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Health Feedback→ 2019 report by TV host Sharyl Attkisson exaggerates one expert’s opinion in court case to claim vaccines cause autism
REVIEW On 6 January 2019, an episode of the TV show Full Measure, hosted by journalist Sharyl Attkisson, went viral on social media. The episode, titled “The Vaccine Debate”, claimed to provide evidence that the U.S. government knew long ago tha
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Biden is right about $35 insulin cap, but exaggerates prior costs for Medicare enrollees
Insulin for Medicare beneficiaries "was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a month."
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Biden exaggerates Trump’s pandemic comments about disinfectants, UV light
Says Donald Trump “told Americans all they had to do was inject bleach in themselves. Just take a shot of UV light.”
Full Fact→ Post exaggerates benefits available to asylum seekers
The Home Office does not generally provide mobile phones. While some hotels housing asylum seekers have been four-star, many are not and many asylum seekers aren’t housed in hotels at all.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump exaggerates food inflation under Joe Biden; prices are not 40% to 60% higher
Food “costs 40%, 50%, 60% more than it did just a few years ago.”
AllSides→ Nikki Haley exaggerates rate of federal telework
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/05/nikki-haley/nikki-haley-exaggerates-rate-of-federal-telework/
PolitiFact→ Nikki Haley – Nikki Haley exaggerates rate of federal telework
“Right now, over 70% of federal employees are still working from home three years after COVID."
PolitiFact→ One Nation – Petition critical of Joe Manchin exaggerates number of W.Va. fossil fuel jobs at risk
Sen. Joe Manchin’s “support for the (Inflation Reduction Act) could cost West Virginia 100,000 fossil fuel jobs.”
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis – Ron DeSantis exaggerates number of migrants in US illegally under President Joe Biden
Six million or 7 million people have “come illegally under Biden.”
PolitiFact→ Unleash Prosperity Now – Attack ad exaggerates effects of school choice bill, Cooper's opposition
“Gov. Roy Cooper is blocking a pioneering school choice bill that would give thousands of low-income parents the funds to allow their kids to get a high-quality education.”
PolitiFact→ Debbie Mucarsel-Powell – Does Rick Scott want to ‘end’ Social Security? FL Dem Mucarsel-Powell’s claim exaggerates old plan
Sen. Rick Scott “wants to … end Social Security and Medicare coverage.”
Logically→ Post exaggerates breast cancer cases estimates for 2023 to claim COVID jabs are ‘bioweapons’
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Who’s driving this thing? Social post exaggerates electric grid’s remote capability
Electric vehicles are a "giant computer that can be controlled remotely from some cloud-based central grid."
PolitiFact→ Tricia Cotham – Cotham exaggerates statements of Democratic leader
Minority Leader Robert Reives “sent out a statement … encouraging us to resign and/or (face) a primary challenge.”
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump exaggerates Manhattan crime levels in attacks on DA in Stormy Daniels case
Violent crime in Manhattan is "now at a record level."
PolitiFact→ Kris Mayes – Kris Mayes exaggerates, but as AG, Abraham Hamadeh could seek jail time for abortion providers
Abraham Hamadeh says he will “lock up doctors, nurses, pharmacists” and “punish women for abortion.”
PolitiFact→ Senate Leadership Fund – GOP group exaggerates effect of Inflation Reduction Act
Cheri Beasley “backs tax hikes — even on families making under $75,000.”
PolitiFact→ EMILY's List – Attack ad exaggerates Ted Budd's involvement in anti-abortion bill
Ted Budd “helped write legislation to outlaw abortion nationwide with no exceptions for rape or incest — a law that could even put doctors in jail.”
PolitiFact→ Hillary Clinton – Clinton exaggerates absence of classified information in her emails
“I had zero emails that were classified.”
PolitiFact→ Raphael Warnock – Raphael Warnock exaggerates success rate for reaching child tax credit recipients
The child tax credit passed under President Joe Biden “has helped 97% of the families with children who are living in poverty.”
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Joe Biden exaggerates job-creation impact of American Rescue Plan
The American Rescue Plan “helped create nearly 10 million new jobs.”
PolitiFact→ Focus on the Family – Anti-abortion group exaggerates how states regulate late-term abortions
Abortion is available at any point of pregnancy and for any reason in Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont.
Full Fact→ RMT exaggerates money ‘wasted’ on PPE and NHS Test and Trace
Funding the NHS for years would cost far more than the total amount spent—let alone “wasted”—on PPE and Test and Trace during the pandemic.
Full Fact→ Article vastly exaggerates number of Covid-19 vaccine deaths
Reports of death following vaccination do not mean that the vaccine caused the death.
AllSides→ Democratic Congressman Exaggerates Number of Gun ‘Massacres’
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/democratic-congressman-exaggerates-number-of-gun-massacres/ In discus
FactCheck.org→ Democratic Congressman Exaggerates Number of Gun ‘Massacres’
In discussing a bipartisan Senate proposal to address gun violence, Rep. Jamie Raskin exaggerated when he said there have been “more massacres than days in 2022.” Using the source supplied by the congressman’s office, guns were used i
PolitiFact→ National Republican Senatorial Committee – NRSC exaggerates effect of Beasley rulings in sex offense cases
Cheri Beasley tossed the conviction of a man seeking sex with a boy online and “set free” a child porn offender.
PolitiFact→ Charlie Crist – Florida rents are high, but Crist exaggerates with New York market comparison
“It costs more to live in many Florida cities than New York City.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Claim exaggerates fuel tax rates in Australia and Canada
“If you earn $100 and pay $33 income tax you’re left with $67. You then buy $67 worth of fuel and in doing so pay a 48% fuel tax (fuel tax = $32.16 + $6.70 GST). This means that the government just got $71.86 tax from your hard earned $100.”
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis – Ron DeSantis exaggerates outstanding graduate student loan debt
“The student debt that is out there, almost 60% of it is graduate school debt.”
PolitiFact→ Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – Democratic ad exaggerates GOP embrace and scope of Scott's proposal on Social Security, Medicare
“Senate Republicans’ plan" would "end Social Security" and "end Medicare."
PolitiFact→ Ron Klain – Ron Klain exaggerates turnaround in jobs on Joe Biden’s watch
The economy was "dead in the water when we got here. Virtually no jobs created."
PolitiFact→ Ted Budd – Budd exaggerates role of McCrory appointee in NC redistricting case
“Pat McCrory appointed the ‘Republican’ judge who sided with Democrats in the partisan Democrat lawsuit/power-grab over redistricting.”
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Biden exaggerates trips to Iraq, Afghanistan in State of the Union address
“I’ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan over 40 times.”
PolitiFact→ Rick Scott – In Durham filing, Scott exaggerates proof of Clinton campaign spying on Trump
"The latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign … actually spied on the president of the United States.”
PolitiFact→ Greg Murphy – NC Congressman exaggerates Washington COVID restrictions
“The Dems demand a photo ID to get a cheeseburger.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – ‘10-years challenge’ on climate change exaggerates impact on Greenland ice, polar bears
Images show how climate change destroyed the Greenland ice sheet and harmed a polar bear from 2009 to 2019.
Washington Post→ Ad exaggerates potential impact of Biden estate-tax plan
A rancher claims that Biden's plan would force the sale of many family farms — but few farms face an estate-tax liability.
AllSides→ Joe Biden exaggerates efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/22/joe-biden/biden-exaggerates-efficacy-covid-19-vaccines/