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[ "It appears that some social media users misheard or misrepresented a remark made during an ABC News town hall. " ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/collections/snopes-fact-checks-the-2020-us-election-live/" ], "sentence": "Voting in the 2020 U.S. Election may be over, but the misinformation keeps on ticking. Never stop fact-checking. Follow our post-election coverage here." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2020/10/biden-section-8-false.jpg", "https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/" ], "sentence": "This claim is based on something Biden said during an ABC News town hall on Oct. 15, 2020. But while Biden did mention Section 8 housing during this event a reference to a section of the U.S. Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 that offered assistance to low-income Americans he never said that he lived in Section 8 housing. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/read-full-transcript-joe-bidens-abc-news-town/story?id=73643517" ], "sentence": "Here's a transcript of Biden's comment from ABC News:" } ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.donotlink.com/fia5" ], "sentence": "Origins: On 10 June 2015, the web siteFree Wood Postpublished an articledeclaring that the Fox News Channel had been declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a legal advocacy organization known for its representation of victims of hate groups. The SPLC is also known for maintaining a list of hate groups, which they define as groups that \"have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.donotlink.com/eph3" ], "sentence": "While many social media users (particularly on Twitter) took the headline at face value, Free Wood Postis a satirical web site that prominently features a \"Satire Disclaimer\" on their pages:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/foxnewsfcc.asp" ], "sentence": "The article was not dissimilar to a previous satirical piece published by theFree Wood Post in March 2012, claiming that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had reclassified the Fox News Channel \"from a valid news source to that of satire.\"" } ]

[ "Misinformation is a universal language. " ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/", "https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/03/11/one-year-covid-infodemic/", "https://www.snopes.com/tag/covid-19-vaccines/", "https://www.snopes.com/contact/", "https://www.snopes.com/projects/founding-members/", "https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html", "https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019" ], "sentence": "Snopes is still fighting an infodemic of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can help. Find out what we've learned and how to inoculate yourself against COVID-19 misinformation. Read the latest fact checks about the vaccines. Submit any questionable rumors and advice you encounter. Become a Founding Member to help us hire more fact-checkers. And, please, follow the CDC or WHO for guidance on protecting your community from the disease. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10222604726005266&set=a.10203027900556865", "https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2021/05/attalli-quote-false.jpg" ], "sentence": "In May 2021, many English-language social media users encountered a quote ostensibly written by Jacques Attali, a French economist who served as a counselor to President Franois Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991, in which he supported the mass killings of the \"old\" and \"stupid\" via a global pandemic:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.vn/MEBeA", "https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/non-jacques-attali-na-pas-appele-a-euthanasier-les-plus-vieux-et-les-plus-faibles-20210419_OTQQKGRK3RGUHFU44MV52KO3HM/" ], "sentence": "In that case, the viral Facebook text included a few brief sentences from Attali's interview, but the majority of the passage (including the parts about a pandemic) were fabricated. Check News wrote:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://factual.afp.com/el-exconsejero-politico-frances-jacques-attali-no-escribio-que-habra-que-reducir-la-poblacion", "https://factual.afp.com/el-exconsejero-politico-frances-jacques-attali-no-escribio-que-habra-que-reducir-la-poblacion", "https://lemonde.fr/archives/article/1984/01/20/m-jacques-attali-gagne-en-appel-son-proces-en-diffamation-contre-une-revue-medicale_3001704_1819218.html" ], "sentence": "The AFP also examined this quote in an article published in May 2021. The AFP noted that Attali was asked during his interview with Salomon about whether it would be \"possible and desirable to live 120 years.\" Attali gave a lengthy answer to the question and while he concluded that euthanasia may be a tool of future societies, he does not advocate for the killing of the elderly. In fact, in 1984 Attali won a defamation case against a medical journal that accused him of supporting euthanasia for the elderly. " } ]

[ "Adolf Hitler misquotes are quite popular on social media." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/tag/adolf-hitler/", "https://twitter.com/WiseLocks/status/1089267255974731776", "https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid025HiLp3q8o3mQdW4AKqEKmGGrALx31UfGC3pWigcD6CuhiCJAnac2kya1Jxx97Ycgl&id=100008564657007&__cft__[0]=AZVig064EK-j2AmpM5R3goisbQvhjTS_9ROTVB2MeQjE4dnOe9gf31enbKYbUZFlf06HMrHgklPiXDCi30Brm2-0JQonsI1L4c3YdjNwVZY2sR54jehlBslYhtG2_JSeZso001cd4GYfwIwoJzGHMunqt8s4RwhMduKJc-rZ46az2w&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R" ], "sentence": "Since roughly 2015, a spurious quote attributed to Adolf Hitler about replacing science with Christianity has been making the rounds on social media. We found examples on both Twitter and Facebook." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/tag/nazi-germany/", "https://www.nature.com/articles/425766a" ], "sentence": "We have rated this quote Misattributed, because there is no evidence the Nazi dictator ever said such a thing, or anything resembling it. Although Nazi Germany boasted some topnotch scientists, some of whose talents were recruited by the military for the war effort, Hitler reportedly showed little personal interest in, and even less working knowledge of, the sciences." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-our-movement-is-christian/" ], "sentence": "It's relevant to note, as well, that Hitler is known to have made at least one very positive statement about Christianity,\"We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.\" There is little reason to conclude that he meant those words, however, given that Hitler's regime persecuted Christians who refused to toe the Nazi line." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/to-conquer-a-nation/" ], "sentence": "In any case, we found no published instances of the statement about replacing science with Christianity predating 2015, when it first surfaced on the internet, yet another indication that it is apocryphal. Snopes previously fact-checked another alleged Hitler quote that begins with the identical phrase: \"To conquer a nation, you must first disarm its citizens.\" We determined it was not an exact quote, though it can be described as a rough paraphrase of a lengthier statement he did make." } ]

[ "Did Keith Richards have his blood changed to beat a drug addiction?" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "../../sources/music/richards.htm" ], "sentence": " Sources: Bockris, Victor. Keith Richards. New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8160-3547-4 (pp. 211-212, 234). " }, { "hrefs": [ "../../sources/music/onlyrock.htm" ], "sentence": " Karnbach, James and Carol Bernson. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll. New York: Facts on File, 1997. ISBN 0-8160-3547-4 (pp. 144-147). " }, { "hrefs": [ "../../sources/music/updown.htm" ], "sentence": " Sanchez, Tony. Up and Down with the Rolling Stones. New York: William Morrow, 1979. ISBN 0-306-80711-4 (pp. 281-284)." } ]

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[ "Economy", "Texas" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vePOZ6ChOQ" ], "sentence": "Texas Gov. Rick Perry suggested as much in aradio adaired in Missouri as he framed his case for businesses there to slip away to Texas." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.howmoneywalks.com/web-app/" ], "sentence": "To our inquiry, Perry spokesman Josh Havens said the $40 million traces toan online application created byTravis H. Brown, CEO of a St. Louis public affairs and advocacy firm and author of the 2013 book,How Money Walks.Havens said clicking on Missouri on the app shows that between 1992 and 2010, more than $791 million was lost to the state of Texas. That equates to more than $40 million each year." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.irs.gov/uac/Definition-of-Adjusted-Gross-Income" ], "sentence": "We confirmed his figures on the Wealth Migration app, which indicates that Missouri lost an average of $1.38 billion in adjusted gross income from 1992 through 2010--with the net loss to Texas alone totaling $791.3 million.As definedby the Internal Revenue Service, adjusted gross income is a persons gross income minus adjustments. For most people, according to the app, adjusted gross income is the starting point in calculating their taxable income for federal tax purposes." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://taxfoundation.org/staff/nick-kasprak" ], "sentence": "For instance, the foundationsNick Kaspraksaid by phone, if a taxpayer in Missouri had adjusted gross income of $30,000 one year and then the next year filed a return from Texas showing $65,000 in such income, the IRS would record that as $30,000 moving to Texas--basing that on the adjusted gross income reported in Missouri in the first tax year." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://interactive.taxfoundation.org/migration/" ], "sentence": "Source: Web interactive,State to State Migration Data,the Tax Foundation (accessed Aug. 29, 2013)" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/feb/21/principles-truth-o-meter/" ], "sentence": "Click here formoreon the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check." } ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://congressionalresearch.com/RS21656/document.php" ], "sentence": "Trump has said his children will manage his business dealings. Many presidents in the past have put their assets in ablind trust, which is when an independent trustee manages another persons assets without the persons input." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/13/sotu.01.html" ], "sentence": "Well, first of all, you realize that those laws don't apply to the president, right? Giuliani toldCNNs Jake Tapper Nov. 13. So, the president doesn't have to have a blind trust. For some reason, when the law was written, the president was exempt." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208" ], "sentence": "The law at issue isTitle 18 Section 208of the U.S. code. Itsaysfederal executive branch employees cant participate in government matters in which they or their immediate family has a financial interest." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/202" ], "sentence": "But the president and the vice president, despite being executive branch employees, are exempt. According tothe laws definitions, Title 18 Section 208 does not apply to them, nor does it apply to members of Congress or federal judges." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/olc/092074.pdf" ], "sentence": "Its been this way since at least 1974, when theJustice Department issued a lettersaying Title 18 Section 208 did not apply to the president. Congress expressly codified the exemptions in 1989." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-foreign-business-entanglements-would-create-unparalleled-conflicts-1478083150" ], "sentence": "The Trump Organization has numerous foreign ties, includingseveral overseasreal estate deals with possible foreign government connections.In 2012, for example, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a ribbon cutting ceremony for Trump Towers Mall in Istanbul." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/11/17/would-trumps-foreign-business-ties-be-constitutional/constitutional-restrictions-on-foreign-gifts-dont-apply-to-presidents" ], "sentence": "The way the clause is constructred that it doesn't specify the president, unlike other provisions in the Constitution, for example and the fact that President George Washington himself took gifts from the French government without asking Congress for permission, together make a good case that it doesn't apply to presidents, saidSeth Barrett Tillman, a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland who has studied the clause." } ]

[ "Transcript reproduces a speech given by Texas governor Rick Perry." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://theresponseusa.com/" ], "sentence": "Origins: The above is an accurate transcript of a speech given by Texas governor Rick Perry at Longview, Texas, on 23 May 2011. The event referred to therein is The Response, a \"solemn gathering of prayer and fasting for our country\" to be held at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, on 6 August 2011." } ]

[ "The pivotal line comes right before Han Solo is frozen in carbonite." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1462182094096896005", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdlRmWd_R7A", "https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1462181826034745345" ], "sentence": "On Nov. 20, 2021, Twitter user @delaneykingrox tweeted that film actor Harrison Ford improvised \"I know\" to Carrie Fisher's \"I love you\" in 1980's \"Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back,\" just before his character, Han Solo, is frozen in carbonite. She also claimed that the originally scripted line for Solo to respond to Princess Leia was, \"I love you too.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1462181163951276034" ], "sentence": "She tweeted the thread to talk about \"on the nose\" dialogue, which she defined as \"communicating what is obvious to the audience with no subtly or subtext.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/carrie-fisher-rewrites-empire-strikes-back/", "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/i-am-your-father-1980-reaction/" ], "sentence": "There are a number of rumors out there about \"The Empire Strikes Back\" that aren't true. For example, there's the fake audience reaction sound recording from 1980 that's received nearly 10 million views on YouTube. (A video with genuine audience reaction audio from 1980 does exist, but it only had several thousand views.)" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm" ], "sentence": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdlRmWd_R7AIn a 2011 sitdown with \"Cowboys and Aliens\" director Jon Favreau, Ford explained that he wasn't a fan of \"I love you too,\" which was the original line in the \"Empire Strikes Back\" script from story creator George Lucas. Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan also drafted the screenplay. Lucas also served as an executive producer on the film but did not direct it. The film was directed by Irvin Kershner." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4xdWpo4bh8" ], "sentence": "On the set of the film, Ford said he asked a question of Lucas and perhaps other members of the cast and crew. \"What's the last thing a woman wants to hear when she says, 'I love you'? She says 'I love you,' and I say... 'I know.'\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2021/12/GettyImages-607402344-scaled.jpg" ], "sentence": " Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in 1980's \"Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.\" (Photo by Lucasfilm/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM_tGKSnMUE" ], "sentence": "In a separate interview that appeared to be recorded years before 2011, Kershner remembered that there were perhaps more takes with either the \"I love you too\" line or \"I know,\" but didn't specify which one." } ]

[ "An online ad promoting a list of restaurants closing in 2020 may have stopped breadstick-lovers in their tracks." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.vn/FlNbo" ], "sentence": "This advertisement was misleading. Olive Garden is not closing all of its restaurants. Readers who clicked the advertisement were led to a 50-page story on the website Money Pop." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.vn/FlNbo" ], "sentence": "While the advertisement promised a list of restaurant chains that would be closing in 2020, the headline on the actual story was different: \"These Popular Restaurant Chains Are Losing Money Fast.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.masslive.com/business/2020/03/olive-garden-permanently-closes-springfield-restaurant.html", "https://www.wbrc.com/2020/04/21/birmingham-olive-garden-restaurant-closing-permanently/" ], "sentence": "The story mentioned Olive Garden, but it only mentioned that two locations had closed in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Birmingham, Alabama, in March and April, respectively." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://apnews.com/article/6bdbde3ec92e2e7f2aacdcbb61b3ca4c", "https://apnews.com/article/u-s-news-neighborhoods-lifestyle-travel-virus-outbreak-f899ccaf589824ada3022b9a983acdc9" ], "sentence": "Olive Garden did not go out of business in 2020, but that's not to say it hadn't faced financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus had led to the closure of dine-in services at thousands of different restaurants across the United States. This meant less revenue, which resulted in lost jobs. In many cases, restaurants closed." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nrn.com/restaurants-ready/new-national-restaurant-association-ceo-tom-ben-calls-coronavirus-losses" ], "sentence": "On June 22, 2020, Nation's Restaurant News reported that National Restaurant Association President and CEO Tom Ben said the restaurant industry had faced \"catastrophic losses.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://investorplace.com/2020/12/dri-stock-after-surviving-pandemic-whats-next-darden-restaurants/" ], "sentence": "On Dec. 9, 2020, InvestorPlace.com reported that Darden had managed to survive the pandemic thus far, but it also asked: \"What's next for Darden Restaurants?\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/jim-cramer-says-olive-garden-parent-darden-is-a-buy-during-pandemic.html#:~:text=%22We're%20headed%20for%20a,the%20height%20of%20fine%20dining.%22" ], "sentence": "Darden has managed to make money at Olive Garden while closing half its tables. It reinstated the dividend and paid back its $270 million emergency loan. Once the pandemic is over, Cramer predicts, fast-casual chains like Olive Garden will be the height of fine dining." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.earningswhispers.com/stocks/dri", "https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/DRI/financials/quarter/income-statement" ], "sentence": "Darden is expected to report earnings Dec. 18, for the quarter ending in November. The estimate is for 72 cents per share of net income on $1.7 billion of sales. That would beat last years profit on 17% less revenue." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cheesecake-factory-closing-rumor/" ], "sentence": "The Money Pop story also mentioned The Cheesecake Factory on its list. We previously covered that rumor as well." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/contact" ], "sentence": "Snopes debunks a wide range of content, and online advertisements are no exception. Misleading ads often lead to obscure websites that host lengthy slideshow articles with lots of pages. It's called advertising \"arbitrage.\" The advertiser's goal is to make more money on ads displayed on the slideshow's pages than it cost to show the initial ad that lured them to it. Feel free to submit ads to us, and be sure to include a screenshot of the ad and the link to where the ad leads." } ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.vn/FlNbo" ], "sentence": "This advertisement was misleading. Olive Garden is not closing all of its restaurants. Readers who clicked the advertisement were led to a 50-page story on the website Money Pop." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.vn/FlNbo" ], "sentence": "While the advertisement promised a list of restaurant chains that would be closing in 2020, the headline on the actual story was different: \"These Popular Restaurant Chains Are Losing Money Fast.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.masslive.com/business/2020/03/olive-garden-permanently-closes-springfield-restaurant.html", "https://www.wbrc.com/2020/04/21/birmingham-olive-garden-restaurant-closing-permanently/" ], "sentence": "The story mentioned Olive Garden, but it only mentioned that two locations had closed in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Birmingham, Alabama, in March and April, respectively." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://apnews.com/article/6bdbde3ec92e2e7f2aacdcbb61b3ca4c", "https://apnews.com/article/u-s-news-neighborhoods-lifestyle-travel-virus-outbreak-f899ccaf589824ada3022b9a983acdc9" ], "sentence": "Olive Garden did not go out of business in 2020, but that's not to say it hadn't faced financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus had led to the closure of dine-in services at thousands of different restaurants across the United States. This meant less revenue, which resulted in lost jobs. In many cases, restaurants closed." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nrn.com/restaurants-ready/new-national-restaurant-association-ceo-tom-ben-calls-coronavirus-losses" ], "sentence": "On June 22, 2020, Nation's Restaurant News reported that National Restaurant Association President and CEO Tom Ben said the restaurant industry had faced \"catastrophic losses.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://investorplace.com/2020/12/dri-stock-after-surviving-pandemic-whats-next-darden-restaurants/" ], "sentence": "On Dec. 9, 2020, InvestorPlace.com reported that Darden had managed to survive the pandemic thus far, but it also asked: \"What's next for Darden Restaurants?\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/jim-cramer-says-olive-garden-parent-darden-is-a-buy-during-pandemic.html#:~:text=%22We're%20headed%20for%20a,the%20height%20of%20fine%20dining.%22" ], "sentence": "Darden has managed to make money at Olive Garden while closing half its tables. It reinstated the dividend and paid back its $270 million emergency loan. Once the pandemic is over, Cramer predicts, fast-casual chains like Olive Garden will be the height of fine dining." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.earningswhispers.com/stocks/dri", "https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/DRI/financials/quarter/income-statement" ], "sentence": "Darden is expected to report earnings Dec. 18, for the quarter ending in November. The estimate is for 72 cents per share of net income on $1.7 billion of sales. That would beat last years profit on 17% less revenue." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cheesecake-factory-closing-rumor/" ], "sentence": "The Money Pop story also mentioned The Cheesecake Factory on its list. We previously covered that rumor as well." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/contact" ], "sentence": "Snopes debunks a wide range of content, and online advertisements are no exception. Misleading ads often lead to obscure websites that host lengthy slideshow articles with lots of pages. It's called advertising \"arbitrage.\" The advertiser's goal is to make more money on ads displayed on the slideshow's pages than it cost to show the initial ad that lured them to it. Feel free to submit ads to us, and be sure to include a screenshot of the ad and the link to where the ad leads." } ]

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[ "An online ad promoting a list of restaurants closing in 2020 may have stopped breadstick-lovers in their tracks." ]

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[ "An online ad promoting a list of restaurants closing in 2020 may have stopped breadstick-lovers in their tracks." ]

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[ "National", "Economy", "Jobs" ]

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[ "Agriculture", "National", "Trade" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jul/30/effects-donald-trumps-trade-war/" ], "sentence": "As President Donald Trumpstrade warwages on, we decided to check in on the most affected sectors." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/07/26/what-they-are-saying-support-president-donald-j-trumps-plan-protect" ], "sentence": "Americas hard-working agricultural producers have been treated unfairly by Chinas illegal trading practices and have taken a disproportionate hit when it comes to illegal retaliatory tariffs, Perdue said in a USDApress releaseon July 26." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/percentage-us-agricultural-products-exported" ], "sentence": "Exports comprise 10 percent of total GDP in the United States, whereas they comprise about 20 percent of GDP in the American agricultural sector. That fraction iseven higherfor crops like cotton (76 percent is exported), soybeans (50 percent) and wheat (46 percent), according to USDA." } ]

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[ "New Jersey", "Wealth", "Taxes" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/politifact_nj_rothman_claims_r.html" ], "sentence": "To comment on this ruling, go toNJ.com." } ]

[ "A meme circulating on social media is based on a years-old dispute over a retirement community's rules about flags." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/georgia-veterans-flags_n_3823831.html", "https://thecitizen.com/2016/09/16/james-madison-lowe-ii-age-76/", "https://www.facebook.com/fox29philadelphia/posts/10151869316233855" ], "sentence": "The situation escalated to the point where Lowe threatened to move out of the community, but he never made good on it. According to the local newspaper, The Citizen, Lowe passed away in his Sun City-Peachtree home on 12 September 2016 but not before the combat veteran was able to \"give 'em hell.\" Local news station WTXF reported that in October 2013, Lowe won the battle to fly both the American flag and Marine Corps colors outside his home." } ]

[ "Ron Paul did use the words \"psychopathic authoritarians\" in his final address, but not specifically to describe the U.S. Congress or its members." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.campaignforliberty.org/transcript-of-farewell-address" ], "sentence": "Ron Paul supposedly made such a pronouncement during his final speech to the House of Representatives on 14 November 2012. In that speech, he affirmed his commitment to limited government and sought to put the history of the country (and his career) into a narrative about retaining personal liberty in the face of an expanding federal government. Paul offered the argument that the use of government to promote social change can lead to the immoral use of force, even when intended to promote humanitarian ideals (emphasis ours):" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4162288/psychopathic-authoritarians" ], "sentence": "While it is true that Paul used the phrase psychopathic authoritarians, he was referring not to Congress only or specifically, but -- along with religious groups and secular organizations -- to people who might be predisposed to endorse government-initiated change. Although it is undoubtedly true that some members of Congress, either implicitly or explicitly, support the use of government to effect social change, the notion that Paul was calling everyone serving in the U.S. Congress \"a bunch of authoritarian psychopaths to their faces\" is a misleading reduction of context." } ]

[ "Desperate situations sometimes call for horrifically desperate measures." ]

[ "budget" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/V3fc5" ], "sentence": "On 18 April 2017, the entertainment website World News Daily Report (WNDR) published a fake news article claiming that Bruce Franklin, a Philadelphia man, killed and ate his wife after being stuck in an elevator for 71 hours:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/", "https://snopes.com/tag/world-news-daily-report" ], "sentence": "There is no truth to this story. WNDR is a well-known satirical website with a long history of peddling fictional news articles. The site carries this disclaimer:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.rexfeatures.com/search/?kw=hair+mugshot&js-site-search_submit=Go&order=newest&iso=GBR&lkw=mugshot&viah=Y&stk=N&sft=&timer=N&requester=&iprs=f" ], "sentence": "Although we have not been able to uncover the exact source for the mugshot, that image has been online since 2011 when it was included in a gallery of \"funny hair\" mugshots." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/04/18/philly-police-force-400-officers/" ], "sentence": "Another image in the article shows Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross, correctly identified by WNDR, but the photograph was taken during a City Council budget hearing in April 2016, not a press event concerning a man who just ate his wife." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nationallifttower.co.uk/heightsafety.html" ], "sentence": "The final photograph in the article, of the elevator shaft, was taken inside the National Lift Tower in Northampton, England." } ]

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[ "Economy", "Poverty", "Texas" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://doggett.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=383:tanf&catid=49:latest-news&Itemid=149" ], "sentence": "In a September 2011 floorspeech, Democratic U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Austin spoke of two concerns he said are growing in the Lone Star State: poverty and hunger.Doggett said that in tough times, more families are turning to food banks, creating immense demand. Among his examples: The Austin-basedCapital Area Food Bank of Texasthis year is delivering 50 percent more food to poor people than it did three years ago.In his speech, Doggett attributed that figure to John Turner, a food bank official. We wondered if the proclaimed increase was correct, and if so, whether that accurately reflected a surge in hunger in our area.The food bank, founded in 1981, takes in donations of food and money from the government, the food industry and the public, then distributes food to Central Texas residents directly and through more than 350 agencies in its 21-county service area roughly centered on Travis and Williamson counties.(Click to view a map.)The regions north edge runs from Mills County in the west to Freestone County in the east; its south edge runs from Gillespie and Blanco counties in the west to Fayette County on the east.Doggett spokeswoman Sarah Dohl told us by email that Doggett drew his 50 percent figure from aSept. 4, 2011, news story in theGuardian, a British newspaper, which quotes Turner saying the food bank was delivering 50 percent more food to the poor than it had done three years ago.In an interview, Turner, the food banks senior director for marketing and branding, recently told us hed given theGuardiana conservative estimate: The pounds of food distributed by the bank had actually increased 64 percent, going from 15.4 million pounds in 2007 to 25.3 million pounds in 2010. Turner noted, too, that the 2010 poundage was inflated by one-time federal stimulus aid enabling the bank to buy an additional 2.3 million pounds for the Summer Food Nutrition Program. Subtract that, and the 2010 figure becomes 23 million pounds -- up 49 percent from what the bank gave out in 2007.So, do the poundage figures mean hunger in the area shot up 49 percent or more over the past few years?J.C. Dwyer of the Texas Food Bank Network, the state association of food banks, told us pounds of food distributed generally isn't the best measure of need in a food bank's region: Its more of a metric for how were dealing with the needs, Dwyer said. A better way of gauging needs, he said, is to track the number of residents requesting food assistance.That is, the amount of food distributed doesn't necessarily reflect ups and downs in need. In the holiday season, donations and distributions surge, for instance, but that doesnt necessarily mean surges in need.Dwyer and Turner each suggested we check on changes in food demands through Hunger in America, a report commissioned every four years by Feeding America, a national charity that acts as a clearinghouse connecting food supplies to 200 food banks, including the one in Austin.There was no Hunger in America report for 2007, the first year in Doggetts statement, but thereports based on surveys in 2005 and 2009were broken down into smaller reports covering the Austin banks 21-county region: In 2005, the Capital Area bank fed an estimated 174,900 people. In 2009, the estimated number of people served was284,900 for the year, up 63 percent from those who were served in 2005." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000lk.html" ], "sentence": "That change outstripped population growth, according toU.S. census estimates. In 2005, the 21 counties had 2,265,981 residents. By 2009, the regions population was 2,547,559 -- up 12.4 percent. Put another way, the food bank provided sustenance to nearly 8 percent of the regions residents in 2005 while about 11 percent of a greater total of residents got food in 2009.Finally, we wondered if Doggett was correct in saying the food aid went to the poor alone.Turner told us the bank does not question people who come seeking food as to their income -- if you show up, you are fed, he said, though depending on the lines that form, it could take an hour or two. However, the Hunger in America report using 2009 data states that 73 percent of the Capital Area food banks clients had incomes below the federal poverty level.Census figures for 2010, drawing on 2009 data, show that poverty in the 21-county region matched the percentage for Texas overall: Seventeen percent of residents had income below the federal poverty level.According to the United States Department of Agriculture,Dwyer told us, food insecurity across Texas -- the percentage of households at risk of missing meals because of financial pressure -- rose from 14.8 percent in the three-year period 2005-07 to 18.8 percent in 2008-10.Our conclusion: Changes in the amount of food distributed over several years, which Doggett cited, might not be the best way to gauge changes in residents needs. That said, the number of Central Texas requestors for food aid over those years outpaced regional population growth. The 63 percent increase in requestors also exceeded the 50-percent increase in food distributed that he stressed, though, contrary to his statement, not all those pounds of food went to the poor.We rate the claim Mostly True." } ]

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[ "National", "Candidate Biography", "Economy", "Housing", "Jobs" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/22/se.02.html" ], "sentence": "And starting in the early 2000s, the crisis was coming. I was waving my arms, ringing the bell, doing everything I could. I said families are getting cheated all over this country,Warren said April 22 in Manchester, N.H.It started when the mortgage companies targeted communities of color. They targeted seniors. They targeted Latinos. They came in and sold the worst possible mortgages and stripped wealth out of those communities, and then took those products across the nation. I went everywhere I could. I talked about it to anyone who would listen, a crisis is coming." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/article/consumer-spending-and-us-employment-from-the-recession-through-2022.htm" ], "sentence": "Millions of peoplelost their jobs and homes during the recent Great Recession, generally regarded as happening from late 2007 to mid 2009. Experts say the financial crisis resulted from a number ofcolliding factors, including an unsustainable housing boom partly driven by an easy availability of mortgages, banks taking on too much risk, government policies and lax regulation." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/20060520122337/http:/warrenreports.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/12/29/175142/70" ], "sentence": "Warrens presidential campaigncitedseveralblogpostsand comments to media outlets in 2005 and 2006, and Warrens 2003 book, The Two-Income Trap, co-authored with her daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, as examples of Warren warning about subprime lending and an imminent housing crisis. Warren has represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate since 2013. Before going to Congress, she taught law at the university level for more than 30 years, most recently at Harvard, specializing in commercial law, contracts, and bankruptcy." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/more/cement.html" ], "sentence": "In the overwhelming majority of cases, subprime lenders prey on families that already own their own homes, rather than expanding access to new homeowners. Fully 80 percent of subprime mortgages involve refinancing loans for families that already own their homes,Warren said in the book. For these families, subprime lending does nothing more than increase the family's housing costs, taking resources away from other investments and increasing the chances that the family will lose its home if anything goes wrong." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://billmoyers.com/segment/flashback-elizabeth-warren-basically-predicts-the-great-recession/" ], "sentence": "In aJune 2004 interviewwith PBSs NOW host David Brancaccio, Warren spoke about growing household debt, against risky mortgage lending practices and what she regarded as bad advice to Americans by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Warren said Greenspan encouraged families to borrow against their house to pay for basic expenses." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/nyregion/holding-off-bankruptcy-but-draining-home-equity.html" ], "sentence": "Warrens campaign noted that The New York Times quoted Warren in an October 2005articlethat said homeowners in suburbs were taking on more and more home-equity debt to stay out of bankruptcy." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/20060520122337/http:/warrenreports.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/12/29/175142/70" ], "sentence": "Warren was substantially correct in herassessmentthat home prices were going up rapidly relative to incomes (particularly for households with a one wage earner), said Ed Pinto, co-director of the Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.aei.org/publication/government-housing-policies-in-the-lead-up-to-the-financial-crisis-a-forensic-study/" ], "sentence": "But Pinto disagrees with Warren about what caused the crisis. Warren blames banks and lenders, when in fact Congress andgovernment policiesaimed at making homes more affordable are the root cause, Pinto said." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/nov/30/what-caused-crisis-no-one-thing/" ], "sentence": "(Check out our2008 in-depth analysison the causes of the financial crisis and how that issue was debated in the 2008 presidential campaign. Then, both Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said they sounded warnings, and both blamed the other for helping cause the crisis.)" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/29credit.html" ], "sentence": "Risingcredit card debthurt Americans already struggling with mortgage payments." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/warren.pdf" ], "sentence": "Warren in January 2007testifiedbefore the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, saying that the credit card market was broken and hurt consumers." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.senate.gov/general/common/generic/COP_redirect.htm" ], "sentence": "Warren was chosen in 2008 to lead theCongressional Oversight Panel, established by Congress to review the state of the financial markets and the regulatory system." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/payday-loans-consumer-financial-protection-ties-215797" ], "sentence": "Warren also helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The bureau emerged from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, designed to enforce federal consumer financial laws and protect consumers. In 2013 and 2014, Goldstein's groupcollaborated with the CFPBin drafting payday lending rules." } ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://www.multcolib.org/hours/" ], "sentence": "Supporters of a new Multnomah County Library District say a new tax structure is necessary for keeping one of the nations busiest libraries working for all of us. In a mailer, the Libraries Yes! Committee paints an already dim picture of the system.The mailer notes reduced hours and compares them to other metro-area counties: Right now, our libraries are open 44 hours per week, down from 57 hours just a few years ago. Thats the lowest of any library in the four-county region.PolitiFact Oregon was well aware that the system has cut back in certain areas, but it surprised us that the cuts had gone so far as to put operating hours behind Clackamas, Washington and Clark counties. We thought a quick check was warranted -- and quick it was.We checked the website for each of the counties libraries and calculated the weekly operating hours for the main branches. Heres what we found.In Multnomah County, the Central Library is open44 hours each week.In Washington County, the Hillsboro Main Library is open64 hours eachweekand the Beaverton City Library is open63 hours.In Clackamas County, the library system is open52 hours a week.And up in Washingtons Clark County, the main Vancouver Community Library is open60 hours a week.We also called the group responsible for the mailer and asked them about the statement. They sent us a slightly different group of numbers -- the average number of hours a library was open in each county. Their findings supported the same conclusion: Multnomah County library hours are the lowest in the four-county region.We find this statement True." } ]

[ "Reports that Google Earth images helped locate a castaway are fake news." ]

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[ "It's difficult to boil down one of the most turbulent periods in Australia's political history into a meme. " ]

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[ "It's difficult to boil down one of the most turbulent periods in Australia's political history into a meme. " ]

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[ "Trump's reelection campaign called Harris \"a corrupt former California Attorney General.\" But did he play a small role in keeping her in that office?" ]

[ "finance" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/qhCve", "https://archive.is/Xwi3N" ], "sentence": "Shortly after Biden named Harris as his running mate on Aug. 11, the president's reelection campaign denounced her as \"phony Kamala,\" claiming she was willing to \"abandon her own morals, as well as try to bury her record as a prosecutor, in order to appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat party.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/aU0tW" ], "sentence": "Paul Begala, a former advisor to former President Bill Clinton, alluded to a degree of irony in this allegation, claiming in a tweet that \"Trump donated to Kamala Harris when she was [attorney general].\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/9CNNe" ], "sentence": "In widely shared tweets, NBC News correspondent Tom Winter claimed that Trump had twice contributed to Harris' election campaign, in 2011 and 2013, donating a total of $6,000. Winter also said that Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump had herself donated $2,000 to Harris' campaign in 2014:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://powersearch.sos.ca.gov/advanced.php" ], "sentence": "Those claims were accurate. Records available through the campaign finance database on the website of the California secretary of state show that Trump made two contributions to Harris' 2014 campaign for reelection as California attorney general: a $5,000 donation on Sep. 26, 2011, and a $1,000 donation on Feb. 20, 2013. Harris first took office in January 2011, which means Trump contributed to her reelection when she had already been in office for eight months, and two years, respectively. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/ZPph6" ], "sentence": "In March 2019, The Sacramento Bee reported that a spokesperson for Harris' presidential primary campaign had said she \"donated the $6,000 Trump had contributed to a non-profit that advocates for civil and human rights for Central Americans,\" with the newspaper adding that Harris' donation of the money took place in 2015. " } ]

[ "Trump's reelection campaign called Harris \"a corrupt former California Attorney General.\" But did he play a small role in keeping her in that office?" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/qhCve", "https://archive.is/Xwi3N" ], "sentence": "Shortly after Biden named Harris as his running mate on Aug. 11, the president's reelection campaign denounced her as \"phony Kamala,\" claiming she was willing to \"abandon her own morals, as well as try to bury her record as a prosecutor, in order to appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat party.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/aU0tW" ], "sentence": "Paul Begala, a former advisor to former President Bill Clinton, alluded to a degree of irony in this allegation, claiming in a tweet that \"Trump donated to Kamala Harris when she was [attorney general].\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/9CNNe" ], "sentence": "In widely shared tweets, NBC News correspondent Tom Winter claimed that Trump had twice contributed to Harris' election campaign, in 2011 and 2013, donating a total of $6,000. Winter also said that Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump had herself donated $2,000 to Harris' campaign in 2014:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://powersearch.sos.ca.gov/advanced.php" ], "sentence": "Those claims were accurate. Records available through the campaign finance database on the website of the California secretary of state show that Trump made two contributions to Harris' 2014 campaign for reelection as California attorney general: a $5,000 donation on Sep. 26, 2011, and a $1,000 donation on Feb. 20, 2013. Harris first took office in January 2011, which means Trump contributed to her reelection when she had already been in office for eight months, and two years, respectively. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/ZPph6" ], "sentence": "In March 2019, The Sacramento Bee reported that a spokesperson for Harris' presidential primary campaign had said she \"donated the $6,000 Trump had contributed to a non-profit that advocates for civil and human rights for Central Americans,\" with the newspaper adding that Harris' donation of the money took place in 2015. " } ]

[ "Trump's reelection campaign called Harris \"a corrupt former California Attorney General.\" But did he play a small role in keeping her in that office?" ]

[ "finance" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.sturgismotorcyclerally.com/" ], "sentence": "Origins: In July 2015, a rumor began to spread online that President Obama was planning to raise taxes on \"gatherings of white conservatives,\" such as the annual motorcycle rally held in Sturgis, South Dakota, with the ultimate intent of shutting them down. The rumor took the form a widely-circulated meme displaying a photograph of President Obama along with a statement he allegedly made on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on 10 July 2015, referencing the then-recent decision to remove the Confederate flag from display at the South Carolina statehouse grounds:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show", "https://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2015-07-10" ], "sentence": "The quote used in this meme is apocryphal. President Obama did not appear on The Rachel Maddow Show on 10 July 2015, nor did any other source record or report him as having said anything like the words reproduced here." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205928189877073&set=gm.1633433530234193&type=1", "https://m.snopes.com/2015/06/15/soulmate-quiz-facebook-warning/" ], "sentence": "This meme started spreading widely after it was published to the Facebook page of an over-40s single biker's club. That iteration included the instructions to \"SHARE if you are as outraged as I am,\" a come-on commonly used with misleading clickbait content and scams." } ]

[ "Viral ad featuring the Volkswagen Polo uses suicide bomber imagery." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "/business/market/chicken.asp" ], "sentence": "and e-mail forwards. Viral ads may not be obvious about what product they're promoting, or even obvious as advertisements at all. (BurgerKing's \"subservient chicken\" promotion is a good example of the latter category.) " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://leeanddan.com" ], "sentence": "According to the UK newspaper The Guardian, the \"suicide bomber\" spot was created by the Lee and Dan team, a British pair who have produced a number of other advertisements (including virals) known for their quirkiness. The duo maintained that the clip was a self-promotional work not intended for public viewing:" } ]

[ "Its flu season, and that means a whole new wave of recycled anti-vaccine fearmongering." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Every+year+the+pharmaceutical+industry%2C+medical+experts+and+the+mainstream+media+work+hard+to+convince+us+to+get+vaccinated+against+the+flu." ], "sentence": "The article quoted above, which is representative of the text and claims that appear nearly identically in hundreds of Facebook posts, makes a number of claims that need to be investigated on their own merits:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/10-flu-myths" ], "sentence": "Flu shots work by introducing dead (inactivated) strains of influenza virus, which trigger your immune system to create antibodies to fight those strains. These antibodies make your body more prepared to fight if should it be exposed to an active strain in the future. Because the strains are inactive, any sickness you develop after the shot is not caused by influenza, according to the Harvard Medical School:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm#flu" ], "sentence": "It is, of course, possible that feelings of sickness come from some of the side effects of the injection, but the vaccine itself is not infecting you in any way." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf", "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index.html", "https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/thiomersal/statement_jul2006/en/" ], "sentence": "Flu shots administered from multi-use vials may contain a preservative called thimerosal, which breaks down into ethylmercury in the body. Mercury is an element and as such it can be found in many different chemical forms. But when people are concerned about mercury toxicity, they are concerned about methylmercury, which is indeed toxic at high levels and could cause some of the problems listed above." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/thiomersal/statement_jul2006/en/", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23992327", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTFBXJ3Zd_4" ], "sentence": "Ethylmercury, on the other hand, passes through your body quickly, and numerous studies have found it safe for use in vaccines (though there is some evidence that its use could be problematic for infants a population that CDC does not recommend for flu shots anyway). Saying ethylmercury is dangerous because is contains mercury is like saying that your table salt is at risk of spontaneous combustion because it contains sodium." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X14006367", "https://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=030909237X", "https://www.fourteenstudies.org/pdf/HG_8.pdf", "https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021134", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11331700", "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X14006367", "https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/104/3/568.long" ], "sentence": "Thimerosal, additionally, has been used for decades by the anti-vaccine movement to stoke vaccination fear by suggesting it causes by suggesting it causes autism. This link has been discredited over, and over, and over, and over, and over again and is further compromised by the fact that autism rates are still climbing despite the fact that childhood vaccines no longer contain this ingredient." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.casewatch.org/board/med/fudenberg/1995order.shtml", "https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/oh-come-on-superman-bill-maher-and-western-medicine/", "https://www.cmaj.ca/content/165/11/1495.full?eaf" ], "sentence": "The leading immunogeneticist Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, whom the article cites as the authority on this claim, had his medical license revoked in 1995 for ethical misconduct and was an outspoken proponent of the widely discredited MMR-autism link. His claim of the link between Alzheimer's and vaccines, though hard to trace, may or may not come from a talk he gave at the 1997 NVIC International Vaccine Conference. The statement has not been backed up by any published peer-reviewed research since then. In fact, a 2001 study found that adults exposed to vaccines were at a lower risk of Alzheimers." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/vaccines-are-profitable-so-what/385214/" ], "sentence": "It also may not be accurate. A recent Atlantic article covered this question extensively, stating:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/vaccines-are-profitable-so-what/385214/" ], "sentence": "The suggestion of massive profits from flu shots ignores the fact that profits margins are generally much higher for other drugs than for flu vaccines, as well. The same Atlantic article cites one estimate that puts the vaccine market at around $24 billion. This sounds like a large number, but it would, in fact, account for only two to three percent of the pharmaceutical market worldwide." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18425905", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm#howeffectivechild", "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70295-X/abstract" ], "sentence": "Many anti-vaccine articles parrot the claim that \"51 studies involving 260,000 children showed no benefit compared to a placebo for children under the age of two\". This stems from a 2008 meta-analysis that did indeed conclude that there is less efficacy for children under the age of two, something the CDC already recognizes on their website. However, of the 51 studies analyzed and the 260,000 observations those studies included, only one study (at the time) was performed on children below the age of two using inactive strains (the kind found in flu shots). A later study in 2011 that reviewed over 5,000 research articles concluded that flu shots consistently show highest efficacy in young children (aged 6 months to 7 years), categorically rejecting the claim that there is a lack of real evidence that young children benefit from the shot." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm" ], "sentence": "People with compromised immune systems are at higher risk of complications from vaccines when those vaccines contain live strains (which, again, the flu shot does not), and some skin reactions are possible immediately following an injection." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/1/124..info" ], "sentence": "However, the notion that the flu shot weakens the immune system is false. According to a review paper in the journal Pediatrics:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm#flu", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/complications.htm" ], "sentence": "While the term vascular disorder is fear-inducing, it merely describes anything having to do with veins and arteries. The flu shot does not, de facto, cause any of these problems, but all the complications listed above are listed by the CDC as possible side effects. It is worth noting, however, that the flu will almost certainly give you some or all of these symptomsand with a much greater intensity than the symptoms resulting from a flu shot." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://bloodbrainbarrier.jhu.edu/", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267212/", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2471140", "https://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2015.00040/full#B18" ], "sentence": "The blood-brain barrier is the medical term for the chemical and physical adaptations humans and other animals have that prevent pathogens and other chemicals in the body from entering the central nervous system. For this claim about neurotoxic breach be true, an infant would have to have a relatively weaker blood-brain barrier than an adult. The idea that the barrier is weaker in young infants, however, is a long-held but unsubstantiated myth. Numerous studies have refuted the claim, showing that the blood-brain barrier is fully developed in the womb, long before a child is born." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f794", "https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f794", "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcolepsy-flu.html" ], "sentence": "There is a well-documented, though statistically minor, connection between a specific H1N1 flu vaccine (Pandemrix) and narcolepsy. But such reports concerned only that one vaccine, which was produced for a specific flu strain, and have limited relevance to the seasonal flu shot. Pandemrix is available in Europe but not the United States or Canada." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/general.htm" ], "sentence": "This claim, from a scientific standpoint, is a repeat of the earlier false claim (above) that suggests your body is more susceptible to infection or disease after a flu shot. Harmful immunological responses is a broad and unhelpful term that, while it may have aided in turning up literally thousands of responses in an academic search, is not really all that surprising as the term would includes the already documented risk of a skin and allergic reactions that come with pretty much any injection." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/guillain-barre-syndrome.html" ], "sentence": "The neurological disorder specifically associated with flu vaccines is the Guillain-Barr Syndromea terrifying disease that causes nerve damage and sometimes paralysis. A widely cited study on a population of individuals who received the H1N1 vaccine in 1976 showed an increased risk of contracting this disease whose cause is unknown compared to those who did not receive the vaccine:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2813%2970104-X/abstract" ], "sentence": "This topic has been heavily researched for decades, and no specific consensus regarding the link or mechanism behind the flu virus and the disease has been established. What has been established, however, is how small the risk is relative to the risks of contracting complications from flu itself. A 2013 study in The Lancet stated that:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/qa_flublok-vaccine.htm", "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/vaccine-decision/index.html", "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/adjuvants.html", "https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vaccine-ingredients" ], "sentence": "Current iterations of the seasonal flu shot do not have any live strains in them (though the nasal spray includes weakened strains), nor do they have any mercury (in the United States), detergent, antifreeze, or aluminum. They contain, at most, 50 times less formaldehyde than a pear." } ]

[ "Its flu season, and that means a whole new wave of recycled anti-vaccine fearmongering." ]

[ "investment" ]

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Because the strains are inactive, any sickness you develop after the shot is not caused by influenza, according to the Harvard Medical School:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm#flu" ], "sentence": "It is, of course, possible that feelings of sickness come from some of the side effects of the injection, but the vaccine itself is not infecting you in any way." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf", "https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index.html", "https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/thiomersal/statement_jul2006/en/" ], "sentence": "Flu shots administered from multi-use vials may contain a preservative called thimerosal, which breaks down into ethylmercury in the body. Mercury is an element and as such it can be found in many different chemical forms. But when people are concerned about mercury toxicity, they are concerned about methylmercury, which is indeed toxic at high levels and could cause some of the problems listed above." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/thiomersal/statement_jul2006/en/", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23992327", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTFBXJ3Zd_4" ], "sentence": "Ethylmercury, on the other hand, passes through your body quickly, and numerous studies have found it safe for use in vaccines (though there is some evidence that its use could be problematic for infants a population that CDC does not recommend for flu shots anyway). Saying ethylmercury is dangerous because is contains mercury is like saying that your table salt is at risk of spontaneous combustion because it contains sodium." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X14006367", "https://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=030909237X", "https://www.fourteenstudies.org/pdf/HG_8.pdf", "https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021134", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11331700", "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X14006367", "https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/104/3/568.long" ], "sentence": "Thimerosal, additionally, has been used for decades by the anti-vaccine movement to stoke vaccination fear by suggesting it causes by suggesting it causes autism. This link has been discredited over, and over, and over, and over, and over again and is further compromised by the fact that autism rates are still climbing despite the fact that childhood vaccines no longer contain this ingredient." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.casewatch.org/board/med/fudenberg/1995order.shtml", "https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/oh-come-on-superman-bill-maher-and-western-medicine/", "https://www.cmaj.ca/content/165/11/1495.full?eaf" ], "sentence": "The leading immunogeneticist Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, whom the article cites as the authority on this claim, had his medical license revoked in 1995 for ethical misconduct and was an outspoken proponent of the widely discredited MMR-autism link. His claim of the link between Alzheimer's and vaccines, though hard to trace, may or may not come from a talk he gave at the 1997 NVIC International Vaccine Conference. The statement has not been backed up by any published peer-reviewed research since then. In fact, a 2001 study found that adults exposed to vaccines were at a lower risk of Alzheimers." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/vaccines-are-profitable-so-what/385214/" ], "sentence": "It also may not be accurate. A recent Atlantic article covered this question extensively, stating:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/vaccines-are-profitable-so-what/385214/" ], "sentence": "The suggestion of massive profits from flu shots ignores the fact that profits margins are generally much higher for other drugs than for flu vaccines, as well. The same Atlantic article cites one estimate that puts the vaccine market at around $24 billion. This sounds like a large number, but it would, in fact, account for only two to three percent of the pharmaceutical market worldwide." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18425905", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm#howeffectivechild", "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70295-X/abstract" ], "sentence": "Many anti-vaccine articles parrot the claim that \"51 studies involving 260,000 children showed no benefit compared to a placebo for children under the age of two\". This stems from a 2008 meta-analysis that did indeed conclude that there is less efficacy for children under the age of two, something the CDC already recognizes on their website. However, of the 51 studies analyzed and the 260,000 observations those studies included, only one study (at the time) was performed on children below the age of two using inactive strains (the kind found in flu shots). A later study in 2011 that reviewed over 5,000 research articles concluded that flu shots consistently show highest efficacy in young children (aged 6 months to 7 years), categorically rejecting the claim that there is a lack of real evidence that young children benefit from the shot." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm" ], "sentence": "People with compromised immune systems are at higher risk of complications from vaccines when those vaccines contain live strains (which, again, the flu shot does not), and some skin reactions are possible immediately following an injection." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/1/124..info" ], "sentence": "However, the notion that the flu shot weakens the immune system is false. 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It is worth noting, however, that the flu will almost certainly give you some or all of these symptomsand with a much greater intensity than the symptoms resulting from a flu shot." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://bloodbrainbarrier.jhu.edu/", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267212/", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2471140", "https://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2015.00040/full#B18" ], "sentence": "The blood-brain barrier is the medical term for the chemical and physical adaptations humans and other animals have that prevent pathogens and other chemicals in the body from entering the central nervous system. For this claim about neurotoxic breach be true, an infant would have to have a relatively weaker blood-brain barrier than an adult. The idea that the barrier is weaker in young infants, however, is a long-held but unsubstantiated myth. 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[ "Its flu season, and that means a whole new wave of recycled anti-vaccine fearmongering." ]

[ "profit" ]

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A later study in 2011 that reviewed over 5,000 research articles concluded that flu shots consistently show highest efficacy in young children (aged 6 months to 7 years), categorically rejecting the claim that there is a lack of real evidence that young children benefit from the shot." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm", "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm" ], "sentence": "People with compromised immune systems are at higher risk of complications from vaccines when those vaccines contain live strains (which, again, the flu shot does not), and some skin reactions are possible immediately following an injection." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/1/124..info" ], "sentence": "However, the notion that the flu shot weakens the immune system is false. 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[ "A 14-year-old boy named Devon Ward who went missing from his Horseheads, New York, home has been found safe." ]

[ "share" ]

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[ "A blog called 'Ghetto Hikes,' ostensibly written by a tour guide for inner city children who compiled their humorous observations, was a hoax." ]

[ "interest" ]

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[ "And if so, where did they go?" ]

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[ "The story of a waitress, a cop, and a generous tip was seized on and dramatized by a viral content website." ]

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[ "A viral photograph purportedly captured a raccoon riding an alligator like a surfboard." ]

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[ "Did a man lists his ex-wife's wedding dress on eBay with a hilarious offer of sale?" ]

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[ "Did a man lists his ex-wife's wedding dress on eBay with a hilarious offer of sale?" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://www.traviscountyhd.org/" ], "sentence": "Central Health, the government agency entrusted with improving health care access across Travis County, has a low tax rate that will remain low if voters ratify Proposition 1 on the November 2012ballot, a proponent says.Mark Nathan of theKeep Austin HealthyPAC said recently: Our health care districts tax rate is the lowest among the largest counties in Texas, and it will continue to be the lowest if the proposal wins approval. His comment appeared in anAustin American-Statesmannews article posted online the same day, Oct. 18, 2012.Central Health, the county health-care district created in 2004, seeks to increase its tax rate from 7.89 cents per $100 of assessed value to 12.9 cents for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2013. Resulting revenue would help support health-care initiatives including a new medical school plus a site for a new teaching hospital.We wondered about the districts current and possible future tax rates.In 2005, the first year the district collected property taxes, Central Healths governing board set a tax rate of 7.79 cents per $100 of assessed property value, which cost the average taxpayer $126.84, according to a July 31, 2012,Statesmannews story. Between 2005 and 2011, the average tax bill for Central Health rose $29.77 to the current $156.61 on the average-valued home in Travis County, counting exemptions--an increase of 23.5 percent, the story says.Generally, according to the story, Central Healths finances were helped over the years by unexpected windfalls in federal payments, a robust real estate market that pumped up property tax collections and a deal the City of Austin cut with the Seton Healthcare Family years before voters created the district, allowing the district to steadily expand services while setting relatively modest tax rates.By phone, district spokeswoman Christie Garbe told us the districts low tax rate is an artifact of how the district was born, reflecting the merger of separate rates previously levied for health care by the City of Austin and Travis County. Garbe said by email that after the change, residents outside the city experienced a significant rate increase while city residents saw a slight decrease.Another fiscally relevant distinction: Unlike hospital districts in Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant and El Paso counties, the JulyStatesmanstory says, Central Health does not run a hospital, so it can function with a lower tax rate. The Seton Healthcare Family operates the safety-net University Medical Center Brackenridge and bears most of the financial responsibility for it, the story says, which has helped Central Health set property tax rates 60 to 74 percent lower than other urban Texas hospital districts.At our inquiry, Nathan emailed us a chart, attributed to Central Health, indicating that its tax rate trails those of hospital districts in the urban counties noted in the JulyStatesmanarticle plus Nueces County. All things staying equal, the other districts rates would also outpace the Central Health rate if Proposition 1 passes, according to the chart. Garbe told us by email that the chart reflects April 2012 research by Central Health.According to the chart, the Nueces County district has the next-lowest rate, 16.24 cents per $100 valuation. That's more than double Central Healths rate.Via telephone interviews and web research, we confirmed the proclaimed rates, but found one rate getting cut. Mike Norby of the Harris County Hospital District, also known as the Harris Health System, said by phone that the countys commissioners court voted to reduce the districts tax rate by a penny to 18.22 cents per $100 valuation, effectively cutting the districts revenue by $10 million once all factors are considered. (He said the vote to do so occurred Oct. 23, 2012, which was after Nathan made his claim.)So, Central Health has the lowest rate among seven urban Texas hospital districts and would still have the lowest rate if the proposition passes, presuming other districts do not slash rates in the meantime.At the recommendation of Jonny Hipp, ceo of the Nueces County district, we queried Austin consultant Shari Holland, who told us she has written reports in the past comparing Texas hospital districts; report purchasers have included Central Health, she said.Holland agreed that Central Health has and will likely have a lower tax rate than the other cited districts, due in part, she said, to the Austin areas high property values. In 2008, she said, Travis County had assessed property values of $97,100 per resident, tops among the 10 most populous counties.Curious about the possible effect of higher property values, we asked Nathan how much tax revenue each of the cited health districts raises per resident.Central Health has ranked last among the seven districts in total tax revenues per resident, at $71, according to another Central Health chart emailed to us by Nathan. However, its per-resident revenue would escalate to $115 if the proposition passes. The district could then be collecting more per resident than the districts in Nueces and El Paso counties, which have per-person tax revenues of $91 and $86, respectively, according to Central Health. The other analyzed health districts still would generate more tax revenue per resident, the districts research suggests.By email, Nathan pointed out he did not say Central Healths per-resident tax collections would stay the lowest.Our rulingNathan, the PAC spokesman, said Central Health has the lowest tax rate among districts in the largest Texas counties and will retain that distinction if the proposition passes. Thats correct, presuming other districts dont slash rates.Still, Central Healths per-person tax levy is projected to outpace those of two other districts should Travis County voters approve the bump. This information was missing from the spokesman's statement. Tax rates alone make the comparison incomplete..We rate the claim as Mostly True." } ]

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[ "Does The Hunger Site really donate money for hunger relief every time you click a button on their site?" ]

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[ "Does The Hunger Site really donate money for hunger relief every time you click a button on their site?" ]

[ "loan" ]

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[ "Partisan web sites misrepresent the source of funding for the Republican senator's care as an infant in Alabama." ]

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[ "Federal Budget", "Infrastructure", "Transportation", "Taxes" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-04-2021-n1262993" ], "sentence": "The vision the president has put forward (in the infrastructure bill) is fully paid for,he said. Across 15 years, it would raise all of the revenue needed for these once-in-a-lifetime investments." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/" ], "sentence": "The White House pointed us to thefact sheetit has released on the plan, which makes that claim, but doesnt get into details." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.crfb.org/blogs/whats-president-bidens-american-jobs-plan" ], "sentence": "One was published by theCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It found that the plan has approximately $2.65 trillion in new costs over eight years. Over the first 10 years, the group found, the plan would increase the deficit by about $900 billion. However, over a longer, 15-year period the one Buttigieg cited the plans revenues would match its expenses and would actually reduce deficits beyond that." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2021/4/7/president-biden-american-jobs-plan-effects" ], "sentence": "The other analysis, published by the University of PennsylvaniasPenn Wharton Budget Model, came to a similar conclusion." } ]

[]

[ "Debt", "Education", "Vermont" ]

[]

[ { "hrefs": [ "https://vtdigger.org/2019/06/24/sanders-seeks-tax-on-stock-trades-to-eliminate-student-debt/" ], "sentence": "As the first debate of the Democratic primary approaches, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced his policy proposal to cancel student debt. Outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday, Sandersoutlined his planto cancel $1.6 trillion in student loans by levying a tax on Wall Street financial transactions." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/feb/09/bernie-s/was-college-once-free-united-states-and-it-oversea/" ], "sentence": "During the announcement, the Vermont senator used an old stump speech favorite that university in the U.S. wasmostly tuition-freethroughout the 20th century but with an addendum." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/pell-grants-a-key-tool-for-expanding-college-access-and-economic-opportunity" ], "sentence": "A spokesperson for the Sanders campaign referred us to a2017 policy brieffrom the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank that studies federal and state budget policies." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/cp-2015-table-2_0.xls" ], "sentence": "Protopsaltis explained that in 1975 the average cost of tuition, fees and room and board at a four-year public institution was $1,779, according toCollege Board datacompiled by the authors. The maximum Pell grant that year was $1,400 or 79% of the total cost." } ]

[ "Facebook posts about winning a \"$500 store credit\" or \"$500 Walmart credit\" are not legitimate offers from Walmart." ]

[ "credit" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2021/survey.html" ], "sentence": "At the same time, survey scams also have a chance of being quite dangerous,reported AARP.org:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/walmart-1000-gift-cards/" ], "sentence": "Note: Walmart does give away gift cards in an official and recurring promotion, but they don't use Facebook to do it." } ]

[ "A family legendarily replaced their neighbor's dead rabbit after mistakenly believing their own dog had killed it." ]

[ "returns" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dead-air/" ], "sentence": "A tale nearly identical in structure to the legend about the dead animal shipped by air freight (which handlers mistakenly thought had died in transit) is the following:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://us.imdb.com/title/tt0325258/" ], "sentence": "We're told a non-talk show sighting of this legend appears in Jeff Foxworthy's 1989 recording, Sold Out, and this tale also formed the plot of an episode of The Chris Isaak Show (\"Crimes and Punishment,\" original air date 26 March 2001). The same story plays out in the 2003 film, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star." } ]

[ "A check doesn't necessarily have to be written on paper. It can be written on anything, as long as it has the necessary elements." ]

[ "income" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://money.cnn.com/2001/03/22/living/q_bankrate/" ], "sentence": "Although nearly everyone who still writes checks uses the sequentially numbered forms torn from books of blanks ordered from a printing company, there is no requirement that a bank customer must use such forms. Indeed, that fact has given rise to a number of tales about checks written on surfaces other than paper:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/cases/list.html" ], "sentence": "Haddock wasn't a real person any more than Sherlock Holmes was. A.P. Herbert loved writing about the law, so he created Haddock as an ongoing character upon whom he could hang his fanciful stories. The BBC's Misleading Cases comedy series, based on the exploits of the fictional Albert Haddock, used this one of Herbert's tales for its premier episode (\"The Negotiable Cow,\" originally aired 20 June 1967), and someone at the Memphis Press-Scimitar picked up on it, didn't get the joke, and presented it as something that really happened. Not content to leave well enough alone, the Press-Scimitar threw in the bit about the Chase Manhattan Bank to lend an extra bit of believability to the tale." } ]

[ "The government has not historically been interested in tracking the wear of citizens' automobile tires." ]

[ "economy" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/cars/mercedes-trackers-intl-scli/index.html" ], "sentence": "Technologies for remotely tracking the movement of automobiles have existed for decades, but earlier versions were typically limited in range, efficiency, and/or lifespan. The advent of GPS technology, however, has led to the development of devices that enable the reliable tracking of a vehicles location, speed, and direction of travel from virtually anywhere on the globe." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.lesschwab.com/article/how-do-i-know-if-my-tires-need-to-be-balanced.html" ], "sentence": "These weights have nothing to do with \"tracking\" they are used during the process of a \"wheel balance\" (or \"wheel rebalance\"), a procedure that ensures tires and wheels have equal weight distribution so as to eliminate vibration and excessive or uneven tire wear:" } ]

[ "A viral photograph shows President George W. Bush hugging the daughter of a 9/11 victim." ]

[ "insurance" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.wendyfoundation.org/pages/659613/" ], "sentence": "On 4 May 2004, a campaign swing through the Midwest saw President Bush visiting Lebanon, Ohio, where as he worked the crowd outside the Golden Lamb (the state's oldest inn) he was photographed giving a comforting hug to 15-year-old Ashley Faulkner, whose mother was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The moment was captured with a digital camera by Ashley's father, Lynn Faulkner. (Ashley's mother, Wendy Ruth Faulkner, a vice president of a risk management and insurance brokerage company, was working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11 and did not survive the collapse of the building.)" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/20040611123319/https://www.washingtondispatch.com/opinion/article_9003.shtml" ], "sentence": "[Rest of article here.]" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/20040611123319/https://www.washingtondispatch.com/opinion/article_9003.shtml", "https://web.archive.org/web/20040630224931/https://washingtondispatch.com/page2/archives/000193.html" ], "sentence": "An editorial about the story behind the photograph can be found at the Washington Dispatch web site, which also includes a page of reader-submitted commentary about the story." } ]

[ "A viral photograph from a protest against stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic was likened to the zombie movie \"Shaun of the Dead.\" " ]

[ "economy" ]

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[ "Opponents of critical race theory and diversity training railed against Coca-Cola in February 2021, but with no real evidence." ]

[ "equity" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/MjA1q" ], "sentence": "Those and other similar images appeared to have been leaked by a Coca-Cola employee to Karlyn Borysenko, a prominent online opponent of critical race theory and many aspects of corporate diversity training, who describes herself on LinkedIn as an organizational pyschologist and \"executive/performance coach.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/CBuVA" ], "sentence": "Borysenko shared the screenshots on Feb. 19, consistently characterizing them as having been part of required training for Coca-Cola employees. As proof of this, she cited the Coca-Cola logo visible in the top right-hand corner of the screen." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/Q2Rmq", "https://archive.is/2ORyp", "https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/04/08/how-conspiracy-theories-spread-online-its-not-just-algorithms/", "https://youtu.be/mglYtZSRa8g?t=220" ], "sentence": "The screenshots were also shared on the controversial 4Chan thread /pol/, a frequent online source of political disinformation in recent years. Nigel Farage, former leader of the far-right UK Independence Party, mentioned the story in a YouTube video, saying Coca-Cola had \"lost their marbles\" by \"putting their staff through compulsory training on 'How to be less white.'\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/zEwtn", "https://archive.is/gwwvP" ], "sentence": "The slides contained in the widely-shared online posts in February 2021 came from a presentation entitled \"Confronting Racism,\" which featured Robin DiAngelo, a writer and consultant whose work on racism has proven controversial and who has been hired to conduct diversity and anti-racism training for many American companies. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/NjqbD" ], "sentence": "\"Confronting Racism\" had been available on LinkedIn Learning, but was removed on Feb. 23, on foot of a request by the producers of the course Big Think, and representatives for DiAngelo. Before it was taken down, it carried the following description:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/yXl95" ], "sentence": "In a news release published on Feb. 20, Coca-Cola stated that \"Confronting Racism\" \"was not part of the company's curriculum,\" meaning it was not something Coca-Cola obliged its employees to view. Rather, the company said, its training involved use of LinkedIn Learning, and the course was accessible there." } ]

