू Vs मुस्लिम कराने के लिए सुरेश चव्हाणके का एक और \'कुदर्शन\' बेनकाब ![\\"alsoRead-img\\"](\\"\\") ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD हमें एक अमेरिकी सैन्य पेपर की वेबसाइट \'Stars and Stripes\' पर 7 मई 2009 को पब्लिश यही फोटो मिली. 1861 में स्थापित, ये पेपर अमेरिका के रक्षा विभाग का अधिकृत न्यूज आउटलेट है. ![\\"फोटो](\\"\\") 2009 की फोटो (सोर्स: स्क्रीनशॉट/Stars and Stripes) मतलब साफ है, भारतीय नौसेना दिवस पर शुभकामना देने के लिए अमेरिकी नौसेना के एक शिप की फोटो शेयर की जा रही है. (SM Hoax Slayer से मिले इनपुट शामिल हैं) और पढ़ें ### अखिलेश यादव ने नहीं कहा \'\'यूपी चुनाव जीतने पर बदल देंगे अयोध्या का नाम\'\' ![\\"alsoRead-img\\"](\\"\\") (क्विंट हिन्दी, हर मुद्दे पर बनता आपकी आवाज, करता है सवाल. आज ही मेंबर बनें और हमारी पत्रकारिता को आकार देने में सक्रिय भूमिका निभाएं.) ### क्विंट हिंदी पर लेटेस्ट न्यूज और ब्रेकिंग न्यूज़ पढ़ें, news और webqoof के लिए ब्राउज़ करें ### टॉपिक: अमेरिका वेबकूफ Webqoof पूरी स्टोरी पढ़िए सत्ता से सच बोलने के लिए आप जैसे सहयोगियों की जरूरत होती है मेंबर बनें मेंबर बनने के फायदे अधिक पढ़ें Loading Comments... ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD क्विंट हिंदी के साथ रहें अपडेट ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD × × SECTIONS * वीडियो * कुंजी * My रिपोर्ट * शिक्षा * फिट हिंदी * पॉडकास्ट TRENDING TOPICS * Leader of Opposition * रोहित और विराट संन्यास * T-20 क्रिकेट वर्ल्ड कप * PM मोदी * राहुल गांधी * NEET पेपर लीक * Adani Ports * कोयले का इस्तेमाल खत्म * बिग बॉस ओटीटी 3 हमें फॉलो करें Quint FIT हमारे बारे में संपर्क करें गोपनीयता नीति नियम एवं शर्तें Test Mode | On the occasion of Indian Navy Day many BJP and Congress leaders shared this photo of Indian Navy ship | 22 |
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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 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on June 2, 2017 in Internet posts: \"NASA confirms Earth will experience 15 days of darkness In November 2017.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"pants- fire\\"](\\" * Fake news * PunditFact * Bloggers ![\\"Joshua](\\" By Joshua Gillin June 14, 2017 # It’s fake! NASA never said the Earth will go dark for 15 days in November 2017 A long-lived claim that NASA is warning the planet will be covered in darkness for more than two straight weeks continued to live on across the Internet but is completely made up. A June 2, 2017, post on NewsForMeToday.com said that the Earth will go dark later this year with the headline, \"NASA confirms Earth will experience 15 days of darkness In November 2017.\" Facebook users flagged the article as possibly being fabricated, as part of the social media site’s efforts to identify fake news stories. \"NASA confirms what’s been circling the web recently – our planet Earth will experience total darkness for 15 days in November 2017 starting from November 15 to November 29,\" the post read. Specifically, the event \"will start on November 15 at 3:00 am and will most likely last until November 30, 4:45 pm.\" The post also quotes NASA administrator Charles Bolden as saying the so-called \"blackout event\" will raise the Earth’s temperature up to 8 degrees, but should have no lasting effects. \"This event would be similar to what Alaskans experience in the winter,\" Bolden is quoted. For the record, Bolden resigned on Jan. 20, 2017. There also was something in there about the alignment of Venus and Jupiter and a hydrogen explosion in space, but that doesn’t matter, because the story is a persistent Internet concoction that isn’t true. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 22, 2024 in Facebook posts Jason Aldean rejected a $500 million music collaboration with Taylor Swift. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Sofia Ahmed • August 26, 2024 The NewsForMeToday.com post doesn’t link to any official source, a sure warning sign of an unreliable news report, but does cite a Jan. 12, 2017, post on ReflectionofMind.org. That site, in turn, links back to a now-defunct page on GlobalRevolutionNetwork.com, which the Internet Archive told us was originally dated Oct. 24, 2016, and warned of the event happening in November of that year. This unfounded rumor goes back to at least 2015, and has been posted time and again. Dates and details may change (one version said a solar storm would darken the Earth for six days in December), but none of them were correct. We couldn’t find any evidence of NASA making such an announcement, of course. We contacted NASA about the possibility an inky fortnight of celestial shenanigans, but didn’t immediately hear back. The fake story about Earth going dark has been around for some time, but it’s time we bring this hoax to light. We rate it Pants On Fire! 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independentgroup__________________3/d34069b2fffce57ddf492536b7c1e859.jpg\\") YourNewsWire.com stated on November 5, 2017 in an Internet post: \"Texas Church shooter was Antifa and wanted to start (a) ‘communist revolution.’ \" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • November 6, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Sebastian Gorka stated on November 1, 2017 in an appearance on \'Hannity\': Says Jake Tapper said Allahu Akbar was a \"beautiful phrase\" after a terrorist attack in New York. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • November 2, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on October 6, 2017 in Internet posts: \"California Democrat Maxine Waters charged on 3 counts.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • November 2, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on October 29, 2017 in Internet posts: Says actor Morgan Freeman said, \"Jailing Hillary\" is the best way to \"restore public faith in government.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • November 1, 2017 ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/98605b4996e42408507987c4affd735f.jpg\\") ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/d34069b2fffce57ddf492536b7c1e859.jpg\\") FreedomJunkshun.com stated on October 28, 2017 in a headline: \"Hillary Clinton leaves the country as Mueller indictment is announced.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • October 31, 2017 ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/98605b4996e42408507987c4affd735f.jpg\\") ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/d34069b2fffce57ddf492536b7c1e859.jpg\\") FreedomJunkshun.com stated on October 27, 2017 in a headline: \"Breitbart leaks names of four Dems being charged in Mueller’s Russia probe.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • October 31, 2017 ![](\\" michaelmoore/d10e6fe97230119369c8f19eb11ae6a3.jpg\\") ![](\\" michaelmoore/24d3cd2ad61b2369eb03420edf082419.jpg\\") Michael Moore stated on October 4, 2017 in a Facebook post: \"People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04% of all gun murders in the U.S. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • October 25, 2017 ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/98605b4996e42408507987c4affd735f.jpg\\") ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/d34069b2fffce57ddf492536b7c1e859.jpg\\") React365.com stated on October 23, 2017 in a headline: \"Tulsa school closes after brutal fire.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • October 23, 2017 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posts: A viral image shows LeBron James wearing a T-shirt that reads, \"We march, y’all mad. We sit down, y’all mad. We speak up, y’all mad. We die, y’all silent.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Joshua Gillin • October 12, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on October 9, 2017 in a headline: \"President Trump signs executive order stripping NFL of ‘non-profit’ status.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • October 10, 2017 ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/98605b4996e42408507987c4affd735f.jpg\\") ![](\\" mugs-mug- independentgroup__________________3/d34069b2fffce57ddf492536b7c1e859.jpg\\") AsAmericanAsApplePie.org stated on October 8, 2017 in a headline: \"Jason Aldean gig canceled after he sells out to liberals on ‘SNL’.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Joshua Gillin • October 10, 2017 ### It’s fake! NASA never said the Earth will go dark for 15 days in November 2017 * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 * ![](\\" ![](\\" JD Vance stated on September 15, 2024 in a \"Meet the Press\" interview: Former President Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon (it).\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Julie Appleby • September 20, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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Ebro flooded after the passage of the Gloria storm, among them, the leader of Más Country, Íñigo Errejón. However, the photo is not current. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") Through reverse search, we have found that this image was made by Juan A. Ortega, who has confirmed to Newtral.es through email that the image was carried out in 2004. Precisely That year, as can be read in this news from El País, a storm of Levante caused significant damage in the Ebro Delta. “It's sad to see the Ebro delta like this,” he wrote on his Twitter account. Errejón, with a message about the terrible consequences of the storm Glory has had in the northeast of the country. > Fa mal veure del Delta així. This time has consequences > disasters, but the Terres de l’ Ebre have decades claiming the > Comprehensive protection of the river, its cabin and a unique ecosystem. Or s' > assumeix com a prioritat o desapareixeràn as i coneixem. > pic.twitter.com/9R8AmwbldB > > — Íñigo Errejón (@ierrejon) January 22, 2020 Storm Gloria has caused numerous havoc in this region, where some of its most sensitive areas have been completely covered by the sea water, which has flooded 3,000 hectares of rice fields and has penetrated 3 kilometers inland. ![\\"origin](\\"\\") Someone who heard from a neighbor who had read it somewhere: the origin of the hoax about Haitians who eat pets In this tweet from Bombers de Catalunya you can see the consequences that the temporary has had in this region of Tarragona: > This morning, #bomberscat we flew over the Ebre Delta to check them > causal effects of temporary #glory to the area. #INUNCAT @emergenciescat > pic.twitter.com/hPzE6qIJYZ > > — Bombers (@bomberscat) January 22, 2020 Sources: ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The Madrid Court ratifies the conviction of Guillermo Rocafort for interference in the honor of Ana Pastor * Juan A. 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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 November 15, 2021 in a Facebook post: The Build Back Better bill provides “\'parole\' amnesty for millions of criminal illegal aliens.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-false/6a6ef6075c162fdccf5eb960e683dcd1.jpg.\\") ![\\"barely- true\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Immigration * Federal Budget * Legal Issues * Crime * Facebook Fact-checks * Viral image ![\\"Immigrants](\\" Immigrants and their supporters march in Washington Sep. 21, 2021, calling on Congress to keep a pathway to citizenship in the budget reconciliation package. (AP) ![\\"Tom](\\" By Tom Kertscher November 23, 2021 # Build Back Better bill wouldn’t parole criminal immigrants #### If Your Time is short * Parole under immigration law means a temporary permit to stay for people who are in the country without permission. * The Build Back Better Act would grant immigration parole to some 7 million immigrants. Applicants for the program would have to pass a security and criminal background check. * People convicted of crimes would not be eligible for immigration parole. See the sources for this fact-check An image showing a bare-chested, heavily tattooed man attacks the Build Back Better bill by claiming: \"Build Back Illegal: \'Parole\' amnesty for millions of criminal illegal aliens.\" The image, shared on Facebook, 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 claim gives the misleading impression that people who entered the U.S. illegally and were convicted of crimes would be paroled and allowed to stay. But parole has a different meaning in immigration law, and the parole provisions of the bill as they’re currently written would not be available to people convicted of crimes in the U.S. Claim by ‘America first’ group The viral image alludes to members of criminal gangs. The photo of the man in the image appears to be cropped from a photo of three men that appears with articles about the MS-13 gang, which grew out of poor Los Angeles neighborhoods that housed many refugees from civil wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua in the 1980s. In the United States, law enforcement officials have indicted MS-13 members for a wide range of crimes, including racketeering, murders, attempted murders, assaults, obstruction of justice, arson and conspiracy to distribute marijuana. The image was shared by the Great American Movement in a post that urges people to tell their congressional representatives to oppose the Democratic- supported Build Back Better bill. The slogan of the group, which has 135,000 Facebook followers, is: \"\'America First\' should not just be a political slogan. It should be a way of life for all Americans.\" Great American Movement’s Facebook page lists GreatAmericanMovement.com as its contact information, but that link did not lead to a working website when we checked it on Nov. 23. We’re fact-checking the claim, made Nov. 15, based on the version of the Build Back Better Act that passed the House on Nov. 19. The bill could be changed in the Senate. Misleading use of ‘parole’ and ‘criminal’ In the criminal context, the word \"parole\" typically is understood as the early release from prison of a person convicted of a crime who must abide by certain conditions after release. But the term \"parole\" is also used in immigration law to describe a process that gives people who are in the U.S. without legal authorization temporary permission to stay. The permission is granted for humanitarian reasons or other reasons in the public interest, said Washington University law professor emeritus Stephen Legomsky, former chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on September 6, 2024 in in social media posts Haitian immigrants are eating pets and wildlife in Springfield, Ohio. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • September 9, 2024 Section 60001 of the Build Back Better bill would give a form of this parole to some 7 million immigrants who are in the country without permission, protecting them from deportation and formally admitting them into the United States if they file an application, pay a fee and pass criminal and security background checks. To be eligible, the immigrants must have arrived before Jan. 1, 2011, and have lived here ever since. If approved, they could get work permits that would be valid for five years and could be renewed one time for another five years, expiring on Sept. 30, 2031. People convicted of crimes in the U.S. would not be eligible for immigration parole under this provision, said Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. The wording of the claim in the post may suggest that simply living in the U.S. without permission makes a person a criminal. But that’s not necessarily the case. Entering the U.S. without permission is a crime — though it’s not always prosecuted on its own — but living in the United States without authorization is a civil violation, not a criminal offense. Many people who are in the U.S. without authorization entered legally but committed a civil violation by overstaying their visas or violating their conditions of admission, such as by working without authorization or dropping out of school, Cardinal Brown said. Under the bill, people who entered illegally, or entered legally but have overstayed, would be eligible for parole, she said, but convicted criminals would not. Legomsky said that while \"almost every serious crime will disqualify you from the parole program under this bill, illegal entry will not.\" Our ruling A viral image shared on Facebook alluded to members of criminal gangs and stated that the Build Back Better bill provides \"\'parole\' amnesty for millions of criminal illegal aliens.\" The post gives the impression that people who entered the U.S. illegally and committed crimes in the U.S. would be eligible for parole. But parole means something different in immigration law: temporary permission to stay for people who are in the country without permission. Under the bill, immigration parole would be available to people who entered the country legally or illegally before 2011, but not to people convicted of crimes. We rate the post Mostly False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Facebook post, Nov. 15, 2021 Congress.gov, \"H.R.5376 - Build Back Better Act,\" accessed Nov. 22, 2021 House Rules Committee, \"Build Back Better Act — Rules Committee Print 117-18 Section-By-Section,\" accessed Nov. 22, 2021 Email, Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross- border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Nov. 22, 2021 FWD.us, \"Immigration Protections and Work Permits,\" Nov. 4, 2021 FWD.us, \"Visa Recapture & Backlog Reduction in the Build Back Better Act,\" Nov. 10, 2021 Email, Washington University law professor emeritus Stephen Legomsky, former chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security, Nov. 22, 2021 Email, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, associate professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Nov. 22, 2021 The Hill, \"House outlines immigration provisions in latest Build Back Better package,\" Nov. 3, 2021 The Hill, \"Giveaway to Big Tech in Build Back Better will hurt American workers,\" Nov. 4, 2021 The Hill, \"The truth about green card recapture,\" Nov. 19, 2021 U.S. Justice Department, news release, July 28, 2021 Wall Street Journal, \"Democrats Push Fix for Green-Card Logjam in Social- Spending Bill,\" Nov. 5, 2021 Fox Business, \"Build Back Better Act: Immigration provision grants 5-year parole to some migrants, shielding from deportation,\" Nov. 5, 2021 Washington Post, \"How the House spending bill sets a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants,\" Nov. 19, 2021 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Tom Kertscher slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" 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 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Accessibility statementSkip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness Sign in Next articles Coronavirus pandemic health Free covid tests by mail program revived by Biden administration Science Scientists again link covid pandemic origin to Wuhan market animals Health Do you need another covid shot? Test your coronavirus knowledge. Health Andrew Cuomo, once a covid star, grilled by Congress over pandemic missteps Health Coronavirus vaccines, once free, are now pricey for uninsured people Health New Novavax, mRNA coronavirus vaccines are approved. Here’s what to know. Health New covid vaccines for summer variants slated for approval late next week D.C., Md. & Va. Caught by surprise: How covid summer is affecting the D.C. region Health Covid summer wave spreads across U.S., even infecting Biden Health Fauci dismisses ‘preposterous’ allegations that he led covid coverup Health ‘I took an oath to do no harm’: The two doctors wrestling over Fauci’s lega... 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Health U.S. halts funding to virus research organization linked to pandemic probes Health What to know about the new covid ‘FLiRT’ variants Health Fauci agrees to testify in Congress on covid origins, pandemic policies Health What happened after a man got 217 coronavirus shots Health When you have covid, here’s how you know you are no longer contagious Health CDC officially drops five-day covid isolation guidelines Advertisement clockThis article was published more than **4 years ago** Democracy Dies in Darkness coronavirusU.S. cases and deaths by stateWorld mapNew CDC guidanceWhen am I still contagious?The people who never get covid coronavirusU.S. cases and deaths by stateWorld mapNew CDC guidanceWhen am I still contagious?The people who never get covid # Trump’s false claim that the WHO said the coronavirus was ‘not communicable’ President Trump accused the World Health Organization on April 14 of \"covering up the spread of the coronavirus.\" (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ![\\"\\"](\\" apps/imrs.php?src= authors/washpost/44f31222-8f22-4a07-b0eb-c77cbf11540a.png&h=196&w=196\\"/) Analysis by Glenn Kessler April 17, 2020 at 3:00 a.m. EDT “The WHO failed to investigate credible reports from sources in Wuhan that conflicted directly with the Chinese government’s official accounts. There was credible information to suspect human-to-human transmission in December 2019, which should have spurred the WHO to investigate, and investigate immediately. Through the middle of January, it parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission happening despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary. … The WHO pushed China’s misinformation about the virus, saying it was not communicable.” — President Trump, remarks at a news conference, April 14, 2020 This fact check has been updated with responses from the White House Story continues below advertisement The president’s announcement that he would suspend payments to the World Health Organization in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic contained a number of false or misleading claims. He faulted the WHO for believing that China was doing a good job and praising its transparency — when he had done the same thing at the time. He claimed the WHO “fought” his decision to impose some restrictions on travel from China, but WHO officials said nothing publicly; opposition to travel restrictions has been a consistent WHO policy. Advertisement That’s the usual Trump hyperbole and flip-flopping. For the purposes of this fact check, we will examine the part of Trump’s statement that holds some credibility — that the WHO did not alert the world quickly that the new virus could travel among people. We have assembled a detailed timeline to look at what the organization said. ### The Facts The WHO is a United Nations organization, with all of its inherent bureaucracy, slow decision-making and dependence on member states. The WHO is heavily reliant on information provided by countries and cannot fine countries that fail to provide accurate information. But that does not mean officials cannot use its platform to express skepticism or prod for more transparency, rather than amplify incomplete information. Story continues below advertisement Dec. 31, 2019: The WHO was alerted to a potentially new virus in China. Advertisement That same day, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control said it sent an email to the WHO regarding rumors of at least “seven cases of atypical pneumonia,” which it said is code in China for “a disease transmitted between humans caused by coronavirus.” ✅ Follow Fact-checking politicians Follow Taiwan is not a member of the WHO, and the WHO says the email never mentioned human-to-human transmission. “Public health professionals could discern from this wording that there was a real possibility of human-to-human transmission of the disease,” the Taiwan CDC argues. “However, because at the time there were as yet no cases of the disease in Taiwan, we could not state directly and conclusively that there had been human-to-human transmission.” Story continues below advertisement Apparently, Taiwanese officials had been alerted to Dec. 30 posts in a chat room by a doctor, Li Wenliang, in which he said that seven cases he had been treating resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, a deadly form of coronavirus. Li was reprimanded by the Chinese government for illegally spreading rumors. He later died of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Advertisement **Analysis:** Trump had said “there was credible information to suspect human- to-human transmission in December 2019, which should have spurred the WHO to investigate, and investigate immediately.” The White House said this was a reference to the information circulating in China that prompted the Taiwanese CDC email. “Taiwan authorities contacted the WHO about medical staff in Wuhan who were getting ill with a new type of pneumonia, signaling human-to-human transmission,” a senior administration official said. “This key information was seemingly disregarded by the WHO, which does not allow Taiwan to participate in its meetings due to Chinese political pressure, and not shared with the world until later in January.” Story continues below advertisement But at best, we’re talking about the last two days in December. Jan. 5 WHO news release: “On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. … Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.” Advertisement Jan. 9 WHO statement: “Chinese authorities have made a preliminary determination of a novel (or new) coronavirus, identified in a hospitalized person with pneumonia in Wuhan. … Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses with some causing less-severe disease, such as the common cold, and others more severe disease such as MERS and SARS. Some transmit easily from person to person, while others do not. According to Chinese authorities, the virus in question can cause severe illness in some patients and does not transmit readily between people. … More comprehensive information is required to understand the current status and epidemiology of the outbreak, and the clinical picture.” Story continues below advertisement Jan. 10 WHO health-worker guidance released: “Based on experience with SARS and MERS and known modes of transmission of respiratory viruses, infection and prevention control guidance were published to protect health workers recommending droplet and contact precautions when caring for patients, and airborne precautions for aerosol generating procedures conducted by health workers.” Jan. 12 WHO news release: “The evidence is highly suggestive that the outbreak is associated with exposures in one seafood market in Wuhan. The market was closed on 1 January 2020. At this stage, there is no infection among healthcare workers, and no clear evidence of human to human transmission.” Advertisement **Analysis:** The WHO uses terms such as “no clear evidence,” but it also associates the new virus with SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and urges protection for health workers. It notes that some coronaviruses can “transmit easily from person to person.” But the WHO is mainly echoing information provided by China — where there already was growing evidence of human-to-human transmission, though the Chinese government did not admit that yet. Story continues below advertisement Jan. 13: Thailand announces it has the first imported case of the coronavirus. The individual, who lived in Wuhan, had arrived from China on Jan. 8. Jan. 13 WHO news release: “The way these patients became infected is not yet known. To date, there has been no suggestion of human to human transmission of this new coronavirus. There have been no infections reported among health care workers, which can be an early indicator of person to person spread.” Advertisement Jan. 14 WHO news release: “Based on the available information there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission. No additional cases have been detected since 3 January 2020 in China.” Jan. 14 WHO tweet: “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.” Story continues below advertisement Jan. 14 WHO news briefing: “From the information that we have it is possible that there is limited human-to-human transmission, potentially among families, but it is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, acting head of the WHO’s emerging diseases unit. “It is still early days, we don’t have a clear clinical picture.” Van Kerkhove added, however, that human-to-human transmission would not be surprising given the WHO’s experience with SARS, MERS and other respiratory pathogens. Advertisement “What we have seen from both SARS and from MERS is we have had limited human- to-human transmission, and that there are amplification events,” Van Kerkhove told reporters. “There is the possibility that transmission can be amplified. Most notably in health-care facilities.” Story continues below advertisement **Analysis:** The Jan. 14 tweet has gotten the most attention, and both the tweet and the news release continue with the “no clear evidence” language. But the news briefing was much starker and reflected the urgency posed by the case in Thailand. Van Kerkhove’s message was not lost on reporters. The Telegraph in Britain headlined its article on the news conference: “WHO refuses to rule out human- to-human spread in China’s mystery coronavirus outbreak.” The Telegraph noted that it was a surprise that the virus had ended up in Thailand because authorities had been tracking 763 people who may have come into contact with the virus, including 419 health workers. Jimmy Whitworth, professor of international public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the newspaper: “This sounds like somebody who has slipped through the net. If one person has, have others?” He prophetically added: “With Chinese new year and millions of people traveling, even with limited transmission there’s some chance that this could transmit further.” Advertisement Jan. 19 WHO tweet: “An animal source seems the most likely primary source of this novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, with some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts.” Jan. 20 WHO tweet: “It is now very clear from the latest information that there is at least some human-to-human transmission of #nCoV2019. Infections among health care workers strengthen the evidence for this.” At the time, there were only 222 confirmed cases in the world, including four deaths. Jan. 21: First case identified in the United States. Jan. 22 WHO news release: “Data collected through detailed epidemiological investigation and through the deployment of the new test kit nationally suggests that human-to-human transmission is taking place in Wuhan. More analysis of the epidemiological data is needed to understand the full extent of human-to-human transmission.” In an interview with CNBC that same day, Trump said: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” **Analysis:** Five days after the Jan. 14 tweet and news conference, the WHO made it clear that human-to-human transmission was possible. On Jan. 20, China had admitted this, too. “The World Health Organization’s word carries much more weight than those of the Communist Party of China. The world relies on the WHO to be an honest broker,” the senior administration official said. He added: “The President has offered positive comments and words of support for President Xi and the Chinese people throughout this global crisis. The world counted on the WHO to assess the rapidly developing outbreak in China in order to contain it at its source. Their inability to do so led to an incalculable loss of human life and immeasurable economic damage. The WHO must be held accountable.” ### The Pinocchio Test Trump could have made a case that the WHO was slow to speak firmly about the possible human-to-human transmission. But he puts the onus on the WHO to investigate when it is largely dependent on information provided by member countries. (Leave aside the fact that Trump kept praising China’s transparency. If he had been more publicly critical, it might have forced China to respond more appropriately.) But Trump really gets over his skis when he claims that the WHO “publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission happening” and that the WHO said it was “not communicable.” The WHO said initially that there was “no clear evidence.” But by Jan. 14, a senior official said they could not rule out human-to-human transmission given the experience with SARS. That statement was made only two weeks after the WHO first learned of the new virus. It’s almost a Four-Pinocchio claim but not quite. The WHO could have highlighted the human-to-human transmission sooner than it did and pressed China for more information. Trump, of course, could have done the same — and failed to do so, for weeks longer. Trump earns Three Pinocchios. ### Three Pinocchios (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 Washington Post Fact Checker is working with the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact- checkers who are fighting misinformation related to the covid-19 pandemic. Learn more about the alliance here. 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月時所拍攝。根據圖片說明和新聞媒體報導，當時，英國女王伊麗莎白二世和身為衛隊上校的菲利浦親王，在參加英國擲彈兵衛隊檢閱儀式前，看到一群蜜蜂飛入溫莎城堡的景象，因而笑了出來，這個畫面也被參與檢閱儀式的攝影師 Chris Young 拍下。另外，1921 年 6 月出生的菲利普親王在 2003 年 4 月時應為 81 歲，並非流傳內容所述的 90 歲，且該張照片的拍攝時間距今（2021 年）為 18 年，並非 9 年前。 ![\\"九年前](\\" ## 伊莉莎白二世被假扮成衛兵的菲利浦親王逗笑的圖片？ 原始謠傳版本： > 九年前，伊莉莎白返回白金汉宫时，已九十高龄的菲利浦假扮卫兵迎接他，被女王认出。但女王并没有揭穿，而是忍不住地偷笑，被摄影师抓拍。 主要流傳這張圖片： ![\\"\\"](\\" PdRsL66bm50MBSotxQda5rXNlRW1B9ZlvX3cC_W8e8zN4TzANfMWTsPebu84jkoVCO86iMl- fJFuHpfVtyQjYJj5h_QdfY0V9698rkDOIbiqHkX1HR8ydJz7SFGRx4n35IZj4/s0/173807001_269251844856733_3934695881656256986_n.jpg\\"/) 並在社群平台流傳： ![\\"\\"](\\" EVk- XvXKS_6DwtUnxQNoMLTpbqkXLUd2PH7paE6CPY9bwyWnxmOyQzKBDvO6BdKF_b78OKOE6sfIrFpqSQ_GdUttQtI8/s0/messageImage_1618821213836.jpg\\"/) 查證解釋： > ### 原始圖片的來源？ > > 實際透過以圖反搜工具搜尋，可以檢索到《BBC》、《華盛頓郵報》等媒體的報導，在報導中有和流傳內容相同的圖片。 > > > ![\\"\\"](\\" > hGE9Ix49B8v7jnObpnGagqWs5ccFfw60k/s0/image1.jpg\\"/) > > 透過關鍵字檢索，在英國圖庫網站 PA Images 可以找到該張原始圖片。說明處顯示，該張照片是由 Chris Young 於 2003 年 4 > 月拍攝，當時英國女王伊麗莎白二世（Queen Elizabeth II）和愛丁堡公爵、菲利浦親王（Prince Philip, The Duke of > Edinburgh）在欣賞一群蜜蜂飛至溫莎城堡（Windsor Castle）的景象。 > > > ![\\"\\"](\\" > > 在圖庫網站 Getty Images 中同樣可以找到該張照片。照片說明指出，女王和菲利普親王在觀賞一群蜜蜂飛至溫莎城堡的景象。 > > > ![\\"\\"](\\" > > ### 流傳圖片指出「伊莉莎白返回白金漢宮時，已九十高齡的菲利浦假扮衛兵迎接……。但女王並沒有揭穿，而是忍不住地偷笑……」這個說法正確嗎？ > > 根據《BBC》的報導，2003 年時在「the Press Association」任職的 Chris Young > 是當時參與英國擲彈兵衛隊（Grenadier > Guards）檢閱儀式的唯一一位攝影師。而當時菲利普親王之所以會穿著整套制服，是因為他是衛隊的上校，並準備陪同女王出席該場儀式。 Chris Young > 向 CNN 表示，他當時留意到一群蜜蜂飛入，女王看到後像小女孩一樣咯咯地笑，菲利普親王也笑了出來。Chris Young > 拍下的這張照片也在隔日成為許多報紙的頭版。 事實查核單位《Snopes》、《今日美國》（USA > Today）的查核報告和報導也提及，加拿大《埃德蒙頓報》（Edmonton Journal）在 2003 年 4 月 16 > 日的報紙中，刊登了該張流傳圖片。 > > > ![\\"\\"](\\" > gJbEDmddLzwOKCXbT3xRqLVG- > mnsbOyURoneyJbiHjP68wE5bESn7uL5ehJnjoDDes/s0/image5.jpg\\"/) > > > 該則報導的圖片說明顯示，「伊麗莎白女王咯咯地笑，因為她和菲利普親王在周二時，看到一群蜜蜂飛到位於西倫敦的溫莎城堡的草地上圍繞著賓客，就在英國擲彈兵衛隊舉行檢閱儀式前。儀式開始前，養蜂人將蜂群移走。」 > 另外，1921 年 6 月出生的菲利普親王在 2003 年 4 月時應為 81 歲，並非流傳內容所述的 90 歲，且該張照片的拍攝時間距今（2021 > 年）已有 18 年，並非 9 年前。 因此，根據查證，流傳圖片中的描述並非事實。 資料來源：BBC - When the Queen was snapped \'giggling\' at 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By Lori Robertson and Eugene Kiely Posted on August 29, 2019 * 3.4K * * * * ##### Summary To hear President Donald Trump tell the story of the U.S. steel industry, it went from “dead” or “going out of business” to “thriving” all because of the 25% tariffs on imported steel he instituted in March 2018. While the tariffs have benefited U.S. steel producers, the reality of the impact isn’t that stark. Domestic prices went up, for instance, but are now back down below the level they were when Trump was inaugurated. Production has gone up, too, but has been higher as recently as 2014. While the industry has announced several new investments, it’s simply not true that a new mill hadn’t been built in “30 years,” as the president wrongly claimed. Steel and iron mill jobs have increased, but they’re below the pre-Great Recession level. And technology has been a major factor affecting the long-term jobs decline. Below, we’ll look at several claims Trump has made about the steel industry in recent months and how they measure up to the facts. In late March 2018, Trump instituted the 25% tariffs on imported steel, and 10% tariffs on aluminum, with temporary exemptions for some countries, using his authority under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. As required by the act, the Commerce Department had determined that the imports threatened national security. Two months later, he permanently exempted Argentina, Brazil and South Korea from the steel tariffs, with quotas on imports instead. Australia was also exempted, without a quota. In August 2018, Trump increased the tariff on steel from Turkey to 50%. This year, in May, Trump lifted the tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and lowered the tariff on Turkey back to 25%. U.S. companies also have received exclusions on certain imports. ##### Analysis ##### ‘Steel Was Dead’? The claim: “And, by the way, steel — steel was dead. Your business was dead. Okay? I don’t want to be overly crude. Your business was dead. And I put a little thing called ‘a 25% tariff’ on all of the dumped steel all over the country. And now your business is thriving.” — Trump, in a speech in Monaca, Pennsylvania, Aug. 13 The facts: The 25% tariff on most imported steel helped the U.S. steel industry: Prices went up (though they’re now a little below what they were when Trump took office); productivity has increased; imports decreased. But Trump exaggerates the before-and-after picture. The industry wasn’t “dead” before the tariffs, and there weren’t signs it was “going out of business” before his election, as he claimed on July 15. “If I hadn’t been elected, you would have no steel industry right now. It would be gone,” he said at a “Made in America” event at the White House. It’s safe to say the entire U.S. steel industry would not be “gone” had Trump not been elected. “The US industry has been vibrant, innovative and dynamic for the last 40 years,” James Moss, a partner in First River Consulting, told us in an email. Moss, who has been a consultant to the steel industry for more than 20 years, said the U.S. has been a leader in the development, expansion and improvement of new technologies — such as the rise of the “minimills,” which produce steel from scrap metal using electric arc furnace, or EAF, technology. In 2002, minimills for the first time overtook the traditional blast furnace mills for steel production, according to a 2003 government report on the “changing profile” of the U.S. steel industry. Moss described the change as “a classic US industrial story of ‘creative destruction,’” which “neither Europe nor Japan” allowed to happen, in part, because of the “industrial and social disruption” it would have caused. “[T]here are two industries. There is the declining blast furnace based industry and there is the thriving and growing electric arc furnace based industry,” Moss said. “[T]he blast furnace industry has been dying, but the EAF industry has been thriving. As a result, the [U.S.] steel industry overall was and is far from dead.” We’ll look at several metrics for the industry: production, prices, imports and capacity utilization. Production. Production is up since 2016, but it has been higher as recently as 2014. Figures from the U.S. Geological Survey, which gets its data from the American Iron and Steel Institute, show an increase in raw steel production from 2016 to 2018 of 10.8%. Production hit 87 million metric tons in 2018, but was 88.2 million metric tons in 2014. “These are improvements, but we’ve seen improvement of similar double-digit magnitude in the past,” John Anton, director of steel analytics at IHS Markit, told us in citing monthly year-over-year production increases, from a high of 9.1% in January to a low of 3.1% in June. “We’ve also seen deep cuts” in production in the past, he added. “But production is up.” Raw steel production in the U.S. topped 100 million metric tons in 2000, stayed in the 90-million range throughout that decade, and dropped considerably in 2009 during the Great Recession. Production rebounded the following year to 80.5 million metric tons, climbing higher in subsequent years before dropping 10.7% from 2014 to 2015 and remaining at that lower point through 2016. ![\\"\\"](\\" What happened in 2015-2016? “Overproduction everywhere,” Anton said, which lowered prices. “By 2015, globally, not just the U.S., prices were absolutely atrocious.” The industry “is filled with times when people get too enthusiastic,” Anton said. “It’s the history of the industry.” Cicero Machado, principal analyst for Americas steel and iron ore at Wood Mackenzie, told us 2015-2016 was “a low point” for the industry. “Not only in the U.S., but certainly in other regions,” he said. Demand, he said, wasn’t growing at a pace most steelmakers had expected. The Trump administration, Machado said, gave some “excitement” to steelmakers, with talk of tariffs (which were put into place) and investments in infrastructure (which haven’t materialized). That spurred production. Much of what analysts told us about the industry pre- and post-tariff reflect classic supply and demand. Tyler Kenyon, a vice president equity research analyst at the financial services firm Cowen, told us the tariffs prompted steel buyers to accumulate inventory, as the U.S. does rely on steel imports to meet demand. “Buyers were basically fearful of their ability to procure the material they needed,” Kenyon said. “What we saw was a massive inventory accumulation in excess of what underlying demand would suggest is appropriate.” We asked Moss why — if the industry is as “vibrant” as he said — crude steel production has declined in recent decades. He gave three reasons, which he summed up as “part macro-economic, part technical and part wrong metric for measuring vitality.” “Steel is a mature industry in a developed economy. We use less and less of it for every dollar of GDP. As much as our infrastructure needs renovating, we’re mostly built out. So we’re not a very steel intensive economy compared to say China,” he said. “Second, everything got lighter. Steel got lighter (thinner gauges) and stronger (better grades) so you use less of it for a given application. Plastic displaced some of it, too. So you would expect there to be a decline in use as an economy matures. Third, steel processing technology got much more efficient.” Prices. The 25% tariffs on imported steel then boosted prices in the U.S., at least for 2018, which was good news for steel companies’ bottom lines. The Wall Street Journal editorial board – no fan of the tariffs – noted in a Feb. 3 editorial “all the superlatives” steel company executives used on investor calls. Nucor’s and Steel Dynamics’ CEOs said 2018 was “a record year” for their companies, and AK Steel’s and U.S. Steel’s CEOs said it was the best in the last 10 years. With the price spike, the mills were “minting money,” the editorial argued, “to the detriment of America’s consumers and steel-reliant industries.” Ford Motor Co. said its tariff costs on steel and aluminum amounted to $750 million in 2018, and Caterpillar said it would raise prices in the second half of 2018 to offset higher costs due to the tariffs. The steelmakers were “very happy,” Machado said, but the end users, probably not so much. There are “always two sides to this story.” Machado shared yearly pricing figures from Wood Mackenzie for hot rolled coil, a benchmark of the industry. The annualized numbers show prices jumping from $687 per U.S. ton in 2017 to $918 in 2018 and back down to $682 this year. Prices hadn’t reached more than $900 per U.S. ton since hitting $964 in 2008. Projections through 2025 from Wood Mackenzie show prices staying around $660 per U.S. ton in coming years, which is close to the average price from 2010 through 2017. Weekly pricing data from Argus Media in the chart below show the impact of the tariffs, as prices increased in anticipation of the tariffs and continued to rise in the months immediately after the tariffs, hitting a high of $913 per U.S. ton the week of July 9, 2018, before falling and stabilizing this summer. Argus has the hot rolled coil price at $588 per U.S. ton the week of July 30, which is lower than it was the week of Trump’s inauguration. ![\\"\\"](\\" The price spike in 2018 was unsustainable. U.S. steel prices “went up by more than the tariff rate,” said Anton, who put the increase at about 53% higher than European prices. “When you go too high,” he said, “you’re going to attract imports.” Prices now in the U.S. are only about 7% higher than European prices, he said. “As soon as prices remain high, imports will still be something very attractive,” Machado said, noting that the tariff didn’t cover all countries, such as Brazil. “We saw a big jump in Brazilian imports into the U.S.” And then there’s the issue of that accumulated inventory before the tariffs. For 2019, Machado said, “Demand is weakening, supply is outpacing demand.” Kenyon said that over the last year, “we’ve seen the supply chain attempt to work down those inventories.” Imports. Machado said the tariffs did work in terms of keeping imports low, though Wood Mackenzie expects 2019 imports to be lower than 2018, more so because U.S. prices fell. (Commerce Department figures support the expectation that imports will decline for 2019.) End users of steel, he said, aren’t looking for imported steel as much because domestic prices are lower. But if prices increase again, “end users will find ways to import from some countries not in the 232 list.” Import figures from the U.S. Geological Survey show imports fell by 7.5% from 2017 to 2018, but they’re up from 2016. ![\\"\\"](\\" Other factors influencing U.S. prices, production and imports include the easing of the tariffs, weakening global demand and the economy generally. In May, the Trump administration lifted the 25% tariff on steel imported from Canada and Mexico, and U.S. manufacturers have asked for and received exclusions for certain imported products. An April Congressional Research Service report said the administration had approved 16,500 steel exclusions out of a total of nearly 70,000 requests as of March 4. Kenyon pointed out the tariffs now only apply to 30% of imports. Census figures for July show that the tariffs would have applied to 33% of total steel products imported, by quantity, once the exempted countries are excluded. That calculation doesn’t include the exclusions Commerce has approved for U.S. steel buyers. The steel industry reflects broader economic factors, Blake Hurtik, editor of Argus Metal Prices, said. It follows consumption and construction activity, and global markets. Capacity. The boost in price due to the tariffs and subsequent boost in cash flow for U.S. companies also prompted capacity expansions. “A lot of capital is being invested in the steel industry right now,” Kenyon said. When Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross issued his report to the president on his investigations into imports of steel and aluminum and his recommendations for tariffs, he said an 80% capacity utilization was an important benchmark. “Each of these remedies is intended to increase domestic steel production from its present 73% of capacity to approximately an 80% operating rate, the minimum rate needed for the long-term viability of the industry,” the Feb. 16, 2018, press release from the Commerce Department said. U.S. steel mills were operating at 80.3% of their capacity in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to figures provided to us from the American Iron and Steel Institute. An AISI spokesman said capacity for the first half of 2019 was 81.2%, and the rates in August also hovered around 80%. AISI provided quarterly and yearly capability utilization rates dating back to 1994, which show rates well above 80% for most of that time period but not post-Great Recession. ![\\"\\"](\\" Stock prices. Stock prices for U.S. steel companies hit peak prices when the tariffs were implemented, but they’ve tumbled since. U.S. Steel stock is down 75% from late February 2018 and 66% from January 2017, when Trump took office, while Nucor stock is down 30% from January 2018 and 19% since January 2017. However, Kenyon said once Trump was elected, investors were buying steel stocks in anticipation of pro-steel policies from the administration, and measuring the fall in stocks from peak levels due to the tariffs, “doesn’t truly reflect whether the industry is better off or not.” ##### New Steel Mills The claim: “[W]e didn’t have a new mill built in 30 years, and now we have many of them going up.” — Trump, Aug. 13 The facts: Trump is “completely wrong about that,” Moss said, echoed by other experts. First River Consulting provided us with charts that show the U.S. steel industry since 1989 has added about 40 million short tons, or U.S. tons, (as opposed to metric tons) of carbon steel capacity (excluding stainless steel). Flat (or sheet and plate) steel — which is used for cars and washing machines, for example — is the most in demand, and accounts for 80% of the new capacity since then, Moss said. Long steel capacity accounts for the rest. In all, Moss identified for us 23 new steel mills that added 33 million tons of annual capacity since 1989. Most of the new mills opened between 1992 and 2002. But eight of them have been built since 2007, including these three large-capacity mills: * Big River Steel announced plans for a 1.6-million-ton-annual-capacity steel mill in 2013, broke ground on construction in 2014, and started production in December 2016. * ThyssenKrupp USA announced in May 2007 that it would build a steel mill in Alabama, which opened in late 2010 at a final cost of $3.6 billion. It has the annual capacity to produce 4.7 million tons of carbon steel — making it the single largest new plant that has opened since 1989, according to First River Consulting. * In 2007, Severstal completed construction of “the newest and most advanced electric arc furnace facility in the world,” as a corporate press release described it. The company doubled the size of the facility when it completed phase two of the project in 2011, increasing annual steel production capacity to 3.4 million tons. Although it is “not true” that the U.S. hasn’t built a new mill in 30 years, the president is right that there has been a lot of investment in the steel industry recently, said Machado at Wood Mackenzie. The “amount of announcements that were made last year … was substantial,” he said. Six new steel mills with a combined annual capacity of 7.2 million tons have been announced since 2017, according to First River. The largest is a mill in Sinton, Texas, which Steel Dynamics Inc. announced in late 2018. The mill will have an annual capacity of approximately 3 million tons. All of the new facilities use the electric arc furnace technology, Moss said. “No one will build a new blast furnace based steelmaking facility again in the US,” Moss said, because they are “too expensive to build and maintain, too dirty and come with a whole bunch of corollary investments that make it hard for the steel mills they support to make money.” In fact, U.S. Steel in early March 2018 announced it would restart a blast furnace at its Granite City, Illinois, plant that had been idle since December 2015, citing “anticipated increased demand” from Trump’s action on tariffs. But by June, U.S. Steel said it would idle two other blast furnaces in the U.S. and one in Europe, and restart production “when market conditions improve.” In August, it announced it would idle another plant in Indiana this fall. Hurtik at Argus Metal Prices said the big capacity announcements are scrap- based, not blast furnaces. “Not everybody is going to be winner. Steel is not a homogeneous thing,” he said. ##### Steel Jobs The claim: “We’re putting … our steel workers back to work.” — Trump, at a campaign rally, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 1 The facts: Iron and steel mill jobs have gone up by 4,500 from January 2017 to June, a 5.6% increase, according to the latest figures available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The level of employment in June — 85,300 workers — was 16% below the 101,700 workers in May 2007, months before the Great Recession. When we contacted the Trump campaign about the president’s claims, one factor Deputy Communications Director Zach Parkinson pointed to was job growth under Trump and a 13,500 drop in those jobs during Barack Obama’s presidency. That figure is correct. Iron and steel mill jobs under Obama declined during the Great Recession, rose back up by late 2011 to the level they were when he had taken office, and slowly declined again, most considerably in 2016. The long-term trend for the industry has been a decline in employment, as the chart below shows, but much of that is due to changes in technology, experts told us. Steel and iron mills employed 187,800 people in January 1990, and it’s less than half that figure now. Anton at IHS Markit said that’s primarily due to new technology and more efficient mills. It takes fewer people to make the same amount of steel. “Imports are a problem,” he said, but improved efficiency is the “No. 1 reason that you don’t have as many people employed.” ![\\"\\"](\\" employment.jpg\\") The Trump campaign also pointed to news of wage increases negotiated by unions at U.S. Steel and the mining company Cleveland Cliffs in 2018 as evidence of Trump’s positive impact on the industry. The United Steelworkers press release on the wage hikes at U.S. Steel noted the company projected earnings of $2 billion in 2018 — as we’ve explained, a time of high prices for domestic steel — and “workers rightly wanted a share of that success,” USW International President Leo W. Gerard said. But it took a unanimous union vote to strike in September to get the new wage agreement. ##### Steel Dumping The claim: “And they still dump, but now the United States takes in billions of dollars and the dumping is much less, and the steel companies are thriving again.” — Trump, Aug. 13 The facts: It’s unclear exactly what impact the tariffs have had on “dumped” steel, though, as we said, imported steel overall declined from 2017 to 2018. And 2019 imports may be lower still, though Machado said that’s mainly because U.S. prices fell. At the White House on July 15, Trump said, “We put massive tariffs on dumped steel.” But the tariffs were broader than individual antidumping measures, which were already in place. Antidumping cases are specific to the product, country and sometimes to the company, Anton said, whereas the Section 232 tariffs were on every country, except certain exemptions. He said dumping cases are filed “every year,” including cases under then-President Barack Obama. On March 1, 2016, Obama’s Commerce Department announced a 266% duty on cold- rolled flat steel from China, as well as duties on certain steel from Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the U.K. It upped that to 522% in May 2016. At the time Trump’s tariffs were imposed, the U.S. had 164 antidumping and countervailing duty orders in effect for steel that restricted imports of individual steel products from certain countries — including Brazil, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey, according to the Commerce Department’s Jan. 11, 2018, report recommending increasing tariffs on all steel imports. That represented a 60% increase since the department’s last Section 232 investigation of the steel industry in 2001, the report said. (As the Congressional Research Service explained in an April report, antidumping duties are imposed when the U.S. International Trade Commission determines that goods are sold at less than fair value in the U.S. market, while countervailing duties are imposed when foreign governments are subsidizing the cost of those cut-rate imports.) The Commerce report said antidumping and countervailing actions “can address specific instances of unfairly traded steel products,” but they are not enough in this case. “[G]iven the large number of countries from which the United States imports steel and the myriad of different products involved, it could take years to identify and investigate every instance of unfairly traded steel, or attempts to transship or evade remedial duties,” the report said. The U.S. doesn’t get much of its imported steel from China, which was the 11th largest source of steel for the U.S. in 2018, the same spot it held in 2016. China was the seventh largest source of steel imports in 2015, but the metric tons imported dropped considerably the following year, by 63%, according to figures from the Department of Commerce. The top three sources of U.S. imports are Canada, Brazil and Mexico. But China is the No. 1 steel producer in the world, by a long shot. Hurtik at Argus Metal Prices told us even if China isn’t selling steel to the U.S., it’s selling steel somewhere. “It has an impact no matter where it ends up.” The April CRS report said, “While China is the world’s largest steel producer, accounting for roughly 45% of global capacity, relatively little Chinese steel enters the U.S. market directly, due to extensive U.S. dumping and subsidy determinations, but the large amount of Chinese production acts to depress prices globally.” ##### Looking Ahead There’s no expiration date on the 232 tariffs. The CRS report said the president’s actions can remain in place “for such time, as he deems necessary to adjust the imports” so they don’t “threaten to impair the national security,” according to the statute. Machado told us that while demand is weakening, Wood Mackenzie expects some growth in demand over the next two years, driven by commercial construction and infrastructure. He also expects imports to increase, partly because “end users will find ways to import” if prices are higher in the U.S. and partly because he expects that free trade policies would be restored. The overall impact on the U.S. economy, as opposed to only the steel industry, is more complicated. The CRS report said that “generally” economic models would show the negative effect of higher prices for those using imports is greater than “the benefit of higher profits and expanded production in the import-competing industry and the additional government revenue generated by the tariff.” There’s also an impact due to retaliatory tariffs, which were imposed on $23 billion of U.S. goods in 2018 by six trading partners. 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Gore said that evidence abounds that climate change is real (it is ), and people \"don’t have to rely on the virtually unanimous opinion of the scientific community anymore.\" \"Mother nature is telling us every night on the TV news now is like a nature hike through the book of Revelation,\" Gore said on Fox News Sunday on June 4. \"People are noticing this, these downpours and historic floods. We’ve had 11 once-in-a-thousand-year downpours in the U.S. just in the last 10 years. We’ve got these wildfires that become mega fires now. Seventy percent of Florida is in drought today. Missouri declared an emergency just a couple of days ago because of another one of these. And they keep on coming.\" Gore correctly cited a drought figure for Florida from a commonly used drought index. We will explain what that index shows and what the drought means in Florida. Most of Florida is in a drought A spokeswoman for Gore said that he was citing the United States Drought Monitor, a weekly map published on Thursdays showing drought conditions. The monitor, established in 1999, is produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. The map is based on measurements of climatic, hydrologic and soil conditions as well as reported impacts and observations from more than 350 contributors around the country. The monitor showed that 71.66 percent of Florida was in a moderate to extreme drought as of May 30. (The previous few weeks it had been between 65 and 66.) ![](\\" While that was the highest this year, there have been multiple other weeks that it reached similarly high levels since 2000. The last time the drought monitor showed Florida’s area of drought was as high as 71 percent was February 2013. As bad as this drought is, it’s been even worse. During two weeks in April 2012, 99.96 percent of Florida was in a drought. More than 72 percent of Florida was in a drought between late January and early June 2012. There was also an extended period of drought between December 2010 and July 2011 and between April and August 2007. There were also periods of drought in 2000-01. Florida’s dry season runs from about November through May and can leave Florida prone to drought conditions. If the dry season is drier than usual and the wet season is late to appear, a period of drought can run into summer, said Victor Murphy, climate service program manager for NOAA\'s National Weather Service-Southern Region. There is a small bit of good news: The return of the rainy season — under way this first week of June — should improve drought conditions. \"There have been at least three other instances in the past 10 years when this has occurred,\" Murphy said. \"Not coincidentally, all of these events began in the winter/spring (dry) season, and ended during the summer. This event will be similar. #### 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 \"Since the Florida wet season has returned with a vengeance over the past week, and is forecast to continue over the next few weeks, the amount of Florida in drought two to four weeks from now should be substantially less than what it is today.\" Gore tied in several weather events to illustrate the effects of climate change. Experts told us that Florida is prone to periodic droughts, but rising temperatures as a result of climate change can make droughts worse. \"It’s part of the climate -- part of natural cycles,\" said David Zierden, the state climatologist for Florida who works at the Florida Climate Center at Florida State University. \"Our current drought is no worse or more prolonged than any other drought we go through periodically.\" This year the Florida Peninsula only received half of its normal rainfall during the dry season, leading to the most active wildfire season since 2011. Temperatures have been rising in Florida -- the statewide average temperature for 26 of the last 27 months have all been warmer than normal, Zierden said. \"There is an increasing temperature trend, and warmer temperatures lead to greater evapotranspiration rates, which can exacerbate these periods of drought,\" Zierden said. (Gore’s spokeswoman pointed to an article by the Union of Concerned Scientists that makes a similar point.) While Gore’s numerical statement about the drought is correct, David Nolan, chair of the University of Miami’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences, cautioned against pointing to any particular weather event as proof of climate change. \"I am generally not comfortable with relating any local event, a drought in one place or a flood in another, to global warming,\" Nolan said. \"What matters most is global average temperature, because that drives sea level rise, which eventually will be the biggest problem.\" Our ruling Gore said \"70 percent of Florida is in drought today.\" Gore correctly cited the United States Drought Monitor which showed that 71.66 percent of Florida was experiencing a drought for the week ending May 30. However, that drought percentage isn’t unheard of in Florida -- there have been other periods of drought since 2000 when the monitor began mapping drought data. We rate this claim Mostly True. 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Dito Telecommunity, the country\'s third telco player, consists of Udenna Corp. and Chelsea Logistics Corp., both owned by Davao businessman Dennis Uy, and the Chinese state-owned China Telecommunications Corp. The conspiracy theory further says a “5G vaccine with RFID chip” to be implanted in humans is being developed and links this “mark of the beast” to the impending rise of digital currency. The agenda, it claims, includes disrupting church services, so that “the Spirit of Anti-Christ can come.” RFID chips refer to radio-frequency identification chips. The localized conspiracy theory began spreading on Facebook in early April, notably across religious groups. It waned somewhat before gaining a second wind on May 10 when it was reposted on Facebook groups, including those of Duterte supporters. More than a hundred groups have reposted the theory as of May 12, data from the social media monitoring tool Crowdtangle show. The post reads in part: > _HUMANDA NA TAYO SA_(Let us prepare for the)__ MARK OF THE BEAST CORONA 5G > VACCINE WITH RFID CHIP. THE CORONA PANDEMIC IS AN ORGANIZED ONE WORLD > AGENDA! > They are making us sick to introduce the Mark of the Beast. They have TURNED > ON the 5G SATTELITE FREQUENCY and they are trying to install the 5G dito via > the MISLATEL TOWERS in our country and all over the world. Our Body is a > natural Electrical Circuit and is getting sick because it is reacting with > the 5G Satellite Frequency released in the atmosphere. The bioengineered > Corona Virus is reacting with the 5G Signal that is why we are getting sick. > To cure this disease, they are planning to give us the MARK OF THE BEAST - > CORONA 5G VACCINE WITH RFID CHIP so that our body would better absorb the 5G > Signal. Everyone could be detected even when they are in buildings or > hideouts. The MARK OF THE BEAST is now being prepared. They are shutting > global economy down. They are now creating the GLOBAL DIGITAL CURRENCY to > replace the actual money and it will start in the United States and China > and other countries. AMAZON and GOOGLE will be the Operating Platform to > manage our daily lives. We will not be able to BUY or SELL WITHOUT THE MARK > OF THE BEAST in the form of CORONA 5G VACCINE with RFID CHIP. The World Health Organization has said there is no evidence that SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, was created in a lab. It _said_ : > The full genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 from the early human cases and the > sequences of many other virus isolated from human cases from China and all > over the world since then show that SARS-CoV-2 has an ecological origin in > bat populations. All available evidence to date suggests that the virus has > a natural animal origin and is not a manipulated or constructed virus. Many > researchers have been able to look at the genomic features of SARS-CoV-2 and > have found that evidence does not support that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory > construct. WHO, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has also dismissed the rumor that 5G cell phone technology is linked to COVID-19. It said: > 5G mobile networks DO NOT spread COVID-19 > Viruses cannot travel on radio waves/mobile networks. COVID-19 is spreading > in many countries that do not have 5G mobile networks. > COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets when an infected person > coughs, sneezes or speaks. People can also be infected by touching a > contaminated surface and then their eyes, mouth or nose. On the potential health risks from 5G, WHO said in February: > To date, and after much research performed, no adverse health effect has > been causally linked with exposure to wireless technologies. Health-related > conclusions are drawn from studies performed across the entire radio > spectrum but, so far, only a few studies have been carried out at the > frequencies to be used by 5G. > …Radiofrequency exposure levels from current technologies result in > negligible temperature rise in the human body. > As the frequency increases, there is less penetration into the body tissues > and absorption of the energy becomes more confined to the surface of the > body (skin and eye). Provided that the overall exposure remains below > international guidelines, no consequences for public health are anticipated. Despite the clarification, the rumor had earlier gotten out of hand in some countries. In early April, conspiracy theorists were setting cellphone towers on fire in the U.K. Before the pandemic-linked lockdown, Dito Technology, formerly Mislatel, had scheduled a “technical launch” in July, saying commercial services would begin in March 2021. It will first offer 4G LTE connectivity before moving to 5G. To support its claim about RFID chips, the Philippine-specific conspiracy theory refers to an article on Disclose.tv titled “Human RFID Chips Will Not Be Optional and They Will \'Change\' The Very Essence of What It Is To Be Human.” The article was published March 29, 2018 and precedes the coronavirus outbreak. In fact, it discusses the pros and cons of RFID chips, even stressing that the downside “does not negate the upside in the form of convenience towards having these chips installed.” While Disclose.tv mentioned concerns and fears over RFID chips, including “bacterial”—not viral like the novel coronavirus—or computer infections, it never concluded these have basis. The more extreme concerns, it said, are the religious notion that the chips could be considered “the mark of the beast” or that the secret society Illuminati is using the chips to track and control people. The article was written months after a firm in Wisconsin, USA, embedded microchips in employees to replace company badges and logons, kicking off a storm of controversy. Disclose.tv cited Noelle Chelsley, a sociologist of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who earlier told the USA Today that human chipping “will happen to everybody. But not this year, and not in 2018. Maybe not my generation, but certainly that of my kids.” The claim that a coronavirus vaccine or “antivirus” with an RFID chip to track people is being developed is also old and has been debunked by the Pulitzer prize-winning Politifact. The earlier version identified the U.S. as supposedly developing the vaccine. Wilbur Chen, an infectious-disease scientist at the University of Maryland’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, called that the idea of a vaccine containing RFID technology “preposterous.” He told Politifact: > Even the smallest version of RFID chips are rather large such that none > would ever fit into a vaccine needle — these are very small-bore needles. > The RFID chips that are routinely used for the tracking of pets are as small > as a grain of rice … or in other words, they are as large as a grain of > rice, and no vaccine needles in use are that large in diameter. Mark Fenster, a law professor at the University of Florida who has written extensively about conspiracy theories, also told Politifact: > The fear of insertion of tracking chips and other things like that into our > bodies has been a longstanding bogeyman for theorists. There is a lot of > tracking that goes on, but the suggestion that it’s being used in this > manner and this way seems absurd. This comes from the stream of conspiracy > theories of the last 50 years. It has nothing to do with science and > everything to do with conspiracy theories. In April, China did begin pilot-testing its homegrown digital currency across four cities. The U.S. is also being urged to develop a “digital dollar.” But there is no evidence linking digital money to the purported coronavirus vaccine. In the Philippines, meanwhile, religious gatherings are not allowed only in areas under community quarantine. Many churches have been holding online services. The photos that accompany the social media post about the 5G vaccine conspiracy theory are, like several of the allegations it makes, old. The close-up shot of a microchip on a finger was taken May 10, 2002 by Rohan Wise of Agence France Presse. It shows the VeriChip, a product of Applied Digital Solutions, implanted for the first time in a family in Boca Raton, Florida. The caption also says the chips contain personal medical information acquired with a specialized digital reader. A _2009 version_ of the other photo can be found online: It shows a left hand with no chip implant. The recent photo was altered: It was flipped and manipulated to show a small incision and what seems to be a chip embedded in the skin. ![\\"\\"](\\" ![\\"\\"](\\" A Vox explainer said research from Zignal Labs, an impact intelligence platform that studies online discourse, has found overlaps between the 5G and anti-vaccination conspiracy theories. Vox said: > This could be cause for concern, as certain conspiracy theorists might > refuse a Covid-19 vaccine when one is eventually produced. That could put > more vulnerable people at risk. **References** Bambrough, B. (2020, March 24). Shock U.S. digital dollar proposals set bitcoin and crypto prices alight. _Forbes_. Retrieved from dollar-proposals-set-bitcoin-and-crypto-prices-alight/#710ec4e1318e Casey, M. (2020, April 8). Why the U.S. shouldn’t let China dominate the digital currency race. _Fortune_. Retrieved from Cheng, J. (2020, April 20). China rolls out pilot test of digital currency. _Wall Street Journal_. Retrieved from rolls-out-pilot-test-of-digital-currency-11587385339 Davidson, H. (2020, April 28). China starts major trial of state-run digital currency. _The Guardian_. Retrieved from state-run-digital-currency Dito pushes back market rollout to March 2021. (2020, February 21). _CNN Philippines_. Retrieved from Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2020, April 9). Coronavirus rumor control. Retrieved from Graham, J. (2017, August 10). You will get chipped — eventually. _USA Today_. Retrieved from eventually/547336001/ Heilwel, R. (2020, April 24). How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory went from fringe to mainstream. _Vox_. Retrieved from theory-covid-facebook-youtube Human RFID chips will not be optional and they will “change the very essence of what it is to be human. (2018, March 29). Retrieved from change-the-very-essence-of-what-it-is-to-be-329240 Kumar, A. (2020, May 4). China pioneers a national digital currency. Can the U.S. catch up? _Los Angeles Times_. Retrieved from coronavirus-covid Linke Hand. (2009, July 4). Retrieved from Putterman, S. (2020, April 3). No, the US isn’t developing a vaccine or ‘antivirus’ with a chip to track people. _Politifact_. Retrieved from developing-vaccine-or-antivirus-chip-tr/ Rapoza, K. (2020, April 23). China’s digital currency to be given a test drive by U.S. companies. _Forbes_. Retrieved from be-given-a-test-drive-by-us-companies/#7569da897992 Satariano, A., and Alba, D. (2020, April 10). Burning cell towers, out of baseless fear they spread the virus. _New York Times_. Retrieved from Wise, R. (2020, May 10). This photo taken 10 May 2002 shows the VeriChip, which was … [Photograph]. Retrieved from taken-10-may-2002-shows-the-verichip-which-was-news-photo/51687773 World Health Organization. (2020, February 27). 5G mobile networks and health. Retrieved from and-health World Health Organization. (2020, April 23). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report – 94. Retrieved from reports/20200423-sitrep-94-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=b8304bf0_4 World Health Organization. (n.d.). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters. Retrieved from public/myth-busters ## Recent Posts See All US maritime drill depicted as foreign warships\' arrival in PH Willie Ong victim of yet another fake endorsement video US did not deliver hundreds of equipment to PH * * * * bottom of page | Coronavirus pandemic linked to 5G RFID chips digital currency Satan’s plan | 37 |
