“Former US President Barack Obama praised the bravery of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.”
Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka rated this: False
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“Former President Barack Obama eliminated a law that “held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“video on Facebook, claiming to show former United States President Barack Obama admitting that he was born in Kenya”
PesaCheck rated this: Altered
“Says former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that former President Barack Obama “was ashamed at how much better of a golfer that I am.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire!
“Viral video is leaked footage of former US President Barack Obama sharing tactics used in destabilising countries to the NGOs financed by his foundation.”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The original videos of both the clips in the viral video are available in the public domain. They are part of two different speeches delivered by President Obama at two different venues. In the first one, he was talking…
“President Joe Biden delivered “higher wages” for American workers.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Not the Whole Story
FactCheck.org says: Wages have gone up since 2020, but not as fast as inflation. The administration argues 2019 is a better comparison due to effects from the pandemic.
“Videos of media talking about Tim Walz as a "happy warrior" are proof of government propaganda legalized by Barack Obama.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, signed into law by President Barack Obama, did not legalize propaganda in the U.S., and has no effect on privately owned news outlets.
“Photo shows former President Barack Obama wearing an anti-Donald Trump T-shirt.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: This photo of Barack Obama wearing an anti-Donald Trump T-shirt is not real. PolitiFact and other news outlets have fact-checked fake photos of well-known people wearing the same anti-Trump T-shirt.
“Video shows Senator Kennedy reading Barack Obama’s words to his gay lover in a hearing.”
Logically Facts rated this: False
“Former President Barack Obama “reacts to chef’s wife blaming him for the death of her husband Talafi Cambell.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Former President Barack Obama “removed 500,000 pedophiles from background check database.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: This claim misrepresented a 2017 Washington Post report on "fugitives from justice" being purged from the background check database for gun purchases. The report did not specify that the people removed were pedophiles.
“Video shows an aide to former President Donald Trump “grilling” former President Barack Obama.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“A video shows former President Barack Obama referring to his wife, Michelle as “Michael.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: When Obama said "Michael and I," he was referring to the son of former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen.
“A photo shows former President Barack Obama’s “old boyfriend,” to whom he paid “hush money.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The photo shows former president Barack Obama and his friend at a college dinner hosted by a student group. There is no evidence the two were ever romantically involved, and no proof Obama paid hush money.
“In Barack Obama’s memoir “A Promised Land,” he stated that the Congress government adopted lenient measures against terrorists involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks to appease the Muslim vote bank”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Barack Obama never made this claim in his book. He only discussed his conversation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who expressed concerns about the economy, Pakistan, and political repercussions, but there was no me…
“Every single one” of former President Barack Obama’s Medal of Freedom recipients in this video “was on Epstein’s flight logs.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Former US President Barack Obama said India will go bankrupt if Narendra Modi regains power in the country”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Barack Obama did not make any such statement against Narendra Modi’s governance or predicted about Indian economy going bankrupt. In his book ‘A Promised Land’, Barack Obama expressed his concerns saying that BJP is tou…
“Leaked messages “between former President Barack Obama and Judge Reinhart foreshadowed the unlawful raid on former Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The National Archives said it assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama's presidential records when he left office.
“Barack Obama’s real father is Communist Party propagandist Frank Marshall Davis.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire