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Use this tag for questions that regard statements made by politicians. Do not use [politician name] tags unless the claim is *about* that politician.

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Did Sean Spicer tweet a password twice in two days?

The White House acknowledged that the tweets were made, calling them "pocket tweets." As for their content, WaPo speculates that they're two-factor authentication codes which he sent back to the SMS …
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Was a massive case of voter fraud uncovered in Florida?

This is an ongoing court case so this question cannot be conclusively answered right now. However, the district attorney does have an explanation that they've been providing to reporters. (Source) …
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Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize recipes and publish a book called "Pow Wow Chow"?

The first and most significant error is the incorrect claim that Warren "published" the book, a claim which no one has made other than social media sources. It was actually the "Five Civilized Tribes …
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Is the West supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine?

Funding, arming, and training neo-Nazi militias As of March 2018, the United States is no longer funding the Azov Battalion, which is a neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine. An amendment to the annual omnibus …
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Did Exxon suppress its own scientific results on climate change?

Bill McKibben's article is based on a report by a team of writers for the LA Times and Inside Climate, who, in the interests of transparency, posted many of their documents here. Here's some of what t …
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Was the term "conspiracy theorist" made popular by the CIA?

particularly characteristic of unlettered radicals seems to have been largely the work of historian Richard Hofstadter in The Age of Reform, a 1955 study of Populism, and "The Paranoid Style in American Politics
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Was the KGB using leftists to "destabilize" nations?

These kinds of claims did not originate with Yuri Bezmenov, and he is not claiming some kind of scoop. For example, the phrase "useful idiot" was not popularized by anyone in Russia but by anti-commun …
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Was ISIS created by the USA?

Some interpretations of this question are highly opinion-based and can't be answered on this website (try Quora), but others can be factually answered. Are the leaders of ISIS Americans? No, it's ru …
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Did Jiang Zemin write an unpublished memoir?

It was published, actually According to the Times article (as republished here), the "unpublished memoir" appeared in a Hong Kong magazine called Qians[h]ao or Outpost. This article also provides the …
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Does this video show the US arming Islamic State?

Regardless of what the video shows, the U.S. admitted this happened at least once and called it a mistake: The Pentagon admitted on Wednesday that one of the airdrops of weapons intended for Kur …
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Did the IG change his conclusion in the Sharyl Atkisson investigation?

The only source we have for the unchanged scope and conclusions is Attkisson's own word, as she writes in an article for The Hill: On their last visit to my house, they wanted to be sure to segregate …
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Did the Israeli paper Ma'ariv run an article titled "The Jews Who Run Clinton's Court" in 1994?

In January 2018, Puerto Rico's central newspaper El Nuevo Dia ran an op-ed accusing Congress of being "controlled by Jews," on the following evidence: “More than 20 years ago, the Israeli newspape …
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Does exported Ukrainian wheat (only) amount to 2.5% of the world's wheat production?

Sarah Taber, who works in industry as a crop consultant, is in agreement with Putin's statement that the shortage itself is "not worth speaking of." She also makes an important point, perpendicular to …
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Is the skeptical movement an offshoot of the Communist Party?

The claim, "The skeptical movement is an offshoot of the Communist Party" is not found in either of the links provided. The first link says, "I know that not all skeptics have these roots." The second …
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Was Morocco the first country to recognize USA?

Wikipedia states: In December 1777, the Moroccan Sultan Muhammad III included the United States in a list of countries to which Morocco’s ports were open. Morocco thus became the first country whose …
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