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REAL AF with Andy Frisella on election controversies, absentee ballot envelopes, and the 60 Minutes profile of a deported husband

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REAL AF with Andy FrisellaOct 28, 2026
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REAL AF with Andy Frisella1073. Andy & DJ CTI: Election Controversies, Absentee Ballot Envelopes Mysteriously Shipped To Soros & '60 Minutes' Profile Of Deported HusbandWhole episode, 1:44:00
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On today's episode, Andy and DJ discuss Lula's presidential election victory over Bolsonaro amid controversy surrounding extended voting hours in Brazil, hundreds of Maine absentee ballot envelopes reportedly being shipped to a Soros-linked nonprofit in Maryland before the investigation was closed, and the Trump administration accusing CBS of omitting key details from its 60 Minutes profile of a deported husband and father.

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  1. 1TrueLula won the presidential election over Bolsonaro in Brazil.Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, NPR, DW) report that Lula won Brazil's October 25, 2026 presidential runoff over Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of Jair Bolsonaro, with about 51.8% and a lead of roughly 4.4 million votes per the electoral court. The claim's 'Bolsonaro' refers to the runoff opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, consistent with the post; Bolsonaro's refusal to concede and call for annulment does not change the declared outcome.6 sources →
  2. 2TrueHundreds of Maine absentee ballot envelopes were shipped to a Soros-linked nonprofit in Maryland before the investigation was closed.Fox Baltimore's report on the Maine state investigation file says a box of Maine absentee ballot return envelopes was delivered to the Center for Civic Design in Cambridge, Maryland, on Sept. 13, 2025, and that 498 of 500 envelopes were recovered. Partisan outlets report the case was closed without determining how the box was redirected, so the shipment preceded the closure. The 'Soros-linked' label rests on reported funding ties from partisan outlets (Gateway Pundit, Townhall, Your News) that no neutral source independently verifies, but nothing in the sources contradicts it.4 sources →

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  3. 3TrueThe Trump administration accused CBS of omitting key details from its 60 Minutes profile of a deported husband and father.Multiple outlets report that the Trump administration, through the Department of Homeland Security, publicly slammed CBS's 60 Minutes profile of Moussa Diawara, a deported husband and father, for omitting an "absurd bit of fraud" from his asylum application. The sources are unrated or secondary and appear to share one origin, and none is a tier1 primary record of the accusation, so confidence is capped.5 sources →
  4. 4FalseFirefox is an original internet browser.The sources place the first web browser in 1990 and Firefox's own origins in 2002 (as Phoenix), with Firefox 1.0 released in 2004 into a market that had 'only one browser in sight.' Firefox descends from Netscape and Mozilla, so it is not one of the original browsers, though the sources do not use the word 'original' about Firefox directly.5 sources →

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  5. 5TrueSmartphones have been used to collect data on user activity since 2007.The claim is a fair paraphrase of the passage, which ties smartphone data collection to the 2007 start of smartphone use. The NYT Wirecutter piece (tier2) says that since 2007 app-privacy controversies over mobile data collection have grown, and Albert Fox Cahn says the shift to mobile devices after the iPhone's introduction brought a sea change in data collection. Reuters (tier1) dates the iPhone's unveiling to January 2007, and no source contradicts the claim.3 sources →

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  6. 6MixedSteroids were not illegal in Major League Baseball until the 1990s.The sources support that MLB's explicit steroid ban dates to 1991, which fits 'not illegal until the 1990s' for the league's rules. They contradict the broader framing that steroids were never illegal: the Mitchell report says MLB's prohibition on non-prescription drugs covered steroids implicitly from 1971, and federal law outlawed non-medical steroid sales in 1988.6 sources →

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  7. 7TrueIn January 2025, Apple agreed to a 95 million dollar settlement in the case Lopez versus Apple to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging that Siri eavesdropped on private conversations and shared the data with advertisers.Multiple tier1 outlets (Reuters, AP, BBC) confirm that in January 2025 Apple agreed to pay $95 million to settle the Lopez v. Apple class action, which alleged that Siri recorded private conversations and shared them with advertisers and third parties. Apple denied wrongdoing, which the claim does not dispute, and the claim's wording matches the passage faithfully.7 sources →

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  8. 8Can’t tellThe United States government possesses the technology to zoom in audio from space on any conversation happening anywhere, anytime.None of the provided sources addresses whether the U.S. government can remotely eavesdrop on conversations from space; the sources are about unrelated topics such as Zoom products, NASA communications systems, and a fact-check of an ISS video. The claim rests only on the speaker's unsourced assertion about whistleblowers, which cannot corroborate it, and the extraction faithfully reflects the passage.3 sources →

