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Facebook posts
stated on November 27, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Don’t be fooled by the next ‘Variant’! There are actually 1000’s of them. They just will pick the next one to keep the fear going."

By Bill McCarthy • December 1, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on October 31, 2021 in a post:

“If you were in the military before 2002 you get an additional $1,200 a year, ($100 per month) in Social Security. But you have to ask for it and almost no one knows about it.”

By Monique Curet • December 1, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on November 25, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Malcolm X’s daughter found dead in NYC days after she exposed NYPD and FBI were behind Malcolm X assassination”

By Monique Curet • December 1, 2021
Alex Berenson
stated on November 20, 2021 in a blog post:

Vaccinated people under 60 in England “are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age. ... I don’t know how to explain this other than vaccine-caused mortality.”

By Tom Kertscher • November 30, 2021
Chris Jacobs
stated on November 19, 2021 in a radio interview:

“This one here has subsidies for people making as much as $800,000 to be able to buy a Tesla.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 26, 2021
Viral image
stated on November 15, 2021 in a Facebook post:

The Build Back Better bill provides “'parole' amnesty for millions of criminal illegal aliens.”

By Tom Kertscher • November 23, 2021
Bloggers
stated on November 18, 2021 in an article:

The FBI targeted a woman and searched her home because she “protested local school board, elections.”

By Monique Curet • November 23, 2021
Rick Scott
stated on November 16, 2021 in a press release headline:

An increase in Medicare Part B premiums means “America’s seniors are paying the price for Biden’s inflation crisis.”

By Phil Galewitz • November 23, 2021
Janet Bewley
stated on November 5, 2021 in News release:

“Wisconsin is almost equally divided on partisan lines” and therefore new Legislative maps could be drawn to “represent that 50-50 split.”

By Madeline Heim • November 23, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on November 15, 2021 in a post:

The media televised the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse “because he is a ‘white supremacist shooter,’” while limiting coverage of accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial to “some cartoon drawing….What are they hiding?”

By Monique Curet • November 22, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on November 16, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“The FBI is using its counterterrorism division to investigate and add ‘threat tags’ to parents who are protesting school boards.”

By Madison Czopek • November 19, 2021
Bloggers
stated on November 14, 2021 in a blog post:

“Biden’s banking nominee demands all ‘private bank accounts’ be eliminated”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 19, 2021
Cheri Beasley
stated on October 19, 2021 in a Q&A session:

“We need filibuster reform, and I’ve always been very clear about that.”

By Paul Specht • November 18, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on November 15, 2021 in a post:

Says Raz Simone “conquered” part of Seattle, handed out guns to form a paramilitary force that murdered three people, robbed the locals and walked away without being questioned.

By Monique Curet • November 18, 2021
Rick Scott
stated on November 8, 2021 in in a CNN interview:

"In 2015, when Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating critical race theory lens in education...They were trying to indoctrinate kids.”

By Gabrielle Settles • November 16, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on November 3, 2021 in an Instagram post:

"Arizona Department of Education gives green light on face mask and vaccine mandates, as well as implementing Critical (Race) Theory.”

By Jeff Cercone • November 10, 2021
Bloggers
stated on November 3, 2021 in a story:

“More fraud in New Jersey’s election uncovered – voting machines would not allow citizens to vote for Republican governor candidate.”

By Samantha Putterman • November 9, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on November 4, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Merriam-Webster recently changed its definition of the word “vaccine” and removed the immunity portion.

By Samantha Putterman • November 9, 2021
Mark Robinson
stated on October 21, 2021 in an interview with Diamond and Silk:

Says N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein has gone after Jan. 6 protesters but he has “said nothing” about violent summer protests in North Carolina and was “derelict in his duty.”

By Paul Specht • November 8, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on October 27, 2021 in an Instagram post:

A video shows “your packages were rerouted and have arrived in the port of Miami” as a result of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

By Gabrielle Settles • November 5, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on October 10, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Social media posts suggest a CDC graph shows the COVID-19 vaccine is harmful to children and that California’s school vaccine mandate is dangerous.

By Sasha Hupka • November 3, 2021
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
stated on October 26, 2021 in Twitter:

“States run elections, not the federal government.”

By Laura Schulte • November 3, 2021
Steven Koonin
stated on October 26, 2021 in an Instagram video:

“Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.”

By Jon Greenberg • November 3, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2021 in a press conference in Glasgow:

“Wages have gone up higher, faster than inflation.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on September 20, 2021 in social media posts:

“Violent crime rate dropped like a rock following West Virginia’s adoption of permitless carry.”

By Duncan Slade • November 2, 2021
The Gateway Pundit
stated on October 30, 2021 in an article:

“Fairfax County is not requiring the last four digits of Social Security Numbers on absentee ballots in this election.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 1, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on October 27, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Virginia voters are being turned away from polling locations because they were told they already requested absentee ballots when they haven’t.

By Samantha Putterman • October 29, 2021
Tom Tiffany
stated on August 8, 2021 in Twitter:

“The seasonal cold and flu is actually more dangerous for kids than the Coronavirus” and “there is very low transmissibility from children to their families and communities.”

By Allison Garfield • October 28, 2021
Bloggers
stated on October 24, 2021 in a blog post:

“COP26 luxury EVs to be recharged using diesel generators”

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2021
Tom Cotton
stated on October 21, 2021 in a tweet:

The newly drawn congressional district map in Arkansas “keeps communities together.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2021

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