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Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Cuomo opens New York 72 hours before his daughter’s wedding.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 17, 2021
Andrew Giuliani
stated on May 18, 2021 in a news conference:
“The one good thing about the antibodies if you’ve had it, is it actually is even better than the vaccine, and here’s why. With the vaccine you can still transmit, with the antibodies you can’t transmit.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 1, 2021
Kevin Parker
stated on April 14, 2021 in a Tweet:
“Law enforcement violence is the leading cause of death for young Black men and women in the US.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 29, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on January 4, 2021 in a Facebook post:
New York “is trying to pass a bill that would allow them to round up non mask wearers and people who don’t want to take the vaccine into concentration camps. Then with a court order they can force vaccinate you.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • January 5, 2021
Rick Scott
stated on November 16, 2020 in a television interview:
Says Charles Schumer supports “putting everybody on the Medicare system. He wants the Green New Deal … reduce funding for the police.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 4, 2020
X posts
stated on October 29, 2020 in a tweet:
Queens voters received pre-marked ballots for Joe Biden.
False
By Hayat Norimine • November 1, 2020
Michael Caputo
stated on September 13, 2020 in a Facebook video:
“There are hit squads being trained all over this country” to violently oppose a second term for President Donald Trump.
False
By Bill McCarthy • September 17, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on September 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says a Twitter account for “Scarsdale NY Antifa” tweeted that “chapters of Antifa around Oregon have collaborated to ignite fires around the state.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • September 15, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2020 in a speech:
“Cuomo ended cash bail … and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 29, 2020
Tom Reed
stated on July 9, 2020 in a news conference:
Opening the schools “is a local determination, but it’s not a state determination.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 18, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on June 30, 2020 in a Facebook post:
New York state “hospitals reporting thousands of fungus lung infections due to wearing a mask!!”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 7, 2020
Chris Jacobs
stated on June 17, 2020 in an ad:
“As a lawyer working in Korea, Nate McMurray helped send American jobs to Asia”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 20, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on June 9, 2020 in a tweet:
“Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment … Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?”
False
By Bill McCarthy, Jill Terreri Ramos, Ciara O'Rourke • June 9, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Emily Venezky • May 26, 2020
Andy Biggs
stated on May 7, 2020 in a letter:
“States like New York, Illinois and California have been vocal in their demands for funding to bail out their pension systems, which were failing long before the COVID-19 outbreak, and other programs that aren’t related to this crisis.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 19, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:
If masks prevent coronavirus, governors would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them.
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on April 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Herd immunity is probably why California has far fewer COVID-19 deaths than New York.
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 21, 2020
Jerome Adams
stated on March 27, 2020 in a television interview:
“They’re furloughing nurses in hospitals in western New York state.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 2, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in a Fox News town hall:
Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020
Bloggers
stated on March 11, 2020 in a blog post:
“NYC man drops dead in middle of street — suspected coronavirus!”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 12, 2020
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