“Says Joe Biden is “following through with a fracking ban.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 25 Jan 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
President Joe Biden has not “followed through” on a fracking ban. Biden’s climate change plan never called for banning fracking. Instead, it proposed banning new fracking on federal lands.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 25 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 January 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Where the claim appeared
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