“Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed" in the U.S. because of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. inauguration address. Claim dated 20 Jan 2021.
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Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 20 January 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 January 2021. Its rating was “No Official Tally”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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