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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Was the quantity of Fentanyl imported in 2018 enough to kill every American?
ABC reporter Meridith McGraw, who covers the White House, recently tweeted:
Inbox: For a payment of $20.20, the Trump campaign says they will send a “faux brick” to Pelosi and Schumer’s offices “...
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Chocolate milk drink and brown cows [duplicate]
At at TV quiz game they claimed that about 16 millions adult Americans believe that chocolate or cocoa milk drinks are milked from brown cows.
As it is unbelievable I've quickly searched for it and ...
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Is U.S. Representative Steve King a white supremacist and a white nationalist? [closed]
This question is not intended to nor does it contain any content which promotes or discredits any individual or political party, nor ask about future events. This question asks about evidence ...
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Did college students clamor for cyanide pills in student health clinics in the 1980's in America?
According to the article Media Throw Everything at the Wall to See What Sticks:
Witless college students demanded cyanide pills be stocked in campus health care clinics, on the grounds that Reagan ...
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Have Democrats attacked Trump's proposed wall as “medieval”?
In this video President Trump says "They say a wall is medieval, well so is a wheel".
The official transcript says:
Democrats have refused to listen to the border agents, and they say this is a ...
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Is only 4% of original forest left in the US?
The 2009 video The Story of Stuff makes several rather incredible claims. For example:
Where I live, in the United States, we have less than 4% of our original forests left.
My gut feeling tells ...
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Do illegal immigrants commit more murders than mass shooters?
Notable claim
The claim I wish to examine is from dcwhispers.com,
Case in point—the number of deaths, assaults, and sex crimes,
including human trafficking, taking place on America’s southern ...
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Was there a negative response to the video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing? [closed]
There have been several stories in the media about how a video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing has caused conservatives to mock or shame her for it.
News sources where this claim is made:
So ...
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Do Low-skill workers earn one cent in extra income for every 19 cents the government spends on walling off Mexico
From Quartz - The ROI on border walls is terrible, the following claim was made::
Low-skill workers earn one cent in extra income for every 19 cents the government spends on walling off Mexico
It ...
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Is the biggest terror threat in the US white men? [duplicate]
Don Lemon, a journalist and CNN host, recently stated
the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.
and did not retract his statement "following the backlash", but rather, re-emphasized ...
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Was the United States the equal fifth deadliest country for journalists in 2018?
As reported in the CNN article In a violent year for journalists, United States among the deadliest countries for first time, the group Reporters Without Borders has claimed that the United States is ...
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Do people in USA have to take an unpaid vacation day to vote? [closed]
As a European I was quite shocked to hear that people in the USA have to take an unpaid vacation day from work to be able to take part in elections.
Is that really true? So do people really get ...
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Did Trump reveal the identities of a SEAL team in Iraq?
According to Newsweek (and several other news outlets that cite Newsweek), during his trip to Iraq over Christmas, Trump revealed the identities of a SEAL team that was deployed in Iraq.
President ...
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Will the US military receive a 10% pay raise in 2019?
Supposedly, Trump told soldiers in Iraq that (1) he just got them a 10% pay raise, and (2) supposedly also told them that this is the first raise they have received in a decade.
Fact check: Trump ...
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Can the US president order the army into construction?
I know the President can order the troops into battle "in defense of the nation", but can he order the troops into manual labor? I'm skeptical over this claim of presidential power from Politico
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Did Bob Corker ask Trump for his endorsement?
President Trump just tweeted this (see here and here):
Senator Bob Corker just stated that, “I’m so priveledged to serve in the Senate for twelve years, and that’s what I told the people of our ...
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Is this chart of executive branch criminal prosecutions accurate?
I am curious about the accuracy of the numbers quoted. In particular, are the Republican numbers inflated or Democratic numbers deflated?
The original source says:
The chart below only includes ...
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Is the Clinton Foundation currently under investigation?
Marc Lotter, former special assistant to President Trump, just said this to CNN's Erin Burnett in the course of defending President Trump from the fact that the Trump foundation is shutting down after ...
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Is the equity ratio of US banks around 3%?
Did John H. Cochrane, a professor of economics at Chicago, wrote:
In order to make $100 of loans, a typical bank borrows $97—from
depositors, from money-market funds, from other banks, or from
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Is the US saving enough money from the USMCA to pay for the Wall?
President Trump just tweeted this:
I often stated, “One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the Wall.” This has never changed. Our new deal with Mexico (and Canada), the USMCA, is so much ...
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Was George H. W. Bush the “youngest pilot in the US Navy”?
According to this Miller Center,
Bush enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday and became notable as the youngest pilot to earn his wings in World War II.
And, again, on The Independent,
he ...
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Is this heart transplant denial letter from an insurance group?
In a recent tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she claims that this letter which recommends a fundraising effort of $10,000 for medical care, 'comes from an insurance group'.
Well-known conservative ...
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Did the number of U.S. Food & Drug Administration food safety inspections fall from the 1972 to 2006?
Food Inc documentary claims that the number of FDA food safety inspections had fallen from 50,000 in 1972 to 9164 in 2006 and this information is also cited here.
However, I cannot find any ...
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Has the USA used CS gas at the Mexican border since at least 2010?
CS gas is one particular type of tear gas.
The Washington Times claims today:
Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama
The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking ...
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Are these photos of burned home surrounded by pristine trees in California due to the forest fires real?
These photos are circulating on social media. Are they real? How can a forest fire burn homes in the center of a forest without burning the trees?
Portion of Paradise, CA after the "Forest Fire".