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![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) *About ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) ## Allegation without proof # A residence still belonging to Charles III Published on 9.4.2024, 15:39 (CEST) On social networks, Volodymyr Zelensky continues to be the target of false rumors. According to some, the Ukrainian president acquired a manor belonging to King Charles III. However, this is false. Did Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky buy a mansion for 20 millions of pounds sterling belonging to the English King Charles III? In any case, this is what Internet users say on social networks. The king's former butler would have revealed this acquisition to a media British. But the source of this alleged testimony is not very credible. ## Assessment There is no evidence of the President\'s purchase of Highgrove House Ukrainian. No public information has been released in this regard. Moreover, the testimonies mentioned in the article were invented. ## Facts On social networks, the publications concerned refer to a article published on the website The London Crier. It is stated that the president Ukrainian purchased the manor of Highgrove, owned by King Charles III, for £20 million. The article is based on the testimony given by the former butler of Charles III, Grant Harrold. He would have declared that the sale of this residence was concluded during the visit of Olena Zelenska, wife of the Ukrainian President, in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2024. The article was published in French and English by the blog Pravda, identified as a pro-Russian propaganda site by French authorities. Questionable website Some material from The London Crier website, where the article originated, cast doubt on its reliability, like its date of creation. According to the tool Who.is analytics, the website was created on March 26, 2024. Additionally, links to the social networks displayed on the site link to pages linked to a software company. Finally, the objective of the site is not indicated anywhere leaves. Invented testimony Contacted by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), the press officer of the former butler of Charles III affirmed that the testimony put forward in the article was fabricated. “These statements are completely false and Grant Harrold has made no comment on this story,” she said by email. The press service of the Ukrainian president and that of the Highgrove residence House did not respond to requests from the dpa. Lack of evidence A Google search for the rumor turned up no results. convincing results in the English-speaking media. The Facebook pages of the British royal family and the Ukrainian president also make no mention of the purchase of the manor. Information available on the Highgrove House website shows that the residence still constitutes the property of King Charles III and his marries Camilla. The latest list of royal family homes British mentions the manor of Highgrove. In conclusion, there is no evidence to confirm the allegation according to which the Ukrainian president would have acquired Highgrove House. Others fact-checking sites, such as Ukrinform and the Center for Countering Disinformation, also came to the same conclusion. This is not the first time that the Ukrainian president has been wrongly accused of having purchased a luxury good. Recently, another false rumor claimed that Volodymyr Zelensky bought two yachts for $75 million. Allegation which was the subject of a fact-check by the dpa. Deutsche Presse-Agentur also looked into misleading claims towards the wife of the Ukrainian president on the purchase of goods and luxury items (here and here). 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(AP) Por PolitiFact Staff Junio 28, 2024 #### SI TIENES POCO TIEMPO ¿Qué más quieres que verifiquemos? Escríbenos por WhatsApp y nuestro equipo lo investigará, (813) 260-7595. ¡Sigue nuestro canal en WhatsApp! El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden y el expresidente Donald Trump, se encontraron de nuevo en el primer debate presidencial de esta campaña 2024, organizado por CNN. La última vez que ambos se vieron cara a cara fue en el 2020, pero las circunstancias de este enfrentamiento han sido diferentes a las de entonces. Por primera vez el encuentro no fue organizado por la bipartidista Comisión Nacional para los Debates Presidenciales y tampoco hubo público en el estudio de televisión, en Atlanta. Además, el debate se realizó con varios meses de anticipación al día de las elecciones en noviembre, a pesar de que Biden y Trump no son los nominados oficiales de sus partidos para esta contienda presidencial. El encuentro comenzó cuando Biden ingresó de primero al estudio, en donde ya estaban los presentadores de CNN Jake Tapper y Dana Bash. Luego llegó Donald Trump, quien no volteó a mirar a su contrincante. Como se esperaba, en los primeros minutos de este cara a cara, ambos candidatos aprovecharon para lanzar acusaciones. En PolitiFact verificamos sus declaraciones y estas son nuestras conclusiones. Inmigración Trump: \"Él permitió a millones de personas venir aquí, de prisiones, cárceles e instituciones mentales, a venir a nuestro país y destruir nuestro país\". ¡Ridículo y Falso! Funcionarios de inmigracion arrestaron alrededor de 103,700 de \"no ciudadanos\" con condenas criminales (ya sea en Estados Unidos o en el exterior), entre los años fiscales 2021 y 2024, de acuerdo a datos federales. Eso incluye a las personas detenidas en los puertos de entrada y entre ellos. Pero a todos no los dejaron entrar. El término \"no ciudadanos\" incluye a personas que tienen un estatus migratorio legal en los Estados Unidos, pero no son ciudadanos estadounidenses. Los datos reflejan la cantidad de personas que conoce el gobierno federal, pero no son exhaustivos. Sin embargo, los expertos en inmigración dijeron que a pesar de las limitaciones de los datos, no hay evidencia que respalde la declaración de Trump. Biden: \"Hay un 40% menos de personas cruzando la frontera ilegalmente\". Mayormente Cierto. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional anunció que los encuentros con inmigrantes cruzando la frontera ilegalmente bajaron a un 40%, a menos de 2,400 encuentros diarios, semanas después de que Biden anunciara el 4 de junio una nueva política migratoria que restringe la solicitud de asilo en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos. Pero expertos en inmigracion advierten que es difícil señalar una sola razón por la que hubo estos cambios en los cruces fronterizos. Otros factores, como el clima çalido, pueden afectar los patrones de migración. Ya que la política fue anunciada solo hace pocas semanas, no está claro si la disminución en la inmigracion ilegal va a continuar. Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, una analista de política asociada en el Instituto de Política de Migración, le dijo a PolitiFact que la medida puede tener un efecto de disminución a corto plazo. Pero Adam Isacson, director de supervisión de defensa de la Oficina en Washington para Asuntos Latinoamericanos nos comentó qué ninguna represión en la última década ha tenido un impacto duradero. Trump: Biden dejó entrar \"18 millones de personas\". Falso. Los funcionarios de inmigración han encontrado inmigrantes cruzando ilegalmente la frontera, 9.7 millones de veces durante la presidencia de Biden. Tomando en cuenta las personas que no fueron detenidas por los agentes fronterizos, la cifra aumenta a aproximadamente 11.4 millones. Pero los encuentros no representan admisiones, más bien eventos. Por ejemplo, si una persona intenta cruzar la frontera dos veces, eso cuenta como dos encuentros. Además, muchos encuentros resultan en deportaciones. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional estima que alrededor de 4 millones de encuentros terminan en expulsiones o deportaciones. > @politifactenespanol ¡Sigue el canal de WhatsApp de PolitiFact en Español > para estar al día de lo que es cierto, falso, engañoso o fuera de contexto! > #whatsapp #canales #verificacion #factcheck ♬ Querulous Shred - DJ BAI Cuidado de la salud Biden: \"Nosotros bajamos el precio de los medicamentos recetados, lo cual es un tema importante para muchas personas, $15 por una inyección de insulina, en lugar de $400\". Calificamos una declaración similar como Medio Cierta. Biden usualmente dice que él bajó el precio de la insulina a $35, pero en este caso dijo $15. La Ley de Reducción de Inflación que Biden firmó en 2022, limitó el precio mensual de la insulina a $35 para los miembros de Medicare a partir de 2023. Expertos en precios de medicamentos le dijeron a PolitiFact que la mayoría de los afiliados al Medicare, probablemente no están pagando un promedio mensual de $400 antes de estos cambios, y los estudios lo respaldan. Los costos y otros factores varían, así que algunos miembros del Medicare pueden haber pagado esa cantidad en un mes determinado. Trump: \"El Seguro Social, lo está destruyendo, porque millones de personas están llegando a nuestro país, y los están poniendo en el Seguro Social. Los están poniendo en Medicare, Medicaid\". Falso. Es un error decir que la inmigración destruirá el Seguro Social. Los retos fiscales del Seguro Social se derivan de que hay una escasez de trabajadores en comparación con los beneficiarios. La inmigración está lejos de ser la solución fiscal a los problemas del Seguro Social. Pero, según los expertos, un mayor número de inmigrantes en Estados Unidos aumentaría la proporción de trabajadores por beneficiario durante décadas, ampliando así la solvencia del programa. La mayoría de los inmigrantes que se encuentran ilegalmente en Estados Unidos tampoco califican para tener Seguro Social. Sin embargo, las personas que entraron ilegalmente en Estados Unidos y obtuvieron parole humanitario — un permiso temporal para permanecer en el país — por más de un año, son elegibles para el Seguro Social. Por lo general, los inmigrantes que se encuentran ilegalmente en Estados Unidos tampoco tienen derecho a inscribirse en programas de atención médica financiada por el gobierno federal, como el Medicare y Medicaid. (Algunos estados ofrecen cobertura de Medicaid a través de programas financiados por el estado, independientemente de su estatus migratorio. Los inmigrantes tienen derecho a Medicaid de emergencia independientemente de su condición migratoria). Militar Biden: \"Soy el único presidente este siglo que no tiene, en esta década, ningún miembro del servicio estadounidense, muriendo en ningún lugar del mundo como lo tuvo él\". Falso: Algunos miembros del servicio han muerto en combates en el extranjero durante la presidencia de Biden. En agosto de 2021, 13 soldados murieron en un ataque cuando Estados Unidos se retiraba de Afganistán, bajo la administración Biden. En 2022, no se reportaron muertes de miembros del servicio estadounidense, según lo reflejan los datos del Departamento de Defensa. Las cifras totales del gobierno, sobre las muertes de militares estadounidenses activos en 2023 y 2024, no están disponibles. En enero de este año, tres soldados de Estados Unidos murieron en un ataque de aviones no tripulados en Jordania. Durante la presidencia de Trump, de enero de 2017 a enero de 2020, 65 miembros del servicio estadounidense murieron en combate, de acuerdo a los datos del Departamento de Defensa. 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Accessibility statementSkip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness Sign in Advertisement clockThis article was published more than **4 years ago** Democracy Dies in Darkness fact checkerAboutArchive fact checkerAboutArchive # Trump’s NATO parade of falsehoods and misstatements President Trump (still) consistently misstates his impact on NATO’s budget and how that budget works. (Video: Meg Kelly/The Washington Post) ![\\"\\"](\\" apps/imrs.php?src= authors/washpost/44f31222-8f22-4a07-b0eb-c77cbf11540a.png&h=196&w=196\\"/) Analysis by Glenn Kessler December 10, 2019 at 3:00 a.m. EST “So NATO, which was really heading in the wrong direction three years ago — it was heading down. If you look at a graph, it was to a point where I don’t think they could have gone on much longer.” — Trump, remarks with French President Emmanuel Macron, Dec. 3, 2019 “As you know, NATO was suffering very badly from depletion of funds, and it was going down like a roller coaster goes down. Not up, but down. And I was able to, over the last couple of years, increase their contribution. … And over the last couple years, I had them increase by $130 billion. And then, over the next couple of years — and this was done largely over these last two days, but also set up time before that — they had to now contribute $400 billion more. So it’s a total of $530 billion other countries will be putting into NATO.” Advertisement Story continues below advertisement — Trump, remarks to members of the U.N. Security Council, Dec. 5 ✅ Follow Fact-checking politicians Follow “Tremendous things achieved for U.S. on my NATO trip. Proudly for our Country, no President has ever achieved so much in so little time. Without a U.S. increase, other countries have already increased by $130 Billion-with $400 Billion soon. Such a thing has never been done before!” — Trump, in a tweet, Dec. 5 “I got NATO countries to pay 530 Billion Dollars a year more, and the U.S. less, and came home to a Fake News Media that mocked me. Didn’t think that was possible!” — Trump, in a tweet, Dec. 8 We are not here to mock the president. But we need to update our chronicle of how he consistently misunderstands NATO financing. Story continues below advertisement Back in March 2016, The Fact Checker reviewed some inaccurate statements that then-candidate Trump made about the funding of NATO. We concluded that “Trump is simply wrong on direct funding and is imprecise and possibly out of date on indirect funding.” Advertisement Since he became president, Trump has continued along the same path. We offered updates in 2017 and 2018. Given the president’s remarks during and after the latest NATO summit, it’s time for another look at this issue. ### The Facts NATO was established in the aftermath of World War II, originally with 12 members and the intention of binding together Western Europe in a defense alliance with the United States and Canada to counter the Soviet Union and its satellite countries in Eastern Europe (known as the Warsaw Pact). After the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact unraveled, NATO expanded to include many Eastern European nations and even former parts of the Soviet Union. There are now 29 member countries in NATO, with the newest member, Montenegro, added in 2017. Story continues below advertisement There are two types of funding for NATO: direct funding and indirect funding. Direct funding, for military-related operations, maintenance and headquarters activity, is based on gross national income — the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country — and adjusted regularly. Advertisement With the largest economy in NATO, the United States has generally paid the largest share, about 22 percent, but Trump recently demanded a reduction so that the United States will pay about the same share as Germany, or 16 percent. (This is what Trump is referring to when he says the United States will pay “less.”) But these direct payments — about $500 million a year — are basically a rounding error in the $700 billion military budget of the United States. A significant portion of the U.S. share is operating the Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet operations, according to the Congressional Research Service. Story continues below advertisement Trump, when he claims he got $130 billion extra, is really talking about indirect funding. Since 2006, each NATO member has had a guideline of spending at least 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense spending. At a 2014 summit, responding to Russian aggression in Ukraine, NATO members pledged to meet that guideline by 2024. Advertisement Note the date — that was three years before Trump became president, and a year before he even announced he was running for president. Yet he persistently claims credit for actions that were underway before he became president — and consistently misleads about where NATO funding was headed before he became president. For instance, he asserted on Dec. 5: “As you know, NATO was suffering very badly from depletion of funds, and it was going down like a roller coaster goes down. Not up, but down. And I was able to, over the last couple of years, increase their contribution.” On Dec. 3, he even cited looking at a chart: “So NATO, which was really heading in the wrong direction three years ago — it was heading down. If you look at a graph, it was to a point where I don’t think they could have gone on much longer.” But here’s the chart that NATO published on Nov. 29. It shows that the defense expenditures for NATO countries other than the United States have been going up — in a consistent upward slope — since 2014. As we noted, that’s when NATO decided to boost spending in response to Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region. With Trump suggesting at times that he would consider withdrawing from the alliance, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly understands that it is necessary to play to Trump’s ego. At the NATO summit, he thanked Trump for his “leadership on defense spending.” Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Stoltenberg, when he’s not speaking in front of Trump, says 2019 was “the fifth consecutive year of growth” for European NATO members and Canada. That again takes us back to 2014. As for the $130 billion extra that Trump falsely claims he has collected, once again we must emphasize this is money that each country is spending on its own defense. It does not go into a pot for NATO’s use, though better-funded militaries might enhance NATO’s competitive edge. The $130 billion is an estimate for cumulative defense spending through 2020, in 2015 dollars, as an increase over 2016 spending. Trump frequently suggests that it has been spent already. Meanwhile, the $400 billion mentioned by Trump is a cumulative figure through 2024. But Trump adds the two numbers together to come up with a fanciful $530 billion: “So it’s a total of $530 billion other countries will be putting into NATO.” Another chart in NATO’s Nov. 29 communique makes it clear that Trump’s math is faulty: Even more absurdly, Trump claimed in a tweet Dec. 8 that the gain in NATO spending will be $530 billion more a year; it’s really $400 billion over eight years. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement In any case, the NATO guideline for each nation to spend 2 percent of a nation’s gross domestic product on defense is rather arbitrary, especially for smaller economies. Bulgaria leapfrogged into meeting the guideline in 2019 because of a $1.67 billion deal to purchase eight F-16 fighter jets from the United States. Greece was able to meet the guideline mainly because its economy collapsed, shrinking its GDP, not because of any big defense increase. The United States, of course, has global responsibilities that extend well beyond the NATO alliance, so it’s difficult to calculate how much of overall U.S. defense spending is devoted exclusively to NATO. ### The Pinocchio Test Perhaps in Trump’s fourth year as president, he will finally understand NATO financing. But in the meantime, he continues to offer a parade of misleading statistics and claims. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement NATO already was boosting defense spending before Trump arrived on the scene; it was not going down as Trump claims. NATO members do not owe money to NATO or the United States but are boosting spending for their own defense. And NATO members are expected to spend an additional $400 billion by 2024, not $530 billion (a year!) as Trump claims. ### Four Pinocchios (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 Share Comments ![\\"\\"](\\"/dr/resources/images/generic-newsletter-signup.png\\") ![\\"\\"](\\"/dr/resources/images/generic-newsletter-signup.png\\") Sign up Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement washingtonpost.com © 1996-2024 The Washington Post * washingtonpost.com * © 1996-2024 The Washington Post | As you know NATO was suffering very badly from depletion of funds and it was going down like a roller coaster goes down Not up but down And I was able to over the last couple of years increase their contribution And over the last couple years I had them increase by 130 billion And then over the next couple of years and this was done largely over these last two days but also set up time before that they had to now contribute 400 billion more So it’s a total of 530 billion other countries will be putting into NATO | 41 |
Hurricane-prone states The day in pictures Get the USA TODAY app Start the day smarter ☀️ U.S. Elections Sports Entertainment Life Money Tech Travel Opinion ONLY AT USA TODAY: Newsletters For Subscribers From the Archives Crossword eNewspaper Magazines Investigations Podcasts Video Humankind Just Curious Best-selling Booklist 24/7 Live Stream Legals OUR PORTFOLIO: 10Best USAT Wine Club Online Sports Betting Online Casino Reviewed Homefront Blueprint Southern Kitchen Best Auto Insurance Best Pet Insurance Best Travel Insurance Best Credit Cards Best CD Rates Best Personal Loans Home Internet FACT CHECK Taxes Add Topic # Fact check: Head of household tax status depends on yearly costs, not housing type ![\\"Portrait](\\"/gcdn/presto/2022/04/18/USAT/5e65e405-399e-4a65-8d35-f90f601a30ce- BrieAnna_Frank_Headshot_1.jpg?crop=490,490,x0,y0&width=48&height=48&format=pjpg&auto=webp\\") BrieAnna J. Frank USA TODAY ![\\"\\"](\\"/gcdn/-mm-/b2b05a4ab25f4fca0316459e1c7404c537a89702/c=0-0-1365-768/local/-/media/2022/04/07/USATODAY/usatsports/imageforentry2-gwh.jpg?width=660&height=371&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp\\"/) PlayPause Sound OnSound Off 0:00 1:25 AD SKIP ClosedCaptionOpen ShareEnter Full ScreenExit Full Screen ## The claim: People in public or Section 8 housing can’t file taxes as head of household On the first official day of the 2023 tax filing season, a Jan. 23 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claimed taxpayers in some types of housing would only be eligible for one filing status. “If you live in public housing or have Section 8 you cannot claim head of household as your filing status on your return!” the post reads. “Your filing status would be considered SINGLE.” The post was shared more than 150 times in two days. Follow us on Facebook! Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks ## Our rating: False Living in public housing or having a Section 8 voucher does not automatically disqualify anyone from filing as head of household, a tax expert told USA TODAY. However, there are restrictions based on the amount of housing expenses paid by the resident that do affect some filers. ## Yearly costs, not housing type, determines tax filing status Living in public housing or having a Section 8 voucher “does not automatically disqualify someone” from claiming head of household as their tax filing status, said Garrett Watson, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation. Publication 501, an IRS document that outlines tax rules, says a person can file as head of household if they are unmarried on the last day of the year, paid more than half the cost of keeping up a home for the year and had a qualifying person living with them for more than half the year (except in some situations, such as a child who leaves temporarily for school or a dependent parent who does not live in the home). The publication says expenses including rent, mortgage interest, home insurance, utilities and real estate taxes should be factored into a calculation of the cost of keeping up the home. More: Is it better to pay someone to do your taxes or do them yourself? We\'ll help you decide. “If a public program covered part of the housing expense, that needs to be accounted for to determine filing status,” Watson said. That means taxpayers should “look closely at the numbers” to determine whether their costs qualify them for filing as head of the household, Watson said. Publication 501 includes a worksheet (p. 16) for taxpayers to determine whether they paid more than half the cost of keeping up their home. The IRS Interactive Tax Assistant, a tool for determining filing status, does not ask users whether they are in public or Section 8 housing – only whether they paid more than half of the cost of their home\'s yearly upkeep. USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the claim for comment. ## Our fact-check sources: * IRS, accessed Jan. 26, Interactive Tax Assistant * IRS, Dec. 9, 2022, Publication 501 * Stacy Engle (IRS spokesperson), Jan. 26, Email exchange with USA TODAY * Garrett Watson, Jan. 25, Email exchange with USA TODAY Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" because-of-human-farting-Thumbnail-702x336.jpg\\") English, Fake News # This video does not show a phone explosion because of human farting 0 By Dilip Kumar Sripada on May 23, 2023 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit A video is being shared on social media claiming it shows the visuals of a man stripping his trousers after the phone in his back pocket exploded because of his farting. Sharing the video, the post says that the Hydrogen and Methane gases in a human fart can cause a spark and warns people to be cautious when they fart with phones in their back pockets. Let’s verify the claim made in the post. ![\\"\\"](\\" because-of-human-farting-Claim.jpg\\") > Claim: Video of a man stripping his trousers after the phone in his back > pocket exploded after he farted. > > Fact: The video shared in the post shows an old incident of a man stripping > down his pants after a power bank in his pocket caught fire at the OR Tambo > International Airport in South Africa. The power bank explosion was > reportedly caused because of overheating. The methane and hydrogen gases in > bacteria-produced farts are combustible. But the accident shown in the video > was not caused because of a human fart. Hence, the claim made in the post is > FALSE. On reverse image search of the screenshots shared in the post, a video with similar visuals was found published by the ‘Independent’ news website on 09 March 2020. Sharing the video, the news website reported that a man was forced to strip down to his pants at the Tambo International Airport after an electronic device in his pocket caught fire because of excessive heating. ![\\"\\"](\\" because-of-human-farting-Image-1.jpg\\") A few other news articles that reported this incident that took place at the Tambo International Airport in South Africa can be seen here and here. As per the reports, Lwando Mashiamahle was waiting for his girlfriend, who was queuing to buy a plane ticket, when a power bank in his trouser pocket overheated and burst into flames. Speaking about the incident to ‘News 24’, Lwando Mashiamahle said, “It felt quite hot in my pocket but I thought it was normal, like sometimes your phone heats up when you’re using it, but I never thought it could explode“. ![\\"\\"](\\" because-of-human-farting-Image-2.jpg\\") The methane and hydrogen gases in bacteria-produced farts, also called flatulence, are flammable. As per the reports, in rare cases, a build-up of flammable gasses in the intestines had caused explosions during intestinal surgeries. But the accident shown in the video was not caused because of human farting. To sum it up, this video does not show a phone explosion because of human farting. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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A snake did not emerge from his jacket during a debate with then-President Donald Trump. See the sources for this fact-check A recent Facebook post uses a video clip of a debate between then-President Donald Trump and Joe Biden to raise suspicions about something visible around Biden’s wrist. Previous social media posts after the Sept. 29 debate wrongly said Biden was wearing a wire to aid him during the debate. Now the footage is being cast as evidence that Biden isn’t human. \"THIS PROVES 100% THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS NOT A ‘HUMAN’ BEING,\" a description of the video says. Someone narrating the clip claims that something \"that looks like live little serpents\" emerges from Biden’s suit jacket. \"That s--- is alive,\" the narrator says. \"It kind of looks like he’s shaking his head a little bit.\" #### 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 camera then pans to Biden and the narrator says: \"That’s not a human being, people.\" 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.) The clip used in the Facebook video comes from about the 28:20 mark in this C-SPAN video of the debate. Debate moderator Chris Wallace asks Biden about reopening the economy and schools. Something is visible on Biden’s left wrist before it slips back into his shirt sleeve but it appears to be the rosary beads that Biden wears to remember his late son, Beau Biden. \"I have not taken off the rosay Beau was wearing when he passed since then,\" Biden said during a 2017 interview. \"It’s my connection with him.\" The Biden campaign told the Associated Press after the September debate that the then-presidential candidate was wearing the rosary. A spokesperson for the campaign also told Agence France-Presse at the time that what the Facebook post calls a serpent — or serpents — is Beau Biden’s rosary. We rate this claim Pants on Fire. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Facebook post, Jan. 24, 2021 PolitiFact, Biden did not wear a wire during the first presidential debate, Sept. 30, 2020 The Associated Press, Biden did not wear a wire during the presidential debate, Sept. 30, 2020 Agence France-Presse, Biden accused of wearing wire during presidential debate, Sept. 30, 2020 HuffPost, Joe Biden wears rosary beads in honor of his late son, Nov. 13, 2017 Religion News Service, Like Joe Biden, many Catholics find the rosary to be a comfort and anchor in crisis, Nov. 23, 2020 C-SPAN, First presidential debate, Sept. 29, 2020 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Ciara O\'Rourke slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on August 17, 2024 in a Facebook post: Video shows former President Donald Trump thought he was in North Carolina while he spoke in Pennsylvania. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 22, 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A: No. That claim originated on a self-described satire website. There’s no evidence Wolf was scheduled to do a special for Hulu. ##### **FULL ANSWER** The controversy surrounding comedian Michelle Wolf’s remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 28 has spawned several false stories. We recently wrote about one that wrongly claimed she had been fired from Comedy Central. A similar story, claiming that Hulu cancelled a comedy special starring Wolf, has also been circulating on Facebook. Users of the social media site were right to flag that one as potentially false, too. It’s not true. Like the story that claimed Comedy Central fired Wolf, the story about Hulu originated on a website called Daily World Update, which describes its content as satire. But the story has been copied by at least one other site that doesn’t have a disclaimer and presents it as news. Not only is the story made-up, some of the people named in it are made-up, as well. The story quotes “Hulu President Irwin R. Fletcher,” but Hulu doesn’t have a president. It has a CEO whose name is Randy Freer, and Irwin Fletcher is the name of the title character in the 1985 movie, “Fletch.” The made-up story claims, “Wolf has been defending her disgusting remarks, but has not yet commented on the cancellation of the show she has spent so much time promoting.” But there’s no evidence that Wolf had plans to do a comedy special on Hulu, which she did not promote on her website or on Twitter. Her HBO special aired in December, and her weekly Netflix series debuts May 27. 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" qualified-for-the-Paris-2024Olympics-THumbnail--702x336.jpg\\") English, Fake News # Indian fencer CA Bhavani Devi has not yet qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics. 0 By Varun Borugadda on February 9, 2024 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit A claim is circulating on social media that CA Bhavani Devi, an acclaimed Indian fencer, has become the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024. Let’s fact-check this claim through this article. ![\\"\\"](\\" oPZiF3g7VcnNub1uqGjaH9AnGmBmJOAqb46tVBlwa9Gtgjed2f3F0veXKDebmqn- aLhnItn1UNMcsKxbZsfTB0\\") > Claim: CA Bhavani Devi is the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Paris > Olympics 2024. > > Fact: As of the time of writing this fact check in February 2024, CA Bhavani > Devi has not yet secured qualification for the Paris Olympics 2024. No > official reports confirm her qualification, and her name is not listed in > the list of confirmed Indian athletes for the upcoming event. Hence, the > claim made in the post is False. To investigate the claim, an internet keyword search was performed to understand more details. No news reports were found that confirmed CA Bhavani Devi’s qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Bhavani Devi herself has also not shared such news on her social media profiles (Instagram and Facebook). Additionally, She is not listed among Indian athletes competing at the forthcoming event. This list is available on the official Olympics website. Further research revealed that the process for individual qualification in the fencing competition at Paris 2024 is based on the International Fencing Federation’s (FIE) Individual Senior Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) list as of 1 April 2024. Per the official Olympics website, this ranking is determined by the points an athlete accrues between 3 April 2023 and 1 April 2024 during various competitions. ![\\"\\"](\\" oSPn9qSQxvFKDGdeMGzVtxybGTG_DBi5gdZQrZb9G02CR9sS_YuurAZvlFV- _SclED23t5IaidvCeTQECIxfrmdAtvPRhfwfwAkHiXT0jt57aD- cM5Mv0AI9E-gx_DpLo38kk_mHR2LdUOLU\\") Considering these facts, it is clear that the claim of CA Bhavani Devi’s qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics is premature and incorrect. Additionally, Bhavani Devi debuted at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where she became the first Indian fencer to qualify for this mega sporting event. She competed in the Women’s Sabre Individual event at the Tokyo 2020 edition. > 𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! 🫡 🇮🇳At Tokyo 2020, Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics.#ThrowBack | @IamBhavaniDevi pic.twitter.com/2F8dh2Exr8 > > — Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) February 5, 2024 To sum up, the assertion that CA Bhavani Devi has secured a place in the Paris Olympics 2024 is False. As of February 2024, she has not yet qualified for the event. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email __Previous ArticleAn old video of Eid gathering in Haridwar is being shared as Muslims protesting against the UCC bill. 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(DIRK SHADD | Times) ![\\"Allison](\\" By Allison Graves July 27, 2017 # Taking a closer look at the auto-theft problem in St. Petersburg Whose epidemic is it anyway? The leading candidates in St. Petersburg’s mayoral race are trading blows over the city’s issue with automobile theft ahead of the Aug. 29 primary. Former Mayor Rick Baker told a Tampa Bay Times reporter that auto theft is \"now at epidemic proportions\" under Mayor Rick Kriseman. Kriseman defended himself on Twitter and Facebook with a graphic showing the problem appeared worse during Baker’s time in office. According to Kriseman’s post, there were 2,761 auto thefts in 2006 under Baker, compared with 1,095 auto thefts in 2016 under Kriseman. ![](\\" hawmd3RXKjgoW1xg3mb9h23lMHS2dL6akkyFbaDRfaA_vYIRbcIjr- sotBtIlrBiy8xKH4vDHnkuVmc7\\"/) With our colleagues at the Tampa Bay Times investigating the juvenile car- theft problem, we wanted to look at the trend under both mayors. The numbers Kriseman reported from the St. Petersburg Police Department checked out for those years. Baker was mayor from April 2001 to January 2010. Kriseman’s campaign plucked the worst year to make its counterpunch. The year 2006 was the highest point for auto thefts since 2000 — although most other years were higher than any point in Kriseman’s three full years since taking office in 2014. Choosing to compare raw numbers from Baker\'s 2008 and Kriseman\'s 2015, though, could leave a different impression, with 1,461 and 1,523 thefts, respectively. What does the bigger story tell you? The rate of car thefts in St. Petersburg remains far higher than the national and state average, shown below, regardless of who was mayor. \"The number of auto-thefts, the number of auto burglaries, it’s something you need to watch and something that’s important, but the impact of the activity is more important than anything else,\" Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. And in recent years, the impact of automobile thefts, specifically juvenile auto thefts, has been a priority for the department. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 15, 2024 in a news conference California law lets you “rob a store as long as it’s not more than $950” and “not get charged.” Kamala Harris “did that.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • August 19, 2024 The Tampa Bay Times documented the automobile theft issue, finding that children in Pinellas County were arrested more for stealing cars than anywhere else in Florida. Gualtieri said 2015 was \"ground zero\" for the juvenile auto-theft problem and said that’s when the department really started noticing the trend of young kids stealing cars. In early 2016, three teenage girls drove a stolen car into a cemetery pond and drowned. At the time, Gualtieri called the incident \"unacceptable.\" \"Solutions need to come deep from within the community,\" Gualtieri said at the time. \"Kids need to know there are consequences. This is a systematic and complex problem.\" Automobile thefts became a priority for police in 2015 and 2016 — leading to a year-over-year drop. Law enforcement officials consider juvenile auto thefts a countywide problem; a drop in St. Petersburg doesn’t necessarily mean the problem is over. Detective Paul Etcheson, who’s been with the police department for almost nine years and works in the property crime unit, described automobile theft in St. Petersburg as a \"revolving door.\" \"The reason the numbers have fallen in the previous months is because we have juveniles placed in programs, or on 21-day hold or something,\" he said. \"As soon as they get back, they’re right back at it.\" As we said, 2006 was a high point for auto theft. We wanted to understand why. Police officer Mark Williams, who has been with the deparment for over a decade, said cars were simply easier to steal in 2005 and 2006 like the Dodge Ram 1500. Older cars could be broken into with a screwdriver or a pair of scissors, he said. Williams said automakers have done a better job of eliminating access points on cars. For instance, key holes are only on the driver side rather than on all doors. In response to Kriseman’s image, Baker said, \"I’ve been to 50 neighborhood organizations in the last six months and if Rick Kriseman thinks he doesn’t have an auto theft problem, he needs to get out more.\" Kriseman’s campaign emphasized the mayor is still concerned about automobile thefts, and said the image was meant to undermine Baker’s remark that automobile theft is at \"epidemic proportions.\" Our ruling Kriseman pushed back against Baker calling the auto-theft problem an \"epidemic\" with a graphic that said there were 2,761 auto thefts in 2006 under Baker and 1,095 auto thefts in 2016. Those numbers are accurate, but more information is needed to understand the full story. Kriseman cherry-picked the year of Baker’s two terms with the highest amount of theft and compared it with his lowest year. To his overall point, the automobile theft per capita in St. Petersburg has been significantly higher than the national and state rates, regardless of who was in office. We rate this claim Mostly True. Share the Facts 2017-07-27 18:26:16 UTC PolitiFact ![\\"PolitiFact\\"](\\" logo-big.jpg\\"/) 5 1 7 ![\\"PolitiFact](\\" mostlytrue.jpg\\") PolitiFact Rating: Mostly True There were 2,761 auto thefts in 2006 under Rick Baker and 1,095 auto thefts in 2016. Rick Kriseman Mayor ![](\\" posts on social media Sunday, July 23, 2017 2017-07-23 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Interview, Jacob Smith, Rick Kriseman’s campaign manager, July 25-27 2017 Email exchange, Brigitta Shouppe, campaign spokeswoman for Rick Baker, July 25 Interview, St. Petersburg Police Chief Tony Holloway, July 25, 2017 Interview, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, July 24, 2017 Interview, Detective Paul Etcheson with the St. Petersburg Police Department, July 26, 2017 Interview, Officer Mark Williams, July 27, 2017 Interviews, St. Petersburg Police Department spokesperson Yolanda Fernandez, July 26, 2017 FBI UCR Data, 2000-2014, property crime rates, crime reported by St. Petersburg Police Dept, Florida, accesses July 25, 2017 FBI UCR Data, 2000-2014, property crime rates, estimated crime in United States -Total, accessed July 25, 2017 FBI UCR Data, 2000-2014, property crime rates, estimated crime in Florida, accessed July 25, 2017 St. Petersburg police department, motor vehicle theft, 2015-16 Tampa Bay Times, \"Hot Wheels,\" April 2017 Tampa Bay Times, \"5 ways officials are trying to stop Pinellas\' teenage car thieves,\" July 21 Tampa Bay Times, \"Three teenage girls dead after stolen car plunges into St. Petersburg pond,\" March 31, 2016 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Allison Graves ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on May 15, 2018 in a post on Facebook: \"Legendary Actor Sidney Poitier: Donald Trump might become \'The Greatest Of All Time.\' \" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 17, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" The Collective super PAC stated on May 11, 2018 in an ad: Says Gwen Graham \"voted against President Obama 52 percent of the time.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 17, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on May 14, 2018 in a post on the Internet: Says Julia Roberts told Celine Dion, \"If you hate Trump you can go in your country.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 15, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Democratic Governors Association stated on July 13, 2018 in a post on Medium: Says Adam Putnam \"backed a water bill that gutted water quality regulations.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • July 18, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Rick Scott stated on June 13, 2018 in an ad: Says Sen. 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He passed a resolution to raise the minimum wage, which actually no one got the benefit of because it was not enforced.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • June 9, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Florida Democratic Party stated on June 6, 2018 in in a press release: \"Flip Flop! After opposing term limits for decades, Adam Putnam adopts Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis’ position.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • June 8, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on June 2, 2018 in during a BBQ : \"The bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • June 7, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Florida House Majority Office stated on May 17, 2018 in a video: It is a \"myth\" that \"per-student funding only rose by 47 cents this year.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 30, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Senate Majority PAC stated on May 21, 2018 in in an ad: Says Bill Nelson is \"one of America’s most independent senators.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 24, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on May 14, 2018 in a post on Facebook: \"BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump On His Way To Donate Kidney To Melania Trump.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 17, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on May 15, 2018 in a post on Facebook: \"Legendary Actor Sidney Poitier: Donald Trump might become \'The Greatest Of All Time.\' \" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 17, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" The Collective super PAC stated on May 11, 2018 in an ad: Says Gwen Graham \"voted against President Obama 52 percent of the time.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 17, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on May 14, 2018 in a post on the Internet: Says Julia Roberts told Celine Dion, \"If you hate Trump you can go in your country.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • May 15, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Democratic Governors Association stated on July 13, 2018 in a post on Medium: Says Adam Putnam \"backed a water bill that gutted water quality regulations.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • July 18, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Rick Scott stated on June 13, 2018 in an ad: Says Sen. Bill Nelson \"voted for higher taxes\" 349 times. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Allison Graves • July 5, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ron DeSantis stated on June 28, 2018 in a Fox News debate: Says Adam Putnam \"endorsed the Schumer-Obama Gang of Eight immigration amnesty.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Allison Graves • June 29, 2018 ### Taking a closer look at the auto-theft problem in St. Petersburg * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 9, 2024 in a post: Video shows Tim Walz “falsely claims that being gay in Nebraska is ‘illegal’\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Grace Abels • September 11, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on September 10, 2024 in social media posts: Vice President Kamala Harris wore NOVA H1 audio earrings in the Sept. 10, 2024, presidential debate. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • September 11, 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 * ![](\\" ![](\\" X posts stated on September 9, 2024 in an X post: \"Dallas County Texas (tells) election workers to (illegally) lie on registration & use a church address to register homeless people to vote!” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • September 11, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on September 2, 2024 in an Instagram post: Image shows “Michelle Obama’s necklace from DNC speech” said “Mike.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 11, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 10, 2024 in at a Sept. 10 presidential debate: \"In Springfield (Ohio), they\'re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they\'re eating the cats. 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When a politician boasts of a “record,” our ears perk up. Is it really a record? In President Joe Biden’s case, when it comes to economic growth and unemployment, it’s simply not. In several recent campaign speeches, Biden has falsely touted “record economic growth,” pointing to last quarter’s 5.2% growth in real gross domestic product. That’s stronger than economists expected, but quarterly GDP growth has been greater than that many, many times. ![\\"\\"](\\" “Record economic growth at 5% this last quarter,” Biden said at a campaign reception in Weston, Massachusetts, on Dec. 5. He made similar remarks at two other stops in Boston that day, and he has continued to claim “record” or “historic” economic growth at campaign stops in California and Philadelphia. A White House official told us Biden’s claim referred to the fact that the third quarter growth was the highest in nearly 10 years and higher than any quarter under former President Donald Trump — not including the wild fluctuations that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked why a nearly 10-year stretch would make this a “record,” but we didn’t get a response. It’s fair enough to set aside some of the impact from the economic fallout of the pandemic. In 2020, during Trump’s tenure, GDP plunged in the second quarter by 28% — when businesses closed and Americans largely stayed at home to stop the spread of COVID-19 — and then rebounded in the third quarter, growing by 34.8%. Those numbers truly are the record decline and growth, but they’re due to unique circumstances. (All of the quarterly figures, which come from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, are the real — meaning inflation- adjusted — percentage change from the previous quarter, seasonally adjusted at annual rates.) Biden also discounts 2021 as part of the pandemic, a year of continued economic recovery, widespread vaccinations and lifting of COVID-19 restrictions across the country. That year, quarterly GDP grew by 5.2%, 6.2%, 3.3% and 7%. Setting aside 2020 and 2021, the last time GDP growth hit or surpassed 5.2% was in the second quarter of 2014, when it was 5.3%. That’s the White House’s nearly 10-year time frame. But nearly a decade isn’t a record. The BEA figures go back to 1947. There have been 72 times that quarterly GDP growth was at or above 5.2% since then, not including the 2020-2021 pandemic years. ## Unemployment — Also Not a ‘Record’ In Massachusetts, Biden also boasted of “record low unemployment — 21 straight months of unemployment below 4%.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate was 3.7% in November, the 22nd month in a row that the rate was below 4%. That is a long stretch of low unemployment, but it’s not a “record.” The rate was below 4% for 27 straight months from late 1967 to early 1970, and for 35 straight months from 1951 to 1953. The unemployment claim is a shortened version of a talking point we’ve written about before. In the summer, the president repeatedly said that “unemployment has been below 4% for the longest stretch in over 50 years.” That’s true. At the time, the streak stood at 18 months — and it has continued. As we wrote then, a slight change in Biden’s metric — setting the threshold at or below 4% — would enable his predecessor, Trump, to claim a streak of 24 straight months. The Biden administration has now tied that measure: Unemployment has been at or below 4% since December 2021. At a Dec. 9 campaign event in Pacific Palisades, California, Biden also said: “historic low unemployment for Black and Latinos, historic — in all of American history, it’s never been this low.” That’s not quite right. The unemployment rate for Black Americans did hit a historic low — a record — of 4.7% in April. It has now crept up to 5.8%, as of November. Similarly, the Hispanic unemployment rate was 3.9% in September 2022 — again, a record — but the latest figure is 4.6%. As we said when Trump used to boast of record-low unemployment for Black and Hispanic Americans, before the pandemic, the rates — for all Americans — generally had been trending down for several years before Trump took office. In 2020, they shot up due to the pandemic, and the rates have been trending back down since then, with some fluctuations. 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Gingrich was speaker from January 1995 to January 1999, when he was a Republican congressman from Atlanta’s suburbs. The federal budget runs on a fiscal year calendar that begins October 1 and ends September 30. During fiscal years 1996 and 1997 -- the first two that Gingrich helped shape as speaker -- there were deficits: $107 billion in 1996 and about $22 billion in 1997. #### 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 By fiscal year 1998, the federal budget did reach a surplus of $69 billion. And in fiscal year 1999 -- which Gingrich can claim some responsibility for, even though he was out as speaker for most of the fiscal year -- it was in surplus as well, to the tune of $126 billion. But that’s only two balanced budgets he can plausibly claim credit for. The federal government did run four consecutive surpluses, but for the last two of those -- fiscal years 2000 and 2001 -- Gingrich was no longer serving in the House. It’s also worth noting that even the two balanced budgets for which Gingrich can claim some credit were collective accomplishments by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, and the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate. Our ruling Gingrich was off-base with this claim -- again. The budget was indeed balanced for four years, but it’s a stretch for him to take credit for anything more than two of those years. We rate Gingrich’s claim False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources PolitiFact, \"Newt Gingrich inaccurate in budget, debt claims in video announcement,\" May 11, 2011 PolitiFact, \"Newt Gingrich repeats claim about his record of balancing budget, reducing debt,\" Dec. 16, 201 Newt Gingrich campaign video, White House historical Table 1:1, Treasury Direct, ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Louis Jacobson ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 ![](\\" ![](\\" 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\\") 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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 ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 ### Newt Gingrich repeats claim that he balanced the federal budget four times 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White blood cells have a range of different life spans. ##### What was claimed There is a decrease in the amount of saline in the second vaccine dose compared to the first and an increase in the levels of harmful ingredients. ##### Our verdict The MHRA told Full Fact that there is “no difference in composition between first and second doses”. ##### What was claimed The booster vaccines have 81 strands of foreign bacteria or eight strands of HIV in them. ##### Our verdict The MHRA told Full Fact: “There is no bacteria or strands of HIV in the booster vaccines.” ##### What was claimed 20-30% of the population is going to die with each vaccine. ##### Our verdict From the roll-outs so far, there is no evidence to support this. ##### What was claimed The animals in the Covid-19 vaccine trials had a 100% death rate. ##### Our verdict Experts told Full Fact that animals in this type of trial are normally euthanised and that if animals had died due to the vaccine, human trials would have been halted. __1 of 5 claims A video on Instagram makes a number of false or misleading claims about the Covid-19 vaccines, including that the vaccine interval is designed to “hit” the immune system when it is particularly vulnerable, different doses of the vaccines include HIV, bacteria, or other harmful ingredients, and that 20% of the population will die with the roll out of each vaccine dose. We haven’t fact checked them all, but here is a selection of the claims that we looked into. Honesty in public debate matters You can help us take action – and get our regular free email Sign up ## The 8 week interval between vaccines is not to “hit” the immune system while it\'s down The Instagram video claims that it takes eight weeks for the body to produce new white blood cells. It says that the interval between the first and second dose of vaccine is therefore designed to “hit” the immune system while it’s down, as it claims that the first vaccine decreases the body’s ability to produce white blood cells by 50%. There is no evidence to support this. White blood cells help the body defend against infection and disease. These blood cells have a range of different life spans, from hours to years, and white blood cell production is a continuous process. NHS Blood & Transplant says that when you donate blood, and therefore lose white blood cells, your body stimulates their production and levels return to normal within a few days. It is true that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and immunisation (JCVI) is currently recommending a minimum interval of eight weeks between the first and second doses of the available Covid-19 vaccines. The Green Book, which provides health professionals with the latest information on vaccinations, states that the consistent interval should be used for all vaccines to “avoid confusion” and “simplify booking”. In addition, it says, this interval will help to ensure a good balance between achieving rapid and long-lasting protection”. It references studies which have shown better immune responses with longer intervals between vaccine doses. ## There is no change to vaccine ingredients between the first and second dose The video claims that there is a reduced amount of saline in the second dose of vaccine, and increased “harmful” ingredients. This is wrong. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told Full Fact: “The same COVID-19 vaccines are used for the first, second and—where used—third booster vaccinations. “The same vial can be used for any of these three uses so there is no difference in composition between first and second doses.” ## There are not 81 strands of foreign bacteria in the first booster, and there are not eight strands of HIV in the second vaccine booster The Instagram video says that there are 81 strands of foreign bacteria in the first booster, and eight strands of HIV in the second booster vaccine. This is not true. It is not clear where the claims originate from. In December 2020, there was a news story about a cancelled Covid-19 vaccine trial in Australia. The trial vaccine contained a small component derived from HIV. This was not able to cause HIV infection, but did cause an antibody response meaning that some trial participants had false positive HIV test results. This vaccine trial was terminated, and is not in use at all in the UK. The JCVI has advised a preference for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the booster programme, regardless of which vaccine somebody initially had. It has said that, alternatively, a half dose of the Moderna vaccine may be offered, or where mRNA vaccines cannot be offered, the AstraZeneca vaccine may be considered for those who received it previously. The Pfizer vaccine and Moderna vaccines do not contain bacteria, or viral particles. They do not contain HIV. The AstraZeneca vaccine does not contain bacteria. It does use a weakened version of a common cold virus from chimpanzees which has been modified so that it cannot replicate or cause disease. It is an entirely different virus to the HIV virus. Dr Stephen Griffin, virologist and associate professor at Leeds Institute of Medical Research told us there is “no HIV present” in the vaccines. He added: “There are no bacteria within them as such contamination is rigorously tested for, as part of quality control, plus you would expect to see infections in vaccinees…this clearly hasn’t happened”. The MHRA also told Full Fact: “There is no bacteria or strands of HIV in the booster vaccines.” ## 20-30% of the population are not going to die with the roll-out of each dose The video seems to suggest that 20-30% of the population is going to die after the introduction of each dose or booster of vaccine, although it is not entirely clear. The evidence does not support this from the vaccine roll out so far. Up to 14 October 2021, over 49 million people in the UK have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, and more than 45 million have received a second. The MHRA’s Yellow Card Scheme is a reporting system which allows healthcare professionals and members of the public to report suspected reactions to medications or vaccinations that have occured around the time of administration. In the latest data, which covers the period up to 6 October, it has received reports of 72 fatalities related to blood clots and low platelets which have happened after vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine. There have been 1,719 Yellow Card reports in which there has been a death shortly after vaccination. The MHRA says that many of these events occur by chance, due to the large number of people vaccinated, and are not necessarily all a result of the vaccine. The MHRA told Full Fact: “Initial data made available to the JCVI indicates that booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines are generally well tolerated and provide a substantial increase in vaccine-induced immune responses.” ## The animals in the Covid-19 vaccine trials did not die unexpectedly The video claims that the animals involved in the Covid-19 vaccine studies had a 100% death rate. This may be true, but isn’t likely to be due to effects of the vaccine. We have written about this before. Chris Magee, head of policy and media at UK non-profit Understanding Animal Research (UAR), previously told Full Fact that in the case of Covid-19 vaccines, data already existed to indicate the vaccines were safe, which enabled researchers to run animal trials alongside the early stages of human trials. Had the animals died during this process, he said, the human trials would have been immediately halted. The fact that they were not indicates the animals did not die unexpectedly. He also told Full Fact that the animals used in drug trials are usually euthanized, so scientists can examine their internal organs for signs of pathology. In addition, a Pfizer spokesperson has previously denied these claims to Reuters. They highlighted a September 2020 press release about the effects of their mRNA vaccine in mice and non-human primates and a February 2021 paper on its vaccine in primates. AstraZeneca has published similar papers regarding its research in mice and non-human primates. Moderna has also released information about its animal trials. None of these publications describe concerns arising from the results of the animal studies. This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. 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Two people relax in St. Petersburg, Fla., left, while, in New York, a woman wearing a facial mask makes her way across 6th Avenue near Radio City Music Hall. (AP) ![\\"Samantha](\\" By Samantha Putterman February 26, 2021 # Chart comparing New York and Florida on COVID-19 is flawed. Here’s why #### If Your Time is short * We’ve seen plenty of posts comparing New York and Florida on their handling of the coronavirus that seem to make the case that Republicans in Florida are managing the pandemic better than Democrats in New York. * But the comparisons are fraught for a number of reasons. The pandemic largely erupted in the United States in New York, before doctors had the equipment and therapeutics needed to fight the disease. Florida benefited from the lessons New York learned. * The numbers in this particularly viral image need context and some lack accuracy. See the sources for this fact-check Who would have thought a global pandemic would only heighten a longstanding rivalry between Florida and New York? Tensions flared early in the COVID-19 outbreak when Florida issued restrictions on travelers from New York, then a raging hot spot for the virus. New York returned the favor in the summer, putting Florida travelers on its own quarantine list. Now, social media users are comparing the two states’ handling of the virus, sharing a pro-Florida Instagram post from an account called \"Unwoke Narrative\" that points to the states’ politically opposed governors as reasons for differences in state COVID-19 data. ![](\\" Invoking the names of Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a graphic titled \"Cuomo vs. DeSantis: How NY & FL Handled the Virus\" lists several COVID-19 figures for each state. \"Cuomo maintained strict lockdowns, crushing jobs and freedom,\" it says. \"DeSantis took the opposite route and rejected tyranny. Who was right?\" Spoiler alert: The graphic determines Florida is the winner \"even though Florida has a larger population,\" \"is disproportionately elderly\" and \"is visited by more potentially infected tourists.\" 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.) It cites as sources the Washington Examiner, New York Post, NBC, Washington Post and Statista. The accompanying text points readers to a website with more information. Some of the numbers check out. The graphic is close, for example, on the spread between the states’ hospitalizations and vaccinations administered. But when we reviewed the overall claim, we found the broader comparison misleads by oversimplifying the relationship between the data and lockdown rules in each state. Let’s take a look. New York\'s early battle The post’s most glaring omission, experts told us, was its lack of context about the pandemic’s timing and impact in the two states. \"New York was the epicenter of the pandemic last spring, long before Florida had significant numbers of cases,\" said Richard Mollot, executive director at the Long Term Care Community Coalition, a nonprofit focused on improving quality of care for people in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The virus hit New York early and hard, before there was enough access to personal protective equipment and before health officials or emergency room doctors and nurses knew much about the virus, including the best ways to treat and stabilize it. The result was mass devastation and death. During that early stage, the state was averaging over 900 deaths a day. Dr. Marissa Levine, a professor of public health at the University of South Florida, said not only was New York’s experience unlike any other in the nation, but it also informed how the rest of the country would manage the pandemic. \"There’s no question that Florida hospitals were able to learn from what New York went through and benefited as a result,\" she said. Nursing home deaths needs context Cuomo’s administration has faced intense scrutiny over its undercounting of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. New York’s attorney general released a Jan. 28 report that found the state had failed to report thousands of deaths. Hours later, the state’s health department added more than 3,800 deaths to the tally, each a resident whose hospital death had not been previously counted. Yes, New York is reporting higher numbers of COVID-19 deaths of nursing home and assisted living facility residents than Florida, but we couldn\'t find data that puts it as high as the graphic reports — 15,000+ in New York compared with 9,000+ in Florida. The latest state numbers from Feb. 4, which includes the hospitalization data, show about 13,300 have died in New York. Florida’s total is around 9,700. Priya Chidambaram, a senior policy analyst at Kaiser Family Foundation who has tracked the pandemic’s impact on long-term care facility residents, said the post is problematic because states collect and report data differently. \"They\'re not necessarily comparable,\" she said. \"Non-nursing home settings are defined differently in each state. The best way to compare is to look at recent trends in federal data.\" As of Feb. 7, such federal data showed New York had 10.1 positive COVID-19 cases per 1,000 nursing home residents, while Florida was at 6.3. When it came to deaths per 1,000 residents, New York was at 2.99 residents and Florida at 1.85. It’s important to note that the states don’t have comparable nursing home population numbers, at least as of 2019. New York was reporting about 19,000 more residents in certified nursing facilities than Florida, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on September 2, 2024 in social media posts The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is on the way to Aurora, Colorado, to confront a Venezuelan gang. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Loreben Tuquero • September 9, 2024 Deaths in each state The post is right that New York has had more deaths than Florida, even when accounting for population. The numbers it says it relies on are not far from what we saw recorded on Feb. 25, when New York was reporting about 247 deaths per 100,000 people compared with Florida’s 143. But the metric again ignores New York’s unprecedented early peak and the ebb and flow of death rates across states over time. Daily deaths have surged in Florida at times when they remained low in New York, and vice versa. \"There’s a time factor here,\" Levine said. \"These pandemics are really epidemics that happen in different places at different times, and you have to really consider that when you’re doing comparisons.\" On April 14, for example, when the first wave peaked in New York, the state had a seven-day average of 39.3 deaths per 1 million residents while Florida was at 2.1, according to the COVID Tracking Project. On Aug. 16, Florida recorded a seven-day average 8.5 deaths per million people while New York was at 0.2. \"The implication is that the political decisions in Florida versus New York has led to those numbers, but I think that would be a very shallow interpretation of the data,\" said Dr. Thomas Tsai, an assistant professor in health policy and management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. \"Lockdown measures do work.\" PolitiFact previously found that some of the more strictly regulated states performed better than Florida, as of early December 2020. And a study that Tsai participated in that has been preliminarily accepted for publication found that first-wave lockdowns did result in a downtick in COVID-19 cases two weeks later. Daily COVID-19 cases by state Daily case numbers provide a snapshot of how one state compares with another on any given day. And the post’s figures showing Florida had 7,400 daily cases as of Feb. 8 while New York was at 9,000 is in the ballpark with what we see in COVID Tracker data for that period. But the metric does not reflect additional data points that place New York in a better position than Florida: the number of people tested and each state’s rolling positivity average. It again ignores that there were times when daily cases were high in Florida when they were not in New York. On Feb. 8, New York reported a 5.1% positivity rate, according to state data and Florida saw a 7% positivity rate. The seven-day average of positive cases for the week ending Feb. 8 show New York in a better position, too, with a 5.2% average compared with 8.3% in Florida. Job losses Job losses in New York over the course of the pandemic have outpaced Florida’s, but experts caution against making such comparisons. The graphic shows over 1 million jobs lost in New York versus more than 400,000 in Florida, and that lines up with data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Florida’s economy, fueled by out-of-state tourism and service industries, was hit hard by the pandemic. But the impact on jobs may have been mitigated by its warm weather, which allowed for dining and other types of public gatherings and businesses to continue operating outdoors. Jed Kolko, chief economist at Indeed, said places that have faced longer-term economic challenges, like much of upstate New York, have lost more jobs in the pandemic. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the right-of-center American Action Forum, urged caution when comparing state economies, including adjusting for time periods when the states were having similar impacts from the virus and state policies. \"I’m not morally opposed to compare across states, but you do have to be careful to do the comparison in a fair way,\" he said. While Florida was able to keep its economy more open, it came at a cost. To better understand the balance between economic recovery and public health, MoneyGeek analyzed the rate of case growth and deaths versus the rate of jobs recovered using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Johns Hopkins. Looking at job losses from February 2020 and measuring job gains in each state from the point of highest job loss to the point of highest recovery, the report found that red states like Florida \"recovered 35% more jobs than blue states — 65% compared to 48%. However, red-state recovery rates came at a higher price, with 99% more COVID-19 cases and 78% more deaths per recovered job than blue states.\" Florida recorded 50 cases per 100 jobs recovered, according to the analysis, while New York recorded 19. Our ruling An Instagram post says New York’s lockdown measures led to more death and economic destruction while Florida’s more open approach led to less. The post overstates the correlation between the numbers and lockdown rules. It leaves out important factors, including environment and public health initiatives, and ignores that the two states collect and report data differently. Most significantly, it ignores that New York City was the epicenter of the nation’s first wave, before doctors had the equipment, therapeutics and experience needed to fight the new disease. States like Florida were able to learn and benefit from New York’s experience. We rate this Mostly False. **Correction, March 5, 2021:** A subhead in this story has been updated to more precisely describe New York\'s position as one of the nation\'s earliest and hardest hit states in the COVID-19 pandemic. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Instagram post, Feb. 11, 2021 UnwokeNarrative.com, Cuomo vs. DeSantis: New York\'s and Florida\'s Covid Response, Feb. 11, 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation, COVID-19 Has Claimed the Lives of 100,000 Long-Term Care Residents and Staff, Nov. 25, 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation, Total Number of Residents in Certified Nursing Facilities, 2019 Health.NY.gov, Nursing Home and ACF COVID Related Deaths Statewide, Data through Feb. 4, 2021 New York Times, N.Y. Severely Undercounted Virus Deaths in Nursing Homes, Report Says, Updated Feb.17, 2021 PolitiFact, What’s missing from Florida ‘5 times better’ claim on COVID-19 death rates, July 31, 2020 PolitiFact, Is Florida doing better on COVID-19 than \"locked down\" states?, Dec. 2, 2020 The COVID Tracking Project, Deaths per Million over Time, Accessed Feb. 25, 2021 Impacts of US State-Level Social Distancing Policies on Population Mobility and COVID-19 Case Growth During the First Wave of the Pandemic, Nov. 19, 2020 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All Employees: Total Nonfarm in New York, retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, February 21, 2021 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All Employees: Total Nonfarm in Florida, retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Feb. 22, 2021 MoneyGeek, The Cost of American Job Recovery, Feb. 8, 2021, Chart 3: Job Change by Industry, February to December 2020, Accessed Feb. 26, 2021 The Sun Sentinel, Florida reports 5,610 new COVID-19 cases, with 148 more deaths, Updated Feb. 23, 2021 Phone interview with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, Feb. 22, 2021 Email interview with Jed Kolko, chief economist at Indeed, Feb. 22, 2021 Email interview with Richard Mollot, executive director at the Long Term Care Community Coalition, Feb. 22, 2021 Phone interview with Priya Chidambaram, senior policy analyst at Kaiser Family Foundation, Feb. 23, 2021 Phone interview with Dr. Marissa Levine, Professor of Public Health at the University of South Florida, Feb. 22, 2021 Phone interview with Dr. Thomas Tsai assistant professor in health policy and management at Harvard T.H. 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The construction of this temple > began in 2009 and was inaugurated four and a half years later in 2015. > Renowned architect and Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra was the chief > architect of this temple. The photo shared in the post does not show > thousands of years old Varaha sculpture. Hence, the claim made in the post > is FALSE. On reverse image search of the photo shared in the post, the same photo was found published by a user of the Amino social media application. This user described it as the Varaha avatar statue mounted on the wall of Emami Jagannath Mandir. A few other social media handles also clarified that the picture shows a Varaha statue constructed inside Emami Jagannath Mandir in Balasore, Odisha. ![\\"\\"](\\" years-old-Varaha-sculpture-Image-1.jpg\\") When we searched to find sources of this sculpture using this information, we found the same Varaha sculpture pictures in the ‘Google Maps’ Images of Balasore’s Shree Jagannath Mandir. They can be seen here, here and here. Videos published by a few vloggers have also shown the same sculpture on the walls of Shree Jagannath Mandir in Balasore. ![\\"\\"](\\" years-old-Varaha-sculpture-Image-2.jpg\\") According to the information provided on Balsore’s Shree Jagannath Mandir website, this temple was constructed by the Emami Group of Industries in Balasore. Renowned architect and Padma Vibhushan, Raghunath Mohapatra, was the chief architect of this temple construction. The construction of this temple began in 2009 and was inaugurated four and a half years later in 2015. According to the news reports, the Emami Group constructed this temple with a cost of 17 crore rupees. ![\\"\\"](\\" years-old-Varaha-sculpture-Image-3-1024x277.jpg\\") To sum it up, a photo showing the varaha sculpture inside the Jagannath temple in Odisha that was inaugurated in 2015 shared as a picture of thousand of years old sculpture. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email __Previous ArticleThis video showing a wheelchair moving by itself is a scripted one Next Article __Automatic Payments: A Smart and Convenient Way to Manage Your Regular Payments in New Zealand ### About Author ![\\"\\"](\\" Dilip Kumar Sripada ### Related Posts ‘రామసేతు 7 లక్షల సంవత్సరాల క్రితంది’ అని NASA ఎక్కడా కూడా పేర్కొనలేద... EVMలను హ్యాక్ చేయవచ్చని వాదిస్తూ 2019లో \'సయ్యద్ షుజా\' అనే స్వయం ప్రక... సోమాలియా అరటిపండ్లలో హెలికోబాక్టర్ అనే పురుగు ఉందని, తిన్న 12 గంటల్ల... 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" thumbnail--702x336.jpg\\") English, Fake News # The cost of Evian bottled water seen in this video is ₹250, not ₹2900 0 By Harshavardhan Konda on July 11, 2023 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit A video showing Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav’s family gathering is being widely shared on social media. The accompanying description claims that the Evian company water bottle seen on their table costs around ₹2900 per litre. Let’s verify this claim made in the post. ![\\"\\"](\\" claim.png\\") > Claim: Cost of the Evian brand’s water bottle seen at the family gathering > of Tejashwi Yadav is ₹2900 per liter. > > Fact: The cost of the 1-liter Evian bottled water visible in the viral video > is not ₹2900 but rather ₹250. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE. An internet search for the prices of various variants of Evian bottled water across different e-commerce sites revealed that the average price of a 1-litre Evian water bottle ranges from ₹200 to ₹500, depending on the variant, packaging options, retailer, and other factors. However, the specific variant featured in the viral video has an MRP of ₹250 and is currently being sold for ₹225 on Big Basket. ![\\"\\"](\\" image-1.png\\") Additionally, we also found that another bottle visible in the video is the Himalayan brand bottled water, which has an MRP of ₹70. ![\\"\\"](\\" image-2.png\\") To sum it up, contrary to the claim, the cost of the 1-litre Evian bottled water visible in the viral video is not ₹2900 but rather ₹250. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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And today’s story “mixes the two themes.” A video of the player Neymar, the main star of the Brazilian team, is circulating on the internet as if it were a vote request to President Jair Bolsonaro in this year's elections. Along with captions like “Neymar asks for vote for Bolsonaro” and “Bolsonaro in them”, the video shows, in the first part, the player talking about voting in elections and the importance of “taking a stand”. In second part, the video shows Neymar greeting President Jair Bolsonaro in a friendly atmosphere. Watch the video and read the speech transcript. _Neymar: We are at an important political moment and I know that every vote will decide the future of our country we cannot have null or blank votes in this moment. Every vote will be important for Brazil to change to a country still better for our children. A country that changes to achieve our dreams. Generally, public opinion treats the support of a personality as opportunism or lack thereof as alienation. We can't be afraid of ourselves positioning is our democratic right to choose a candidate._ ## Neymar asks, on video, to vote for Bolsonaro in the 2022 elections? It didn't take long for the story to circulate with all its might on the internet, especially during Brazilian national team games. However, it is not true that the video circulating online is an explicit request to vote for Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 elections. The video (which, for a change, appeared on a “Chinese” video platform, the TikTok) has characteristics of fake news such as the vague nature, the alarmist tone and the lack of citation of reliable sources that prove that the speech in question is current. Furthermore, it is not new that videos taken out of context (mainly on platforms like the one mentioned) serve as fuel for fake news. We have already talked about the subject in two A Semana em Fakes (in 2021 and in 2022). When searching for this video, we reached the verdict. In reality, the speech of Neymar was recorded in 2014. At the time, he publicly supported the then candidate for the Presidency of the Republic Aécio Neves. See the full video in which the player mentions the name of the candidate defeated in the elections at the time. When searching for “support from Neymar to Bolsonaro”, we did not find (at least for while) no explicit manifestation of a request to vote in the elections of 2022. It is possible that, given the proximity of the player and his family to the president (as can be seen here, here and here), there may be support public until October. However, the vote request, at least for now, does not it arrived. In short: the video being shared as a vote request from Neymar for President Jair Bolsonaro in 2022 was taken out of context. THE The video was actually recorded in 2014 and was a request to vote for Aécio Neves. Ps.: This article is a suggestion from Boatos.org readers. 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See the sources for this fact-check California gas prices recently hit a record high, and some social media users are sharing photos of gas station signs to express their disbelief and disgust. But one image that’s been viewed widely on Facebook appears to show gas prices reaching about $9 a gallon. In the image, it looks like unleaded gas is about $9, unleaded plus is about $9.01, unleaded premium is about $9.02 and diesel is about $9.03 for customers paying with cash. Using a debit or credit card, those prices jump to about $9.06, $9.07, $9.08 and $9.09, respectively. 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 identified the gas station where the picture was taken by a number that appears on the Dutch Bros coffee stand in the background: 1130. There’s a Dutch Bros at 1130 E March Lane in Stockton, California, and an ARCO gas station is next door. Using the street view feature of Google Maps, we were able to identify other similarities between that location and the picture in the Facebook post, such as the placement of palm trees around the store, a sign affixed to one of the trees, and the proximity of the gas station sign to a lamp post. We tried multiple numbers we found listed for the ARCO station but none worked, and we were unsuccessful in trying to reach someone at ARCO Southwest, which includes Stockton. So we called other ARCOs in the city, and didn’t find any prices close to $9. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on August 23, 2024 in a Facebook post “Colin Kaepernick \'screams\' as Coach Kyle Shanahan denies his return request: \'The kneeling symbol has no chance of coming back.’” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Ciara O\'Rourke • August 28, 2024 At the ARCO on Trinity Parkway, about 9 miles from the location on March Lane, unleaded cost $4.95 if paying with cash and $5.05 with a card, an employee there said. At the Golden State Highway location, about 10 miles from the March Lane station, an employee gasped realizing that gas there cost $5.15 a gallon. According to AAA, the national average of gas prices on March 7 was $4.065. In California, it was higher: $5.343. That’s a new record for the highest recorded average price in California, according to AAA. Average diesel prices also hit a new record on March 7 with costs averaging $5.692 a gallon. In the Stockton-Lodi region, according to AAA, the average for regular gas is $5.24, and $5.75 for diesel. GasBuddy reflects similar prices in Stockton. **RELATED VIDEO** We found plenty of articles about soaring gas prices in California but no reports of prices soaring as high as $9 a gallon. The Los Angeles Times reported on March 6 that the average California gas prices are now over $5 a gallon, noting that \"a few stations\" in Los Angeles County have surpassed $6 a gallon. We’ve previously reported on photos of gas station signs that appear to be selling gas for nearly $10. But the stations weren’t actually selling gas for that much. It’s common for stations to advertise fake, high prices on their signs when they’re either closed or out of gas to discourage drivers from stopping. 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DATA ROUNDUP English, Fake News # No BSF jawan has died in Meghalaya’s bus accident. Injured jawans are receiving treatment. 