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  9. 9FalseLead paint was banned because it prevented the government from sending signals into houses.Multiple authoritative fact-checkers (Lead Stories, PolitiFact, AFP) examined the claim that lead paint was banned so the government could send signals into homes and rejected it; the ban was enacted because of health risks, especially to children, and lead paint lacks the mass to block radiation. The post's claim is a debunked conspiracy allegation, so it is graded false.7 sources →

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  10. 10TrueApple is a 5 trillion dollar company.On 2026-10-28, sources show Apple's market value at or around $5 trillion: The Verge reported it closed above $5 trillion on Oct 14, and a Yahoo piece published Oct 27 cited a roughly $5.1 trillion market cap from an Oct 23 close. The claim matches the post's wording and no source contradicts it; later reports of about $5.03 trillion on Oct 30 are consistent with it.5 sources →

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  11. 11TrueLuis Ignacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil for a fourth term in the runoff election held on Sunday.Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources, including AP, Reuters, BBC and NPR, report that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was reelected to a fourth term in Brazil's presidential runoff on Sunday, October 25, 2026. The claim's name spelling and phrasing are faithful to the post, which itself refers to this Sunday runoff, and the post was made after the event.9 sources →

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  12. 12TrueLula da Silva received 51.75% of the vote, totaling about 64 million votes, in the Brazilian presidential election.The claimed 51.75% share and roughly 64 million votes for Lula match the reported runoff results. Sources give 51.7% to 51.8% (AP and NYT 51.8%, EFE 51.76%, Irish Times 51.75%), and Brazil's electoral data show 64,256,232 votes, which is about 64 million.7 sources →

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  13. 13TrueA Brazilian Supreme Court justice extended the voting time by two hours in the presidential election.Multiple tier1 outlets (Reuters, AP, BBC) confirm that Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin extended Brazil's October 25, 2026 presidential runoff voting by two hours, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Brasilia time, after a request from Lula's campaign; the claim matches the passage's wording.5 sources →

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  14. 14FalseApproximately 500,000 Israelis traveled to Israel to vote in person in the Israeli election.The claim's figure of roughly 500,000 Israelis flying in to vote is about seven times the reported numbers, which are roughly 50,000 to 74,000 (BBC, AP/AID Coalition, CIE, Boston Globe). The only ~500,000 figure in the sources refers to absentee ballots cast by soldiers and other voters away from their polling stations, not to people traveling to Israel.6 sources →

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  15. 15MixedBenjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Defense Forces to conduct a massive strike on Iran days before the Israeli elections.Several sources report that Netanyahu sought or tried to order the IDF to prepare or carry out a strike on Iran days before the vote, and that Chief of Staff Zamir resisted, but Netanyahu's office and Defense Minister Katz denied any such intent. The 'massive strike' detail is supported only by the FT-based report of a multiday campaign, while later reports describe a separate action that fell short of an overt strike, and the order itself was never confirmed as issued.8 sources →

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  16. 16Can’t tellThe Israel Defense Forces chief refused an order from Benjamin Netanyahu to strike Iran.Israeli Channel 12 and several outlets reported, citing anonymous officials, that IDF chief Eyal Zamir resisted a Netanyahu instruction for an unspecified 'action' against Iran, but the sources do not establish a refusal to strike Iran. Netanyahu's office called the report 'fake news', Defense Minister Katz called rift reports 'completely baseless and false', and the IDF neither confirmed nor denied a clash. The claim's 'to strike Iran' wording also goes beyond the reports, which left the action unspecified.9 sources →

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  17. 17MixedBenjamin Netanyahu claimed that operatives from the Arab Rom Party were interfering in the election six hours after polls opened.Sources confirm that Netanyahu's Likud party alleged Arab-led parties (including Ra'am, which Likud dubbed 'Ra'amgate') stole the election through bribery and interference, but they place these claims after Tuesday's vote, on Wednesday and Thursday, not six hours after polls opened. The claim also names the 'Arab Rom Party', which no source uses; the party is Ra'am. Police and the election committee rejected the fraud allegations as unsupported.10 sources →

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  18. 18FalseOpposition leader Gadi Asinat leads Benjamin Netanyahu 66% to 27% in election odds.The claim's figures (Gadi Asinat 66%, Netanyahu 27%) appear in no source. The closest record is prediction-market odds for PM after the election: Polymarket on 2026-10-27 had Eisenkot at 39% and Netanyahu at 36%, a close race with Netanyahu's share well above 27%. The name "Asinat" does not appear in any source; the sources identify the opposition leader as Gadi Eisenkot, so the claim appears to refer to him. The extraction faithfully reproduces the post's wording, so this is not an extraction addition. Later markets (Kalshi, 2026-11-02, Eisenkot 28%, Netanyahu 18%) are after the posting date and do not change the 2026-10-28 assessment.8 sources →