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[ "Economy", "Jobs", "Texas" ]

[]

[ { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/#%21/JohnCornyn/status/106560851141603328" ], "sentence": "In an Aug. 24, 2011,Twitter post, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said of the Congressional Budget Office: CBO says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!Well assume the Texas Republican doesnt consider this fabulous news, though the predicted rate would be about a percentage point lower than the July 2011 national jobless rate of 9.1 percent,as reported bythe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.A reminder: The unemployment rate is a measure of the number of jobless people who are available for work and are actively seeking jobs, expressed as a percentage of the labor force.Did Cornyn recap accurately?The nonpartisan CBOssummaryof its latest economic projections says that with modest economic growth expected for the next few years, the office expects the jobless rate to fall to 8.9 percent the fourth quarter of this year and to 8.5 percent the fourth quarter of 2012. And indeed, the report says, the rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014.The nations gross domestic product grew 1 percent the second quarter of this year after growing .4 percent in the years first three months, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysisreported in August. According to the CBO forecast, the economy will grow slowly in coming years as the federal deficit shrinks, though the prediction about the deficit assumes, among other things, that Congress will not extend all the tax cuts launched under President George W. Bush and temporarily extended under President Barack Obama.In its full report, the CBO projects the annual unemployment rate to average 8.7 percent in 2012 and 2013, which would be an improvement on the 2010 and 2009 averages of 9.6 percent and 9.3 percent, respectively, but would be worse than the 2008 average of 5.8 percent,according tothe Bureau of Labor Statistics.CBO forecasts the unemployment rate falling to an average of 5.4 percent in 2016 and 5.2 percent in 2017 through 2021, which would be the lowest rate since 2007, when the average was 4.6 percent. The report says the projected 5.2 percent rate in those years would match its expected natural unemployment rate for the period.Economists talk about a natural unemployment rate because even in a strong, healthy economy there is always some degree of employee turnover as businesses adopt new technologies and make other staff changes, and as a certain percentage of workers, for various professional and personal reasons, look for new jobs.Things are unsettled now, the CBO report says, with weakness in the demand for goods and services being the principal restraint on hiring, but structural impediments in the labor market such as a mismatch between the requirements of existing job openings and the characteristics of job seekers (including their skills and geographic location) appear to be hindering hiring as well.Other measures also show a great deal of weakness in the labor market, the report says. The number of unemployed workers per job opening averaged about 4 throughout the first half of 2011, down from an average of slightly over 6 in 2009 but still much higher than it was before the recession. In addition, the number of people who are employed part time but want full-time work averaged about 8.5 million in the first half of 2011, slightly below the number in the previous two years but still nearly double the pre-recession figure.The report continues: Likewise, the share of unemployed people who have been out of work for a long time is unusually high. On average, 44 percent of workers who were unemployed in the first half of 2011 had been jobless for more than six months. Moreover, in mid-2011, 31 percent of unemployed workers had been jobless for at least a year. Those rates of long-term unemployment are unprecedented in the post-World War II era.Were not judging here whos responsible for the nations unemployment troubles, but how accurately Cornyn echoed the CBOs projection. His statement rates True." } ]

[ "An image purportedly showing the environmental differences between a lithium mine and an oil sands extraction facility is misleading." ]

[ "interest" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.mining.com/bhp-billiton-to-slash-copper-production-costs-increase-output/" ], "sentence": "The image, however, does not feature a photograph of a lithium mine. The top portion of the image shows BHP's Escondida copper mine in Chile, one of the largest such mines in the world:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.megenergy.com/", "https://www.megenergy.com/operations/steam-assisted-gravity-drainage-sagd" ], "sentence": "The bottom photograph was taken in Canada, but it shows a type of oil sands drilling site that isn't really comparable to a copper mine. Instead of selecting a picture of an open tar sand pit, the creator of this image chose a \"cleaner\" photograph showing an in situ oil sands facility that operates deep underground with little surface impact:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/canadian-oil-sands/kunzig-text" ], "sentence": "Other pictures show very different views of oil sands extraction sites, such as this 2009 National Geographic photograph of an Alberta oil sands site:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsands/" ], "sentence": "Similarly, this photograph shows an aerial view of Syncrude Aurora tar sands mine in the Boreal Forest north of Fort McMurray, Alberta:" } ]

[ "Will burying a statuette of St. Joseph help speed the sale of a property?" ]

[ "mortgage" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.st-josephstatue.com/st_joseph_statue_details/Saint_Joseph_Home_Selling_Kit.htm" ], "sentence": "The custom of burying St. Joseph has become so widespread that some retailers even offer a Home Sale Kit, which includes a plastic statue, a prayer card, and an introduction to the St. Joseph home sale practice. " }, { "hrefs": [ "/sources/babytrai.htm" ], "sentence": " Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Baby Train. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993. ISBN 0-393-31208-9 (p. 181-184)." }, { "hrefs": [ "/sources/toogood.htm" ], "sentence": " Brunvand, Jan Harold. Too Good To Be . New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. ISBN 0-393-04734-2 (pp. 246-247)." }, { "hrefs": [ "/sources/bigbook.htm" ], "sentence": " The Big Book of Urban Legends. New York: Paradox Press, 1994. ISBN 1-56389-165-4 (p. 193)." } ]

[ "What is it about maps that makes them seem so credible to the internet? " ]

[ "credit" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.pornhub.com/insights/" ], "sentence": "Pornhub does release analytics via their insights page and they have released maps in the past that show the top searches by state. Heres one such map from around election day in 2020." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.pornhub.com/insights/united-states-top-searches" ], "sentence": "In 2016, they released a map that looks similar to the viral joke map (except, unfortunately, for the inclusion of Kevin James)." } ]

[ "Meta has never announced any plans that they would start charging users to be on Facebook." ]

[ "share" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/articles/369246/what-is-copypasta/" ], "sentence": "In October 2022, Facebook users copied and pasted posts that claimed, \"Facebook will start charging this summer.\" The copy-and-paste posts, which we refer to as copypasta, claimed that the news was \"official\" and that the posts had been \"signed\" by the users, a word that was sometimes misspelled as \"signal.\" The posts claimed the news had even been broadcast \"on TV.\" However, this was nothing more than a repeated iteration of a long-running Facebook hoax." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/search/posts?q=facebook%20will%20start%20charging&filters=eyJyZWNlbnRfcG9zdHM6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcInJlY2VudF9wb3N0c1wiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiXCJ9In0%3D" ], "sentence": "We found no shortage of these posts being copied and pasted in mid-October. A search for \"Facebook will start charging this summer\" returned a seemingly endless number of results." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/search/posts?q=forget%20tomorrow%20starts%20the%20new&filters=eyJyZWNlbnRfcG9zdHM6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcInJlY2VudF9wb3N0c1wiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiXCJ9In0%3D" ], "sentence": "After the \"Facebook will start charging this summer\" text, some of the posts that we found then continued by including words from previous iterations of this same hoax:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facebook-implementing-user-fees/", "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-facebook-charging-a-user-fee/", "https://facecrooks.com/Internet-Safety-Privacy/Its-official-signal-at-1220-it-even-passed-on-tv-Facebook-will-be-charging-this-summer-Viral-Hoax.html" ], "sentence": "We previously debunked this rumor in 2009, then published another story about it in 2020. The version of the hoax that uses the words \"this summer\" had apparently been going around since at least 2011." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facebook-posts-made-public/" ], "sentence": "Despite being well over a decade old, Facebook users often share various posts that ask others to copy and paste the text, as if doing so would establish precautionary measures against a future development." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igZvuCJv4VQ" ], "sentence": "However, as Jerry once told Kramer on the \"Seinfeld\" TV series, \"I don't know if what you have here constitutes a legally binding document.\"" } ]

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[ "State Budget", "Taxes", "Florida" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/FloridaGOP/status/451386074586038272" ], "sentence": "The Republican Party of Florida joined the Crist-as-tax-hiker chorus onTwitter: .@charliecrist raised taxes in 2009 and won't rule out raising taxes again." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2010/mar/08/charlie-justice/charlie-justice-says-legislature-raised-2-billion-/" ], "sentence": "In May 2009, then-Republican Gov. Crist signed a $66.5 billion budget that included a slew of new taxes and fees -- roughly$2 billionworth -- intended to balance the state budget during the recession. The hikes included auto tag fees, a $1-a-pack cigarette tax, as well as higher fees to visit state parks and to file civil lawsuits and foreclosure actions. There is no dispute that Crist signed those tax and fee increases into law, but the Republican Party of Florida omits that the tax and fee hikes were supported by the Republican-led Legislature at the time. That includes influential Republican legislators who now in key leadership positions: Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who was House majority whip at the time; House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel; and Senate President Don Gaetz." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://floridagop.tumblr.com/post/81491070868/charlie-crist-loves-taxes" ], "sentence": "As for Crists willingness to raise future taxes, the Republican Party of Florida pointed to a briefclipof MSNBCs Ed Schultz interviewing Crist on Nov. 18, 2013, a couple of weeks after Crist declared his candidacy. We went looking for thecomplete exchangeabout taxes; heres how it went:" }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.charliecrist.com/policy-positions/economy-jobs" ], "sentence": "Crists campaign website includes a mention of tax cuts for middle-class families on his policy position page about theeconomy and jobs, but its vague. It states:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cohVX-TmT6s" ], "sentence": "We sent the claim by the Republican Party to Crists campaign and an informal adviser to the campaign, former state Sen. Steve Geller. Geller said Crist supports giving small businesses a tax break and pointed to part of Cristsannouncement speechin November:" } ]

[ "Is there truly anything that has never been done before in U.S. politics?" ]

[ "income" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/FMb7X", "https://archive.fo/Dn82d" ], "sentence": "In the lead-up to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, an old meme re-emerged on social media which claimed that former president Barack Obama had displayed an unprecedented level of partisanship and opportunism in his criticisms of President Donald Trump, in that Obama was \"the first ex president to publicly speak against a successor\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/RockItNewsNet/photos/a.1481328222108531/1920575911517091/?type=3&theater" ], "sentence": "The meme was actually an edited form of an earlier version which first emerged on social media in 2017. The original included only the phrase \"First Ex President to Publicly Speak Against a Successor\":" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/17/obama-criticises-strongman-politics-coded-attack-trump" ], "sentence": "The 44th president offered what were widely perceived as thinly-veiled criticisms of President Donald Trump when he spoke in Johannesburg, South Africa, in July 2018, railing against what he called \"strongman politics,\" whereby \"those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.\" He also criticized \"far-right parties\" with a platform of \"protectionism and closed borders\" as well as \"barely-hidden racial nationalism.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaCdyuSt1Ps" ], "sentence": "Obama had declined to openly attack Trump for the first 18 months of his presidency, following what, in his University of Illinois speech, he called the \"wise American tradition of ex-presidents gracefully exiting the political stage.\" Obama said he had changed his mind because, in his view, the 2018 mid-term elections represented \"one of those pivotal moments when every one of us, as citizens of the United States, need to determine just who it is that we are, just what it is that we stand for.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-clinton-idUSN1932464420070719", "https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/world/middleeast/12cnd-surge.html" ], "sentence": "In July 2007, the 42nd president took aim at the administration of his successor, George W. Bush, in its handling of the Iraq war, telling Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer \"There is no military victory here\" and criticizing Bush for attempting to filibuster Congressional efforts to bring about a withdrawal of troops:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2018/11/The_Daily_Oklahoman_Sat__Nov_5__1994_.pdf" ], "sentence": "The Daily Oklahoman newspaper reported that Bush Sr. had offered a stinging counter-attack against Clinton during a visit to the state capital on 4 November 1994:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2018/11/Pittsburgh_Post_Gazette_Sat__Nov_5__1994_.pdf" ], "sentence": "During a Republican rally in Omaha, Nebraska, the same week, Bush attacked Clinton for having \"the nerve\" to blame the GOP for \"his own failures,\" the Pittsburgh Post-Gazettereported:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2018/11/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Mon__Jan_25__1999_.pdf" ], "sentence": "In 1999, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Clinton's impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives, Bush even appeared to accuse his successor of behaving in a way which demonstrated a lack of respect for the U.S. presidency, as the Associated Press reported:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/01/us/carter-says-reagan-has-failed-to-accept-his-responsibilities.html" ], "sentence": "In September 1982, Carter responded to Reagan's earlier criticisms of the Democrat's legacy, accusing his rival of failing to \"accept his responsibilities as president,\" the New York Times reported:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/11/10/Jimmy-Carter-criticized-President-Reagan-Wednesday-for-making-radical/1565405752400/" ], "sentence": "At a press conference two months later, Carter continued that theme, saying Reagan's efforts to deflect criticism onto him were \"irresponsible and ill-advised\" and that his Republican successor had made \"radical\" and unwelcome changes to U.S. foreign policy, United Press International reported:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2018/11/Tampa_Bay_Times_Sun__Apr_17__1977_.pdf" ], "sentence": "In April 1977, less than three months after Carter succeeded him, Ford ridiculed the Democrat's economic policies in a widely-syndicated interview with the Washington Post:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2018/11/The_Evening_Standard_Fri__Apr_8__1977_.pdf", "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2018/11/The_News_Leader_Thu__Oct_11__1979_.pdf", "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2018/11/The_Courier_Journal_Fri__Jun_27__1980_.pdf" ], "sentence": "Over the next three years, Ford also took aim at Carter's handling of negotiations over the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), his handling of the economic crisis, and in the summer of 1980 he launched a devastating attack on his successor's legacy at a Republican event in Indianapolis, as the Associated Press reported:" } ]

[ "The presence of certain symbols on a variety of food products does not indicate that a 'secret tax' has been paid to Jews." ]

[ "finance" ]

[]

[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.ou.org/kosher/primer.html" ], "sentence": "<!-- A Kosher Primer (Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America)-->" } ]

[ "A viral video showing a statue of Jesus Christ in a Mexican church 'miraculously' opening and closing its eyes also shows signs of tampering." ]

[ "budget" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1584554/statue-of-jesus-opens-its-eyes-in-church-leaving-priests-and-paranormal-investigators-baffled/" ], "sentence": "\"SPOOKY footage has emerged of a statue of Jesus appearing to open its eyes, with many believers claiming the spectacle is a miracle,\" UK tabloid The Sun reported on 10 August. The coverage continued:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://adimensional.com.mx/sitio/", "https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/statue-jesus-opens-eyes-church-8596216", "https://www.elancasti.com.ar/internacional/2016/8/9/estatua-jesus-abrio-ojos-iglesia-mexico-video-307175.html" ], "sentence": "Paranormal investigator Ivan Escamilla of the web site Adimensional, where the video was first posted, was undaunted by the skeptical reaction, claiming the video had been examined \"for weeks\" by more than 20 specialists, including priests, who \"found no proof it had been doctored,\" the Mirror reported. According to the Argentinian newspaper El Ancasti, officials of the Diocese of Saltillo, who were the first to receive the video, declined to even view it, much less issue a statement about its authenticity." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkrgNoiqNQ" ], "sentence": "If the only thing happening in these relatively stable frames were the closing of the statue's eyes, no other changes ought to be visible. But changes are visible, especially when the footage is viewed at slow speed or frame-by-frame. For a much better demonstration of this than we can provide here, please give your attention to the video below uploaded by the Australian Phenomena YouTube channel. It seems the maker of this video, a UFO researcher named Dylan, had no trouble whatsoever finding the evidence of fakery that 20 previous experts (and priests) failed to detect." } ]

[ "A man who flew on several NASA Space Shuttle missions is not a supporter of the proposed Space Force." ]

