Pride flag was raised atop Capitol in 1990
Says "For the first time in our state’s history, the Pride flag has been raised at our State Capitol!!"
— PolitiFact California on Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Do you want that fact-check in a cup or cone?
Vanilla ice cream was black until 1912, when "white people couldn’t tolerate eating something that tasted soooooo delicious being black."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
Serious allegations that lack credible evidence
Says Filipino news organizations are part of a plot to discredit President Rodrigo Duterte and destabilize his government.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, May 3rd, 2019
CAIR's been around since the '90s
Says that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in response to 9/11.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, April 15th, 2019
Let's check the tape
Says Bernie Sanders "did not mention race or gender until 23 minutes into this speech" announcing his 2020 presidential run.
— PunditFact on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Not exactly
"The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Monday, October 23rd, 2017
Older protest photo was the tip-off
A viral image shows LeBron James wearing a T-shirt that reads, "We march, y’all mad. We sit down, y’all mad. We speak up, y’all mad. We die, y’all silent."
— PunditFact on Thursday, October 12th, 2017
Closer to 25 percent of Southern families
"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."
— PunditFact on Thursday, August 24th, 2017
Unrealistic claim from the reality TV star
Says North Carolina's replacement for HB2 "orders NC cities to discriminate against LGBT people until at least 2020 and unfair ‘bathroom bans’ remain."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
One letter to one man deemed a threat
Says "people who come to" their dissent actions "get a ‘cease and desist’ letter" from Ron Johnson's office.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
No such counts
In Wisconsin, "300,000 voters were turned away by the state’s strict voter ID law" in the 2016 presidential election.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
Nary a Confederate flag in sight
Says the KKK marched in Mebane, N.C., after Trump’s victory
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Predates Jim Crow by five decades
Virginia’s banning of felons from voting is a "Jim Crow-era law."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, June 6th, 2016
Lawyers say it changes a lot
"We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina" with the passage of HB2.
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
Obnoxious? Yes. A terrorist? No.
Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, "had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS" in his social media posts.
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, March 13th, 2016
King eschewed party labels
Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 25th, 2016
Claim has multiple problems
Paul Ryan "is one of only six House Republicans who voted for Teddy Kennedy's bill to force Christian employers to hire LGBT employees."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
A crazy rabbit hole
"The profit [from automated traffic enforcement cameras] is going to the private corporations, not to the city or state."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Millionaires can rest easy
"According to HUD, it is patently unfair and socially unjust that wealthy people can live in an exclusive neighborhood."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, December 14th, 2014
A statistic that doesn't exist
"The conviction rate is almost exactly the same" for whites and blacks who commit murder.
— PunditFact on Wednesday, November 26th, 2014