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  19. 19TrueEarly voter turnout in the Israeli election reached its highest level in 45 years.Multiple sources, including Reuters and AP, report that early voter turnout in Israel's October 27, 2026 election was the highest for that point in the day in about 45 years, so the claim holds. The sources cite different baselines (1973, 1977, 1981), but each one supports the claim that early turnout was a multi-decade high, and the claim faithfully matches the passage.8 sources →

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  20. 20MixedThe Brazilian election was extended by two hours while Jair Bolsonaro was leading.The two-hour extension of Brazil's Oct. 25 runoff voting is well documented, but the claim that Bolsonaro was leading at that point is contradicted: Reuters reports Lula led 57.66% to 42.34% when the extension landed around the 5 p.m. cutoff. The post's 'Bolsonaro' is also a referent issue, since the runoff candidate was Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, not Jair Bolsonaro, who is a convicted former president and not a candidate.6 sources →

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  21. 21Can’t tellThe United States has bullied countries in the Middle East for nearly 100 years.The claim is a sweeping characterization of U.S. conduct ('bullied countries... for nearly 100 years') rather than a checkable factual assertion. The sources document a long history of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, such as the 1953 Iran coup, but none grades the word 'bullied' or the claimed scope as fact.7 sources →

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  22. 22Can’t tellPeople have lived in the region of Israel for 12,000 years.The sources support the generic statement that people lived in the region around 12,000 years ago, but the extracted claim drops the passage's referent, which is a specific group ('the people who have been there for 12,000 years') that the post ties to continuous residence since the beginning of humankind. Grading the broader 'People have lived' version departs from what the passage asserts, and the sources do not address that group's continuous occupation.6 sources →

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  23. 23OpinionThe hosts portray Netanyahu as an evil man who stokes anti-Semitism and endangers Israel for his own power.A judgement, not a statement of fact. It has no true or false answer.

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  24. 24Can’t tellNetanyahu's government is endangering its own people to create a victim story.The claim attributes a hypothetical motive to the government, which the speaker himself framed as 'a hundred percent hypothetical', and is a sweeping characterization rather than a checkable factual assertion. The sources show critics describing Netanyahu's victimhood rhetoric, but none documents the government endangering its own people, so the claim cannot be graded true or false.4 sources →

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  25. 25FalseOver half a million Jews left America to go to Israel to vote against Benjamin Netanyahu.The claim overstates the number of Americans who flew to Israel to vote by roughly fifteen times. AP and the Washington Post, citing AID Coalition, put the total expected returnees at about 67,000, with about half from the US (roughly 33,000-35,000), while the roughly 500,000 figure refers to all Israelis holding American passports living in Israel, not those travelling to vote. The 'to vote against Netanyahu' motive is partly supported by experts' views, but the magnitude is central to the claim and is grossly off.10 sources →

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  26. 26Can’t tellNetanyahu is planning a false flag attack to further his agenda.The claim states as fact that Netanyahu is planning a false flag attack, but the post only speculates that 'they' may 'need some sort of false flag,' so the claim goes beyond the passage. The sources show only an unverified Iranian state-media (Press TV) allegation about a planned false-flag flydubai hijacking, which other outlets say lacked independent evidence, and no authoritative body confirmed or debunked it.8 sources →

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  27. 27Can’t tellThe Soros family is interfering in the Brazilian election.The sources show Alex Soros publicly congratulated Lula and that commentators such as Katie Miller and partisan outlets accused the Soros family of interfering or fixing the vote, but none of the sources documents any actual Soros interference in the Brazilian election. The claim faithfully reflects the post's wording, and the sources neither substantiate nor affirmatively refute it, so it cannot be graded either way.9 sources →

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  28. 28FalseNetanyahu is interfering in the Israeli election with the help of Soros.The claim that Netanyahu is interfering in the Israeli election with Soros's help is not supported. No source mentions Soros. Sources report that Netanyahu and Likud accused Arab-led parties and foreign entities (Qatar and Turkey) of interference and fraud, that they gave no evidence, and that the Central Elections Committee chair said he could not vouch for the suspicions. Qatar denied the allegations. The claim also departs from the passage's wording on Netanyahu's role: the sources show him as the accuser, not the interferer. Nothing in the sources reverses that picture, so the verdict is false at moderate confidence rather than unverifiable.8 sources →

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  29. 29TrueThe Brazilian election had a two-hour extension for voting.Multiple tier1 sources (Reuters, BBC, AP-based reporting) confirm Brazil's Supreme Court extended voting in the October 25, 2026 presidential runoff by two hours, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Brasilia time, and that the vote count was paused as a result. The claim as extracted matches the post's reference to a 'two hour extension' and the sources show it applied nationwide per most reports, though Zanin later said it applied only where voting had not concluded; the electoral chief said it did not affect results.7 sources →

