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Checked by PolitiFact13 Jan 2021United StatesPolitics and government
Social media posts

“Says President Trump has ordered the military to take over “major corrupt cities” to stay in office and that U.S. citizens will receive emergency alerts on their devices.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: The rumor, which tells people to stock up on food and water and warns against traveling to large cities, was initially promoted by known conspiracy theorists and has no basis in truth.

Checked by Vera Files19 Oct 2020PhilippinesPolitics and government
Lorenzo Gadon

“President Corazon Aquino shutdown the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a project of her predecessor Ferdinand Marcos Sr., because she "didn't want Filipinos to remember the Marcos family.”

Vera Files rated this: False

Vera Files says: While it is true that Aquino decommissioned the multi-billion-peso BNPP, the “reason” that Gadon cited has nothing to do with the mothballed power plant. In 1986, Aquino’s Executive Order 55 declared that the Philippine…

Checked by PolitiFact30 Sep 2020United StatesPolitics and government
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, U.S. Rep., D-Fla.

“Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez “approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: While Gimenez was a county commissioner about a decade ago, he had a car allowance for a Mercedes-Benz. When he became mayor he took over the lease personally.

Checked by PolitiFact28 Sep 2020United StatesPolitics and government
Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee

“Says Amy Coney Barrett “has a written track record, disagreeing adamantly with the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ACA. In fact, she publicly criticized Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding the law eight years ago.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True

PolitiFact says: Barrett hasn’t written a lot about the Affordable Care Act, but what she has written has been decidedly negative about the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling upholding its constitutionality.