“A graph shows the number of human trafficking arrests increased dramatically under President Donald Trump.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 9 Aug 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The data for years 2010-2016 is drawn from official ICE arrest figures, but the data for years 2017-2018 is based on bogus numbers gathered by followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 August 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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