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  30. 30Can’t tellDemocrats are planning to cheat in the upcoming midterm elections.The claim departs from the passage: the post's "they" refers to Trump and his administration, who it accuses of trying to rig the midterms, not to Democrats. The sources describe Democrats preparing defensively for interference and fraud claims, and Republicans and the administration as the side accused of rigging, so nothing here supports or refutes a claim that Democrats plan to cheat.6 sources →

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  31. 31TrueDonald Trump commented on Nicki Minaj's physical appearance during a campaign event.Multiple tier1 sources (Snopes, AP, The Hill) and several outlets confirm Trump commented on Nicki Minaj's posterior at his October 25, 2026 Port Huron, Michigan campaign rally, calling it 'one hell of a beautiful a**'. The claim's wording is a faithful paraphrase of the passage, which references the same remark during his campaigning.7 sources →

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  32. 32TrueHundreds of Maine absentee ballot envelopes were shipped to a nonprofit linked to George Soros in Maryland.Multiple outlets report, citing state investigative records obtained by The Maine Wire, that a box of Maine absentee ballot return envelopes (500 believed inside, 498 recovered) was delivered to the Center for Civic Design in Cambridge, Maryland. The Soros link rests on that nonprofit's reported funding ties to Soros-backed grantmakers, which only partisan outlets state; no source disputes it. The post's 'accident/UPS' remarks are not part of the claim.5 sources →

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  33. 33FalseThe investigation into the shipment of Maine absentee ballot envelopes to a Maryland nonprofit was closed by the Attorney General's office in less than 48 hours.The claim that the investigation was closed within 48 hours is contradicted: AP reported an active, FBI-assisted investigation in early October 2025, and records reported in late 2026 show the case stayed open until spring 2026. The post's own wording, that the investigation was 'opened for less than 48 hours,' is also contradicted by that timeline, though the sources do not explicitly say the AG's office closed it.6 sources →

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  34. 34FalseMark Zuckerberg donated $400 million in 2020 that was funneled to ActBlue and then to Democrats.The sources confirm Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan gave about $400 million in 2020, but it went to nonprofits (mainly the Center for Tech and Civic Life) that granted it to state and local election offices, not to ActBlue or Democrats. AP rated the claim missing context, and the FEC found no reason to believe any wrongdoing; the claim's central assertion that the money was funneled to Democrats is contradicted, and no source mentions ActBlue at all.8 sources →

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  35. 35TrueDonald Trump is offering a 1 million dollar reward to Americans who expose voter fraud ahead of the 2026 midterms.Multiple independent outlets (Reuters, NYT, NBC, ABC, USA Today, Newsweek) report that Trump posted on Truth Social on Oct 26, 2026 that anyone reporting voter fraud in past elections or the 2026 midterms would be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The sources note the funding source and administration were unspecified, and the payout is conditional on arrest and conviction, which the claim's core assertion does not contradict.9 sources →

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  36. 36TrueThousands of observers from the right and the left will be at polling places to monitor the vote on Election Day.Sources published before the 2026-10-28 claim date, mainly AP wire copy carried by PBS, ABC, Fortune and others, report that thousands of Democratic, nonpartisan and Republican-aligned observers and DOJ monitors were planned for polling places on Election Day. The claim departs from the passage only trivially: the post said 'thousands of observers from the right and the left', which matches the sources' framing.8 sources →

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  37. 37TrueA pipe burst in a Georgia facility during the 2020 election.Multiple reliable sources report that a pipe burst at State Farm Arena, a Fulton County ballot-processing site in Atlanta, on the morning of Election Day, November 3, 2020, delaying absentee ballot processing for about two to four hours. Later accounts dispute the 'burst' wording for a separate late-evening leak, which was described as a urinal or toilet leak, but the morning incident itself is well documented. The claim departs from the passage only in dropping the post's sarcastic framing about ballot theft, which the fact-checks reject.9 sources →

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  38. 38FalseDonald Trump has not arrested anyone for voter fraud in the last two years.The claim is contradicted by reliable sources showing the Trump administration's DHS, ICE and DOJ have made voter-fraud arrests during his term, including about 160 arrests reported by AP and 11 arrests in a 28-person California charging action reported by the NYT. The literal reading that Trump personally made no arrests is not addressed by the sources, but the post's intended meaning, that his administration has not arrested anyone, is contradicted.5 sources →

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  39. 39Can’t tell10% of all active federal judges in the United States have traveled to Israel in the last three years.The sources show a claimed ~10% figure attributed to Judge Roy Altman, but no roster or authoritative record substantiates it. The documented count is at least 32 judge-trip places across two WJC missions, with unique judges not established, so the figure is neither confirmed nor refuted. The extracted claim matches the post's wording and scope.9 sources →

