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Josh Mandel, Ohio politician

“The federal government spent over $500k trying to force fish to exercise on treadmills, an additional $150k to see if gingerbread houses are earthquake proof.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Washington spent about $3,400, not on testing gingerbread houses, but on a workshop about earthquake resistant design. The fish experiment was about the emergence of life on land millions of years ago.

Social media posts

“The United Nations will establish a New World Order by 2030 which envisions one government, end of national sovereignty, depopulation and mandatory multiple vaccinations, end of irrigation & grazing livestock, private firms, among other goals”

FACTLY rated this: FALSE

FACTLY says: The United Nations official has clarified that the list of these goals is completely false and in fact, attributed these claims to far-right misinformation campaigns

Rodrigo Duterte

“President Rodrigo Duterte heeds the advise of some Cabinet members that "nothing good" would come out of a debate with retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio and, it would be a "demotion" for a sitting president to engage in a debate with an "ordinary lawyer.”

Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop

Vera Files says: It was Duterte himself who dared Carpio to a debate considering that they "are both lawyers."

Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines

“President Rodrigo Duterte says the Philippines' historic arbitral win in July 2016 against China on the South China Sea dispute is "just a (piece of) paper" that he would "throw into the wastebasket.”

Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop

Vera Files says: In his speech at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020, Duterte "firmly reject(ed)" attempts to "undermine" the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He declared that the arbi…