“McDonald’s and Coke have both announced no whites will be hired in top positions.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“Moderna chief medical officer admits: mRNA alters DNA.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Bill Gates is going to block the sun”
MediaWise rated this: Mostly Not Legit
MediaWise says: While Gates is one of SCoPex’s funders, the experiment is overseen by advisers run by Harvard. Additionally, the SCoPEx experiment will not actually block or dim the sun. Instead, the experiment will only release nontox…
“Kids in cages" in border facilities are "at 700% capacity.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: News reports in March said a tent complex in Texas, a temporary U.S. border facility holding minors who cross the Mexico border, was at 700% or more of its capacity. Children sleep in see-through plastic pods.
“Maybe (the COVID-19 vaccine) doesn't work, and they're simply not telling you that.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“President Joe Biden’s American Relief Plan “has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Spending on K-12 education in the measure is set to continue through 2028, although 90% of it will be distributed between 2021 and 2025.
“PSA from 1956 warns of a future plague that will break out in the year 2020”
MediaWise rated this: Not Legit
MediaWise says: The video was created in the year 2020, not 1956, and the video’s creator has clarified that this was just meant to be funny.
“Says Joe Biden is “withholding $150 million in aid from Ukraine” to “pressure Ukraine to drop all criminal investigations into him and his son, Hunter.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence that Ukraine is investigating Joe Biden or his son Hunter.
“Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: There is no nationwide lockdown. Thousands of people are arriving at the southern border, but most are being expelled.
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: In city after city, highways have been designed in a way that prompted the demolition or fragmentation of Black neighborhoods. The reason is a combination of racism, lower real estate costs, and weaker political clout.
“Dejywan Floyd, a Black man arrested April 1 in the fatal shooting of a woman in North Carolina, is George Floyd’s brother.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence that the suspect is the brother of George Floyd.
“¿Estoy en peligro si ya me vacuné con la Johnson & Johnson?”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Esto es lo que sabemos
“Only about 6% of the president’s proposal actually goes" to infrastructure, meaning "water, wastewater ... highways, roads, bridges, perhaps broadband.”
FactCheck.org rated this: 6% is too low
FactCheck.org says: Thune’s low figure doesn’t hold up when we counted the very things that Thune describes as infrastructure, which add up to nearly 17% of the total spending.
“The proposed tax increases in the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan could lead to 1 million fewer jobs in the first two years.”
Washington Post rated this: Mostly False
Washington Post says: Blunt tweeted about a study that did not even pretend to be about Biden’s infrastructure proposal or his actual tax proposal. (No Pinocchios because Blunt deleted the tweet.)
“Says Raphael Warnock supports boycotts of Georgia to protest voting law.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The ad omits Warnock’s full statements about whether businesses should boycott the state.
“Something less than 6% ... of this proposal that President Biden has put forward is actually focused on infrastructure.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: About 6% of the Biden proposal would pay for roads, bridges, and highways. But those aren’t the only types of public works that have traditionally qualified as “infrastructure.”
“A new, independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations used various loopholes to pay zero federal income tax in 2020.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: A study was released days earlier by a non-governmental group that concluded that at least 55 large companies paid zero federal income taxes in 2020.
“After learning some officers are Jewish, “Ilhan Omar says police shouldn’t exist.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Black Lives Matter protest at Iowa Capitol was an “insurrection” like that on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Organizers of a Black Lives Matter-related rally obtained a permit, entered the Iowa Capitol in an orderly way and protested bills. One arrest was made. Five died after the Jan. 6 US Capitol insurrection.
“DMX received COVID vaccine days before heart attack.”
PolitiFact rated this: False