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Checked by PolitiFact3 Aug 2023United StatesPolitics and government
Jack Posobiec, Conservative Activist

“Judge Tanya Chutkan “is the only federal judge in Washington, D.C., who has sentenced Jan. 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government had requested.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Data shows that Judge Tanya Chutkan has been more likely to give harsher sentences to Jan. 6 defendants than other judges. But she is not the only judge who has issued sentences harsher than prosecutors requested.

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check2 Aug 2023AustraliaPolitics and government
Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister

“All the surveys show that somewhere between 80 and 90 per cent of Indigenous Australians want [the Voice to Parliament]”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Yes, but more to it

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Mr Albanese's reading of the polls broadly aligns with their headline results, but there's more to it. Experts spoken to by Fact Check pointed to two polls, conducted by Ipsos (in January) and YouGov (in March), wh…