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Don't rush off to file your amicus curiae brief
"Trump is now suing CNN over ‘pro-impeachment bias’ and he demands a ‘substantial payment.’"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
An exaggeration
A photograph shows Joe Biden with a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, August 15th, 2019
Honestly not what Abe said
Says Abraham Lincoln said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, July 26th, 2019
Fact-checking is our philosophical system
Says Ayn Rand said, "The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
Photo was staged for the yearbook
Says a photo depicts a teacher and student with guns guarding a Delaware high school in 1973 after a shooting threat.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
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
$3,874 ties back to false claim in Canada
"Illegal refugees get $3,874/mo. Under the Federal Assistance Program. Our SS checks are approximately $1,200/mo."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
Meme leaves a lot out
In most states, you can buy an assault rifle with no proof of ID, but in every state, you need proof of ID to vote.
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
Stats are too "high"
"After prohibition ended, police deaths didn't reach 200 a year again until the year Nixon declared war on drugs."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Monday, April 24th, 2017
Not poor in Twitter outrage
"Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has said the app is for rich people, don't want to expand in poor countries like India and Spain."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Monday, April 17th, 2017
Vietnam War had no direct effect on college costs
"Tuition-free public universities and colleges are just a pipe dream. False. They were both free up until the Vietnam War."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 10th, 2016
There were investigations in three of these four cases
Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
More recent trends show the opposite
Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 23rd, 2015
Over the top
Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."
— PunditFact on Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Unions played a much bigger role
"Unions did not create" the eight-hour work day and the 40-hour work week. "Henry Ford did."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 9th, 2015