Questions tagged [united-states]
Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.
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Is there a bill in Iowa that bans the teaching of sexism, slavery, and racial segregation?
Is there a critical race theory bill in Iowa
that bans the teaching of the following topics: sexism, slavery,
racial segregation, racial discrimination, including topics related to
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Did a former CIA accountant testify that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA employee?
Harvey and Lee is a web-site that documents some conspiracy theories about the death of John F. Kennedy.
In particular, it contains a purported transcript of the testimony of a 1978 former CIA ...
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Are US colleges awarding more A-scores?
On the June 4, 2021, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host makes the claim:
In 1960s colleges awarded A's to 15% of the students. Now it is 45% of the students.
Ref: Youtube clip from the ...
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Do the murder statistics of 5 cities bring the USA to the 3rd highest country, from 189th? [closed]
I'd like to know if the claims about murders are accurate.
The "3rd in murders" is clearly referring to absolute deaths by murder, as it can be seen here, USA holds the 96th position for ...
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Do more than 22% of American adults own Bitcoin?
NYDIG published this statement:
Our findings suggest that 46MM+ Americans own Bitcoin today. That’s more than 22% of adults over the age of 18.
That figure sounds extraordinarily high to me. And ...
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Did Fauci argue that gain-of-function research is worth risking a global pandemic?
In a related question, it's asked whether the Wuhan Lab conducted gain-of-function research, as claimed by Sean Hannity of Fox News.
But moments later in the same piece Hannity says that Anthony Fauci ...
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Are these claims about the changes in the economy during Obama accurate?
An image was recently posted on politics about how the economy changed under Obama. While that question was not asking about the validity of the claim itself, instead focused on the validity of ...
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Are unusually many people dying after being vaccinated for COVID-19?
On May 6, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said:
We all assume the risks are negligible. Vaccines aren’t dangerous...Every flu season, we give influenza shots to more than 160 million Americans. ...
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Did Abner Schoenwetter spend 6.5 years in jail because he used plastic bags instead of cardboard boxes when importing lobsters from Honduras?
Forbes states that:
Abner Schoenwetter was importing seafood to sell to U.S. restaurants for over 12 years from Honduras. Those shipments were overseen by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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Does New York restrict voting more than Georgia's new law?
Some people have claimed that New York actually restricts voting more than Georgia, even after Georgia's new Election Integrity Act.
New York’s voting laws are far more restrictive than Georgia’s by ...
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Did the CIA have a plan to airdrop condoms over Russian soil as a way of psychological warfare?
In various place on the internet, a story circulate about a scrapped CIA plan in which they would airdrop very large condoms labelled "Small" or "Medium" as a way to imply american ...
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Would the median household income in the USA be $140K and mean net worth $800K if wealth were evenly distributed
In his book (Evil Geniuses) about how the USA got where it currently is, Kurt Andersen speculates about how far wealth and income inequality has risen in the last few decades.
He attempts to visualise ...
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Is there currently an epidemic of crimes against Asian Americans?
There's a common belief that we're seeing an epidemic of crimes against Asian Americans. Claims are too numerous to cite comprehensively so I'll just cite President Biden's tweet:
We can’t be silent ...
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Will China soon have a bigger navy than the USA?
According to this CNN article China either already has, or is on course to have a larger number of 'battle force ships' than the USA.
Is this true?
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Did BGI genetically test Uyghurs in Xinjiang?
In July of last year the U.S. Commerce Department publicly accused subsidiaries of BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute) of genetically testing Uyghurs in Xinjiang as part of a campaign of ...
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Is it dangerous to use a gas range for heating?
According to the CDC, you should "NEVER use a gas range for heating".
Never use a gas range or oven for heating. Using a gas range or oven for heating can cause a build up of CO inside your ...
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Did Emma Willard send a letter to the French government appealing for women’s suffrage in 1848?
In T.M. Roberts' Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the challenge to American Exceptionalism it's said briefly (on p. 92 and without a citation/reference) that:
In 1848 Emma Willard, the director of the ...
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Did "Antifa in Portland" issue an "anonymous tip" in Nov that John E. Sullivan be “locked out” of their circles because he is "agent provocateur"?
A Jan 15 OpIndia article says:
On the 23rd of November 2020, Antifa in Portland is said to have issued an ‘anonymous tip’ demanding that John Sullivan be “locked out” of their circles. “While it’s ...
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Was John Earle Sullivan at the Capitol Riot?
Controversial conservative journalist Andy Ngô claims that a blurry photo from the recent storming of the US Capitol building is of John Earle Sullivan, who he (mis-?)characterises as an extreme BLM ...
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Are there 300,000 items in the average American household, and 10,000 items in the average European household?
There is a trope that can be found in many articles discussing topics such as consumerism or minimalism: the average number of items that can be found in an average household. The number that is ...
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Are 40,000 Americans injured by toilets every year?
It is widely claimed across the internet that 40,000 Americans are injured every year by toilets.
A Wikipedia article mentions it:
Toilet related injuries are also surprisingly common, with some ...
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Did Nancy Pelosi call herd immunity "quackery"?
There are a number of news sources quoting Nancy Pelosi referring to herd immunity as "quackery":
“It becomes clear to us now that they believed in herd immunity, quackery, springing right ...
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Do the 2020 votes for Trump and Biden add up to more than the total number of votes made?
The following claim has appeared and been widely retweeted on Twitter:
REVEALED: 'Simple Math' Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election @...
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Did COVID-19 take the lives of 3,100 Americans in a single day, making it the third deadliest day in American history?
This image is doing the rounds on Facebook:
The image reads:
Yes, people die everyday. Yes we know it's not you because you are reading this.
Cancer takes approx. 1,600 Americans a day.
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Is there less than a one in a quadrillion chance of Biden winning states where Trump held the early lead?
The petition to the US Supreme Court on behalf of Texas and against the swing state administrators and legislators contains this claim:
The probability of former Vice President Biden winning the ...
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