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Congress Would Pass Its Own Medicaid Work Test on the First Line of a Pay Stub

The statute Congress wrote is met by hours or income. The income bar is $580 a month; a member of Congress earns $14,500. The comparison fails on the law’s own terms.

2 True1 Unproven1 False

McConnell Was Told How to Vote. Nobody Reported He Voted No.

The prompting happened and is on the record. The claim that he nearly voted with Democrats traces back to no reporter who was there.

1 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed

Patel meets the FBI’s agent education rules but exceeds its age limit

On the FBI’s published entry criteria Patel clears education and experience easily. The one rule he fails is the age ceiling, which also excluded Freeh, Mueller, Comey and Wray.

1 True1 Mostly True1 Unproven

Pennsylvania reports 693 measles cases and four deaths, two of them confirmed

Pennsylvania’s 693 cases match the state’s own release exactly. The fourth death is reported but not confirmed: the state confirms two, a pathologist disputes one, the CDC counts none.

4 True

ICE Attacked Two U.S. Citizen Teens on Their Way to Enlist in the Marines

Video confirms ICE agents attacked two U.S. citizen minors in Texas on their way to file Marine enlistment paperwork. The teens filmed an ongoing ICE operation. ICE has not responded.

2 True2 Mostly True

McConnell drew about $43,858 while absent because Senate pay ignores attendance

Three of the four claims in the viral McConnell graphic hold up on the roll-call record. The fourth fails on one word: the Senate has no paid leave for him to have taken.

1 True1 Mostly True2 Misleading

Taxpayers fund 40,000 bombs for Israel through the standard military aid program

Rolling Stone is right about the $2.8 billion and the 40,000 bombs. Calling Foreign Military Financing a special program is the error: it is how US aid to Israel has worked for decades.

1 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed2 Unproven2 Misleading3 False

The Denial Thesis: Checking a Popular Argument About Trump’s Voters

The individual facts in the argument mostly hold. The causal story bolted onto them does not, and on the two claims where the data can test a sequence, the arrow runs the other way.

1 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven2 False

The EPA Stopped Pricing Lives Saved

A viral alert says the EPA will weigh only industry costs when limiting soot and smog. The rule text confirms the substance. Zeldin’s ‘fake news’ response does not survive it.

3 True1 Unproven1 Misleading3 False

Groceries Since 2020: The Real Number Is 32%, Not 130%

A viral post says a grocery basket more than doubled since 2020. Federal data says food at home rose 32%. Both that claim and the 3% figure it attacks are wrong, in opposite directions.

2 True4 Misleading1 False

Was the Iran War Justified? What U.S. Intelligence Found

Trump justified two rounds of strikes on Iran with claims of imminent weaponization. His own intelligence agencies assessed otherwise, including in writing that Iran was not rebuilding.

2 True1 Misleading5 False

Trump’s Third Dividend Promise

A $5,000 check to every adult, if Republicans keep Congress. Two earlier per-person dividend promises produced no payments. The one that did pay was already funded by Congress.

2 True1 Mostly True1 Unproven1 Misleading

The Sprinkler and the Server Farm

Denver’s water restrictions are real and tightening. Whether the data center in the viral video broke them cannot be established, and the water that matters is not on the lawn.

3 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Misleading

The Case Against Hegseth, Fact-Checked

Robert Reich’s impeachment argument rests on a stack of specific claims. Most hold up against the record. The child death toll does not.

1 True2 False

Measles, Migration, and the Missing Evidence

Donalds blamed Biden-era immigration for the 2026 measles surge. CDC data: 16 of 2,903 cases involved international visitors. The cause is declining vaccination.

2 True5 Mostly True1 Misleading

Do Republican Voters Support the Programs Their Party Cut? Medicaid, SNAP, and Foreign Aid

Republican voters favor Medicaid and foreign aid programs their representatives cut. The SNAP data are weaker. Most who backed the cuts believed they’d target fraud, not beneficiaries.

1 True1 Mixed3 Misleading

Did Trump Deliver Justice for Abbey Gate? Fact-Checking His Fifth-Anniversary Post

Trump’s Abbey Gate anniversary post gets the death toll right but misleads on sole Biden responsibility and overstates the ‘mastermind’ arrest and conviction.

