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False80% confidence2 sourcesAug 5, 2026Wayne County, Michigan, has more votes cast than there are registered voters.Said by BWayne County's official unofficial results for the August 4, 2026 primary show 390,725 voters cast ballots out of 1,466,019 registered, about 26.65% turnout, so votes cast did not exceed registered voters as of 2026-08-05. The claim is a fraud allegation from the show's guest, and the official county record contradicts it.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False60% confidence3 sourcesAug 5, 2026Over 50% of under-40 Trump voters in one poll said they would vote for a socialist candidate.Said by CThe only source that breaks out under-40 Trump voters on socialism, a Rasmussen/Heartland poll reported in September 2025, found 35% of those who voted for Trump in 2024 wanted a democratic socialist president in 2028, not over 50%. Other sources show majority support among under-40 voters overall but give no Trump-voter figure above 50%, and the claim's specific figure is not supported by any source.False75% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026The United States loses 100 million dollars an hour to fraud and theft.Said by CThe claim that the US loses $100 million an hour to fraud and theft (about $876 billion a year) is contradicted by the sources. The highest nationwide estimate in the record, the GAO's $233–521 billion per year, works out to roughly $60 million an hour, and FTC-based estimates of true fraud losses are about $200 billion a year, so the claimed figure is several times too large. The sources cover fraud losses but do not address theft separately, so the claim's scope beyond fraud is not confirmed. As of 2026-08-05 the same figures applied, since the GAO estimate dates from 2024 and the later FTC and FBI data are consistent with it.False70% confidence7 sourcesAug 5, 2026Eating kimchi can reduce body fat by 31.8%.The 31.8% body-fat reduction comes from an animal (preclinical) kimchi-diet study, not from human consumption. The human clinical trial on overweight adults found much smaller reductions, about 2.6% in body fat mass and 7.3% versus placebo, so the claim that eating kimchi reduces body fat by 31.8% is grossly overstated. The extracted claim matches the passage's wording.Mixed50% confidence6 sourcesAug 5, 2026All 47 Senate Democrats voted against the SAVE Act five times.The sources support that all Senate Democrats (45 Democrats plus 2 caucusing independents, 47 total) opposed the SAVE Act in its Senate votes, per AP and US Political Rank. They conflict on the number of votes: US Political Rank and the claimant's own post count five, while TechTimes (unrated) reports six floor votes on the bill, so the 'five times' figure is disputed. The claim also departs from the post only in extraction, not in substance.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.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesAug 5, 2026The military supplemental bill requires approximately 60 billion dollars.Said by CThe House GOP budget resolution unveiled July 15, 2026 allocates about $60 billion for defense in a reconciliation package, which supports the claim's figure. However, the administration's supplemental request was $67.1 billion for DOD (about $70 billion in total), and the claim blends a supplemental with a reconciliation bill, so the figure depends on which measure is meant. The claim also departs slightly from the post, which said the military 'need about 60 billion' rather than that a bill requires it.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026The Save America Act received 49 votes during a reconciliation vote in June.Said by CLiterally, the SAVE America Act amendment offered by Sen. Mike Lee got 49 yes votes in the June 4-5 reconciliation vote-a-rama, per a Caplan post and legalclarity.org citing Padilla's office. But the post the claim came from says Lindsey Graham's SAVE amendment got 49 votes, and the record shows Graham's amendment failed 48-50, so that intended reading is contradicted.Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026Voter turnout in the Alabama primary was 20%.Said by CThe claim's 20% figure is close to some Alabama counties' May primary turnout (Madison and Limestone, about 20%), but the statewide May primary figure reported by the Alabama Reflector was about 23.11%, and the August special primary was only about 5%. The post's "primary" is most plausibly the May primary, which the sources put at roughly 20-23%, so the claim is partly supported and depends on whether it refers to county or statewide turnout.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026John Locke defined the founding principles as life, liberty, and property.Said by 3CSources consistently show Locke named life, liberty, and property as natural rights, so the triad itself is accurate. However, the Freedom Center source says Jefferson's Declaration substituted 'pursuit of happiness' for property, so Locke did not define the founding principles as that triad; his triad influenced the founders. The extraction's 'defined the founding principles' wording is a stronger reading than the passage's 'or John Locke' comparison, which is consistent with the post's own framing.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesAug 5, 2026Studies have shown that ceasing the biannual time change will help decrease robbery and murder rates.Said by BThe sources consistently support that extra evening daylight from daylight saving time reduces robbery, but murder evidence is weaker and mixed, and no source studies permanently ceasing the time change as such. The claim's robbery element is well supported, while its murder element rests on a single working paper and conflicting review results.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesAug 5, 2026Bright light therapy upon waking is the number one treatment for anxiety and depression.Said by 4CSources support bright light therapy on waking as first-line treatment for seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression, but none establishes it as the number one treatment for anxiety and depression generally. Antidepressants remain standard for severe cases, and the evidence for anxiety and for non-seasonal depression is described as limited or heterogeneous, so the broad superlative is not supported as of 2026-08-05.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesAug 5, 2026Research published in 2022, conducted in 2010, showed that women's menstrual cycles were synchronized with the moon until 2010.Said by 4CThe sources support the core claim that women's menstrual cycles were synchronized with the Moon before 2010 and that this weakened after LED and smartphone use, but they contradict the claim's dating: the study was published in Science Advances on 2025-09-24, not in 2022, and it analyzed long-term menstrual records rather than being conducted in 2010. The post itself also states the 2022 date, so the claim faithfully reflects the passage.