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FEC records back up campaign
Chinese workers made "90,000 banners" for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and the president chose to hire "Chinese workers instead of American workers"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 15th, 2019
She didn't get a penny
Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a "$10 million payout from Netflix."
Fabricated quote
Says Dr. Robert Gallo, the man who helped discover the HIV virus, confessed he was "forced" to "create the HIV virus as a secret weapon to wipe out the African race."
You're not going to see any double tornabows either
The intersection of a rainbow and tornado is called a "tornabow."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Not the biggest donor, not the same oligarch
Says Mitch McConnell's "biggest donor" is a "Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."
He supports dear ol' dad, not dear leader
Says Eric Trump said, "The president should be able to choose governors, senators, and congressmen, just like our founders meant it to be. The only election should be for president."
He didn't sing "One Love" either
Quotes Robert Mueller as saying, "We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader."
Take this claim to the curb
Quotes Beto O’Rourke as saying, "If I could throw two kinds of people in the garbage it would be the elderly and wounded veterans. When a tool breaks you don’t fix it, you throw it in the damn trash."
Some amendments were bundled
Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones."
Smells Like a Fake Quote
Quotes Kurt Cobain saying in 1993 that he wouldn’t be surprised if his generation eventually elected a "true outsider" a "business tycoon who can’t be bought" … "someone like Donald Trump"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
The law is vague on how much debris
Trump signed a bill "to clean millions of tons of garbage from world’s oceans."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, February 11th, 2019
Uses discredited and retracted data
Courts have "quietly confirmed" that the MMR vaccine causes autism.
They were marching to a funeral in Wisconsin
A photograph shows KKK members marching at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.
A lack of data undercuts this claim
Muslim immigrants were responsible for 11,000 of 13,000 knife attacks in London in the past 12 months.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 8th, 2019
"Anyone caught involved in voter fraud should be immediately deported and have his citizenship revoked."
Says Ben Carson said "illegal immigrants caught voting should be stripped of their citizenship."
Conspiracy theory story: Level 1000
Says George Soros was arrested in Switzerland for a web of crimes based on information provided by Barack Obama.
Sorry to disappoint
NASA has discovered a new planet covered with marijuana
First, she's not the CEO
Says Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans makes "$651,957 plus expenses" a year and "only 9 cents of every dollar" donated to the organization goes to helping people in need.
Big Ag > Big Facebook Falsehoods
Says Stacey Abrams said "Who needs agriculture when you can just get food at the store?"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 7th, 2019
Misrepresenting photos is one of PolitiFact's seven deadly sins
A Virginia principal "expelled two kids for wearing a crucifix around their necks saying, ‘there is no place for religion at school.’"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, February 6th, 2019