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  40. 40Can’t tellTrips for federal judges to Israel cost approximately $30,000 each.No source gives a per-trip cost for federal judges' Israel trips, so the $30,000 figure can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The closest figures are a 2013 Reuters/LegiStorm estimate of about $10,000 per congressional member for Israel trips and a 2026 disclosure showing roughly $12,000 in total expenses for one traveler (not identified as a judge), and a 2026 Sherafy analysis says the public cannot reliably calculate the total cost. The claim's wording is faithful to the post, which gives the same figure. As of 2026-10-28, the record does not establish the figure.4 sources →

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  41. 41TrueA group of state Supreme Court justices from the United States recently completed a trip to Israel.Sources show a group of Georgia judges including Georgia Supreme Court justices took a weeklong trip to Israel starting November 16, 2025, and a September 2026 account describes a 13-person Georgia delegation. The claim's core, that a group of state supreme court justices completed an Israel trip, is supported; the post's 'first ever' framing is dropped from the extracted claim and is not corroborated by these sources, and 'recently' is loosely matched by a trip about a year before the post.4 sources →

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  42. 42Mixed50% of the registered prisoners in concentration camps were Christian.The Auschwitz Memorial's breakdown supports roughly half of Auschwitz's registered prisoners being Christian, so the figure holds for registered prisoners but not for everyone deported or killed there, where AAP's fact-check says Jews were the majority of victims. The claim also widens an Auschwitz figure to 'concentration camps' generally, which the sources do not support as a single figure.6 sources →

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  43. 43Can’t tellApproximately 150,000 individuals of partial Jewish descent fought in Hitler's army.The post says 'about hundred, 250,000 individual of partial Jewish descent,' so the extracted figure of approximately 150,000 departs from the passage. Independent sources (Yale 2002, Vanderbilt 2003) put the 150,000 figure on Jews and partial-Jews (Mischlinge) in the German military, but that is not the figure the post stated.3 sources →

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  44. 44FalseAllied forces bombed the supply routes to concentration camps, preventing food from reaching them.The sources contradict the claim: the Allies declined repeated requests to bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz and did not bomb supply routes to camps to cut off food, and the bombing that did occur was aimed at military targets such as oil installations and the Auschwitz industrial area. No source reports a campaign against supply routes to all concentration camps, and the claim's starvation mechanism is not supported.6 sources →

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  45. 45TrueIn 1939, there were approximately 200,215 Jews in Germany.Several sources put Germany's Jewish population in 1939 at roughly 202,000 to 215,000, so the claimed figure of about 200,215 is close to the record and within rounding of the end-of-1939 estimates. Figures differ by timing and borders (Sept 1939 about 215,000; end-1939 about 202,000 to 202,400; May 1939 census about 222,000 within the 1937 Reich), and the post's garbled phrasing ('two to 200,215') does not change the core figure.5 sources →

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  46. 46FalseJared Kushner is an active Mossad agent.The claim that Jared Kushner is an active Mossad agent is not supported by any source; the only source explicitly addressing the Dutch-intelligence and Mossad allegation (The Oracle of Whimsy, citing the Vanity Fair excerpt and reporting) states that no credible reporting connects Kushner to Mossad, and Kushner denied the allegations. The claim also widens the passage, which framed Mossad as an unconfirmed rumor; the cited Dutch intelligence story is a real but unverified report about phone monitoring and UAE-linked accounts, not Mossad. Sources dated 2026-10-26 and 2026-10-28 are mostly echo or partisan content, so the reliable record is thin, but the authoritative-style dismissal supports false at moderate confidence.4 sources →

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  47. 47Can’t tellJared Kushner received approximately one billion dollars for his work as a middleman in negotiations.The sources report allegations, mainly from a book excerpted by Vanity Fair, that Kushner had access to about $2 billion in royal-funded accounts, with over $700 million in transfers, but Kushner categorically denies them and no source establishes that he received about $1 billion as payment for middleman work. The claim also drops the speaker's hedge ('apparently') and the 'trader' framing, and the post's rumor was not sourced in the passage itself. As of 2026-10-28, the record is contested allegations rather than documented payment.8 sources →

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  48. 48Can’t tellDutch intelligence confirmed Jared Kushner's activities by tapping his phone.The sources report a Vanity Fair excerpt from Matthew Cole's book alleging Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) hacked and monitored Kushner's iPhone, but they describe this as an unsourced allegation that Kushner and Trump deny. No source states that Dutch intelligence officially confirmed the surveillance, and no authority has ruled on it, so the claim that Dutch intelligence 'confirmed' it cannot be graded either way; the extraction faithfully reflects the post's wording.8 sources →

