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Yanqi Xu is a reporter with PolitiFact and a masters degree student in journalism at the University of Missouri.

Featured Statements

Cory Booker
stated on May 6, 2019 in a Medium post:

"Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones."

By Yanqi Xu • May 10, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall:

"You've got millions of families paying 40, 50, 60% of their limited incomes to put a roof over their heads."

By Yanqi Xu • May 2, 2019
John Delaney
stated on April 13, 2019 in a Tweet:

"Most of home care is paid by government programs."

By Yanqi Xu • April 25, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on February 25, 2019 in a meme:

"CNN uses the same girl in 3 different Refugee Crisis pictures being saved by 3 different men."

By Yanqi Xu • March 1, 2019
American Civil Liberties Union
stated on December 22, 2018 in a Facebook post:

"Half the states in the U.S. have laws that criminalize criticism."

By Yanqi Xu • February 27, 2019
Jerrold Nadler
stated on February 6, 2019 in a committee hearing:

"In 2011, for example, the United Kingdom had 146 deaths due to gun violence; Denmark, 71; Portugal, 142; and Japan, 30. But last year, in the United States, almost 40,000."

By Yanqi Xu • February 14, 2019

Explaining the numbers behind the rise in reported hate crimes

By Yanqi Xu • April 3, 2019
Are New Yorkers really fleeing to Florida over taxes?

By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2019
Without full Mueller report, Trump obstruction questions leave legal experts wondering

By John Kruzel • March 25, 2019
Donald Trump doesn’t think white nationalism is on the rise. Data show otherwise

By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2019
Fact-checking the State of the Union for 2019

By PolitiFact Staff • February 6, 2019
Trump disagrees with his own intelligence team. We catalog the differences

By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2019