“Mike Tyson says he’s willing to box Olympic DUDE with all proceeds to go to a battered women’s charity.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“Photo from an Aug. 14 campaign event in Michigan shows “JD Vance couldn’t fill a small room.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The photo misleads about the crowd size at Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s Aug. 14 campaign rally in Michigan. It was shared on X almost two hours before Vance took the stage.
“Photo shows former President Donald Trump “asleep at the 2017 NATO summit.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says Elon Musk posted on X, “Any harassment of Trump supporters using the term ‘weird’ will be punished.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had his stomach pumped “after overingesting horse semen.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Sen Rick Scott supports limiting abortion with exceptions. Scott said he would have signed Florida's 6-week ban, which includes some exceptions and said he supports a 15-week limit with rape, incest and health exceptions
“Video shows Boston Red Sox player Jarren Duran getting a “MASSIVE” ovation after his two-game suspension for homophobic slur.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: A social media video claims to show Boston Red Sox fans giving a standing ovation to outfielder Jarren Duran’s return from a two-game suspension for using a homophobic slur. But the video was altered.
“Video shows former President Donald Trump freezing up.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Videos of media talking about Tim Walz as a "happy warrior" are proof of government propaganda legalized by Barack Obama.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, signed into law by President Barack Obama, did not legalize propaganda in the U.S., and has no effect on privately owned news outlets.
“Project 2025 would end gay marriage.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Project 2025 includes no proposal to eliminate same-sex marriage, but the document does refers to heterosexual families as "ideal."
“Video muestra policías entrando en una casa en Inglaterra "por comentarios en redes sociales".”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: El video en Instagram no es de policías allanando una casa de británicos por sus comentarios en redes sociales. El video fue publicado en YouTube en mayo y es de una redada para arrestar a traficantes de drogas.
“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “forced schools to stock tampons in boys’ bathrooms.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: A Minnesota law requiresschools provide access to menstrual products in school bathrooms but not distinguish by sex or gender, saying period products "must be available to all menstruating students."
“Photo of Kamala Harris’ Aug. 7 rally near Detroit was AI-generated and “there was nobody there.” Attendees pictured “didn’t exist.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Local news reports and dozens of photos and videos from local and national media outlets documented an Aug. 7 Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign rally with thousands of attendees at Michigan’s Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
“Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: If Trump is comparing his Jan. 6 speech on the Ellipse to King's 1963 March on Washington speech, then the latter was perhaps four times bigger.
“Tim Walz firmó una ley para dar licencia de conducir a inmigrantes ilegales en Minnesota".”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: El gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, firmó una ley que permite a los habitantes del estado, independientemente de su estatus migratorio, solicitar una licencia de conducir o un carné de identidad.
“Tim Walz signed into law driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in Minnesota.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill that lets people in the state, regardless of immigration status, apply for a license or an ID card. To get a license, people must meet certain requirements.
“When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: After 24 years of service, Walz retired in May 2005 to run for Congress. He submitted retirement paperwork months before. In March 2005, his unit was notified of possible deployment. The official order came in July 2005.
“Elon Musk calls for ban on ‘The View,’ ‘I’d rather walk barefoot on hot asphalt than watch ‘The View.’”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa” because they were “fleeing” the state under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: In 2021, almost 4 times as many Minnesotans moved to Florida than Floridians moved to Minnesota. For years, more people move from upper Midwestern states to Florida than the inverse, and predates Gov. Tim Walz's tenure
“In Pompano Beach, Florida, Somali immigrants illegally in the U.S. were in line to get driver’s licenses and “all you need to vote is a driver's license.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Florida does not allow immigrants in the U.S. illegally to obtain driver’s licenses. Only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections.