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Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers
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Can’t tell30% confidence8 sourcesSep 10, 2026The Trump agenda includes moving to a world in which the White House lies rather than cherry picking truths.Said by AThe claim is the poster's political characterization of Trump's agenda as a move toward a world where the White House lies rather than cherry-picks truths, which is opinion rather than a checkable factual statement. The sources document related data-manipulation allegations (the BLS firing, the DHS estimate dispute) but do not establish any stated agenda of lying in place of cherry-picking, and the claim faithfully reflects the passage.Can’t tell30% confidence5 sourcesSep 10, 2026The Heritage Foundation has not told the truth in decades.Said by AThe claim is a sweeping, opinion-style characterization of Heritage Foundation's honesty over decades, which cannot be checked as a literal factual statement. The extraction faithfully reflects the post's wording ('is a joke that hasn't told the truth in decades'), and sources show mixed views: a Snopes check rated a Heritage voter-fraud database claim mostly true, while MBFC rates its factual reporting mixed and Krugman calls it a fraud.Can’t tell45% confidence8 sourcesSep 10, 2026Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore, and Pete Navarro have lied in their capacity as economic experts.Said by AThe claim is a sweeping accusation that three named economic advisers lied, which is partly opinion and partly an imputation of intent that the sources do not establish. Fact-checkers rated some Kudlow statements false (PolitiFact, FactCheck.org) and a columnist called Moore's statements lies, but none establishes that these three knowingly lied in their expert capacity, so the claim is not checkable as stated.