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** FactCheck.org's Weekly Update
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September 14, 2019
** SciCheck
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Buttigieg Wrong About Climate Change’s Effect on Oceans ([link removed]) Posted on Monday, September 9th, 2019
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In making his case for taking swift action on climate change, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg inaccurately said that “we could lose half the world’s oxygen because of what’s going on in the oceans.” Scientists say that’s a misreading of the evidence.
** FactCheck Posts
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Yang’s Top-Gun Tale ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, September 13th, 2019
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Making a point about Defense Department waste, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang related a secondhand story about a Navy fighter pilot who said that airmen routinely dumped fuel into the Pacific Ocean at the end of the fiscal year as a way to preserve the following year’s fuel budget. But the story doesn’t add up.
Biden’s Record on Iraq War ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
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Twice in the last five weeks, Joe Biden has claimed that despite voting to authorize military force against Iraq in 2002, he opposed the Iraq war from “the moment” it began. That’s not accurate, and Biden now says he misspoke.
** Debunking False Stories
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Conservative Rant Misattributed to Actor Tim Allen ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, September 13th, 2019
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A conservative rant circulating on Facebook has been falsely credited to the actor Tim Allen.
Marx, Engels Quote Falsely Attributed to Reagan ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, September 13th, 2019
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A meme circulating on Facebook wrongly attributes a statement about guns to former President Ronald Reagan. The quote is actually from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, co-authors of The Communist Manifesto.
Meme Misleads on Walmart Gun Sales ([link removed]) Posted on Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
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A social media meme inaccurately claims that Walmart will no longer sell rifles. Walmart stopped selling “military-style rifles such as the AR-15,” in 2015, and has announced it will no longer sell ammunition for “military-style weapons.” It still sells “long guns for hunting and sport shooting.”
** Articles
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FactChecking the September Democratic Debate ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, September 13th, 2019
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A narrowed field of 10 Democratic candidates debated health care, immigration and gun control, but not all of their claims squared with the facts.
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