Mike Crapo, Senator (R-Idaho)
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
Washington Post says: Tax rates have not changed, but distribution tables distribute the impact of corporate tax increases.
Mandela Barnes, Democratic candidate for U.S. Sen.
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
Donald Trump, former president
PolitiFact rated this: One was legal, one wasn't
PolitiFact says: The Watergate was illegal, while the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home would have received formal approval from a federal judge.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Monkeypox spreads primarily through close physical contact, including direct contact with monkeypox rash. There’s no evidence the CDC classifies it as “airborne” or as a form of herpes.
Papa Francisco
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Verdad
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: Unsupported
FactCheck.org says: The claim is based on an unconfirmed story in a British tabloid, which reported a year later that al-Zawahiri was still alive. The U.S. says al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike on July 31.
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The bottom of the webpage said, “This is not a government program nor is it government aid, this is an advertorial for a loan service.”
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Monkeypox is a viral disease that spreads through close physical contact. A recent meme on social media gets the facts wrong about how the virus spreads, its severity and symptoms.
American Prosperity Alliance, advocacy group
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Under the bill, the federal government would see its outlays reduced by about $300 billion due to a Medicare drug-price negotiation provision. However, that reduction wouldn’t represent cuts to beneficiaries.
Rebecca Kleefisch, GOP hopeful Wisconsin governor
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Kari Lake, Republican candidate for Arizona governor
PolitiFact rated this: 2020 election was secure
PolitiFact says: A review of ballots cast in Maricopa County confirmed that Joe Biden won, and courts rejected allegations of fraud or attempts to deny certification for Biden and only a few people have been charged with fraud.
Joe Manchin, U.S. senator
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Corporations subject to a new minimum tax will pay more in income taxes to the federal government than they otherwise would without the bill. Corporations pass along some of the burden in the form of lower wages.
Gateway Pundit, Website
FactCheck.org rated this: Deaths Not Connected to Vaccines
FactCheck.org says: A false claim casting doubt on the live-saving COVID-19 vaccines suggests that three Canadian doctors died from the shots. But, in reality, they each died of a long-term illness unrelated to the vaccines.
Adam Laxalt, U.S. Senate candidate, R-Nev.
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Every income group would lose ground from the bill’s tax changes, but they are likely to be outweighed by savings to families provided by other parts of the bill and that were not included in the analysis cited.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News host
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts
FactCheck.org says: The figures, which pertain to doses not people, come from the country’s Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, which publishes periodic reports on suspected side effects “regardless of the causal link to the vaccination."
Mehmet Oz, 2022 Republican candidate for Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Fetterman has not called for eliminating life sentences for murder. He advocates eliminating the Pennsylvania law mandating life-without-parole sentences in "felony" murder cases, in which the defendant is an accomplice.
Social media posts
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: There is “unequivocal” evidence that humans are causing global warming, the U.N. climate change panel has said.
Social media posts
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
Social media posts
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso