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 Bernie Sanders the first Democratic candidate who "didn't have to go to the Jewish community in New York to get money to run"?
That's the case according to a 2016 statement by Seymour Hersh. Hersh also says that therefore the US may have been able to change its policy towards Israel had Sanders been elected.
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Was the "Chinese spy balloon" a project of the University of Fairbanks to study the weather above the North Pole?
When asked about his take on the balloon shot down that the US government say was a Chinese spy balloon, Seymour Hersh says it was more likely a [federally funded] project of the University of ...
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Is the USA the largest trading partner of Vietnam nowadays?
According to Seymour Hersh, the fall of Saigon was irrelevant (wrt. to containing China etc.) because
We're the largest trading partner of Vietnam now.
By "we" he surely means the USA. Is ...
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Did a pro-Ukraine group blow up Nordstream pipeline?
A recent NYT post claims that "Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say". How true is this claim?
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Did over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?
According to the National Safety Council, in 2021 in the US, 1159 people died of cannabis overdose, of which 1130 of the deaths were preventable:
Is this true?
I'm skeptical because the drug ...
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Was the 2023 Ohio train derailment the 'worst environmental disaster in US history'?
According to Impact Nottingham:
East Palestine, Ohio: Exploring The Worst Environmental Disaster in
the History of the USA
On 3rd February 2023, a freight train carrying various potentially
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Did Biden say that the Boeing-Air India deal will support 1 million jobs?
This Business Insider India news report is one of many that claim that Biden said that a $34 billion dollar Air India order for 220 Boeing planes will support 1 million US jobs, and that many of those ...
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Are George Santos and Gretchen Whitmer the same person?
Some right-leaning (maybe that's not a strong enough term) sources, such as Not the Bee, have claimed or at least implied that Gretchen Whitmer does not really exist, but is actually George Santos in ...
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Who would really be paying for the proposed property tax cuts that the state of Texas is considering? [closed]
Quoting State of Texas: Budget plans leave billions of available funds on the table:
In his inauguration speech, Abbott touted Texas’ pro-business stance and unveiled some plans for the state’s ...
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Did one of the 9/11 hijackers use a Conch Republic passport to enter the United States?
I read:
Anderson, who resumed the running of the Conch Republic souvenir business and the official Conch Republic Days festival until his death in 2014, was subjected to an FBI inquiry after reports ...
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Did Coke pay the NAACP to paint their opponents as racist?
Several news outlets recently reported Coca-Cola tried to minimize health issues associated with their sugary beverages by paying NAACP to paint their opponents as racist.
Why Coke went woke
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Is Stanford's "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" real?
The Wall Street Journal claims that this document is a legitimate initiative of Stanford University.
It recommends, for example, that the term "blind study", widely used in experimental ...
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Did Greg Abbott send a busload of migrants to Kamala Harris' house on Christmas Eve?
I can't square this one. Greg Abbott is a Republican governor who espouses conservative Christian values, so when I read that he deliberately redirected a busload of migrant families to a political ...
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Did the United States spend $118,000 to study if a metal replica of Thanos could snap his fingers?
According to this video, Rand Paul states the United States spent $118,000 USD to see if a metal replica of Thanos could snap his fingers. Is this what they were trying to figure out with these funds?
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Has Zelensky "declared war against Christianity"?
One headline on the December 21, 2022 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight claimed that "Zelensky has declared war against Christianity", referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Did Florida manage a better COVID death rate than the US average despite strong resistance to prevention measures?
I was reading about Ron Desantis on Wikipedia and was a little surprised by the section about his handling of COVID-19 in Florida. It lists a huge number of actions to oppose standard COVID ...
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Did Michael McCaul claim intel briefers told him Tucker Carlson is a Russian agent?
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson just said this on the Tulsi Gabbard Show:
Second thing, Michael McCaul […] I got into an argument with him once last year on the phone. He had told somebody that I was a ...
