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When we landed on the moon, conspiracy theories took off
Keep your plan? Not so fast, Joe Biden
No, immigrants can't just leave detention centers 'any time'
Fact-checking Trump’s attacks on Omar, Ocasio-Cortez
A wide gap exists
"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."
— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, July 18th, 2019
There's no evidence for that
"I know that we’ve been blocked. People come up to me and they say, ‘Sir, I can’t get you — I can’t follow you. They make it impossible.’"
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
He's right
"Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
Claims misconstrue the numbers
"San Francisco has spent $72.5 million this fiscal year cleaning up human waste and drug paraphernalia" and "there are more drug users on their public needle program than high school graduates."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
The photos are doctored
Former President Barack Obama gave Presidential Medals of Freedom to Bill Cosby, Anthony Weiner and Harvey Weinstein.
Not what she said
Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was "speaking about how wonderful al-Qaida is."
It didn't go away
"Somebody in the Obama regime decided to get rid of" the citizenship question in the census.
— PunditFact on Monday, July 15th, 2019
This study doesn't seem to exist
"A study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70 percent had THC."
— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, July 15th, 2019
Overshoots by 100%
"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, July 12th, 2019
1996 laws
Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times."
The law evolved over time
Says Section 1325 of U.S. immigration law was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 12th, 2019
Forcing skim, 1% on kids just one factor
Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, July 12th, 2019
Based on total number? Yes. By approval rate? No
"Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, July 11th, 2019
US list prices are misleading
"Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Does The Grey Lady count as 'establishment'?
The "establishment media ignored" President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July event.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, July 11th, 2019
For 2 previous years, too
"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."
True on paper, but not always in practice.
"We made parity between mental health and physical health. It was a fundamental breakthrough in how we thought about how things should work."
— PolitiFact Health Check on Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Should have used different talking point
"A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
The image uses two different photos
Says a photo shows Jeffrey Epstein smirking as Donald Trump inappropriately touches a young girl.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
The photo is from 2017
Migrants at the U.S. border are "able to pay cell phone bills" after a "two-month excursion across four separate countries."
