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“With federal stimulus money for schools, “no distinctions are being made between Wisconsin schools that remain closed to in-person learning, and those that have been re-opened for months.”
“el video que circuló por Facebook es del rescate de un auto atrapado en el desplome del Metro de Ciudad de México”
“Joe Suffers Brain Fart! Biden Visits Elementary School, Asks The Children If They’re High Schoolers (VIDEO).”
PolitiFact says: The headline distorts President Joe Biden’s comments. A video of Biden’s visit to Yorktown Elementary School shows he was joking when he asked a group of students if they were in 9th grade.
“Meme notes high COVID-19 survival rates and questions getting "dangerous vaccine.”
FactCheck.org says: COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020. But a meme minimizes the toll the pandemic has taken and questions getting inoculated, despite the safety record of the vaccines.
“An audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Ariz., “is confirming the rumors that real ballots have a special watermark.”
PolitiFact says: Maricopa County says it doesn't use watermarks on its ballots. No evidence has emerged that the audit, led by a firm headed by Doug Logan, who was part of the “stop the steal” conspiracy theories, has found watermarks.
“If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up.”
PolitiFact says: Crime went up in the selected time periods, but there’s no proof that it happened as a direct result of budget cuts.
“Las personas vacunadas contra el COVID-19 no pueden donar sangre.”
Noticias Telemundo says: La Cruz Roja emitió un comunicado el 24 de febrero informando de que las personas que han recibido una vacuna de COVID-19 pueden donar sangre, plaquetas y plasma.
“Corporate income has increased as a share of” gross domestic product.”
PolitiFact says: The percentage has mostly moved within a narrow band for the past decade and a half. But the decade between 2010 and 2019 did see a higher percentage than any decade going back to the 1930s.
“Si hay un tratamiento para una enfermedad, el gobierno federal no puede aprobar una vacuna por ley”.”
FactCheck.org says: No existe una ley que prohiba vacunas si hay tratamientos disponibles para una enfermedad específica.
“A new state agreement with Foxconn “will save Wisconsin taxpayers $2.77 billion.”
“Anyone remember Kamala telling Joe during the debate: ‘You will do whatever the Chinese tell you! They gave your son over a billion dollars.’”
“Every migrant child being brought to a shelter is being given a copy of [Vice President Kamala Harris’] children’s book.”
FactCheck.org says: A single copy of Vice President Kamala Harris’ children’s book was one of many titles donated to a shelter for immigrant children in Long Beach, California.
“No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck.”
PolitiFact says: His full sentence was: "No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck or taking care of themselves and their loved ones, or parent or spouse or child."
“Says Democrats blocked his efforts at police reform.”
PolitiFact says: Democrats and Republicans wrote their own versions of police reform bills in 2020. Neither passed. Lawmakers from both parties are now negotiating legislation.
“Video shows President Joe Biden saying: "No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck.”
FactCheck.org says: President Joe Biden said, "No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck or taking care of themselves and their loved ones." Partisan social media posts used only the first part of that statement.
“Decades ago we used to invest 2% of our GDP on research and development. Today, that’s less than 1%.”
PolitiFact says: This is accurate, according to data from the National Science Foundation
“I "inherited a nation, we all did, that was in crisis. ... The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
FactCheck.org says: The economy was struggling, but it had improved some by the time he was sworn in.
“In fact, the pay gap between CEOs and their workers is now among the largest in history. According to one study, CEOs make 320 times what their average workers make.”
Washington Post says: The study was of CEOs at 350 top companies. Biden frames it as all CEOs.
“Just before COVID, we had … the lowest unemployment ever recorded for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. The lowest for women in nearly 70 years.”
PolitiFact says: This is exaggerated. The rate for each demographic started creeping up prior to the pandemic, and the pandemic made it worse.