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Did Alex Jones warn of an attack on the United States by Osama Bin Laden in July of 2001?
I was listening to a podcast by Jordan Klepper in which a conspiracy theory researcher is interviewed, and explains that Alex Jones was responsible for a lot of the 9/11 conspiracy theories as he ...
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Did Dick Cheney run a death squad that killed Benazir Bhutto?
According to a dawn.com article:
WASHINGTON, May 18. A special death squad assassinated Pakistan's
former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on the orders of former US
vice-president Dick Cheney, claims ...
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Were the Starlink units for Ukraine not paid by Musk?
In reply to Elon Musk's (controversial) peace plan for Ukraine, someone tweeted that
USAID and other paid for Strlinks, you fake philanthropist.
(A tweet with 6000+ "likes", so reasonably ...
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Did Henry Kissinger call Bangladesh a bottomless basket?
The Bottomless Basket
It is often said in Bangladeshi newspapers that ex-US Foreign Minister Henry Kissinger once called Bangladesh a "Bottomless Basket".
If so, why and when did he say ...
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Are there more Pit bulls than German Shepherds in the USA?
According to MyGermanSheperd.org:
In the USA alone there are about 78.2 million dogs, and about 4.6% of all AKC registered dogs are German Shepherds. This gives over 3.5 million German Shepherd dogs ...
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Did two Tomahawk cruise missiles crash in Iran during the 2003 war?
According to a 2009 armscontrol article, 10 US Tomahawk missiles crash en-route during the 2003 war with Iraq, two of these in Iran.
The cite a bunch of sources in their article, but none of those I ...
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Do the most popular college books in the US include "The Communist Manifesto" & "The Republic"?
The mainstream media in China have reported several times that the most popular college books in the US include "The Communist Manifesto" & "The Republic". I have always ...
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Was Columbia University fined for animal cruelty due to experiments run by Mehmet Oz?
This SourceWatch article is being publicized in connection to Mehmet Oz:
In 2004, complaints about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s dog experiments were cited in a report from an internal investigation into ...
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Did Pakistan make a broader request than what the US has granted in the $450 million F-16 package?
Some US sources cited in Pakistani media claim Pakistan might have requested/wanted more that it got in the recent $450 million package
Daniel Markey, a senior adviser on South Asia to the Washington-...
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Are roundabouts actually statistically safer than traditional traffic patterns?
We have had a number of roundabouts installed near us in South Western PA in the past decade, and a quick internet search shows other states doing so as well. This seems to be an almost universally ...
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Did Martin Luther King Jr. convince Nichelle Nichols to stay on Star Trek instead of leaving after one season?
The late Nichelle Nichols repeatedly told a story about meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who encouraged her to stay on Star Trek instead of leaving after the end of the first season.
“You cannot, ...
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Did CIA interrogator Charlie Wise die?
I'm interested in Charlie Wise, the CIA interrogator and torturer. Several sources indicate that he died.
However, it seems quite plausible to me that these reports were part of an effort by the CIA ...
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Did Barack Obama keep 33 million pages of documents, including nuclear weapons documents?
A public statement from former U.S. president Donald Trump claims that former president Barack Obama kept 33 million documents from his presidency, most of them classified and many of which contained ...
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Is there an increase in sales of child-size coffins?
A number of "news sites" have been reporting an increase in child-sized coffins. (The linked is an example, there are many more). The implication being there is an increase of childrens ...
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Does the Inflation Reduction Act increase taxes on people making less than $10,000 / year?
Quoting Democrats rely on misleading messaging to sell Manchin-Schumer bill:
In 2023, the year in which the legislation would increase tax revenue most, individuals making less than $10,000 per year ...
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Does a Portland Public Schools curriculum teach K-5 students to subvert “white colonizers”' sexuality and explore “the infinite gender spectrum”?
