Statements we say are False

Facebook posts

"CNN reports DemDebate had 2.3 million viewers. Trump rally had 6.7 million last night!"

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

YouTube videos

Says a video shows Greta Thunberg firing a rifle.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

Facebook posts

"Starting Jan. 1 California residents can’t take shower, do laundry, poop in toilet and flush on same day."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

Instagram posts

Says Martin Luther King Jr. "was killed (smothered) in the hospital" and "the US government was found guilty in a court of law of conspiring to kill him."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, January 17th, 2020

Bloggers

Says Rep. Rashida Tlaib "wears the symbolic scarf patterned after the Islamic terrorist state."  

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, January 17th, 2020

Bloggers

"Nancy Pelosi's Son Paul Jr. Was Exec at 'Ukraine-Based Gas Company,' Similar to Hunter Biden"

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, January 17th, 2020

Bloggers

Says Joe Biden "tells men to marry into families ‘with 3 or 4 sisters.’"

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, January 17th, 2020

Bloggers

"‘He’s low risk,’ said Obama before freeing ISIS leader al Baghdadi."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, January 16th, 2020

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Says Lil Boosie and George Zimmerman got into a fight.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, January 16th, 2020

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Says a photo shows Donald Trump kissing Ivanka Trump on the lips.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

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In New York, "it is now perfectly legal to murder" a baby a minute before it would be born.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Facebook posts

Says the Japanese military did not invade the mainland United States after Pearl Harbor because "they know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them."  

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Facebook posts

"If you’ve been exposed to the stomach flu," you can avoid getting it if you "drink 3 glasses of 100% grape juice a day for 3 days. It changes the acidity in your stomach. ...This really works!!"

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Facebook posts

Says J. David Cox, "the boss" of the jail guards "who were supposed to keep" suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein alive, is also "friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Facebook posts

"That’s 5,615 projected coal-powered plants in just 8 countries. The USA has 15 - building 0 more."  

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, January 13th, 2020

Facebook posts

Says after Australia passed a "new law" that forced gun owners to give up over 640,000 firearms, the country saw a dramatic increase in homicides, assaults and robberies.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, January 13th, 2020

Facebook posts

"Nicole Kidman ‘blacklisted’ from Hollywood for vowing to support president."  

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, January 13th, 2020

Facebook posts

Says Barabara Walters wrote that Jane Fonda "betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, January 13th, 2020

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Says Joe Biden "murdered U.S. Navy Seals."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, January 10th, 2020

Facebook posts

"The missiles that were launched at American forces in Iraq from Iran, were funded by Barack Obama, with American tax dollars."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, January 10th, 2020