0 By Akhil Reddy on November 7, 2019 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit A video and a couple of photos are being shared on Facebook with a claim that 12 jawans who were travelling on a bus have died in a road accident in Meghalaya. Let’s try to analyze the claim made in the post. ![\\"\\"](\\" Accident-FB-Post-1.jpg\\")The archived version of the post can be found here. ![\\"\\"](\\" Accident-FB-Post-2.jpg\\")The archived version of the post can be found here. > Claim: 12 jawans have died in a bus accident in Meghalaya. > > Fact: BSF authorities have clarified to FACTLY that all jawans are ‘safe and > undergoing treatment at various hospitals’. Hence the claim made in the post > is FALSE. When searched on Google with the keywords ‘Meghalaya bus accident jawans’, several news articles with similar visuals were found in the search results. According to an article on the ‘Northeast Now News’ website, ‘one person died and 22 others including 20 BSF jawans received injuries as a bus fell down in a gorge at Umtyrra in East Jaintia Hills on Wednesday’. All the news agencies have reported about the incident but none of them reported about any BSF jawan succumbing to the injuries. ![\\"\\"](\\" Accident-News-article.jpg\\") So, FACTLY has written to the authorities at BSF-Meghalaya to get a clarification on the viral posts. In his clarification to FACTLY, Randhir Ranjan (2IC – Operations, Ftr HQ BSF Meghalaya) wrote, ‘there was **no casualty of any BSF jawan** in the bus accident. However, 01 helper of the civil bus, which was carrying the BSF jawan, died in that accident. **All jawans who sustained injuries during the accident are safe** and undergoing treatment at various hospitals’. ![\\"\\"](\\" Accident-Clarification-913x1024.jpg\\") Also, in an article by the ‘Northeast Now News’, it can be read that BSF jawans injured in the bus accident are being treated at North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong. ![\\"\\"](\\" Accident-News-article-2.jpg\\") To sum it up, no BSF jawan has died in Meghalaya’s bus accident. Injured jawans are receiving treatment. _Did you watch our new Episode of the DECODE series?_ ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism. SUMMARY This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. ![\\"FALSE:](\\" robredo-law.jpg\\") The Manila Bulletin denies publishing a story with headline, \'Robredo to pass a law to put netizens behind bars for bashing her.\' It labels the post a \'hoax.\' CLAIM: On March 23, 2019, the Facebook page Meanwhile in the Philippines posted what is supposedly a screenshot of a Manila Bulletin report published on March 21, 2019 with the byline of Tonyo Cruz. The headline says, “Robredo to pass a law to put netizens behind bars for bashing her.” ![\\"](\\" mb-post-robredo.jpg\\")The article’s blurb supposedly said the Vice President is pushing for a law that will send her critics to jail except for the “media and known anti-Duterte pages like Silent No More and Pinoy Ako Blog.” The post did not include any links to the online news site. It has been reposted by several Facebook pages and personal accounts and has gained a total of 5,209 interactions. The page Meanwhile in the Philippines has over 290,000 followers. In its “About” section, it has a disclaimer which says, “We are not a news site, we are an opinion and satire site.” The post got mixed reactions, however. While some Facebook users pointed out that the page is a satire page, there were also users who either called it fake or reacted angrily against Robredo, indicating that they believed the post. The link to the post was shared with Rappler via the Facebook group Fact- checking in the Philippines. **Rating: FALSE** The Facts: The Manila Bulletin denied publishing a story with this headline. The publication’s online news site has released a statement labeling the post a “hoax.” Manila Bulletin columnist and blogger Tonyo Cruz told Rappler that he “didn’t submit any such article” nor “did the editors assign” to him one. 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(Screenshot from YouTube) ![\\"Daniel](\\" By Daniel Funke September 3, 2020 # Trump repeats false claim about COVID-19 deaths on Fox News #### If Your Time is short * In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Trump misconstrued data on coronavirus deaths. As of Sept. 3, 185,092 Americans had died due to COVID-19. * A CDC report found that 6% of people who died from COVID-19 only had the virus. The majority had other conditions as well, but that doesn’t mean COVID-19 wasn’t to blame. * The National Center for Health Statistics told us that COVID-19 was responsible for nearly all of the deaths involving the virus. See the sources for this fact-check In the past week, President Donald Trump has repeatedly spread a false claim that COVID-19 is not as deadly as his own public health agencies have reported. He retweeted a now-deleted post that alleged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \"quietly updated\" the number of coronavirus deaths. He shared another tweet from a senior legal adviser for his reelection campaign that linked to an article whose headline said \"only 9,210 Americans died from COVID-19 alone.\" And, in a Sept. 1 interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Trump said it himself: \"I saw a statistic come out the other day, talking about only 6% of the people actually died from COVID, which is a very interesting — that they died from other reasons.\" \"Well, they had comorbidities, which you’ve gotten criticized for,\" Ingraham responded. She’s right — the president misconstrued data on coronavirus deaths. As of Sept. 3, CDC data show 185,092 Americans had died due to COVID-19, and some estimates put the death toll higher. Trump’s claim traces back to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is part of the CDC. Each Wednesday, the agency releases new provisional death counts for the coronavirus. The data is based on death certificates. In that report, the NCHS notes in a section titled \"Comorbidities\" that, \"for 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.\" \"For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death,\" the report says. Those lines have inspired a rash of claims on social media, including those retweeted by the president, that say the CDC \"adjusted\" its coronavirus death counts and the disease is not as deadly as previously thought. Those assertions are false — we rated a related Facebook post Pants on Fire. Several other fact-checkers have also debunked them. Let’s recap why they’re wrong. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" 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. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • August 27, 2024 Comorbidities are conditions that patients experience in tandem with a primary condition. Think of conditions like cancer or diabetes, which the CDC has said put people more at risk of death if they contract the coronavirus. The NCHS report shows that the vast majority of coronavirus-related deaths occur in patients with comorbidities. But that doesn’t mean COVID-19 was a non-factor. \"The point that the CDC was trying to make was that a certain percentage of them had nothing else but just COVID-19,\" said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a Sept. 1 interview with \"Good Morning America.\" \"That does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of COVID didn’t die of COVID-19 — they did.\" \"The numbers that you’ve been hearing, the 180,000-plus deaths, are real deaths from COVID-19. Let there not be any confusion about that.\" So why do 94% of death certificates that mention COVID-19 also list other conditions? When a coronavirus patient is admitted to the hospital, the virus is listed on their medical record. Since the coronavirus attacks the lungs, perhaps they develop respiratory failure, which would also be listed on their record. Unfortunately, they die after going into cardiac arrest, so doctors take note of that, too. _RELATED:_No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ US coronavirus deaths All three of those conditions would be listed on the patient’s death certificate, but COVID-19 started the process. \"The people dying were not going to die but for the acquisition of COVID,\" said Dr. Myron Cohen, director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jeff Lancashire, acting associate director for communications at the NCHS, told us in an email that 92% of the death certificates that mention the coronavirus state that COVID-19 was the \"underlying cause of death.\" \"The underlying cause of death is the condition that began the chain of events that ultimately led to the person’s death,\" Lancashire said. We reached out to the White House and the Trump campaign for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. Trump’s claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire! #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Factba.se, accessed Sept. 3, 2020 PolitiFact, \"No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ US coronavirus deaths,\" Aug. 31, 2020 YouTube video from Factbase Videos, Sept. 1, 2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC COVID Data Tracker, accessed Sept. 3, 2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): About CDC COVID-19 Data, July 13, 2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): People with Certain Medical Conditions, Aug. 14, 2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Social Distancing, July 15, 2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Instructions for Completing the Cause-of-Death Section of the Death Certificate, accessed Aug. 31, 2020 Email from Dr. Myron Cohen, director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Aug. 31, 2020 Email from Jeff Lancashire, acting associate director for communications at the National Center for Health Statistics, Aug. 31, 2020 Facebook post from Dr. Mark Halstead, Aug. 30, 2020 The Gateway Pundit, \"SHOCK REPORT: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers – Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone – Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses,\" Aug. 29, 2020 National Center for Health Statistics, Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Sept. 2, 2020 The New York Times, \"The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000,\" Aug. 13, 2020 Tweeted video from \"Good Morning America,\" Sept. 1, 2020 Factcheck.org, \"CDC Did Not ‘Admit Only 6%’ of Recorded Deaths from COVID-19,\" Sept. 1, 2020 Snopes, \"Did CDC ‘Quietly Update’ COVID-19 Deaths To Say Only 6% Are Legitimate?\" Sept. 3, 2020 Health Feedback, \"False claim shared by President Trump that only 6% of CDC- reported deaths are from COVID-19 is based on flawed reasoning,\" Aug. 31, 2020 Check Your Fact, \"FACT CHECK: DID THE CDC REVISE ITS COVID-19 DEATH COUNT TO SHOW THAT ONLY 9,210 PEOPLE ‘ACTUALLY DIED’ FROM COVID-19?\" Aug. 31, 2020 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Daniel Funke slide 4 to 6 of 15 ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on January 30, 2021 in a sound: \"Schools are trying to make a law that teachers can see girls\' private parts to make sure they\'re not trans.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 17, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on February 15, 2021 in a text post: Says Joe Biden planned a winter storm as \"warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the jet stream.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 16, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Michael van der Veen stated on February 12, 2021 in a speech at the U.S. Senate: After the Capitol insurrection, “one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 12, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2021 in a video: \"mRNA is not a vaccine\" — it\'s \"actually an operating system\" that\'s run by Bill Gates to program humans. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • April 1, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on March 24, 2021 in a post: \"Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship named Evergreen. Evergreen shipping is most likely a cover for human and sex trafficking” by Hillary Clinton. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • March 25, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jack Posobiec stated on March 23, 2021 in a tweet: “New information coming in that Boulder shooter was a Syrian refugee who arrived via Obama-era asylum programs.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • March 24, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on March 22, 2021 in a text post: The shooting in Boulder, Colo., was a \"false flag like most of the others.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • March 23, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on March 17, 2021 in a video caption: “You will need a WHO Yellow Vaccination Passport if you plan on traveling internationally once borders open.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • March 22, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on March 13, 2021 in a text post: Says Joe Biden is “now saying he inherited ‘a mess’ at the border. Fact: 9,000 illegals all of 2020. So far in 2021 108,000 entered U.S.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Daniel Funke • March 17, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Sherri Tenpenny stated on February 9, 2021 in a Bitchute video: \"Some people are going to die from the vaccine directly. But a large number of people are going to start getting horribly sick and get all kinds of autoimmune diseases.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • March 4, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on February 26, 2021 in an image: Says Jerry Nadler said “God has no authority in the House of Representatives” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Daniel Funke • February 26, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" J. Bart Classen stated on January 18, 2021 in a research article: The COVID-19 vaccine could lead to prion diseases, Alzheimer’s, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 26, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on February 21, 2021 in a post: Facebook users can avoid “problems with your Facebook going against community standards” by changing your settings. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 24, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Infowars stated on February 20, 2021 in an article: “Joe Biden’s Dept. of Energy Blocked Texas from Increasing Power Ahead of Killer Storm” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 22, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on February 13, 2021 in a text post: Donald Trump\'s second impeachment \"cost $33 million.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Daniel Funke • February 19, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" TikTok posts stated on January 30, 2021 in a sound: \"Schools are trying to make a law that teachers can see girls\' private parts to make sure they\'re not trans.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 17, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on February 15, 2021 in a text post: Says Joe Biden planned a winter storm as \"warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the jet stream.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 16, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Michael van der Veen stated on February 12, 2021 in a speech at the U.S. Senate: After the Capitol insurrection, “one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • February 12, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2021 in a video: \"mRNA is not a vaccine\" — it\'s \"actually an operating system\" that\'s run by Bill Gates to program humans. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • April 1, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on March 24, 2021 in a post: \"Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship named Evergreen. Evergreen shipping is most likely a cover for human and sex trafficking” by Hillary Clinton. ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • March 25, 2021 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jack Posobiec stated on March 23, 2021 in a tweet: “New information coming in that Boulder shooter was a Syrian refugee who arrived via Obama-era asylum programs.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Daniel Funke • March 24, 2021 ### Trump repeats false claim about COVID-19 deaths on Fox News * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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. Ruben Gallego’s “first act in Congress was to propose legislation to BAN the use of the term ‘illegal alien.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Mia Osmonbekov • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Sherrod Brown stated on September 4, 2024 in a TV interview: Of Bernie Moreno, “Now, he’s arguing for a national abortion ban, no exceptions.” ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Caleb McCullough • September 19, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. Become a member! 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We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated five- to 11- year- olds.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" true/3d4df195c595a07e3fd69b5e4aab3e3c.jpg.\\") ![\\"true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * Public Health * New York * Coronavirus * Kathy Hochul ![\\"Gov.](\\" Gov. Kathy Hochul announces that a mask mandate for students will be lifted during a briefing in the State Capitol on Feb. 27, 2022. (Gov. Kathy Hochul\'s office.) ![\\"Jill](\\" By Jill Terreri Ramos March 11, 2022 # New York a leader in vaccines for young people among large states #### If Your Time is short * Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services back up Hochul\'s claim. * New York is a leader among large states, though there are smaller states that have higher vaccination rates among children. See the sources for this fact-check Gov. Kathy Hochul cited rates of vaccination against Covid-19 to support her decision to drop the mask mandate in schools. She announced at a news conference on Feb. 27 that the state would lift the statewide mask mandate for children in school. \"We are No. 1 among all large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers. We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated 5- to 11-year olds. We\'re just a little bit behind Illinois, so I think we can surpass this. We\'d like to be No. 1 in everything we do.\" We checked to see if her claims about the vaccination rates among children in New York State, relative to other large states, are accurate. We reached out to Hochul’s office, and spokesperson Bryan Lesswing said the governor’s office considered the 10 most populated states in its analysis: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan. Hochul’s administration looked at the number of vaccines administered by the states for each age group, using U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, and the total population in each age group to reach its conclusion. A slide deck from her presentation on the day she announced the end of the mask mandate provided a chart showing large states and rates of full vaccination among young people. We consulted data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which issues Covid-19 reports for each state. A report from Feb. 25 showed that 33.5% of children ages 5 to 11 and 71.2% of children ages 12 to 17 were fully vaccinated in New York State. Among large states, Illinois had a greater share of children ages 5 to 11 who were fully vaccinated, at 34.8%. Among children ages 12 to 17 in large states, New York had the largest share. An analysis of vaccination rates from the American Academy of Pediatrics, published on Feb. 23, showed the same results as Hochul presented. In the 10 largest states, New York has the second-highest rate of vaccination in children ages 5 to 11, after Illinois, when children who have had at least one dose of the vaccine are counted. Forty-one percent of children in this age group have had at least one dose in New York. The figure is 42% in Illinois. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" 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. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Jeff Cercone • August 27, 2024 Among large states, New York has the highest percentage of children ages 12 to 17 who have received at least one dose, according to the pediatricians’ group. Eighty-two percent of students in this group have received at least one dose, edging out California, which has 81%. Hochul correctly characterized New York’s vaccination rates among large states in three Covid briefings during February. But she did not do so twice in local news interviews. In two television interviews on Feb. 28, Hochul did not include \"among large states\" as a qualifier. Across the country, there are 10 states and the District of Columbia with higher rates of vaccination among children ages five to 11 who have had at least one dose, according to the analysis of CDC data from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The 10 states are: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Virginia, Minnesota, Hawaii, and Illinois. For children ages 12 to 17, a larger proportion had at least one dose in six states and the District of Columbia. The states are: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, according to the same analysis. Our ruling Hochul said New York State ranked No. 1 one among large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers and No. 2 among large states for having fully vaccinated 5 to 11 year olds. Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirms Hochul’s statement. Hochul qualified her claim by saying \"large states\" in a news conference she held to announce the lifting of mask mandates in schools. This qualification is important, as New York does not lead the country in vaccinations among children and teenagers when all 50 states are considered. We rate this claim True. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources New York State Office of the Governor, \"Video, Audio, Photos, & Rush Transcript: Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on State\'s Progress Combating COVID-19,\" Feb. 27, 2022. Accessed March 3, 2022. 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New York State Office of the Governor, news release, \"Video, Audio, Photos & Rush Transcript: Governor Hochul Directs State Agencies to Prepare Emergency Response Assets as Statewide Winter Weather System Expected to Bring Heavy Snowfall Through Friday,\" Feb. 24, 2022. Accessed March 3, 2022. New York State Office of the Governor, slide deck, \"New York State COVID-19 Update, Feb. 27, 2022.\" Accessed March 3, 2022. Email, Bryan Lesswing, spokesperson, Gov. Kathy Hochul, March 3, 2022. American Academy of Pediatrics, \"Children and COVID-19 Vaccination Trends, AAP Analysis of Data Posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of February 23, 2022.\" Accessed March 3, 2022. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID Data Tracker, \"COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States,\" Data as of March 3, 2022. Accessed March 4, 2022. U.S. Census, State Population by Characteristics: 2010-2020, table, \"Single Year of Age and Sex for the Civilian Population,\" 2020\. Accessed March 4, 2022. The New York Times, data visualization, \"See How Vaccinations Are Going in Your County and State,\" updated March 4, 2022. Accessed March 6, 2022. HealthData.gov, \"COVID-19 State Profile Report - New York,\" Feb. 25, 2022. 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Rating: False About this rating Context The FDA has granted Pfizer\'s formula \"full approval\" and has deemed vaccines by Moderna and Johnson & Johnson safe and effective with \"emergency use authorizations.\" Advertisement: Snopes is still **fighting** an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can help. **Find out** what we\'ve learned and how to inoculate yourself against COVID-19 misinformation. **Read** the latest fact checks about the vaccines. Submit any questionable rumors and “advice” you encounter. **Become a Founding Member** to help us hire more fact-checkers. And, please, follow the **CDC** or **WHO** for guidance on protecting your community from the disease. In Oct. 25, 2021, a Snopes reader alerted us to an alleged conspiracy regarding COVID-19 vaccine ingredients. According to the rumor, vaccine recipients were supposedly being injected with formulas containing more ingredients than what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had \"approved\" for the immunizations. \"The FDA approved version of the \'vaccine\' had 3 ingredients. The version being injected into the public has 7,\" the reader wrote to us, referring to a post supposedly seen on Facebook. ![\\"\\"](\\" FEATURED-IMG-2-2.png\\") Advertisement: The reader\'s inquiry included other claims, including the false notion that FDA-endorsed formulas by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) did not \"fit the definition\" of vaccines but were rather \"experimental treatments\" for the coronavirus. (Here\'s a portal of evidence on the FDA\'s website outlining the agency\'s approval of the immunizations, debunking that assertion.) For the purpose of this fact check, however, we will focus on the allegation about the immunizations\' amount of ingredients. [See also from Snopes: _Does J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Contain Aborted Fetal Cells?_] Before we address the crux of the claim, a note on semantics: As of this writing, the FDA had only granted \"full approval\" to one type of vaccine — Pfizer\'s. However, the federal agency gave the formulas by Moderna and J&J \"emergency use authorizations\" (EUA), allowing for their mass distribution to help end the deadly pandemic as fast as possible. That endorsement, while it was not a full approval, confirmed the shots\' safety and effectiveness after testing them on tens of thousands of people. While the post displayed above used the phrase \"FDA-approved\" without specifying which immunization it was referring to, we considered ingredients for all three vaccines, no matter if they had full FDA approval or EUA\'s. Advertisement: Firstly, here\'s the FDA\'s list of ingredients for Pfizer\'s shot, as outlined via documentation on its website: > mRNA, lipids ((4- > hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate), 2 > [(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide, 1,2-Distearoyl-sn- > glycero-3-phosphocholine, and cholesterol), potassium chloride, monobasic > potassium phosphate, sodium chloride, dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate, > and sucrose. In other words, the formula contained mRNA molecules (the messenger ribonucleic acids that help immune systems fight COVID-19), as well as salt, sugar, a variety of fatty acids and a handful of other compounds, for a total of seven ingredients. Next, we considered the FDA\'s list of elements that make up Moderna and J&J\'s formulas, respectively. They are as follows, according to FDA records obtained by Snopes: ![\\"\\"](\\" Shot-2021-10-27-at-5.32.06-PM.png\\") Advertisement: ![\\"\\"](\\" Shot-2021-10-27-at-5.34.02-PM.png\\") Like Pfizer\'s shot, those immunizations contain seven or eight ingredients — not three, like the post claimed. Next, we sought evidence to confirm or deny the allegation that vaccine administrators at certified sites across the U.S.— either at clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, etc. — had injected people with fluids that did not contain the above-listed ingredients. We found no reported instances of that happening, whether intentionally or unintentionally. (That\'s not to say fraudulent vaccines don\'t exist. Get more information from the FDA on those here.) In sum, we considered the claim that people were receiving COVID-19 vaccinations containing more ingredients than what the FDA had endorsed for the public a baseless conspiracy theory. As such, we rate this claim \"False.\" Advertisement: More Snopes\' fact checks addressing rumors about COVID-19 vaccine ingredients: * No, the mRNA Vaccines Do Not Contain Graphene Oxide * Does Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Contain Aborted Fetal Cells? * No, mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not ‘Alter Your DNA’ #### Sources “US Regulators Give Full Approval to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.” Snopes.Com, pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/. Accessed 27 Oct. 2021. Commissioner, Office of the. “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.” FDA, Oct. 2021. response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/moderna-covid-19-vaccine. Commissioner, Office of the. “Comirnaty and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.” FDA, Oct. 2021. response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/comirnaty-and-pfizer-biontech- covid-19-vaccine. Commissioner, Office of the. “Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine.” FDA, Oct. 2021. response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/janssen-covid-19-vaccine. #### Updates This report was updated to clarify that mRNA molecules are messenger ribonucleic acids that help immune systems fight COVID-19. ### By Jessica Lee Jessica Lee is Snopes\' Senior Assignments Editor with expertise in investigative storytelling, media literacy advocacy and digital audience engagement. ## Article Tags COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine 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. 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Trey Gowdy. Gowdy confirmed to us that he did not write the post in question. ##### Full Story Former Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina has publicly weighed in on some issues concerning the novel coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. politics surrounding it. But the former Republican congressman did not write a more than 400-word conspiracy theory circulating on Facebook that implies, without any proof, that the outbreak was planned to help Democrats in the 2020 election. “From Trey Gowdy,” the post begins. “I’m not saying Covid-19 isn’t real… But Pay attention folks, there’s much more going on here than what meets the eye.” It goes on to claim, among other things, that “there is something larger going on here driving this sudden outbreak right after Trump beats an impeachment” and that “[i]t all seems rather convenient for the nations and opponents of our current President and economy 5 months before an election.” It’s unclear why or when Gowdy, a high-profile congressman who served from 2011 until Jan. 3, 2019, became tied to the viral text post. We found the same text repeatedly posted to Facebook as early as March 12 with no such attribution. As the posts using his name (and image, in some cases) swirled in late April, Gowdy dismissed the attribution on his verified Facebook account. “Just want to alert folks there is a fraudulent post attributed to me circulating on social media,” he wrote in an April 22 post. “Not the first time, likely not the last. We have enough going on in our country right now without propagating misinformation. Stay safe and strong.” In an email to FactCheck.org, Gowdy confirmed that his statement was referring to the viral COVID-19 post. Some versions of the post tying the text to Gowdy were updated in light of his Facebook statement. One such post appeared on the Facebook page of Beatrice Cardenas, a Republican congressional candidate in California, and used the Gowdy attribution and an image of the former congressman. It remains up and has been shared 48,000 times, but an update was added at the bottom reading: “4/22 EDIT: several people have sent me a message posted by Trey Gowdy making a disclaimer about posts attributed to him he did not write. We are unsure who was the original author.” Still, multiple versions of the post leave the false attribution in place — and new ones are still being published. And other iterations have used different attributions altogether. Another post of the same text was credited to former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, even though there’s no evidence it was his work, either. One simply sourced it to an unnamed “Trump Supporter.” This is just the latest example of a viral post leveraging a name to advance an argument. Editor’s note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on social media. 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![\\"logically](\\"/images/logically-combined.png\\"/) * Topics * Climate * Conspiracies * Economics * Events * Geopolitical * Health * Human Rights * Media * Politics * Tech * Conflict * Explore * Fact-Checks * Articles * Analysis * Newsletter * Products and Services * Accelerate * About Us * Meet the Team * Ethics & Transparency * Methodology & FAQs * Announcements * Contact Us English * English * ಕನ್ನಡ * Svenska * తెలుగు * हिंदी * অসমীয়া * Dansk Subscribe|LOGICALLY.AI Fact-Check Home Fake image shared to claim schedule for 2024 Indian elections is out # Fake image shared to claim schedule for 2024 Indian elections is out By: Umme Kulsum February 26 2024 Share Article: ![\\"facebook](\\"/images/social-media/fb-b.webp\\"/) ![\\"twitter](\\"/images/social-media/tw-b.webp\\"/) ![\\"linkedin](\\"/images/social-media/li-b.webp\\"/) ![\\"Fake](\\"/storage/img/pages/ECIFakedatemain_background.webp\\"/) Screenshot of the viral image circulating online. (Source: Facebook/ Modified by Logically Facts) Fact-Check ### The Verdict Fake The Election Commission of India (ECI) said it has not made any official announcement regarding the polling dates. What’s the claim? As the general elections in India draw closer, social media is buzzing with claims about upcoming polling dates, nomination deadlines, and cutoff dates for vote counting, as many users anticipate and predict which party or alliance will emerge victorious. An image of a purported official government statement or release mentioning “2024 GENERAL ELECTION DETAILS” is currently going viral on social media. The image claims that polling for the Lok Sabha elections will be held on April 19, and results will be announced on May 22. It also mentions other dates for nationwide election-related processes and implies that the elections will be notified on March 23. This narrative is gaining traction on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook. One X post sharing the image in question had over 2,82,000 views at the time of writing. Archived versions of such posts and similar others can be found here, here, here, here, and here. Screenshot of the purported polling schedule shared online. (Source: X/ Modified by Logically Facts) However, Indian authorities have not released the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. What did we find? Logically Facts checked the official website of the Election Commission of India (ECI)—the principal nodal agency responsible for conducting polls in the country— and came across no notification, statement, or press release regarding the 2024 Lok Sabha elections schedule. If the election schedule had been announced, it would have also been made available on the ECI website. The dates would have also been announced by the Press Information Bureau (PIB)—the nodal Indian government agency that puts out official statements and communication. However, details of the election schedule are not available on any official website linked to the Government of India, indicating that the viral image is making false claims. A Google search for 2024 Lok Sabha election dates also yielded no reports from any credible news outlet. In fact, the ECI, through its official X account, issued a statement refuting the viral claim on the supposed election dates. This statement conclusively debunks the claims and confirms that the image circulating as an official announcement by the ECI is fraudulent. The post also claimed that the official dates will be announced through a press conference by the ECI. Back in January too, a letter was widely shared online claiming that the dates for the elections had been announced and that polling for Lok Sabha elections would commence on April 16. At the time, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Delhi issued a clarification that the date was merely a tentative reference but not an official announcement. You can read the article by Logically Facts here. The verdict The Election Commission of India has yet to announce dates for the 2024 general election. The image circulating online is fake. ### Reference Links ![\\"icon\\"](\\" ##### Election Commission of India Refutes ![\\"icon\\"](\\" publication\\") ##### ECI Refutes ![\\"icon\\"](\\" sabha-polls-from-16-april-date-in-viral-note-only-for-reference-says-delhi- poll-body\\") ##### logicallyfacts Refutes ### Would you like to submit a claim to fact-check or contact our editorial team? What is this about? 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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 ![](\\" ![](\\" Chris Coons stated on July 30, 2023 in an interview on NBC\'s \"Meet the Press\": “Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-false/6a6ef6075c162fdccf5eb960e683dcd1.jpg.\\") ![\\"barely- true\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Economy * Polls and Public Opinion * Chris Coons ![\\"Sen.](\\" Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., on May 11, 2023. (AP) ![\\"Louis](\\" By Louis Jacobson August 3, 2023 # How strong is consumer confidence under Joe Biden? #### If Your Time is short * There are two major surveys of consumer confidence, and one of them — produced by the Conference Board — shows the highest confidence levels in just two years. * The other major survey, produced by the University of Michigan, shows confidence near historical lows. This survey’s questions are more sensitive to the effect of high inflation, which has been front of mind in recent months. See the sources for this fact-check A gradual easing of inflation has helped increase public optimism about the economy, said one of President Joe Biden’s top supporters in the Senate. \"I think President Biden has an incredibly strong record to run on,\" Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said July 30 on NBC’s \"Meet the Press.\" Coons referred to official data that showed year-over-year inflation had dropped to about 3%, close to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. \"Consumer confidence is the highest it\'s been in years,\" Coons said. \"So, the ground is moving in his direction.\" As Republican presidential candidates hammer Biden on the economy, we wondered whether Coons is correct that \"consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.\" There are two main consumer confidence surveys, and they differ significantly on how optimistic the public is about the economy today. What the data shows Coons’ office pointed to results of the consumer confidence index produced monthly by the Conference Board, a business membership and research organization. The group’s most recent finding, released July 25, reported that consumer confidence — as measured by an online survey — reached a two-year high in July. Two years does qualify as \"years\" — as Coons broadly phrased it — though barely. However, a second consumer sentiment survey, run by the University of Michigan, has less rosy data. Although the Michigan survey shows a general rise in confidence since its low in June 2022 — the month inflation peaked — the confidence levels in the survey remain lower than they were earlier in Biden’s term. The current level of consumer sentiment in the Michigan survey is close to rock bottom. Looking all the way back to 1978, today’s level is lower than it\'s been in 92% of months in the statistic’s history. #### 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 Although the economy is not officially in a recession, consumer confidence levels were lower than now only during the early 1980s recession, the Great Recession that began in 2008, and the brief coronavirus pandemic recession. All told, the Conference Board measurement is higher today than it was from about 2007 to 2017. Yet Michigan’s measurement is lower today than it was from about 2009 to 2021. So, why does consumer confidence under Biden look so different depending on the metric? Comparing the two metrics Both measures are considered credible, but even some veteran economists told PolitiFact they didn’t realize there were differences between them. The surveys’ differences are highly relevant now. The biggest one relates to the questions asked of consumers. Economists from the Michigan survey and the Conference Board agreed about the differences between the two surveys. The University of Michigan survey \"tends to be more sensitive to inflation than the Conference Board\'s measure, which tends to be more sensitive to labor market conditions,\" said Joanne W. Hsu, consumer surveys director at the University of Michigan. Allen Li, an associate economist with the Conference Board, agreed with Hsu, saying the Michigan survey \"uses different methodology and a different set of questions, which makes their index a little more sensitive to rising interest rates and elevated prices.