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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.False70% confidence6 sourcesJul 30, 2026There are hundreds of thousands of non-citizens on voter registration rolls in the United States.Said by BThe claim departs only slightly from the post, which said 'hundreds of thousands of illegals on our voter rolls'. The record does not support that magnitude: Reuters' review of official records found about 30,000 non-citizens possibly added since 2000, with experts calling the numbers too small to affect elections, and the larger federal figures (250,000 in July, 278,000 claimed by Trump) shrank under scrutiny. The post was made on 2026-07-30, and later coverage does not change that assessment. The sources also note that a few thousand or tens of thousands of non-citizen registrations exist, so the kernel is real but far smaller than the claimed magnitude.False75% confidence9 sourcesJul 30, 2026Over a quarter of a million illegal immigrants are on voter rolls in the United States.Said by BAs of 2026-07-30, the figure of over 250,000 has no reliable support as a nationwide count: it originated in a DHS claim covering only four states, with no published methodology, which PolitiFact and FactCheck.org flagged as unsupported and likely highly inaccurate. Reuters' review of official records found about 30,000 self-declared noncitizens mistakenly added across a dozen states since 2000, and the claimed figure was later whittled down in California, so the claim is debunked as stated.False85% confidence6 sourcesJul 30, 2026Joe Biden did not have the legal authority to declassify documents while serving as a senator or vice president.Said by BMultiple fact-checkers (Snopes, PolitiFact, USA Today, Poynter) and the CRS, citing Obama's Executive Order 13526, establish that the vice president had authority to classify and declassify information, contradicting the claim that Biden lacked this authority as VP. The only nuance is an untested question about whether VPs can order other agencies to declassify their material, which does not reverse the core claim.False78% confidence10 sourcesJul 30, 2026Joe Biden used a fake Oval Office for presidential addresses.Said by DThe claim that Biden used a fake Oval Office for presidential addresses is contradicted by fact-checkers. Lead Stories and PolitiFact-linked coverage show the Oval Office-style set in the South Court Auditorium was used for photo ops and televised events, and his July 24, 2024 address was delivered from the real Oval Office, so the 'addresses' allegation is debunked; the kernel is that the fake set was used for some televised events, not addresses.False60% confidence9 sourcesJul 30, 2026U.S. taxpayer funds were used to fund gain-of-function research that led to the coronavirus epidemic at the direction of Anthony Fauci.Said by DThe sources confirm NIH (under Fauci's NIAID) funded a Wuhan Institute of Virology project through EcoHealth Alliance, but fact-checkers (PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, Snopes) found no evidence that this gain-of-function research caused the pandemic, and rated the Fauci-funded-creation claim False or Unproven. A 2026 ODNI release asserts the link, but it is a press release that hedges with 'widely viewed' and cites no new evidence, so it does not outweigh the fact-check record. The claim departs from the passage in no way, so the verdict rests on the sources' treatment of the causal allegation.False80% confidence4 sourcesJul 30, 2026Mom Dhani is a communist who supports Democratic Socialists of America candidates and is an Islamist.Said by 3CThe 'communist' label is contradicted by authoritative fact-checkers, who say Trump falsely called Mamdani a communist. Mamdani's support for DSA-backed candidates is supported, but no source addresses whether he is an 'Islamist,' so that element is unverifiable. The claim departs from the passage only in that the post names 'Mom Dhani' as a joke/alias; the referent resolves to Mamdani and this is graded as the post's own claim.False60% confidence6 sourcesJul 30, 2026Democratic Socialists of America candidates are dominating Democrat primaries.Said by 3CThe sources document several high-profile DSA-aligned primary wins, but the claim that DSA candidates are dominating Democratic primaries is contradicted by analyses showing modest win rates and overstated success. As of 2026-07-30, the record shows a notable but far from dominant showing, and later coverage did not change that picture.False90% confidence7 sourcesJul 30, 2026Every country included in the Trump administration's previous travel ban was an Islamic-majority country.Said by 3CThe first-term travel ban included North Korea and Venezuela, which sources describe as not Muslim-majority, so the claim that every country on that ban was Islamic-majority is contradicted. The post's own point was that every country meeting its vetting-based criterion was Islamic, and it ties that to the first-term list, so the claim's scope matches the passage.