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politifact_873_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_873 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/22/facebook-posts/1942-milwaukee-ymca-brochure-racist-carnival-game/ | Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game | Facebook post | 2020-06-12 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/25/fact-check-1942-milwaukee-ymca-brochure-features-racist-carnival-game/3214848001/ | Fact check: Racist carnival game featured in 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure The claim: A 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows white children playing a violent, racist carnival game [...] - Facebook post, June 12, 2020 - YMCA of Greater Milwaukee, 1942 Camp Minikani brochure (provided by the Jim Crow Museum), - Snopes, Was a Violently Racist Carnival Game Once Popular in America?, Feb. 26, 2018 - Email exchange with Franklin R. Hughes, multimedia specialist, Jim Crow Museum, June 17, 2020 - YMCA of Greater Milwaukee, Camp Minikani, accessed June 18, 2020 - Henry Louis Gates Jr., "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow," 2019. | 2020-06-25 | True | false | true | insufficient-contradictory |
politifact_873_ret_bn_g2 | politifact_873 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/22/facebook-posts/1942-milwaukee-ymca-brochure-racist-carnival-game/ | Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game | Facebook post | 2020-06-12 | https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/racist-carnival-game/ | This image is authentic and shows a 1942 YMCA brochure for Camp Minikani, a children's summer camp in Wisconsin. "Hit the Nigger Baby" (also known as "The Black Dodger" or "Hit the Coon") was a common fairground game in which players hurled objects (usually eggs or baseballs) at African-American people serving as human targets. According to the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University, "It sounds like a common carnival target game, but there was one unsettling part of the game, namely, the game's target was a real live human being, a 'negro' human being." | 2018-02-26 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_873_ret_bn_g5 | politifact_873 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/22/facebook-posts/1942-milwaukee-ymca-brochure-racist-carnival-game/ | Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game | Facebook post | 2020-06-12 | https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/links/newslist/index.htm | Racism? ABC News (June 25, 2020) - Gone with the Wind has returned to HBO unaltered. But viewers will hear about its racist stereotyping before they watch it The Guardian (June 25, 2020) - Food brands are phasing out racist mascots. Will sports teams follow? USA Today (June 25, 2020) - Fact check: Racist carnival game featured in 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure Battle Creek Enquirer (June 24, 2020) - 'Aunt Jemima' was given key to Albion in 1964. The character, based on a stereotype, is being retired. TODAY (June 24, 2020) - Here's how American brands are changing after facing racial reckoning New York Post (June 23, 2020) - Restaurant changes name from Savage citing ‘troubled history’ with term Fox News (June 22, 2020) - Restaurant changes name from Savage, cites 'troubled history' with term Politifact (June 22, 2020) - Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game [...] Vice News (March 23, 2018) - A Michigan college basement is home to the nation's biggest collection of racist objects Snopes (February 26, 2018) - Was a Violently Racist Carnival Game Once Popular in America? Traverse City Record Eagle (February 26, 2018) - Minstrel shows continued into the 70s, 60s mainstay | 2024-09-04 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_88 | politifact_88 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/singer-r-kelly-is-still-incarcerated-but-social-me/ | “R. Kelly has been released from United States of America Federal Prison, Chicago.” | Instagram posts | 2024-07-01 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/singer-r-kelly-is-still-incarcerated-but-social-me/ | R. Kelly is still incarcerated, serving a 30-year prison sentence. | 2024-07-01 | False | true | true | refutes |
politifact_88_ret_b4_gn | politifact_88 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/singer-r-kelly-is-still-incarcerated-but-social-me/ | “R. Kelly has been released from United States of America Federal Prison, Chicago.” | Instagram posts | 2024-07-01 | https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/us/r-kelly-transferred-north-carolina-prison/index.html | Disgraced R&B singer and convicted sex trafficker R. Kelly has been transferred to a federal prison in North Carolina. R. Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was moved to FCI Butner Medium I, a "medium security federal correctional institution," according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. [...] R. Kelly was previously being held in Chicago, where he was sentenced in February to 20 years in federal prison after being convicted on three counts of production of child pornography and three counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. | 2023-04-25 | False | false | true | insufficient-refutes |
politifact_88_ret_bn_g1 | politifact_88 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/singer-r-kelly-is-still-incarcerated-but-social-me/ | “R. Kelly has been released from United States of America Federal Prison, Chicago.” | Instagram posts | 2024-07-01 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/singer-r-kelly-is-still-incarcerated-but-social-me/ | A July 1 Instagram post declares that singer R. Kelly "is out" despite a 30-year prison sentence handed down in 2022 after he was convicted in New York of federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. [...] Chicago Tribune, R. Kelly back in Chicago’s federal jail ahead of trial next month, July 13, 2022 [...] ABC News, R. Kelly released from jail after arrest for outstanding child support payments, March 9, 2019 | 2024-07-01 | False | false | true | insufficient-refutes |
politifact_88_ret_bn_g3 | politifact_88 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/singer-r-kelly-is-still-incarcerated-but-social-me/ | “R. Kelly has been released from United States of America Federal Prison, Chicago.” | Instagram posts | 2024-07-01 | https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/r-kelly-north-carolina-prison/ | CHICAGO (CBS) -- R. Kelly has been moved to a prison in North Carolina to serve his sentences prison sentence of more than 30 years. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Kelly – whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – was moved on Wednesday of last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina. [...] Kelly, 56, could be eligible for release from prison when he's a little over 79 years old. | 2023-04-24 | False | false | true | insufficient-refutes |
politifact_88_ret_bn_g4 | politifact_88 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/singer-r-kelly-is-still-incarcerated-but-social-me/ | “R. Kelly has been released from United States of America Federal Prison, Chicago.” | Instagram posts | 2024-07-01 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/11/fact-check-r-kelly-remains-behind-bars-despite-false-claims/7576551002/ | Despite what is being shared on social media, Kelly has not been released from jail. Records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons show Kelly is in custody awaiting trial. [...] The claim that Kelly was released from jail is FALSE, based on our research. The image being used to make the claim is from March 2019, when he was released from jail after child support payments owed to his ex-wife were paid. Prison records show Kelly is still in custody at Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Center. - United States Department of Justice, July 12, 2019, Recording Artist R. Kelly Arrested on Federal Child Pornography and Obstruction Charges - Associated Press Images, March 9, 2019, APTOPIX R KELLY CHICAGO - CBS Chicago, March 9, 2019, R. Kelly Released From Cook County After Arrest For Failing To Pay Child Support - ABC 7 Chicago, June 8, R. Kelly's lawyers request to withdraw from NY racketeering trail; others say they were fired - Federal Bureau of Prisons, accessed June 9, Find an inmate - Associated Press, April 15, Judge allows R. Kelly to be moved to NYC for sex-trafficking trial after several delays - PolitiFact, June 4, An old photo of R. Kelly leaving jail is being shared online but the singer is still in custody | 2021-06-11 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_890 | politifact_890 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/19/league-conservation-voters/johnson-called-climate-change-bull-took-700000-don/ | Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.” | League of Conservation Voters | 2022-08-13 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/19/league-conservation-voters/johnson-called-climate-change-bull-took-700000-don/ | A video from a 2021 event showed Johnson calling climate change "bull----" Data shows that Johnson has taken over $750,000 in donations from the oil and gas industry But campaign finance reports show that although the industry has donated a large sum to Johnson, other industries are by far larger donors | 2022-08-13 | True | true | true | supports |
politifact_890_ret_b4_gn | politifact_890 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/19/league-conservation-voters/johnson-called-climate-change-bull-took-700000-don/ | Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.” | League of Conservation Voters | 2022-08-13 | https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-ron-johnson-mouths-gop-group-climate-change-bullsh-2021-7 | - Ron Johnson mouthed to a GOP luncheon that climate change is "bullsh--," CNN reported. [...] Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin called climate change "bullsh--" during a GOP luncheon in early June, just weeks before a heat wave claimed dozens of lives in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists have linked the historic high temperatures to climate change. "I don't know about you guys, but I think climate change is — as Lord Monckton said — bullsh--," Johnson said during the Republican Women of Greater Wisconsin Luncheon at Alioto's in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, in comments caught on video and first reported by CNN. "By the way, it is." | 2021-07-07 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_890_ret_b6_g1 | politifact_890 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/19/league-conservation-voters/johnson-called-climate-change-bull-took-700000-don/ | Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.” | League of Conservation Voters | 2022-08-13 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?category=environment&ruling=true | Latest True Fact-checks in Environment Byron Donalds stated on July 7, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. Patrick Burke stated on March 2, 2024 in a press release: The Great Lakes account for "over 20% of the world’s freshwater and over 80% of North America’s freshwater." Joe Manchin stated on August 26, 2022 in a tweet: West Virginia is poised to "receive $25M for 160 orphaned well clean-up projects across the state." League of Conservation Voters stated on August 13, 2022 in Twitter: Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave" and "raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash." Glenn Grothman stated on February 3, 2022 in Twitter: "The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not." Bloggers stated on July 20, 2019 in in a story: "Triggering leftists, Trump's reelection campaign is selling plastic straws." Maxine Lipeles stated on February 24, 2019 in a newspaper article: "All the ponds in Missouri for which we have data are causing groundwater contamination. … This is a statewide issue." [...] League of Conservation Voters stated on August 13, 2022 in Twitter: Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave" and "raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash." | 2024-07-07 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_890_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_890 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/19/league-conservation-voters/johnson-called-climate-change-bull-took-700000-don/ | Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.” | League of Conservation Voters | 2022-08-13 | https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/08/20/fact-check-did-ron-johnson-take-700000-from-fossil-fuel-industry/65410713007/ | Fact-check: Did Ron Johnson take $700,000 from fossil fuel industry? [...] In an Aug. 13, 2022, tweet, the League of Conservation Voters took aim at Johnson, saying he "called climate change ‘bull - - - -’ during a record heatwave" and "raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash." [...] The League of Conservation Voters claimed Johnson "called climate change ‘bull - - - -’ during a record heatwave" and "raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash." | 2022-08-20 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_90 | politifact_90 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/ukraine-president-first-lady-didnt-purchase-4-mill/ | "President Zelenskyy’s wife orders 4 million dollar Bugatti” in Paris with U.S. tax money. | Instagram post | 2024-07-01 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/ukraine-president-first-lady-didnt-purchase-4-mill/ | A claim that Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska preordered a $4 million luxury sports car while visiting France originated on a French website that was created June 22. A Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. spokesperson said Zelenska did not buy one of its vehicles. Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation called the claim Russian propaganda. Verite Cachee, where the claim first appeared, contains other articles that left instructions on how to write with a pro-Russia slant. | 2024-07-01 | False | true | true | refutes |
