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.
“Under the 30x30 global land protection goal “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”
PolitiFact says: While 300 million might live in or near lands that would be affected, the leading group of nations supporting 30x30 put a high priority on giving Indigenous Peoples stronger land rights.
“Between late December of 2020 and last month, a total of 3,362 people apparently died after getting the COVID vaccine in the United States … The actual number is almost certainly higher.”
“Joe Biden is proposing that any family who tries to pass a business or a farm down to their son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter are going to pay a huge new tax.”
PolitiFact says: The White House is proposing a series of new taxes that could hit large inheritances in a significant way. But Christie is wrong to frame these as hitting “any family” passing down a business within the family.
“The COVID-19 vaccines and side effects from them can “shed” to affect unvaccinated people.”
“With federal stimulus money for schools, “no distinctions are being made between Wisconsin schools that remain closed to in-person learning, and those that have been re-opened for months.”
“Joe Suffers Brain Fart! Biden Visits Elementary School, Asks The Children If They’re High Schoolers (VIDEO).”
PolitiFact says: The headline distorts President Joe Biden’s comments. A video of Biden’s visit to Yorktown Elementary School shows he was joking when he asked a group of students if they were in 9th grade.
“An audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Ariz., “is confirming the rumors that real ballots have a special watermark.”
PolitiFact says: Maricopa County says it doesn't use watermarks on its ballots. No evidence has emerged that the audit, led by a firm headed by Doug Logan, who was part of the “stop the steal” conspiracy theories, has found watermarks.
“If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up.”
PolitiFact says: Crime went up in the selected time periods, but there’s no proof that it happened as a direct result of budget cuts.
“Corporate income has increased as a share of” gross domestic product.”
PolitiFact says: The percentage has mostly moved within a narrow band for the past decade and a half. But the decade between 2010 and 2019 did see a higher percentage than any decade going back to the 1930s.
“A new state agreement with Foxconn “will save Wisconsin taxpayers $2.77 billion.”
“Anyone remember Kamala telling Joe during the debate: ‘You will do whatever the Chinese tell you! They gave your son over a billion dollars.’”
“No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck.”
PolitiFact says: His full sentence was: "No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck or taking care of themselves and their loved ones, or parent or spouse or child."
“Says Democrats blocked his efforts at police reform.”
PolitiFact says: Democrats and Republicans wrote their own versions of police reform bills in 2020. Neither passed. Lawmakers from both parties are now negotiating legislation.
“Decades ago we used to invest 2% of our GDP on research and development. Today, that’s less than 1%.”
PolitiFact says: This is accurate, according to data from the National Science Foundation
“Just before COVID, we had … the lowest unemployment ever recorded for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. The lowest for women in nearly 70 years.”
PolitiFact says: This is exaggerated. The rate for each demographic started creeping up prior to the pandemic, and the pandemic made it worse.
“Law enforcement violence is the leading cause of death for young Black men and women in the US.”
PolitiFact says: Police violence is a leading cause of death for young black men, but it is not at the top of the list, according to academic research and federal data.