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| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Kathy Hochul (D): The NY state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers.
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (The state’s 2023-24 budget contains $150 million in additional funds for public prekindergarten, bringing the total to $1.2 billion. That amount could cover 96% of what the state deems eligible four-year-olds, a smaller group than the total number of four-year-olds in the state.) NYS funding for pre-K is climbing, but districts face barriers to serving everyone |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by The People’s Voice: Study Reveals Lungs Riddles With Microplastics From Disposable Masks
Lead Stories rating: False (Mask are not cited in the study) NewsPunch, now known as The People’s Voice, produces the same fake news. |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “Chinese communist” troops on the ground at U.S. southern border.
PolitiFact rating: False (The vast majority of the Chinese migrants are single adults, and likely young men, but that is not proof that China is sending troops disguised as migrants.) No evidence that Chinese immigrants at U.S. southern border are ‘troops’ |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Vaccinated People Emit Bluetooth Signals.
Lead Stories rating: False (Crackpot Pseudoscience) |
| MISLEADING | Claim by DW PAC: “While Americans struggle to get ahead, he [Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis] increases taxes.”
FactCheck.org rating: Misleading (the law in question didn’t create a new tax. Instead, it implemented a more effective way of collecting an existing tax. The law required online vendors to directly charge sales taxes to consumers. Previously, Floridians were supposed to report those sales taxes to the state themselves, but few did.) DeSantis’ Law Requiring Online Vendors to Charge Sales Tax Wasn’t a New Tax |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): There is no mention of race in the Australian Constitution.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Two sections of the constitution mention race.) |
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NOT yet. Supposedly young Chinese men are wearing the same type of backpack. What’s the chances of that? I think we should be more questioning for the future and not reacting to the present. That way we pro-act, not react. The Trojan Horse response was a “React”.
Claim via Social Media: “Chinese communist” troops on the ground at U.S. southern border.
PolitiFact rating: False (The vast majority of the Chinese migrants are single adults, and likely young men, but that is not proof that China is sending troops disguised as migrants.)
No evidence that Chinese immigrants at U.S. southern border are ‘troops’