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Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up almost 800 points.Said by BThe Dow was up strongly around the posting date, but no close matches 'almost 800' points: it rose 907.47 points on Aug 4 (a record close), 693.38 on Aug 3 (intraday above 745), and about 1,600 for the week. The claim's figure holds only under the Monday intraday or Monday close measure, and the post itself describes a past day rather than the Aug 4 session. Claim checked as of 2026-08-04; later sources show the Dow moved to new records on Aug 5 and fell to about 51,770 by Oct 30, which does not change the August verdict.True95% confidence6 sourcesAug 4, 2026Hasan Piker stated that 9/11 was deserved by America.Said by BMultiple fact-checkers and news outlets confirm that Hasan Piker said in a 2019 Twitch livestream that "America deserved 9/11," which matches the claim's core assertion. Piker later apologized for the wording and said he meant blowback from U.S. foreign policy, but he did not retract having said it.True92% confidence9 sourcesAug 4, 2026Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during his testimony.Said by AMultiple reliable sources, including Reuters, PolitiFact and AP, report that Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times at the July 29, 2026 Senate committee hearing, with counts of 111 and about 115 reported. The post's 'at the White House' location is wrong, since the testimony was a Senate hearing, and one AP item says 'more than 50 times', which appears to be an outlier.True90% confidence8 sourcesAug 4, 2026Abdul El-Sayed is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Michigan.Said by BMultiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, NPR, NYT, NBC) report that Abdul El-Sayed was the Democratic candidate in Michigan's U.S. Senate primary and won the nomination on August 5, 2026; as of the August 4 check date he was a candidate in that primary, though the claim's phrasing is present-tense and the posted passage refers to the primary being held 'today', so the claim is graded as true on the ordinary reading. The extraction spelling 'Abdul El-Sayed' matches the sources, and the post's 'today' resolves to the primary date.True95% confidence5 sourcesAug 4, 2026Abdul El-Sayed is a candidate in the Michigan election.Said by BMultiple tier1/tier2 sources (AP, NBC, Politico, Michigan Public, WLNS) confirm Abdul El-Sayed was the Democratic nominee for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat in the 2026 election, facing Republican Mike Rogers, as of the August 2026 posting date. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post's reference to El-Sayed as the candidate in Michigan's vote, and the primary win that made him a candidate was reported on 2026-08-05, the day after the post.True50% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time high 23 times in 2026.Said by BWikipedia's 2026 record-close list shows 24 record closes in total, with the final one on August 5, so 23 record closes fall before the August 4 posting date, consistent with the claim's count. No source states the count as of the post date directly, and the post's 'Fourth of July' reference conflicts with other sources' record dates, so confidence is limited.True93% confidence8 sourcesAug 4, 2026Aaron Farinucci was arrested for setting the wildfire in Spokane, Washington.Said by BMultiple tier1 sources, including a Spokane County Sheriff's Office release, confirm that Aaron F. Farinacci (the post's 'Farinucci' is a spelling variant) was arrested on Monday and booked for first-degree arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire, one of three Spokane-area wildfires. The claim's 'the wildfire' refers to that fire, and the arrest is well documented.True80% confidence7 sourcesAug 4, 2026Washington Governor Jay Inslee attributed the Spokane wildfire to climate change.Said by BInslee's own August 2, 2026 X post tied the Spokane fires to climate change ('It's happening right now'), and later coverage (KVI, KIRO/MyNorthwest, CNN) reports him defending that linkage after an arson arrest. He attributed the fire's size and destructiveness to climate-driven conditions, not its ignition, which the sources say remains under investigation.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence5 sourcesAug 4, 2026Aaron Farinucci served 10 years in prison for murdering his father.Said by BSources confirm that Aaron Farinacci (spelled 'Farinucci' in the post, which is the post's own spelling and not an extraction addition) shot and killed his father in Mesa, Arizona, in 2010 and served roughly ten years in prison, with a 12-year sentence, 2 years credited, and release in December 2020. The main caveat is that he was originally charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter, so 'murdering' is a loose label for the conviction, not a contradiction of the killing.True65% confidence7 sourcesAug 4, 2026There are currently four Muslims serving in the U.S. Congress.Said by BAs of the August 4, 2026 post date, four Muslims serving in Congress is supported: Pew Research (published Sept 3, 2026) says there are now four Muslim members of Congress, and a CAIR directory (published Aug 19-20, 2026) lists four members of Congress. Later sources (a Newarab article from Oct 13 and Wikipedia's 119th Congress list) report five, which reflects a later change rather than the count on the claim date.True85% confidence8 sourcesAug 4, 2026Hasan Piker called for the murder of Senator Rick Scott.Said by BMultiple sources quote Piker telling listeners to 'kill' Sen. Rick Scott, most directly a 2025 NY Post report quoting him saying 'you would kill Rick Scott' and a later Finstad release citing the same remark. The sources also note he later walked it back and apologized, and that Piker's remark was framed as a conditional about Medicare fraud; no fact-checker disputes that he made the remark.True85% confidence6 sourcesAug 4, 2026Haley Stevens is the establishment-supported candidate in the Michigan election.Said by BAs of 2026-08-04, when the post was made, sources consistently described Haley Stevens as the party-establishment-backed candidate in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, backed by figures such as Chuck Schumer and Gov. Whitmer. The claim faithfully paraphrases the post; later events (her primary loss to El-Sayed and her November endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers) do not change the August assessment.