“The global cost of corruption is as much as 5% of the world's GDP.”
Kamala Harris
Vice President of the United States. in a speech. Claim dated 4 May 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Harris cited a figure that’s been popularly used for more than a decade. But its source is obscure.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States) made this claim around 4 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 May 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
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