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  49. 49Can’t tellSuzy Wiles is a Mossad agent.No provided source establishes or refutes that Suzy Wiles is a Mossad agent. The only Mossad link comes from Max Blumenthal's 2025 posts alleging she helped Mossad influence Trump, which are unsubstantiated claims rather than evidence, and the post itself hedged the statement as 'allegedly', a qualifier the extracted claim drops.7 sources →

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  50. 50TrueSuzy Wiles worked for Ballot Partners and Mercury Public Affairs in the private sector before becoming Trump's chief of staff.Multiple sources confirm Susie Wiles worked in private-sector lobbying for Ballard Partners and for Mercury Public Affairs before becoming Trump's chief of staff. The claim's spelling "Ballot Partners" is a transcription of the firm's actual name, Ballard Partners, which the post itself also misspelled; the NYT notes she stayed at Mercury until after her November 7, 2024 appointment, so the timing is overlapping rather than strictly prior.4 sources →

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  51. 51FalseMinnesota, California, Illinois, and New York allow migrants to vote in elections.Authoritative sources contradict the claim: Minnesota's Secretary of State states that only U.S. citizens can vote there, and PolitiFact and MigrationPolicy report that no state allows noncitizens to vote in statewide elections, including New York. The only exceptions are a few local elections in certain California municipalities, and the sources do not address Illinois at all.5 sources →

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  52. 52Can’t tellIn the last two years, 60 Minutes has produced over 100 exposés on migrant families.None of the sources counts how many 60 Minutes segments on migrants or deportations have aired in the last two years, so the figure of over 100 cannot be checked. The sources show several migration-related 60 Minutes reports, such as the Alfonsi deportation segment and the 'Destination: Nowhere' episode, but no tally. The claim's wording matches the post, which is the claimant's own estimate and not evidence.7 sources →

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  53. 53TrueMousa Diwara, an illegal immigrant from Mali, was deported to Ghana in July.Multiple sources, including CBS News' 60 Minutes report and the Standing Record, state that ICE deported Moussa (spelled Mousa in the claim) Diawara, a Malian man, to Ghana on July 31, 2026. The claim's spelling and the 'illegal immigrant' label reflect DHS framing, but the sources confirm he overstayed a tourist visa, so the core assertion holds.4 sources →

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  54. 54TrueMousa Diwara overstayed a tourist visa and claimed refugee status that barred him from being sent back to Mali.Multiple sources confirm that Moussa Diawara (spelled Diawara in most reports) came to the US on a tourist visa at 32, overstayed it, applied for refugee protection, and obtained a 2012 immigration judge order barring his removal to Mali. The DHS dispute concerns his stated reason for fearing Mali (DHS says he cited being gay, while CBS reports his conversion to Christianity), which does not contradict the claim's core elements.4 sources →

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  55. 55TrueMousa Dawari claimed to be a homosexual man who feared prosecution in Mali in his asylum application.The claim refers to Moussa Diawara, whom the sources spell differently, and the sources support its core: his 2009/asylum application said he feared persecution in Mali because he was gay. The passage's word 'prosecution' is a mismatch with the sources' 'persecution', but the claim faithfully reproduces the passage and the substance holds.6 sources →

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  56. 56TrueJames Percival is the seventh General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under the leadership of President Donald Trump.Sources consistently show James Percival serving as General Counsel of DHS from December 2025 onward, confirmed by the Senate on 12/18/2025 after his nomination by President Trump, so he held the post as of 2026-10-28. The 'seventh' ordinal is addressed only by Percival's own X bio (self-published, unrated) and is not independently confirmed by a government or wire source, which caps confidence.5 sources →

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  57. 57TrueLess than 14% of people detained by the Department of Homeland Security during the first year of the Trump administration's second term had a violent criminal record.An internal DHS document, reported by CBS News and cited by FactCheck.org, shows fewer than 14% of the roughly 400,000 ICE arrests in Trump's first year back in office involved charges or convictions for violent crimes, so the figure is supported. The sources describe these as arrests, and the 14% counts charges or convictions rather than strictly a 'record', but these are minor differences that don't change the core figure.7 sources →

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  58. 58False70% to 80% of the country did not want the people who have entered the country to come in.No source directly measures whether 70-80% of Americans opposed the entry of people who had come into the country, so the claim's figure is not corroborated. The nearest measures point the other way: Gallup found 79% viewed immigration as a good thing (2025, cited by LSE), and a 2026 Gallup poll found 58% opposed deporting all people living in the U.S. illegally, while a 2026 Data for Progress poll found 67% support a refugee program. The claim is a checkable quantity that the nearby figures contradict, but the contradiction is indirect, so confidence is moderate.5 sources →

