18 fact-checks of things that were wrong on the Internet

Says that in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require "liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions."  

— PolitiFact Florida

Says President Barack Obama has said "that everybody should hate the police."

— PunditFact

The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."

— PolitiFact Rhode Island

Only 20 colleges and universities "have athletic departments with revenue exceeding expenses."

— PolitiFact Virginia

"My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas."

— PolitiFact Texas

"We have a system now where in 40 states, the highest-paid public employee is the state university’s head football or basketball coach."

— PolitiFact Virginia

"We're spending millions for each individual" held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."  

"Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol."

— PolitiFact Rhode Island

"The reason why Cubans don't have access to 21st century telecommunications — like smart phones, like access to the Internet — is because it is illegal in Cuba."

Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin

Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.

— PolitiFact Georgia

"A lot of what (Cuba’s) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up."

— PunditFact

In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."

Says 3,000 Americans "died of gunfire" between the time of the Ebola scare in Dallas and the midterm elections.

— PunditFact

"This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."

— PolitiFact Texas

"Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States."

The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."

— PunditFact