“Scores of politicians and others are on a “list” of sex cases from newly unsealed Ghislaine Maxwell court documents.”
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Facebook. Claim dated 1 Aug 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A list shared on Facebook of scores of people who were convicted of sex crimes or were allegedly involved in other sex-related acts does not come from the unsealed documents. Cases on the list were made public years ago.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 August 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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