politifact_90_ret_bn_g19 | politifact_90 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/ukraine-president-first-lady-didnt-purchase-4-mill/ | "President Zelenskyy’s wife orders 4 million dollar Bugatti” in Paris with U.S. tax money. | Instagram post | 2024-07-01 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67766964 | A website founded by a former US Marine who now lives in Russia has fuelled a rumour that Volodymyr Zelensky purchased two luxury yachts with American aid money. [...] In October, a widely shared claim on social media stated that President Zelensky's wife spent a fortune on jewellery in New York while the Ukrainian president was in the city speaking to the United Nations. [...] The woman showed a receipt dated 22 September, with Mrs Zelensky's name on it and a bill for $1.1m for a bracelet, earrings and a necklace. | 2023-12-20 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_90_ret_bn_g2 | politifact_90 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/ukraine-president-first-lady-didnt-purchase-4-mill/ | "President Zelenskyy’s wife orders 4 million dollar Bugatti” in Paris with U.S. tax money. | Instagram post | 2024-07-01 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/07/05/zelenskyys-wife-buy-bugatti-fact-check/74291954007/ | Bugatti debunks false claim about car purchase by Zelenskyy's wife | Fact check The claim: Volodymyr Zelenskyy's wife bought a nearly $5M Bugatti [...] "Ukrainian President Zelensky's wife just bought a €4.4 MILLION Bugatti sports car with American taxpayer dollars," reads text within the post. | 2024-07-05 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_90_ret_bn_g9 | politifact_90 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/03/instagram-posts/ukraine-president-first-lady-didnt-purchase-4-mill/ | "President Zelenskyy’s wife orders 4 million dollar Bugatti” in Paris with U.S. tax money. | Instagram post | 2024-07-01 | https://www.newsweek.com/zelenska-zelensky-ukraine-russia-paris-france-shopping-spree-1768736 | "I'm glad that we are sending billions of our tax money so Zelensky's wife can go on $42,500 shopping spree in Paris," one user wrote on December 15. "F*** Zelensky and his corrupt regime and everyone who supports them." [...] While the source is not cited in those tweets, Newsweek found that the screenshotted article, titled "Zelensky's Wife Spent $40,000 Shopping in Paris While Demanding US Give Ukraine Money," appeared on known hoax news site NewsPunch, widely reported to have disseminated misinformation online. [...] "Ukraine's President Zelensky's wife joined Ukrainians asking for money in Paris the past few days. | 2022-12-29 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_91 | politifact_91 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/instagram-posts/san-francisco-street-signs-warning-of-950-retail-t/ | The city of San Francisco posted street signs warning that “stolen goods must remain under $950.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-30 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/instagram-posts/san-francisco-street-signs-warning-of-950-retail-t/ | City officials did not post street signs in San Francisco that appeared to warn thieves that "stolen goods must remain under $950," the city’s Board of Supervisors president said. The city has removed the signs. Proposition 47, a California ballot measure voters passed in 2014, lowered some nonviolent felony crimes to misdemeanors, including shoplifting, as long as items taken totaled less than $950. People convicted of that crime face six months in prison and/or fines of up to $1,000. | 2024-06-30 | False | true | true | refutes |
politifact_91_ret_b4_gn | politifact_91 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/instagram-posts/san-francisco-street-signs-warning-of-950-retail-t/ | The city of San Francisco posted street signs warning that “stolen goods must remain under $950.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-30 | https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2024/07/fact-check-photo-does-not-show-authentic-san-francisco-sign-reading-stolen-goods-must-remain-under-950-dollars.html | Is a San Francisco street sign that reads "NOTICE: STOLEN GOODS MUST REMAIN UNDER $950" real? No, that's not true: The office of the mayor of San Francisco said the sign was not approved by the city. Nearby Louis Vuitton associates labeled it a "prank." The original poster of this claim wrote on X that the signage was not legitimate. The claim appeared in a post on X, formerly Twitter, (archived here) on June 30, 2024 with the caption reading, "San Francisco, where theft is fully legalized 👇." The post included a photo of what appeard to be a street sign bolted to a light pole outside a Louis Vuitton store. That sign read: [...] An advanced search (archived here) on X led to the first post that included the photo with the purported sign. On June 29, 2024, @Jewtastic posted the claim on X with this caption, "California - Signs are posted to alert criminals they can happily steal with zero consequence as long as the goods are worth less than $950 dollars." They followed up this post with a disclaimer (archived here): | 2024-07-02 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_91_ret_bn_g13 | politifact_91 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/instagram-posts/san-francisco-street-signs-warning-of-950-retail-t/ | The city of San Francisco posted street signs warning that “stolen goods must remain under $950.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-30 | https://nypost.com/2021/06/17/thieves-now-mock-the-rule-of-law-in-progressive-cities-like-san-francisco/ | This is no coincidence. Permissive state and local policies and attitudes have signaled to thieves that San Francisco is a perfect "shopping" destination: a mecca for organized retail crime. In 2014, a statewide law (Proposition 47) reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors for stolen goods worth less than $950. California’s property crime immediately spiked from below the national average to above it and has continued to grow. And San Francisco, as of 2019, had twice the property-crime rate per resident — 1 in 18 — as the rest of California; not to mention that San Francisco’s rate of violent crime per resident is 50 percent above California’s. [...] These same patterns are afoot here in New York City, where crooks travel from The Bronx, where Duane Reade stores (a subsidiary of Walgreens) are manned by armed guards, to the easy pickings of less-secured Upper West Side locations. As in Frisco, Gotham’s shoplifters steal whatever they can fence. They include ice-cream nabbers, who clear out shelves of Häagen-Dazs cartons to resell to bodegas and individuals for whatever profit they can turn. | 2021-06-17 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_91_ret_bn_g2 | politifact_91 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/instagram-posts/san-francisco-street-signs-warning-of-950-retail-t/ | The city of San Francisco posted street signs warning that “stolen goods must remain under $950.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-30 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/photo-of-fake-sign-in-downtown-sf-appearing-to-mock-ca-retail-theft-law-goes-viral/ | Photo of fake sign in downtown SF appearing to mock CA retail theft law goes viral by: Aaron Tolentino [...] The sign, which reads "stolen goods must remain under $950," appears to mock retail theft law in California. In the state, retail thefts are prosecuted as a felony only if the value of the stolen items exceeds $950. Retail theft valued less than that is charged as a misdemeanor, which has been the case since voters passed Proposition 47 in 2014. | 2024-07-02 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_911 | politifact_911 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/beth-wessel-kroeschell/majority-iowans-and-americans-support-background-c/ | "86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check." | Beth Wessel-Kroeschell | 2021-01-22 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/beth-wessel-kroeschell/majority-iowans-and-americans-support-background-c/ | Iowa voters will decide in 2022 whether to add a state Constitution amendment affirming the right to bear arms. Support for the amendment has fallen along party lines. Opposing Democrats refer to a poll that says an overwhelming number of even gun owners support background checks for gun buyers. | 2021-01-22 | True | true | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_911_ret_b0_gn | politifact_911 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/beth-wessel-kroeschell/majority-iowans-and-americans-support-background-c/ | "86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check." | Beth Wessel-Kroeschell | 2021-01-22 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/beth-wessel-kroeschell/majority-iowans-and-americans-support-background-c/ | "Statistic: 86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check, no matter where they buy the gun and no matter who they buy it from." [...] One of the survey’s questions was: "Do you support or oppose requiring a background check on all gun buyers?" 86 percent of respondents said support, 7 percent said oppose, and 8 percent said unsure, according to the Giffords report on the poll. [...] A March 2019 poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that 87 percent of national gun owners support "requiring background checks for all gun owners." The poll surveyed 1,120 national voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. | 2021-01-22 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_911_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_911 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/beth-wessel-kroeschell/majority-iowans-and-americans-support-background-c/ | "86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check." | Beth Wessel-Kroeschell | 2021-01-22 | https://dailyiowan.com/2021/03/12/yes-majority-of-iowans-and-americans-support-background-checks/ | Beth Wessel-Kroeshell stated on Jan. 22 in a published article that 86 percent of Americans and 82 percent of gun owners "support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check" regardless of how they purchase them. [...] "Statistic: 86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check, no matter where they buy the gun and no matter who they buy it from." [...] A March 2019 poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that 87 percent of national gun owners support "requiring background checks for all gun owners." The poll surveyed 1,120 national voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. | 2021-03-12 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_911_ret_bn_g2 | politifact_911 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/beth-wessel-kroeschell/majority-iowans-and-americans-support-background-c/ | "86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check." | Beth Wessel-Kroeschell | 2021-01-22 | https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/americas-complex-relationship-with-guns/ | Gun owners and non-owners are also deeply divided on several gun policy proposals, but there is agreement on some restrictions, such as preventing those with mental illnesses and those on federal watch lists from buying guns. Among gun owners, there is a diversity of views on gun policy, driven in large part by party affiliation. [...] Solid majorities of both gun owners and non-owners favor limiting access to guns for people with mental illnesses and individuals who are on the federal no-fly or watch lists (82% or higher favor among each group). In addition, strong majorities favor background checks for private sales and at gun shows (77% among gun owners and 87% among non-owners). The groups are more divided when it comes to three other policy proposals: creating a federal database to track gun sales; banning assault-style weapons; and banning high-capacity magazines. Even so, significant shares of gun owners are open to these proposals. Roughly half of gun owners (54%) say they would favor creating a federal database, and 48% favor a ban on assault weapons. Some 44% of gun owners favor banning high-capacity magazines. Support for these proposals is much higher among non-gun owners, with about three-quarters or more saying they would support each of these proposals. | 2017-06-22 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_92_ret_b1_gn | politifact_92 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/tom-cotton/what-sen-tom-cotton-omits-in-claim-about-weapons-s/ | “The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.” | Tom Cotton | 2024-06-16 | https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-did-trump-send-ukraine-weapons-that-obama-and-biden-withheld/21510033/ | Fact check: Did Trump send Ukraine weapons that Obama and Biden withheld? [...] Cotton said that Trump provided "the weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war." Russia’s invasion started in February 2022 when Biden was president. [...] Ultimately, both the Trump and Biden administrations sent Ukraine "weapon systems that helped during the 2022 invasion," Janda said. | 2024-07-05 | Half True | false | true | insufficient-contradictory |