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Was Joseph Mifsud working for Western intelligence agencies?
George Papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy advisor on President Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign, just tweeted this:
I just have a responsibility to inform America of the truth. Western ...
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Was the recent bust of 12 people in Florida the largest food stamp bust in history?
The United States Department of Justice, in September 2017 sent out the following press release.
12 Defendants Charged Federally with Collectively Receiving Over $20 Million from USDA by ...
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Was there DEA headquarters located on top of a strip club?
In episode 1 of the Netflix show Narcos: Mexico they state that
The [DEA] headquarters in D.C. sat on top of a f*****g strip club
If this was true it would have been in the 1980s or before.
Did ...
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In the U.S., is more water used for electric generation, and more electricity used for water infrastucture, than anything else?
Today I received an e-mail message regarding an upcoming Energy Water Nexus Technical Conference that made this unsupported claim:
Nationally, the largest category for water consumption is electric ...
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Did Republicans take 10 of 13 Congressional seats in the 2018 North Carolina general election with roughly the same number of votes as Democrats?
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Gerrymandering in North Carolina
1,747,742 votes for Democrats = 3 Congressional seats
1,638,684 votes for Republicans = 10 ...
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Was the video Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out against Jim Acosta altered?
The media was all abuzz about a video Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out in regards to Jim Acosta's disbarring:
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1060374680991883265
Many outlets claimed that this ...
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Is the USA “not even in the top 10 when one compares international death rates resulting from mass shootings”? [duplicate]
Erich Pratt of Gun Owners of America claims that:
the United States is not even in the top 10 when one compares international death rates resulting from mass shootings.
In California, gun control ...
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Were many former American slaves put back into virtual slavery after the civil war?
The ACLU has been a critic of the 13th amendment to the US constitution for some time, claiming that the clause that reads that slavery shall not exist "except as a punishment for crime whereof the ...
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Are Republicans running ads with images of bundles of cash specifically against Jewish candidates?
The Washington Post has an article about Republican ads which depict candidates holding fistful of dollars. Specifically, the article contains claims that:
“[...] I will say I have not seen images ...
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In Massachusetts, can someone be “arrested and fined up to fifty-thousand dollars” for reporting suspicious behavior in a women's bathroom?
A Massachusetts political advertisement No On 3, Keep MA Safe says:
What does Massachusetts Question 3 mean to you? It means any man who says he is a woman can enter a women's locker room, ...
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Are US workers legally required to pay income taxes?
In the 2006 film America: Freedom to Fascism, several interviews are shown which claim that American workers do not need to pay income tax. Specifically, this clip claims that
There is no law which ...
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Did a man get heckled for dressing up as a Nazi—and dressing up his son as Adolf Hitler—at a local Halloween event in 2018?
I saw this tweet on Twitter (it’s been self deleted by its author since it was first posted here, but add Wayback Machine link for reference) and am a bit skeptical about the claims made it—and ...
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Did Antifa Exist as a Group in the USA Between 2000 and 2017? [closed]
The first major use of the word "Antifa" in modern times (that I can find) is something on Breitbart from 4/21/2017, claiming that the mayor of Berkeley was a member of an anti-fascist group 'By Any ...
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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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Do leftist groups claim that “the Caravan” was “cooked up by Republican operatives”?
The Wired article Alert: Don't Believe Everything You Read About the Migrant Caravan covers various claims from the right, with specific sources attributed: Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, President ...
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Is the Taylor oil spill on the scale of Deepwater Horizon?
According to CNN, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill leaked 176.4 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. By comparison, and also according to CNN, they say
According to the [the Department ...
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Does requesting a bilingual trial often result in dismissal?
Life hack sites like to claim that requesting a bilingual trial will cause minor cases to be dismissed. I have seen this on multiple sites, but it seems they have a tendency to shut down after a year ...
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Did a victim of Weinstein testify in a letter that the acts performed were consensual?
The German newspaper FAZ reports:
Die Ankläger erreichte eine schriftliche Stellungnahme der früheren Nachwuchsschauspielerin Lucia Evans. Darin beschrieb Evans den Oralsex mit Weinstein in dessen ...
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Does the Caravan have Middle Easterners?
President Trump just tweeted this:
Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle ...
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Is Facebook deleting Facebook Pages for criticizing the police?
According to WSWS.org,
The banned pages include highly popular postings by groups opposing and publicizing incidents of police violence such as Police the Police, Cop Block and Filming Cops [...]
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Does Social Security have a $2.5T surplus?
Just saw this on Facebook:
Is the freehand-circled claim true? Does the United States Social Security have a surplus of $2.5 trillion?
Also, if the above is true, how did SS accrue this much extra?
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Is Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State, openly suppressing the right to vote? [closed]
I just got an email from vote.org saying the following:
Georgia’s Secretary of State [Brian Kemp] put 53,000 brand new voter registration forms “on hold” based on a controversial exact-matching ...
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Do an overwhelming majority of rapes not involve relatives?
From a tweet thread started by https://twitter.com/VocalFriez/status/1046487752429072384 , a citation is made of RAINN (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), saying that the overwhelming ...
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Was Ross Capicchioni shot by a friend as part of a gang initiation?
Ross Capicchioni was a teenager who was shot several times and required emergency surgery.
He reported that he had been shot by someone he knew who was undergoing a gang-initiation. He claims The ...
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Are *some* Democrats talking about ending pre-existing condition protections?
At a rally in Rochester, Minnesota on Thursday, Donald Trump stated
Republicans want to protect Medicare for our great seniors who have earned it and they have paid for it. And we will always ...
