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Facebook posts stated on July 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Claims the James Webb Space Telescope is “fakery they got for the masses”
By Andy Nguyen• July 18, 2022
Facebook posts stated on July 29, 2022 in a Facebook post:
"The Sun is out of place, the Moon is out of place and the stars are out of place. The compasses are off" because of a shift in the Earth’s poles.
By Grace Abels• August 3, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2024 in a Facebook reel:
There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real.
By Sofia Ahmed• April 18, 2024
Michael M. Crow stated on January 26, 2016 in front of the state Senate Appropriations Committee:
Arizona is spending "less on a per-capita basis than every single state in this country in higher education."
By Anthony Cave• February 5, 2016
Roy Cooper stated on July 28, 2017 in in a newsletter:
Last year, Democrats won nearly 50% of the vote, yet they hold only 38% of the seats in the state House and 30% of the seats in the state Senate.
By Paul Specht• August 9, 2017
Bloggers stated on February 20, 2020 in a story:
Says the United Nations plans to “implant everyone with a biometric ID.”
By Samantha Putterman• February 20, 2020
John Pistole stated on November 16, 2010 in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.:
The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is "equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet."
By Aaron Sharockman• November 18, 2010
Facebook posts stated on September 12, 2022 in a video on Facebook:
"55,000 years ago the world was 2 degrees warmer Celsius than it is today.”
By Kristin Hugo• October 10, 2022
Joseph Trillo stated on January 20, 2012 in a debate:
"We got [the Quonset Business Park] for free and we’re getting zero dollars out of it into the state coffers … other than the fact that it produces the jobs."
By Alex Kuffner• February 3, 2012
Viral image stated on September 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Map shows that wildfires stop at the US.-Canada border.
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 15, 2020
Mark Johnson stated on April 11, 2013 in a floor speech:
Says "Every legislative district in the state has at least one craft brewery and countless home brewers."
By Yuxing Zheng• April 27, 2013
Lone Star Project stated on April 29, 2010 in an e-mail blast.:
Says state's expected "increase in federal political clout is almost entirely due to the growth of the African American and Hispanic populations in Texas in virtually every region of the state."
By W. Gardner Selby• May 17, 2010
Armond Budish stated on November 03, 2011 in a news conference:
Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries."
By Joe Guillen• November 23, 2011
Brad Blakeman stated on October 31, 2013 in an interview on Fox News:
"When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps."
By Jon Greenberg• November 6, 2013
Facebook posts stated on June 20, 2024 in a post:
A jury “ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay” actor Gina Carano $115 million.
By Grace Abels• July 1, 2024
Tim Moore stated on August 24, 2018 in the legislature:
North Carolina is one of "very few states" that give the governor sole discretion to pick judges.
By Rashaan Ayesh• August 29, 2018
Bloggers stated on April 09, 2018 in a web post:
Says Buzz Aldrin "passes UFO lie detector test leaving experts convinced that he encountered alien life."
By Louis Jacobson• April 10, 2018
Mitt Romney stated on May 17, 2012 in a surreptitiously recorded speech to donors at a fundraiser:
The "48, 49 percent" that supports President Barack Obama are "people who pay no income tax."
By Louis Jacobson• September 18, 2012
Viral image stated on November 07, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“NASA admits space and planets are fake.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 8, 2023
TikTok posts stated on June 09, 2025 in a video:
Video shows Los Angeles protesters chanting “We are Los Angeles” in June 2025.
By Ella Moore• June 11, 2025

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Fact-checking the House impeachment debate about Trump, Capitol riot

By Jon Greenberg• January 13, 2021

Where are Ted Cruz’s Muslim neighborhoods?

By W. Gardner Selby• March 23, 2016

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By Samantha Putterman• April 15, 2026

A $1 billion deal

By Eric Stirgus• March 8, 2013

Ask PolitiFact: What’s Ukraine’s history of trying to join NATO?

By Bill McCarthy• April 14, 2022

Biden’s COVID-19 challenge: 100 million shots in the first 100 days. It won’t be easy

By Victoria Knight• January 20, 2021

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By W. Gardner Selby• January 7, 2014

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By W. Gardner Selby• June 11, 2010

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By Angie Drobnic Holan• December 4, 2007

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By Louis Jacobson• October 27, 2021

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With the stroke of a pen, keeping his promises

By Bill Adair• February 17, 2009

Does a graphic showing use of words about racism prove media manipulation? There’s more to the story

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Truth-O-Meter points needle at state politics

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Malaria and mosquitoes: A tough tag team to beat

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