politifact_92_ret_b9_gn | politifact_92 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/tom-cotton/what-sen-tom-cotton-omits-in-claim-about-weapons-s/ | “The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.” | Tom Cotton | 2024-06-16 | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-10/weapons-russia-ukraine-war-thermobaric-cluster-bombs-missiles/100897730 | What weapons are being used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine? What are thermobaric weapons? [...] The Stinger missiles have been credited as a key weapon in helping Ukrainian fend off invading Russian forces. [...] Like the Stinger missiles, the Javelin missiles have been an important part of Ukraine's arsenal against Russian forces. | 2022-03-10 | Half True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_92_ret_bn_g16 | politifact_92 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/02/tom-cotton/what-sen-tom-cotton-omits-in-claim-about-weapons-s/ | “The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.” | Tom Cotton | 2024-06-16 | https://floridapolitics.com/archives/595218-over-a-decade-ron-desantis-went-from-a-ukraine-hawk-to-opposing-u-s-support/ | "A couple years ago, Obama was refusing to provide lethal aid to Ukraine, they were trying to do a reset. The Democrats lauded that. They viewed guys like me who are more of the (Ronald) Reagan school that’s tough on Russia as kind of throwbacks to the Cold War. They criticized Mitt Romney in 2012. Now all of a sudden, because they’re using it against Trump, they’re so concerned about Russia. I think we should be concerned about them, but I think a lot of this stuff has reaped the politics from the day that election happened." [...] DeSantis refused to comment on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year until it was five days in. When he did, he praised Ukrainian leadership. At the time, he said President Biden needed to act tougher and bring sanctions against Putin and Russia. [...] "And yet, when I was in Congress when Obama was President, Obama refused to send weapons to Ukraine. When Trump was President, we sent weapons to Ukraine. Putin didn’t like that very much. When Obama was President, Putin took Crimea. When Trump was President, they didn’t take anything. And now Biden’s President and they’re rolling into Ukraine." | 2023-03-14 | Half True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_922 | politifact_922 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/american-automobile-association/era-low-gas-prices-new-york-remains-among-most-exp/ | “New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00.” | American Automobile Association | 2020-04-27 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/american-automobile-association/era-low-gas-prices-new-york-remains-among-most-exp/ | According to AAA data, New York was one of 12 states that had unleaded regular gasoline that cost more than $2.00 a gallon on April 27, as long as the District of Columbia is included as a state. All told, among the 50 states and D.C., New York ranked the seventh-highest for unleaded regular prices per gallon. | 2020-04-27 | True | true | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_922_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_922 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/american-automobile-association/era-low-gas-prices-new-york-remains-among-most-exp/ | “New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00.” | American Automobile Association | 2020-04-27 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/american-automobile-association/era-low-gas-prices-new-york-remains-among-most-exp/ | If Your Time is short • According to AAA data, New York was one of 12 states that had unleaded regular gasoline that cost more than $2.00 a gallon on April 27, as long as the District of Columbia is included as a state. [...] "New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00, according to numbers provided by the AAA of Western and Central New York," the report said. [...] A news report cited the American Automobile Association in saying that "New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00." | 2020-05-08 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_922_ret_bn_g1 | politifact_922 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/american-automobile-association/era-low-gas-prices-new-york-remains-among-most-exp/ | “New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00.” | American Automobile Association | 2020-04-27 | https://www.wkbw.com/rebound/coronavirus-money-help/gas-prices-have-dropped-but-in-n-y-state-theyre-still-pretty-high | That’s because New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00, according to numbers provided by the AAA of Western and Central New York. [...] In New York State, it's $2.18 per gallon, compared to $2.96 a year ago. [...] That's right: she said higher gas prices are just a reality for motorists living in the Empire State. New Yorkers pay $0.65 in taxes for every gallon of gas they buy, and more than $0.45 are state taxes. | 2020-04-28 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_922_ret_bn_g6 | politifact_922 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/american-automobile-association/era-low-gas-prices-new-york-remains-among-most-exp/ | “New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00.” | American Automobile Association | 2020-04-27 | https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/news/economy/cheap-gas/index.html | A quiet city on the edge of the Ozarks is the only town in the entire country where the average price of gas is less than $2 a gallon. [...] The national average stands a $2.45 a gallon, the lowest since 2009. As of Friday, half of all states had at least one station selling gas for less than $2, twice as many as on Monday. And Alaska and Hawaii are the only two states with an average gas price above $3 a gallon. | 2014-12-19 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_93 | politifact_93 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/kansas-city-chiefs-coach-andy-reid-didnt-boot-his/ | Chiefs' Coach Andy Reid "fires 3 top players for anthem kneeling." | Facebook Post | 2024-06-24 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/kansas-city-chiefs-coach-andy-reid-didnt-boot-his/ | This story originated on a self-described satire website. | 2024-06-24 | False | true | true | refutes |
politifact_93_ret_b11_gn | politifact_93 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/kansas-city-chiefs-coach-andy-reid-didnt-boot-his/ | Chiefs' Coach Andy Reid "fires 3 top players for anthem kneeling." | Facebook Post | 2024-06-24 | https://www.hollywoodnuts.com/not-on-my-field-coach-andy-reid-fires-3-top-players-on-the-spot-for-anthem-kneeling/ | "They Never Learn": Coach Andy Reid Suspends 3 Players On The Spot For Anthem Kneeling [...] The ritual of players taking a knee during the national anthem has been a symbol of peaceful protest against racial injustice, with athletes using their platform to amplify social issues. However, Coach Andy Reid’s recent decision to terminate three top players over this act has brought a new dimension to the ongoing discourse. [...] Coach Andy Reid’s bold move to fire three top players for anthem kneeling has stirred the waters of the NFL, emphasizing the ongoing tension between sports and activism. This incident will likely leave a lasting impact on the league’s approach to issues of expression, solidarity, and the role of athletes in advocating for social change. As the dust settles, the NFL faces a critical juncture in defining its stand on matters beyond the gridiron. | 2024-01-25 | False | false | true | supports |
politifact_93_ret_b14_gn | politifact_93 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/kansas-city-chiefs-coach-andy-reid-didnt-boot-his/ | Chiefs' Coach Andy Reid "fires 3 top players for anthem kneeling." | Facebook Post | 2024-06-24 | https://myjoy247.com/chiefs-coach-andy-reid-draws-line-fires-3-top-players-for-anthem-kneeling-stand-for-the-game-not-against-the-anthem/ | Chiefs’ Coach Andy Reid Draws Line, Fires 3 Top Players For Anthem Kneeling: "Stand for the Game, Not Against the Anthem" Travis Kelce Andy Reid Coach Kneeling In a move that reverberated through the sports world and beyond, Kansas City Chiefs’ Head Coach Andy Reid made headlines last week when he dismissed three of his top players from the team for kneeling during the national anthem. This decision, encapsulated in Reid’s stern declaration "Not on my field," has ignited a firestorm of debate, drawing attention to the ongoing struggle between sports, politics, and personal beliefs. | 2024-06-22 | False | false | true | supports |
politifact_93_ret_b3_gn | politifact_93 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/kansas-city-chiefs-coach-andy-reid-didnt-boot-his/ | Chiefs' Coach Andy Reid "fires 3 top players for anthem kneeling." | Facebook Post | 2024-06-24 | https://abc24times.com/tam1/not-on-my-field-coach-andy-reid-fires-3-top-players-on-the-spot-for-anthem-kneeling/ | The ritual of players taking a knee during the national anthem has been a symbol of peaceful protest against racial injustice, with athletes using their platform to amplify social issues. However, Coach Andy Reid’s recent decision to terminate three top players over this act has brought a new dimension to the ongoing discourse. [...] The abrupt termination of three top players sent shockwaves through the NFL community and beyond. Social media erupted with a mix of support and criticism for Coach Reid’s decision. The move raised questions about the balance between freedom of expression and the expectations placed on athletes in their professional capacities. [...] Coach Andy Reid’s bold move to fire three top players for anthem kneeling has stirred the waters of the NFL, emphasizing the ongoing tension between sports and activism. This incident will likely leave a lasting impact on the league’s approach to issues of expression, solidarity, and the role of athletes in advocating for social change. As the dust settles, the NFL faces a critical juncture in defining its stand on matters beyond the gridiron. | 2024-04-07 | False | false | true | supports |
politifact_93_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_93 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/kansas-city-chiefs-coach-andy-reid-didnt-boot-his/ | Chiefs' Coach Andy Reid "fires 3 top players for anthem kneeling." | Facebook Post | 2024-06-24 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/kansas-city-chiefs-coach-andy-reid-didnt-boot-his/ | Kansas City Chiefs’ Coach Andy Reid didn’t boot his top three players for anthem kneeling [...] "Chiefs' Coach Andy Reid draws line, fires 3 top players for anthem kneeling," said a June 24 Facebook post. [...] SpaceXMania, "Chiefs’ Coach Andy Reid Draws Line, Fires 3 Top Players For Anthem Kneeling: ‘Stand for the Game, Not Against the Anthem,’" February 10, 2024 | 2024-06-24 | False | false | true | insufficient-refutes |
politifact_941 | politifact_941 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/ | “It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.” | Sarah Godlewski | 2021-01-09 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/ | There was a net loss in jobs from November to December. Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicate that while women overall lost jobs, men overall gained jobs nationally. A separate Bureau of Labor Statistics survey indicates the number of employed white women increased, while the number of employed Hispanic or Latina women and Black women decreased. | 2021-01-09 | True | true | true | supports |
politifact_941_ret_b0_gn | politifact_941 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/ | “It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.” | Sarah Godlewski | 2021-01-09 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/ | Black and Latina women carried the brunt of job loss in December [...] Did Black and Latina women carry the brunt of job loss nationally, while white women gained employment? [...] With a link to a news article, Godlewski claimed: "It wasn’t all women that lost jobs, it was mostly Black and Latina women. | 2021-01-09 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_941_ret_bn_g1 | politifact_941 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/ | “It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.” | Sarah Godlewski | 2021-01-09 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=sarah-godlewski | Sarah Godlewski stated on January 9, 2021 in Twitter: "It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. Sarah Godlewski stated on March 3, 2024 in Public appearance: "When it comes to how many votes (President) Joe Biden won, it was literally less than a few votes per ward." Sarah Godlewski stated on February 21, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: "One of my responsibilities as Secretary of State is to countersign acts passed by the legislature & signed into law by Gov. Evers." Sarah Godlewski stated on May 8, 2022 in Newspaper opinion piece: "Fifty-four percent of Wisconsinites live in a child care desert." Sarah Godlewski stated on April 1, 2022 in Twitter: "Ron Johnson is trying to let insurance companies deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like cancer, depression, pregnancy, diabetes—or even COVID." Sarah Godlewski stated on February 18, 2022 in Campaign statement: "Here in Wisconsin, prescription drug costs grew at a pace of nearly twice as much as the average Wisconsinite's income from 2015-2019." Sarah Godlewski stated on February 6, 2021 in a tweet: "On average, 17% of a family’s income goes towards child care in Wisconsin." Sarah Godlewski stated on January 9, 2021 in Twitter: "It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. | 2024-03-03 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_941_ret_bn_g4 | politifact_941 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/ | “It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.” | Sarah Godlewski | 2021-01-09 | https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-brief-report/2020/dec/maternal-mortality-united-states-primer | Black women are more likely than white women to report that their concerns and preferences regarding birth were disregarded; women with Medicaid coverage reported inadequate postpartum care and support. [...] Compared with white women, non-Hispanic Black women were more likely to report: [...] As these findings illustrate, different women have different experiences with maternity care, childbirth, and parenting. For example, both Black women and those with Medicaid coverage were less likely than white women and those with private health coverage to say they had autonomy about childbirth decisions and were treated with respect by their providers. | 2020-12-16 