“In the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker. Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. Claim dated 7 Feb 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
This lacks evidence and recent research suggests that global democracy has been on the decline for the past several years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 7 February 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 February 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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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