The code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network IFCN at Poynter is a series of commitments organizations abide by to promote excellence in fact-checking. The following fact checks come from IFCN fact checkers. (D. Van Zandt)
Claim by Chris Taylor: “We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9% to 15.2%” over the last eight years.
PolitiFact rating: True
Claim by Viral Image: Claims that musician Charlie Daniels once said, “Voting for Trump is like playing Country Music backwards…. You get your House back, your Car back, your Job back, your Country back!”
Check Your Fact rating: False
Claim by Tim Ryan: “An African American baby born in Youngstown, Ohio, has a higher infant mortality rate than a baby born in Iran.”
Washington Post rating: True
Claim by Viral Image: Claims that Stalin once said, “America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
Check Your Fact rating: False
Claim by Viral Image: Claims that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “President Trump told me to always put Russia’s interests above the United States’ interests.”
Check Your Fact rating: False
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