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43 recorded statements, the most serious of them calls for violence, on both tracks. 25 tested claims: read plainly, 5 holds and 18 mixed and 2 unresolved; read at their widest, 19 mixed and 5 fails and 1 unresolved.

Statements. Nothing to check, so these carry a severity instead.

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Calls for violenceUSProtected groups
What was said

He filmed himself on a New York street leading a chant about a massacre of Jews.

Who it targets

Jewish people

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A streamer with a million followers told them to identify every American Jew and plan to arrest them.

Who it targets

American Jews

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ThreateningUSProtected groups
What was said

A single post recast every Muslim on earth as under orders to kill Jews and Christians.

Who it targets

Muslims as a whole

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ThreateningUSPolitical opponents
What was said

A federal border official told Democrats to shut their mouths or there would be more bloodshed.

Who it targets

Democratic officials and anti-ICE critics

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What was said

The White House's top policy adviser called the left a cancer that must be rooted out.

Who it targets

Left-wing movements and their supporters, not limited to anyone who committed violence

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HatefulUSProtected groups
What was said

For an audience of six million, she said today's Jews are impostors wearing the religion as a costume.

Who it targets

Jewish people

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The claim that Sharia is taking over America moved through Congress, two state houses, two attorneys general, and a primary ballot in five months.

Who it targets

Muslims in the United States

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An Islamic group announced 300 outreach booths at the tournament. One site called it the opening move of a conquest.

Who it targets

Muslims as a whole

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What was said

A state government mailed every California voter a pamphlet describing non-Jews as livestock to be enslaved.

Who it targets

Jewish people

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What was said

A sitting lieutenant governor said he hates Islam and called on others to hate it too.

Who it targets

Muslims in Indiana and beyond

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What was said

Scandinavian fans looked well behaved on television, and that became a claim about who else the country lets in.

Who it targets

Immigrants generally, set against the Norwegians and Swedes held up as the good kind

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What was said

A referee decision against Egypt turned into a claim that Jews run FIFA.

Who it targets

Jewish people, through “Zionists” standing in for them

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A joke about the 2030 World Cup put Israeli soldiers on the pitch shooting people in the face.

Who it targets

Jewish people and Israelis, through Israel and the IDF used interchangeably

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What was said

A prominent science blogger called the Defense Secretary a pig, scarcely human.

Who it targets

The Defense Secretary, as a stand-in for the administration

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What was said

A fringe site used explicit antisemitic slurs and claimed Jews control finance and Congress.

Who it targets

Jews, referred to collectively with slurs

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What was said

An anti-Muslim blogger told Western women not to marry Muslim men, generalising from one murder case.

Who it targets

Muslim men

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What was said

A conspiracy site's front page called Israeli society deeply depraved.

Who it targets

Israeli and Jewish society, treated as a single whole

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What was said

The same blogger called New York's mayor a jihadi and a Jew-hating Muslim over a legal question.

Who it targets

Muslims, with the mayor used as the stand-in

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What was said

A blogger attributed fraud cases involving Muslim migrants to the Quran itself.

Who it targets

Muslim migrants

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HatefulUSProtected groups
What was said

A podcast host posted racialised sexual degradation of an Asian woman.

Who it targets

An Asian woman, through her ethnicity

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What was said

One sentence carrying an ethnic epithet, a disability slur, and a criminal claim about Black men.

Who it targets

A Mexican man, a disabled person, and Black men

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What was said

A post claiming the FBI suspects New York's mayor of talking to terrorists reached over a million people.

Who it targets

Muslims, with the mayor used as the vehicle

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HatefulUSProtected groups
What was said

The next day he used a primate epithet for a racial group.

Who it targets

Black people

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He raised the objection that not all Jews are Zionists, then dismissed it and called it a holy war.

Who it targets

Jewish people, with the exception closed off

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What was said

She called for Muslims to be barred from holding office in America.

Who it targets

Muslims in America, by faith rather than conduct

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He described a media network using a phrase attributing child trafficking to gay men.

Who it targets

Gay men

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What was said

Charges against two men became the Muslim rape gangs are here.