[ "asset" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/06/18/its-official-trump-announces-space-force-6th-military-branch.html" ], "sentence": "This is a genuine quote from Mark Kelly, who flew several missions on NASA's Space Shuttle from 2001 to 2011. The wording was taken from a tweet the former astronaut posted in June 2018 shortly after President Trump directed the Pentagon to \"begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces\":" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://t.co/S1urOuJBe6" ], "sentence": "This is a dumb idea. The Air Force does this already. That is their job. Whats next, we move submarines to the 7th branch and call it the under-the-sea force? https://t.co/S1urOuJBe6" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/ShuttleCDRKelly/status/1008910946742472707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" ], "sentence": " Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) June 19, 2018" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://t.co/5WNNuWy4v4", "https://t.co/e1c5uocTgv" ], "sentence": "Former astronaut Mark Kelly on President Trump's \"Space Force\" effort: \"The only person that Ive heard say this is a fantastic idea is the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. Everybody else says its redundant, its wasteful.\" https://t.co/5WNNuWy4v4 pic.twitter.com/e1c5uocTgv" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1027623443146137601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" ], "sentence": " MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 9, 2018" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.space.com/41452-space-force-air-force-space-command.html" ], "sentence": "Michael Dodge, an assistant professor in the Department of Space Studies at the University of North Dakota, noted Space.com that while other branches of the military (such as the U.S. Air Force) also started out as sectors of larger branches, the existence of the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) would not necessarily be redundant because it would \"free up the Air Force to focus on what it does best\":" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceForce?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "https://t.co/3ZAvB2Oex4" ], "sentence": "One giant leap in the right direction. #SpaceForce https://t.co/3ZAvB2Oex4" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1027928122778238976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" ], "sentence": " Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) August 10, 2018" } ]

[ "Both the company and an insurance expert refuted online anecdotes painting the company as hostile toward firearm owners." ]

[ "profit" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.scfirearms.org/Merchants/StateFarm/garyfaq.htm" ], "sentence": "Eighteen years earlier, a South Carolina man also accused State Farm of discriminating against gun owners, saying that the company cancelled his homeowner's insurance policy after he revealed to an agent that he engaged in recreational shooting in a gun range on his property. The agent, he said, cited a \"factor of increased risk\" in terminating the policy, while also giving him seven days to find another insurer." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/03/only-13-nra-members-used-deltas-discount-killing-it-cost-the-airline-a-40-million-tax-break/?utm_term=.75ade39bf782" ], "sentence": "In February 2018, the National Rifle Association accused another company, Delta Airlines, of being biased against firearm owners after Delta announced that it would end a travel discount for the group's members. The airline responded by pointing out that a total of thirteen members had used the discount." } ]

[ "In the late 2000s, the former U.S. Vice President sometimes inaccurately represented studies that predicted the timeline for an ice-free Arctic." ]

[ "loss" ]

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[ "Article contrasts observances of the deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson." ]

[ "income" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30749929/" ], "sentence": "treatment of cancer\" and \"worked tirelessly to raise the profile of this disease,\" bravely allowing herself to be filmed for the harrowing Farrah's Story, a documentary that chronicled her grim fight against cancer in order to \"make viewers aware of the need for testing and research.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/06/26/cbc_mj/", "https://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0609/Obama_sends_condolence_letter_to_Jackson_family.html" ], "sentence": "It is also true that neither of these celebrities was honored in their passing with the observance of a moment of silence in the U.S. Congress, and that (as far as we know) neither's family was the recipient of a personal note of condolence from the President. In contrast, the day after Michael Jackson's death, the House of Representatives observed a moment of silence in the entertainer's honor, and a few days later senior presidential adviser David Axelrod stated that President Obama had written to the Jackson family and \"shared his feelings\" with them." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/20071216193312/https://www.jacksonaction.com/?page=charity.htm" ], "sentence": "A detailed list of Michael Jackson's many charitable efforts can be found here." } ]

[ "A 2010 calendar distributed by Publix supermarkets identifies December 7 as 'Islamic New Year'?" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa_ict.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.asp?p_faqid=8440" ], "sentence": "In 2010, the Islamic New Year corresponds to December 7 on the Gregorian calendar, a coincidence which has caused something of a brouhaha for Publix, a Florida-based supermarket chain. Publix, like many businesses, offers calendars to its customers at the beginning of each year, and those calendars include legends identifying days of particular interest, such as federal holidays and religious holidays. Publix's 2010 calendar bears a legend for December 7 marking that date as the \"Islamic New Year,\" which it is however, that day also has a special significance for Americans, as the passage of public law 103-308 in 1994 officially designated that date as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, a day to remember and honor all those who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. (December 7 had also been observed as an annual day of remembrance for those killed at Pearl Harbor long before it was officially designated as such in 1994.)" } ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/2012/05/labor-force-nonparticipants-so-what-are-they-doing.html" ], "sentence": "At the Texas Republican Partys 2012 convention, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told the crowd that the high stakes in Novembers election include American jobs.If the amount of Americans were in the workforce today like they were when President Obama took office, the labor force participation rate, our unemployment rate would be 11 percent today, the House Budget Committee chairman said in his keynote speech June 9, 2012.We decided to check.First, we defined our terms.The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the U.S. labor force participation rate by taking the total workforce -- people who are employed or job-hunting -- and dividing by the total civilian population aged 16 or older. (People in military, medical or penal institutions are excluded.)The general unemployment rate, which is the one most people are familiar with, expresses how many people in the labor force are unemployed.Generally, climbs and dips in the general unemployment rate are a reasonable indicator that more Americans are losing jobs or getting hired, respectively. But in times of recession, high numbers of workers simply stop looking for jobs. Common reasons they give are retirement, disability, going to school or caring for household members,according toresearchers at the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank who drew on federal data.But when adults stop looking for work, the overall workforce shrinks, which can have the effect of reducing the unemployment rate -- which could lead to erroneous conclusions about U.S. economic conditions.To counteract that effect, the BLS also calculates what it calls the U-6 unemployment rate, which folds in people who stopped job-hunting and people who took part-time jobs for economic reasons. Since the U-6 rate was first published in 1994, its three highest points have all accompaniedrecessions, first in 1990-91, then 2001 and most recently 2007-09.Of late, Republicans have taken to highlighting this distinction, as Ryan does here.His claim can be restated this way: If the same percentage of Americans were employed or looking for work inMay 2012as in January 2009, general unemployment would have been 11 percent instead of 8.2 percent.We asked Ryans office for his backup materials, and spokesman Kevin Seifert sent us data, calculations and supporting news coverage.Seifert told us by email thataccording to the BLS, the January 2009 workforce participation rate was 65.7 percent, while the May 2012 rate was 63.8 percent. Applying those to the May 2012 population of 243 million, he said, gives a labor force of 159.6 million at the first rate and 155 million at the latter rate.Subtracting the real labor force (155 million) from the hypothetical labor force (159.6 million) shows that 4.6 million more people would actively be seeking work right now instead of being characterized as discouraged, etc., he wrote.Adding 4.6 million unemployed workers to the May 2012 unemployment count, which was 12.7 million, would give a total 17.3 million unemployed, Seifert said. Then, 17.3 million unemployed people divided by 155 million would give a general unemployment rate of 11.2 percent, Seifert said.We checked thenumbersand math for ourselves, then asked Cheryl Abbot, a Dallas-based regional economist for the labor bureau, for help analyzing the calculations. It looked to us like Ryan should have divided by the hypothetical labor force, rather than the real May 2012 labor force (to correctly describe the unemployment rate of the larger, hypothetical group), and Abbot agreed. But neither that distinction nor small differences due to causes such as rounding off numbers seriously affected the result.Accepting the assumption that all 4.6 million adults added to the labor force would be unemployed -- and using BLS figures that were not rounded off as much as the ones Seifert used to describe his math to us -- Abbot got a result of 10.9 percent.Our rulingThe general unemployment rate in June 2012 would have been 10.9 percent if the labor force participation rate had remained at the 65.5 percent in place when Obama became president. Thats about 11 percent.We rate Ryans statement True." } ]

[ "Rumors that Hillary Clinton (and the Clinton Foundation) used Haiti exclusively for personal gain are a mixed bag at best." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://origins.osu.edu/article/pact-devil-united-states-and-fate-modern-haiti", "https://www.new-ag.info/en/country/profile.php?a=202" ], "sentence": "Haiti's relationship with the United States and Europe can most charitably be described as complicated. Haiti's earliest days were characterized by oppression and opposition: the country (once the French colony of St. Domingue) was born from a successful slave insurgency and declared its independence in 1804. This beginning characterized an often-antagonistic relationship between countries that profited handsomely from African slavery (such as the United States) and Haiti. Foremost among fears about Haiti was that slaves would learn successful uprisings were possible." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1202857.stm" ], "sentence": "After Haiti formally declared its independence, the United States suspended all diplomatic and trade relationships with the country. While the U.S. eventually re-opened trading routes, America didn't recognize Haiti diplomatically for nearly sixty years after that. Other countries followed the United States' example (and France demanded millions of francs in reparations for its rebellion in exchange for recognizing Haiti as a sovereign nation) plunging Haiti into debt and an economic depression that lasted for years, from which the country never fully recovered." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/haitian-rev", "https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1953655,00.html" ], "sentence": "Multiple invasions and economic and political tinkering followed, leaving Haiti in a turmoil of political instability and corruption, economic crisis, and a ravaged infrastructure, historically one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, despite its fertile land and ability to grow cash crops such as sugar." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94751408" ], "sentence": "Today, child labor and trafficking are endemic in Haiti, particularly in the country's manufacturing sector, which is outsourced to foreign companies (many of them contractors for American companies, such as Hanes, Dockers, and Fruit of the Loom). Even when they are not trafficked, laborers in Haiti's garment industry earn a pittance by the standards of other countries: the minimum wage was $0.24 (USD) an hour for many years." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://gsd.lacity.org/sms/WRC/WRC%20Compliance%20Investigation%20Report%20for%20LA%20-%20BKI%20(Haiti)%2010.1.14.pdf", "https://www.haiti-liberte.com/archives/volume4-47/Washington%20Backed%20Famous.asp" ], "sentence": "In June 2009, the Haitian Parliament unanimously passed a law requiring that the minimum wage be raised to $0.61 an hour, or $5 a day. (The average cost of living is estimated to be the equivalent of about $23 a day.) This pay raise was staunchly opposed by foreign manufacturers who had set up shop in the country, and the United States Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development backed those manufacturers. After Haiti's government mandated the raise, the United States aggressively (and successfully) pushed Haiti's president to lower the minimum wage for garment workers to what factory owners were willing to pay: the equivalent of about $0.31 an hour (or $2.50 per eight-hour day)." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Haiti", "https://www.thenation.com/article/wikihaiti-nation-partners-haiti-liberte-release-secret-haiti-cables/", "https://www.haiti-liberte.com/", "https://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_pulled_scoop_shows_us_booste.php", "https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CRS:_Haiti:_Developments_and_U.S._Policy_Since_1991_and_Current_Congressional_Concerns,_January_25,_2008", "https://www.thewire.com/politics/2011/06/us-haiti-wikileaks-minimum-wage-petrocaribe/38579/", "https://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaks-haiti-aristide-files/" ], "sentence": "In 2011, WikiLeaks released a set of previously-secret diplomatic cables. The American publication The Nation partnered with Haitian news organization Hati Libert to cover them, finding (among other things) how strongly the United States had opposed the minimum wage hike:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://web.ita.doc.gov/tacgi/eamain.nsf/6e1600e39721316c852570ab0056f719/abf187b4c9ffc0f9852574d00058ff56?OpenDocument", "https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pdacn939.pdf", "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/10/137064161/would-a-5-a-day-minimum-wage-make-life-better-in-haiti" ], "sentence": "The Obama administration (and the Bush administration before it) had been closely monitoring the situation in the garment manufacturing sector for a long time. In 2006, Congress passed the HOPE bill (which stood for the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement) and provided duty-free entry to garments manufactured in Haiti for U.S. companies. That body also passed an updated version of the bill (HOPE II) in 2008, which mandated a framework for labor reform in factories. According to cables released by WikiLeaks, it was exactly these efforts that the United States claimed would be jeopardized by a higher minimum wage." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/world/americas/haiti-minimum-wage-increases.html", "https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Haiti.Living-Wage-Study-FINAL-updated.3-11-15.pdf", "https://www.haitihub.com/download/Money-Matters-in-Haiti.pdf" ], "sentence": "A law establishing a new minimum wage of $5.11 per workday ($0.64 an hour) was finally approved in 2014, which still fell far short of both the demanded raise by workers (to the equivalent of $11.36 per workday, or $1.42 per hour) and the recommended daily wage of 1,006 Haitian gourdes, or USD$22.86." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.britannica.com/event/Haiti-earthquake-of-2010", "https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fobs-hillarys-state-dept-gave-special-attention-friends/story?id=42615379", "https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwiJbAWhwPe_eXRoWTFMcm5xN1Bvb3JuSlBxbGhubmo2T1lr/view", "https://www.fpds.gov/downloads/top_requests/Haiti_Earthquake_Report.xls" ], "sentence": "Related rumors of the Clintons' relationship to Haiti appeared in October 2016, this time alleging that after the Haiti's infrastructure was devastated by a major earthquake in 2010, the State Department steered relief contracts to personal friends of the Clintons. However, while Hillary Clinton did recommend specific companies to help with the rebuilding process and e-mails have surfaced indicating that special attention was given to \"FoBs\" (\"Friends of Bill\"), there's no evidence that the United States government awarded contracts to any of those contenders." } ]

[ "The Cinco de Mayo holiday is not a celebration of Mexico's achieving independence from Spain, nor is it a major holiday in Mexico." ]

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[ "In the verdict released February 2024, a New York judge ordered Trump to pay $355 million in penalties." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-verdict-engoron-244024861f0df886543c157c9fc5b3e4" ], "sentence": "In February 2024, a rumor went viral allegingKid Rock and Jason Aldean removed New York stops on a concert tour in protest of a judge's decision in a civil fraud case to make former U.S. President Donald Trump pay $355 million in penalties." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.li/OM2Vu" ], "sentence": "For instance, on Feb. 18, 2024, a Facebook post by America's Last Line of Defense went viral with side-by-side photos of Aldean and Kid Rock and the text, \"Kid Rock and Jason Aldean Remove New York From the 'You Can't Cancel America' Tour: 'We Support 45',\" referring to Trump's ranking as America's 45th president." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1av1hla/kid_rock_and_jason_aldean_remove_new_york_from/", "https://twitter.com/GamingDrudge/status/1759786331582906632", "https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-letitia-james-new-york-engoron-38bc3a7f2ccb22555c026e9bf70fd5bb" ], "sentence": "The claim spread on other social media platforms, as well, including X (formerly Twitter), where someusersappeared to show support for the singers. Days earlier, a New York judge ordered Trump to pay the penalties in a sweeping civil fraud verdict, finding he had lied for years about his wealth on financial statements for loans and to make real-estate deals, The Associated Press reported." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.li/cB0UI" ], "sentence": "Conservative pundit Brigitte Gabriel wrote, for example: \"Kid Rock and Jason Aldean have responded to New York's extreme attack on President Trump by REMOVING the state from their 'You Can't Cancel America Tour.' This is a BIG DEAL and a sign of the silent majority rising again!\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/11/14/rock-the-country-tour-what-to-know-about-jason-aldean-kid-rock-tour/71580644007/", "https://www.jasonaldean.com/tour/", "https://kidrock.com/pages/tour" ], "sentence": "However, the claim about Aldean and Kid Rock was fictional. While they have indeed headlined concerts together before, there appeared to be no evidence of a \"You Can't Cancel America Tour,\" like the posts claimed. Since the tour was made up, so was the notion they had removed New York dates due to their feelings on Trump." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://dunning-kruger-times.com/kid-rock-and-jason-aldean-removes-new-york-from-the-you-cant-cancel-america-tour-we-support-45/", "https://dunning-kruger-times.com/kid-rock-and-jason-aldean-removes-new-york-from-the-you-cant-cancel-america-tour-we-support-45/" ], "sentence": "The rumor stemmed from an articleby The Dunning-Kruger Times, a site that is part of a network of websites and social media accounts operated by America's Last Line of Defense's (ALLOD). The article stated:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://dunning-kruger-times.com/about-us/" ], "sentence": "The Dunning-Kruger Times describes its output as satirical. The website's \"About Us\" section states:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://dunning-kruger-times.com/about-us/" ], "sentence": "The website's creators callpeople who believe its stories \"taters.\" The website states:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/kid-rock-doubles-down-on-trump-support-toughest-son-of-a-b-on-earth-president-2024-race-biden-trump-tucker-carlson-presidential-election-republican-gop-race-haley-desantis-nashville-music", "https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4107561-trump-defends-jason-aldean-amid-song-controversy/" ], "sentence": "Kid Rock has been a vocal supporter of Trump. Also, Trump oncedefendedAldean amid accusations of racist imagery in his \"Try That In A Small Town\" music video." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aldean-brooks-keiths-vigil/", "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-mark-wahlberg-joining-jason-aldean-and-kid-rock-on-tour/" ], "sentence": "We've fact-checked numerous satirical claims stemming from Dunning-Kruger Times, including one about Aldean supposedly saying Garth Brooks was not welcome at Toby Keith's candlelight vigil and another about Mark Wahlberg supposedly joining Kid Rock and Aldean on tour." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/notes/why-we-include-humor-and-satire-in-snopes-com/" ], "sentence": "For background, here is why we sometimes write about satire/humor." } ]