A recent article by [conservative activist] Christopher Rufo in City Journal, also cited at various places around the Internet such as The Daily Caller and Why Evolution is True, claims that:
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Are there 90% more computer science students and 90% fewer electrical engineering students than 50 years ago?
This article makes the claim that:
While computer science course take-up had gone up by over 90 percent in the past 50 years, electrical engineering (EE) had declined by the same amount. The ...
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Do homeless people in the USA refuse to work?
In 2008, economist Thomas Sowell claimed in a newspaper article:
Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service” — as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, ...
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Does the Russian 300mm "guided" rocket 9M949 use gyroscopes made in the USA?
One Ukrainian website seem to claim that:
Керована 300-мм ракета 9М949 ракетного комплексу "Торнадо-С": оптоволоконний гіроскоп для інерційної навігації. Виробництво - США.
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Did Gustavus Doane participate in and brag about participating in the Marias Massacre?
An NPR article from yesterday claims that Gustavus Doane (the former namesake of Mount Doane, now First People's Mountain) participated in and bragged about participating in the Marias Massacre.
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Has a weapon functionally equivalent to the AR-15 been available for U.S. civilian purchase since 1907?
According to a (since-deleted) widely shared LinkedIn post (emphasis added):
A hundred and twelve years ago, in 1907...our great grandparents were first able to buy the rifle pictured. The semi-auto ...
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Are guns the number one killer of children in the US?
Joe Biden, in his speech on June 2, said that guns are the number one killer of children, even more than car accidents. Is this claim true?
According to new data just released by the Centers for ...
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Did Facebook claim its fact-checks are legally "just opinions"?
Multiple websites and media say:
Facebook claims its 'fact-check' are just protected opinions, according to Facebook's legal team.
However, I have not found any official Facebook sources for this ...
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Did two crisis actors both claim to be the father of the same child killed in the Uvalde, Texas shooting?
A friend-of-a-friend posted a BitChute video on my friend's Facebook wall: Two crisis actor "fathers" share the same daughter in Uvalde, Texas
The description states:
NBC and CNN interview ...
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Is America “the only nation where this [a mass shooting] regularly happens”?
The Onion, a satirical newspaper, re-uses a headline each time a mass shooting occurs in the US:
“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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Do the majority of flood deaths happen in vehicles?
According to a radio broadcast of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s NOAA Weather Radio KHB36 162.550 MHz (Manassas, Virginia) on May 24, 2022, a few minutes before 00:00 ...
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Did vehicle registration occur before automobiles?
I found an article online that makes the claim: "... registration plates having been used on carriages and wagons in the U.S. as far back as the early 1800s." The article can be found here: ...
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Were "Fabricated abortion statistics" used to influence the Roe vs Wade decision?
I read in the National Catholic Register an assertion that the numbers that Justice Blackmun cited in Roe vs. Wade came largely from a book called "Abortion" and that ex-Abortionist Bernhard ...
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Has the United States only ratified 5 of 18 international treaties on human rights?
A recent opinion piece in the English edition of Le Monde Diplomatique makes passing reference to the idea that the United States "has ratified only five of the 18 international human rights ...
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Did a Wisconsin school file sexual harassment complaints over pronoun usage?
The New York Post claims
A Wisconsin school district has filed sexual harassment complaints against three middle schoolers for calling a classmate by a wrong pronoun.
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Is the number of "ghost guns" in the US increasing?
The White House and media have recently claimed the following:
Law enforcement officers across the country increasingly find there is no way to trace certain guns they recover from crime scenes. [...
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Does California have a dress code for drivers?
Many "crazy law" sources claim that California motor vehicle law contains a bizarre sartorial proscription.
On CNN.com, the article "Do you know why I pulled you over?" by Craig ...
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Were Texas & Florida Hiding COVID-19 Data? [closed]
I remember reading that Texas and Florida (which have some high population density cities (and especially Florida with a high percentage of elderly, and hence at risk population) were not comparable ...
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