Questions tagged [united-states]
Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.
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Did former US Ambassador, Chas Freeman, say “The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not succeed in Xinjiang.”?
In a highly-upvoted Quora answer, Godfree Roberts quotes US Ambassador Chas. H. Freeman [sic]:
The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not succeed in Xinjiang. ...
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Is it true that there is not enough electricity to power all vehicles in the United States if they were electric?
According to Scotty Kilmer, in his video, "The Truth About My Worsening Condition":
There is not enough electricity [currently] to charge the batteries of cars like Tesla that have lithium ...
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Are increasingly common earthquakes the result of demolishing illegal immigrant tunnels?
Earthquakes are becoming increasingly common, but they aren't naturally occurring. Some part of the military is acting by orders of President Trump to demolish the many underground tunnels all across ...
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Were 1 in 6 protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention FBI agents?
At a press conference today, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene made this claim:
In 1968 at the Democratic National Convention where there were 10,000 protestors. One out of six were federal ...
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Does West Virginia have higher literacy rates than states like New York, California and New Jersey?
In response to Bette Midler saying that West Virginia is moving backward, and is poor, illiterate and strung out, (she apologised but didn't retract the statement as untrue) it's been claimed that ...
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Have there recently been any immigrants illegally crossing the Mexico-Texas border from South Africa?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted on Twitter:
Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.
Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from ...
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Did COVID-19 kill ~5 times more people per capita in Jun-Aug 2021 in US counties that >70% voted for Trump than in those which voted <26-32% Trump?
It's been claimed in the media that
Back in September, health care analyst Charles Gaba also told the New York Times that counties where Trump received at least 70% of the vote in the 2020 ...
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Did CNN use "lightened" photos of Darrell Brooks?
I recently found an image of a tweet shared on Reddit showing CNN using a photo of Darell Brooks (the man who recently drove an SUV into a parade crowd) that makes him look more white. Presumably, ...
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In 1984, was the top income tax rate lowered from 70% to 28%,and was Social Security then taxed for the first time?
I saw this image on social media. There a few claims here that I'm curious about the accuracy of. Of course, the President can't unilaterally alter tax laws, but regardless, did these things happen?
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Is Trump's book, Our Journey Together, personally signed?
The website 45books.com lists "hand-signed", "autographed" books by former US president Trump for sale:
OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER (SIGNED COPY) $229.99
Get your hand-signed edition of ...
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Is Kamala Harris' approval rating the lowest of any vice president?
Is Kamala Harris' approval rating "the lowest of any vice president"? I was watching this Fox News video and I am not sure if it's accurate or not.
Sources:
28% approval rating as of Nov 8, ...
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Are US Marines deliberately kept under-supplied so that they would be more combat aggressive?
I watched a TV series named Generation Kill based on the experiences of an embedded reporter during the invasion of Iraq in the 2003.
The US Marines in the series often complain about lacking ...
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Did Biden use 85 cars in a motorcade in Rome?
The Daily Mail reports US President Joe Biden's administration used a particularly large motorcade in the streets of Rome recently.
President Joe Biden was criticized for his use of a slow moving, 85-...
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Was there a dramatic rise in treatment-related deaths in US clinical trials during 2016-2017 compared to previous years?
For some reason when I googled "deaths in clinical trials" a page from a rather obscure (to me) US NGO "Center for Responsible Science" popped on the first page of results. It ...
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Will SpaceX's fleet of rockets triple the entire United States demand for methane/natural gas?
According to Energy Consulting Group's "SpaceX's Starship May Nearly Triple US Natural Gas Demand" page,
Our analysis indicates that a fully configured Starship launch (booster and Starship)...
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Was "their" a singular pronoun in English before the 16th century?
I saw this meme on facebook:
So, was "their" truly a genderless 3rd person singular pronoun prior to some change in the 16th/17th century?
This Wikipedia article indicates that the ...
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Did John Wayne create his 5 rules for life?
Did the actor John Wayne create these rules? They're widely attributed to him, but I couldn't find when and where he said them.
