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2 storys on culture and entertainment.

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2 tested claims: read plainly, 2 mixed; read at their widest, 1 mixed and 1 fails.

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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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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.

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Read at its widest