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Instagram posts stated on January 15, 2023 in an Instagram post:

"New government-funded 'food pyramid' says Lucky Charms are healthier than steak."

By Tom Kertscher• January 24, 2023

Bloggers stated on February 02, 2022 in a blog post:

“Marines are investigating 3 ancient pyramids discovered in Antarctica.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• April 27, 2022

Facebook posts stated on June 12, 2024 in a photo:

“Photo shows Egyptian pyramids being constructed in 2549 BC”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• June 18, 2024

Kathleen Ford stated on August 06, 2013 in a mayoral debate:

"If we use (Tax Increment Financing) funding, that's going to take funds from the general fund for Pinellas County, as it will take funds from the general fund for the city of St. Pete."

By Julie Kliegman• August 9, 2013

Newt Gingrich stated on February 22, 2012 in a televised address:

One estimate says there may be "three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia."

By Louis Jacobson• February 24, 2012

The Newly Press stated on April 29, 2018 in a headline:

"Smallville star confesses she sold children to Rothschilds and Clintons."

By Amy Sherman• May 1, 2018

Tony Evers stated on September 25, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Says he "raised graduation rates to nearly 90 percent."

By D.L. Davis• October 31, 2018

Bill Foster stated on August 06, 2013 in a mayoral debate:

"If we don't spend money on a pier, then that money does wipe into the general funds of the city or the county, and if you send it to the county, you never see it again."

By Julie Kliegman• August 9, 2013

Scott Perry stated on January 08, 2023 in ABC This Week interview:

"Parents that go to school board meetings" and question the curriculum are being "flagged by the Department of Justice and the FBI for attending a meeting."

By Amy Sherman• January 10, 2023

Kathleen Ford stated on August 06, 2013 in a mayoral debate:

"There is no planned air-conditioned restaurant out on the Lens."

By Katie Sanders• August 8, 2013

Tim Scott stated on June 18, 2023 in a TV interview:

“Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”

By Sevana Wenn• June 22, 2023

Kendrick Meek stated on October 24, 2010 in a debate:

"The Taliban has been there for years and years, I mean, hundreds of thousands of years."

By Amy Sherman• October 25, 2010

Viral image stated on June 27, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows a trashed venue in Glastonbury after climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke there.

By Ciara O'Rourke• June 28, 2022

Kat Cammack stated on March 02, 2023 in a speech at CPAC:

The Justice Department has been “calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists.”

By Madison Czopek, Amy Sherman• March 2, 2023

Instagram posts stated on October 09, 2023 in an Instagram post:

The 2023 Israel-Hamas war is a “false flag.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• October 13, 2023

Jim Moran stated on November 22, 2014 in a Facebook post:

"We have a system now where in 40 states, the highest-paid public employee is the state university’s head football or basketball coach."

By Nancy Madsen• December 22, 2014

Viral image stated on June 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Four kids who took the coronavirus vaccine died immediately.”

By Madison Czopek• July 1, 2020

Mark Pocan stated on June 30, 2020 in a tweet:

"Our country and Constitution was built on a foundational separation of church and state."

By D.L. Davis• July 17, 2020

Facebook posts stated on May 03, 2023 in a video:

“The government has been putting ground up human teeth and bone in our food and calling it 'calcium phosphate.’”

By Gabrielle Settles• May 16, 2023

Michele Bachmann stated on August 27, 2011 in a campaign event:

"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."

By Louis Jacobson• August 31, 2011

Ted Cruz's boys showering with girls claim False, but transgender student rights are unsettled

By W. Gardner Selby• December 9, 2015

Mailbag: "Reassign the PolitiFact staff to obits."

By • December 13, 2010

Got any questions about the candidates’ answers?

By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby• January 28, 2014

No, there isn't a federal Zombie Apocalypse Plan

By Katie Sanders• May 29, 2014

When do senators resign to assume the presidency or vice presidency?

By Bill McCarthy• December 18, 2020

Fact-checking immigration

By Becky Bowers• June 21, 2013

Donald Trump’s long, false list of things Joe Biden would ban, abolish or destroy

By Miriam Valverde• October 18, 2020

No, it isn’t clear that unemployment checks are the main reason jobs go unfilled

By Jon Greenberg• May 17, 2021

On eve of the State of the Union address, a look at income inequality

By Louis Jacobson• January 28, 2014

On eve of the State of the Union address, a look at income inequality

By Louis Jacobson• January 24, 2014

WATCH: Flurona isn’t a combination strain of COVID and the flu. What is it?

By Gabrielle Settles• January 20, 2022

What we know about mass shootings

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde• February 15, 2018

Whoomp! There he isn't!

By Bill Adair• June 9, 2010

6 things we’ve learned from one year of coronavirus misinformation

By Daniel Funke• March 12, 2021

Fact-checking immigration

By Becky Bowers• June 20, 2013

The e-mail heard round the world

By Robert Farley• September 9, 2008

Lawmakers rock the Truth-O-Meter needle

By W. Gardner Selby• March 28, 2011

PolitiFact Texas Mailbag: ‘Really, how stupid can you people get?’

By W. Gardner Selby• December 11, 2015

Fact-checking internet rumors about Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

By Kyra Haas, Manuela Tobias, Miriam Valverde• September 26, 2018

Mailbag: ‘Quit being fanatic left-wing hacks’

By W. Gardner Selby• January 7, 2014