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28 claims
Can’t tell60% confidence4 sourcesOct 20, 2026Samra Lukman voted for Donald Trump in the 2026 presidential election.Said by AThe claim departs from the passage: the post says "the last presidential election" and never names 2026, which the extraction added. Sources that describe the vote, including BBC Chinese and Michigan-focused coverage, place it in the 2024 presidential election, so the 2026 framing is not supported.Can’t tell60% confidence5 sourcesOct 20, 2026The Democratic Party nominated Kamala Harris for president instead of Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August 2026.Said by AThe claim departs from the passage: the post never says 2026, and its 'Democratic convention in Chicago in August' refers to the 2024 convention, where sources show Harris was nominated after Biden withdrew. Sources place the Harris nomination in August 2024, not August 2026, so the added year cannot be graded as the poster's claim.Can’t tell20% confidence4 sourcesOct 20, 2026Amr Zaher voted for Jill Stein in the 2026 presidential election.Said by AThe claim departs from the passage: the post says Amr Zaher told the speaker he voted for Jill Stein in 2024, not in a 2026 presidential election. No source addresses Zaher's vote in any year, so the claim cannot be graded.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence5 sourcesOct 20, 2026Zoran Mundani was elected in New York City as a result of a protest movement within the Democratic Party.Said by AThe post only says the protest movement's supporters don't think there would have been a Zoran Mundani in New York City; the extracted claim asserts a causal fact (Mundani was elected as a result of an intra-party protest movement) that the passage never makes, and the sources confirm Mundani's election but do not link it to any protest movement. The claim departs from the passage and cannot be graded as the poster's falsehood.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.