\" With high inflation weighing heavily on the questions asked by the University of Michigan survey — and with continuing strong labor markets boosting the Conference Board survey — it’s easy to see why the two surveys diverged. \"It’s been rare for these two measures to diverge as much they have, for as long as they have,\" said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank. Our ruling Coons said, \"Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.\" There are two major consumer confidence surveys, and they use different methodologies. One of them — produced by the Conference Board — shows the highest confidence levels in just two years. However, the other major survey — produced by the University of Michigan — shows confidence near historical lows, with 92% of months since January 1978 recording a higher confidence level than today. This survey’s questions are more sensitive to the impact of high inflation, which has been front of mind in recent months. Although both of the key measures of consumer confidence have been rising for the past year, only one supports the notion of \"years\" — and it’s only two years. The other credible measure has consumer confidence at a level close to historical lows. The statement has an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it Mostly False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Chris Coons, interview on NBC’s \"Meet the Press,\" July 30, 2021 Conference Board, \"US Consumer Confidence Improved Again in July,\" July 25, 2023 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, \"University of Michigan: Consumer Sentiment,\" accessed July 31, 2023 The Associated Press, \"U.S. consumer confidence jumps to a two-year high as inflation eases,\" July 25, 2023 Email interview with Gary Burtless, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, July 31, 2023 Email interview with Joanne W. Hsu, director of surveys of consumers at the University of Michigan, July 31, 2023 Email interview with Allen Li, associate economist with the Conference Board, July 31, 2023 Interview with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, July 31, 2023 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Louis Jacobson ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 ### How strong is consumer confidence under Joe Biden? * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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. 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 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Sam Brown stated on August 28, 2024 in a campaign appearance: Proposed Nevada constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights would put “essentially no limit on access to abortion.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Caleb McCullough • September 13, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. Become a member! In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts. 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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 ![](\\" ![](\\" Chris Murphy stated on July 27, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia: \"Ninety percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" true/3d4df195c595a07e3fd69b5e4aab3e3c.jpg.\\") ![\\"true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * National * Polls and Public Opinion * Guns * Chris Murphy ![\\"Sen.](\\" Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA. (AP) ![\\"Lauren](\\" By Lauren Carroll July 28, 2016 # At DNC, Sen. Chris Murphy says 90% of Americans want expanded background checks for gun purchases Democrats made a forceful argument for stricter gun control on the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. One speaker, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, called for expanded background checks in particular. \"Listen, 90 percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales so that dangerous weapons don\'t fall into the wrong hands,\" Murphy said. Under current law, background checks are required in sales by federally licensed gun dealers, but the checks are not required for gun sales by private sellers. National polls conducted over the past year consistently show that around 90 percent of Americans support some sort of expanded background checks for gun purchases. Here are a few examples of recent polls about background checks: Quinnipiac University poll, conducted June 21-27, 2016: \"Do you support or oppose requiring background checks for all gun buyers?\" Support: 93 percent. Oppose: 6 percent. Not sure: 1 percent. CNN/ORC poll, conducted June 16-19, 2016: Would you favor or oppose \"a background check on anyone attempting to purchase a gun in order to determine whether the prospective buyer has been convicted of a felony\"? Favor: 92 percent. Oppose: 8 percent. CBS News poll, conducted June 13-14, 2016: \"Do you favor or oppose a federal law requiring background checks on all potential gun buyers?\" Favor: 89 percent. Oppose: 8 percent. Unsure/no answer: 2 percent. Public Policy Polling survey, conducted March 24-26, 2016: \"Do you support or oppose requiring a criminal background check of every person who wants to buy a firearm?\" Support: 84 percent. Oppose: 10 percent. Not sure: 6 percent. Quinnipiac University poll, conducted Dec. 16-20, 2015: \"Would you support or oppose a law requiring background checks on people buying guns at gun shows or online?\" Support: 89 percent. Oppose: 9 percent. Unsure/no answer: 1 percent. CBS/New York Times poll, conducted Oct. 21-25, 2015: \"Do you favor or oppose a federal law requiring background checks on all potential gun buyers?\" Favor: 92 percent. Oppose: 7 percent. Unsure/no answer: 1 percent. Gallup poll, conducted Oct. 7-11, 2015: \"Would you favor or oppose a law which would require universal background checks for all gun purchases in the U.S. using a centralized database across all 50 states?\" Favor: 86 percent. Oppose: 12 percent. Unsure: 2 percent. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a speech in Las Vegas “Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2024 Quinnipiac University poll, conducted Sept. 17-21, 2015: \"Do you support or oppose requiring background checks for all gun buyers?\" Support: 93 percent. Oppose: 6 percent. Unsure/no answer: 1 percent. Pew Research Center poll, conducted July 14-20, 2015: Do you favor or oppose \"making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks?\" Favor: 85 percent. Oppose: 13 percent. Unsure/refused: 2 percent. Pew found that support for background checks spans all partisan and demographic groups, and it is also favored by a majority of households that own guns and those that do not. \"At the collective level, we know that Americans are in favor of the government instituting new checks on the ability to buy guns, which theoretically would prevent those who have some type of official negative record on file from buying them,\" wrote Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport in June. \"Americans have mixed feelings as to how effective they think these background check laws would be but overwhelmingly are willing to go along with them.\" Some gun rights advocates have taken issue with this statistic for reasons such as the survey questions referring to the general idea of background checks rather than specific legislation. For example, in 2013, polls found that 90 percent of Americans supported expanded background checks. However, when Congress failed to pass a popular bill that would have increased background checks, 47 percent were disappointed or angry that it failed, while some 39 percent were relieved or very happy, according to a Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll. This highlights an odd discrepancy: While people overwhelmingly support specific gun policy ideas, like universal background checks and banning suspected terrorists from buying guns, the support is not as robust when it comes to actually expanding gun control. The October CBS/New York Times poll that found 92 percent support for expanded background checks also shows 46 percent of Americans think laws covering gun sales should be either made less strict or stay the same. Just 51 percent said the laws should be made more strict. \"People don\'t seem to like the idea of ‘gun control,’ but they still want the government to do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill,\" said Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California Los Angeles and author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, in a prior interview with PolitiFact. Our ruling Murphy said, \"90 percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales.\" Every national poll we could find that was conducted over the past year supports this statistic. We rate Murphy’s claim True. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources PolitiFact, \"Laura Ingraham wrongly says claim that 90% support for gun background checks has been debunked,\" Jan. 3, 2016 PollingReport.com, Guns, accessed Jan. 3, 2016 PolitiFact Texas, \"Jeremy Bird says 90 percent of Americans want mandatory background checks for all gun purchases,\" Oct. 5, 2015 Email interview, Murphy spokeswoman Laura Maloney, July 27, 2016 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Lauren Carroll ![](\\" ![](\\" Casey Cagle stated on June 22, 2017 in a meeting with small business owners: Says of Georgia, \"for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • July 19, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on July 6, 2017 in a press conference in Poland: Says Barack Obama found out about Russia \"in August. Now, the election was in November. That\'s a lot of time. He did nothing about it.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Marc Short stated on July 2, 2017 in an episode of \"Fox News Sunday\": 7 million people the Congressional Budget Office says won\'t have health insurance coverage under the Senate health care bill \"don\'t exist.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • July 5, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Jeff Sessions stated on June 13, 2017 in a congressional hearing: \"It\'s a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice not to comment on conversations that the attorney general has had with the president of the United States.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • June 14, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kimberley Strassel stated on May 28, 2017 in \"Meet the Press\" on NBC: In 2008, \"candidate Obama, he\'s not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election, they will have friendlier terms.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Lauren Carroll • June 2, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Uspoln Website stated on May 23, 2017 in an online article: \"Rubio: ‘Rape victims should be in custody if there is suspicion that they’re planning abortion.’ \" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • June 1, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Newt Gingrich stated on May 21, 2017 in an episode of \"Fox and Friends\": Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich \"apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • May 23, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Rush Limbaugh stated on May 17, 2017 in an episode of the \"Rush Limbaugh Show\": \"What Trump is alleged to have done is actually no different than what Barack Obama did in April last year when he made it known that he didn’t want Hillary prosecuted.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • May 18, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Richard Blumenthal stated on May 9, 2017 in a press conference: \"What does Trumpcare do? Yank tax credits away from veterans unlike any other American.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • May 15, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on May 4, 2017 in blog headlines: Under the House Republican health plan, sexual assault is a pre-existing condition. ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • May 5, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Ivanka Trump stated on May 2, 2017 in her book \"Women Who Work\": \"40 percent of American households have female primary breadwinners.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • May 3, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on April 30, 2017 in an interview on CBS: \"General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" By Lauren Carroll • May 2, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on April 28, 2017 in the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting: \"For the first time in the modern political era, we have confirmed a new justice in the first 100 days.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • April 28, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Sean Spicer stated on April 25, 2017 in the daily White House press briefing: Trump has \"worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any president since Truman.\" ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"mostly-true\\"](\\" mostly-true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • April 27, 2017 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on April 26, 2017 in a tweet: The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record \"close to 80%.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Lauren Carroll • April 26, 2017 ### At DNC, Sen. Chris Murphy says 90% of Americans want expanded background checks for gun purchases * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Bernie Moreno stated on September 9, 2024 in an Instagram post: “Illegal” Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are “reportedly killing and eating pets.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Seth A. Richardson • September 18, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 17, 2024 in an Instagram post: Karine Jean-Pierre, President Joe Biden’s press secretary, ended a press conference when a reporter asked about Donald Trump’s assassination attempt. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • September 18, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Threads posts stated on September 12, 2024 in a post on Threads: An image shows Taylor Swift responding to Elon Musk\'s X post about giving her a child by saying she\'s happy to take his daughter Vivian and ‘give her all the love and respect she deserves.’ ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Andy Nguyen • September 18, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Tony Perkins stated on September 11, 2024 in a Facebook post: “In 12 states, children born alive after a failed abortion have no legal protection, and in three more states children born alive after an abortion had legal rights that governors — like Tim Walz — repealed.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sara Swann • September 18, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 28, 2024 in an ad: “Kamala Harris has promised amnesty for the 10 million illegals she allowed in as border czar, making them eligible for Social Security. 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Assinantes podem liberar 5 acessos por dia para conteúdos da Folha ASSINE ou FAÇA LOGIN * WhatsApp * Facebook * X * Salvar para ler depois Salvar artigos Recurso exclusivo para assinantes assine ou faça login * * * Copiar link 22.jun.2023 às 22h18 * Ouvir o texto * Diminuir fonte * Aumentar fonte São Paulo Não é verdade que o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) tenha comprado um avião para uso presidencial de 400 milhões, em qualquer moeda que seja, diferentemente do que diz post viral. Segundo reportagens, o presidente quer a troca do Aerolula, apelido do avião oficial da Presidência da República, que começou a ser usado em 2005, durante seu primeiro mandato. O modelo da nova aeronave ainda não foi escolhido nem a compra realizada. Ele teria determinado que a FAB (Força Aérea Brasileira) apresentasse opções de aeronaves maiores e com mais autonomia do que a atual. O post desinformativo, como verificado pelo Projeto Comprova, mostra três fotos de cabines internas de aviões. A primeira delas, de uma sala de estar, é a mesma imagem usada em reportagem de 2012 da IstoÉ sobre a FAB ter retomado os estudos para a compra de um avião. O texto informa que \"o modelo em avaliação custa R$ 400 milhões\". A imagem da sala de estar, no entanto, é do avião de luxo que pertenceu à Tunísia, usado pelo então presidente Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Em 2016, segundo reportagem da BBC, a aeronave foi vendida para a Turkish Airlines por US$ 78 milhões, depois de ter ficado cinco anos estacionada em Bordeaux, na França. Chegada do Airbus presidencial, apelidado de Aerolula, à Base Aérea de Brasília em 2005 \- Sérgio Lima - 15.jan.2005/Folhapress Questionada se as fotos mostram aeronave comprada para a Presidência da República, a FAB respondeu que não, e que o avião usado para \"transportar com segurança o presidente a diversas localidades do Brasil e do exterior\" é o Airbus 319 VC-1, ou seja, o Aerolula. O vídeo ainda traz outras duas imagens internas de aeronaves. A segunda é uma suíte de luxo que faz parte, na realidade, de um Boeing 747-8 Vip, cujo valor estimado em 2017 era de R$ 1,8 bilhão. A aeronave havia sido reformulada pela empresa Greenpoint Technologies e entregue a um comprador cuja identidade foi mantida em sigilo. Sobre a última imagem, o homem que aparece no vídeo fala que não poderia faltar um bar no avião. O bar mostrado, no entanto, é de aeronaves da Emirates Airlines e a foto faz parte da propaganda da companhia aérea. As imagens externas do avião presidencial do Brasil são divulgadas pela FAB. Falso, para o Comprova, é o conteúdo inventado ou que tenha sofrido edições para mudar o seu significado original e divulgado de modo deliberado para espalhar uma falsidade. ### Alcance O Comprova investiga os conteúdos suspeitos com maior alcance nas redes sociais. O post verificado aqui teve 9,3 mil visualizações, 7,7 mil curtidas e 1,3 mil comentários até 22 de junho. ### Como verificamos O Comprova pesquisou notícias sobre a compra ou intenção de aquisição do governo federal, na atual gestão, de um novo avião para a Presidência da República. Também analisou as imagens mostradas pelo vídeo aqui verificado usando o Google Lens, com o objetivo de identificar a origem das fotos e a veracidade com o conteúdo apresentado. Houve ainda contato com o Ministério da Defesa, a FAB e com a assessoria de comunicação da Presidência da República para verificar a situação do avião presidencial e o processo de compra de uma nova aeronave. Por fim, entramos em contato com o autor da postagem. ### Desde 2005 A aeronave usada por Lula, como informado acima, começou a ser utilizada em 2005, em seu primeiro mandato. Ela substituiu o Boeing 707, comprado da Varig em 1986 e que era apelidado de Sucatão. O modelo, segundo informou a FAB ao Comprova, é baseado na versão civil do Airbus 319 e tem aproximadamente 34 metros de comprimento e envergadura e cerca de 12 metros de altura. Ainda segundo o órgão, ele pode atingir até 830 quilômetros por hora na velocidade máxima de cruzeiro e voar até 8,5 mil quilômetros. De acordo com O Globo, a aeronave tem suíte e chuveiro, espaço reservado com duas mesas e oito cadeiras e \"se aproxima da metade do ciclo de vida, o que exigirá passar por um processo de reformulação\". Mas esta não é a primeira vez que um presidente pensa em trocar o avião, batizado oficialmente de Santos Dumont. Em novembro de 2010, no governo de Dilma Rousseff (PT), a Folha noticiou que a FAB estava negociando um avião. \"O Aerodilma, caso seja adquirido mesmo com o cenário de contenção de gastos do governo, deverá ser um aparelho europeu da Airbus —um modelo de reabastecimento aéreo A330-MRTT, equipado com área VIP presidencial e assentos normais\", publicou o jornal. A compra, porém, não foi efetivada e Dilma continuou usando o Aerolula. Em julho de 2017, o então presidente Michel Temer (MDB) optou por viajar à Alemanha no Boeing 767-300ER alugado pela FAB —com mais autonomia, ele não precisaria fazer a escala exigida pelo Airbus 319. À época, o governo federal decidiu que o Boeing seria usado para viagens que exigissem duas ou mais escalas, mas, pouco mais de um mês depois, Temer voou para a China no Airbus 319. Quando presidente, Jair Bolsonaro (PL) também usou o Aerolula, mas, em 2022, a FAB comprou dois Airbus 330-200, conhecido como KC-30, da companhia aérea Azul. Lula voou no A 330-200 em fevereiro, no trajeto Brasília-Rio e Washington. O modelo é uma das opções da FAB para o pedido de Lula sobre a troca do Santos Dumont. ### O que diz o responsável pela publicação A reportagem tentou contato com o autor do post, mas não houve resposta até a publicação deste texto. ### O que podemos aprender com esta verificação \"Queria que vocês compartilhassem esse vídeo ao máximo.\" \"Compartilha aí até cair o dedo.\" Quando criadores de vídeos fizerem pedidos apelativos como estes do post verificado aqui, desconfie. É comum que desinformadores insistam para que seus seguidores republiquem seus conteúdos, fazendo com que a desinformação se dissemine. Então, ao se deparar com publicações assim, desconfie e procure o que está sendo dito na imprensa profissional. A mesma sugestão vale ao ver conteúdos que citam grandes gastos de governos. No vídeo, o autor diz que Lula gastou 400 milhões na compra de um novo avião. É um gasto que chamaria a atenção da imprensa e, se fosse verdadeira, tal informação teria sido publicada pela mídia. ### Por que investigamos O Comprova monitora conteúdos suspeitos publicados em redes sociais e aplicativos de mensagem sobre políticas públicas e eleições no âmbito federal e abre investigações para aquelas publicações que obtiveram maior alcance e engajamento. Você também pode sugerir verificações pelo WhatsApp +55 11 97045-4984. Sugestões e dúvidas relacionadas a conteúdos duvidosos também podem ser enviadas para a Folha pelo WhatsApp 11 99486-0293. ### Outras checagens sobre o tema A relação de Lula com aeronaves foi objeto de desinformações checadas anteriormente, como na campanha eleitoral de 2022. Em setembro daquele ano, o então candidato foi alvo de um vídeo em que afirmava que ele teria alugado o avião mais caro do mundo para viajar ao Nordeste, o que foi checado como falso pelo Comprova. 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Why do I have to enter my email address? June 18, 2019 – 09:47 dpa fact check # The local police are not aware of any damage to churches Berlin (ots) Attacks on church buildings are said to have increased sharply in Germany. This claim is currently circulating on the Internet. Accordingly, it should be in the The southern region of Baden-Württemberg is increasingly causing property damage on and in churches have come. EVALUATION: The claim is false. None of the incidents mentioned in the report stands up to scrutiny. FACTS: The police headquarters responsible for the region are not responsible Incidents known. «In the last few weeks and months nothing has happened Direction happened,” said a spokesman for the Freiburg police headquarters Inquiry. A single crime in the report appears to have actually occurred. Not recently, as suggested, but more than five years ago years. This is how a Catholic parish in Kenzingen (Emmendingen district) becomes quoted as follows: “For weeks it has been happening regularly that in the City church of St. Laurentius in Kenzingen church inventory misused or is destroyed. The Catholic parish asks the population to to report suspicious behavior. However, should these incidents occur Repeat, we are unfortunately forced to visit the church outside under certain circumstances to close the church service times.” ( This text is taken out of its temporal context. He became one Report from the Badische Zeitung from January 21, 2014 adopted. Just a part of The text issued as a quote comes from the pastor at the time. In 2014 had the parish is increasingly registering “unsightly incidents” - up to and including a swastika graffiti on an outside wall of the church. ( The current pastor, Klaus Fehrenbach, knows about smaller ones Reporting damage in the past few months, but “really broken “Basically nothing has been done.” That the sacrificial box is broken open, Unfortunately, it's nothing unusual and happens occasionally. That's why he plans to close the church outside opening hours, as claimed in the article becomes? “No, we won’t close it,” said the priest. One like this He never made any statement. The image used comes from a television report from Südwestrundfunk (SWR). You can see a damaged figure from a small church in the Westerwald. Vandalism had indeed occurred in this church. The one in that Criminologist Christoph Pfeifer, who was interviewed about this, suspects that it is The perpetrators are primarily people “who are massively frustrated by the Church". Political motivations are unlikely. «The majority of Damage to property is committed by people who are simply looking for an object that is taken into account.” ( BKA information also does not support the statement mentioned at the beginning. Since January 2017 The authority also records crimes separately in the subtopics “anti-Zyganist”, “anti-Christian”, “Islamophobic” and “other ethnicity». For 2018, a total of 121 Anti-Christian crimes registered. Last year there were 129 been. ( Overall, the crimes in the hate crime area increased in 2018 At 8,113, there was a slight increase compared to the previous year (7,913). Decisive for this According to the statistics, however, they were particularly xenophobic crimes. ( ``` --- ``` Left: Article at “haolam.de”: Article in “Badische Zeitung”: Data on politically motivated crime: ``` --- ``` Contact the dpa fact check team: [email protected] © dpa German Press Agency GmbH. The above contents are protected by copyright. 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Since then, a collage has been circulating online Picture of Scholz giving a speech in front of almost empty stands. are attached Screenshots of several headlines with words like “historic” or “flaming”. The claim: The press “celebrates Scholz for his UN speech exuberant,” even though no one “wanted to hear her.” ## Evaluation The accusation is not true because none of the headlines refer to it immediately after the speech by the Federal Chancellor in the rather empty UN hall has held. One refers to the anniversary of Germany's accession the UN. The headline with the word “flaming” is about the speech of Chancellor in front of the Security Council, where the word “historic” means one the German Bundestag - the latter is already over a year old. ## Facts This week the 78th United Nations General Assembly began in New York; The UN Security Council also met at the same time. Traveled for that Representatives from all over the world. Also the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz flew to New York on Sunday to arrive on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. to attend the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and to give a speech there at the meeting beginning in the afternoon. Germany was number 17 on the list of speakers, so the Chancellor spoke his speech only in the evening. The image at the top left with the empty ranks is a screenshot of an article the “Bild”, which refers to this speech on Tuesday evening. They were there Seats are actually only sparsely occupied, but that's not unusual. The The representatives use the time between their speeches for other meetings Events at the United Nations. All speeches are documented and recorded. On Wednesday, Scholz attended the Security Council meeting and spoke as a representative of Germany gave another speech with reference to the situation Ukraine from. He was very clear about the war in Ukraine made headlines. The screenshot to the right with the words “flaming speech” comes from “Merkur.de” and refers to Scholz Speech in the Security Council. The picture below on the right shows an article on the Tagesschau website with the title “In Willy Brandt’s footsteps”. The issue is that Germany in this week celebrated 50 years of UN membership and Willy Brandt was the first Speech as a representative of the Federal Republic of Germany before the general assembly. So it's more likely less about a comparison of Scholz with the achievements of his famous one predecessor than around the anniversary. The article at the bottom left of the collage with the headline: “Historical Scholz speech verbatim: “The world afterward will no longer be the same as before”» has neither one nor the other of Scholz's appearances in New York to do something. It is an article from the “Editorial Network Germany”, abbreviated rnd, which is already over a year old. He was referring to the Special session in the German Bundestag on February 27, 2022, shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. At that time the Chancellor gave one Government declaration in which he proclaimed the “turning point”. (As of: September 22, 2023) ## Links Collage on Facebook (archived) Scholz speech before the UN General Assembly on September 19, 2023 (archived) Scholz speech in the Security Council on September 20, 2023 (archived) United Nations Speaker List (archived) Scholz dates Sunday September 17th, 2023 (archived) Scholz dates Tuesday September 19th, 2023 (archived) Scholz dates Wednesday September 20th, 2023 (archived) Article from “Bild” (archived) rnd article (archived) Merkur.de article (archived) Tagesschau.de article (archived) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. Find detailed information about this program You here. 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DATA ROUNDUP Fake News, Telugu # కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం PM వైభవ్ లక్ష్మి యోజన అనే పథకాన్ని ప్రారంభించలేదు. 0 By Chaitanya on July 27, 2020 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం ప్రారంభించిన PM వైభవ్ లక్ష్మి యోజన అనే పథకం ద్వారా ప్రతీ మహిళా రూ.4, 00,000 వరకు వడ్డీలేని రుణం పొందవచ్చు అని చెప్తూ ఉన్న పోస్ట్ ఒకటి సోషల్ మీడియాలో చాలా వైరల్ అవుతుంది. ఈ కథనం ద్వారా అందులో ఎంత నిజముందో చూద్దాం. ![\\"\\"](\\" Yojana.jpg\\")ఈ పోస్ట్ యొక్క ఆర్కైవ్డ్ వెర్షన్ ఇక్కడ చూడవచ్చు. > క్లెయిమ్: కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం PM వైభవ్ లక్ష్మి యోజన అనే పథకం ద్వారా ప్రతీ > మహిళకు రూ. 4,00,000 వరకు వడ్డీలేని రుణాలు అందిస్తుంది. > > ఫాక్ట్ (నిజం): కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం PM వైభవ్ లక్ష్మి యోజన అనే పథకం ఏమి మొదలు > పెట్టలేదు. ఈ పథకానికి సంబంధించిన సమాచారం మాకు ఎక్కడా లభించలేదు. ఇలాంటిదే PM > ధనలక్ష్మి యోజన అనే వార్త వైరల్ అయినప్పుడు ‘ప్రెస్ ఇన్ఫర్మేషన్ బ్యూరో (PIB)’ > వారు అది ఫేక్ అని నిర్ధారించారు. కావున, పోస్టులో చేసిన క్లెయిమ్ తప్పు. పోస్ట్ లో చెప్పిన పథకం గురించి మేము మహిళల మరియు శిశు సంక్షేమానికి నోడల్ మినిస్ట్రీ అయిన ‘మినిస్ట్రీ అఫ్ విమెన్ & చైల్డ్ డెవలప్మెంట్’ వారి వెబ్సైటు లో వెతకగా ఈ పథకానికి సంబంధించిన సమాచారం ఏది కూడా మాకు దొరకలేదు. ఈ వెబ్సైటు లో మహిళలకు సంబంధించిన పథకాల లిస్టు లో ఈ పథకం పేరు కూడా లేదు. ![\\"\\"](\\" Lakshmi-Yojana-MOWCD.jpg\\") పోస్ట్ లో ఉన్న వీడియోలో ఈ పథకం ద్వారా లబ్ది పొందడానికి ఏదైనా SBI బ్రాంచ్ లో దరఖాస్తు చేసుకోవచ్చు అని చెప్పారు. ఐతే మేము SBI వెబ్సైటు లో వెతకగా ఈ పథకానికి సంబంధించిన సమాచారం ఏదీ మాకు దొరకలేదు. ఈ పథకానికి సంబంధించి ఎటువంటి వార్తలు , ఆన్ లైన్ న్యూస్ పోర్టల్ కథనాలు కూడా మాకు లభించలేదు. PM ధనలక్ష్మి యోజన పేరుతో వైరల్ అయిన ఇలాంటి ఒక వార్తను ఖండిస్తూ ‘ప్రెస్ ఇన్ఫర్మేషన్ బ్యూరో (PIB)’ వారు 12 జూన్ 2020న ఒక ట్వీట్ చేసారు. వారి ట్వీట్ ప్రకారం కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వానికి ఇలాంటి పథకం ప్రారంభించే ఉద్దేశం లేదని స్పష్టం చేసారు. అలాగే వారు ఈ వార్తని ఫేక్ అని తేల్చి చెప్పారు. > दावा: पीएम धन लक्ष्मी योजना के तहत महिलाओं को केंद्र सरकार द्वारा 5 लाख > रुपये तक लोन प्रदान किया जाएगा#PibFactCheck: यह दावा #Fake है। केंद्र सरकार > की ऐसी कोई योजना नहीं है| pic.twitter.com/alE35AFZDD > > — PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) June 12, 2020 ‘డైరెక్ట్ బెనిఫిట్ ట్రాన్స్ఫర్’ వెబ్సైటు లో కూడా పైన పేర్కొన్న పథకం గురించిన సమాచారం ఏమి లేదు. ఇంకా ఏ ప్రభుత్వ పోర్టల్ లో కూడా ఈ పథకానికి సంబంధించిన సమాచారం మాకు దొరకలేదు. ![\\"\\"](\\" DBT-1.jpg\\") చివరగా, కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం PM వైభవ్ లక్ష్మి యోజన అనే పథకాన్ని మొదలుపెట్టలేదు. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Read more here ![\\"democrat_symbol\\"](\\"/design/images/democrat_symbol.png\\"/) Fact Check # Why Are NFL Players on the Sidelines for the National Anthem? ## For much of the NFL\'s history, players weren\'t present on the field during the playing of \"The Star-Spangled Banner.\" ### Arturo Garcia ### Published Oct. 24, 2016 Updated Sept. 27, 2017 ![\\"\\"](\\" Claim: NFL players did not stand for the national anthem until the Defense Dept. started paying the league to stage patriotic displays in 2009. Rating: Mixture About this rating What\'s True NFL players were not required to be on the sidelines during the playing of the U.S. national anthem for primetime games prior to 2009. What\'s False Players always had the option of standing on the sidelines during the national anthem, and there is no evidence that \"paid patriotism\" initiatives begun in 2009 required them to do so. Advertisement: An image widely circulated on Facebook in response to the National Football League\'s anthem controversy held that NFL players did not stand on the sidelines during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before games prior to 2009. Instead, they stayed in locker rooms during the anthem and did not begin standing along the sidelines for renditions of \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" until after the Defense Department began paying the NFL to hold patriotic displays in 2009: ![\\"nflmeme\\"](\\" Advertisement: The issue has been in the public spotlight ever since San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protesting police brutality by kneeling during the playing of the national anthem during exhibition games played prior to the start of the 2016 NFL season. Several other players, including some in other sports, have since taken part in similar silent demonstrations during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Tom E. Curran of Comcast Sportsnet New England reported in a story published on 29 August 2016 that teams standing together on the field during the playing of the national anthem was a relatively recent development in NFL history: \"NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed this the practice began in 2009, adding, \'As you know, the NFL has a long tradition of patriotism. Players are encouraged but not required to stand for the anthem.\'\" What actually changed in 2009, according to NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, was that (due to network timing issues) players had previously remained in their locker rooms during the playing of the national anthem for primetime games. After 2009, players appeared in the sidelines for the anthem during primetime games, just as they had been doing all along for Sunday afternoon games. (The distinction often went unnoticed by viewers, as network telecasts frequently didn\'t air the pre-game anthem ceremonies.) ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith referenced Currant\'s report during a segment on 14 September 2016, adding a \"paid patriotism\" element to the mix: Advertisement: > The players were moved to the field during the national anthem because it > was seen as a marketing strategy to make the athletes look more patriotic. > The United States Department of Defense paid the National Football League > $5.4 million between 2011 and 2014, and the National Guard [paid] $6.7 > million between 2013 and 2015 to stage on-field patriotic ceremonies as part > of military recruitment budget-line items. The practice of \"paid patriotism\" came to light on 30 April 2015, when Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) released a statement chiding the New Jersey Army National Guard for paying between $97,000 and $115,000 to the New York Jets for a series of promotions involving military personnel. That November, Flake and fellow Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain issued a report stating that the Defense Department had been paying for patriotic displays in football and other sports between 2011 and 2014: > Contrary to the public statements made by DOD and the NFL, the majority of > the contracts — 72 of the 122 contracts we analyzed — clearly show that DOD > paid for patriotic tributes at professional football, baseball, basketball, > hockey, and soccer games. These paid tributes included on-field color guard, > enlistment and reenlistment ceremonies, performances of the national anthem, > full-field flag details, ceremonial first pitches͕ and puck drops. The > National Guard paid teams for the “opportunity” to sponsor military > appreciation nights and to recognize its birthday. It paid the Buffalo Bills > to sponsor its Salute to the Service game. DOD even paid teams for the > “opportunity” to perform surprise welcome home promotions for troops > returning from deployments and to recognize wounded warriors. While well > intentioned, we wonder just how many of these displays included a disclaimer > that these events were in fact sponsored by the DOD at taxpayer expense. > Even with that disclosure, it is hard to understand how a team accepting > taxpayer funds to sponsor a military appreciation game, or to recognize > wounded warriors or returning troops, can be construed as anything other > than paid patriotism. Advertisement: However, this report did not cover the year 2009, so it is unclear whether NFL teams\' appearing on the field for the playing of the national anthem truly began in conjunction with the \"paid patriotism\" policy. In a September 2017 piece about the anthem controversy, CNN noted that: > [T]he connection between \"paid patriotism\" and players being mandated to > be present for the anthem is tenuous. The report does mention several > instances where teams were paid for anthem performances, but that was about > the specific artist or presentation. There is nothing in the report to > suggest teams were paid or coerced into pulling players on to the field as > part of \"paid patriotism\" initiatives. > > In fact, Pentagon spokesman Army Major Dave Eastburn recently clarified the > Defense Department\'s current relationship with professional sports. > > \"DoD does not require or request that athletes be on the field during the > playing of the national anthem when military members are part of the > patriotic opener,\" he said in a statement to CNN. The league announced in May 2016 that they would refund $723,724 to taxpayers which they said \"may have been mistakenly applied to appreciation activities rather than recruitment efforts\" during the years in question. Advertisement: #### Sources Willingham, A.J. \"The National Anthem in Sports (Spoiler: It Wasn\'t Always This Way).\" CNN. 25 September 2017. Jacobson, Louis. \"A Short History of the National Anthem, Protests and the NFL.\" PolitiFact. 25 September 2017. #### Updates This story was updated to note that 2009 changes in NFL anthem policy were specific to primetime games. ### By Arturo Garcia Arturo Garcia is a former writer for Snopes. ## Article Tags NFL Take A Knee The Other 98% Taking A Knee National Anthem Occupy Democrats 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. 