[ "Did Barack Obama remove the U.S. flag from the tail of Air Force One and replace it with his own logo?" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.airliners.net/photo/North-American-Airlines/Boeing-757-28A/1371836" ], "sentence": "Photograph Rob Olewisnki" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.whitehouse.gov/about/air-force-one" ], "sentence": "Origins: In late 2011, the pictures displayed above were circulated with the claim that emblems depicting the U.S. flag had been removed from Air Force One and replaced with an Obama campaign logo. This claim is completely false: both of the two Boeing 747-200B airplanes typically used by the President of the United States (and commonly referred to as Air Force One) remain with their standard markings (i.e., the words \"United States of America,\" the American flag, and the Seal of the President of the United States) intact:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.airliners.net/photo/Boeing-727-212-Adv/0239334/M/", "https://www.airliners.net/photo/North-American-Airlines/Boeing-757-28A/0123425/M/", "https://www.airliners.net/photo/TransMeridian-Airlines/Boeing-757-236/0643917/M/" ], "sentence": "Given the length and breadth of modern presidential campaigns, it has become de rigueur for most major party candidates to have their own airplanes for ferrying themselves and staffers, press, security, and other personnel from stop to stop along the campaign trail. Such planes may be purchased by the candidate's campaign, or they may be leased or chartered from commercial airlines. Typically when a campaign owns its own airplane or leases a plane under a dedicated charter arrangement, the aircraft's exterior markings will be modified to identify it as a particular candidate's campaign plane, with some notable recent examples of this practice including aircraft used by presidential candidates Bob Dole (1996), George W. Bush (2000), John Kerry (2004) and John McCain's \"Straight Talk Express\" campaign plane (from 2008):" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.flynaa.com/" ], "sentence": "Although Senator Barack Obama flew on a variety of aircraft during the long 2008 presidential campaign season, from March through June 2008 he primarily used a Boeing 757-200ER aircraft chartered from (and operated by) North American Airlines as his campaign plane. During that period, the plane bore the standard color scheme and company markings of a North American Airlines aircraft:" }, { "hrefs": [ "../graphics/airtrade.jpg" ], "sentence": "Two U.S. flag images were removed from the airplane during the refurbishment, although technically they were not ordinary representations of the American flag; rather, they were commercial markings of North American Airlines, whose logo (a registered trademark of that company) employs a stylized rendition of the U.S. flag. The North American flag/logo on the forward portion of the fuselage was removed and the one on the tail was replaced with the Obama \"O\" campaign logo, while traditional depictions of the U.S. flag adjacent to the plane's registration numbers remained:" } ]

[ "Are American consumers at risk of losing their right to purchase and use vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements?" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:s.722:", "https://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:h.r.3377:" ], "sentence": "First of all, this is another case of an issue that is now largely moot due to outdated information. Back in 2003, two versions of a bill that proposed the regulation of dietary supplements (S. 722, the \"Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003,\" and H.R. 3377, the \"Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act\") were introduced to Congress. Neither of these bills was ever voted upon, much less passed. They both expired with the end of the 108th Congress in 2004 and have not been reintroduced to the currently sitting 109th Congress." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.ascpt.org/govaffairs/s722.pdf" ], "sentence": "Two bills put before Congress in 2003 looked to regulate dietary nostrums by imposing quality and safety standards on them, and giving the FDA the ability to take them off the market before a great number of folks have been harmed by them. In March 2003, Senator Richard Durbin introduced bill S. 722, the \"Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003\" in the U.S. Senate. The purpose of this legislation was to \"protect consumers from dangerous dietary supplements such as ephedra and other stimulants by requiring manufacturers to submit proof that their product is safe prior to bringing it to market.\" The bill would require manufacturers of the most dangerous types of dietary supplements (stimulants) to submit proof of their products' safety prior to bringing them to market. The bill also expands the FDA's authority to require from any dietary supplement maker proof of its product's safety if that agency has received information suggesting the product is causing death or other serious adverse health effects. It would also require manufacturers to report serious adverse health events (e.g.; heart attack, seizure, stroke, death), to the FDA no later than 15 calendar days after they learn of them. The bill also looks to close a loophole in current law that, according to Senator Durbin, \"has been exploited by many dietary supplement manufacturers, allowing anabolic steroids to be sold widely as dietary supplements\" by clarifying that anabolic steroids are not dietary supplements and are subject to regulation that restricts their availability under the Controlled Substances Act." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.ascpt.org/govaffairs/legislation_congress/HR3377.pdf" ], "sentence": "In October 2003, Representatives Susan Davis (D-CA), Henry Waxman (D-CA) and John Dingell (DMI) introduced bill H.R. 3377, the \"Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act\" in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation would increase the FDA's authority over dietary supplements, enabling that agency to monitor the health risks of dietary supplements and take appropriate action if problems develop. The proposed law was not intended to have any impact on the regulation of vitamins and minerals, which are specifically excluded from the bill. In addition, for dietary supplements that contain herbs, amino acids, and other botanicals, the bill will ensure that FDA has basic information about who makes them and the products' ingredients. It would also require dietary supplement manufacturers to provide FDA with information about all adverse events, so that the agency could spot warning signs and investigate if necessary. It further allows the FDA to prohibit sales to minors of supplements that may cause significant harm to children. Finally, it allows the FDA to demand safety information from a manufacturer if the FDA has evidence that a particular supplement may pose serious risks. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.codexalimentarius.net/download/standards/10206/cxg_055e.pdf" ], "sentence": "In November 2004, the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) reached agreement on the definitions and regulatory guidelines for the worldwide use of vitamins and minerals in food supplements and presented its \"Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements\" to the Codex annual meeting in Rome in July 2005. The Codex guidelines form a reference point that may be used in cases of international trade disputes in the area of food supplements. That, in a nutshell, is the extent of its teeth." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-establishing-national-prevention-health-promotion-and-public-health" ], "sentence": "In the latter half of 2010, erroneous claims began to circulate claiming that President Obama had signed Codex Alimentarius regulations into law via Executive Order. In fact, the referenced order simply in accordance with recently passed health care reform legislation (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) established the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council within the Department of Health and Human Services in order to provide federal coordination and leadership of \"prevention, wellness, and health promotion practices, the public health system, and integrative health care in the U.S.\" The council so established has no specific power or mandate to regulate the sales of vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp" ], "sentence": " Codex Alimentarius (World Health Organization)" } ]

[ "Quotes seen as deep and thoughtful are often attributed to the widely loved actor." ]

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[ "An online article was virally shared in June 2023 that said the long-running morning talk show's cancellation was \"bound to happen.\"" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/PWQ03" ], "sentence": "The beginning of the satirical article claimed that ABC had canceled \"The View.\" The featured picture included with the story showed left-leaning hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar making facial expressions as if they had just found out their show was ending." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.ph/himdD" ], "sentence": "The \"About Us\" pagefor dunning-kruger-times.com describes \"taters\" as follows:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html", "https://www0.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/07/one-country-biggest-publishers-fake-news-says-did-for-our-own-good/fzIDkkKZf7IbYA9oyGuzhI/story.html", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_godfather_of_fake_news", "https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/fake-news-story-spreads-576752" ], "sentence": "In the past, the Washington Post, The Boston Globe,BBC, Politico, and others have all published articles about America's Last Line of Defense." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/tag/the-view/" ], "sentence": "We previously reported on a number of other rumors also about \"The View,\" all of which can be read here." } ]

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[ "An erroneous Facebook post swept across various countries in August 2020. " ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/", "https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/03/11/one-year-covid-infodemic/", "https://www.snopes.com/tag/covid-19-vaccines/", "https://www.snopes.com/contact/", "https://www.snopes.com/projects/founding-members/", "https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html", "https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019" ], "sentence": "Snopes is still fighting an infodemic of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can help. Find out what we've learned and how to inoculate yourself against COVID-19 misinformation. Read the latest fact checks about the vaccines. Submit any questionable rumors and advice you encounter. Become a Founding Member to help us hire more fact-checkers. And, please, follow the CDC or WHO for guidance on protecting your community from the disease. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/WtQBI", "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2020/08/pixel_crop_b77ee9ed.png" ], "sentence": "In August 2020, as states and school districts in the United States grappled with whether and how to reopen schools for the fall semester, multiple readers asked Snopes to examine the accuracy of a social media post, shared widely by users in the United States, that claimed children who showed symptoms of COVID-19 could lawfully be quarantined outside their family home without the consent of their parents or guardians. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/hvimu" ], "sentence": "Versions of the post were originally shared by users in the United Kingdom earlier in August. Clues that the post originated outside the United States could be found in the use of the term \"head teacher\" (the British equivalent of an American school principal) and in the British spelling of \"testing centre.\" The post also referred to a piece of legislation called the \"COVID Act,\" claiming that the law authorized school authorities to \"remove\" children without parental consent if they presented symptoms of COVID-19. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/jKciI", "https://archive.is/ZSLve" ], "sentence": "A \"Coronavirus Act\" was passed by the U.K. Parliament in 2020, but it did not give school officials the powers claimed in the viral Facebook post. Versions of the post were subsequently shared by users in Canada, and its claims about the \"COVID act\" were also false in that context." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZDA5ODUyNmItNGFlMC00YzNhLWI2NjctMmJiMDMzMzQ3ZjVlIiwidCI6IjM4MmZiOGIwLTRkYzMtNDEwNy04MGJkLTM1OTViMjQzMmZhZSIsImMiOjZ9" ], "sentence": "The U.S. Congress passed no law in 2020 called the \"Coronavirus Act\" or the \"COVID Act\" or \"COVID-19 Act,\" so that particular aspect of the post was also false in the U.S. context on the federal level. We also checked the actions of state legislatures around the country. Based on our examination of the National Conference of State Legislatures database of COVID-19-related legislation, no state had enacted any law that conferred on educational authorities the power to quarantine children with symptoms outside their family home without their parents' or guardians' consent. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/12/09/12-15080.pdf", "https://archive.is/S62I9", "https://archive.is/BASEz", "https://archive.is/S62I9" ], "sentence": "A law that empowers educational authorities to quarantine children outside their home without their parents' consent does not exist and is also highly unlikely to be passed in the United States. Several decades of federal court precedents have established that parents and children have a constitutionally protected right not to be separated. In 1999, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote that:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/states-fine-prison-covid-vaccine/" ], "sentence": "For example, while the law recognizes an individual's fundamental right to move about as they please, there are circumstances in which state and local officials have the authority to temporarily restrict that right. That includes a quarantine or self-isolation order in which an individual who is known or suspected to have contracted a dangerous and contagious illness like COVID-19 is legally forced to stay home because of the risk posed to the broader community. State and local authorities can restrict fundamental freedoms in this way on the basis of something called the \"state police powers doctrine,\" which we have discussed at greater length elsewhere." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/groundtermin.pdf" ], "sentence": "Similarly, the right of a parent to live with and raise a child is not absolute. A child also has a fundamental right to be free from physical, sexual, and emotional harm, as well as a right to a basic level of nutrition, shelter, and safety. Where those rights come into conflict, such as in cases where a parent neglects or abuses a child, or is proven incapable of providing care, state authorities can and do intervene to protect the rights of the child, and states can, and sometimes do, involuntarily terminate the parental rights of adults." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archive.is/OHVnK" ], "sentence": "However, because parental rights are regarded as fundamental, any law or official action that abridges those rights can be subjected by the courts to what is known as \"strict scrutiny.\" Roughly speaking, this means that an especially high standard of justification is required any time the state seeks to curtail a fundamental right, and the state has the burden of proving that its actions or policies are not unconstitutional." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/larson/" ], "sentence": "Carlton Larson, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor of law at the University of California-Davis, told Snopes the type of law described in the Facebook post shown above would be very unlikely to survive that kind of judicial scrutiny:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/woodhouse-profile.html" ], "sentence": "Similarly, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, a law professor and director of the Child Rights Project at Emory University, told Snopes that:" } ]

[ "A laptop stolen during the January 2021 U.S. Capitol riots provided fodder for conspiracy theorists. " ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/131k78p/til_that_everyone_wears_crocs_in_the_2006_movie/" ], "sentence": "In April 2023, a bit of footwear-based movie trivia reemerged on Reddit: that the 2006 movie \"Idiocracy\" had everyone in the movie wearing crocs because the costume designer had a limited budget and because they were too ugly to ever become popular in real life:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.fastcompany.com/3064328/mike-judge-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-idiocracy-and-predicting-the-near-future" ], "sentence": "This trivia is true. The story behind crocs in \"Idiocracy\" has been repeated by director and co-writer Mike Judge on multiple occasions. In October 2016, Judge explained their origin in an interview with Fast Company magazine:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.fastcompany.com/3064328/mike-judge-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-idiocracy-and-predicting-the-near-future", "https://ogjre.com/episode/1835-mike-judge" ], "sentence": "The 2006 film \"tells the story of an unexceptional man who finds himself put in deep-freeze and thawed out 500 years too late, in a future where the dumbest people alive have taken over the world and he's suddenly the smartest man alive, if only by default.\" In June 2022, Judge told the same story on the Joe Rogan podcast:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.newspapers.com/article/omaha-world-herald-funky-crocs-gain-toeh/131810738/", "https://money.cnn.com/2006/08/09/smbusiness/crocs/index.htm", "https://www.newspapers.com/article/austin-american-statesman-wasidiocracy/30934775/" ], "sentence": "Crocs has=d been around on a limited scalesince 2002, but they gained mainstream success and popularity around 2006. Idiocracy finished filming in 2004, but Fox Studios sat on it for two years before releasing it in 2006." } ]

[ "Rumors and speculation surrounded the future of the Argentine soccer star, one of the greatest of all time, in August 2021." ]

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[ "Images purportedly depicting a creepy chimera-like creature actually show a silicone doll." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/AkuCintaAllah.Page/posts/1501620676559796", "https://archive.is/3SxaD" ], "sentence": "These images were originally posted along with a piece of Indonesian text claiming that this creature was the result of a human mating with a lioness:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/family.asp", "https://www.snopes.com/human-gorilla-hybrid/", "https://www.snopes.com/woman-gives-birth-to-a-human-goat-hybrid/" ], "sentence": "This is not the first time that we have come across images purportedly showing a half-human, half-animal hybrid. In every case, we found that either the images or the attached claims were faked in one way or another. For instance, a \"human-dog hybrid\" was actually asculpture, a \"gorilla-human\" was a doctored image, and a \"goat-person\" was actually just a deformed goat. In the case of this particular image, the human-lion is a silicone doll. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/muliaoctavia/status/918023204509061121", "https://kumparan.com/salmah-muslimah/fakta-di-balik-foto-bayi-hasil-perkawinan-manusia-dengan-singa?utm_content=viral&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=acquisition" ], "sentence": "Social media user Octavia Mulia told Kumparan.com that the photographs had been posted by her sister and that they were originally shared in jest. When the images went viral, Mulia found it necessary to explain that these photographs actually showed a silicone doll and not a real human-lion hybrid (text translated via Google and edited for clarity):" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.etsy.com/listing/562657053/baby-licantropo?ref=shop_home_active_2", "https://www.facebook.com/laira.maganuco/posts/690887084434660" ], "sentence": "These images show a silicon doll that was created by Italian artist Laira Maganuco. These images were featured on her Etsy page in a listing for a \"baby Licantropo,\" or baby werewolf, doll. Maganuco also posted images showing the creation of this \"baby Licantropo\" to her Facebook page:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2006/11/humanderthals.html" ], "sentence": "The images were originally shared with the claim that this creature was the result of a human mating with a lioness. Although scientists are experimenting with various chimeras, it is generally thought that creating human-animal hybrids is virtually impossible:" } ]

