#fact-check — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fact-check, aggregated by home.social.
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FYI: 1 in 9 businesses OpenAI recommended carried a wrong claim, audit finds: Empirank checked 182 recommended businesses and logged 24 incorrect claims. Another 479 stayed unconfirmed. Can visibility monitoring still ignore the facts? https://ppc.land/1-in-9-businesses-openai-recommended-carried-a-wrong-claim-audit-finds/ #OpenAI #BusinessAudit #FactCheck #DigitalMarketing #BusinessTransparency
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A TV ad aimed at Alaska voters makes a bold claim about Democrats, taxpayer money and medical care for minors. But the congressional vote behind the claim was not as simple as the ad suggests. 🔎
Read our breakdown of the vote, Alaska’s role and what the federal rule actually does: 👉🏿 https://bit.ly/4gUrxR0
#AlaskaPolitics #AKPol #Election2026 #FactCheck #PoliticalAds #AlaskaNews #Politics #Transgender
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Mobile network slowdown drills conducted during Taiwan's Urban Resilience Exercise may have been the first of their type ever conducted internationally. The exercise differed significantly from drills conducted in South Korea and Japan
"By simulating an extreme situation in which bandwidth became severely constrained, the exercise provided a real-world stress test that conventional drills cannot."
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Doomscrolling and the Death of Real News: Why Facebook is Broken -- Warning: Incoming Social Media Rant.
https://geospart.substack.com/p/doomscrolling-and-the-death-of-real
#Facebook #GooglePlus #Mastodon #Meta #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology #FactCheck #News
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Science Explainer: Is gender-affirming care "experimental"?
In medicine, "experimental" means still-being-tested. But the puberty-pausing meds at issue have been standard care for precocious puberty since the early 1980s, used for trans youth ~30 years — backed by the AMA, AAP, ACOG & the Endocrine Society.
An honest debate about long-term evidence certainty isn't fraud.
The evidence, explained: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/science/2026-08-26-explainer-is-gender-affirming-care-experimental.md
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CW: Disinformation alert #FactCheck
🔍 Pre-Bunk: The Wedge
A "the community is finally splitting" wave is coming, using the Log Cabin Republicans' vote to drop the "T" as its proof.
The technique: wedge-driving — manufacture an internal enemy so opponents face smaller, isolated targets.
The tell: safety offered in trade for abandoning someone, and the movement's declared opponents cheering it on. -
“The center took a huge hit when the takeover happened,” and then appeared to stabilize, according to an official familiar with the center’s financial situation. But after the name change, “it was just an absolute fiscal cliff. Donors disappeared, ticket sales disappeared, artists disappeared — like it was doomsday.”
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #ETTTTS #BadBusiness #Trump #KennedyCenter
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Even after slashing expenses, center officials projected earned revenue this fiscal year to miss its budget target by 70% & contributed revenue to fall 25% short. The revenue miss was projected to leave the center with a $23 million deficit.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #ETTTTS #BadBusiness #Trump #KennedyCenter
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The documents show that leaders knew both were cratering even as they publicly portrayed Trump’s takeover as a financial rescue. In a failed June request to keep Trump’s name on the building, for instance, a #DOJ lawyer wrote that renaming the center after #Trump “represented a saving of The #KennedyCenter which, if this doesn’t happen, would go into financial and structural collapse.”
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#KennedyCenter #finances deteriorated sharply after #Trump name change
Budget & meeting documents show ticket revenue & fundraising plummeted even as leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround.Ticket sales had already dropped in the 10 months following Trump’s takeover, but both ticket sales & donations plunged after the Trump-led board of trustees voted in December to rename the center after him & put his name on the front of the building….
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/08/25/kennedy-center-revenue-plunged-after-trumps-name-went-building/ -
Science Explainer: Does Testosterone Decide Who Wins?
In 693 elite athletes, 16.5% of men had "low" testosterone and 13.7% of women had "high" — a complete overlap (Healy, 2014). The IAAF's own data showed the lowest-testosterone sprinters ran fastest.
If one hormone decided winners, a blood test could rank the field. No scientist can.
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CW: Disinformation alert #FactCheck
🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: The Phantom Opponent
You'll see more outrage about trans athletes "taking over" sport — loudest where there are none. That's the tactic: when the real number is ~zero, invent the enemy and bury the absence under sheer volume.
Spot it: a "crisis" that never names one real person in the arena. Ask: how many actual athletes?
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CW: Disinformation alert #FactCheck
🔍 Pre-Bunk: The Compliance Shield
Watch for a phrase spreading beyond Britain: "We have no choice — the law requires it." It dresses a discretionary act of exclusion as a legal duty, so no one has to own it.
The technique: manufactured neutrality / diffusion of responsibility.
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🔍 Pre-Bunk: The Borrowed Badge
A claim that can't win on evidence gets dressed in an official costume — "a court ruled," "a report found." Build or capture the body, hand it your verdict, wave its stamp as neutral fact.
