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TikTok posts stated on October 22, 2023 in a TikTok video:

Israel bombed Palestinian children trying to get water.

By Jeff Cercone• November 6, 2023

Rick Scott stated on May 13, 2019 in a speech:

Says "Nicolás Maduro is carrying out a genocide on his people."

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• May 16, 2019

Instagram posts stated on October 30, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“In UCLA hundreds of students chanting: ‘Israel Israel you can’t hide, we want Jewish genocide.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke• October 31, 2023

Vladimir Putin stated on February 24, 2022 in an address to the nation announcing the attack on Ukraine:

Ethnic Russians face “genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime.”

By Jon Greenberg• February 25, 2022

Viral image stated on September 18, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Nancy Pelosi “almost burst out into laughter” at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex in Yerevan.

By Ciara O'Rourke• September 20, 2022

Joe Biden stated on December 27, 2007 in a TV ad:

Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."

By Jeffrey S. Solochek• December 31, 2007

Herman Cain stated on March 15, 2011 in a talk at a conservative think tank:

Said Planned Parenthood’s early objective was to "help kill black babies before they came into the world."

By Willoughby Mariano• April 8, 2011

Viral image stated on October 17, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Video shows University of Pennsylvania students chanting, “We want Jewish genocide.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• October 24, 2023

Facebook posts stated on March 20, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Ukraine has been shooting residents of Donetsk and Lugansk just because they wanted to speak Russian.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• March 22, 2022

Saxby Chambliss stated on June 13, 2013 in an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room":

"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."

By Louis Jacobson• June 18, 2013

Instagram posts stated on March 30, 2021 in Instagram post:

“56 million defenseless people ‘rounded up and exterminated’ in the 20th Century because of gun control.”

By Michael Majchrowicz• April 9, 2021

Pat Robertson stated on November 08, 2016 in a TV broadcast.:

Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."

By Warren Fiske• November 14, 2016

Wolf Blitzer stated on February 18, 2014 in comments on CNN:

The words "subhuman mongrel," which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to "justify the genocide of the Jewish community."

By Jon Greenberg• February 19, 2014

Scott Jenkins stated on January 13, 2020 in remarks:

“There are more guns in this country than there are citizens.”

By Warren Fiske• February 5, 2020

Instagram posts stated on December 05, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“The population in Gaza has increased by 2.02% since Oct. 7, 2023.”

By Sofia Ahmed• December 6, 2024

X posts stated on April 20, 2022 in a Facebook post:

A photo shows students in Lviv celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

By Ciara O'Rourke• April 20, 2022

Kevin Nicholson stated on February 18, 2018 in an interview:

"There are more guns in this country than there are people."

By Tom Kertscher• February 20, 2018

Viral image stated on March 11, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“Emergency injunction and tribunal order was served to WHO … to immediately cease and desist a criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• March 14, 2023

Michael Chippendale stated on December 16, 2011 in a public forum:

"Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. "

By Alex Kuffner• December 21, 2011

Kanye West stated on December 01, 2022 in an interview:

Hitler “didn’t kill 6 million Jews” and “the Holocaust is not what happened.”

By Gabrielle Settles• December 5, 2022

Russia, Ukraine, and the contested language of genocide

By Louis Jacobson• April 11, 2022

Who decides when genocide has occurred? The long legal process hinges on proving intent

By Grace Abels, Madison Czopek• December 12, 2025

Obama's overseas travel sets off the Obameter

By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 7, 2009

Trump’s Afrikaner refugee policy based on unfounded claims about land, white farmer ‘genocide’

By Amy Sherman• May 20, 2025

Mailbag: 'Get a spine and call it right'

By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 1, 2009

What Biden said during CNN town hall about China, Uyghur genocide

By Sudiksha Kochi• March 4, 2021

First 100 Days: Obama's Promises Broken

By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 24, 2009

Tell us: What was the biggest lie of 2022?

By Katie Sanders• November 29, 2022

Why does Grok post false, offensive things on X? Here are 4 revealing incidents.

By Madison Czopek• July 10, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress. We fact-checked what he said.

By Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 25, 2024

We asked, you answered: PolitiFact readers’ choice for the 2022 Lie of the Year

By Louis Jacobson• December 13, 2022

Fact-checking Trump’s video, images about South Africa during Oval Office meeting with Ramaphosa

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• May 22, 2025

Dr. Oz holds dual citizenship with Turkey. That’s no bar to a Senate bid

By Jon Greenberg• December 3, 2021

Mailbag: Lie of the Year Readers' Poll edition

By Steve Contorno• December 16, 2013

Where the words 'subhuman mongrel' came from

By Jon Greenberg• February 19, 2014

Fast and furious finish

By Bill Adair• December 31, 2007

Trump said 'We will always allow people to come in legally,' but his actions say otherwise

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• February 27, 2026

Goodbye, Joe

By Angie Drobnic Holan• January 4, 2008

Understanding the battle over the Indian Child Welfare Act

By Noah Y. Kim• November 1, 2021

Announcing PolitiFact Readers' Choice for the 2025 Lie of the Year

By Ellen Hine• December 15, 2025

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