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False60% confidence6 sourcesJul 27, 2026U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Wallace stated that the military has everything it needs to conduct the campaign effectively.Said by CThe quoted statement is confirmed: the sources show U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said on Meet the Press (July 26, 2026) that the military has everything it needs to conduct the campaign as effectively as it needs to be. The claim names the speaker as 'Mike Wallace,' however, and the sources identify the ambassador as Mike Waltz, so the wrong name changes who the claim is about and the claim is false as stated.False60% confidence7 sourcesJul 27, 2026Full-scale hostilities between the U.S. and Iran began in March 2026.Said by FThe claim that full-scale hostilities began in March 2026 is contradicted by sources that date the start of the war and its major combat operations to February 28, 2026. The extraction faithfully reflects the post's 'beginning of this war in March' wording, but March 1 and later are the intensification period, not the start.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.False70% confidence8 sourcesJul 27, 2026Carrie Lake lost her nomination for governor.Said by GThe sources show Kari Lake (the likely referent of 'Carrie Lake') won the 2022 Republican primary for Arizona governor, so she did not lose her nomination for governor. She lost the November 2022 general election to Katie Hobbs and later lost the 2024 Senate race, which the post's own wording ('got her nomination... and she lost') appears to refer to.False70% confidence9 sourcesJul 27, 2026There are 278,000 non-citizen aliens on voter rolls in four states.The claim that 278,000 noncitizens are on voter rolls in four states misstates the DHS figure, which was over 250,000 for four states (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nevada), with 278,000 being the broader total. Authoritative fact-checkers and reporters (FactCheck.org, Reuters, Snopes, and state officials) found the figure unsupported or overstated, and DHS has not disclosed its methodology.False70% confidence8 sourcesJul 27, 2026The Chinese government operated an election influence campaign involving 20,000 fake driver's licenses.Said by 2BThe roughly 20,000 fake driver's licenses were really seized at Chicago O'Hare in 2020, but authoritative fact-checkers examined that seizure and found no evidence it was tied to voter fraud or a Chinese election influence campaign. The 2025 FBI documents allege a Chinese plot to use such licenses, but they rest on an unverified confidential source, and a 2026 Brennan Center review found no evidence of China interfering in the 2020 federal elections.False85% confidence7 sourcesJul 27, 2026There are 250,000 or 70,000 foreign nationals on voter rolls across four states.Said by EThe claim that 250,000 (or 70,000) foreign nationals are on voter rolls across four states is contradicted by Snopes, which rated DHS's 250K noncitizen-registration claim False. Reuters, NPR, CBS and Votebeat report that DHS offered no methodology or evidence, and officials in the four states called the numbers speculative or unsupported. The Snopes rating was published July 28, one day after the July 27 post, but it examines the same figure. The 70,000 figure is not addressed by any source.False60% confidence6 sourcesJul 27, 2026Jon Ossoff's opponent, David Perdue, had a 78,000 vote margin over Ossoff with 13 precincts left to report in Fulton County in the November 2020 election.Said by 2BThe sources do not show a 78,000-vote Perdue margin over Ossoff in Fulton County with 13 precincts left. Fulton's official report shows Ossoff ahead of Perdue by about 217,000 votes, and the AJC's statewide snapshot shows Perdue about 200,500 ahead, not 78,000. The extracted claim also drops the 'above the runoff threshold' framing of the original post, though the figure itself is unsupported either way.False85% confidence8 sourcesJul 27, 2026The 2020 United States Senate election in Georgia involving John Ossoff was stolen.Said by 3CThe claim that Ossoff's Georgia Senate election was stolen is an allegation that authoritative sources dismiss: Georgia's Secretary of State found no widespread fraud, and AFP fact-checked fraud claims about the January 2021 runoff Ossoff won as false. The extraction's '2020 ... election' label fits the Georgia Senate race the post meant, though the runoff was held in January 2021.