Live now: Poland's packed Tribunal + Ordo Iuris telling clerks to "refuse" marriages; the US HHS "fraud" report on trans care.
Ask who appointed it and who funded it.
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CW: CW: disinformation alert #TransRights
🔍 Pre-Bunk: the panic with no person in it
A trans "scandal" is coming that has no actual trans person in it. This summer's template: 206 Fox segments, 8+ hours on trans athletes in a WNBA with zero trans players.
The tell is the missing person. When a story can't name a real subject, it's a rage-farm, not reporting. Don't share it to mock it — post the fact it's hiding.
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Science Explainer: what happens to the "advantage" after transition?
Testosterone suppression drops hemoglobin to the typical female range in ~4 months. Strength fades slower — and the largest 2026 review (52 studies, 6,485 people) found no clear performance edge, with no elite-athlete data yet.
The bans claim a certainty the science doesn't have.
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#Trump touted the “results” Tuesday on Truth Social, saying the bureau had proved that >24,000 noncitizens illegally voted in 2020 after analyzing 128 million individual voter records.
“I WON THE ELECTION!” Trump falsely proclaimed, repeating his unsubstantiated lie that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 race. He predicted the number would “explode” once analysts processed the remaining 32 million voter records.
#law #FactCheck #TrumpLies #WhiteSupremacy #ConspiracyTheories #BigLie #coup
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Experts slam Trump’s “unusual” new #census report as ‘hijack by the White House’
#Trump touted census doc on alleged #noncitizen #voting has "fatal" flaws, fmr ofcls say
Former Census Bureau leaders, statisticians & #VotingRights advocates are raising alarms about an unusual, unsigned new report posted on the agency’s website that claims tens of thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election.
#law #FactCheck #TrumpLies #WhiteSupremacy #ConspiracyTheories #BigLie
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/flawed-census-report-alleged-noncitizen-voting?cid=ios_app -
Science Explainer: If a women's service includes trans women, is it still a women's service?
UK headlines say including trans women means "admitting any man" or scrapping women's spaces. The law says otherwise: on 13 Feb 2026 the High Court held providers can be trans-inclusive without admitting cis men. Single-sex spaces stay lawful. UN experts (17 Aug) warned an "exclude-or-admit-men" rule risks "institutionalising discrimination."
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CW: Disinformation alert #FactCheck
🔍 Pre-Bunk: "We just need the records"
Watch for official-sounding "investigations" into gender-affirming care. The tell: the real ask isn't proof of wrongdoing — it's patient files, billing data, funding cuts.
Spot it: alarm words, but the payload is records/subpoenas; it targets standards-setters (WPATH, a clinic), not proven harm; no medical body calls the care fraud.
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Enriched uranium stockpile undercuts Trump claim of Iran’s ‘essential denuclearization’
Enriched uranium stockpile undercuts Trump claim of Iran’s ‘essential denuclearizati…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #19-year-old #breakingnews #bullochcounty #denuclearization #enriched #FactCheck #gangactivity #hiltonhead #Iran #mcnd #official #PoliceChase #PolitiFact #savannahshooting #Smoke #statesborocarjacking #stockpile #Trump #tybee #uranium #wassawislandwildfire #week
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Political signs are designed to make you feel something. This one is also designed to keep you from asking the obvious question: what does the measure actually do? 🗳️🧾 https://shorturl.at/TgfGt
#AKPol #AlaskaPolitics #CampaignMoney #FactCheck #democracy #Alaska #Politics -
CW: Disinformation alert #FactCheck
🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: the fake-support & fake-messenger playbook
As the midterms near, anti-trans campaigns are faking the crowd and faking the messenger. This month: bot-like comments flooding a trans-firearm rule, and texts from a fake "Equity Florida" smearing candidates.
Spot it: identical outrage isn't a mandate. Check the sender's real name. Don't share — even to mock.
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CW: Disinformation alert
🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: the midterm ad wave is loading
Now through November, expect a flood of anti-trans campaign ads: surgical footage, "irreversible," "your daughter" — no numbers, all dread.
The technique: parental fear + manufactured repetition — win by volume, not accuracy. The tell: a villain, never a policy.
Don't share it, not even to debunk. Name the tactic first.
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Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts
9. #Mortgage Rates
10. #Medicaid
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Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts
5. #Tariffs
6. #Inflation
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Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts
1. #Economy
2. Federal Budget #Deficit
3. #NationalDebt
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“Besides, whenever he’d played on TV — like the Pebble Beach tournament & the Lake Tahoe celebrity thing — he never finished in the top half.
“‘No chance, Donald,’ I countered.
“Then he explained it∶ Every time he buys or builds a new golf course, he plays the first round by himself & declares that the club championship.
“I thought, Well, that’s just … pure … genius.”