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Lara Logan
stated on February 19, 2021 in a TV segment:
“The reality” in Texas is that “you’re flying helicopters, using fossil fuels, to put oil on wind turbines to defrost them.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 24, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 22, 2021 in a TV segment:
“There’s no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That’s a lie.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 23, 2021
Greg Kelly
stated on February 8, 2021 in a Newsmax TV segment:
“Only one person died on that day” during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 9, 2021
Charlie Kirk
stated on January 26, 2021 in an Instagram post:
“Joe Biden admits he is governing like a ‘dictator.'”
False
By Daniel Funke • January 28, 2021
Jordan Rachel
stated on January 16, 2021 in a tweet:
A $15-per-hour minimum wage would raise the price of a Taco Bell burrito to $38.
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 20, 2021
Greg Kelly
stated on January 11, 2021 in a TV segment:
Says Joe Biden is on video “admitting to” election fraud in a “confession.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 12, 2021
Rush Limbaugh
stated on December 15, 2020 in a radio show segment:
The American Medical Association rescinded a previous statement and now says “hydroxychloroquine is okay” for COVID-19.
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 16, 2020
Laura Ingraham
stated on December 8, 2020 in a TV handoff:
“You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID. There’s no science for that.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 10, 2020
Brit Hume
stated on September 29, 2020 in a Fox News interview:
“I don’t think there’s any doubt (Joe) Biden’s senile.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • October 1, 2020
Dinesh D'Souza
stated on September 23, 2020 in an Instagram post:
Kamala Harris “has not formally taken questions from the press a single time” since she was announced as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick.
False
By Bill McCarthy • September 25, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on September 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“CBS stole a photo from Latinos for Trump in Phoenix and tagged it as a Biden event.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • September 18, 2020
Greg Gutfeld
stated on August 20, 2020 in a TV segment:
“QAnon violence! There is none.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 24, 2020
Sean Hannity
stated on July 21, 2020 in an episode of his TV show:
The Trump administration has had “zero unfulfilled equipment and supply requests from state governors.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 27, 2020
Brian Kilmeade
stated on July 2, 2020 in an episode of "Fox & Friends":
The President’s Daily Brief “is like a mini novel.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 7, 2020
Erin Burnett
stated on June 1, 2020 in remarks on her CNN show:
If President Trump decides to deploy the U.S. military domestically, he would be “mobilizing U.S. military troops on American soil for the first time since 1807.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2020
Chuck Todd
stated on May 10, 2020 in a TV segment:
Says Attorney General William Barr didn’t cite the “rule of law” in explaining his decision in the Michael Flynn case during a CBS News interview.
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 11, 2020
Laura Ingraham
stated on May 4, 2020 in a TV segment:
“There was no real scientific basis for believing that” social distancing would be necessary, “since it had never been studied.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 6, 2020
Bloggers
stated on April 27, 2020 in an article:
Dr. Anthony Fauci “has known for 15 years that chloroquine and … hydroxychloroquine will not only treat a current case of coronavirus but prevent future cases.”
False
By Daniel Funke • May 6, 2020
Rudy Giuliani
stated on April 26, 2020 in a tweet:
“Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2020
Phil McGraw
stated on April 16, 2020 in a Fox News appearance:
There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 17, 2020
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