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False85% confidence5 sourcesAug 3, 2026Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Gaza as a result of the current conflict.Said by 2CThe claim that hundreds of thousands have died in Gaza is contradicted by sources reporting a Gaza Health Ministry toll of about 74,600 killed as of late October and early November 2026, with Reuters and AP citing Palestinian authorities at more than 74,000. Even adding the roughly 8,000 people the civil defence says are missing and presumed dead would not reach the hundreds of thousands the claim asserts. The extraction is faithful to the post, which also says 'hundreds of thousands.' The sources date from after the 2026-08-03 posting, but the toll was well below that figure on that date as well.False60% confidence5 sourcesAug 3, 2026The Iranian people came to the streets in the tens of millions.Said by 2CThe claim that Iranians came to the streets in the tens of millions is not supported by the sources, which describe crowds of millions at most. BBC describes 'millions' at the January 2026 protests, and Carnegie says 'several million Iranians supposedly' came out, a figure well below tens of millions. The only source reporting over ten million (Mizna, on a funeral) is a non-authoritative outlier, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post.False70% confidence7 sourcesAug 3, 2026The United States has lost every single war in the modern era.Said by 2DThe claim that the US has lost every single war in the modern era is contradicted by sources listing US victories after 1945, such as Grenada, Panama, and the Gulf War. Sources do support that the US lost or failed to achieve its aims in several modern wars, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, but not every one.False90% confidence5 sourcesAug 3, 2026The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) contains a provision in Section 219 that allows for mergers with foreign military forces.Said by 3CSection 219 of the FY2027 NDAA does not merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Fact-checkers PolitiFact (rated False) and Snopes found it creates an executive agent for defense-technology cooperation, not a merger, and the claim departs from nothing in the post, which made the same Section 219 merger allegation. The bill had passed the House on July 22, 2026 and was still pending in the Senate as of the posting date.False65% confidence6 sourcesAug 3, 2026The United States blew up 160 school children in Yemen.Said by 2DThe claim that the US killed 160 schoolchildren in Yemen is not supported. The only sources citing 160 schoolchildren killed in a school strike place it in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and the Yemen-specific US casualty record counts about 50 children across 46 strikes, far below 160.False70% confidence5 sourcesAug 3, 2026The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has not been used.Said by AThe claim's literal assertion is contradicted: the Twenty-Sixth Amendment has been in force since 1971 and is applied in every U.S. election to set the voting age at 18. The post's apparent point, that the amendment is not used as a tool for political change, is opinion the sources do not address, so it cannot rescue the literal claim.False60% confidence8 sourcesAug 3, 2026Google Trends search activity originating from Fort Huachuca is linked to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.The claim presents as established a link between Fort Huachuca Google Trends activity and the Charlie Kirk assassination, but the only support comes from Stew Peters' own network, which is the claimant's side. AFNPT's independent tests found that the charts cannot be reproduced on demand and that about one rare phrase in three spikes in control searches, so the signal looks like noise; the claim also departs slightly from the post, which said Peters argues the data points to a coordinated operation rather than asserting a proven link.