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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 Page > Brazil > **Caixa blocked Emergency Aid of 187 thousand people who bought electronics after receiving benefit #rumor** # Caixa blocked Emergency Aid from 187 thousand people who purchased electronics after receiving benefit #rumor * Brazil * 05/03/2020 * by Raiane Gonoli ![\\"Caixa](\\" blocked-Emergency-Aid-of-187-thousand-people-who-bought-electronics- after-receiving-benefit-says-boato.jpg\\") Rumor – Caixa blocked emergency aid from 187 thousand people bought electronic devices after receiving the benefit. According to the president, inspection It aims to help only those who really need it. Caixa Econômica Federal began releasing withdrawals from April 9th of the first installment of emergency aid paid by the government to workers informal, individual microentrepreneurs, self-employed and unemployed affected due to the new coronavirus pandemic. However, a piece of news that started to circulate social media gave a huge scare to many people who had already received the first installment of the benefit. According to a publication, Caixa had blocked the payment of the second portion of emergency aid for 187 thousand people who purchased devices electronics before 10 days after receiving payment. Supposedly, the decision was taken by the president of the bank, aiming to assist only those who really need the benefit. According to the post, the supposed inspection should continue until the end of payment of the first installments of government aid. Check it out Below is the original text of the post being shared: Caixa has blocked around 187,000 CPFs that will not be able to receive the second portion of emergency aid, as they were registered in purchases of electronic devices before 10 days after receiving the aid, according to the President of the fund, this is aimed at helping only those who really need it. Inspection will continue until the first installments are paid. AND fair enough! Source: BrNotícias *Computers are considered electronic necessary, and are exempt from inspection. ## Caixa blocked emergency aid from 187 thousand people who purchased electronic devices after receiving benefit The news took many internet users by surprise and, as expected, it went viral quickly. But did Caixa really block the aid? emergency benefit for 187 thousand people who bought electronics after receiving the benefit? The answer is no! And why, you can see below. To begin with, the publication's message has all the characteristics of fake. news: it is vague (it does not say when and where this statement from Caixa came out), alarmist (aims to scare people), has several Portuguese errors and does not cite reliable sources that can confirm the veracity of this news. Secondly, since the government announced the payment of aid emergency assistance to people in vulnerable situations during the pandemic, There were several rumors on the internet about the subject. In fact, we already we denied some of them here at Boatos.org, like the one that said the government would have canceled the payment of the benefit due to lack of money, among others who tried to catch those most off guard in the famous “Vigário’s tale” asking for people to find out if they were entitled to emergency aid sharing a fake WhatsApp link. Furthermore, if the news were really real, it would certainly have come out by now. several reliable news sites. However, when looking into the matter, we found nothing. Contrary to this, we discovered that the information was denied by the G1 page Fato ou Fake, and also by Agência Lupa. In both cases, Caixa Econômica Federal sent a note denying that it had issued any inspection of the use of emergency aid resources: “The Law 13,982/2020, regulated by Decree 10,316/2020, which established the emergency aid from the federal government, does not impose the way in which the beneficiary must use the resources”, says the text. The institution also informed that its sole responsibility is to pay the benefit to families. The selection of beneficiaries is solely up to the Ministry of Citizenship after analysis by Dataprev, which, in turn, indicates whether the person whether or not it meets the requirements required to receive the money. It is worth remembering that if you want to know whether you are entitled to receive assistance from government, you need to download the Caixa Auxílio Emergencial application and do the registration, access the website or call the exclusive telephone center number 111. In short: The publication that reports that Caixa blocked the aid emergency benefit for 187 thousand people who bought electronics after receiving the benefit is false. The bank itself denied the information through statement explaining that the law establishing government aid does not impose any form of use of this resource. 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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مقالههای مرتبط * از ماجرای فعال شدن «قفل کودک» برای کاربران ایرانی چه میدانیم؟ #### ۴- اختلالات در دسترسی به اینستاگرام و توییتر در ۲۶ مرداد ماه ۱۴۰۱، کابران برخی شبکههای مجازی مانند اینستاگرام و توییتر با اختلال گسترده در اتصال به این شبکهها مواجه شدند به نحویکه نه تنها پیامکهای حاوی کد تایید این شبکههای اجتماعی به کاربران نمیرسید بلکه پیامکهای دیگری که در آن کلمه Code نوشته شده بود هم فیلتر میشدند و به دست کاربران نمیرسیدند. ## مقالههای مرتبط * ادعای نادرست ایرانسل و همراه اول درباره مسدود شدن ارسال پیامک کد تایید پلتفرمها #### ۵- کاهش پهنای باند شبکههای اجتماعی خارجی یکی از گلایههای کاربران شبکههای اجتماعی در ماههای اخیر، سرعت بسیار پایین اینستاگرام بودهاست. میدانیم یکی از اهداف طرح موسوم به صیانت، کاهش پهنای باند خارجی به خصوص پهنای باند مصرفی شبکههای اجتماعی همچون اینستاگرام بودهاست و از آن بهعنوان «اعمال خط مشی ترافیکی» (ماده ۱۸ طرح نظام تنظیم مقررات خدمات فضای مجازی) یاد شدهاست. ## مقالههای مرتبط * آیا طرح صیانت، چراغ خاموش در حال اجرا است؟ اقدامات وزارت ارتباطات در دوره وزارت عیسی زارعپور در جهت همین سیاست بودهاست. این اقدامات تا حدی اثرگذار بوده که تا ۵۰ درصد، دسترسی کاربران در ایران به این شبکه کاهش یافتهاست. #### ۶-اختلالات منطقهای: علاوه بر آنچه گفته شد کاربران ایرانی در استانها و شهرهای مختلف بارها شاهد قطع و اختلال اینترنت به دلایل فنی هستند. برخی از این اختلالات منطقهای را میتوانید در اینجا و اینجا و اینجا مرور کنید. ### آیا عدم توسعه و تکمیل زیرساختها باعث این اختلالات شده؟ تکمیل زیرساختها به منظور ارائه خدمات اینترنتی به شهروندان از مهمترین وظایف وزارت ارتباطات و شرکتهای وابسته آن است. بدیهی است بخشی از اختلالها و قطعیها همواره به علت عدم توسعه، تکمیل و بهینه سازی زیرساختها رخ داده میدهد. اما همانگونه که شرح داده شد عمده اختلالاتی که ارتباط کاربران با شبکه را نشانه گرفته عمدتا حاصل دستکاری عمدی شبکه توسط نهادهای بالادستی بودهاست. ## جمعبندی ابراهیم رئیسی میگوید: مشکلات موجود در کیفیت اینترنت ایران، نتیجه عدم تکمیل زیرساختها در دولتهای گذشته است. کاربران ایرانی در ۶ ماه اول سال ۱۴۰۱ انواع متنوعی از اختلالات گسترده را در اتصال به اینترنت، تجربه کردهاند. اختلال سراسری ۲۶ روزه اینترنت در اردیبهشت و خرداد، کاهش پهنای باند سرویسهای خارجی مانند اینستاگرام، قطع و اختلال در ویپیانها، فعال کردن قفل کودک و قطع شبکه اینترنت در مناطق مختلف از مهمترین چالشهای کاربران اینترنت در ایران بوده است. گرچه تکمیل، نوسازی و بهروزرسانی زیرساختهای سخت افزاری و نرمافزاری میتواند کیفیت اینترنت را تا حد زیادی افزایش دهد اما واقعیت این است که بخش قابل توجهی از مشکلات کاربران در ماههای اخیر حاصل از دستکاریهای عمدی نهادهای مسئول در فرایند اتصال با شبکه جهانی اطلاعات است. بنابراین فکتنامه به این ادعای ابراهیم رئیسی که گفته اگر زیرساختها کامل شدهبود امروز شاهد مشکلات در کیفیت و سرعت اینترنت نبودیم، 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 ### گزارشهای مرتبط * ![\\"اطلاعات](\\" اطلاعات نادرست حاشیه بازداشت موسس پیامرسان تلگرام * ![\\"بریتانیا:](\\" بریتانیا: بازداشت و حکم زندان بهخاطر ایجاد تنفر نژادی در فیسبوک * ![\\"ستار](\\" ستار هاشمی در لیست «دو درصد محققان برتر جهان» سال ۲۰۲۲ ![\\"\\"](\\"/_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 ## 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ফ্যাক্টচেক রিউমর স্ক্যানার টিমের অনুসন্ধানে জানা যায়, মোঃ ইয়াসিন আলীর সার্ক কর্তৃক আয়োজিত প্রতিযোগিতায় সেরা বক্তা হওয়ার তথ্যটি সত্য নয় বরং সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে সার্কের উদ্যোগে করোনা এবং বঙ্গবন্ধু প্রতিভা শীর্ষক কোন প্রতিযোগিতাই অনুষ্ঠিত হয়নি। অনলাইন সংবাদ মাধ্যম ঢাকা পোস্টে গত ২৪ জানুয়ারিতে “**সার্কভুক্ত ৮ দেশের সেরা বক্তা চাঁপাইনবাবগঞ্জের ইয়াসিন** ” শিরোনামে প্রকাশিত প্রতিবেদনের তথ্য অনুযায়ী, ‘চাঁপাইনবাবগঞ্জের গোমস্তাপুর উপজেলার আলীনগর স্কুল ও কলেজের দশম শ্রেণির ছাত্র ইয়াসিন আলী জানুয়ারিতে দক্ষিণ এশীয় আঞ্চলিক সহযোগিতা সংস্থা-সার্কের আয়োজনে শিক্ষার্থীদের নিয়ে ভারতের নয়াদিল্লিতে অনুষ্ঠিত করোনা এবং বঙ্গবন্ধু প্রতিভা শীর্ষক প্রতিযোগিতায় সেরা বক্তা নির্বাচিত হয়েছেন এবং ভারতের রাষ্ট্রপতি রামনাথ কোবিন্দের হাত থেকে নয়াদিল্লির সার্ক ইউনিভার্সিটি অডিটোরিয়ামে তিনি পুরস্কার গ্রহণ করেন।’ ![\\"\\"](\\" saarc-speaker-1-750x655.jpg\\")Screenshot from Dhaka Post website তবে, ইয়াসিন আলীর এই দাবির সত্যতা যাচাইকালে সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে কিংবা পূর্বে সার্কের উদ্যোগে নয়াদিল্লিতে করোনা এবং বঙ্গবন্ধু প্রতিভা শীর্ষক প্রতিযোগিতা অনুষ্ঠিত হয়েছে এমন কোনো তথ্যের অস্তিত্ব সার্ক ইউনির্ভাসিটির ওয়েবসাইট কিংবা ভারতের সংবাদমাধ্যমে খুঁজে পাওয়া যায় নি। ![\\"\\"](\\" saarc-speaker-2-750x653.jpg\\")Screenshot from South Asian University website এছাড়াও এই বিষয়ে জানতে চাওয়া হলে নয়াদিল্লিতে অবস্থিত সাউথ এশিয়ান ইউনিভার্সিটিতে (দক্ষিণ এশীয় আঞ্চলিক সহযোগিতা সংস্থা(সার্ক) এর সদস্য দেশগুলোর শিক্ষার্থীদের বিশ্বমানের শিক্ষা এবং গবেষণার সুযোগ করে দিতে প্রতিষ্ঠিত হয় সাউথ এশিয়ান ইউনিভার্সিটি বা দক্ষিণ এশীয় বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়। সংক্ষেপে এটি ‘সার্ক বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়’ নামেই পরিচিত) অধ্যয়নরত বাংলাদেশি শিক্ষার্থী শাহাদাত স্বাধীন রিউমর স্ক্যানারকে জানান, **সম্প্রতি নয়াদিল্লিতে সার্কের উদ্যোগে করোনা এবং বঙ্গবন্ধু প্রতিভা শীর্ষক কোনো প্রতিযোগিতার আয়োজন করা হয়নি এবং চাঁপাইনবাবগঞ্জের স্কুল ছাত্র ইয়াসিন আলীর সার্ক আয়োজিত অনুষ্ঠানে সেরা বক্তা হওয়ার তথ্যটি সম্পূর্ণ ভিত্তিহীন এবং গুজব।** এই ব্যাপারে আলীনগর স্কুল ও কলেজের অধ্যক্ষ রবিউল আওয়াল গণমাধ্যমকে জানান, ‘তার (ইয়াসিন) মুখে শুনে আবেগে আপ্লুত হয়ে আমরা তাকে সংবর্ধনা দিয়েছি। কিন্তু তার সনদ ও ক্রেস্ট এবং তার কথাবার্তায় সন্দেহ হলে খোঁজ নিয়ে জানতে পারি ঘটনাটি ভুয়া। আমরা এরই মধ্যেই তাকে প্রতিষ্ঠান থেকে বহিষ্কার করেছি। ![\\"\\"](\\" Indian-Army-750x628.jpg\\")Screenshot from shomoyer alo website তাছাড়াও ইয়াসিন আলীর সার্ক সেরা বক্তা হওয়াটির সংবাদটি ভুয়া বলে নিশ্চিত করেছেন গোমস্তাপুর উপজেলা নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা মিজানুর রহমান। আরো পড়ুনঃ র্যাবকে নিয়ে পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রীর দেওয়া বক্তব্যকে বিকৃত করে প্রচার তবে তথ্যটি সম্পূর্ণ যাচাই না করে কেবলমাত্র ইয়াসির আলীর দাবির প্রেক্ষিতে তাকে নিয়ে প্রকাশিত অনলাইন সংবাদমাধ্যম ঢাকা পোস্টের দুইটি প্রতিবেদনের মধ্যেও একটি সুস্পষ্ট অসামঞ্জস্যতা খুঁজে পাওয়া যায়। ২৪ জানুয়ারি প্রকাশিত প্রতিবেদনে ইয়াসির আলীর কথিত পুরষ্কার গ্রহণের তারিখ ১৩ জানুয়ারি উল্লেখ থাকলেও তাকে নিয়ে ২৫ জানুয়ারি ঐ একই পোর্টালে প্রকাশিত সংবাদে তার পুরষ্কার গ্রহণের তারিখ হিসেবে ২৩ জানুয়ারির কথা উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে। ![\\"ইয়াসিন\\"](\\" Grylls-Indian-Army-2-1-750x485.jpg\\")Screenshot from Dhaka Post website সুতরাং, কোনো প্রকার তথ্যসূত্র ব্যতীত শুধুমাত্র শিক্ষার্থী ইয়াসিন আলীর দাবির প্রেক্ষিতে তিনি সার্ক কর্তৃক আয়োজিত প্রতিযোগিতায় সেরা বক্তা নির্বাচিত হয়েছেন দাবিতে অনলাইন পোর্টালগুলোতে উক্ত তথ্য প্রকাশ করা হয়েছে; যা সম্পূর্ণ বানোয়াট ও গুজব। [su_box title=”True or False” box_color=”#f30404″ radius=”0″] ![\\"\\"](\\" content/uploads/2021/04/false-300x100.png\\") * Claim Review: সার্কভুক্ত ৮ দেশের সেরা বক্তা চাঁপাইনবাবগঞ্জের ইয়াসিন * Claimed By: Facebook Posts & Media Outlets * Fact Check: False [/su_box] ## 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And they both select cherry-picked data points to underscore their arguments. The reality is that the manufacturing report cards for the Trump and Biden administrations are mixed. We’ll sort through some of the spin coming from both camps. Here’s Trump’s version, from a rally last month in Pennsylvania: > _Trump, Aug. 19_ : Together, we will reclaim our nation’s destiny as the No. > 1 manufacturing superpower in the world. … We had that going at a level that > nobody had seen before. … Some facts that are interesting. The year before I > took office, the United States lost over 10,000 manufacturing jobs. > Everybody said you’d never bring it back. But under my leadership, we > created more than a half a million manufacturing jobs in less than three > years. … And under Kamala, we have fallen into manufacturing recession with > 13,000 manufacturing jobs lost in the United States since just the start of > this year. And here’s Harris’ version, from a campaign event in North Carolina just days before President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race: > _Harris, July 18:_ Donald Trump tries to claim he brought back American > manufacturing. The fact is, under Donald Trump, America lost tens of > thousands of manufacturing jobs. … Meanwhile, President Joe Biden and I have > created nearly 800,000 new manufacturing jobs — so much so, it’s been > described as a “manufacturing boom.” Other Democrats have also weighed in. ![\\"\\"](\\" New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on the first night of the Democratic convention, said, “Trump talked big about bringing back manufacturing jobs, but you know who actually did it? President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.” And Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg leveled this claim about Trump’s record during a July 28 interview on Fox News: “Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.” Both sides were measuring the state of U.S. manufacturing in terms of jobs. There are other measurements, such as productivity, real output and wages relative to nonmanufacturing jobs. But since both sides mentioned jobs, let’s start there, with the data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ## Manufacturing Jobs Under Trump Trump came into office in January 2017 on the heels of what Forbes called an “industrial mini-recession in 2015 through much of 2016.” Trump rightly noted that there was a loss of manufacturing jobs in the year before he took office. There was a loss of 7,000 manufacturing jobs in 2016, measuring from December 2015 to December 2016. (Trump rounded up to 10,000 jobs.) However, Trump didn’t mention that the number of manufacturing jobs had been steadily increasing for nearly six years prior to leveling off in 2016 — rising by more than 900,000 jobs after the Great Recession. The manufacturing jobs lost in the Great Recession have still not been recovered. In Trump’s first two years, the economy added 462,000 manufacturing jobs. But that growth leveled off in 2019. In fact, for the full year in 2019 — before the pandemic-fueled recession hit — there was a loss of 43,000 manufacturing jobs. That’s what Buttigieg was referring to when he said that “even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.” The effects of the pandemic, of course, resulted in major jobs loss, including nearly 1.4 million in the manufacturing sector between January and April of 2020. About 770,000 of those manufacturing jobs had returned before Trump left office. But the combined job losses in 2019 and 2020 resulted in a net loss of 188,000 manufacturing jobs at the end of Trump’s presidency. ## Manufacturing Jobs Under Biden When Biden took office, manufacturing jobs continued to ride the post-pandemic recovery bump. In Biden’s first two years in office, there was a gain of 754,000 manufacturing jobs. By mid-2022, there were more people employed in manufacturing than before the pandemic, according to the BLS. As of July, the latest month of available data, the U.S. has added 765,000 manufacturing jobs under Biden. The manufacturing employment level in July is 173,000 more than the pre-pandemic figure in February 2020. (Those numbers may soon change in ways that will markedly change the Biden administration’s record. Preliminary estimates of annual revisions to the number of jobs created over the 12 months ending in March indicates that the BLS’ monthly estimates may have overshot manufacturing jobs by 115,000. Instead of a gain of 19,000 manufacturing jobs that year, revisions may put that at a 96,000 job loss.) But as was the case under Trump, the rise in manufacturing jobs stalled in Biden’s third year in office. Between January 2023 and July 2024 — the latest data available — there has been a gain of just 11,000 manufacturing jobs. And from January through July of this year, as Trump said, there has been a loss of 13,000 manufacturing jobs. (And it will likely be more than that after the BLS issues its final revisions in February.) In other words, the trend under both Presidents Trump and Biden followed a similar pattern: two years of growth after an economic downturn, followed by job losses in the third year. Comparing the raw numbers, Biden has seen an average monthly increase of 18,200 manufacturing jobs per month, compared to 11,600 per month pre-pandemic under Trump. (And again, revisions are likely to lower Biden’s average monthly gain, though it would still be higher than under Trump.) ## Other Measures of Manufacturing There are, of course, other ways to measure the health of the manufacturing sector in the U.S. “It’s a bit tricky to talk about manufacturing because we’ve seen such different trends in employment versus output,” said George Washington University economic professor Tara Sinclair, pointing to a Pew Research Center report about the long-term trend of manufacturing output rising as jobs have disappeared. “I usually use industrial production rather than employment to capture output,” Sinclair told us via email. “It’s true that industrial production started falling after peaking in September of 2018. There were gains from 2016 to 2018, but that was recovery from the much discussed manufacturing recession of 2015-2016.” Under Biden, industrial production rose until the fall of 2022 and has remained relatively stagnant ever since, according to Federal Reserve data. The trade deficit for manufactured goods has generally gone up under both presidents, Robert Atkinson, president of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, told us via email. And manufacturing labor productivity growth “has been terrible under both administrations.” A February 23, 2023, report from Ian Clay of ITIF noted that while the U.S. economy had added 830,000 manufacturing jobs in the first two years of the Biden administration, “Productivity (measured in real output per hour of labor) in the manufacturing sector is lower today than two years ago.” Atkinson also noted that manufacturing job creation has lagged overall job creation. According to the BLS, under Biden, the growth of manufacturing jobs (6.28%) has been slower than overall job growth (11.06%). The same was true under Trump, even when looking only at his first three pre-COVID-19 years, when manufacturing job growth (3.39%) lagged overall job growth (4.4%). “Neither administration did particularly well there,” Atkinson said. “Also, the manufacturing wage premium over non-manufacturing jobs has been steadily falling.” A 2022 Federal Reserve paper that explored the reason for differences in wages between manufacturing and other sectors found that “the manufacturing wage premium—the additional pay a manufacturing worker earns relative to a comparable nonmanufacturing worker—disappeared in recent years.” “So overall, neither party should claim any credit regarding manufacturing,” Atkinson said. Alan Tonelson, a longtime analyst of U.S. manufacturing policy who blogs at RealityChek, told us different measures of the health of manufacturing present different pictures. “Both administrations have taken important steps in building the policy infrastructure needed for a significant U.S. manufacturing comeback,” Tonelson told us, though through different strategies: Trump via tariffs and deregulation and Biden via government incentives. Under Biden, there have been significant investments in factory-building. The Inflation Reduction Act included tens of billions for clean energy development, and the CHIPS Act provided $39 billion to fund manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and $11 billion for semiconductor research and development. Indeed, Bureau of Economic Analysis data show private investment in manufacturing is way up under Biden, rising about 90% since the fourth quarter of 2022. But it may take years for those investments to show up in manufacturing job data. “There is certainly a lag of some time,” Tonelson said. “It takes time to build factory structures, to get in all kinds of necessary equipment and then to hire workers.” Ultimately, he said, “we’ll have to see what the actual level of demand for these products is.” For example, he said, the demand for electric vehicles is not as hot as once expected. And whether the semiconductors built in the U.S. will be able to compete with those manufactured in Taiwan remains to be seen. “There are so many things in flux right now,” Tonelson said, such as the lingering effects of the pandemic, “It’s difficult to assess the health of manufacturing.” “We will have to wait quite a while longer before we see the full effect,” of things such as Trump’s tariffs, the investments under Biden and the pandemic, Tonelson said. Editor’s note: FactCheck.org does not accept advertising. 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For everyone who needs it. €2 a Month €5 a Month One-off amount I already contribute Close * Irish News * FactCheck * Voices * Investigates * J-TV Support Us Sign out | Sign in sections Voices FactCheck Investigates Quizzes Money Diaries Explainers Daft.ie Property Magazine The Journal TV topics Irish News Politics World News Climate Crisis Housing Cost of Living Road Safety Courts Ukraine Gaza Newsletters FactCheck Temperature Check Inside the Newsroom Podcasts The Explainer A deep dive into one big news story Sign in to have your say Or create a free account to join the discussion Advertisement Read Next More Stories ![](\\" Tánaiste promises help for Irish citizens who want to leave Lebanon as Hezbollah \'clashes\' with Israeli troops ![](\\" \'Let\'s pass this budget first\', says Taoiseach amid calls to hold the general election now ![](\\" As it happened: How today\'s big Budget 2025 giveaway played out FACTCHECK # Debunked: Multiple claims on Instagram about vaccines, face masks and Covid-19 tests are false or misleading The claims have been made in recent weeks. 9.31pm, 14 May 2021 29.5k IN RECENT WEEKS, a number of false and misleading claims about Covid-19 and vaccines have been shared widely by Irish users of Instagram. Last week, The Journal Fact Check highlighted how some wellness accounts have become hotbeds for such misinformation. As we reported, former television presenter Aisling O’Loughlin is gaining a significant new following as a result of her dissemination of the same messages – including videos that appear to undermine the use of vaccines and certain health measures which aim to fight Covid-19. Videos being shared by accounts such as O’Loughlin’s often contain claims that are misleading, untrue or which cannot be proved – or which misrepresent the facts or lack important contextual information. From our analysis, we know that messages like this get shared across an ever- growing network. We have also been contacted by many people who would like to be able to share more accurate information to the holders of these accounts. Here is a breakdown of some of the most common claims being made on Irish Instagram right now and explanations for why they are false or misleading. Claim 1: The Covid-19 vaccine is an “experimental” drug One of the most-repeated claims in O’Loughlin’s videos is that Covid-19 vaccines are an “experimental drug”. She makes the claim in nine of her videos, posted on 8 April, 17 April, 19 April, 20 April, 22 April, 23 April, 24 April, 28 April and 2 May. It is misleading to suggest that vaccines are experimental because they have already been widely tested and given to millions of people over the past number of months. All of the vaccines that have been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) – Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson – have undergone standard safety testing and been the subject of three-phase clinical trials. They have received conditional marketing authorisation for use in Europe, which is valid for one year, in part due to Covid-19 pandemic causing an ongoing public health emergency. The EMA grants this form of authorisation if it deems that the benefits of doing so outweigh the risks posed by a product, after it has been tested during clinical trials. Before they were authorised, each of the vaccines were tested on thousands of people to determine their safety. They were all approved after clinical trials showed they met the EMA’s safety standards (you can read about this process for three of the vaccines here). As part of conditional marketing authorisation, pharmaceutical companies are required to complete new studies and collect additional data about the approved medicine to confirm that its benefits outweigh the risks posed by it. This is the case with vaccines against Covid-19, but describing them as “experimental” lacks context as it misses the process that led to them being authorised in the first place. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do use a new vaccine technology called messenger RNA (mRNA) to create immunity against Covid-19, the first such vaccines to do so. However, this technology has been developed over a number of years. The Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines are viral vector vaccines, the type of shots used to inoculate against the flu and HIV, which is not a new or experimental technology. ![\\"start-of-company-vaccination-at-sartorius- ag\\"](\\" DPA / PA Images DPA / PA Images / PA Images Claim 2: Evidence against Covid-19 vaccines is “irrefutable” In another video posted on 9 April, O’Loughlin suggests that evidence does not support the use of vaccines against Covid-19. “The information that has come in is, I believe, irrefutable against this so- called vaccine,” she said. However, scientific evidence to date refutes this. All four vaccines which have been approved for use in the European Union to date have gone through clinical trials to test their safety and effectiveness. Their use has also been monitored across the continent since being approved, allowing data on their safety and effectiveness to accumulate as people have interacted socially and reported on any side-effects they have experienced in the months since. Evidence to date shows that the vaccine rollout has been overwhelmingly successful in helping to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on society. In the UK, data from Public Health England (PHE) released this week found that – up until the end of April – vaccines stopped at least 33,000 people aged 65 and over from needing hospital treatment and saved 11,700 lives among those aged 60 and over. Data from Scotland also suggests that both Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are 91% and 88% effective at preventing hospitalisation in those who have received their first dose. Data from Israel and Qatar, where respectively over 50% and over 25% of the population have been fully vaccinated, shows that the transmission of Covid-19 and severe illness and death as a result of the virus declined as more people were vaccinated. In both countries, the use of the Pfizer vaccine led to a reduction of over 96% of severe or fatal illness. Another smaller study from the US also suggests that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 94% effective at preventing hospitalisation due to Covid-19 in people aged over 65 who have received both doses. All of the vaccines authorised by the European Medicines Agency have reduced severe infection, hospitalisation and death in Covid-19 patients who have been given them. We can already see the impact of the vaccine rollout in Ireland, where more than a third of adults have been vaccinated. Older people – who were previously at the highest risk of death and severe illness as a result of the virus – are now allowed to socialise and see family members again (in certain circumstances) if they have been vaccinated. HSE figures show that the number of people hospitalised and intensive care with Covid-19 has fallen to levels not seen since six months ago, despite 300 to 500 new cases of the virus being confirmed in Ireland every day. And the use of Covid-19 vaccines has overwhelmingly proved safe. More than a billion people across the world have been given a Covid-19 vaccine to date, of whom only a tiny proportion have reported serious side-effects. The evidence against vaccines is far from “irrefutable”. ![\\"virus-outbreak-greece- vaccine\\"](\\" AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images Claim 3: The Covid-19 vaccine is “not a vaccine” Another claim common across the platform is that the Covid-19 vaccine isn’t really a vaccine. The claim appeared on O’Loughlin’s Instagram on 17 April in a video in which she says that “we can’t even call it a vaccine any more”. The claim was made again on 22 April and 2 May (when the vaccine was described as “not a vaccine”), on 5 May (when it was referred to as a “so-called vaccine”) and on 7 May (when it was called a “pretend jab”). All of these claims are untrue. The Covid-19 vaccine is a vaccine in every sense of the term. The World Health Organisation defines a vaccine as a product which stimulates a person’s immune system to produce antibodies to create immunity against a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. All of the four vaccines approved by the EMA for use in the European Union fulfil this role, although they do it in different ways. The AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson shots are viral vector vaccines, which have been used for decades. When they are used, a person is injected with a harmless version of a virus to deliver instructions to cells in the body to create immunity against Covid-19. Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines use mRNA technology, and are the first two vaccines ever approved which do so. Instead, they contain a technology – rather than a virus – which teaches the body how to make a protein that will trigger an immune response against Covid-19. Millions of people around the world have had their immunity boosted against Covid-19 since receiving vaccines against the virus. As mentioned above, severe illness and death has greatly reduced among those who have been given a vaccine. That is what vaccines do. ![\\"barcelona-daily-life-after- lockdown\\"](\\" DPA / PA Images DPA / PA Images / PA Images Claim 4: The Covid-19 vaccine is killing people Misleading and false claims about Covid-19 vaccines killing people have also been made on Instagram. One video posted by Aisling O’Loughlin states that vaccines are causing adverse reactions “including death” around the world. It is true that people have died after receiving the vaccine but it’s important to clarify how and why these deaths occurred. It also also important to measure them against the total number of people who have been vaccinated. Firstly, more than a billion people around the world have been given a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. It’s not possible to put an exact figure on it, but the overwhelming majority of these people are still alive. In Ireland, where around 1.5 million people have been vaccinated, there have been very few deaths in people who have received one or more doses of a vaccine. The Health Products Regulatory Authority has previously explained that there will inevitably be deaths among people who have received the Covid-19 vaccine. This is especially because many people who received the vaccine at the beginning of the rollout were older or vulnerable patients. And this is statistically bound to happen, the same way someone in hospital could die after being given a morphine injection – their condition may be so far advanced that they could have been likely to die shortly after being given a dose regardless. But that does not mean these people died as a result of the Covid-19 vaccine. Dozens of people have died across the EU after they were vaccinated against Covid-19, but this does not incriminate the vaccines. Nor is this to deny that there have been some adverse events directly linked to vaccines, including death. In March, concerns arose about the AstraZeneca vaccine after reports that it caused blood clots in a small number of people who received it, including nine deaths in Europe. In the middle of that month, when around 20 million people in Europe had received the vaccine, only 25 cases of possible clotting linked to the vaccine had been notified to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Nevertheless, many EU countries immediately paused the use of the vaccine and conducted reviews into whether it was safe to use. Health authorities across the continent – including Ireland – then changed their advice around the use of the vaccine as a precaution to ensure it is given to those not at risk of getting blood clots. At the time, the EMA pointed out that the vaccine is not associated with an increase in the risk of blood clots, and that the benefits of AstraZeneca in fighting the spread of Covid-19 (which can cause clotting problems itself) outweigh the risk of clots. There were similar concerns about clotting linked to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the April, after eight rare blood clot events with low levels of blood platelets were recorded in the US. At the time, 7 million people had received the vaccine. Advertisement The EMA subsequently said that “very rare blood clots” should be listed as a side-effect but that, once again, the benefits of Johnson & Johnson outweighed the risks. Ireland also updated its advice to help ensure that those most at risk of clotting from Johnson & Johnson receive other vaccines. While it is true to say that Covid-19 vaccines may have led to some deaths, the risk of death from receiving one is almost non-existent. ![\\"virus-outbreak- afghanistan\\"](\\" Rahmat Gul / PA Rahmat Gul / PA / PA Claim 5: Covid-19 vaccines are causing a spike in illness in India Another claim that has made it to Irish shores is that a recent spike in illness in India was caused by Covid-19 vaccines. India has seen a huge increase in cases of the virus in recent weeks, becoming the world’s second-most infected country and repeatedly breaking global records of daily case numbers. To date, more than 24 million cases and 260,000 deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded. But despite numerous claims on social media, the upsurge of Covid-19 cases in India was not caused by vaccines. The spread of Covid-19 across India did follow the rollout of two Covid-19 vaccines there from January onwards, but the two are not associated with each other. In other words, correlation does not imply causation. Analysts have speculated that the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases in India was down to a number of things, including the easing of lockdowns, large gatherings, an emerging variant of concern, and a general lack of preparedness. A report in medical journal The Lancet suggested religious mass gatherings and a lack of protective measures allowed Covid-19 to spread as easily as it did. But the situation would have undoubtedly been worse had the vaccine rollout not started. As outlined above, Covid-19 vaccines not only reduce the spread of the virus, but also result in less severe outcomes for those who do contract it. If anything, vaccines helped prevent an even bigger spike in illness in India. ![\\"coronavirus-model-project-for-operational-vaccination- krtis\\"](\\" DPA / PA Images DPA / PA Images / PA Images Claim 6: PCR tests are untrustworthy and “open to being misused” O’Loughlin made further false claims about PCR tests, which are used to detect Covid-19 and other illnesses. On 13 April, she described PCR tests used to check whether a person has Covid-19 as “so untrustworthy”, while on 22 April, she also said they are unreliable and not fit for the purpose they’re being used for. She also claimed on 21 April that PCR tests are open to being misused, though she did not specify how. However, PCR tests are quite reliable at detecting Covid-19, especially compared to other forms of testing, and it is misleading to suggest that they are somehow being misused. The PCR testing method is being used internationally, including in Ireland, to detect if a person is currently infected with Covid-19. The RT-PCR test is considered the gold standard for diagnosing a suspected case of Covid-19, and is the test recommended by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organisation. It works by amplifying DNA so that it can be closely studied and used to detect the presence of a virus. The method has widely been used in diagnostic laboratories for years, such as in testing for herpes, HIV, and hepatitis C. Studies vary on how accurate PCR tests are at detecting Covid-19, but concerns are more based on the level of false negatives – that is, where someone has the virus but a PCR test tells them that they don’t. A systematic review of the accuracy of Covid-19 tests published in the British Medical Journal reported false negative rates of between 2% and 29% in PCR tests. False positives – where a test tells someone that they have Covid-19 when they don’t – are far less likely. Dr Cillian de Gascun, the director of the National Viral Reference Laboratory (NVRL), told Newstalk last year that at most, the testing system in Ireland produces a maximum of one false positive for every 500 tests carried out, and likely even fewer than that. In the UK, the BBC has also countered claims around false positives and the accuracy of tests. While PCR tests may to some extent be unreliable, it is far more likely that they are underestimating – not overestimating – the number of cases of Covid-19 that are present in the community. That is why people who show symptoms of the virus are advised to isolate for 14 days, even if they return a negative test result. Furthermore, there is no evidence that PCR tests are being misused by public health authorities or officials anywhere to misrepresent the number of positive cases of Covid-19 that are reported. ![\\"passengers-testing-at-dadar-terminus-in-mumbai- india-16-apr-2021\\"](\\" SIPA USA / PA Images SIPA USA / PA Images / PA Images Claim 7: Wearing face masks is “not good for you” because it causes people to breathe in carbon dioxide all day This is a common misinformation trope across the world. In a video posted on 7 April, O’Loughlin asked whether face masks could be dangerous. “Breathing in your own waste air all day long, what’s that about?” she said. “It can’t be good, we breathe for a reason. We have a nose and a mouth for a reason, breathe in, breathe out. Breathing in your own carbon dioxide all day long, surely that’s not good for you?” However, the suggestion that face masks are dangerous because they cause people to breathe in carbon dioxide all day is misleading. It has been debunked several times. The Journal reported in a previous fact-checking article last year that face coverings block Covid-19 droplets but do not block either oxygen or carbon dioxide. Face masks do not cause people to breathe in carbon dioxide all day. ![\\"download](\\" Shutterstock Shutterstock Claim 8: Science does not support wearing face masks to prevent Covid-19 O’Loughlin has also made false claims about whether face masks work in videos posted on 19 April and 30 April. “I’m not an anti-masker at all… I’m pro being able to breathe, I’m pro- breath,” she says in the video on 19 April, implying again that masks prevent people from breathing properly (as discussed above, this suggestion is misleading). She continues: “The science is not behind the masks any more.” This is not true. The World Health Organisation and the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) both recommend that masks should be worn to reduce the spread of Covid-19. The ECDC does warn that evidence for the effectiveness of face masks at preventing Covid-19 is limited, but this does not mean that science is against wearing masks. It specifically says that wearing masks in indoor and crowded settings is recommended, and that the wearing of masks in general should complement other measures, such as hand hygiene and social distancing. A peer-reviewed study by scientists from around the world, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in December, also recommends the use of face masks by the public. The authors state that evidence shows mask wearing reduces the transmissibility of Covid-19 per contact by reducing the transmission of infected respiratory particles. They also recommend that public health officials and governments “strongly encourage the use of widespread face masks in public” to reduce the spread of Covid-19. ![\\"download](\\" Shutterstock Shutterstock Claim 9: Face masks contain “parasitic worms” and “toxic substances” There are countless false and misleading claims about masks across the Internet. In a video posted on 19 April, O’Loughlin talks about what she believes what can be found in them. “On the mask issue, there’s a story up there about a doctor who has found these parasitic worms [in a mask],” she says towards the end of the video, repeating the claim multiple times. She then claims that “official masks” in Belgium were found to contain “toxic substances”. The claim that face masks contain worms is untrue and has been debunked by multiple sources. The claim about Belgian masks, while true, is lacking important contextual information. The worms claim was found in several videos posted on social media from April onwards which showed close-up shots of face masks, including one video posted on Facebook which has been viewed almost 70,000 times. AFP, Full Fact and Reuters are among those who have debunked variations this claim, with the former quoting scientists as saying the ‘worms’ are likely to be fibres. ![\\"maxresdefault](\\" YouTube YouTube Meanwhile, the claim that official face masks in Belgium contain toxic substances is misleading and lacks context. What is true is that in February, the country’s health minister warned warned that some of the free face masks that were distributed across the country since last year contained nanoparticles of silver and titanium oxide. The government said these masks should no longer be used or distributed. However, a government spokesperson also said at the time that there was “no evidence of danger to public health” despite the finding. Claims that face masks contain “toxic substances” have been used to discourage their use over the course of the pandemic, but generally lack context like this one. Rumours have suggested that face masks are toxic because they are sprayed with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) or contain asbestos-like substances. However, face masks do not pose a danger to public health and are safe to use (unless a person has a number condition that means they have trouble breathing – more information is available from the HSE here). Contains reporting from previous FactChecks by Lauren Boland. The Journal’s FactCheck is a signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network’s Code of Principles. You can read it here. For information on how FactCheck works, what the verdicts mean, and how you can take part, check out our Reader’s Guide here. You can read about the team of editors and reporters who work on the factchecks here. 