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Instagram posts stated on October 24, 2021 in an Instagram post:
With COVID-19, vaccinated people "are the real threat to" unvaccinated people.
By Tom Kertscher• October 27, 2021
Paul Ryan stated on June 27, 2017 in an interview with Fox News:
Says the CBO said "it's not that people are getting pushed off a plan; it's that people will choose not to buy something they don't like or want."  
By Jon Greenberg• June 28, 2017
Ralph Northam stated on December 03, 2020 in a radio interview.:
“People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.”
By Warren Fiske• December 3, 2020
Karen Bass stated on December 18, 2022 in in an interview:
“Literally five (homeless) people a day die on our streets” in the city of Los Angeles.
By Andy Nguyen• December 20, 2022
Rick Perry stated on December 29, 2009 in press release:
"More than 1,000 people ... move to Texas every day."
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 13, 2010
Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2024 in a rally in Erie, PA:
Kamala Harris "let in the 13,099 convicted murderers and opposes all efforts to find them and to remove them."
By Marta Campabadal Graus, Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 2, 2024
Jose Carrillo stated on March 28, 2018 in a Texas Capitol press conference:
"Just in the Austin MSA alone, 150 people move here every day."
By W. Gardner Selby• April 3, 2018
Levar Stoney stated on June 16, 2022 in a tweet.:
“In Virginia, Black people are eight times (8X) more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.”
By Warren Fiske• June 24, 2022
Nancy Pelosi stated on November 09, 2024 in an interview:
“Fewer people came in under President Biden than came under Donald Trump.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• November 15, 2024
Scott Walker stated on July 12, 2012 in an op-ed piece:
A study showed that President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms will "devastate Wisconsin" by pushing people off employer-sponsored insurance, driving up premiums, increasing dependency and making 122,000 people ineligible for Medicaid.
By Guy Boulton, Dave Umhoefer• July 29, 2012
X posts stated on October 06, 2024 in a post:
2023 FEMA webinar shows the agency is prioritizing its relief efforts around LGBTQ+ people
By Grace Abels• October 11, 2024
Hank Johnson stated on January 01, 2013 in a letter:
"[W]e see America's prison population exploding, with America having a greater percentage of its people behind bars than any other nation in the world!"
By Eric Stirgus• January 14, 2013
Kelda Helen Roys stated on February 01, 2024 in Public appearance:
Minnesota incarcerates “about a third of what Wisconsin does.”
By Laura Schulte• February 14, 2024
Lynda Rife stated on November 04, 2014 in as quoted in a news story:
110 people a day move to Austin.
By W. Gardner Selby• November 14, 2014
Mike Huckabee stated on November 18, 2013 in comments on “The Mike Huckabee Show”:
"You've got more people wanting to go moose hunting in New Hampshire than want Obamacare."    
By Jim Haddadin• November 22, 2013
Alex Berenson stated on October 19, 2021 in an article:
In the United Kingdom, “70-plus percent of the people who die now from COVID are fully vaccinated.”
By Tom Kertscher• October 29, 2021
Jeff Shipley stated on April 28, 2020 in a Tweet:
Young people "have a greater chance of being killed by the HPV vaccine than COVID-19.”
By Rylee Wilson• May 12, 2020
Survival International stated on April 22, 2021 in a website press release:
With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”
By Jon Greenberg• May 7, 2021
Reps. Keith Rothfus, Mike Kelly and Bill Shuster stated on February 19, 2017 in an op-ed in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
"Obamacare covers 24 million fewer people than it was expected to, and the projected price tag has more than doubled at $2 trillion."
By Anna Orso• February 24, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. stated on November 01, 2019 in a Tweet:
"Tens of thousands" of people leave New York every week.
By Jill Terreri Ramos• November 8, 2019

Articles (5138)

Cory Booker’s claim that 17,000 people are ‘unjustly incarcerated,’ explained

By Bill McCarthy• September 13, 2019

Biden, fully vaccinated, caught COVID-19. Here are 6 things to know about breakthrough cases in 2022

By Gabrielle Settles• July 27, 2022

What has Donald Trump done toward his mass deportation promise?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 4, 2025

How many trans people are there in the U.S., and why do we overestimate it?

By Grace Abels• July 13, 2023

You’re fully vaccinated against COVID-19. What can you do now?

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• March 11, 2021

‘If you like your health insurance, you can keep it’

By Jon Greenberg, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• October 30, 2013

Ask PolitiFact: How many people on the terrorist watchlist are coming into the United States?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 27, 2023

‘If you like your health insurance, you can keep it’

By Steve Contorno, Jon Greenberg, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• October 30, 2013

Biden's health care speech gets the figures mostly right

By Victoria Knight• November 10, 2020

Sorting out what Marco Rubio said about Senate immigration bill’s ‘asylum corps’

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• February 16, 2024

Elon Musk’s ‘mind-blowing’ chart isn’t new: People with work permits get Social Security numbers

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 2, 2025

What Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Russia video can teach us all about talking to the misinformed

By Angie Drobnic Holan• March 21, 2022

PolitiFact Sheet: Understanding Ted Cruz’s health care amendment and pre-existing conditions

By Jon Greenberg• July 17, 2017

How an antisemitic conspiracy theory amplified by Ye, Kyrie Irving divides Black, Jewish people

By Salvador Rodriguez-Ruiz, Gabrielle Settles• February 21, 2023

Voting should be tough, lawmaker says -- just like in Africa

By Aaron Sharockman• May 6, 2011

Critics say an Aldi job ad excluded white people. We took a closer look.

By Jeff Cercone• March 1, 2024

In Context: Orrin Hatch's comments about CHIP, people who 'won’t lift a finger' to help themselves

By Emily Tanaka• December 5, 2017

RFK Jr. exaggerates share of autistic population with severe limitations

By Louis Jacobson• April 21, 2025

Deep mysteries of the Medicaid expansion

By Steve Contorno, Joshua Gillin• March 7, 2014

On Facebook, posts about celebrity donations for Texas relief efforts went viral. They were baseless

By Loreben Tuquero• July 10, 2025