“Walmart is giving some women $500 grocery store credit as part of a discrimination settlement.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“All ‘gender affirming care’ for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Experts said gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers are evidence-based not experimental. Before puberty, this care includes things like using the name and pronouns that align with a child’s gender identity.
“Americans who worked through the pandemic are being paid up to $26,000 by qualifying for the Employee Retention Credit.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Congress created the employee retention tax credit to incentivize employers to keep paying staff after business activity dropped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The credit is paid to eligible employers, not employees.
“Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s collapse was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin experienced cardiac arrest during a Jan. 2 game against the Cincinnati Bengals. The cause of Hamlin’s cardiac arrest has not been released; doctors are still investigating what happened.
“Febrero de este año tiene lo siguiente que sucede solo una vez en 823 años. Este febrero tiene: 4 domingos 4 lunes 4 martes 4 miércoles 4 jueves 4 viernes 4 sábados”.”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
“Government officials “could have come and taken” classified documents stored at Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Florida “any time they wanted.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: FBI agents visited Mar-a-Lago on June 3, 2022, but a Trump lawyer refused to allow them to review — let alone take — dozens of boxes from the Trump White House that were being kept in a storage area.
“If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have [Eric] Swalwell on any committee. … Adam Schiff openly lied to the American public. He told you he had proof. He told you he didn’t know the whistleblower.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: McCarthy offers no evidence for his claims.
“Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit or the national debt.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: When Social Security runs a deficit, it relies on its reserve funds that the Treasury Department holds in government bonds. Treasury has to borrow money to repay the bonds, which adds to the federal deficit.
“The COVID-19 vaccine trials were a “theatrical performance … they were actually not real.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The COVID-19 vaccines were tested in large, randomized controlled trials before the Food and Drug Administration authorized them for emergency use.
“When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The increase in discretionary spending was close to zero when measured by “outlays,” or actual federal dollars out the door during a given year, but not for the spending approved in a given year for all future years.
“Están asaltando a domicilio con orden judicial".”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
“The COVID-19 vaccines were linked to the deaths of 80 Canadian doctors.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: We took a closer look at the circumstances of the deaths of several doctors that were purportedly linked to COVID-19 vaccines and found no evidence the vaccines were the cause.
“Venezuela está sufriendo una de las mayores deforestaciones del mundo.”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falta Contexto
“El presidente Joe Biden ha propuesto o apoyado prohibir las estufas de gas.”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
“Athletes being incapacitated or dropping dead was not a 'thing' prior to 2020. We are now seeing this happen very frequently.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Sports medicine experts say there’s been no increase in sudden death among U.S. athletes since the COVID-19 vaccines became available, but anti-vaccine campaigners are spreading the false narrative that there has been.
“Biden and Democrats want to BAN gas stoves in EVERY home!”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: A White House spokesman told CNN, “The President does not support banning gas stoves – and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is independent, is not banning gas stoves.”
“Cellphone data used to arrest the Idaho quadruple-murder suspect proves that criticism of the “2000 Mules” movie’s use of cell data is unfounded.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: “2,000 Mules” claimed its data showed that 400,000 ballots were cast illegally in the 2020 election. Experts said the data can show only that people were near ballot drop boxes, which could have been for many reasons.
“El Foro Económico Mundial (FEM) ha instado a la gente a bañarse una vez por semana o menos para salvar el planeta,”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
“Los rinocerontes están oficialmente extintos".”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
“Take home pay for workers is going up.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Wages have outpaced inflation for the past two quarters. However, that increase is only beginning to compensate for the wages that were eaten away by inflation earlier in Biden’s presidency.