PeakMetrics / Fact Checks

Economy & business fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about economy & business. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

7,106 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"We are number one in the country as far as our spending (COVID relief) money on businesses as it relates to the percentage of federal funds that we receive."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

The cost of a Fourth of July cookout in 2022 increased by 67.2% because of inflation.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Publix drops Ben and Jerry’s ‘for the good of our kids.’”

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهEconomy & business

ریال ایران کم‌ارزش‌ترین پول ملی رایج در دنیا است.

Publisher’s rating: درست

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Domino’s Pizza is giving each person who shares a Facebook post "a coupon valid for 2 large pizzas."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“CNN just said Cash App went bankrupt and any funds you had in your account would have to be awarded to you through bankruptcy court.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“West Virginia University just came out with a study that showed that there will be almost 20,000 jobs created in clean energy in West Virginia if (President Joe Biden’s) agenda is passed.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“1,900 food production companies have been destroyed” as part of conspiracy.

Publisher’s rating: False

LogicallyEconomy & business

The UK economy is estimated to be the fifth largest in the world, with predictions India is set to overtake it in this position.

Publisher’s rating: Partly True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“McDonald’s and Coke have both announced no whites will be hired in top positions.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"Gas prices are skyrocketing because of D.C. bureaucrats' war on American energy production."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“We're setting record job numbers.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Photo shows hundreds of “sitting ships” waiting to dock at U.S. ports.

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهEconomy & business

مساله اصلی مردم فضای مجازی و سیاست خارجی نیست، بیکاری و معیشت است.

Publisher’s rating: گمراه‌کننده

PolitiFactEconomy & business

The COVID economic relief package “included $600 million for San Francisco, part of which goes to cover the tab for free alcohol and marijuana for the homeless."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

Under Kamala Harris, "300,000 Pennsylvania jobs that depend on fracking would also disappear.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactEconomy & business

I saved the U.S. auto industry, brought many plants to Michigan and got Japan to announce five new car companies will come to Michigan.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“One quarter” of today’s $31.4 trillion federal debt “was accumulated in the four years of my predecessor,” Donald Trump.

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

Under Donald Trump "we had the lowest unemployment rates for African Americans, for Hispanics, for Asians, a 70-year low for women."

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts