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Checked by PolitiFact23 May 2022United StatesElections
David Perdue, former U.S. Senator running in Republican primary for governor in Georgia

“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp “allowed 7.5 million ballots to be sent to every registered voter.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger -- not Gov. Brian Kemp -- announced in March 2020 that amid the COVID-19 pandemic he would send absentee ballot applications -- not actual ballots -- to every active voter.

Checked by PolitiFact20 May 2022United StatesHealth
Social media posts

“Says Fox News and Candace Owens tweeted that “New studies show that 68% of those who used ivermectin to treat or prevent covid are suffering long-term bowel and urinary incontinence.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Tweets that claim people who used ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 are now suffering “long-term bowel and urinary incontinence” are fake. And these "new studies" with troubling ivermectin findings don’t exist.

Social media posts

“The U.S. government’s inaction over buffalo killing that harmed Native American populations in the 1800s shows it is now “is creating food shortages” so that Americans are more “dependent on the government.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: In the late 1800s, welcoming the extinction of the buffalo to suppress Indigenous peoples was described as “de facto government policy." This does not prove the government is creating food shortages currently.