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_941_ret_bn_g8 | politifact_941 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/ | “It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.” | Sarah Godlewski | 2021-01-09 | https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/article/great-recession-great-recovery.htm | By December 2017, the unemployment rates for the four major race and ethnicity groups had returned to their prerecession levels. The rates for Blacks and Hispanics have remained higher than the rates for Whites and Asians. In December 2017, the unemployment rate for Blacks (6.8 percent) was 3.1 percentage points above that for Whites (3.7 percent) but the lowest in the series’ history. The December 2017 rate for Hispanics (4.9 percent) was 1.2 percentage points higher than the rate for Whites but also little different from the series’ low.5 The unemployment rate for Asians (2.5 percent) was 1.2 percentage points lower than that for Whites. [...] During the recession, employment declined sharply for all major race and ethnicity groups, but the decline was most pronounced among Blacks. The employment–population ratio for Blacks declined by almost 7 percentage points during and after the recession. At the low point in July 2011, only about half (51.0 percent) of Blacks were employed. Consistent with historical patterns, Black men fared worse than did men of other race and ethnicity groups. In fact, from 2009 to 2011, their employment–population ratio fell below the ratio for White women and was level with the ratio for Asian women. The ratio for Black women trended similarly to the ratios for women of other race and ethnicity groups. | 2018-04-06 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_95 | politifact_95 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/no-jury-didnt-order-disney-to-pay-gina-carano-115/ | A jury “ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay” actor Gina Carano $115 million. | Facebook Post | 2024-06-20 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/no-jury-didnt-order-disney-to-pay-gina-carano-115/ | This claim originated on a self-described satire website. "The Mandalorian" actor Gina Carano has sued Disney for wrongful termination, but the lawsuit continues. | 2024-06-20 | False | true | true | refutes |
politifact_95_ret_b0_g0 | politifact_95 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/no-jury-didnt-order-disney-to-pay-gina-carano-115/ | A jury “ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay” actor Gina Carano $115 million. | Facebook Post | 2024-06-20 | https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-disney-pay-gina-carano-115m-employment-trial-1775870 | A Facebook post published on January 19, 2023, claimed that actor Gina Carano was paid $115 million after she was "Wrongfully Terminated" from the Star Wars spin-off show The Mandalorian. The post links to an article that states: "Disney Incorporated LLC will pay $115 million for wrongful termination, according to a jury in Orlando. [...] There appears to be no evidence that Gina Carano has received $115 million from Disney after she left the show in 2021. The article was published by America's Last Line of Defense, a parody news site. | 2023-01-23 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_95_ret_b17_gn | politifact_95 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/no-jury-didnt-order-disney-to-pay-gina-carano-115/ | A jury “ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay” actor Gina Carano $115 million. | Facebook Post | 2024-06-20 | https://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2024/03/22/gina-carano-sues-disney-over-mandalorian-departure/ | Former actor Gina Carano has filed a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Corporation and Lucasfilm for alleged wrongful termination. The suit was filed in federal court in California. Carano alleges she was fired from her role on the Disney+ show Mandalorian for voicing right-wing opinions online. She is seeking a court order requiring Lucasfilm reinstate her or compensate her for at least $75,000. Carano claims in the suit that she suffered emotional damage and lost millions of dollars in income. Carano also claims that Disney and Lucasfilm discriminated against her, and alleges that male colleagues were not held to similar standards. Carano stated that X, formerly known as Twitter, was covering the costs of the suit. She alleges that she had been the target of a "bullying smear campaign" intended to make "an example out of me" by others. In February 2021, Carano posted on Instagram comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust. She had also suggested voter fraud had occurred in the 2020 presidential election and put "beep/bop/boop" in her then Twitter profile after fans asked her to display her pronouns in her account’s bio. Pedro Pascal, the current lead actor of Mandalorian, has a trans sister whom he supports. [...] Carano’s lawsuit spends countless pages complaining that her political views about Covid-19, the 2020 election, and transgender persons were either not protected by or punished by Disney while the politically liberal views of her male colleagues were ignored by the corporation. | 2024-03-22 | False | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_95_ret_b2_gn | politifact_95 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/no-jury-didnt-order-disney-to-pay-gina-carano-115/ | A jury “ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay” actor Gina Carano $115 million. | Facebook Post | 2024-06-20 | https://checkyourfact.com/2024/07/03/fact-check-gina-carano-win-115-million-case-disney/ | FACT CHECK: Did Gina Carano Win $115 Million In Court Case Against Disney? A post shared on social media purports that actress Gina Carano was awarded $115 million in a court case against Disney. [...] The caption reads, "A Hollywood jury has ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay Gina Carano $115 million over Mandalorian firing." | 2024-07-03 | False | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_95_ret_bn_g1 | politifact_95 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/no-jury-didnt-order-disney-to-pay-gina-carano-115/ | A jury “ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay” actor Gina Carano $115 million. | Facebook Post | 2024-06-20 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/01/facebook-posts/no-jury-didnt-order-disney-to-pay-gina-carano-115/ | We rate the claim that a jury "ordered Disney and Lucasfilm to pay" Carano $115 million False. [...] America’s Last Line of Defense, "Jury Orders Disney to Pay "Wrongfully Terminated" Mandalorian Star Gina Carano $115 Million, archived, accessed July 1, 2024 [...] America’s Last Line of Defense, "Jury Orders Disney to Pay "Wrongfully Terminated" Mandalorian Star Gina Carano $115 Million, archived | 2024-06-20 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_957 | politifact_957 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/18/donald-trump/trump-is-correct-that-florida-has-highest-home-ins/ | Florida has “the highest” homeowners insurance in the nation. | Donald Trump | 2023-07-15 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/18/donald-trump/trump-is-correct-that-florida-has-highest-home-ins/ | The industry-funded Insurance Information Institute found that Floridians pay the highest average home insurance premium at $6,000 a year for 2023. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed many bills that aim to reduce litigation and fraud, a driver of high insurance premiums. Industry experts hope the new laws will lead to lower premiums, but that will take time. Hurricane-prone Florida will continue to face high costs. | 2023-07-15 | True | true | true | supports |
politifact_957_ret_b10_gn | politifact_957 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/18/donald-trump/trump-is-correct-that-florida-has-highest-home-ins/ | Florida has “the highest” homeowners insurance in the nation. | Donald Trump | 2023-07-15 | https://www.iii.org/press-release/triple-i-floridas-homeowners-insurers-are-facing-multiple-crises-080922 | ST. JOHNS, Fla., Aug. 9, 2022—The turmoil in Florida’s homeowners insurance market is being caused primarily by the state’s outsized number of lawsuits and its commonplace fraud schemes, according to an Issues Brief published today by the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I). "Floridians are seeing homeowners’ insurance become costlier and scarcer because for years the state has been the home of too much litigation and too many fraudulent roof-replacement schemes," said Sean Kevelighan, CEO, Triple-I. "These two factors contributed enormously to the net underwriting losses Florida’s homeowners’ insurers cumulatively incurred between 2017 and 2021." Florida homeowners pay the highest average property insurance premium in the U.S. at $4,231, nearly three times the U.S. average of $1,544, according to Triple-I’s analysis. [...] Two major hurricanes made landfall in the state in 2017 (Category 4 Irma) and 2018 (Category 5 Michael). The past three hurricane seasons (2019-2021), however, have been relatively quiet ones for Florida. Insurers are experiencing net underwriting losses in large part because Florida is the site of 79 percent of all homeowners insurance lawsuits over claims filed nationwide while Florida’s homeowners insurers receive only 9 percent of all U.S. homeowners property insurance claims, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Floridians For Lawsuit Reform estimates 130,000 property claim lawsuits will be filed in 2022, largely due to Florida’s favorable litigation environment. | 2022-08-09 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_957_ret_b4_gn | politifact_957 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/18/donald-trump/trump-is-correct-that-florida-has-highest-home-ins/ | Florida has “the highest” homeowners insurance in the nation. | Donald Trump | 2023-07-15 | https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2023-07-19/politifact-fl-trump-right-florida-has-highest-home-insurance-rate-in-us | Trump is correct that Florida has the nation’s costliest highest homeowners insurance. [...] The industry-funded Insurance Information Institute found that Floridians pay the highest average home insurance premium at $6,000 a year for 2023, Mark Friedlander, an institute spokesperson, told PolitiFact. That amount is 42% higher than 2022. [...] Trump said that Florida has "the highest" homeowners insurance in the nation. | 2023-07-19 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_957_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_957 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/18/donald-trump/trump-is-correct-that-florida-has-highest-home-ins/ | Florida has “the highest” homeowners insurance in the nation. | Donald Trump | 2023-07-15 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/18/donald-trump/trump-is-correct-that-florida-has-highest-home-ins/ | Trump is correct that Florida has highest home insurance rate in the United States [...] Trump is correct that Florida has the nation’s costliest highest homeowners insurance. [...] Trump said that Florida has "the highest" homeowners insurance in the nation. | 2023-07-15 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_957_ret_bn_g6 | politifact_957 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/18/donald-trump/trump-is-correct-that-florida-has-highest-home-ins/ | Florida has “the highest” homeowners insurance in the nation. | Donald Trump | 2023-07-15 | https://www.iii.org/press-release/triple-i-extreme-fraud-and-litigation-causing-floridas-homeowners-insurance-markets-demise-062322 | ST. JOHNS, Fla., June 23, 2022—With its overabundance of unneeded new roofs on homes, and flashy lawyer billboards at every turn claiming massive settlements on claims, Florida’s insurance market is on the verge of failure. Even more, this man-made catastrophe is causing financial strain on resident consumers, as the annual cost of an average Florida homeowners insurance policy will skyrocket to $4,231 in 2022, nearly three times more than the U.S. annual average of $1,544, according to an Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) analysis. "Floridians pay the highest homeowners insurance premiums in the nation for reasons having little to do with their exposure to hurricanes," said Sean Kevelighan, CEO, Triple-I. "Floridians are seeing homeowners insurance become costlier and scarcer because for years the state has been the home of too much litigation and too many fraudulent roof replacement schemes. These two factors contributed enormously to the net underwriting losses Florida’s homeowners insurers cumulatively incurred between 2016 and 2021." [...] The typical Florida homeowners insurance policyholder paid $2,505 for coverage in 2020, the Triple-I found, and that figure rose to $3,181 in 2021. Triple-I’s analysis was based on data and analyses from Florida’s OIR, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and Triple-I’s estimates of what insurers are paying today for home replacement costs (e.g., lumber). | 2022-06-23 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_96 | politifact_96 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/28/tiktok-posts/no-cnns-david-chalian-didnt-call-michelle-obama-bi/ | CNN's David Chalian referred to Michelle Obama as "Big Mike" on air during presidential debate coverage. | TikTok posts | 2024-06-28 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/28/tiktok-posts/no-cnns-david-chalian-didnt-call-michelle-obama-bi/ | David Chalian did not mention Michelle Obama. CNN told PolitiFact that this video was digitally altered with fake audio. In the original June 27 video clip, Chalian discussed the results of CNN polls conducted prior to the debate. | 2024-06-28 | False | true | true | refutes |