[ "In the wake of Hamas surprise attack on Israel in October 2023, the countrys official X account gained attention." ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.tiktok.com/@pearlmania500/video/7288501170962763050?_r=1&_t=8gUuyJoQBGl" ], "sentence": "In a viral TikTok, user pearlmania500 shared a screenshot of the post from X, expressing surprise at the announcement: Israel declared war, and then they declared a collab with BetterHelp. [...] What the f*ck is next? HelloFresh for Ukraine? UberEats for Syria?" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1711683167986327901" ], "sentence": "This was indeed a real post on X, published by the verified account of the state of Israel. The full post, published on Oct. 10, 2023, stated: Thank you to all of the incredible Israeli companies, volunteers and individuals who are coming together to help as many people during this horrific time. @betterhelp, a company which offers therapy is providing 6 months of free therapy to those affected by the war in Israel." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/10/12/40-israeli-babies-beheaded-by-hamas/", "https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-15-23/index.html", "https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231011-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-continue-death-toll-mounts-on-both-sides", "https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-west-bank-death-toll-reaches-2383-palestinians-ministry-2023-10-15/", "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/world/asia/israel-hostages-families-hamas-gaza.html", "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/world/asia/israel-hostages-families-hamas-gaza.html", "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/two-palestinians-killed-during-israeli-military-raid-in-west-bank-refugee-camp", "https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-border-crossing-set-reopen-israeli-troops-prepare-ground-assault-2023-10-15/" ], "sentence": "The conflict began on Oct. 7, 2023, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 1,400 Israelis, as of the time of this writing. Israel subsequently declared war and attacked and blockaded Gaza, actions that resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinians, as of this writing. There are at least 200 known Israeli hostages taken by Hamas militants. Experts, according to The New York Times, believe the hostages are being held in underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Hamas' attacks came after months of surges in violence against Palestinians by the Israeli military. Gaza is presently facing a humanitarian crisis as a result of Israeli strikes." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.betterhelp.com/israelsupport/", "https://www.betterhelp.com/israelsupport/" ], "sentence": "We looked up BetterHelp's \"Israel Support\" page. There is no restriction on who receives therapy from the service, which states on the website that it \"is available to anyone impacted, regardless of location and nationality.\" The company does, however, require users to submit a valid payment method to prevent abuse, adding that the card will not be charged. The website directs users to a questionnaire asking them to put in their identifying information, including marital and economic status. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.teladochealth.com/about/leadership/alon-matas/#:~:text=Alon%20Matas%20is%20the%20president,operations%2C%20partnerships%20and%20product%20development." ], "sentence": "Chris Stenrud, a spokesperson for Teladoc Health, a telemedicine company that acquired BetterHelp in 2015, reached out to us to emphasize, \"This is an independent initiative, and we have not worked with the Israeli government on this or any other organization. The support is not limited to Israelis and applies to anyone affected by the war, anywhere.\"" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.teladochealth.com/about/leadership/alon-matas/#:~:text=Alon%20Matas%20is%20the%20president,operations%2C%20partnerships%20and%20product%20development.", "https://s21.q4cdn.com/672268105/files/doc_presentations/2021/Teladoc-Health-2021-Investor-Day-Final.pdf" ], "sentence": "We should note that Alon Matas, the founder and president, according to his profile on Teladoc, has led product development and strategy for startups, enterprises and the Israeli Defense Forces." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://apnews.com/article/betterhelp-ftc-health-data-privacy-befca40bb873661d1f8986bb75d8df07", "https://apnews.com/article/betterhelp-ftc-health-data-privacy-befca40bb873661d1f8986bb75d8df07" ], "sentence": "We should also note that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that BetterHelp had previously shared customers health data which it had promised to keep private, including information about mental health challenges with companies like Facebook and Snapchat. In March 2023, BetterHealth agreed to settle with the FTC by returning $7.8 million to customers, and an FTC order restricted how they could share consumer data in the future. " } ]

[ "An invitation for a fundraising event stated that donors could meet Donald Trump and hunt with his sons." ]

[ "profit" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/hunt-with-the-trumps-for-1million/", "https://archive.is/7WVoX" ], "sentence": "In December 2016, several web sites reported that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, sons of President-elect Donald Trump, were selling access to their father via a fundraising event called \"Opening Day 45\" scheduled for the day after his inauguration:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.tmz.com/2016/12/16/donald-trump-inauguration-party/", "https://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/tmz_documents/Opening_Day_2017_Redacted.pdf" ], "sentence": "Reports that the Trump sons were selling access to their father began on 16 December 2016 when the gossip web site TMZ published a draft of an invitation for the \"Opening Day 45\" event. The unofficial invitation featured several packages which donors could buy, such as the $1 million \"Bald Eagle\" package (which included a photo opportunity with the president-elect) or the $500,000 \"Grizzly Bear\" package (which included a hunting trip with Donald Jr. and Eric Trump):" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/offer-of-trump-access-at-fundraiser-is-pulled-back-but-family-ties-remain/2016/12/20/ec185520-c6ea-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?" ], "sentence": "The Washington Post reported that the Trump sons were temporarily listed as \"hosts\" of the event on the \"Opening Day 45\" web site. However, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said that the initial invitation was just a draft and had not been approved by Trump's transition team. Furthermore, Hicks added, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were not involved with the event:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/12/19/20565/opening-day-foundation-nonprofit-registration" ], "sentence": "While Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump may not be involved with the planning of this particular event, they were listed as members of the Board of Directors on paperwork filed to register the non-profit \"Opening Day\" foundation on 14 December 2016. Again, however, Trump's transition team asserted that Eric and Donald Jr. were included on the foundation's paperwork without their permission:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/opinions/documents-outline-opening-day-trump-fundraiser/2148/" ], "sentence": "Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s level of involvement with the organization is still unclear. A new version of the invitation for \"Opening Day 45\" published on the event web site on 20 December 2016 listed them as \"honorary chairmen\" but not organizers or hosts. " } ]

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[ "County Government", "Jobs", "State Budget", "Virginia" ]

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[ "An authentic quote from Lincoln has attracted renewed attention, along with some commentary that oversimplifies his views on race." ]

[ "profit" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/13/mean-remove-memorials-white-supremacists-includes-lincoln" ], "sentence": "In the aftermath of violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 (and in the context of a wider debate over the removal of Confederate statues), a particular quote spread on Facebook and Twitter, appearing to indicate Abraham Lincoln's opposition to racial equality. On 14 August, the remarks formed part of a Dallas Morning News column by former Texas State Senator Jerry Patterson, who wrote:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/search/str/lincoln+1858/keywords_blended_posts", "https://twitter.com/search?q=lincoln%201858&src=typd" ], "sentence": "The quote as presented by Patterson, and in several Facebook and Twitter posts, is authentic. Lincoln did make those remarks on 18 September 1858. They came at the beginning of his opening speech at the fourth of seven famous debates with Stephen Douglas, during Lincoln's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. Lincoln had been under attack from Democrats who accused him of supporting racial equality, and his comments were a defense against those allegations. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86epn9wb9780252033551.html" ], "sentence": "There is no official transcript of those debates, and the accounts published at the time in two Illinois newspapers the Republican Chicago Press and Tribune and the Democratic Chicago Times often diverged along partisan lines, according to Rodney Davis and Douglas Wilson's annotated \"Lincoln-Douglas Debates\" (page vii.)" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://archives.chicagotribune.com/1858/09/21/" ], "sentence": "Nonetheless, here are the most relevant remarks, as reported in the pro-Lincoln Chicago Press and Tribune on 21 September 1858. You can read that day's report in full here. " }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2017/08/Lincoln_Chicago_Press_Tribune_1858_09_21.jpg" ], "sentence": " Chicago Tribune Archives" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://books.google.com/books?id=xxoTiB9fckwC&lpg=PP1&dq=holzer%20lincoln-douglas&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q=holzer%20lincoln-douglas&f=false" ], "sentence": "Despite the frequent spinning of the speeches by both newspapers, there appears to be consensus on Lincoln's Charleston remarks regarding racial equality. The Chicago Times report, reprinted in Harold Holzer's 1993 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, does not significantly vary from that published by the Press and Tribune:" }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.ericfoner.com/index.html" ], "sentence": "We spoke to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, author of several books on Lincoln, including The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.theroot.com/was-lincoln-a-racist-1790868802" ], "sentence": "\"Whereas abolition was a central aspect of Lincolns moral compass\", the Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates wrote in 2009, \"racial equality was not\":" } ]

[ "Did Paul Allen write a letter to a Santa Clarita newspaper in defense of Mormons?" ]

[ "taxes" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.paulallen.com/", "https://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIR1217.html?passListId=10&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=1217&datatype=Person" ], "sentence": "Origins: The above-quoted letter to the editor by one Paul Allen was indeed published on the opinion page of the Santa Clarita Valley (California) Signal on 24 November 2000. Within five months, someone had re-typed the letter (because the Signal didn't then publish letters to the editor on its web site) and started it circulating on the Internet via e-mail forwards (most of which erroneously stated that it had first been published on 25 April 2002). However, the Paul Allen who wrote this piece was not (as claimed in the example above) the Paul Allen who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates (and regularly ranks high on lists of the world's wealthiest people) he was simply a local resident with the same name." } ]

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[ "National", "Income", "Voting Record" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/meet-the-press-24-7/meet-press-april-24-2016-n561251" ], "sentence": "Well, because poor people dont vote. I mean, thats just a fact,Sanders said. Thats a sad reality of American society. And thats why we have to transform one, as you know, one of thelowest voter turnouts of any major society of Earth. We have done a good job of bringing young people. But in America today, the last election in 2014, 80 percent of poor people did not vote." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.demos.org/publication/why-voting-matters-large-disparities-turnout-benefit-donor-class" ], "sentence": "Sanders policy director Warren Gunnels pointed us to areportby the left-leaning policy and advocacy group Demos, which useddatafrom the Census Bureau." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://aspe.hhs.gov/2014-poverty-guidelines" ], "sentence": "However, theres one catch to this figure. While an annual income of less than $10,000 is undoubtedly poor, thepoverty threshold in 2014also includes family incomes above $10,000." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16aF5cIWdf-AomYE2frYBtdJm_OVVFDuPMdVZ3PK1a3I/edit?usp=sharing" ], "sentence": "Sean McElwee, a policy analyst with Demos who authored the report, told us to look at annual incomes under $30,000 instead. The turnout rate for that group was31.5 percent, which means 68.5 percent of poor people didnt vote in 2014, about 10 percentage points less than what Sanders said." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/apr/02/bernie-s/checking-bernie-sanders-americans-low-voter-turnou/" ], "sentence": "As PolitiFact hasreported, census data may overstate the turnout rates, as its based on self-reporting. So its possible that Sanders 80 percent figure is closer to actual rates than what the survey shows, but this is speculative." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.people-press.org/2015/01/08/the-politics-of-financial-insecurity-a-democratic-tilt-undercut-by-low-participation/" ], "sentence": "A 2015 Pew Centersurveylooked at the politics of financial security, which analysts defined as having a credit card, a savings or checking account, and a retirement or investment plan; not needing to borrow money; not falling behind on bills, rent or mortgage payments; and not receiving food assistance or Medicaid benefits." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/11/10/voter-turnout-in-2014-was-the-lowest-since-wwii/" ], "sentence": "Turnout always drops in midterm elections, when the White House isnt at stake, and overall turnout in 2014 was the worst it had been in72 years. Nonetheless, census data shows turnout is consistently lower among the poor than other income groups:" }, { "hrefs": [ "http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf" ], "sentence": "Voter ID laws, for example, impose costs that people struggling to make ends meet cant really afford. The Government Accountability Officereportedin 2014 that a drivers license can cost between $5 to $58.50 in states with voter ID laws. And nearly 500,000 eligible voters dont have convenient access to an ID-issuing office, according to a2012 studyby New York University." }, { "hrefs": [ "http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=255100081087115089121115122014004023016039060039010087100115102070068089029103068022019117103061008030027112127019100097092073043075078051054005007107024100093115105003079016086013090025100023122089000112006001100080086014092123086126102080125087003027&EXT=pdf" ], "sentence": "The poor also make up 55 percent of people who cant vote (which include felons and immigrants as well as residents of Washington D.C., and U.S. territories), according to a 2013 Harvard Universityworking paper." }, { "hrefs": [ "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16aF5cIWdf-AomYE2frYBtdJm_OVVFDuPMdVZ3PK1a3I/edit?usp=sharing" ], "sentence": "The Pew study found that just 26 percent of the least financially secure knew which party controlled Congress compared to 62 percent of the most affluent. Similarly, compared to affluent non-voters, low-income non-voters were more likely to list disinterest, forgetting to vote, health and issues of access as reasons why they didnt vote, according tocensus data." } ]

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[ "Corporations", "Jobs", "Taxes", "Wisconsin" ]

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[ { "hrefs": [ "https://www.politifact.com/personalities/jim-sensenbrenner/" ], "sentence": "With unemployment remaining stubbornly high, U.S. Rep.Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., was asked what the federal government could do to create jobs.The suburban Milwaukee congressman, who was first elected to the House in 1979, didnt hesitate in replying.Weve got to address the fact that we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, Sensenbrenner told the editorial board of theMilwaukee Journal Sentinelon Sept. 29, 2011. Its 35 percent.Sensenbrenner argued that if corporate taxes in the U.S. were lower than they are in other parts of the world, more U.S.-based multinational companies would repatriate their profits back to America, creating more jobs here.Its Sensenbrenners opinion that lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate would create jobs. We cant check an opinion.But we can check whether the rate is 35 percent and if it is the highest in the world.Sensenbrenners district director, Loni Hagerup, pointed to a 2011reportfrom theOrganization for Economic Corporation and Development, a Paris-based group of 34 large, industrialized democracies.The widely quoted report says the U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent, tops among the member countries.Next in line were France and Belgium (both 34 percent), and then Australia, Japan, Spain and Mexico (each 30 percent).Seems pretty straightforward. Sensenbrenner is right, right?Lets first look at two points:1. Combined corporate tax rateSome analysts, when comparing countries, use the Paris groups report but cite a different figure -- the combined corporate tax rate, rather than merely the corporate tax rate. The combined rate includes not only federal but also state tax rates for corporations. The combined corporate tax rate in the U.S. is 39.2 percent, which ranks second behind Japans 39.5 percent.But Sensenbrenner was asked what the federal government could do to create jobs, so the corporate tax rate -- not the combined rate -- is relevant here.2. Limitations of the corporate rateWe consulted experts at two Washington, D.C. research organizations --TaxFoundationpresidentScottHodgeandRoberton Williams, senior fellow at theTax Policy Center. Both said Sensenbrenner is correct in stating that the U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent and that the rate is the highest in the world, but they added some context to the discussion.Williams said the corporate tax rate is not a good measure of the taxes that corporations actually pay. While some corporations might pay the full 35 percent rate, many pay considerably less, depending on the types of investments they make, depreciation they take and other factors that reduce taxable income, he said.Hodge agreed. He added, however, that the effective federal tax rate (after deductions) that corporations pay is about 26 percent -- and that also is among the highest rates of all industrialized nations.Our conclusionAsked what the federal government could do to create jobs, Sensenbrenner said lower the corporate tax rate, which he said was 35 percent and the highest in the world. A widely quoted annual report says the U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent and is highest among 34 large, industrialized countries. Two experts agreed with the rate and the ranking.We rate Sensenbrenners claim True." } ]