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2024 September


Is Florida’s marijuana amendment a ‘monopoly’ proposal? No.

Is Florida’s marijuana amendment a ‘monopoly’ proposal? No.

Vote No on 3 attorney Michael Beato responded in a Sept. 7 letter, citing Black’s Law Dictionary’s definition of monopoly: a "privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a particular business or trade, manufacture a particular article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a particular commodity."


Weather modification did not make Hurricane Helene

Weather modification did not make Hurricane Helene

Hurricanes form on their own given the right conditions and that was the case with Helene," Monica Allen, director of public affairs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research division, told PolitiFact.


Trump’s Problematic Claims on the Auto Industry

Trump’s Problematic Claims on the Auto Industry

In the presentation — which noted that Walling was expressing his own views, not necessarily the ITC’s — he said, “I feel like we often have these news coverage pieces that come out that are like, China’s going to be able to export duty-free from Mexico or that vehicles are going to be so inexpensive that you don’t care about the tariff.


Harris exaggerates scale of prepandemic manufacturing losses

Harris exaggerates scale of prepandemic manufacturing losses

The prepandemic decline was "chump change compared with the drop that occurred in the COVID-19 recession," Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told us in July.


Fact-check: What Project 2025 says about the weather service

Fact-check: What Project 2025 says about the weather service

"As Florida prepares for a major hurricane to make landfall this week, don’t forget that Donald Trump’s Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and NOAA," Brian Tyler Cohen, a liberal YouTube influencer, posted on Instagram.


Nurofen tablets do not contain graphene oxide

Nurofen tablets do not contain graphene oxide

A spokesperson for TGA told reporters at AFP that: “Iron oxide black is typically used as a colouring pigment in printing inks on capsules and tablets.


Walz comment about four more years referred to Trump

Walz comment about four more years referred to Trump

"In a stunning move, Tim Walz makes the case for Trump: ‘We can't afford four more years of this,’" the conservative podcaster and commentator Benny Johnson posted on X.


NRA Posts Misrepresent Harris’ Position on Gun Ownership

NRA Posts Misrepresent Harris’ Position on Gun Ownership

But a Sept. 17 Instagram post by the National Rifle Association falsely claims, “All Kamala Harris knows about guns is that she wants to ban them.” In the video, Harris can be heard calling for universal background checks and closing the so-called gun-show loophole that allows unlicensed individuals to sell firearms without performing background checks.


Florida’s Amendment 4: Is lack of definitions unusual? No.

Florida’s Amendment 4: Is lack of definitions unusual? No.

Vote No on 4 spokesperson Taryn Fenske told PolitiFact that the line "no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict abortion" would hamstring Florida lawmakers from clarifying the measure.


No, this video doesn’t show that ‘NATO has nuked Russia’

No, this video doesn’t show that ‘NATO has nuked Russia’

Reuters reported that a source working in the Ukrainian state security service had told them a warehouse holding missiles, guided bombs and ammunition had been destroyed in a drone attack.


False claims spread about explosives at Trump NY rally

False claims spread about explosives at Trump NY rally

After two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this year, reports of a third purported attack at his Sept. 18 rally in Uniondale, New York, spread quickly online.


Vance rewrites history about Trump and Obamacare

Vance rewrites history about Trump and Obamacare

"The fact the ACA survived the Trump administration is a testament to the strength of the underlying statutory framework, and that the public rallied around it," said Sabrina Corlette, co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University.