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Can’t tell35% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026Banks kept over 433 billion dollars in interest from Americans.Said by 5DThe only source giving a matching figure is River's own marketing piece claiming about $434 billion in 2025 net interest income, and River is the advertiser sponsoring this segment, so it cannot independently corroborate the claim. Independent sources cover related but different measures (FDIC interest expense, Fed reserve payments, credit card interest) and do not establish a $433 billion figure for interest banks 'kept' from Americans; the claim also departs from the passage's own arithmetic of $1,600 per person times millions of Americans.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026Stacy Abrams' organization Fair Fight engages in litigation in Georgia.The sources document that Fair Fight Action litigated in Georgia, including its 2018 federal suit lost in September 2022 and a 2020 suit against True the Vote, but none show its current litigation as of 2026-09-16. The claim also departs from the passage, which says only that Abrams is "in Fair Fight down in Georgia" and never mentions litigation, so the claim adds a scope the post did not make.Can’t tell50% confidence7 sourcesSep 16, 2026Statutory claims against the Postal Service must be reviewed first by the Postal Regulatory Commission and then by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.Said by 5CThe passage says the statute channels 'many claims' to PRC initial review and then D.C. Circuit review, and the sources confirm that mechanism for certain complaints under 39 U.S.C. §§3662-3663. The extracted claim drops 'many' and asserts that all statutory claims against the Postal Service must go through this path, a widened scope the post does not state, so the claim departs from the passage and is unverifiable as stated.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell40% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026A district judge issued a nationwide injunction after Justice Scalia stated that district judges could not issue nationwide injunctions.The sources do not show that Justice Scalia said district judges could not issue nationwide injunctions, and no source covers the specific 2026 USPS mail-ballot injunction the post describes. Coverage of nationwide injunctions names other Justices' separate-opinion views but does not mention a Scalia statement of this kind, so the claim is uncorroborated rather than contradicted.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesAug 11, 2026Benson Honey Farms is located in Nebraska.Said by BThe claim matches the post, which describes the farm as 'their Nebraska farm.' The only source naming Nebraska is the Badlands Media shop page, which is run by the same outlet that aired the sponsor read, so it cannot independently corroborate the claim. Independent sources such as the company's own site and the podcast description do not name a state, and the Nebraska agritourism listing does not include Benson Honey Farms.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesAug 11, 2026Benson Honey is never heated during processing.Said by BNo source addresses Benson Honey Farms' processing, so the claim that it is never heated can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The only Benson-named source concerns Benson Bakery in Minnesota, a different business, and it states it has no confirmed information on processing; general sources say most commercial honey is heated, which is a nearby topic, not a contradiction. The extraction matches the passage's wording.Can’t tell30% confidence2 sourcesAug 11, 2026Every purchase of Soft Disclosure deodorant helps support six American small businesses.The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the sponsor read in Badlands Media's show, but no independent source verifies or disputes that every purchase supports six American small businesses. The only source with the claim is a transcript of the same show's ad (dated 2026-04-01), which merely repeats it and cannot corroborate it; the company's own site snippet does not address the figure.Can’t tell50% confidence5 sourcesAug 11, 2026Scott Pressler has padded voter rolls in the same manner as leftist NGOs.Said by BReporting from The Bulwark, Raw Story, and others says out-of-state GOP operatives were registered or voted from Scott Presler's Pennsylvania home address in 2024, and legal experts question their residency. However, no source finds that Presler padded voter rolls, and none addresses the claim that this was done 'the same way as leftist NGOs'; his PAC says the residents lived there while working in Pennsylvania. The claim's characterization of this as padding and its NGO comparison are not established either way by the sources.Can’t tell50% confidence4 sourcesAug 11, 2026Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released documents claiming a 12.6% miscarriage rate for pregnant women who received the COVID-19 vaccine.Said by BThe 12.6% figure is real: the 2021 NEJM preliminary study reported 104 miscarriages out of 827 completed pregnancies, and the claim it was used to support was debunked. But sources do not show that the senators' released documents claimed 12.6%. The post attributes that figure to unnamed 'authors' and says the senators released the documents, so the extracted claim departs from the passage.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesAug 11, 2026The Democracy Communications Collaborative defines pro-democracy actions to include voting, talking with friends and family about political issues, signing petitions, boycotting companies, sharing information online, attending protests, contacting elected officials, attending town halls, displaying signs, volunteering, donating to candidates, and joining civic or nonprofit organizations.Said by BNone of the provided sources contains the DCC's pro-democracy action list or any description of how the Collaborative defines pro-democracy actions, so the claim cannot be graded in either direction. The list tracks the claimant's passage closely, and the attribution to DCC is resolved from the post's own context, so there is no extraction departure. The Brookings 'Democracy 76' list is a different, non-DCC source and does not address the claim.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence12 sourcesAug 11, 2026The Democracy Communications Collaborative defines election interference as election officials refusing to certify results they disagree with.Said by BNone of the provided sources mention the Democracy Communications Collaborative or any definition it has published, so the claim cannot be checked against them. The extracted claim does match the passage's wording, and the only related source (a Campaign Legal Center report) describes refusing to certify results as election subversion but does not attribute that definition to the DCC.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesAug 11, 2026Local election officials in Michigan and Arizona were threatened and bullied into certifying election results.Said by BThe sources document refusals to certify in Michigan and Arizona and state officials compelling certification through legal warnings and court orders, but none reports officials being threatened or bullied into certifying, so the central assertion is not graded either way. The claim also departs from the passage's framing only in its loaded wording of 'bullied' versus the sources' legal compulsion, and the post's 'Brian' report is not among the sources.

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