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  59. 59FalseThe United States has brought in 20 million people illegally.The claim that the US brought in 20 million people illegally is contradicted by the record: Pew's estimates put the total undocumented population at about 14 million in 2023 and a 3.5 million rise over two years, and Newsweek's fact-check of the 20-million-entries allegation found it unsupported. Post-2026 estimates (about 13.5 million in July 2026) show the population falling, and the claim's 'illegally' framing is drawn from context, not stated in the passage.6 sources →

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  60. 60FalseEvery illegal alien in the United States is a criminal by default because they violated a law against coming into the country.The claim that every illegal alien is a criminal by default is contradicted by the sources: unlawful presence is a civil violation, not a crime, and only certain conduct such as improper entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325 is criminal. Overstaying a visa, for example, carries civil penalties. The extraction matches the passage, so the claim is graded as stated.6 sources →

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  61. 61FalseThe United States is the least racist country on the planet.The claim that the US is the least racist country on the planet is contradicted by the available rankings: an IndexMundi perceived-discrimination survey places the US 13th (5.18) and a racial-equality ranking lists it far from the top, with New Zealand and Norway ranked above it. The only support is an advocacy opinion piece (AMAC) and a Reddit thread repeating the claim, which carry no independent weight, and the claim departs from nothing in the post.5 sources →

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  62. 62TrueA racial activist from the United States moved to Russia and was beaten for being Black.Multiple sources report that Francine Villa, a Black American woman, moved to Russia in 2019 and was beaten by neighbors in Moscow in July 2025 while they shouted racial slurs at her, which supports the core of the claim. The sources describe her as a woman disillusioned with American racism rather than explicitly as a 'racial activist,' a label the claim adds that the sources do not confirm.4 sources →

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  63. 63TrueThe United States has been a multicultural country for 250 years.Multiple sources, including Brookings, HIAS, a Census history page, and a scholarly brief, describe the US as multicultural from its founding onward, so the claim that it has been multicultural for 250 years is supported. The claim is interpretive and the sources are largely commentary and institutional summaries, not a single decisive record, which caps confidence.5 sources →

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  64. 64MixedChinese Americans have the highest median income of any demographic group in the United States.Sources support Chinese Americans having among the highest median incomes on one measure but contradict a 'highest of any group' ranking on household income. Pew shows Chinese-headed households at $102,800 versus $105,600 for Asian-headed households overall, while Pew's personal earnings figure ($57,200 vs $52,400 for Asians overall) favors the claim. No source ranks all U.S. demographic groups directly, and the claim's mention of Indian Americans as second is not addressed.4 sources →

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  65. 65TrueApproximately 11% to 16% of Americans have never left their home state.Two surveys directly measure the claimed figures: OnePoll/The Hill (2019) found 11% of respondents had never left their home state, and Little Passports/StudyFinds (2021) found 16%, so the claimed 11%–16% range matches the survey results. The claim departs from none of the passage's wording; the 2009 Pew figure (57% have not lived outside their birth state) uses a different measure, and the surveys are several years old relative to the 2026-10-28 claim date.5 sources →

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  66. 66TrueApproximately 54% of Americans have visited ten states or fewer.The claim matches a 2017 OnePoll survey of 2,000 U.S. adults commissioned by Victorinox, which found 54% had visited fewer than 10 states; The Hill (tier1) reported it directly, and a 2016 Motel 6 survey found a nearby figure of 48%. The support rests on a single dated, commissioned survey, and the later pages mostly repeat it, so confidence is moderate, but the claim matches the record as of 2026-10-28.7 sources →

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  67. 67MixedApproximately 40% of Americans have never left the United States.The claim's 40% figure matches a 2019 OnePoll/Victorinox survey (The Hill, Forbes) and a 2025 Preply survey (42%), but Pew Research's 2023 data puts nontravelers at 23%, and other polls report about 14%. The figure falls within a wide range of competing survey estimates that depend on survey method and definition, so the claim is partly supported and partly contradicted. The post's own 'about 40%' matches the claim's wording, so this is not an extraction issue.9 sources →

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  68. 68FalseThe education system in the United States has stopped grading students and instead uses a pass or fail system.The claim that the US education system has stopped grading students and uses pass/fail instead is contradicted by the sources. Pass/fail arrangements were a temporary pandemic-era measure in some districts in 2020, most districts reverted to standard grading, and 2026 sources describe ongoing grading policy debates rather than a system-wide switch. The claim also departs somewhat from the post's own sweeping phrasing, which the sources do not support as a national fact as of 2026-10-28.7 sources →

