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Facebook posts stated on November 25, 2018 in a post:

Black Friday originated in 1904 when enslaved people were sold at a discount to boost the economy.

By Monique Curet • December 1, 2021

Jack Salzwedel stated on October 8, 2019 in a public forum:

"There’s more African American males in the penal system right now than there were (enslaved) at the height of slavery."

By D.L. Davis • November 1, 2019

Bob Corker stated on February 15, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."

By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2017

Sarah Silverman stated on May 22, 2015 in a social media post:

Says Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has stated that supporting the "right to health care ... means you believe in slavery."

By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2015

Joe Biden stated on July 13, 2024 in a statement to the media:

“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024

JD Vance stated on March 14, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024

TikTok posts stated on September 8, 2023 in TikTok posts:

An 1871 law made the United States government a for-profit corporation.

By Sofia Ahmed • February 12, 2024

Facebook posts stated on December 31, 2021 in a video on Facebook:

Walgreens refrigerators are scanning shoppers’ hands and foreheads for “the mark of the beast,” and that “if you don’t have the mark later on, you won’t be able to buy.”

By Madison Czopek • January 11, 2022

Joe Biden stated on July 9, 2020 in a speech in Dunmore, Pa.:

"Three hundred sixty thousand Pennsylvanians fought on the side of the Union to defeat the flag, that Confederate flag, including more Black soldiers coming from Pennsylvania than any other state in the nation."

By Jessica Calefati • July 10, 2020

Instagram posts stated on June 2, 2020 in an Instagram post:

“Companies that use prison labor: Whole Foods, McDonald’s, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, AT&T, Bank of America, Starbucks, Wendy’s.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 22, 2020

Republican National Committee stated on March 5, 2020 in a mass email:

On key issues including taxes, health care, the Green New Deal, abortion, and guns, there is “no daylight between” Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2020

Congressional Leadership Fund stated on April 5, 2017 in a web video:

Says Al Jazeera, "a mouthpiece for terrorists, has been paying Jon Ossoff thousands of dollars. ... What is he hiding?"

By Jon Greenberg • April 13, 2017

Lesley Cohen stated on September 24, 2016 in a political mail piece.:

"It’s bad enough that (Stephen) Silberkraus appeared in a sexual fetish film where women were kidnapped from their homes and forced to live naked in kennels and trained to be pets. But when Silberkraus isn’t acting in films that degrade women, he’s stalking them in his personal time."

By Riley Snyder • October 6, 2016

Lee Camp stated on April 17, 2016 in an episode of "Redacted Tonight":

"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

Jeb Bush stated on October 14, 2015 in a town hall meeting in Concord, N.H.:

"If you're born poor, you're more likely to stay poor than any time in American history."

By Nick Reid • October 30, 2015

Rick Santorum stated on April 10, 2015 in a speech to the NRA:

Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2015

James Clyburn stated on September 6, 2012 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:

When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, "Republicans stood on the sidelines"

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012

Basic Rights Oregon stated on October 12, 2010 in an e-mail:

Says Republican candidates in Oregon are "advocating violence" against gays.

By Ian K. Kullgren • October 28, 2010

Mitt Romney stated on March 2, 2010 in his book "No Apology.":

Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2010

Orrin Hatch stated on November 19, 2009 in a news release:

The Senate health care bill is longer than Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.'

By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2009

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Fact-checking Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, about the whooping cough vaccine

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Spotlight on 6 of Joe Biden’s campaign promises as he gives the 2024 State of the Union

By Matthew Crowley • March 7, 2024

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By PolitiFact Staff • September 28, 2023

How an antisemitic conspiracy theory amplified by Ye, Kyrie Irving divides Black, Jewish people

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‘Indoctrination’? Banning Black history? Unraveling competing claims about rejected Florida AP class

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How GOP Senate resolution condemning critical race theory distorts the facts

By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2021

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How vaccine passports might work in the US

By Daniel Funke • March 31, 2021

Fact-checking Joe Biden’s visit to Kenosha – on Trump, race, taxes and COVID-19

By Eric Litke, Madeline Heim • September 3, 2020

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By PolitiFact Staff • February 26, 2020

Did George Washington run businesses as president?

By Louis Jacobson • October 30, 2019

Fact-checking the Democratic debate in Miami, night 1

By PolitiFact Staff • June 27, 2019

In Context: Donald Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ remarks (transcript)

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 26, 2019

Fact-checking the first night of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia

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The Top Ten of 2013

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