Politics and government
4,522 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Resignation letter attributed to the President of the Kenya Editors' Guild”
“Screengrab of a Tweet purpotedly by the Prime Minister of South Africa denying the existence of the Omicron variant”
“Gas prices were WAY higher in 2008, under REPUBLICAN president George W. Bush.”
PolitiFact says: Weekly gas prices peaked and fell under Bush, but the movement of gas prices doesn’t correlate with who’s in office. It’s determined by the balance of supply and demand, influenced by the health of the economy and OPEC.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender”
“The Marcoses did not steal anything from the government”
“Says Vice President Kamala Harris called the unvaccinated “dirty Trump people.”
PolitiFact says: Kamala Harris didn’t call unvaccinated Americans “dirty Trump people” in a recent phone call.. Her spokesperson called the claim a fabrication and said the vice president didn’t participate in any such call.
“DP Ruto has travelled to the US to congratulate President Trump”
“Facebook account claiming Governor Sonko is offering grants to jobless Kenyans”
“In 2015, when Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating critical race theory lens in education...They were trying to indoctrinate kids.”
PolitiFact says: Scott cited information from Virginia Dept. of Education as evidence that it is teaching critical race theory, but the documents he referenced were suggested reading and training material for educators, not students.
“NYS, JSC among 18 government websites hacked by Indonesian Group”
“Wajir Governor is giving away 200 free motor bikes”
“A public notice, purportedly signed by Musalia Mudavadi, revoking remarks made on behalf of the ANC party”
“Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna pleads with President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to allow him back to Kenya”
“An old tweet from Joe Biden shows he's a "hypocrite" for criticizing former President Donald Trump for issuing the "same [pandemic-related] travel ban.”
FactCheck.org says: Social media posts claim President Joe Biden was critical of pandemic travel restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump. But that his remark was about an immigration order directed at largely Muslim countries.
“The House-passed Build Back Better bill is a “government takeover of child care.”
PolitiFact says: The federal government is not nationalizing the child care industry, will not own the facilities and will not hire the staff.
“Filipinos have Ferdinand Marcos to thank for the 13th month pay law”
“Photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s office with the portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar”
FACTLY says: The photo is morphed from an image where the President usually chairs the security council sessions of Russia. In several other similar images, the portrait seen is the State Seal of the Russian Federation. There are no…
“President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan “is fully paid for, or even more than fully paid for. And CBO just completed a comprehensive review of it in which they found essentially the same thing.”
Washington Post says: The CBO's estimate, with or without IRS tax enforcement, found a budget deficit.
“Bill of Rights was upheld during Marcos' martial law”
FactRakers says: Government has documented at least 11,000 of human rights violations and paid victims