Vivek Ramaswamy says opponents and media mischaracterize his positions. But we found examples of when his views have shifted on former President Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, TikTok and more.
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PolitiFact→ Politicians blame 'wokeism' for low military recruitment. The problem is more complex.
Military recruitment is low. But blaming “woke” policies overstates the impact and oversimplifies the problem. Experts say several factors contribute to low recruitment, including employment opportunities outside the military and a shrinking pool o
The Dispatch→ Ukraine Keeps Fighting While Its Allies Ponder More Support
Volodymyr Zelensky’s U.S. visit comes as Ukraine notches small victories on the front lines.
PolitiFact→ Bernie Sanders – Do CEOs today earn 400 times more than their typical workers, as Bernie Sanders said?
“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
The Dispatch→ House Republicans Saddle Up for More Chaos
Even their own colleagues aren’t sure of what the GOP holdouts want from the spending impasse.
Full Fact→ More than 37% of Croydon’s population is British
The last census suggests that over 80% of Croydon’s residents have a British identity.
The Dispatch→ Cotton to Biden: Send More Support to Ukraine
Plus: Cotton speaks on McConnell's aptitude
PolitiFact→ Who is responsible for helping migrants in Chicago and New York City? Leaders say Biden can do more
Major U.S. cities have received thousands of migrants in the past year and have spent tens of millions of dollars to house and feed them. But the cities’ and states’ leaders say Biden’s administration should do more, including expediting work per
Logically→ Post cites high CO2 levels in greenhouses to falsely claim that more CO2 is beneficial
PolitiFact→ Viral image – More than 60 people missing after Maui fires, not 1,000 children
“Over 1,000 missing children in Maui.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Are there more US hunters than worldwide military personnel? By most measures, no
CLAIM: There are more hunters in the U.S. than the world’s armies combined. AP’S ASSESSMENT: Partly false.
Full Fact→ Hoax injured dog post shared more than 1,000 times
Full Fact has previously checked near-identical posts in Facebook community groups.
Logically→ No, vaccinated people are not more vulnerable to BA.2.86 coronavirus variant
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Survey’ Does NOT Prove Vaccinated Over ‘2X More Likely To Get COVID Than the Unvaccinated’
Did a "survey" find that "Vaccinated people are over 2X more likely to get COVID than the unvaccinated"? No, that's not true: The survey in question was not scientifically sound and included methodological flaws, an infectious disease exp
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘It’s Disability Pride Month,’ Disabled Americans Can’t ‘Have More Than $2,000 in Money and Assets Combined’
On August 29 2023, a tweet about disabled people and Medicaid-related laws about cash and assets was shared to Reddit’s r/facepalm: I didn’t know that, yeah… by u/ColorlessHedgehog in facepalm The Post an
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ The CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are more at risk of a new COVID variant than the unvaccinated
CLAIM: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that a new COVID-19 variant is more contagious among vaccinated people than those who are unvaccinated.
Washington Post→ Vivek Ramaswamy says ‘hoax’ agenda kills more people than climate change
We puzzled till our puzzler was sore — this claim makes no sense.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Carbon dioxide helps plants grow. That doesn’t mean more of it is good for the planet
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ Vivek Ramaswamy – More deaths from climate policies than climate change? Scientists say Ramaswamy’s claim is baseless
“The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
Full Fact→ Government spent much more than £18bn on the Covid health response
£18 billion went towards the NHS in England’s frontline Covid response in 2020/21, but far more was spent on other health programmes such as test and trace and buying PPE.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Steeler’s Coach Mike Tomlin Did NOT Say No More Kneeling On His Field, Did Not Cut Pittsburgh’s Last Kneeler AND NFL Mediator Did NOT Side With Him
Did Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin say his football players were not allowed to kneel on the field anymore and then cut the last player to kneel, and did an NFL mediator side with him over the controversy? No, that's not true: All
Full Fact→ ‘Men’s performance issues’ have more than one cause
A Facebook video claims erectile dysfunction is only caused by blood flow issues. But sexual issues can have many different causes.
Full Fact→ ‘Men’s performance issues’ have more than one cause
A Facebook video claims erectile dysfunction is only caused by blood flow issues. But sexual issues can have many different causes.
The Dispatch→ Incentivizing More Iranian Terrorism
Analysts say $6 billion the U.S. is sending to Iran won’t just underwrite humanitarian expenses.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Georgia Has More Than 2 Million ‘Phantom Voters’ On Its Voter Rolls
Does the state of Georgia have 2.2 million "phantom voters" on its voter rolls, a situation that could lead to widespread voter fraud? No, there's no evidence that's true: A woman making this claim in a video on social media provided just
Logically→ The world is burning less, but in some places, it’s burning more
PolitiFact→ Why did it take the DOJ more than two years to indict Donald Trump in the 2020 election case?
Donald Trump’s case is unusual because he’s a former president, and “no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case unless and until they were confident they had an extensive and comprehensive factual record,” one legal expert told PolitiFact.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ ‘Barbie’ is a hit. But it didn’t make more money in a day than Ron DeSantis has ever raised
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
The Dispatch→ Is Facebook Making Us More Polarized or Not?
Plus: Aliens 👽
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – A wind turbine can produce in months, not years, more energy than was needed to manufacture it
A wind turbine must “spin continually for over four years just to replace the energy it took to manufacture it.”
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Joe Biden said heat kills more Americans than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined. Is it true?
“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”
PolitiFact→ Tim Scott – Tim Scott is wrong about more illegal immigration under Biden than under Trump and Obama combined
“There have been more illegal encounters under Biden than the previous two administrations combined.”
Health Feedback→ The commercially available Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is safe and was tested on more than 250 people, contrary to claim by statistician Christine Cotton
REVIEW A 2020 clinical trial on more than 43,000 participants showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had a 95% efficacy at preventing symptomatic forms of the disease[1]. The positive result led to the vaccine authorization both in th
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Insect swarm at Baltimore festival were likely gnats, not deadly mosquitoes aimed at crowd
"Helicopter released deadly mosquitoes” at Baltimore’s AFRAM Festival.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Deadly mosquitoes did not swarm Baltimore music festival
CLAIM: Video shows deadly mosquitoes released at a Baltimore music festival. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. While concertgoers were swarmed by flying insects at one point during an African American music festival last month, concert goers were not bitten by
Logically→ Old videos from 2022 rallies shared to claim Trump is getting more support for 2024 Presidential bid
PolitiFact→ Mike Pence – Are US abortion laws really more like China and North Korea than Europe? No
“The fact is, today abortion law in the United States is more aligned with China and North Korea than with Western nations in Europe.”
Logically→ No, the United Nations is not calling for more censorship in combatting misinformation.
PolitiFact→ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – No evidence atrazine in the water supply is causing more kids to identify as transgender
Atrazine in the water supply is contributing to "sexual dysphoria" in kids.
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