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Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a "$10 million payout from Netflix."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 15th, 2019

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."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 15th, 2019

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."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019

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."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019

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."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019

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."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019

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."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019

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.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, February 11th, 2019

They were marching to a funeral in Wisconsin

A photograph shows KKK members marching at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, February 11th, 2019

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."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 8th, 2019

Conspiracy theory story: Level 1000

Says George Soros was arrested in Switzerland for a web of crimes based on information provided by Barack Obama.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 8th, 2019

Sorry to disappoint

NASA has discovered a new planet covered with marijuana

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 8th, 2019

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.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 8th, 2019

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

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