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FactCheck.org says: International trade was a factor, but there were additional reasons — such as years of relatively weak prices, declining incomes and rising farm debt, according to agricultural economists and government reports.
PolitiFact says: The law was signed in 1807, but it was last invoked in 1992, and had been invoked numerous times during the 1950s and 1960s to protect civil rights for black Americans in the South.
PolitiFact says: Studies show COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, not bacteria. The Italian Ministry of Health still identifies the disease as caused by a virus. WHO never “outlawed” autopsies of patients with COVID-19.
FactCheck.org says: Social media posts say the estranged wife of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, is the sister of his fellow former officer Tou Thao. Her lawyer says she’s not.
PolitiFact says: The image of a “riot manual” was first posted in 2015, to falsely accuse a Democrat super PAC of organizing a violent protest.
PolitiFact says: Soros and Open Society Foundations say they do not support violence. Open Society Foundations has not given grants to organizations to support violent protesting.
PolitiFact says: Washington officials say there was never a blackout. Experts and social media tools suggest #dcblackout was initially spread by fake and hacked Twitter accounts, possibly as part of a coordinated disinformation campaign.
PolitiFact says: Trump never wrote the tweet. It was fabricated.
PolitiFact says: The Lancet had no articles until late January.
PolitiFact says: This video was edited and originally uploaded to a news site as satire.
PolitiFact says: Minnesota officials who originally made the claim later walked it back.
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence to support the post. We could find no tweets from local antifa cells or local news reports about protests moving into residential areas on May 31, the day the post was made.