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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.

Social media posts

“The same deputy who got shot through her jaw in Saturday’s shooting is the same officer seen on video laughing and smirking at the scene of security guard Andres Guardado’s death after he was shot and killed by LASD officers on June 18th, 2020.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: The LA Sheriff’s Department hasn’t released the names or photos of the ambushed deputies, but told PolitiFact the female deputy was not at the scene following Guardado’s death.

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Social media posts

“CDC announces that ordinary (non-N95) masks (which most people are wearing) will do nothing to protect you against wildfire smoke … Fun fact: smoke particles are far larger than SARS-CoV-2 particles.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: For COVID-19, cloth masks are used as a form of source control to help stop virus spread and are meant to protect others by blocking the wearer’s coughs or sneezes, not to protect the wearer from tiny viral particles.

Checked by PolitiFact14 Sep 2020United States
Mark Kelly, Democratic candidate for Senate in Arizona

“Says Sen. Martha McSally “supported a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program and ‘shift costs’ onto seniors” and “even supported raising the retirement age.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True

PolitiFact says: McSally has a mixed voting record on a transition of Medicare into a premium support or voucher program. McSally in 2012 stated support for potentially raising the retirement age.