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Marjorie Taylor Greene, U.S. representative

“Ukraine is a country whose "government only exists because the Obama State Department helped to overthrow the previous regime.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Echoes Russia's Claims

FactCheck.org says: Experts in foreign policy related to Russia and Ukraine called Greene's claim "ludicrous" and "preposterous and embarrassing." Moreover, they said, Greene appears to have bought into Russian propaganda.

Tanya Plibersek, Shadow Minister for Education and Women

“Right now in Sydney, if you're a Muslim woman sitting on a train and someone yells at you for wearing a hijab, you've got no protection under the law from that.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overreach

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Plibersek's claim is overreach. There are no religious vilification laws at either a state or federal level which would protect someone in NSW from vilification as described by Ms Plibersek, but experts told Fact Che…

Social media posts

“Classified documents from Ukraine “confirm without a shadow of a doubt” that the Ukraine government was “covertly preparing an offensive operation against Donbas, scheduled for March 2022.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: The document isn’t classified, and there are no direct statements in it about an attack on the Donbas. It makes references to a training camp on the opposite side of the country.