“It’s wrong that billionaires got $400 billion richer during the pandemic, while millions lost their $600 a week in extra unemployment.”
What Washington Post found
The $400 billion figure reflects a date a month after the stock market fell sharply; billionaires had lost money collectively if a February date was used.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Hillary Clinton (former secretary of state) made this claim around 20 August 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 August 2020. Its rating was “Cherry-picked number”.
Hillary Clinton has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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Related checks
- FactCheck.org: Distorts the Facts“Billionaires got $400 billion richer" during the pandemic.”