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  69. 69Can’t tellInfinite scrolling on digital devices lowers the brain's base level of dopamine.None of the provided sources states that infinite scrolling lowers the brain's baseline dopamine level. The sources describe dopamine spikes, anticipation, and reward loops from scrolling, and one (source 6) says technology addiction rewires the brain to expect higher dopamine, which points the opposite way without addressing baseline. The claim's wording matches the post's paraphrase of an unnamed study, so it is graded as stated and remains unverifiable.8 sources →

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  70. 70TrueA 3-year-old soccer player was removed from a local league in Florida.Multiple outlets report that a 3-year-old boy named Nevada was removed from a youth soccer league (i9 Sports, Winter Park, Florida) after complaints from other parents, and the league itself told police he could no longer participate. The claim's core matches the sources, and the extraction faithfully paraphrases the post; the league's stated reasons differ from the family's account, but that does not affect the core assertion.5 sources →

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  71. 71TrueJewel Henry, the director of the youth soccer league, called 911 due to the parents of a 3-year-old player being disruptive.Multiple sources, including a Reuters item quoting a Winter Park Police press release, report that a youth soccer league director called police on Oct. 24 about a 3-year-old player's parents being disruptive. The sources name the director 'Jul Henry' rather than 'Jewel Henry,' which appears to be a transcription difference for the same person, and the post's 'sham' framing is opinion the claim does not carry.7 sources →

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  72. 72TrueJewel Henry claimed that a 3-year-old soccer player had been aggressive on the field.Multiple sources quote the league director (named Jewel Henry in the post, 'Jul Henry' in one outlet) telling Winter Park police that the 3-year-old, Nevada, was pushing other players, which is a reasonable reading of 'aggressive on the field.' The sources do not use the word 'aggressive' and the parents' footage disputes the pushing, but that does not affect whether Henry made the claim.7 sources →

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  73. 73MixedThe Israeli Prime Minister ordered the IDF to conduct a strike on Iran days before the election, but the IDF chief refused.Multiple reports, including N12/Channel 12 and The New York Times, say Netanyahu pressed for or directed a strike on Iran days before the election and that IDF chief Eyal Zamir resisted, requested formal authorization, or opposed it. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz deny any order or plan, and the sources describe Zamir's stance as pushback rather than a clear refusal, so the 'ordered' and 'refused' framing is contested.8 sources →

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  74. 74Can’t tellDonald Trump stated that he thought gas prices were going to be 20 dollars a gallon.None of the sources contain the claimed "$20 a gallon" remark; the post's passage is the claimant's own words and cannot corroborate it. The nearby Oct. 25 quote in the sources, that he "thought gas would be double and triple," is a different statement and does not confirm or refute the $20 figure.5 sources →

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  75. 75FalseThe total population of Jewish people in Germany in 1939 was approximately 600,000.The claim that Germany's Jewish population in 1939 was about 600,000 is contradicted by multiple sources. The 1939 census and later estimates put the figure at roughly 200,000 to 330,000, and the 600,000 figure matches the 1933 population or a cumulative 1933–1945 count of persons, not the 1939 population. The claim faithfully reflects the post's wording, so it is graded as made.7 sources →

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  76. 76TrueNew York State does not require voters to present identification to vote in elections.As of 2026-10-28, New York did not require registered voters to show photo ID at the polls, and the NY Attorney General, State Board of Elections and NYC Board of Elections all say so. The claim omits a narrow exception: first-time voters who gave no ID at registration may have to show ID, and the pending bill A1927 would add a photo ID requirement but was still in committee.7 sources →

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  77. 77Can’t tellThe parents involved in the soccer dispute were issued a full refund.The passage never mentions a soccer dispute; its only referent for "they" is unresolved, so the extracted claim departs from the post and cannot be graded as the poster's statement. On the separate question of whether the soccer parents were refunded, the sources conflict: police say the league offered a refund, while one i9 Sports account says the refund was to come later and another says it was already issued.5 sources →
  78. 78MixedYouth sports leagues charge parents 300 dollars for participation.The $300 figure falls inside the fee ranges the sources report, but it is not a typical charge. Registration averages $197 per Aspen Institute data, rec-league fees run from $60 to about $398, and travel or club costs run far higher, so the claim holds only for some leagues. The post's own $300 figure is the speaker's personal payment, and the claim generalizes it to all youth sports leagues.6 sources →

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  79. 79FalseGeorge Soros and his son are creating division, artificial protests, migration and election interference.The claim that George Soros and his son are creating division, artificial protests, migration and election interference is an allegation that authoritative sources reject as unsupported. Reuters reports that Trump accused them of backing violent protests without offering any evidence, and AFP debunked images used to push the protest claims, while the Open Society Foundations denied funding violence. The sources do not address election interference specifically, so confidence is moderate, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post's 'they' referring to the Soros family.8 sources →

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