1 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed

Mamdani at Eight Months: Promises, Delivery, and What the Record Shows

A documented review of what NYC Mayor Mamdani enacted, what stalled at Albany, and what eight months is enough time to judge.

2 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Misleading

Fact-Check: Are American Consumers “Hitting a Breaking Point”?

Executive quotes check out, statistics are accurate — but the article picks weaker numbers over stronger ones and never asks what is driving the consumer stress it describes.

2 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed3 Misleading2 False

The Oval Office Warnings Before the Iran War — What the WSJ Record Actually Shows

A viral rewrite converts Trump’s pre-war deliberations into an ignored secret warning. The WSJ shows one camp advised attack, one warned off; Trump chose the wrong one.

2 True1 Mixed1 Misleading1 Contested

Operation Puppet Master: What the DHS Surveillance Records Show

DHS court records confirm Minneapolis surveillance of unions and protesters — but the AFL-CIO subpoena claim is wrong, and the entrapment theory remains unresolved.

1 True2 Mostly True2 Mixed1 Misleading1 False

FinCEN’s CTA Rollback: A Claim-by-Claim Fact-Check of the August 2026 Beneficial Ownership Exemption

FinCEN permanently exempts U.S. entities from BOI reporting and deletes collected data, going further than courts required in a move that serves both small businesses and anonymity-seekers.

4 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven

Infrastructure and Ideology: Parsing the Tech-Elite Surveillance Claim

Palantir’s ICE contracts, Thiel’s ‘freedom and democracy are incompatible,’ and Yarvin’s autocracy blueprint are all real. The claim they form a coordinated plan is not proven.

2 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven1 Contested

COVID Accountability, Strand by Strand: Fact-Checking the Pre-Pandemic Preparedness Record

PREDICT’s end was scheduled. The NSC directorate was dissolved. The April 23 remarks are on video. The causal chain is unproven. PPE to China preceded domestic need. Trump’s private and public COVID…

1 True1 False

El-Sayed, Rogers, and the Misattributed 9/11 Claim

Rogers said El-Sayed ‘believes America deserved 9/11.’ That quote belongs to Hasan Piker. El-Sayed rejected it on camera. The live debate is his refusal to condemn it.

1 True2 Mostly True1 Misleading

The Arizona Voter Data Breach and the 2020 Election Security Claim

A real confession and real non-prosecution, but framing voter-roll scraping as proof the election was insecure inverts what CISA’s security claim actually covered.

3 True1 Mostly True

DOGE’s Federal Data Dragnet: Access Was Real, Broad, and Poorly Controlled

DOGE accessed at least 12 agencies’ sensitive databases over 18 months. Multiple IG investigations confirmed mishandling. One D.C. case is now in discovery.

4 True1 Mostly True

DOGE’s Savings Claims Were Overstated by Billions. The Record Doesn’t Support Fraud.

GAO-26-108615 confirms DOGE’s savings claims were overstated and largely unverifiable. The evidence points to methodological failure — not the fraud some allege.

2 True4 Mostly True2 Misleading1 False

Fact-Check: Eight Outlets, One Flawed Argument — The “Liberal Media Is a Myth” Graphic

[Corrected] A viral graphic claims eight outlets prove no liberal media. CNN is false. The test: WaPo, LA Times, ABC, CBS accommodated — under owners with divergent partisan profiles.

1 True

Rand Paul’s Fauci Diary Release Exposed Private Medical Records. Now Who’s Legally Exposed?

True: Paul exposed 20+ individuals’ medical records in Fauci’s diary. HIPAA doesn’t apply to Congress. Speech or Debate Clause is the key protection; HHS carries the greatest statutory risk.

1 True2 Mostly True1 Contested

Fact-Check: Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt — Five Disputed Figures, One Unresolved Procedure

The committee vote was 8-5, the Senate floor was bypassed, and five circulating figures need correction. The pardon-vs.-Fifth Amendment legal fight is headed to the courts.

1 True1 False

Did the U.S. Have the World’s Highest COVID-19 Death Rate?

