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Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 23, 2026Donald Trump called Elon Musk and told him to restore full access to the Starshield system.Said by AMultiple outlets (NYT, CNN, citing anonymous officials or a person familiar with the matter) report that Trump called Musk and asked him to restore Ukraine's full Starshield access, but Reuters reports Trump denied speaking to Musk personally, and Trump himself declined to confirm the call. The claim also drops the post's 'reportedly' hedge and says 'told' where sources say 'asked'; the evidence is anonymously sourced and conflicting, not documented.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 23, 202640% of women across the board are targets of harassment, rape threats, and death threats.Said by CThe 40% figure matches survey results for female parliamentarians (IPU 2016: about 40–44% reported death, rape, or similar threats), but the sources do not show that 40% of all women face such threats. The claim's 'across the board' scope widens a politician-specific survey to women generally, and the post's 80% clause was dropped in extraction without changing the 40% assertion. As of 2026-10-23, the record supports the figure only for the subgroup.Mixed60% confidence11 sourcesOct 23, 202680% of women aspiring towards leadership are targets of harassment, rape threats, and death threats.Said by CThe sources do not support the claim's 80% figure for threats. They report roughly 80% of women parliamentarians experiencing psychological violence, but about 42-44% receiving threats of death, rape, or beating, and none addresses women aspiring to leadership. The claim also departs from the post's 40% figure for women generally, which is not in the claim as extracted. As of 2026-10-23 the record does not show the threat figure claimed.Mixed50% confidence8 sourcesOct 23, 2026400,000 Mississippians will not receive health care next year because of the policies of Donald Trump and Cindy Hyde-Smith.Said by 3DThe 400,000 figure appears only as a projection from the state insurance department, relayed by Colom, and sources give competing estimates of 200,000 to 300,000 uninsured or lost coverage. The causal link to Trump and Hyde-Smith is partly supported, since sources tie the expired ACA subsidies and Medicaid cuts to their votes, but the post's 'next year' figure is a forecast the sources do not consistently confirm.Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesSep 24, 2026Donald Trump has lost more than 80% of the cases brought against him at the district and circuit court levels.Said by 3CThe claim's district-court part is supported only on some measures: the NYT counted 48 plaintiff wins against 5 losses on final district merits rulings, and a May 2025 analysis put adverse district rulings at 96%. Other measures that count all rulings, including Court Accountability's 60% district and 59% circuit challenger win rates, put losses well under 80%, so the circuit-level part is not supported.