PolitiFact
PolitiFact is a United States fact-checking site run by the Poynter Institute. It rates claims by politicians and viral posts on its Truth-O-Meter, from True to Pants on Fire.
“Most of these killers tend to be 18, 19 years old.”
PolitiFact says: Murphy is accurate, and even a little understated, in the context of school shootings alone, according to a Washington Post database of school shootings since 1999.
“Photos of a person in a skirt show the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter.”
“Photos of monkeypox lesions prove the current virus outbreak is a hoax.”
“Students in Wilkes County, North Carolina, “identify themselves as cats or ‘furries’” and “have asked for litter boxes to be placed in school restrooms for them to use.”
“The shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde County, Texas, was a false flag.”
“The Uvalde, Texas, school shooter was a “transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos.”
“Video shows a “Russian pilot” escaping from jets and a Russian aircraft getting hit by a missile.”
“Video shows helicopters in Ukraine “being picked off in ambush - Short range air-to-air missile”
“In a recent year, the Milwaukee Police Department "collected more guns per capita off the streets than in New York.”
“Stacey Abrams "supported the MLB boycott.”
PolitiFact says: Abrams repeatedly threw cold water on the notion of a boycott — in a Twitter video, in comments to the leading newspaper in Atlanta, and in an op-ed in USA Today. She even lobbied Major League Baseball personally.
“A Mars Rover photo captured by NASA shows a doorway, suggesting extraterrestrial life.”
PolitiFact says: NASA officials dismissed claims that the doorway is evidence of extraterrestrial life and said the formation is an unremarkable, naturally-occurring crevice that matches many others seen around the planet.
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp “allowed 7.5 million ballots to be sent to every registered voter.”
PolitiFact says: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger -- not Gov. Brian Kemp -- announced in March 2020 that amid the COVID-19 pandemic he would send absentee ballot applications -- not actual ballots -- to every active voter.
“In 2020, when Raphael Warnock ran a campaign ad featuring himself with a beagle, “that wasn’t his dog.”
PolitiFact says: The dog in a series of popular campaign ads was lent to Warnock’s campaign by a supporter for the purpose of filming the commercials.
“Says Fox News and Candace Owens tweeted that “New studies show that 68% of those who used ivermectin to treat or prevent covid are suffering long-term bowel and urinary incontinence.”
PolitiFact says: Tweets that claim people who used ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 are now suffering “long-term bowel and urinary incontinence” are fake. And these "new studies" with troubling ivermectin findings don’t exist.
“The U.S. government’s inaction over buffalo killing that harmed Native American populations in the 1800s shows it is now “is creating food shortages” so that Americans are more “dependent on the government.”
PolitiFact says: In the late 1800s, welcoming the extinction of the buffalo to suppress Indigenous peoples was described as “de facto government policy." This does not prove the government is creating food shortages currently.
“A photo shows students in Lviv celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday.”
“A recent photo shows the “Russian Orthodox Church blessing a rocket called Satan.”
“A video shows “satanic death cult high priestess” Oprah Winfrey condoning and promoting “pedophilia and sex trafficking.”
“Agriculture “is still the No. 1 sector of the economy” in Georgia.”
PolitiFact says: Federal data shows that agriculture accounted for about 0.7% of Georgia's gross domestic product in 2021. That ranked far down the list of biggest industry sectors in the state.