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Mary Alice Truitt is an assistant editor with PolitiFact West Virginia and a graduate student at West Virginia University. She was previously a reporter with PolitiFact West Virginia.

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Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth."

By Cade Moisey • May 17, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on March 5, 2019 in posts on the Internet:

"Right here (in West Virginia), they are building new houses … so that 321 Syrian Muslims can move down into this neighborhood in two months. … (A funeral home) is to be torn down in two months, and a mosque is going to built there."

By Liz Newton • March 27, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on October 14, 2018 in an op-ed:

The United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them."

By Mary Alice Truitt • December 3, 2018
E. Gordon Gee
stated on September 20, 2018 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:

In public approval, "the press is rated right now below that of Congress, and that is very low; it’s in the single digits."

By Mary Alice Truitt • October 29, 2018