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Tweets
stated on July 26, 2021 in a tweet:

Says Joe Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“CDC quietly deletes 6,000 COVID vaccine deaths from its CDC website total in one day.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on July 24, 2021 in an Instagram post:

People charged in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol are “political prisoners” and “non-violent trespassers” who have been held in solitary confinement for the past six months.

By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says George Floyd’s criminal history includes “23 arrests,” “3 car thefts” and many violent crimes.

By Gabrielle Settles • July 28, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 25, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes has left training camp and says he will ‘not play another down in the NFL’ until the team changes their name.”

By Jason Asenso • July 28, 2021
Erin Marie Olszewski
stated on July 25, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Don’t believe the hype that Florida” COVID-19 “numbers are up. It’s a blatant lie.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:

There are “22 million illegal aliens living in America and ... voting illegally.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 27, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2021 in a post:

Video montage shows Kamala Harris and others faking vaccination.

By Monique Curet • July 27, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 21, 2021 in Facebook:

“Drivers with no DUIs are getting up to $610 back in savings.”

By Kelsey Sena Tamakloe • July 27, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 14, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“It makes no sense to require vaccinations for the previously infected.”

By Jason Asenso • July 27, 2021
Viral image
stated on July 25, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says an NBC producer at the Olympics was caught on a hot mic saying “60% of people in this stadium will be dead within 10 days.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 27, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 21, 2021 in a Facebook post:

A photograph shows members of the U.S. women’s soccer team kneeling during the national anthem at the Tokyo Olympics.

By Madison Czopek • July 26, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"People are being diagnosed with delta variant" even though "there is no delta variant test."

By Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2021
Viral image
stated on July 2, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Child support card” in Delaware "controls what mothers can and cannot buy with child support money.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 26, 2021
Joe Rogan
stated on July 20, 2021 in a podcast episode:

The government is “monitoring SMS texts for dangerous misinformation about COVID vaccines.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 26, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Ambassador Susan Rice Tribunal, Gavin Newsom indicted.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2021
Alma Adams
stated on July 14, 2021 in a committee meeting:

"Lumber prices can be tied to the (Trump) administration’s actions."

By Paul Specht • July 23, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“California has a personal belief exemption to any new vaccine added to the schedule after June 2015 for public and private daycare, preschool and K-12.”

By Sasha Hupka • July 23, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

"The cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic."

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip were found guilty in the disappearance of 10 native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school”

By Jason Asenso • July 23, 2021
Donald Trump Jr.
stated on July 16, 2021 in a video on Facebook:

Referring to a destroyed brick mural of George Floyd, said it’s highly unusual for a brick wall to be destroyed by lightning.

By Emily Tian • July 23, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on June 25, 2021 in a post on Facebook:

“Coca-Cola has lost $4 bil in market value as people are boycotting Coke for their ‘try to be less White’ statement.”

By Emily Tian • July 23, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“This week the military was moving big equipment into the major big cities preparing for the Maricopa audit results.”

By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2021
TikTok posts
stated on June 16, 2021 in a TikTok video:

Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris distrusted COVID-19 vaccines.

By Tom Kertscher • July 23, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Income taxes are voluntary."

By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2021
Texas GOP
stated on July 20, 2021 in a fundraiser:

“Seventy four thousand... That’s how many mail-in ballots were recently found in Arizona that have NO clear record of being sent in.”

By Brandon Mulder • July 23, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 11, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The coronavirus can’t be so dangerous because there are no biohazard bins for COVID-19 masks and gloves.

By Gabrielle Settles • July 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2021
House Republicans
stated on July 21, 2021 in a tweet:

“President Biden says he wants to ban handguns.”

By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2021

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