politifact_96_ret_b14_gn | politifact_96 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/28/tiktok-posts/no-cnns-david-chalian-didnt-call-michelle-obama-bi/ | CNN's David Chalian referred to Michelle Obama as "Big Mike" on air during presidential debate coverage. | TikTok posts | 2024-06-28 | https://www.politifact.com/debates/ | Instagram posts stated on September 12, 2024 in an Instagram post Former President Donald Trump admitted during the Sept. 10 presidential debate that he "blew up the Nord Stream pipeline." Instagram posts stated on September 9, 2024 in Instagram posts A Haitian woman was arrested in Springfield, Ohio, for eating a cat. Social Media stated on September 10, 2024 in social media posts Vice President Kamala Harris wore NOVA H1 audio earrings in the Sept. 10, 2024, presidential debate. TikTok posts stated on June 28, 2024 in a video CNN's David Chalian referred to Michelle Obama as "Big Mike" on air during presidential debate coverage. Vivek Ramaswamy stated on September 27, 2023 in a Republican presidential primary debate. Being transgender is a "mental health disorder." Facebook posts stated on April 24, 2021 in a Facebook post Social media posts stated: "Remember Kamala telling Joe during the debate, ‘You will do whatever the Chinese tell you! They gave your son over a billion dollars.’" Facebook posts stated on April 24, 2021 in a Facebook post "Anyone remember Kamala telling Joe during the debate: ‘You will do whatever the Chinese tell you! They gave your son over a billion dollars.’" [...] TikTok posts stated on June 28, 2024 in a video CNN's David Chalian referred to Michelle Obama as "Big Mike" on air during presidential debate coverage. | 2024-09-12 | False | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_96_ret_b16_gn | politifact_96 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/28/tiktok-posts/no-cnns-david-chalian-didnt-call-michelle-obama-bi/ | CNN's David Chalian referred to Michelle Obama as "Big Mike" on air during presidential debate coverage. | TikTok posts | 2024-06-28 | https://blog.gdeltproject.org/snopes-no-video-does-not-show-cnns-david-chalian-referring-to-michelle-obama-as-big-mike/ | Snopes: No, Video Does Not Show CNN's David Chalian Referring to Michelle Obama as 'Big Mike' July 2, 2024 Snopes examines claims about CNN's coverage. Read The Full Article. | 2024-07-02 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_96_ret_bn_g16 | politifact_96 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/28/tiktok-posts/no-cnns-david-chalian-didnt-call-michelle-obama-bi/ | CNN's David Chalian referred to Michelle Obama as "Big Mike" on air during presidential debate coverage. | TikTok posts | 2024-06-28 | https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sitroom/date/2024-05-14/segment/01 | DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: We should note Michael Cohen said those things after he broke with Donald Trump, not while he was in his employ. I think jurors -- who knows, is the answer. I don't know how jurors will actually feel that way. But it seems to me the very public split that these two men have had is a known thing. [...] CHALIAN: And we should just note in the transcript, we now know what the judge said to Todd Blanche in that sidebar where he said, why are you making this all about yourself? [...] Joining us now, our Senior Political Commentator Scott Jennings and CNN Political Director David Chalian. | 2024-05-14 | False | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_96_ret_bn_g6 | politifact_96 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/28/tiktok-posts/no-cnns-david-chalian-didnt-call-michelle-obama-bi/ | CNN's David Chalian referred to Michelle Obama as "Big Mike" on air during presidential debate coverage. | TikTok posts | 2024-06-28 | https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/05/media/election-night-news-coverage-oral-history/index.html | It was a pivotal moment in the coverage of the night. He'd said aloud what others had until then been saying only to themselves. [...] David Chalian: "By 9:15, I think I said to my producer Terence Burlij, 'Trump may win this thing.' He looked at me like I was crazy. You could sense that the night was different." [...] David Chalian joined the CNN team at the main anchor desk for the end of the ten-hour special report. After Blitzer signed off -- "This has been a truly historic night. Trump elected President of the United States" -- there was "a complete and utter exhale" in the studio. | 2017-01-05 | False | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_968 | politifact_968 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/30/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-is-right-1-in-3-women-of-reproductiv/ | “Today in America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban.” | Kamala Harris | 2024-01-22 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/30/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-is-right-1-in-3-women-of-reproductiv/ | About 21.5 million women and girls of reproductive age live in states that ban abortions completely, or after six weeks of pregnancy, Census data shows. That’s about 29% of women ages 15 to 49. When adding in states that ban abortion after 12 or 15 weeks of pregnancy, the number of affected women grows to about 25 million, or about 40%. Learn more about PolitiFact’s fact-checking process and rating system. | 2024-01-22 | True | true | true | supports |
politifact_968_ret_b1_gn | politifact_968 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/30/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-is-right-1-in-3-women-of-reproductiv/ | “Today in America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban.” | Kamala Harris | 2024-01-22 | https://www.tampabay.com/news/2024/02/11/vp-1-3-women-reproductive-age-live-state-with-abortion-ban-fact-check/ | Harris’ claim was similar to a White House fact sheet that said "more than 23 million women of reproductive age — one in three — live in one of the 18 states with an abortion ban currently in effect." [...] How many U.S. women of reproductive age live in states with abortion bans [...] "Given the shifting landscape of abortion laws, many organizations have different definitions and categories for states’ abortion laws," said Laurie Sobel, women’s health policy director at KFF. Today, approximately 21.5 million women ages 15 to 49 live in the 14 states that totally ban abortion, and in the two states with six-week bans in effect, she said. That comes out to about 29% of women of childbearing age, or about 1 in 3.4. | 2024-02-11 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_968_ret_b2_gn | politifact_968 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/30/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-is-right-1-in-3-women-of-reproductiv/ | “Today in America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban.” | Kamala Harris | 2024-01-22 | https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2024/02/01/politifact-1-in-3-u-s-women-of-reproductive-age-live-under-abortion-bans/72413465007/ | Kamala Harris claim that 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live under abortion bans is true [...] Harris’ claim was similar to a White House fact sheet that said "more than 23 million women of reproductive age — one in three — live in one of the 18 states with an abortion ban currently in effect." [...] How many U.S. women of reproductive age live in states with abortion bans | 2024-02-01 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_968_ret_bn_g18 | politifact_968 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/30/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-is-right-1-in-3-women-of-reproductiv/ | “Today in America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban.” | Kamala Harris | 2024-01-22 | https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/state-of-emergency | If Roe v. Wade is overturned, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age — more than 25 million women — would be living in states without abortion access. Banning abortion care will not stop abortion — it will stop safe, legal abortion care. And the cost will be women’s lives. We are in a state of emergency for women’s health. Barriers to reproductive care will only worsen health outcomes and exacerbate disparities and inequities. Fighting to make sure women have access to reproductive health care is more important than ever. No Abortion Bans: Not Now, Not Ever [...] Banned abortion from the time a woman is "known to be pregnant"; no exceptions for rape and incest state could investigate women for miscarriages most punitive ban signed since Roe was decided, charging doctors with a Class A felony and up to 99 years in prison highest cervical cancer mortality rate in the U.S. | 2019-05-21 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_968_ret_bn_g7 | politifact_968 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/30/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-is-right-1-in-3-women-of-reproductiv/ | “Today in America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban.” | Kamala Harris | 2024-01-22 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/23/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-highlights-commitment-to-defending-reproductive-rights-and-actions-to-protect-access-to-reproductive-health-care-one-year-after-overturning-of-roe-v-wade/ | One year ago, the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right that it had previously recognized, overturning nearly fifty years of precedent. Today, more than 23 million women of reproductive age—one in three—live in one of the 18 states with an abortion ban currently in effect. In the last year, women have been denied essential medical care to preserve their health and even save their lives. They have been turned away from emergency rooms, forced to delay care, and made to travel hundreds of miles and across state lines for needed medical care. Despite this devastating impact on women’s health, Republican elected officials continue to advance these bans at both the state and national level. President Biden and Vice President Harris stand with the majority of Americans who believe the right to choose is fundamental—and who have made their voices heard at every opportunity since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. As the President has made clear since the day of the Dobbs decision, the only way to ensure women in every state have access to abortion is for Congress to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade. | 2023-06-23 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_971 | politifact_971 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/darren-jackson/north-carolina-democrat-right-most-americans-want-/ | “Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.” | Darren Jackson | 2020-05-27 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/darren-jackson/north-carolina-democrat-right-most-americans-want-/ | Health experts say Americans should wear a face mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus, but President Trump has been reluctant to do so in public. Democrat Darren Jackson, the minority leader in the North Carolina House of Representatives, said two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Trump's decision. There's one poll that supports his exact claim, and several others showing that roughly 66% of Americans want Trump to wear a mask. | 2020-05-27 | True | true | true | supports |
politifact_971_ret_b0_gn | politifact_971 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/darren-jackson/north-carolina-democrat-right-most-americans-want-/ | “Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.” | Darren Jackson | 2020-05-27 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/darren-jackson/north-carolina-democrat-right-most-americans-want-/ | "Two thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public, and the vast majority supports elected officials being required to wear masks in government buildings," Jackson tweeted. [...] Their poll question asked, "Do you approve or disapprove of Donald Trump’s decision NOT to wear a face mask while in public?" [...] Jackson said "two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public and the vast majority supports elected officials being required to wear masks in government buildings." | 2020-05-27 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_971_ret_b12_gn | politifact_971 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/darren-jackson/north-carolina-democrat-right-most-americans-want-/ | “Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.” | Darren Jackson | 2020-05-27 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52161529 | US President Donald Trump has said he will not wear a face mask despite new medical guidance advising Americans to do so. [...] The president - without a mask [...] Yet the president said he would not put on a mask: he said it would not look right for him to wear one in the Oval Office. | 2020-04-04 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_971_ret_b1_gn | politifact_971 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/darren-jackson/north-carolina-democrat-right-most-americans-want-/ | “Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.” | Darren Jackson | 2020-05-27 | https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-do-most-americans-want-trump-to-wear-a-mask/19124882/ | "Two thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public, and the vast majority supports elected officials being required to wear masks in government buildings," Jackson tweeted. [...] When we reached out to Jackson, he cited an online survey of 1,012 people by Navigator Research, a pollster that works with Democratic and progressive clients. Their poll question asked, "Do you approve or disapprove of Donald Trump’s decision NOT to wear a face mask while in public?" [...] Jackson said "two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public and the vast majority supports elected officials being required to wear masks in government buildings." | 2020-06-01 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_971_ret_bn_g10 | politifact_971 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/darren-jackson/north-carolina-democrat-right-most-americans-want-/ | “Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.” | Darren Jackson | 2020-05-27 | https://today.yougov.com/health/articles/28375-growing-number-americans-want-stronger-action-agai | Democrats take a negative view of much that happens in the Trump administration (86% of them disapprove of how Trump is handling his presidency), and they tend to support a different theory—that the government is concealing the scale of deaths from the virus. Democrats (60%) are three times more likely than Republicans (21%) to believe this. [...] Just a third last week and this week would cancel long-distance travel. Support for this comes across the board, from both Republicans and Democrats. The American public generally agrees with the medical authorities who say requiring that people wear face masks isn’t desirable from a medical point of view. [...] Americans are divided on the president’s handling of the coronavirus; this week 41 percent approve, 43 percent disapprove (last week, disapproval outweighed approval 47% to 37%). Like last week, four in ten don’t believe the President is taking the situation seriously enough. There is also division on the appointment of Vice President Mike Pence to head the Administration’s response to the virus. | 2020-03-11 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_979 | politifact_979 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/05/joe-biden/biden-says-sanders-has-raised-lot-more-money-hes-r/ | “You’ve raised a lot more money than I have, Bernie.” | Joe Biden | 2020-03-05 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/05/joe-biden/biden-says-sanders-has-raised-lot-more-money-hes-r/ | Sanders had raised roughly $71 million more than Biden through early March, taking account of both money raised by the candidates’ campaigns and by outside groups supporting the candidate. Combined, Sanders and his allied groups have raised more than $180 million, compared with $109 million for Biden and his allied groups. Sanders does have an edge in "small-dollar" donations — those below $200. About 55% of Sanders’ money was raised that way, compared with 36% for Biden. | 2020-03-05 | True | true | true | supports |
politifact_979_ret_b8_gn | politifact_979 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/05/joe-biden/biden-says-sanders-has-raised-lot-more-money-hes-r/ | “You’ve raised a lot more money than I have, Bernie.” | Joe Biden | 2020-03-05 | https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johntemplon/how-bernie-sanders-raises-all-that-money | Bernie Sanders is raising staggering amounts of money through the ActBlue fundraising site. Much of it comes from small donors. [...] When the 2016 election began, the idea was that big money from big donors would dominate the election. Instead, many candidates with robust super PACs have failed; Donald Trump has loaned himself money; and Bernie's raised more than $112 million (accounting for 82% of contributions to his campaign) through ActBlue, an online donation service for Democrats, specializing in small donors. [...] And Sanders has indeed raised an insane amount of money from the actual small donations — he's literally been given $10 about 1.4 million times. | 2016-04-19 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_979_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_979 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/05/joe-biden/biden-says-sanders-has-raised-lot-more-money-hes-r/ | “You’ve raised a lot more money than I have, Bernie.” | Joe Biden | 2020-03-05 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/05/joe-biden/biden-says-sanders-has-raised-lot-more-money-hes-r/ | Biden says Sanders has raised ‘a lot more money.’ He’s right [...] Here, we’ll focus on the last part of Biden’s statement, that Sanders has "raised a lot more money" than Biden has. [...] Combined, Sanders and his allied groups have raised more than $180 million, compared with $109 million for Biden and his allied groups. That’s a lead of about $71 million for Sanders — a figure we think qualifies as "a lot more." The money spent by outside groups supporting Biden narrows the margin a bit, but not much. | 2020-03-05 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_979_ret_bn_g2 | politifact_979 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/05/joe-biden/biden-says-sanders-has-raised-lot-more-money-hes-r/ | “You’ve raised a lot more money than I have, Bernie.” | Joe Biden | 2020-03-05 | https://2009-2017-fpc.state.gov/253949.htm | Bernie Sanders, I would say at this point, you’re hard-pressed to find a path forward for him numerically. Very much on the other side, like a Marco Rubio, he is very much fighting the math at this point. He did win four key states. He has raised and continues to raise more money than Hillary Clinton, which is fascinating – $40 million last month, which is quite impressive. But he has stalled because he hasn’t been able to make it – make a name for himself or pick up delegates and support outside of the Northeast. He hasn’t been able to pick up delegates or support in nonwhite states or states with a large nonwhite population. And that’s something that continues to be difficult for him. | 2016-03-02 | True | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_98 | politifact_98 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/27/instagram-posts/remdesivir-didnt-kill-covid-19-ebola-patients-as-s/ | "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-24 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/27/instagram-posts/remdesivir-didnt-kill-covid-19-ebola-patients-as-s/ | There’s no evidence showing that remdesivir, the first treatment approved for COVID-19, killed patients taking the drug. The antiviral drug is still approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat the coronavirus that causes the disease. The FDA said it based its approval of the drug on three randomized controlled clinical trials. Remdesivir was one of four drugs used in a 2018 clinical trial against Ebola virus in Africa. It was found to be far less effective than two experimental drugs, but the trial did not show remdesivir killed patients. | 2024-06-24 | False | true | true | refutes |
politifact_98_ret_b1_gn | politifact_98 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/27/instagram-posts/remdesivir-didnt-kill-covid-19-ebola-patients-as-s/ | "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-24 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/10/nicole-sirotek/no-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-werent-killed-re/ | No, hospitalized COVID-19 patients weren’t killed by remdesivir [...] At a panel discussion hosted by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a nurse claimed that remdesivir, an intravenous antiviral drug used to treat people hospitalized with COVID-19, is actually killing patients. [...] Sirotek claimed that remdesivir is responsible for killing patients hospitalized with COVID-19. | 2022-01-25 | False | false | true | insufficient-refutes |
politifact_98_ret_b4_gn | politifact_98 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/27/instagram-posts/remdesivir-didnt-kill-covid-19-ebola-patients-as-s/ | "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-24 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34252308/ | Why Remdesivir Failed: Preclinical Assumptions Overestimate the Clinical Efficacy of Remdesivir for COVID-19 and Ebola - PMID: 34252308 - PMCID: PMC8448091 - DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01117-21 Why Remdesivir Failed: Preclinical Assumptions Overestimate the Clinical Efficacy of Remdesivir for COVID-19 and Ebola Remdesivir is a nucleoside monophosphoramidate prodrug that has been FDA approved for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the clinical efficacy of remdesivir for COVID-19 remains contentious, as several trials have not found statistically significant differences in either time to clinical improvement or mortality between remdesivir-treated and control groups. Similarly, the inability of remdesivir to provide a clinically significant benefit above other investigational agents in patients with Ebola contrasts with strong, curative preclinical data generated in rhesus macaque models. For both COVID-19 and Ebola, significant discordance between the robust preclinical data and remdesivir's lackluster clinical performance have left many puzzled. Here, we critically evaluate the assumptions of the models underlying remdesivir's promising preclinical data and show that such assumptions overpredict efficacy and minimize toxicity of remdesivir in humans. Had the limitations of in vitro drug efficacy testing and species differences in drug metabolism been considered, the underwhelming clinical performance of remdesivir for both COVID-19 and Ebola would have been fully anticipated. | 2021-09-17 | False | false | true | insufficient-neutral |
politifact_98_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_98 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/27/instagram-posts/remdesivir-didnt-kill-covid-19-ebola-patients-as-s/ | "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-24 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/27/instagram-posts/remdesivir-didnt-kill-covid-19-ebola-patients-as-s/ | The video showed a speaker who said that in 2018, remdesivir was "too unethical" to use in Ebola clinical trials in Africa because it had a "53% kill rate." [...] Martin, in the Instagram video, also distorted what a 2018-19 Ebola clinical trial said about remdesivir. The 53% "kill rate" he mentions refers to the mortality rate of Ebola patients taking remdesivir in the trial, not that it caused the deaths of 53% of patients who took the drug. [...] An Instagram post’s claim that hospitals killed COVID-19 patients with remdesivir is baseless and its claim that the drug had a 53% kill rate in Ebola trials distorts what those trials showed. Both claims are False. | 2024-06-24 | False | false | true | refutes |
politifact_98_ret_bn_g7 | politifact_98 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/27/instagram-posts/remdesivir-didnt-kill-covid-19-ebola-patients-as-s/ | "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” | Instagram post | 2024-06-24 | https://www.franciskovacevic.com/remdesivir-given-to-frank | A poison is a substance that can cause death or injury. Remdesivir is a drug that has a documented death rate of 53.1%, among many other adverse effects such as kidney and liver damage. [...] On 22 May 2020 Drugs In Context (DIC) published a report titled"The journey of remdesivir: from Ebola to COVID-19". The report was completed on 14 April 2020. The report outlines results of four drugs trialled to treat ebola. Remdesivir resulted in the highest death rate of the four drugs, with a death rate of 53.1%. [...] NIAID was involved in, and provided funding for, the ebola drug trials, and as such was aware of the 53% dealth rate of remdesivir. | 2021-09-20 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_982 | politifact_982 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/16/desiree-rogers/blacks-hispanics-less-likely-have-jobs-where-they-/ | In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” | Desiree Rogers | 2020-06-10 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/16/desiree-rogers/blacks-hispanics-less-likely-have-jobs-where-they-/ | 20% of African Americans could work from home, according to labor department data, compared with 30% of whites. | 2020-06-10 | True | true | true | supports |
politifact_982_ret_b10_gn | politifact_982 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/16/desiree-rogers/blacks-hispanics-less-likely-have-jobs-where-they-/ | In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” | Desiree Rogers | 2020-06-10 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-020-00923-3 | Black Americans continue to be overrepresented in the lowest-paying service and domestic occupations, including taxi drivers and chauffeurs, food servers, and maids and house cleaners [7]. In such works, face-to-face contact with the public is required and social distancing is difficult to maintain. Nor do these jobs permit working from home, denying disproportionately more African Americans opportunities for the social distancing considered essential to mitigating risk [36]. Those who would voluntarily abandon work to reduce exposure to COVID-19 are sometimes denied the opportunity to do so. African Americans’ occupations render them more likely to be considered "essential workers," including grocery store, food service, health care, and courier workers, and they continue to perform their vocations in an environment of greater risk [37]. A recent study demonstrated that African Americans who were at high risk for severe illness for 1.6 time more likely than whites to live in households containing health-sector workers, and 56.5% of Black adults at high risk live in households were at least one worker is unable to work from home, compared to only 46.6% among whites [38]. If these workers become ill, they are less likely to have paid sick leave [39]. The Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) attempted to redress the problem by bringing paid sick leave to those previously without it, but exemptions greatly restricted the scope of new coverage [40]. Thus, COVID-19 capitalizes on the lack of work flexibility and control over working conditions to illuminate a previously neglected source of health-related risk [36]. | 2020-11-23 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