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DATA ROUNDUP ![\\"\\"](\\" Congress-Campaign-Thumbnail-702x336.jpg\\") Fake News, Telugu # 2022లో అమెరికాలో జరిగిన భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య దినోత్సవ వేడుకల్లో పాల్గొన్న దృశ్యాలను ప్రస్తుత ఎన్నికల్లో అల్లు అర్జున్ కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీకి ప్రచారం చేస్తున్నట్లు షేర్ చేస్తున్నారు 0 By Chaitanya on April 23, 2024 * A A A Twitter Facebook Reddit 2024 సార్వత్రిక ఎన్నికలు ప్రారంభమై మొదటి ఫేజ్ ముగిసిన విషయం తెలిసిందే. ఐతే ఈ నేపథ్యంలో టాలీవుడ్ నటుడు అల్లు అర్జున్ కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ తరపున ప్రచారం చేస్తున్నట్లు ఒక వీడియో సోషల్ మీడియాలో విస్తృతంగా షేర్ అవుతుంది (ఇక్కడ & ఇక్కడ). మెడలో కాంగ్రెస్ను పోలిన కండువాతో అల్లు అర్జున్ ఒక వాహనంపై నిలబడి ప్రజలకు అభివాదం చేస్తున్నట్టు ఈ వీడియోలో చూడొచ్చు. ఈ కథనం ద్వారా ఆ వీడియోకు సంబంధించి చేస్తున్న క్లెయిమ్లో నిజమెంతుందో చూద్దాం. ![\\"\\"](\\" Congress-Campaign-Claim.jpg\\") > క్లెయిమ్: 2024 ఎన్నికలకు సంబంధించి నటుడు అల్లు అర్జున్ కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ > తరపున ప్రచారం చేస్తున్న వీడియో. > > ఫాక్ట్(నిజం): ఈ దృశ్యాలు 2022లో అమెరికాలో జరిగిన భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య దినోత్సవ > వేడుకలలలో అల్లు అర్జున్ పాల్గొన్నప్పటివి. అమెరికాలోని ప్రవాస భారతీయులు > నిర్వహించిన ఈ పరేడ్లో అల్లు అర్జున్ను గ్రాండ్ మార్షల్గా సత్కరించారు. > ప్రస్తుత ఎన్నికలకు సంబంధించి అల్లు అర్జున్ కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీకు > మద్దతిచ్చినట్లు ఎటువంటి ఆధారాలు లేవు. కావున పోస్టు ద్వారా చెప్పేది తప్పు. ముందుగా ప్రస్తుత ఎన్నికలకు సంబంధించి అల్లు అర్జున్ కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీకు మద్దతిచ్చినట్లు మాకు ఎలాంటి రిపోర్ట్స్ లభించలేదు. కాగా, ప్రస్తుతం షేర్ అవుతున్న వీడియోకు భారత ఎన్నికలకు ఎటువంటి సంబంధం లేదు. ఈ వీడియో 2022లో అమెరికాలో జరిగిన భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య దినోత్సవ వేడుకలకు సంబంధించింది. ఈ వీడియోకు సంబంధించిన సమాచారం కోసం ఇంటర్నెట్లో కీవర్డ్ సెర్చ్ చేయగా ఇవే దృశ్యాలను 2022లో రిపోర్ట్ చేసిన పలు కథనాలు మాకు కనిపించాయి (ఇక్కడ, ఇక్కడ & ఇక్కడ). ఈ కథనాల ప్రకారం 2022లో న్యూయార్క్లో భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య దినోత్సవ వేడుకల సందర్బంగా జరిగిన ఇండియా డే పరేడ్లో గ్రాండ్ మార్షల్గా నటుడు అల్లు అర్జున్ పాల్గొన్నారు. ప్రస్తుతం షేర్ అవుతున్న దృశ్యాలు ఆ కార్యక్రమానికి సంబంధించినవే. ![\\"\\"](\\" Congress-Campaign-Image-1.jpg\\") అమెరికాలోని ప్రవాస భారతీయులు నిర్వహించిన ఈ పరేడ్లో అల్లు అర్జున్ను గ్రాండ్ మార్షల్గా సత్కరించారు. ఈ కార్యక్రమం 21 ఆగస్టు 2022న జరిగింది. అల్లు అర్జున్ తన అధికారిక యూట్యూబ్ ఛానల్లో ఈ కార్యక్రమానికి సంబంధించిన వీడియో ఫూటేజ్ను షేర్ చేసాడు. ఈ కార్యక్రమానికి సంబంధించిన మరికొన్ని కథనాలు ఇక్కడ మరియు ఇక్కడ చూడొచ్చు. ఈ వివరాల బట్టి షేర్ అవుతున్న వీడియోకు ప్రస్తుత ఎన్నికలకు ఎటువంటి సంబంధంలేదని స్పష్టమవుతుంది. ![\\"\\"](\\" Congress-Campaign-Image-2.jpg\\") చివరగా, 2022లో అమెరికాలో జరిగిన భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య దినోత్సవ వేడుకల్లో అల్లు అర్జున్ పాల్గొన్న దృశ్యాలను ప్రస్తుత ఎన్నికల్లో అల్లు అర్జున్ కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీకి ప్రచారం చేస్తున్నట్లు షేర్ చేస్తున్నారు . ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Kamala Harris acknowledges that a 2010 state truancy law she sponsored resulted in some parents being jailed. But she misleadingly claims that jailing parents was an “unintended consequence” of the law. In fact, the law added Section 270.1 to the California Penal Code to allow prosecutors to fine and/or jail a parent “who has failed to reasonably supervise and encourage the pupil’s school attendance.” Under the law, which was signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sept. 30, 2010, a parent could face up to a year in jail and $2,000 fine. The law took effect in 2011. Harris, a Democratic candidate for president, was San Francisco District Attorney from 2004 to 2011. As district attorney, she launched a three-stage program to lower the San Francisco United School District’s truancy rates in 2006. If the first two stages — education and intervention — failed, then parents could be prosecuted. “Parents of truant children who do not change course in Stage 2 are subject to prosecution,” the district attorney’s office said in a brochure that describes the initiative. “Parents must report to a specialized Truancy Court we created that combines close court monitoring with tailored family services. We have SFUSD and Children and Family Services on hand to resolve underlying issues such as transportation, unstable housing, substance abuse, mental health, neglect or unresolved special education needs. Parents who are continually reluctant to send their children to school are subject to fine or imprisonment.” The brochure said that 20 parents in San Francisco were prosecuted for truancy in 2008. We don’t know how many were prosecuted in all, but the Los Angeles Times writes that no one was jailed. “Harris issued citations to parents whose children missed more than 50 days of school, but none of them were put in jail,” the Los Angeles Times wrote in an April 17 story. However, as the San Francisco District Attorney, Harris sponsored a state Senate bill — SB 1317 — that was introduced by state Sen. Mark Leno, who is also from San Francisco. The state bill was modeled on her truancy initiative in San Francisco, and did result in some parents being jailed. > _Los Angeles Times_ , April 17: Harris took that advocacy statewide, > sponsoring a 2010 law to make it a misdemeanor for parents whose young > children miss more than 10% of school days a year without a valid excuse. > Parents could be punished with a maximum $2,000 fine, up to a year in county > jail or both. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Harris said her initiative improved school attendance in San Francisco and “not one parent was sent to jail.” Host Jake Tapper then asked about the state law that she sponsored. > Tapper, May 12: Well, you pushed for a statewide law, right, a statewide > truancy law. > > Harris: And the state… > > Tapper: And people were thrown into jail under that law. > > Harris: Not by me. > > Tapper: Not by you, but you supported the law. > > Harris: I supported the law that — this is what I supported, and our > initiative was that in the — and here’s — we’re going to get in the weeds, > but give me the patience of time to explain it. > > When I was looking at the issue of truancy, I realized that, when we define > truancy, we defined it as three or four unexcused absences, you’re truant. I > was seeing kids that were missing up to 80 days of a 180-day school year. > So, my point was, why isn’t the education code recognizing that? > > What ended up happening is, by changing the education code, it also changed > — it, by reference then, was in the penal code. And then that was an > unintended consequence. > > And if I could do it over again, I would have made sure that it would not > have increased penalties or the ability to prosecute anywhere in the state > to prosecute parents, because that was never the intention. And it was never > anything that I did. The possibility of jailing parents was not an “unintended consequence,” and the bill did not just change the education code. It also created a new section to the California Penal Code, as we have already noted. Harris knew this, of course. After taking the oath of office as the California attorney general in January 2011, Harris said in her inaugural address that she was “putting parents on notice” that they could face “the full force and consequences of the law” if their kids miss too many days of school. > Harris, Jan. 3, 2011: We know chronic truancy leads to dropping out, which > dramatically increases the odds that a young person will become either a > perpetrator or a victim of crime. Folks, it is time to get serious about the > problem of chronic truancy in California. Last year we had 600,000 truant > students in our elementary schools alone, which roughly matches the number > of inmates in our state prisons. Is it a coincidence? Of course not. > > And as unacceptable as this problem is – I know we can fix it. In San > Francisco, we threatened the parents of truants with prosecution, and > truancy dropped 32 percent. So, we are putting parents on notice. If you > fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure > you face the full force and consequences of the law. In 2013, her office issued the first statewide report on truancy. In a press release about the report, her office described the 2010 state law as “combining meaningful services with smart sanctions in the California Penal Code.” > California attorney general’s office, Sept. 30, 2013: The initiative also > served as a model for SB 1317 (Leno), which defined “chronic truancy” for > the first time under state law and established the initiative’s model of > combining meaningful services with smart sanctions in the California Penal > Code. The bill was sponsored by then-District Attorney Harris and was > enacted in law in 2010. The 2013 report itself urged district attorneys to jail parents “in only the most extreme cases,” because “it is both traumatic for children and families and costly for taxpayers.” It provided no statistics on prosecutions, but it said that on average “district attorneys reported prosecuting 3 [to] 6 Section 270.1 cases per year.” It provided one example, saying the Kings County district attorney used “Penal Code 270.1” to jail “a mother whose two elementary school children had a combined 116 absences in a single school year.” (The report links to a news story that says the woman was sentenced to 180 days in prison.) We don’t know how many people have been arrested, fined or jailed since the 2010 state law went into effect. The state attorney general’s office does not keep such data, and referred us to local jurisdictions. In a March story on Harris and the impact of the law, HuffPost provided some county-level data. It said, for example, that Kings County “has charged 19 misdemeanors under Harris’ law in the past four years, and at least two mothers have been sentenced to jail.” We asked Harris’ campaign about her use of the phrase “unintended consequences” regarding the imprisonment of some parents under the law. It referred us to comments that she made on April 17 to Pod Save America. But Harris gave PSA some of the same answers that she gave to Tapper. Harris said the educational code did not adequately deal with chronic truancy cases. She even repeated her claim that imprisonment was an “unintended consequence” of the state law. She also said the arrests were “not under my watch,” and that she had “no control” over the arrests — even though she sponsored the state law that allowed for the arrests, and her office provided guidance to local district attorneys on when prosecutions should and should not be made. “My regret is that I have now heard stories where, in some jurisdictions, DAs have criminalized the parents. And I regret that that has happened,” Harris told the PSA host, Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama. “And the thought that anything that I did could have led to that, because that certainly was not the intention — never was the intention.” That’s some serious spinning. Harris said she has “now heard stories” about parents being jailed, but as we said her first statewide report on truancy contained an example of a parent being jailed under the state law. It gave advice on when to prosecute and not prosecute cases. A year later, the attorney general’s 2014 report on truancy said that “prosecution should be a last resort” — but it did not say imprisoning parents should never be done. Clearly, the state law intended for some parents to be jailed for their children’s chronic truancy, despite Harris’ claim that jailing parents was an “unintended consequence” of the law. She may regret the law, but she can’t redefine it. Share the Facts 2019-05-14 15:55:53 UTC FactCheck.org ![\\"FactCheck.org\\"](\\" 9 1 11 ![\\"FactCheck.org](\\" facts/rating_images/factcheck.org/distorts.png\\") FactCheck.org Rating: Distorts the Facts Jailing parents was an “unintended consequence” of a 2010 state truancy law she sponsored. 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Read more here ![\\"democrat_symbol\\"](\\"/design/images/democrat_symbol.png\\"/) Fact Check # Does Pfizer \'Page 132\' Warn Against Unprotected Sex After COVID-19 Vaccine? ## A \"copypasta\" meme stoked more fears about the COVID-19 vaccine on social media. ### Bethania Palma ### Alex Kasprak ### Published Dec. 30, 2020 ![\\"CARDIFF,](\\" Image courtesy of Justin Tallis - Pool / Getty Images Claim: Pfizer vaccine \"page 132\" warns not to have unprotected sex for 28 days after the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine because \"genetic manipulation\" may cause birth defects. Rating: False About this rating Snopes is still **fighting** an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can help. **Find out** what we\'ve learned and how to inoculate yourself against COVID-19 misinformation. **Read** the latest fact checks about the vaccines. Submit any questionable rumors and “advice” you encounter. **Become a Founding Member** to help us hire more fact-checkers. And, please, follow the **CDC** or **WHO** for guidance on protecting your community from the disease. Advertisement: In late December 2020, social media users shared a copy-and-pasted meme that falsely claimed pharmaceutical company Pfizer recommended that members of the public receiving its COVID-19 vaccine should use birth control because \"genetic manipulation\" resulting from the vaccine could lead to birth defects. Here\'s an example of the meme: ![\\"\\"](\\" Vertical-9.jpg\\") Advertisement: Shared widely across multiple social media platforms, the claim that \"Page 132 of Pfizer vaccine\" says to avoid unprotected sex to avoid conception due to \"genetic manipulation\"-related birth defects is false. The accompanying link did not lead to safety instructions accompanying the Pfizer vaccine, which has been approved by the U.S. government for emergency use, as the meme insinuates. Instead, the link led to a publicly available document outlining the methods used in a crucial Pfizer/BioNTech clinical trial for the vaccine that is currently in use. The trial is ongoing. Further, page 132 of that study does not state that unprotected sex should be avoided due to risk of birth defects resulting from \"genetic manipulation.\" There is no mention of birth defects or genetic manipulation resulting from the vaccine on page 132. The Pfizer document instead recommended that study participants take measures to avoid pregnancy for 28 days after the last vaccine dose during the trial, a time period \"which corresponds to the time needed to eliminate reproductive safety risk\" of the vaccine. This is a broad recommendation for all clinical trials of new pharmaceuticals with unknown reproductive risks. The broad guidance for such clinical trials can be seen outlined by the National Institutes of Health. This boilerplate precaution for clinical trials isn\'t evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine currently in use in the U.S. harms pregnant women or fetuses. Advertisement: The U.S. government has so far approved for emergency use two mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 developed by both Pfizer and Moderna. The vaccines do have side effects like fatigue, fever and headache, as well as localized pain. The claim that the Pfizer vaccine, which is given in two doses, results in birth defects from \"genetic manipulation\" is likely influenced by viral, false claims that COVID-19 vaccines alter or damage human DNA. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), \"Women who are trying to become pregnant do not need to avoid pregnancy after receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.\" As the CDC noted, \"experts believe that mRNA vaccines are unlikely to pose a risk to the pregnant person or the fetus. However, the potential risks of mRNA vaccines to the pregnant person and the fetus are unknown because these vaccines have not been studied in pregnant people.\" If pregnant people are among high-risk groups currently being vaccinated, like medical personnel, they can still receive the vaccine, per the CDC. No major safety concerns have been reported to be associated with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. ### By Bethania Palma Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who has been working in the news industry since 2006. ### By Alex Kasprak Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer reporting on scientific misinformation, online fraud, and financial crime. ## Article Tags COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine 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. 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Por: Ivette Franco, Publicado 25 Mar 2024 – 02:10 PM EDT | Actualizado 25 Mar 2024 – 02:10 PM EDT Comparte ![\\"Default](\\" brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1e%2F03%2F979ee63f423f94cf63eaf2d301c3%2Fgates- riqueza-2.jpg\\") La desinformación es compartida desde una cuenta que se describe como un restaurante. Crédito: Arlene Fioravanti Müller (arte) / captura de Facebook. Un video en Facebook muestra a la periodista Susanna Griso y al empresario Bill Gates en un segmento noticias del canal de televisión español Antena3, en el que aparentemente Gates presenta un “nuevo proyecto” de inversión con “tecnología avanzada”, con el cual las personas ganarían 225 euros por hora (243.42 dólares). Sin embargo, esto es falso. Si bien las imágenes del cofundador de Microsoft son reales, estas no corresponden a una entrevista para ese noticiero, ni tampoco mencionó ninguna oportunidad de inversión. La grabación original fue manipulada. En el audio del video, después de que Griso aparentemente presenta a Gates, se escucha en español lo que sería la traducción de lo que supuestamente dice el empresario: “Mi nuevo proyecto estará disponible para los ciudadanos de España sólo por un período de tiempo limitado”, con el “único propósito de que las personas puedan mejorar su situación económica y hacer realidad sus sueños”. Otra parte del audio señala que para ganar “225 euros por hora”, las personas deben “rellenar un formulario” que les daría acceso a una “tecnología más avanzada” y que según describe la voz narradora “\'no tiene nada en común con un ordenador doméstico corriente”, pues “analiza los datos 10,000 veces más rápido”. Además, señala que esta es una oportunidad de inversión “completamente libre de riesgos”. En el video se observa a Gates sentado frente al CEO de OpenAI, Sam Altman, en lo que parece un set de grabación, con micrófonos, libros y vasos con agua. El post cuenta con más de 63,000 visualizaciones desde su publicación el 14 de marzo de 2024. Días después, usuarios de esa misma red compartieron publicaciones similares sobre el supuesto proyecto de inversión de Gates, con mensajes dirigidos a los chilenos y panameños. ¿Quieres verificar algo? Envíalo a nuestro chat de WhatsApp +1 (305) 447-2910 o pincha aquí: En elDetector notamos que la traducción al español no coincide con las palabras en inglés pronunciadas por el empresario de Microsoft. Además, al escuchar con detenimiento su voz, identificamos que el multimillonario parece repetir varias veces la misma frase, lo cual no ocurre en la traducción. Realizamos una búsqueda inversa de imágenes en Google y encontramos la entrevista original publicada el 11 de enero de 2024 en el canal oficial de YouTube del empresario para su podcast Unconfuse me with Bill Gates. En el video observamos que Gates y Altman visten con la misma ropa que en el clip que estamos verificando y están rodeados de los mismos elementos. ### Más sobre elDetector ![\\"Ni](\\" vice-presidencial- copy-2.jpg&width=1920&height=1080&ratio_width=160&ratio_height=120&resize_option=Crop%20Image&format=webp\\") NOTICIAS UNIVISION ### Ni el gobierno de Biden dio más de 100,000 millones de dólares a Irán, ni Trump construyó solo 2% del muro fronterizo: verificaciones del debate vicepresidencial 2024 14 min de lectura ![\\"Esa](\\" diddy-2.jpg&width=3200&height=1800&ratio_width=160&ratio_height=120&resize_option=Crop%20Image&format=webp\\") NOTICIAS UNIVISION ### Esa imagen de AMLO junto al rapero Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs no es real: está manipulada 3 min de lectura ![\\"Ese](\\" metaai.jpg&width=3200&height=1800&ratio_width=160&ratio_height=120&resize_option=Crop%20Image&format=webp\\") NOTICIAS UNIVISION ### Ese copypaste que lees de “Adiós Meta IA…” NO tiene incidencia sobre permisos concedidos previamente 6 min de lectura ![\\"Los](\\" NOTICIAS UNIVISION ### Los padrones electorales son precisos y están en permanente depuración 3 min de lectura ![\\"Desinformación](\\" factcheckers- copy.jpg&width=1920&height=1080&ratio_width=160&ratio_height=120&resize_option=Crop%20Image&format=webp\\") NOTICIAS UNIVISION ### Desinformación en elecciones: así puedes verificar por tu cuenta ese contenido que te parece sospechoso 6 min de lectura Sin embargo, al revisar la grabación de 5:51 minutos de duración, identificamos varias diferencias: la ubicación de los empresarios está invertida, Gates mantiene un diálogo con Altman en lugar de hablar de forma continua, no repite frases ni menciona ninguna oportunidad de inversión, sino que conversan sobre ChatGPT. Además, a diferencia de las imágenes difundidas en redes, Griso –la conductora de Antena3– no aparece en ningún momento durante la grabación. En busca de información adicional, revisamos la página que compartió el post que estamos verificando y encontramos que no corresponde a la cuenta oficial de Gates, sino a una página que tiene seis seguidores, fue creada en enero de 2023 y es de un restaurante, según su descripición. Al final del video, invitan a hacer clic en un enlace para obtener más detalles y comenzar a \"ganar euros\". Al ingresar, notamos que la dirección de la página no coincide con la mostrada en la previsualización del enlace (supuestamente elmundo.es), sino que te lleva a un sitio web que dice en inglés “actualización de impuesto” y el resto del contenido se lee en español. Nada de lo publicado en ese sitio respalda las afirmaciones sobre inversión hechas en el clip manipulado. ## Conclusión Es falso que el empresario Bill Gates haya anunciado que las personas pueden generar ingresos de 225 euros por hora (243.42 dólares) con su “nuevo proyecto” de inversión, como afirma un video compartido en Facebook. Al encontrar la grabación original, elDetector comprobó que el clip en el que aparece Gates ha sido manipulado, pues en ninguna parte el empresario menciona una oportunidad de inversión, ni se trata del segmento de un noticiero de Antena3, como se presenta en redes. En la grabación original, Gates en realidad conversa con el CEO de OpenAI, Sam Altman, sobre ChatGPT, para su podcast Unconfuse me with Bill Gates. **Lee aquí cómo escogemos y asignamos nuestras etiquetas en elDetector.** _elDetector opera de forma independiente con el financiamiento de instituciones que puedes ver aquí y que no tienen ningún poder de decisión sobre nuestro contenido. 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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 ![](\\" ![](\\" Todd Rokita stated on April 23, 2018 in a debate: \"I am the only one onstage who has never voted to raise your taxes. These two, each, a billion dollars worth of votes to raise your taxes.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * National * Candidate Biography * Taxes * Todd Rokita ![\\"Manuela](\\" By Manuela Tobias April 30, 2018 # Did Luke Messer and Mike Braun raise taxes in Indiana? In Indiana’s Republican primary, no candidate for U.S. Senate wants to be accused of hiking taxes. So when U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita called out his fellow challengers, U.S. Rep. Luke Messer and Mike Braun, for raising taxes in the April 23 debate, we budgeted some time for a fact-check. \"I am the only one onstage who has never voted to raise your taxes,\" Rokita said. \"These two, each, a billion dollars worth of votes to raise your taxes.\" Is that the case? The answer depends on what defines a tax increase. Through one lens Rokita may have a point. Through another, his comment can be seen as misleading. Whether these actions are turn-offs for conservative voters May 8 is for them to decide: The Braun and Messer tax hikes were approved by a Republican- controlled Legislature and a Republican governor. Has Todd Rokita ever raised taxes? Rokita, Indiana’s former secretary of state, has only been in a position to raise taxes since he was elected to Congress in 2010. Congress has been under partial or total Republican control since that time, preventing votes on direct tax increases. (More on that in a minute.) Unlike his competitors, he did not serve as a state legislator. Rokita joined the Indiana secretary of state’s office in 1997 as general counsel, later becoming deputy secretary of state. He won two terms as secretary of state before moving to Washington in 2010. As secretary of state, Rokita had no budget-adopting or tax-approving authority. \"It is usually easier for someone who has served less time in legislative bodies to make the argument being made by Rokita,\" said Paul Helmke, a professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Braun and Messer, on the other hand, are associated with a couple of tax hikes from their time in the state Legislature. Messer’s team argued that Rokita’s record of no tax votes is not so clear. Messer’s campaign pointed to the FAST Act, a transportation bill that tied customs user fees to inflation, increasing funding for highway spending by $5.2 billion over 10 years. But the transportation bill also won the vote of Messer, elected to Congress in 2012. Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, said this qualifies as a tax, because the government is imposing new charges on private market transactions. The same reasoning would apply to a bipartisan 2012 tariff on imports that Rokita supported. Helmke, on the other hand, didn’t consider the fee a tax hike because it was not assessed on the general population, as most people are not direct customs users. And while tariffs can lead to increased costs, he didn’t consider a vote to give the Commerce Department authority to impose a tariff as a vote for a tax hike. Has Braun ever voted to raise taxes? To understand Rokita’s point against Braun, you have to hit the road. Rokita pointed us to road funding legislation supported by Braun and signed into law by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb in 2017. It came with a 10 cent per gallon gas statewide tax increase. The measure’s Republican sponsors said the tax hike would raise an average of $915 million a year in each of the next seven years. That’s pretty close to the $1 billion figure Rokita lobbed. The nonpartisan Indiana Legislative Services agency estimated the tax increase would bring in roughly $5 billion over a seven-year period. #### 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 The main sponsor of the measure, GOP Rep. Ed Soliday, insisted it was not a tax hike but an adjustment to restore the state\'s buying power lost to inflation. Others called it a user fee, which affects only users of a service. But Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, didn’t mince words. \"Most people would say the gas tax is a tax and pretty hard for us to avoid,\" Hicks said. Rokita, however, previously supported the same tax hike when he was secretary of state. \"There’s already been 19 or 20 states that have raised their gas tax, because the federal government won’t, and as a result are going to have a better infrastructure,\" Rokita told Indianapolis radio host Abdul Hakim-Shabazz in 2015. \"And by the way, I don’t know of a politician that’s been unelected for that yet. So, I encourage all those in elective office — from the federal, to the state, to the local level — to look at these ideas.\" The call to action followed a month-long emergency closure of an interstate bridge that sank several inches in Rokita’s district in August 2015. Has Messer ever raised taxes? Experts had a tougher time calling Messer’s legislative actions tax hikes. The first half of Messer’s tax hikes come from a 2005 bill to finance a new Colts Stadium in Indianapolis, signed into law by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels. The bill didn’t directly raise taxes, but authorized local governments to do so. That included taxes on food, beverages, hotels, motels and auto rentals. Much of the tax fell on tourists, Hicks said. And it was at the behest of the local governments. \"It was an increase that the legislators from the affected counties all asked for,\" Hicks said. \"It’s inaccurate to say this was a tax hike the state was responsible for. The local governments didn’t have to do it.\" In effect, Messer voted to allow certain counties to raise taxes by close to a billion dollars, according to the principal and interest payments on the bonds that financed the stadium. The other half of the attack on Messer comes from a 2005 budget that affected property taxes. The budget included language that reduced a state credit to local governments for property taxes. Without the credit, more taxes fell on property owners. It also altered the way property taxes were assessed, raising taxes for properties that had been previously undervalued by assessors. Statewide property taxes increased by an average of 24 percent, according to Larry DeBoer, agricultural economics professor at Purdue University, though some surprised homeowners received rebates that helped ease the burden. \"But back then a taxpayer group threw tea bags into an Indianapolis canal in protest — perhaps we can claim the first modern tea party movement here in Indiana, for better or worse,\" he said. Hicks said it was irresponsible to consider this hike without considering the large property tax cuts that followed, in 2008. But Messer was out of the state House by then. Our ruling Rokita said, \"I am the only one onstage who has never voted to raise your taxes. These two, each, a billion dollars worth of votes to raise your taxes.\" There is some truth in that Rokita has never voted to raise taxes in Indiana. As secretary of state, he did not have that power. In Congress, neither Rokita nor Messer have voted for direct tax increases. But Rokita voted for bills that raised user fees and import tariffs, which affected some taxpayers. (Messer, too, voted in favor of the user fees.) Braun indeed voted to increase taxes by almost $1 billion annually in a 2017 road funding law. Left unsaid by Rokita: He supported the gas tax from the sidelines, because it would lead to better infrastructure. Rokita also left out important context for Messer’s two 2005 votes that indirectly raised taxes by over $1 billion. One allowed local governments to increase taxes to fund the Indianapolis Colts football stadium. Another cut subsidies and changed the way property taxes were assessed. Overall, we rate the statement Half True. Share the Facts 2018-04-30 15:05:52 UTC PolitiFact ![\\"PolitiFact\\"](\\" logo-big.jpg\\"/) 4 1 7 ![\\"PolitiFact](\\" halftrue.jpg\\") PolitiFact Rating: Half True \"I am the only one onstage who has never voted to raise your taxes. These two, each, a billion dollars worth of votes to raise your taxes.\" Todd Rokita Republican congressman from Indiana Candidate-Debate-480562511.html ![](\\" Republican debate Monday, April 23, 2018 2018-04-23 Read More info #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources WLFI.com, Republican Senate Debate, April 23, 2018 Phone interviews with Nathan Brand, Todd Rokita spokesman, April 24, 2018 Phone interviews with Molly Gillaspie, Luke Messer spokeswoman, April 25, 2018 Phone interview with Josh Kelley, Mike Braun spokesman, April 25, 2018 Phone interview with Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, April 25, 2018 Phone interview with Matt Gardner, senior fellow at ITEP, April 25, 2018 Email interview with Dan Carden, statehouse bureau chief at NWI Times, April 25, 2018 Email interview with Niki Kelly, Indiana statehouse reporter at Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, April 25, 2018 Email interview with Larry DeBoer, agricultural economics professor at Purdue University, April 26, 2018 Email interview with Austin Drukker, senior research assistant at Brookings, April 26, 2018 Email interview with Paul Helmke, professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, April 25, 2018 Email interview with John M. 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Charles Schumer \"repeatedly supported a physical barrier in the past along with many other Democrats. They changed their mind only after I was elected president.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • January 9, 2019 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on January 8, 2019 in a televised speech: \"At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Manuela Tobias • January 9, 2019 ![](\\" ![](\\" Eric Swalwell stated on November 12, 2018 in a tweet: \"15,000 troops will not see their families for #Thanksgiving because of @realDonaldTrump’s Scaravan Stunt. Oh yeah, it’s also costing you 200 million dollars.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • November 15, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump Jr. stated on November 12, 2018 in in a tweet: \"Nearly 200,000 Florida voters may not be citizens.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Amy Sherman • November 13, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party stated on November 1, 2018 in a Facebook ad: \"Attention hunters: Voting in North Dakota could cost you your out-of-state hunting licenses.\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • November 2, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on October 26, 2018 in a campaign rally: \"The Democrat plan would just obliterate Medicare and terminate Medicare Advantage ... seniors who have been paying for this for years (and) will not be taken care of anymore.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Manuela Tobias • November 2, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kevin Cramer stated on October 26, 2018 in U.S. Senate debate: \"Protections on pre-existing conditions have been there since the 1970s.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Manuela Tobias • November 1, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on October 24, 2018 in a digital ad: \"We know dangerous criminals can slip through immigration at airports just like ours. Yet Joe Donnelly stood right here with the radical left against all efforts to secure our most vulnerable entry points.\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Manuela Tobias • October 26, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Future45 stated on October 16, 2018 in a campaign ad: Voting for \"any Democrat\" gets you \"socialism ... undefended open borders ... immediate tax increases ... 100 percent government-run health care ...\" ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • October 24, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Kevin Cramer stated on October 18, 2018 in North Dakota Senate debate: \"The standard of voting in North Dakota is the easiest in the country.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • October 23, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Senate Leadership Fund stated on October 11, 2018 in a campaign ad: \"Washington Heidi supports sanctuary cities, where illegal immigrants can be released on our streets, like this criminal, who was let go and then sexually assaulted a child.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • October 19, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" Bloggers stated on October 9, 2018 in blog post: \"Indiana has purged no less than 20,000 voters in violation of a federal court order.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • October 17, 2018 ![](\\" ![](\\" National Taxpayers Union stated on October 10, 2018 in Washington Examiner op-ed: \"The latest round of tariffs now means that the total tax increase on Americans from enacted tariffs exceeds the tax increases from the Affordable Care Act.\" ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Manuela Tobias • October 12, 2018 ### Did Luke Messer and Mike Braun raise taxes in Indiana? * ![](\\" ![](\\" 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 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 24, 2024 in a post: “Olympic boxer Imane Khelif fails gender test, stripped of all titles, lifetime ban and $25 million prize money revoked!” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Grace Abels • September 30, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 30, 2024 in a press conference in Georgia: Georgia Gov. 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