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Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesNov 6, 202699% of U.S. corn is genetically modified to be resistant to glyphosate.Said by AThe sources show that a large majority of U.S. corn is genetically engineered for herbicide tolerance, mostly glyphosate resistance, but the figure is about 90-92%, not 99%. The 99% figure is not supported by any source, so the claim overstates the number, though the direction is right. The claim's 'glyphosate' framing is consistent with the post's context, and the sources date from before the 2026-11-06 posting.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesNov 6, 2026According to a Harvard Harris poll, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the most popular public official in America.Said by AHarvard CAPS/Harris polls from August 2026 reported Kennedy with the highest overall favorability among the figures tested, but only tied with Marco Rubio at +4 net, and the September poll again shows a tie with Rubio at +2. The sources measure net favorability among a limited set of politicians, not a ranking of 'the most popular public official in America,' and a fact-checker could not locate a poll ranking him first among all officials, so the claim is partly supported and overstated. The claim is a faithful extraction of the post's words.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence3 sourcesNov 6, 2026Two-thirds of states can call a constitutional convention to pass amendments without the federal legislature.Said by ATwo-thirds of state legislatures can apply for an Article V convention, but the Constitution says Congress 'shall call' that convention, so the states cannot call it without the federal legislature. Amendments proposed there still need ratification by three-fourths of the states, though ratification does not run through Congress, so 'pass amendments without the federal legislature' is only partly accurate. The extraction also drops the post's conditional framing ('if two thirds of states actually vote'), which does not change the grading.Mixed50% confidence9 sourcesNov 6, 202690% of generals leave the military and immediately become military contractors.Said by AThe sources support that a large majority of senior retiring generals move into the defense industry, but none shows 90% as a general rate. Reported figures are 70% (CREW, 2009–2011 cohort), 80% (Boston Globe, 2004–2008) and over 80% (Quincy, four-stars 2018–2023), with 90% appearing only as a single-year 2007 figure. The claim also says 'immediately,' which the Globe supports only loosely, and the sources are mostly older than the 2026-11-06 claim date.Raised in the post as a question.Mixed60% confidence4 sourcesNov 6, 2026Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversees a 90,000-person agency.Said by AThe claim's 90,000 figure matches HHS headcount before the 2025 DOGE cuts (NPR cited about 90,000 in January 2025; Politico cites 93,400 at the start of the second Trump administration), but 2026 reporting puts current staffing at about 72,000 (Reuters, April) and below 73,000 (Politico, June). The claim is in the present tense, so the current figure contradicts it; as of 2026-11-06 the agency was roughly 20% smaller than stated, and the post's 'agency' is HHS.Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesNov 6, 2026The Trump administration has a staff of 2 million people.Said by AThe claim's figure of about 2 million matches OPM data showing 2,035,344 civilian executive-branch federal employees in January 2026 (excluding USPS, foreign service and much of intelligence), but BLS data cited in later coverage puts the federal workforce at about 2.67 million in August 2026 and 2.68 million in September, so the number depends on the measure used. The post itself says "Trump's sitting at 2 million" about a workforce, and the claim's "staff" wording is a loose paraphrase of that, not a figure for White House staff specifically.Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesNov 6, 2026Twenty percent of young adults in the United States have fatty liver disease.Said by AThe claim's figure of 20% of young adults with fatty liver disease falls inside the range the sources report for U.S. young adults, but the estimates depend on the age group, survey years and measure used: about 18.5% for ages 12-29 (NHANES 2007-2016), 13.3% for ages 18-30 averaged over 1999-2018 (rising to 19.5% by 2018), and 24% for ages 25-30. The sources measure NAFLD through fatty liver indices rather than clinical diagnosis, and the claim's 20% is a single figure within that spread. The claim departs from the passage only in dropping the "20%" qualifier context, which is faithful, so it is graded on the sources. The posted date is 2026-11-06 and the sources are older, so no later change affects the verdict.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.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesNov 6, 2026Nearly 80 percent of American adults are obese or overweight.Said by AThe sources support that a large majority of US adults are overweight or obese, but the best recent federal estimate is about 73% (NIDDK, citing 2017–2018 NHANES: 30.7% overweight plus 42.4% obese, 73.1% combined), and Heally describes it as nearly three in four, so 'nearly 80 percent' overstates the current figure. The 'nearly 80 percent' wording appears only in older sources (a 2018 radio piece and a 2019 Scientific American article), and the post itself is dated 2026-11-06, so the claim is judged against that date's data.Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesNov 6, 2026Marty McCarry was fired from his position at the Department of Health and Human Services.Said by AThe claim's name appears to be a transcription error for FDA chief Marty Makary, whom the sources describe as resigning in May 2026 rather than being plainly fired, though an anonymous official says Kennedy made the decision to remove him and Trump declined to say whether he was fired or asked to resign. The sources conflict on whether the departure was a firing or a resignation, and the FDA is part of HHS.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesNov 6, 2026Chime's savings rate is nine times the national average.Said by BThe 9x figure is supported by Chime's SEC annual report ('a savings rate as high as 9x the national average'), its Q1'26 remarks, and a Ubiquity announcement, all tied to the 3.75% Prime-tier APY against a 0.38% national average. But the ratio depends on the measure: the standard tier is about 2.7x (Chime's own 2025 page), other reviews put top rates at about 10x to 13x, and the claim's unqualified 'savings rate' omits that 9x applies only to the top tier. The post's extraction is faithful, and the claim's referent is Chime's savings account.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesNov 6, 202690% of Americans distrust the pharmaceutical industry.Said by AThe claim that 90% of Americans distrust the pharmaceutical industry is not supported by the sources, which put distrust nearer half to three-quarters of adults depending on measure (Gallup 53% negative, Deloitte about half, KFF 21% trust meaning roughly 79% not trusting a great deal or fair amount). Those figures are in the rough range of majority distrust, but none reaches 90%, and the Rogan passage is the claimant's own words, not evidence; the claim is best graded as overstated rather than entirely false.Mixed50% confidence8 sourcesNov 6, 2026Kratom is an opioid.Said by AThe sources agree that kratom's alkaloids partially activate opioid receptors and produce opioid-like effects, but they disagree on whether kratom is an opioid. Yale Medicine and a Cleveland Clinic emergency physician say it is not classified as one, while Kolodny and Holstege argue it should be. The claim matches the post's wording, so no extraction departure applies.