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False90% confidence8 sourcesAug 11, 2026The 2020 election was fraudulent.Said by BThe claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent is contradicted by numerous authoritative sources, including federal agencies, courts, state officials, and a bipartisan review, which found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome. The speaker's post refers to the 2020 results being 'bullshit' in the context of questioning elections; the extracted claim matches the post's sweeping assertion, which the authoritative record debunks.False60% confidence5 sourcesAug 11, 2026Senator Susan Collins chairs the Committee Probes Committee.Said by CNo source identifies any Senate committee called the "Committee Probes Committee." The sources show Collins chairs the Appropriations Committee, and that she formerly chaired the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, so the claim's named committee is wrong. The passage itself uses this name, so the extraction is faithful, but the claimed chairmanship does not match the record as of 2026-08-11.False93% confidence7 sourcesAug 11, 2026Raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester.Said by BThe claim that raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in first-trimester vaccinated women is contradicted by multiple tier1 fact-checkers. The 82% figure came from recalculating the CDC v-safe study with an invalid denominator that excluded the many women whose pregnancies were still ongoing, and the study itself reported a 12.6% rate. The claim's extraction is faithful to the passage, which attributes the figure to Dr. Thorp's reading of the data.False88% confidence6 sourcesAug 11, 2026Bill Gates stated in a TED Talk that the global population could be reduced by a few billion through the use of vaccines.Gates did give a 2010 TED Talk in which he said that vaccines, health care and reproductive health services could lower projected future population growth (from about 9 billion) by perhaps 10 to 15 percent. Fact-checkers including Reuters, FactCheck.org and Full Fact rejected the reading that he proposed reducing the existing population by a few billion through vaccines, so the claim is false.False90% confidence9 sourcesAug 11, 2026COVID-19 was an experimental bioweapon created in a laboratory in Wuhan.Said by BThe claim that COVID-19 was an experimental bioweapon created in a Wuhan lab is contradicted by multiple tier1 fact-checkers and scientific/government sources (Reuters, Snopes, PolitiFact, ODNI, WHO, CIDRAP), which found no evidence it was engineered or a bioweapon, though a lab accident remains an open question distinct from the bioweapon claim. The claimant's post asserts the bioweapon story as fact, so the authoritative dismissals of the bioweapon allegation make the claim false.False95% confidence8 sourcesAug 11, 2026A study on COVID-19 vaccination during the first trimester of pregnancy revealed an 82% miscarriage rate.Said by BThe claim that a study revealed an 82% miscarriage rate for COVID-19 vaccination in the first trimester is contradicted by multiple fact-checkers. The 2021 NEJM v-safe study reported about 12.6% (104 of 827 completed pregnancies), and the 82% figure came from an incorrect calculation that excluded most participants. The claim faithfully reflects the post, so no extraction departure applies.False70% confidence4 sourcesAug 11, 2026The Continuing Resolution contained $700 billion in funding for USAID.Said by BNo source reports a $700 billion appropriation for USAID. The FY2026 CR funded SFOPS at FY2025 levels, the entire SFOPS request was about $31.5 billion, and USAID was largely eliminated in 2025, so the claimed figure is roughly 20 times larger than the total for all foreign affairs funding. The $500-700 billion figure in the sources refers to a Pentagon funding gap, not USAID.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False85% confidence6 sourcesAug 11, 2026The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) operates without oversight or authority.Said by BThe claim that ERIC operates without oversight or authority is contradicted by primary sources describing ERIC as governed by its member states through a Board of Directors that oversees the organization, with independent security reviews. The claim's wording matches the post's own assertion, so no extraction departure applies; the sources cover ERIC's governance as of the 2026-08-11 posting date.False70% confidence6 sourcesAug 11, 2026Mark Elias opposes local election officials having a role in the certification of election results.Said by BThe claim that Mark Elias opposes local election officials having a role in certification is contradicted by his own published statements, which treat county certification as a mandatory duty and attack officials who refuse to certify, not the officials' role itself. The only partial support is a 2021 Elias idea, cited by American Progress, to move certification to a nonpartisan panel of judges. The sources are from 2021 to 2024, so they describe his stance before the 2026-08-11 post; none show a change.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False92% confidence5 sourcesAug 11, 2026Tina Peters did not tamper with election equipment.Said by BThe claim that Tina Peters did not tamper with election equipment is contradicted by the record: a Colorado jury convicted her on seven counts tied to unauthorized access to Mesa County's voting machines, and the appeals panel upheld those convictions in April 2026 while ordering only resentencing. The extraction faithfully reflects the post's assertion, which the post's speaker offers as an opinion about a 'narrative' rather than as evidence.False95% confidence6 sourcesAug 11, 2026Tina Peters was not charged, tried, convicted, or sentenced for tampering with elections.Said by BThe claim is contradicted by multiple tier-1 sources: Tina Peters was charged, tried, convicted by a Mesa County jury in August 2024, and sentenced to nine years for election-related offenses (BBC, ABC News, Reuters). The extraction faithfully reflects the post, which makes the same assertion, so the claim is graded on its content.False60% confidence6 sourcesAug 11, 2026Joe Biden used Merrick Garland to launch investigations against Donald Trump.Said by BThe claim that Biden used Garland to launch investigations against Trump is contradicted by Garland's sworn-hearing statements that no one directed his charging decisions and by reporting that he appointed the Trump special counsel himself. The post's wording, "it's hard to say Joe Biden did it," concedes the direction was never shown, and no source documents Biden directing the probes.