RFK Jr.’s claim that the U.S. had the highest COVID death rate globally is false. Peru’s confirmed rate was nearly double the American figure. Among peer nations, the U.S. story is worse.

1 True2 Misleading

Fauci, COVID Deaths, and the Pitch Heard Round Truth Social

Trump’s COVID-deaths post is selectively framed; the basketball-pitch premise misattributes Trump’s own words to Fauci; Fauci’s Fifth Amendment Senate invocation is confirmed true.

1 True

The White House Admitted It Cut Blue-State Grants by Electoral Vote. Here Are the Three Questions That Actually Matter.

A DOE lawyer admitted that 284 clean energy grants ($7.5B) were canceled by electoral-vote filter. A judge ruled it illegal. Full verdict: unlawful under three frameworks, without historical…

1 True1 Mixed2 Misleading1 False

Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Post: The “No Enrichment” Claim Doesn’t Match the Signed Deal

A real civil nuclear cooperation agreement was signed July 22, 2026 — but the deal Trump signed does not prohibit enrichment (it contains a pathway to an enrichment facility via a joint study, and…

2 True3 Misleading

Trump’s June CPI Post: Five Claims Checked

Two claims are True (largest monthly drop since April 2020; all 67 Bloomberg economists missed) and three are Misleading: ‘across the board’ ignores food and shelter rises, the 0.8% real wage gain…

1 True3 Mixed1 Unproven5 Misleading

Trump’s Election-Integrity Disclosure: What the Declassified Documents Actually Say

The July 16 address released genuine intelligence records. On most claims, the documents’ own caveats, confidence levels and context cut against the framing the speech drew from them.

2 True1 Mostly True1 Misleading1 False

NY Millionaire Flight and $5K Rents: What the Data Shows, and What Mamdani Has to Do with It

The CBC tax-revenue and rent figures are real, but the viral post misattributes a 12-year trend to a mayor who has been in office six months and misrepresents undocumented immigration as the cause…

3 True3 Mostly True1 Mixed2 Misleading

Fact-Check: Hegseth’s Pastor and the Pentagon Pulpit

The viral Wilson/NPR claim is substantially accurate but overstates in three ways: “all women” misrepresents household voting, Wilson is not technically Hegseth’s pastor, and the Pentagon sermon was…

1 True3 Misleading1 False

Trump Threatens to Block the Housing Bill Over the SAVE America Act

Trump’s post is accurate on the Housing Bill’s passage but misleads on three fronts: the 97% Republican polling figure lacks any identified source, the SAVE America Act as passed by the House does…

2 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven

Disaster Aid by Party & the ‘Stolen’ 250th: Two Threads, Checked

Trump withheld FEMA aid from blue states (23% vs 89%) and tied it to his candidates; Democrats allege his fundraisers diverted America250 donations to Freedom 250. Proven, alleged, illegal, sorted.

1 True1 Mixed1 Unproven2 Misleading1 False

Trump’s ‘National Scallops Day’: What the Post Gets Right, Leaves Out, and Gets Wrong

The NOAA action opening the Northern Edge of Georges Bank is real, but the post misattributes a 32-year-old Clinton-era closure to Obama and Biden, falsely credits Biden as co-creator of the…

2 True1 Misleading1 False

‘The UAE Sent $580 Million Directly to Trump’: Checking the Viral Crypto Bombshell

A viral video says the UAE bought half of Trump’s crypto company and funneled $580M ‘directly to the President.’ The deal is real and serious — but the number is inflated and ‘directly’ is wrong.

2 True1 Mostly True2 Unproven

Trump Family Foreign Deals: Abuse of Office, Hunter Biden Redux, or Illegal?

The Trump Org did zero foreign deals in term one and eight in term two, plus crypto billions from foreign-linked entities. We check the facts and answer three questions: abuse, hypocrisy, legality.

1 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed1 False

Did the Supreme Court ‘Take Restrictions Off Political Spending’?

Trump says the Court removed limits on political spending; a critic says it lets billionaires buy elections. It struck one limit, on coordinated party spending. Here’s what fell and what it changes.

2 True1 Mostly True1 False

Did Trump Buy a Taser Maker’s Stock Before ICE Sought a $220M Deal?

