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TikTok posts
stated on October 20, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“So now if you don’t comply” and get a COVID-19 vaccination, and you’re on “Social Security or disability, you won’t be able to receive your money.”

By Tom Kertscher • October 21, 2021
Tweets
stated on October 10, 2021 in a tweet:

“Countless Southwest Airlines employees have walked out of their jobs to oppose the vaccine mandate, causing operations to effectively shut down.”

By Bill McCarthy • October 11, 2021
Rick Scott
stated on October 5, 2021 in a tweet:

"Joe Biden’s attorney general wants the FBI to go after parents for speaking out at school board meetings to protect kids from radical curriculum like critical race theory."

By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2021
Viral image
stated on September 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850,” yet experts are saying “the last one was due to climate change."

By Tom Kertscher • September 13, 2021
Viral image
stated on August 28, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says the Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner paid for a Wall Street Journal ad critical of the president.

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 10, 2021
Viral image
stated on August 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows Ron DeSantis holding a shirt that says, “Your mask is as useless as Joe Biden.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 11, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference:

Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 31, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Two federal government buses “stopped in front of a Mexican restaurant in the very small town of Green Cove Springs Florida… The passengers were illegal immigrants, straight from the southern border.”

By Amy Sherman • August 5, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Ivanka Trump was targeted in the Florida condominium building collapse.

By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2021
Viral image
stated on June 23, 2021 in post on Facebook:

Says Gov. Ron DeSantis “just signed legislation requiring students, faculty and staff at Florida’s public universities and colleges to register their political views with the state.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 25, 2021
Pete Snyder
stated on March 12, 2021 in a radio interview.:

“There is no discernible difference between the spread and deaths of COVID in Virginia than there is in Florida.”

By Warren Fiske • March 30, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on February 11, 2021 in a fundraising email:

Says Joe Biden “is trying to shut FL’s border.”

By Noah Y. Kim • February 12, 2021
Viral image
stated on February 9, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows Tampa Mayor Jane Castor maskless at Super Bowl.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 10, 2021
Rick Scott
stated on November 16, 2020 in a television interview:

Says Charles Schumer supports “putting everybody on the Medicare system. He wants the Green New Deal … reduce funding for the police.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 4, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on September 30, 2020 in a rally:

Says Joe Biden is a socialist.

By Amy Sherman • October 15, 2020
Republican Party of Florida
stated on October 8, 2020 in a tweet:

During the debate, Kamala Harris said President Donald Trump “did not appoint minorities to the courts.”

By Amy Sherman • October 9, 2020
Viral image
stated on July 21, 2020 in a viral image:

The CDC said it “made a mistake” and reduced its count of Florida COVID-19 cases from 90,000 to 11,000.

By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on July 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"Wrong" COVID-19 case count by Orlando Health "explains the 'outbreak' in Florida."

By Tom Kertscher • July 16, 2020
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 26, 2020 in a press conference:

"I would do press events in May, I would never be asked about coronavirus.''

By Amy Sherman • July 3, 2020
Dane Eagle
stated on June 22, 2020 in a social media ad:

Antifa “are killing our police. Looting our businesses. Assaulting the elderly and burning our churches.”

By Daniel Funke • June 26, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on June 12, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

Says Tim Tebow “kneeled in protest of abortion during the National Anthem in 2012. He was praised by fans as being a ‘model American.’”

By Aaron Sharockman • June 19, 2020
Viral image
stated on June 3, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“She’s just casually carrying a body with 1 hand..? Sure.. More evidence of coronavirus being a complete hoax with props & street theater.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 5, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“According to the CDC, so far this year, Florida has had 1,762 deaths from COVID-19 and 5,185 from pneumonia. Average pneumonia deaths in Florida from 2013-2018 for the same time period are 918.”

By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.”

By Amy Sherman • May 26, 2020
Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:

A photo taken by a journalist showing a beach in Jacksonville, Fla., isn't from after the government reopened the beach as news reports have claimed.

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2020 in an image:

Says a photo shows the "SAME EXACT PEOPLE" at "two different beaches" in Los Angeles County and Jacksonville, Fla.

By Daniel Funke • April 20, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The State of Florida has announced measures that all workplaces with 10 employees or more are to have paid mandatory leave to avoid the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus starting on March 6, 2020. All schools are to close for 2 weeks also from March 6th.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 5, 2020
Viral image
stated on March 1, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Shands Hospital of Gainesville Florida has confirmed its first case of coronavirus.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 3, 2020
Viral image
stated on March 1, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says a photo shows a man wearing a “government issue Saint Laurent hazardous materials suit.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 3, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on February 29, 2020 in a speech at CPAC:

Says the media cut out his request of Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s emails “right at the end so that you don’t see the laughter, the joke.”

By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020

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