politifact_982_ret_bn_g0 | politifact_982 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/16/desiree-rogers/blacks-hispanics-less-likely-have-jobs-where-they-/ | In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” | Desiree Rogers | 2020-06-10 | https://www.epi.org/blog/black-and-hispanic-workers-are-much-less-likely-to-be-able-to-work-from-home/ | The commonly paired statements that "everyone is working from home" and "everyone is having their goods delivered" amid the coronavirus outbreak ignores a whole segment of the workforce—the ones prepping and delivering their purchases. In fact, less than 30% of workers can work from home, and the ability to work from home differs enormously by race and ethnicity. The chart below separates the share of workers who can telework for the three largest race groups as well as by Hispanic ethnicity (these groups are not mutually exclusive in these data). Asian workers are the most likely to be able to work from home, followed by non-Hispanic and white workers. Only 16.2% of Hispanic workers and 19.7% of black workers can telework. Less than one in five black workers and roughly one in six Hispanic workers are able to work from home: Share of workers who can telework, by race and ethnicity, 2017--2018 | 2020-03-19 | True | false | true | supports |
politifact_982_ret_bn_g6 | politifact_982 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/16/desiree-rogers/blacks-hispanics-less-likely-have-jobs-where-they-/ | In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” | Desiree Rogers | 2020-06-10 | https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840276956/minorities-often-work-these-jobs-they-were-among-first-to-go-in-coronavirus-layo | In addition, a survey from the left-leaning Data for Progress found that 45% of black workers have lost jobs or had their hours cut, compared with 31% for white workers. (Samples were not large enough to break out other racial and ethnic groups.) [...] There's also evidence of disparities in who is able to work from home during this crisis: 30% of white people and 37% of Asian Americans could work from home in 2017 and 2018, according to the Labor Department. Meanwhile, only 20% of black people could. In addition, only 16% of Latinos could work from home, compared to nearly twice as many non-Latinos. The March jobs report that much of this analysis is based on only captured the start of the economic crisis created by COVID-19. The April report, which will be released May 8, will show if racial gaps have persisted. | 2020-04-22 | True | false | true | insufficient-supports |
climatefeedback_740 | climatefeedback_740 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/natural-variability-can-not-explain-modern-global-warming-heartland-institute-report-claims/ | Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | Craig Idso, Robert Carter, S. Fred Singer | 2016-01-01 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/natural-variability-can-not-explain-modern-global-warming-heartland-institute-report-claims/ | Misleading : The short timeframe given makes it more difficult to say whether something is or is not outside the bounds of natural variability. However, thorough analysis in the 2013 IPCC report concluded it was “extremely likely” (a probability of at least 95%) that humans are responsible for more than half of the warming since 1950, and likely all of it. | 2016-01-01 | False | true | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_740_ret_bn_g3 | climatefeedback_740 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/natural-variability-can-not-explain-modern-global-warming-heartland-institute-report-claims/ | Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | Craig Idso, Robert Carter, S. Fred Singer | 2016-01-01 | https://science.feedback.org/report-heartland-institute-sent-to-influence-us-teachers-on-climate-change-earns-an-f-from-scientists/ | The issue of whether or not a change in global temperature is outside the range of "normal natural variability" depends on the timescale being considered. It is true that some physical climate models (and some statistical climate models based on historically observed variability) indicate that it is possible for a warming episode as large as that seen from 1979-2000 to come about from unforced (internal) variability. However, when an unforced warming episode occurs, it is typically followed by an unforced cooling episode (if that wasn’t true, the climate would be fundamentally unstable and it would have run away to a snowball or hothouse state a long time ago). This means that the longer the sustained change in temperature, the less likely it is that the change could be due to "normal natural variability". This is why the IPCC used a period almost 3 times longer in their attribution statement that "It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together." [...] This is a falsely constructed argument by limiting the time range to 1979 to 2000. One can cherry pick an interval and show that it’s not especially different from the past, however if one takes the full reliable record of the last 140 years the warming is unequivocal. | 2017-05-31 | False | false | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_742 | climatefeedback_742 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/ian-plimers-op-ed-incorrectly-claims-human-caused-emissions-are-short-lived/ | The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years and it is quickly sequestered into plants, marine life, oceans and sediments. | Ian Plimer | 2018-11-08 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/ian-plimers-op-ed-incorrectly-claims-human-caused-emissions-are-short-lived/ | Misleading: The residence time of a molecule of CO2 is not the same as the length of time that human-caused emissions keep the amount in the atmosphere elevated. | 2018-11-08 | False | true | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_742_ret_b13_gn | climatefeedback_742 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/ian-plimers-op-ed-incorrectly-claims-human-caused-emissions-are-short-lived/ | The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years and it is quickly sequestered into plants, marine life, oceans and sediments. | Ian Plimer | 2018-11-08 | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/2/384 | In fact, as shown here, the reality is that, if molecules have a residence time in the atmosphere of 5 years, surplus CO remains in the atmosphere less than 5 years, albeit not much less if the residence time in the sink is much longer. Since that seems to be the case, for all purposes, we can take the residence time as the adjustment time. In fact, we suspect the residence times of [...] The residence time in the atmosphere can be estimated quite well from the above-ground atomic bomb tests [ 1], which makes us happy that these at least served the purpose of advancing atmospheric science, if nothing else. The best estimate is about = 5 years [ 9]. Other references mention different times, with the IPCC mentioning the shortest (4 years) in their 5th Assessment Report (p. 1457 of Ref. [ 4]), showing that this value is not settled yet; we will use 5 years in this work. The equilibrium amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is open for debate, but, for this purpose, we might use the consensus value of 280 ppm ( = 2250 Gt). To estimate the amount of CO in the sink is very difficult. However, there seems to be a general view that it is fifty times more than in the atmosphere, | 2023-02-20 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
climatefeedback_742_ret_b6_gn | climatefeedback_742 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/ian-plimers-op-ed-incorrectly-claims-human-caused-emissions-are-short-lived/ | The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years and it is quickly sequestered into plants, marine life, oceans and sediments. | Ian Plimer | 2018-11-08 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36832750/ | Residence Time vs. Adjustment Time of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere - PMID: 36832750 - PMCID: PMC9955352 - DOI: 10.3390/e25020384 [...] We study the concepts of residence time vs. adjustment time time for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The system is analyzed with a two-box first-order model. Using this model, we reach three important conclusions: (1) The adjustment time is never larger than the residence time and can, thus, not be longer than about 5 years. (2) The idea of the atmosphere being stable at 280 ppm in pre-industrial times is untenable. (3) Nearly 90% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide has already been removed from the atmosphere. [...] - - van der Ent R.J., Tuinenburg O.A. The residence time of water in the atmosphere revisited. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 2017;21:779–790. doi: 10.5194/hess-21-779-2017. - DOI - - Cawley G.C. On the Atmospheric Residence Time of Anthropogenically Sourced Carbon Dioxide. Energy Fuels. 2011;25:5503–5513. doi: 10.1021/ef200914u. - DOI - - Stocker I.T.F., Qin D., Plattner G.K., Tignor M.M., Allen S.K., Boschung J., Nauels A., Xia Y., Bex V., Midgley P.M., editors. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK: 2013. | 2023-02-20 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
climatefeedback_743_ret_bn_g0 | climatefeedback_743 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/daily-mail-claim-2016-global-temperature-record-misleading/ | El Niño drove record highs in global temperatures suggesting rise may not be down to man-made emissions. | David Rose | 2016-11-26 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3974846/Stunning-new-data-indicates-El-Nino-drove-record-highs-global-temperatures-suggesting-rise-not-man-emissions.html | Stunning new data indicates El Nino drove record highs in global temperatures suggesting rise may not be down to man-made emissions - Global average temperatures over land have plummeted by more than 1C - Comes amid mounting evidence run of record temperatures about to end - The fall, revealed by Nasa satellites, has been caused by the end of El Nino [...] Others have argued that the records were caused by El Nino, a complex natural phenomenon that takes place every few years, and has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions by humans. [...] Big El Ninos always have an immense impact on world weather, triggering higher than normal temperatures over huge swathes of the world. The 2015-16 El Nino was probably the strongest since accurate measurements began, with the water up to 3C warmer than usual. | 2016-11-27 | False | false | true | supports |
climatefeedback_743_ret_bn_g2 | climatefeedback_743 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/daily-mail-claim-2016-global-temperature-record-misleading/ | El Niño drove record highs in global temperatures suggesting rise may not be down to man-made emissions. | David Rose | 2016-11-26 | https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-1/ | Warming greater than the global average has already been experienced in many regions and seasons, with higher average warming over land than over the ocean (high confidence). Most land regions are experiencing greater warming than the global average, while most ocean regions are warming at a slower rate. Depending on the temperature dataset considered, 20–40% of the global human population live in regions that, by the decade 2006–2015, had already experienced warming of more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial in at least one season (medium confidence). {1.2.1, 1.2.2} Past emissions alone are unlikely to raise global-mean temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (medium confidence), but past emissions do commit to other changes, such as further sea level rise (high confidence). If all anthropogenic emissions (including aerosol-related) were reduced to zero immediately, any further warming beyond the 1°C already experienced would likely be less than 0.5°C over the next two to three decades (high confidence), and likely less than 0.5°C on a century time scale (medium confidence), due to the opposing effects of different climate processes and drivers. A warming greater than 1.5°C is therefore not geophysically unavoidable: whether it will occur depends on future rates of emission reductions. {1.2.3, 1.2.4} | 2012-04-04 | False | false | true | insufficient-refutes |
climatefeedback_744 | climatefeedback_744 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/false-claim-wind-turbines-generate-more-global-warming-than-fossil-fuels-misrepresents-study-ethan-huff/ | Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | Ethan Huff | 2019-12-23 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/false-claim-wind-turbines-generate-more-global-warming-than-fossil-fuels-misrepresents-study-ethan-huff/ | Misrepresents source: The Harvard study mentioned does not make this claim, and in fact explicitly explains that this claim is false. The claim conflates local warming due to air mixing with global warming that results from a change in the whole Earth’s energy budget. | 2019-12-23 | False | true | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_744_ret_b0_gn | climatefeedback_744 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/false-claim-wind-turbines-generate-more-global-warming-than-fossil-fuels-misrepresents-study-ethan-huff/ | Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | Ethan Huff | 2019-12-23 | https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-wind-power-has-its-down-side/ | "Wind beats coal by any environmental measure, but that doesn’t mean that its impacts are negligible," said David Keith, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and senior author of the papers. "We must quickly transition away from fossil fuels to stop carbon emissions. In doing so, we must make choices between various low-carbon technologies, all of which have some social and environmental impacts." [...] To estimate the impacts of wind power, Keith and Miller established a baseline for the 2012‒2014 U.S. climate using a standard weather-forecasting model. Then, they covered one-third of the continental U.S. with enough wind turbines to meet present-day U.S. electricity demand. The researchers found this scenario would warm the surface temperature of the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius, with the largest changes occurring at night when surface temperatures increased by up to 1.5 degrees. This warming is the result of wind turbines actively mixing the atmosphere near the ground and aloft while simultaneously extracting from the atmosphere’s motion. [...] The Harvard researchers found that the warming effect of wind turbines in the continental U.S. was actually larger than the effect of reduced emissions for the first century of its operation. This is because the warming effect is predominantly local to the wind farm, while greenhouse gas concentrations must be reduced globally before the benefits are realized. | 2023-11-09 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