A viral tweet says Trump bought Axon stock two weeks before ICE went looking for $220M in tasers, and that it’s ‘super illegal.’ The trade is real and CNBC-documented. The ‘illegal’ part is not.

3 True1 Mostly True1 Misleading1 False

Fact-Checking ‘Trump’s Biggest Failure’: The Op-Ed vs. the Data

A Common Dreams column calls Trump the biggest failure in recent presidential history. Its sourced numbers mostly hold; ‘hyperinflation’ and ‘tanked the economy’ do not.

1 True2 Misleading2 False

Did the USAID Cuts ‘Do Nothing’? Checking Musk’s ‘Not a Single Name’

Musk says no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts, and the ‘millions’ are false. A NYT columnist named four; models estimate hundreds of thousands of deaths already.

3 True3 Mostly True1 Mixed

Jeffries on the Mail-Ballot Ruling: Seven Claims, Checked

After the Supreme Court upheld state grace periods for mail ballots, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicted Trump’s whole record. The facts mostly hold; the framing is partisan.

3 True1 Mostly True

Humphrey’s Executor Is Dead: Fact-Checking the FTC Firing Ruling

NPR reported the Supreme Court handed Trump at-will power over the independent agencies. We checked every load-bearing claim against the opinion itself: the reporting holds.

1 True1 Misleading

Letlow Wins Louisiana Senate Runoff: Fact-Checking Trump’s Two Truth Social Posts

Julia Letlow’s 57-43 runoff win over John Fleming is confirmed and the margin was decisive; Trump’s “election run continues” framing is misleading because he had just lost two governor primaries.

2 True1 Mostly True1 Unproven1 Misleading1 Contested2 False

Fact-Check: Trump’s Truth Social Attack on Maggie Haberman’s “Regime Change”

Trump calls the co-authored Regime Change book ‘largely fiction’ — but his own White House confirmed its accuracy. His electoral stats are mostly correct; his tape denial is unproven; his Iran…

1 True1 False

Is Antifa a Designated Domestic Terrorist Organization?

Trump’s September 2025 order declared antifa a ‘domestic terrorist organization.’ No federal law lets him: the U.S. has no domestic designation power, and the order cites none.

3 True2 Misleading

Are the Democratic Socialists “Communists”? The DSA’s Rise, Fact-Checked

The DSA grew 20x in a decade and put a socialist in NYC’s City Hall; the ‘communist’ label is misleading on the mechanism, but they’re not Nordic social democrats either.

2 True1 Mostly True1 Contested1 False

Was Trump’s Iran Deal a “Catastrophic Capitulation” for Israel?

The NYT’s reporting on Israel’s shock is accurate, but its ‘none of Israel’s war aims’ verdict omits Israel’s real tactical wins, and the Lebanon-withdrawal claim remains contested.

2 True1 Mostly True2 Misleading

“Russia Already Lost”? Fact-Checking the Drone-War Claim

Ukraine’s deep-strike drone campaign is real and escalating, but the viral claim that Russia ‘already lost the war’ outruns the evidence; experts see a prolonged stalemate.

1 True1 Mostly True2 Misleading1 False

Is the Iran War “Worse Than Vietnam”? Fact-Checking Foreign Policy’s Verdict

Foreign Policy’s facts on the 2026 Iran war check out; its ‘defeat worse than Vietnam’ verdict is a contested argument, and real upsides for Trump exist that it minimizes.

4 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven

The Mashed Potato Incident: Fact-Checking Trump’s “Origin Story”

Genuine family lore, and most corroborating quotes hold up, but the essay mislocates one story, cites two untraceable quotes, and oversells one childhood humiliation as the cause of the whole man.

1 True3 Mostly True1 Misleading1 False

The “Two Santas” Strategy: A Fact-Check

Fact-checking the viral “Two Santa Clauses” essay on GOP vs. Democratic economic strategy: the core thesis holds up, but several headline details are wrong.