Who it targets

Muslims, through two named defendants

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He called a religion fake and said its doctrine holds its followers superior to everyone else.

Who it targets

Jewish people, through their religion

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What was said

He celebrated a funding cut using a slur for trans people.

Who it targets

Trans people

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What was said

I wonder if this app is run by a Jew selling kids' data to Israel, he asked 149,000 people.

Who it targets

Jewish people, through an unnamed owner

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What was said

Two exclusions in one post: a racial group described as a pack of animals, and women told they don't belong at work.

Who it targets

A racial group, and separately women

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What was said

A prosecutor's ethnicity was offered as the possible reason for case outcomes.

Who it targets

A prosecutor's ethnic group

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Third worlders can be safely returned to their natural habitat, he wrote.

Who it targets

People described as third worlders

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There's a direct line from New York Jewish real estate families to the mayor, he posted.

Who it targets

Jewish people in New York

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He posted that Israel killed Charlie Kirk, as a standalone claim, two days running.

Who it targets

Jewish people, through a state used as the stand-in

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Some people would rather live in filth if it spites white people, he wrote.

Who it targets

A racial group, given a disposition

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Hours after a stabbing, she demanded these people be removed from the streets, the cities, and the nation.

Who it targets

Muslims, identified by the chant rather than the word

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What was said

Import Somalis and your courts start working like Somali courts, he told 400,000 people.

Who it targets

Somalis, and immigrants by national origin

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What was said

The American squad was announced, and one post treated the 26 names as a choice between two racial stereotypes.

Who it targets

Black and Hispanic players on the roster, and by extension Black and Hispanic Americans

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What was said

A podcast covered a birthright citizenship ruling as a win for what it called the Third World.

Who it targets

Immigrants and their American-born children

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Indiana's lieutenant governor called for banning the Muslim call to prayer, then warned about the rise of Islam.

Who it targets

Muslims, through the presence of the religion itself

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What was said

A podcaster said women's suffrage stole half his vote, and that his wife casts it back for him.

Who it targets

Women

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What was said

A 2014 column arguing that soccer viewership proves the wrong people were let in got republished mid-tournament.

Who it targets

Immigrants and their American-born descendants

Claims we tested, and the roundups that collect them.

PlainHoldsWidestMixed
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USWealth & Power The claim

Critics say AI billionaires are buying the election to control what happens in kids' classrooms.

The catch

The nine-figure spending targets candidates by their stance on AI regulation, not by their stance on schools.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USSafety Wars The claim

Sacks says Anthropic invented the AI-safety panic to box out rivals.

The catch

Anthropic turned down a Pentagon contract and ate a federal blacklisting rather than drop its safety guardrails.

PlainHoldsWidestMixed
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USJobs The claim

Critics say companies are using AI as a cover story for ordinary layoffs.

The catch

Real AI-driven job cuts are also happening. Both things are true at the same time.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USSafety Wars The claim

A White House adviser says AI-doomer rhetoric incited the attack on Sam Altman's home.

The catch

The safety groups blamed for it have zero documented contact with the attacker and explicit no-violence policies.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USControl The claim

Critics say Big Tech's AI buildout is really one big surveillance machine.

The catch

Anthropic turned down $200 million from the Pentagon rather than loosen its rules against mass surveillance.

PlainHoldsWidestOpen
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USControl The claim

Critics say the AI industry is selling inevitability to make opposition feel pointless before it forms.

The catch

A hundred-plus cities protested data centers five months after the industry's biggest ad push.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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USData Centers The claim

A tech investor says anti-data-center protesters are bused-in actors funded by Beijing.

The catch

A reporter asked attendees how they got there. They drove themselves.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USProgress The claim

Pro-buildout voices call data-center protesters Luddites who are handing the AI race to China.

The catch

The 120-plus protests are local fights over power bills and water, not organized opposition to AI itself.

PlainOpenWidestFails
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USWealth & Power The claim

Sanders says AI executives are cutting jobs to get richer, not to help anyone.

