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Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesNov 6, 2026The United States spends three times more on health care than any other country.Said by AThe claim that the US spends more on health care than any other country is supported: multiple sources, including OECD and AAMC, put US spending highest in the world. The 'three times' magnitude depends on the comparison. Sources show roughly 2x comparable peers and the OECD average (OECD puts per-capita spending above 2.5x the OECD average), and the highest other spender is well under 3x (Commonwealth Fund), while NCSL alone says 'nearly three times' other developed countries. The post is dated 2026-11-06, and the sources do not show that the situation changed by then.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesNov 6, 2026The Trump administration lowered drug prices through drug price negotiations.Said by ADrug prices did fall (down 3.1% year over year per the AP report of federal data), and the administration did conduct drug pricing deals with manufacturers. However, drug pricing experts quoted by FactCheck.org, AP and ABC News say the Trump deals and TrumpRx were unlikely to be major drivers of the decline, which they attribute mainly to the Biden-era Medicare negotiation program, generics, and GLP-1 market pressure. The claim that the administration lowered prices through negotiations is therefore only partly supported.Mixed55% confidence4 sourcesNov 6, 2026DraftKings is available in all 50 states.Said by BDraftKings' own pages say it is live in all 50 states, but the sportsbook is licensed in only about 30 jurisdictions (the AP release says Arkansas made it the 30th state, and the DraftKings sportsbook list shows about 28 states plus D.C.). The claim is supported if read as the company-wide brand or sports and casino app being available somewhere in every state, and contradicted if read as the sportsbook the NBA promotion refers to. Verdict as of 2026-11-06.Mixed55% confidence4 sourcesNov 6, 2026The United States uses 20% of the world's glyphosate, herbicides, and pesticides while representing 4% of the world's population.Said by AThe claim drops the hedge 'by some measures' that the post used, and sources give partly overlapping figures: a USDA-style EPA/Kline-based source puts U.S. share of world herbicide expenditures at 21% in 2012 and about 23% of total pesticide pounds (25% of herbicide pounds) on average 2008-2012, while Benbrook 2016 puts U.S. glyphosate use at 19% of global use, so the 20% figure is roughly supported for some measures but not for glyphosate alone; the 4% population figure is not addressed by these sources, and the 'glyphosate, herbicides, and pesticides' combined framing is partly supported. Dates are 2012-2014 data, so the figure may not reflect 2026.Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesNov 6, 2026Bayer ghost wrote research for the EPA report on glyphosate and bribed EPA officials.Said by AThe ghostwriting element has partial support: the AP report on the 2021 Ninth Circuit ruling and Mother Jones (2026) describe Monsanto ghostwritten research that the EPA relied on in its assessment. The bribery element has no support in any source, and an Ninth Circuit opinion summary says the court made no finding of ghostwriting or bribery, so the claim that this 'came out in court' is contradicted in part.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesNov 6, 202699% of corn and 98% of soybeans in the United States are sprayed with glyphosate.Said by AThe 99% corn and 98% soybean figures match the share of acres receiving any herbicide (about 96-99% per USDA-NASS and Minnesota data), but the sources put glyphosate specifically on far fewer acres: about 79% of corn (2021) and 58% of soybeans (2023) nationally, and 76% and 71% in Minnesota in 2019. The claim holds under the all-herbicide measure and fails under the glyphosate-specific one, so it is mixed; the sources do not show the 2026-11-06 state differently.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesNov 6, 202698% of soybeans are sprayed with glyphosate.Said by AThe record supports that glyphosate is applied to most U.S. soybean acres, but national estimates run about 90-95% (EPA, CFS, ERS), with Minnesota's 2019 data showing glyphosate on 71%, so the claimed 98% is not supported for glyphosate. The 98% figure in the sources refers to Minnesota soybean acres treated with any herbicide, not glyphosate specifically. The claim is as of 2026-11-06 and the post itself gives no source; the figure appears in the passage as stated.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesNov 6, 2026Corruption is the number one issue in America according to polling.Said by AThe extraction matches the passage, which says polling shows corruption is the number one issue. Polls conflict: CNBC and Fox News, as cited in other sources, found corruption ranked top, but the AP Voter Poll (tier1) found about 4 in 10 voters named the economy as the top issue and about 3 in 10 named the state of democracy, with corruption only 'crucial' to about half of voters. Whether corruption was the number one issue depends on which poll is used.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.