“The Denver Broncos signed Colin Kaepernick.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“The probability of Biden winning in Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania “given President Trump’s early lead ... is less than one in a quadrillion” in each state.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Purported statistical analysis is built on ridiculous assumption that votes are distributed evenly across areas.
“The Supreme Court “has decided to take up the Texas case.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID. There's no science for that.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Images that show a 90-year-old UK woman receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appeared online in a CNN news story in October.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says Kelly Loeffler “welcomed the support of a QAnon conspiracy theorist, and she sat down with a white supremacist for an interview.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The Southern Poverty Law Center does not include the interviewer on its list of white nationalists, but says it’s still investigating his collaboration with hate groups.
“The FDA knows that rushed-to-market COVID-19 vaccines may cause a wide range of life-threatening side effects, including death.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: A Food and Drug Administration presentation shows a “working list of possible adverse event outcomes” from coronavirus vaccines. That list includes all possible — not known — side effects.
“CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong” on COVID-19 quarantine guidance”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Polls show lower-than-ideal numbers of Americans who are willing to take a coronavirus vaccine. But there's still time for those numbers to rise as regulators approve vaccines and the initial rollout proceeds.
“People in Germany saw this electoral map that shows Trump beating Biden with 410 electoral votes before Dominion’s servers were seized.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“No state in the country verifies United States citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: When people register to vote, they sign a form attesting under penalty of perjury that they are a citizen and eligible to vote.
“In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Residents the Wisconsin Election Commission suspected of moving are “illegal voters.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Nothing about being on the list makes a person ineligible to vote, it's just clarifying where they live.
“Schumer supports “putting everybody on the Medicare system. He wants the Green New Deal … reduce funding for the police.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Schumer's public statements and legislative co-sponsorships do not support these claims.
“The USPS backdated 100K ballots so they could be counted illegally.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: All Wisconsin election results were reported by 4 a.m. Nov. 4, before the alleged backdating referenced by this purported whistleblower.
“Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table and illegally counted after election observers were told to leave.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: We found no credible reports of people dying because they used masks to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
“A Dominion representative in Gwinnett County improperly downloaded election data to “manipulate the data.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Neither the video nor the Facebook post provides any proof that the worker manipulated the data.
“The coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom and “there is absolutely no need for vaccines.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“The states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are” in Florida”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Currently, Florida has relatively low rates of coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations. However, the connection between this and Florida’s light regulation of businesses’ and residents’ behavior is less clear-cut.