They seem to be widely attributed to him
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Is Walter Reed not able to handle the number of Havana Syndrome patients?
Journalist Julia Ioffe just said this in a Puck News article:
Meanwhile, the number of government employees suffering from Havana Syndrome has jumped from a couple dozen to a couple hundred. Some ...
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Are berries allowed to be sold with 60% "mold count" in the United States?
According to "Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food.", berries are allowed to be sold with 60% mold count:
TABLE D-1: Food and Drug Administration Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects ...
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Did a school or college in the United States ban backpacks after a shooting?
There's a story going around that an unnamed college in the United States banned backpacks after a shooting.
The lack of details is suspicious and it looks more like a wrongly-captioned prank at a ...
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Did some US schools implement a 'COVID Shuffle' to move students every 12-14 minutes to avoid registering contacts?
In September/October 2020, there were news stories that claimed that school administrators were trying to "game" the contact-tracing rules (which required registering 15 minutes close ...
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Are people with a PhD least likely to be vaccinated in the US?
According to Unherd's summary of a CMU study
[Title:] The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs
[...] more surprising is the breakdown in vaccine hesitancy by level of education. It finds that the ...
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Do the conditions for release of the "two Michaels" match "exactly, almost word for word" those of Meng Wanzhou?
In the recent "prisoner swap" between China and Canada, it has been claimed that besides the obvious timing of the flights, the Chinese conditions for the release of Michael Spavor and ...
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Has the Biden administration already deported more people than Trump's administration (during its entire tenure)?
It's been claimed in a few sources, e.g. Scoop (NZ)
Trumpism With A Biden Face: US Haitian Policy [...]
In a sober assessment of Biden’s report card so far, Natasha Lennard of The Intercept points ...
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Did Republicans mock Biden for showing grief over the loss of his dog?
In June, George Takei tweeted:
Republicans are mocking Biden for showing grief over the loss of his dog.
If you lose your dog but feel nothing, you might be a Republican.
As of today, this tweet has ...
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Has CNN lost 70% of their audience compared to the beginning of the year, mainly because Trump is no longer president?
An opinion piece in The Hill says:
That's what happens when all-things-Trump are myopically put at the forefront of every offering: You take J.R. Ewing off "Dallas," and there's no more &...
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Did the Voice of America become more critical of the US after the end of the Cold War?
In a speech given to Voice of America (VOA) staff towards the end of the Trump presidency, Mike Pompeo (who was Secretary of State at the time) stated that after the end of the Cold War VOA (like ...
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Are 99% of US beef cattle given steroids to promote faster growth?
Top google result The Meat You Eat: Steroid Use in Livestock claims
Each year, U.S. farmers raise some 36 million beef cattle. 99% of all beef cattle entering feedlots in the United States are given ...
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Did Wild West outlaws regularly wear face masks?
An article ("Westerners used to wear masks" by Andrew Gulliford, June 13, 2020) in The Journal of Cortez, Colorado, claims that it was a regular practice of bandits in the "Wild West&...
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Was it ever common in the USA for women to use their husbands' Social Security Numbers as their own?
The December 2015 Uniform Assessment Instrument of Virginia's Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (an instruction manual for administration of certain public social services) contains the ...
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Did about 150 die from gun violence in the US during the 4th of July weekend 2021?
CNN reports
At least 150 people were killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend
Ref: CNN.com
In the article this data is based on data ...
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Is this the flag of Niobrara County, Wyoming?
I recently encountered this image, stated to be the flag of Niobrara County, Wyoming:
It was posted specifically as an "eye hurting flag"; that is, it was noted as especially ugly. I know ...
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Has a company been indicted for failing to pay taxes on benefits?
CNN is reporting that Ron Fischetti, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, stated:
“It’s outrageous. It’s unprecedented. It’s never happened before,” he said of a company being indicted in ...
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Did the 2nd Amendment limit the purchase of cannons from the day it was passed?
Joe Biden says in a BBC snippet that
the Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people that could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn't buy a cannon....
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Is there a bill in Iowa that bans the teaching of sexism, slavery, and racial segregation?
Is there a critical race theory bill in Iowa
that bans the teaching of the following topics: sexism, slavery,
racial segregation, racial discrimination, including topics related to
the enactment and ...
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Did Heimlich maneuvre posters become mandatory in New York shortly after that technique was performed on mayor Ed Koch in 1981?
The New York Times reports in its obituary on former New York mayor Ed Koch, that posters on the Heimlich maneuvre became mandatory in New York restaurants when the mayor got rescued by it:
If you ...
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Did a former CIA accountant testify that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA employee?
Harvey and Lee is a web-site that documents some conspiracy theories about the death of John F. Kennedy.
In particular, it contains a purported transcript of the testimony of a 1978 former CIA ...
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Are financial companies in the US obligated to keep personal information for a decade after they close or lock an account?
For example, there are quite a few stories of Paypal experiences scattered throughout the internet. Since they are common enough I had assumed Paypal simply operates a very strict fraud detection ...
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Did the Pulse nightclub shooter target the LGBTQ community? [closed]
On the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting Orlando, several US Senators condemned it as a targeted attack on the LGBTQ community.
5 years ago, we lost 49 people in a deadly, hate-filled ...
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Are US colleges awarding more A-scores?
On the June 4, 2021, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host makes the claim:
In 1960s colleges awarded A's to 15% of the students. Now it is 45% of the students.
Ref: Youtube clip from the ...
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Is this "Dear Liberal Communists" poster a real poster from Turning Point USA?
The following poster has circulated on social media and blogs:
Examples:
https://twitter.com/viet_t_nguyen/status/1378598473314930691
https://twitter.com/krupali/status/1378556380550852613
https://...
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Do the murder statistics of 5 cities bring the USA to the 3rd highest country, from 189th? [closed]
I'd like to know if the claims about murders are accurate.
The "3rd in murders" is clearly referring to absolute deaths by murder, as it can be seen here, USA holds the 96th position for ...
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Has anyone ever lost a lawsuit for giving a bad employment reference? Has a case like this even happened in the U.S.? [closed]
It's is a well-known "fact" that companies can be sued for giving a bad employment reference about a former employee and that, because of this, many HR departments refuse to give any type of ...
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Do more than 22% of American adults own Bitcoin?
NYDIG published this statement:
Our findings suggest that 46MM+ Americans own Bitcoin today. That’s more than 22% of adults over the age of 18.
That figure sounds extraordinarily high to me. And ...
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Did NIH ask the EcoHealth Alliance to provide information about the “apparent disappearance” of a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher?
In a long story in Vanity Fair that has some interesting twists it's claimed at one point that
At a White House COVID-19 press briefing on April 17, 2020, a reporter from the conspiratorial right-...
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Did Fauci argue that gain-of-function research is worth risking a global pandemic?
In a related question, it's asked whether the Wuhan Lab conducted gain-of-function research, as claimed by Sean Hannity of Fox News.
But moments later in the same piece Hannity says that Anthony Fauci ...
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Have there been no long lines or price hikes for gas in the eastern US?
On May 11, 2021, the New York Times reported
Colonial Pipeline, a vital U.S. fuel artery that was shut down by a cyberattack, said it hoped to restore most operations by the end of the week. Since ...
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Are these claims about the changes in the economy during Obama accurate?
An image was recently posted on politics about how the economy changed under Obama. While that question was not asking about the validity of the claim itself, instead focused on the validity of ...
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Did a US school test ask this question about norms in Chinese culture?
OpenDemocracy.net presents this as a question that has recently been asked of 12-year-old children in a US school:
It is described so:
A IS FOR ANTI-ASIAN
A worried Korean American woman recently ...
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Are unusually many people dying after being vaccinated for COVID-19?
On May 6, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said:
We all assume the risks are negligible. Vaccines aren’t dangerous. That’s not a guess, we know that pretty conclusively...Every flu season, we give ...