6 True

Two Iran Deals, Eleven Years Apart: Trump’s 2026 MOU vs. Obama’s JCPOA

The 2026 US-Iran ceasefire memorandum defers the hard nuclear numbers to a ‘final deal’ 60 days out; on the measures Trump used to attack the 2015 JCPOA, the signed text is so far looser and…

1 True1 Mixed1 Unproven

The Patel “Slush Fund” Claim: What’s Proven, What Isn’t

Rep. Raskin’s letter alleging FBI chief Kash Patel paid $1M+ in bonuses to a loyalist ‘payback squad’ is real, but the bonus specifics are unproven; the firing purges are the best-documented part.

3 True1 False

The $600M Ballroom & Three More Claims: A Fact-Check

A newsletter four claims, checked: the $300M ballroom taxpayer-free label, GOP senators balking at the Iran deal, and the WSJ retreat verdict all hold; the affordability promise does not.

2 True1 False

Does This Deal Stink? Trump’s Crypto Firm Becomes a Bank

World Liberty Financial — the Trump-family crypto firm — is about to get a federal bank charter from Trump’s own OCC appointee. It’s legal (the president is exempt from the conflict statute) but a…

1 True1 Misleading1 Contested1 False

Billions for Iran, None for Health Care? A Fact-Check

A viral framing pairs one true claim with three shaky ones: the money to Iran is its own frozen assets, the US did not pay Venezuela $20 billion, and Trump did call Medicaid unaffordable amid war.

1 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed3 Misleading

Palantir, the Minab School Strike, and AI Warfare: A Fact-Check

A viral Reddit post claims Palantir’s AI autonomously bombed an Iranian school using outdated Google Maps data — the core tragedy is real but several key details are wrong or exaggerated.

3 True2 Mostly True1 Misleading

Hegseth vs. Murray: The Iran War’s Price Tag, Fact-Checked

Pentagon claims $29B for the Iran war; independent estimates say $50–72B. Murray’s core claims hold up. Hegseth’s framing that ‘previous presidents’ let Iran go nuclear omits that Trump himself…

3 True1 Mixed

Fleeing Justice via the Law of Return: Fact-Checking the CBS Investigation

CBS’s core claims about accused sex offenders exploiting Israel’s Law of Return are substantiated by court outcomes and policy changes; the most direct current-administration connection is the…

2 True1 Mixed1 Unproven

The Thiel Signal: Fact-Checking the Argentina Relocation

Of 13 claims about Thiel’s Argentina move, 10 are fully confirmed, 2 are editorialized, and 1 is premature — but the viral narrative omits the most concrete driver: California’s billionaire tax.

3 True1 Unproven

Fact-Check: ICE Detention Conditions & the Delaney Hall Hunger Strike

Detainee allegations at Newark’s Delaney Hall are unverified on-site but consistent with a documented pattern of medical neglect and deaths across ICE facilities nationwide.

4 True2 Mostly True

Itamar Ben-Gvir: From Convicted Extremist to Minister — And What America Isn’t Seeing

A convicted supporter of a terrorist organization now runs Israel’s police — and the US both condemns and enables him while Europe fights back.

1 True1 Mixed3 False

DNC 2024 Autopsy: What It Gets Right, Wrong, and Omits

The DNC’s 192-page 2024 election autopsy correctly identifies strategic failures but is riddled with factual errors, missing sections, and a glaring omission of Gaza’s electoral impact.

3 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed

The $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund: Where the Money Comes From, Where It Goes, and What’s Legal

Trump created a $1.776B taxpayer fund to compensate allies he says Biden ‘wronged’ — funded by a permanent Treasury account, overseen by his own appointees, with Jan. 6 defendants eligible to claim.

1 True3 Mixed1 False

Did China Troll Trump? A Claim-by-Claim Fact-Check of the Beijing Summit

Five viral claims about China trolling Trump during his May 2026 state visit — one false, two true, two true-but-misframed — with sources for every detail.

2 True

Fact-Check: ICE Treatment of Children — Detention Conditions & “Children as Bait”

Both claims verified: government reports document sub-human detention conditions for children, and multiple incidents confirm ICE using children to lure families.

3 True1 Mixed1 Misleading

Court Packing vs. Court Stacking: A Fact-Check of Every Major Claim

Trump hasn’t ‘packed’ the courts (added seats), but McConnell’s vacancy blockade and 271 lifetime appointments across two terms constitute the most aggressive court-stacking operation in modern…

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