climatefeedback_744_ret_b1_gn | climatefeedback_744 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/false-claim-wind-turbines-generate-more-global-warming-than-fossil-fuels-misrepresents-study-ethan-huff/ | Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | Ethan Huff | 2019-12-23 | https://environment.harvard.edu/news/down-side-wind-power | "Wind beats coal by any environmental measure, but that doesn't mean that its impacts are negligible," said David Keith, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and senior author of the papers. "We must quickly transition away from fossil fuels to stop carbon emissions. In doing so, we must make choices between various low-carbon technologies, all of which have some social and environmental impacts." [...] The Harvard researchers found that the warming effect of wind turbines in the continental U.S. was actually larger than the effect of reduced emissions for the first century of its operation. This is because the warming effect is predominantly local to the wind farm, while greenhouse gas concentrations must be reduced globally before the benefits are realized. [...] "The direct climate impacts of wind power are instant, while the benefits of reduced emissions accumulate slowly," said Keith. "If your perspective is the next 10 years, wind power actually has — in some respects — more climate impact than coal or gas. If your perspective is the next thousand years, then wind power has enormously less climatic impact than coal or gas. | 2018-10-04 | False | false | true | insufficient-refutes |
climatefeedback_744_ret_b3_gn | climatefeedback_744 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/false-claim-wind-turbines-generate-more-global-warming-than-fossil-fuels-misrepresents-study-ethan-huff/ | Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | Ethan Huff | 2019-12-23 | https://www.kqed.org/science/1932359/harvard-study-finds-rise-of-wind-farms-could-induce-greater-warming-than-climate-change | The study, which looked at just the United States, said that the turbines would cause more warming in the short term this century than the carbon dioxide America spews into the atmosphere would. [...] Wind advocates emphasized that the Harvard study doesn’t show turbines causing global warming, just local heating. [...] "The climate effect of burning fossil fuels is cumulative," Caldeira said in an email. "The longer you run a coal plant, the worse the climate change gets. In contrast, the climate effect of wind turbines is what it is. You build the wind turbine. Climate is affected. But as long as you run the wind turbine, the climate change doesn’t get any worse. So in the long run, as far as the climate is concerned, wind turbines are obviously better than fossil fuels." | 2024-01-10 | False | false | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_747 | climatefeedback_747 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/meme-image-falsely-claims-wind-turbines-produce-less-energy-that-is-used-to-build-them/ | A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Internet users | 2019-05-13 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/meme-image-falsely-claims-wind-turbines-produce-less-energy-that-is-used-to-build-them/ | Factually Inaccurate : Analyzing the energy used in the production of wind turbines does not show that it's greater than the electricity produced over the turbine's working lifetime. | 2019-05-13 | False | true | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_747_ret_b2_gn | climatefeedback_747 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/meme-image-falsely-claims-wind-turbines-produce-less-energy-that-is-used-to-build-them/ | A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Internet users | 2019-05-13 | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/12/facebook-posts/no-professor-didnt-say-windmills-will-never-genera/ | No, a professor didn't say a windmill will 'never generate' the energy invested in building it [...] Now, we have a meme roaming social media that claims Canadian author and professor Thomas Homer-Dixon said that windmills will "never" generate as much energy as was expended to build the structures. [...] The meme does get a part of the quote right, but it strategically leaves out large swaths of information in order to give people the impression that all windmills never expend the amount of energy that was invested in it, which is not accurate. The meme’s omitted section explains that, while poorly placed windmills may never generate enough energy payback, a good wind site could generate it in three years or less. | 2019-04-11 | False | false | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_747_ret_b4_g1 | climatefeedback_747 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/meme-image-falsely-claims-wind-turbines-produce-less-energy-that-is-used-to-build-them/ | A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Internet users | 2019-05-13 | https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/13/wind-turbine-never-generate-much-energy-cost-build/8423146002/ | "A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it," a Sept. 16 version of the post says. This qualifies as a zombie claim. In 2019, we found an earlier version False, but it walks again. [...] The Facebook post skipped over that sentence, and jumped to Hughes’ warning, that in the wrong spot, a windmill "could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it." (There’s a logical breakdown here: If a turbine is spinning, then the wind must be blowing, and the turbine is producing power.) [...] A viral image said that a wind turbine "could never generate as much energy as was invested in building it." | 2021-10-13 | False | false | true | refutes |
climatefeedback_747_ret_bn_g3 | climatefeedback_747 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/meme-image-falsely-claims-wind-turbines-produce-less-energy-that-is-used-to-build-them/ | A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Internet users | 2019-05-13 | https://homerdixon.com/resource/no-not-say-wind-energy-idiot-power/ | "A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons" "a windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it" [...] "[The concept of net energy must also be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics.] A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. [The question is: how long must a windmill generate energy before it creates more energy than it took to build it? At a good wind site, the energy payback day could be in three years or less; in a poor location, energy payback may be never. | 2024-09-16 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
climatefeedback_747_ret_bn_g9 | climatefeedback_747 | https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/meme-image-falsely-claims-wind-turbines-produce-less-energy-that-is-used-to-build-them/ | A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Internet users | 2019-05-13 | https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wind-idiot-power/ | A book co-edited by Thomas Homer-Dixon contained a passage stating that windmills "might never generate as much energy as was invested in building [them]." This passage was written by David Hughes. [...] In August 2015, a meme posted to the Google+ group "The Secret Society of Anti-AGW-ACC Cultism," an organization that claims climate change is a hoax, reproduced the words allegedly written by Thomas Homer-Dixon, the Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, on the subject of windmills. As his statements were presented in that meme, Homer-Dixon appeared to have asserted that windmills never produce as much energy as is expended in building them: [...] Hughes did write that some windmills might not recoup their energy-construction costs, but he didn't assert, as the meme implied, that no windmills will ever generate as much energy as was invested in building them. In fact, he allowed that a windmill situated at a good location could pay back the energy costs of creating it in under three years, but that aspect was omitted from the memed version of his quote: | 2019-02-05 | False | false | true | refutes |
healthfeedback_749 | healthfeedback_749 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/only-certified-medical-devices-should-be-used-to-measure-blood-pressure-not-unvalidated-apps-promoted-social-media/ | Blood pressure tracking apps can replace a cuff | Facebook User | 2024-04-08 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/only-certified-medical-devices-should-be-used-to-measure-blood-pressure-not-unvalidated-apps-promoted-social-media/ | Misleading: Despite its claims, the blood pressure app promoted in the Facebook post doesn’t actually measure blood pressure, but allows users to track blood pressure measurements taken with a conventional blood pressure measuring cuff. Unlike the app, blood pressure measuring cuffs are considered medical devices that are subject to oversight by bodies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Commission to ensure they produce accurate results. | 2024-04-08 | False | true | true | refutes |
healthfeedback_749_ret_b0_gn | healthfeedback_749 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/only-certified-medical-devices-should-be-used-to-measure-blood-pressure-not-unvalidated-apps-promoted-social-media/ | Blood pressure tracking apps can replace a cuff | Facebook User | 2024-04-08 | https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240912140012.htm | A new app to 'uncuff' blood pressure monitoring [...] - Researchers have developed a groundbreaking smartphone app that measures blood pressure using a smartphone's built-in sensors, eliminating the need for traditional cuffs. This technology can make blood pressure monitoring more accessible and convenient, especially for underserved populations. By allowing users to measure their blood pressure anytime and anywhere, the app could revolutionize cardiovascular care and improve early detection of hypertension. [...] "This app would be really useful in low-income settings where people may not even have existing access to blood pressure tools." Dhamotharan said. "Being able to measure blood pressure more frequently would allow an individual to track any significant changes in blood pressure, monitor for hypertension, and be able to manage their conditions with that knowledge." | 2024-10-09 | False | false | true | supports |
healthfeedback_749_ret_b3_gn | healthfeedback_749 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/only-certified-medical-devices-should-be-used-to-measure-blood-pressure-not-unvalidated-apps-promoted-social-media/ | Blood pressure tracking apps can replace a cuff | Facebook User | 2024-04-08 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/ces-2019-scientists-have-developed-a-blood-pressure-monitoring-app-to-replace-the-100-year-old-cuff/ | CES 2019: Scientists have developed a blood pressure monitoring app to replace the 100-year-old cuff [...] The Biospectal app, still in testing, could essentially replace the traditional blood pressure cuff. [...] The Biospectal health app wants to replace the blood pressure cuff by letting users take a scientific measurement by putting their finger on their smartphone camera. | 2019-01-07 | False | false | true | insufficient-supports |
healthfeedback_749_ret_bn_g1 | healthfeedback_749 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/only-certified-medical-devices-should-be-used-to-measure-blood-pressure-not-unvalidated-apps-promoted-social-media/ | Blood pressure tracking apps can replace a cuff | Facebook User | 2024-04-08 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/only-certified-medical-devices-should-be-used-to-measure-blood-pressure-not-unvalidated-apps-promoted-social-media/ | FULL CLAIM: Blood pressure tracking apps can replace a cuff [...] A widely-shared Facebook post featured a video of someone dressed as a doctor pushing aside a blood pressure cuff and giving it a thumbs down, before holding her finger to the camera of an iPhone with an app appearing to display live measurements of her heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen, and temperature. The post encouraged viewers to download the app Blood Pressure-Monitor Tracker. [...] Despite the way it was shown in the promotional Facebook post, there is no indication that the app is able to to measure blood pressure. Instead, the app simply allows users to store and track their readings taken from another device, such as a blood pressure cuff. | 2024-10-04 | False | false | true | refutes |
healthfeedback_751 | healthfeedback_751 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/decline-autism-among-high-income-white-households-not-caused-by-decrease-in-childhood-vaccination-vaccines-dont-cause-autism/ | Autism and vaccination decreased over the same time period among high-income white households from California, indicating a possible causal relationship | Toby Rogers | 2024-08-08 | https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/decline-autism-among-high-income-white-households-not-caused-by-decrease-in-childhood-vaccination-vaccines-dont-cause-autism/ | Incorrect: The claim’s implication that reducing childhood vaccination is causally related to a fall in autism prevalence contradicts the wealth of studies that have shown vaccines don’t cause autism. Inadequate support: The claim didn’t provide data showing a decline in vaccination among high-income white families of California. The scientific study cited as supporting evidence in the claim doesn’t contain data related to vaccine coverage either. | 2024-08-08 | False | true | true | refutes |
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