PolitiFact

“This idea that it's the pandemic of the unvaccinated, it's just a total lie.”

PolitiFact says: Scientific evidence and studies show that unvaccinated people are more than five times more likely than vaccinated people to catch COVID-19, and over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19.

“Ashli Babbitt was assassinated despite posing no threat on Jan. 6.”

“Trash bins discovered outside the Gloucester County Board of Elections containing blank ballots as well as bags of shredded ballots from Tuesday’s election!”

PolitiFact says: Papers seen in trash bins in a video shot outside the Gloucester County, N.J., Board of Elections office have no viable election use, officials said. The papers included outdated envelopes and instructional inserts.

“Federal agents directly incited people on Jan. 6, 2021, and "intentionally entrapped" American citizens.”

PolitiFact says: There is no credible evidence of this conspiracy theory, and Carlson’s piece doesn’t present any. The film points to unverified, anecdotal accounts and circumstantial speculation.

“If you take a look at gas prices and you take a look at oil prices, that is a consequence of, thus far, the refusal of Russia or the OPEC nations to pump more oil.”

PolitiFact says: Experts say Biden has some justification for his position. The U.S. could increase production on its own, but not as quickly or effectively as OPEC and Russia.

“Product shortages are manufactured; goods are stuck in warehouses.”

PolitiFact says: There are problems up and down the supply chain, from labor and raw materials shortages to cyber attacks, extreme weather events, and the Covid-19 pandemic. These problems are not made up.

“Global warming is part of (a) natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles.”

PolitiFact says: A botanist’s quote from 2008 does not reflect the current scientific consensus, which is that human activity does contribute to global warming.

“Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.”

PolitiFact says: The claim is based on data that didn't go beyond 2010. Average yearly ice loss in the 2010s was higher than in the 1930s.

“States run elections, not the federal government.”

“There are over 1 million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls.”

PolitiFact says: Stone's information comes from Defend Florida, a partisan citizen group. Election experts say that Defend Florida’s methodology is amateurish and flawed. State GOP officials have defended the integrity of the election.

“Wages have gone up higher, faster than inflation.”

PolitiFact says: Wages have risen faster than inflation in August and September, but not for Biden’s presidency as a whole.

“DEA agent Mark Ibrahim was forced from his job and later indicted simply because he was near the Capitol protest on Jan. 6.”

PolitiFact says: Court documents show Ibrahim had already submitted his intent to resign from the DEA weeks before Jan. 6 and was indicted because he brought a gun with him onto Capitol grounds and made false statements to federal agents

“Jan. 6 is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans — disfavored Americans — of their core constitutional rights.”

“Says gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch “worked with Scott Walker to sign five abortion restrictions into law that took away services and threatened doctors with prison time for providing safe and legal abortions.”

“Violent crime rate dropped like a rock following West Virginia’s adoption of permitless carry.”

PolitiFact says: The data is cherry-picked. After an initial decline in 2017 and 2018, violent crime in West Virginia rose again in 2019 and 2020 and is now back around its level prior to the law being passed.

“Fairfax County (Va.) is not requiring the last four digits of Social Security Numbers on absentee ballots in this election.”

PolitiFact says: The article garbled the nature of a lawsuit against Fairfax County’s elections office. Under state law, absentee ballots do not require Social Security numbers. Instead, the suit challenged applications for mail ballots.

“Unmask your kids! Any carbon dioxide concentrations above” 2,000 parts per million are “dangerous!”

PolitiFact says: There is no evidence that masks cause a buildup of carbon dioxide that is dangerous to children.

“Virginia Democrat operatives” and Terry McAuliffe campaign staffers posed as white supremacists and stood by Republican Glenn Youngkin’s bus.”

PolitiFact says: The Republican anti-Trump Lincoln Project assumed responsibility for the stunt and said that neither McAuliffe’s campaign nor the state’s Democratic Party were involved.

“Alec Baldwin arrested for first-degree murder and possession of child pornography.”

“Blood “starts to clot in a minute or two” after a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine injection.”

PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence that either of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines used in the United States — Pfizer and Moderna — cause blood clots.