“It is a fact that Obama created ISIS.”
What PolitiFact found
The inception of the Islamic State group once known as ISIS predates Barack Obama’s presidency, which started in 2009. The group’s terrorist creators and leaders have been well documented; Obama is not among them.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Alex Jones (InfoWars creator) made this claim around 23 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 April 2024, 10 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Alex Jones has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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