The catch

OpenAI's CEO just proposed taxing the rich, including himself, to fund a payout for everyone.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USData Centers The claim

Critics say data-center tax breaks prove officials are bought by industry money.

The catch

The same year, New York banned new data centers and a North Carolina commissioner lost his seat for approving one.

PlainOpenWidestMixed
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USSafety Wars The claim

Critics say the AI industry's own doom talk set the mood for someone to attack Sam Altman.

The catch

The critics making that case condemned the attack in the same breath they made it.

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USThe AI Fault Line What we found

Fifty-one checks across thirteen arguments about AI, each one tested twice.

The catch

The same words hold up or fall apart depending on how far you push them, and the arguing happens in that gap.

PlainHoldsWidestMixed
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USWealth & Power The claim

Sacks says California's "one-time" billionaire tax was never going to stay one-time.

The catch

He was right that a second tax proposal followed. Nobody's found a backer who actually wants the industry destroyed.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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USJobs The claim

Sacks says the AI jobs crisis is a hoax the press is running on purpose.

The catch

A real study found no AI-driven hiring collapse, and the same outlets gave the skeptical case prominent coverage too.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USReligion in public life The claim

The US-Saudi nuclear agreement shows the officeholders who invoked September 11 against New York's mayor don't hold the security concern they cite.

The catch

Inconsistency is easy to document. The payment and the bigotry the carriers attach to it are not.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USTechnology and AI The claim

Anthropic wants to ban open-source AI in America and won't stop until it kneecaps the open model ecosystem.

The catch

The letter it declined to sign rejects prohibition in its own text and asks only for targeted remedies.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USUS foreign policy and the US-Israel relationship The claim

The House vote keeping Section 219 in the defence bill shows the members who advanced it are serving pro-Israel campaign money ahead of American interests.

The catch

Money of this kind mostly flows toward members who already hold the position, which is the direction the evidence can't distinguish.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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USCulture and entertainment The claim

The people driving the casting backlash want to justify a racial hierarchy by projecting it into antiquity.

The catch

The same accounts carry fidelity complaints, aesthetic complaints and demographic complaints, and a single-motive claim doesn't separate them.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USImmigration The claim

Democratic leadership's immigration positions show the party's leadership wants open borders and to destroy the country.

The catch

What the positions describe is procedural limits on enforcement conduct, which is an argument about how, not a wish for the country to fail.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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USImmigration The claim

The attack at 26 Federal Plaza shows the anti-ICE camp is hostile to law and order, and its rhetoric produced the attack.

The catch

The reporting describes one former soldier who arrived alone, heavily equipped, and told investigators he didn't care if he killed people.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USReligion in public life The claim

Statements by Huckabee and Mace show Christian Zionist and Republican officeholders claim the right to define which political views Jewish Americans must hold.

The catch

Two officials said it. The donor motive attached to the wider camp comes with nothing behind it.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USCulture and entertainment The claim

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey shows its makers set out to impose progressive values on a foundational Western text.

The catch

He gave his reasons in public and on the record, including that he cut the ending because he found it grim and misogynistic.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USUS foreign policy and the US-Israel relationship The claim

The absence of US legacy and cable coverage of the Al-Tuwani settler attack shows those outlets deliberately suppress Israeli conduct.

The catch

Wire services, an Israeli outlet and international broadcasters carried it within a day, so the absence isn't total.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USReligion in public life The claim

Mamdani's call for Netanyahu's arrest shows an alliance between Marxists and Islamists is taking over the Democratic Party.

The catch

The statement being cited is a politician admitting in public that a promise went beyond what his office can do.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USGovernance and institutional trust The claim

Attaching voter ID to the congressional stock-trading ban shows House Republican leadership wants a campaign issue rather than either law.

The catch

Joining a popular measure to a contested one is routine floor management, and doesn't require anyone to want the bill to die.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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USImmigration The claim

The administration has hollowed out immigration enforcement and stages the appearance of it, so promised removals aren't being pursued.

The catch

Removals need detention beds, court time, travel documents and litigation, and none of those scale with an announcement.

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