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Ukraine’s Starlink cap was real; four official accounts of it cannot all be true

Verdicts: 1 True, 1 Mixed, 3 Unproven, 3 Misleading, 2 Contested, 2 False

Ukraine’s military Starlink lost its link above about 100 mph on Oct. 14. Musk says the U.S. government sets such limits. Trump, Rubio and Hegseth say the government set none.

Witkoff’s praise of Putin as a humanitarian clashes with the ICC and UN record

Verdicts: 2 True, 1 Mostly True, 1 Mixed, 2 Unproven, 3 Misleading, 2 False

Witkoff told Putin, “You are a humanitarian also, sir,” after Russia freed a wrongfully detained American. An ICC warrant and UN findings on deported children say otherwise.

London Economic: Did Yandex Strikes Silence Reform UK’s Bots?

Verdicts: 1 Mostly True, 1 Unproven, 2 Misleading, 2 False

Ukraine struck three Yandex data centres and Cloudflare traffic crashed, but every research team tracking actual influence accounts found no significant decline.

Analysis

Are We Already in World War 3? A Sober Assessment of Where Things Stand

The US is at war with Iran, Russia is at war in Ukraine, China is rehearsing a Taiwan blockade, and the Pentagon is asking Ford and GM to build weapons — here’s what’s actually happening.

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