Questions tagged [politics]
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Was the storming of the US Capitol orchestrated by Antifa and BLM Organisers?
I heard someone recently claim that the US Capitol riots were organized by Antifa and BLM organizers to make Trump supporters look bad and turn the Republican Party against Trump. They claim that the ...
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Does gerrymandering have a significant effect on the number of congressional seats won by Republicans?
From an AP article titled
Analysis indicates partisan gerrymandering has benefited GOP:
The AP’s findings are similar to recent ones from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University ...
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Has the War on Drugs disproportionately affected minority communities?
The premise of Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In documentary is that the US War on Drugs, other than being a mostly failed campaign, has also disproportionately affected minority communities. A ...
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Does the UK send the EU £350 million a week?
I got this propaganda leaflet through my door today, this has been widely claimed by parties in favor of the British EU referendum:
We send the EU £350 million a week - let's fund our NHS instead
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Is the British monarchy economically beneficial?
When considering the economic impact of the British royals on the economy/budget, a first thought might be that they cost the state money since they don't do any "real" work and yet live quite ...
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Was David Cameron linked to "Hang Nelson Mandela" posters in the 1980s?
A post circulating Facebook and elsewhere reads:
Nelson Mandela will die soon. Today, tomorrow, this week, next week. It won't be long. Remember this, he out-lived Thatcher. When he does die, and ...
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Are teachers in the United states paid poorly?
At the last "Save Our Schools" rally, Matt Damon said:
So you think job insecurity is what makes me work hard? I want to be an actor. That’s not an incentive. That’s the thing: See, you take this ...
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Did fake news on Facebook influence US elections in 2016?
I've encountered repeated references to fake news on Facebook influencing various elections. Example from a often quoted Facebook critique in Time Magazine:
As a result, when confronted with ...
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Does this photo show large crowds of protestors in Mexico?
I'm prompted to ask this question by a Facebook post by "US Uncut".
[Image lost to link rot.]
The Mexican media has blacking out the protests against their new government, who have been ...
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Was the Emancipation Proclamation an Executive Order that bypassed Congress and freed 3 million slaves?
This should be an easy one, but I wanted to ask so we have confirmation or refutation.
This image is making the rounds on facebook:
So, how factual is this statement?
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Did Trump's inauguration have the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration ... both in person and around the globe"? [duplicate]
White House press secretary Sean Spicer claims that the audience for President Trump's inauguration was the:
largest audience to ever witness an inauguration - period - both in person and around ...
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Did Mike Pence advocate conversion therapy for homosexuals?
It's not difficult to find image memes indicating that Mike Pence, our future vice-president for 2017-2020, advocates gay conversion therapy paid for by the government.
Did he actually make that ...
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Has president Trump been "very strict on Commercial Aviation"?
President Trump seems to be implying that him being strict on commercial aviation led to 2017 having been "the best and safest year on record". When reading carefully, he does not claim that ...
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Was the term "conspiracy theorist" made popular by the CIA?
I have seen the following infographic on facebook recently.
The text reads:
Did you know... The term "conspiracy theorist" was a term made popular by the CIA to stop critical thinkers from asking ...
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Did Marriott International issue a statement stating that they would decline any requests to use their U.S. hotels as detention facilities?
The following image has been floating around social media today (July 11, 2019) claiming to be a statement being made by Marriott International regarding them declining requests to use their U.S. ...
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Did NATO instruct anti-government neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine on conducting diversions and waging guerilla?
There are multiple claims in Russian press that in 2006 NATO in Estonia has instructed neo-Nazi anti-government paramilitary hate groups from Ukraine on how to conduct diversions and wage guerilla war....
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Is inflation in the US higher than government statistics suggest? [duplicate]
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Does the US government voluntarily underreport inflation?
The Consumer Price Index claims to reflect "changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket ...
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Are the voting figures correct in this image about historical US decisions by party?
The following image promotes the Republican party over the Democratic party by looking at the support for some historical decisions.
Are the figures presented correct?
If you don't know please keep ...
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Did Facebook ads significantly influence voting behaviour in the 2016 presidential election?
There have been significant concerns in some political groups about foreign interference via social media on many recent elections. But there seems to be little hard evidence that any content on ...
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Was there a deep US involvement with Saddam, Osama and Gaddafi?
U.S. Government Retirement Program
SADDAM HUSSEIN
"FRIEND" 1983 "RETIRED" 2006
OSAMA BIN LADEN
"FRIEND" 1979 "RETIRED" 20?1
MUAMMAR GADDAFI
"FRIEND" 2009 "RETIRED" 2011
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Does Gallup assume people answer honestly in their creationist vs. evolution polls?
A recent Gallup poll claims that 46% of Americans believe :
God created human beings pretty much in their present form within the last 10,000 years or so
It seems to me possible that, when asked ...
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Did voter registration rates exceed 100% in many counties for the 2020 US election? Did this lead to voter fraud?
Judicial Watch* reported in October 2020 that 353 U.S. Counties in 29 States with Voter Registration Rates Exceeding 100%.
Judicial Watch announced today that a September 2020 study revealed that 353 ...
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Is the US Government buying extra ammunition in order to deny it the Civilian Population
During a Press release today Senators Inhofe and Lucas accused the Department of Homeland Security of "limiting what’s available in the market with federal agencies purchasing unnecessary stockpiles ...
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Do US congressman spend most of their time fundraising?
In an article titled "Call Time For Congress Shows How Fundraising Dominates Bleak Work Life" the huffingtonpost writes:
The daily schedule prescribed by the Democratic leadership contemplates a ...
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Does any police/emergency services department in the US/UK/Australia/Canada employ a psychic consultant?
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At this current point in time (within say the last 5 years) are there any police departments or emergency service organisations which employ a psychic?
It shows up occasionally in movies and I'...
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Are there "80 million unsolicited ballots" being sent in the USA? [closed]
In this tweet the president of the USA said
For our Country to be sending 80 million UNSOLICITED BALLOTS is very unfair and a roadmap to disaster. Even recent small and easier to control elections ...
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Did the Syrian government use chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun? [closed]
Since April 4th 2017, reports have been released about a chemical attack that is supposed to have occurred in a Syrian town called Khan Shaykhun.
According to the BBC, "[t]he UK's foreign secretary, ...
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Is the derogatory meaning of the term "conspiracy theory" something that was specifically promoted by the CIA? [closed]
The German Wikipedia article "conspiracy theory" ("Verschwörungstheorie") says, roughly translated by me:
Since about the early 1960s, the US government does not support conspiracy theories any ...
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Do 60% of US anti-vaxxers identify as politically liberal? [duplicate]
I found this claim among a survey of anti-vaxxers reported on qz
60% of anti-vaxxers describe their political leaning as liberal:
Much of the other profile characterics reported there aren't ...
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Does this video prove that a provably dead person in Michigan voted by absentee ballot? [closed]
In this video on Twitter, the presenter use the Michigan Voter Information Center webpage, to show that a man born in 1902 applied for and sent in a mail in ballot in the 2020 US election. It is ...
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Did the whistleblower work with Joe Biden?
In an interview with a reporter from The Hill, and reported by both The Hill and Real Clear Politics, Senator Rand Paul made the claim that the anonymous whistleblower who raised concerns about ...
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