291 Politics claim verifications avg. score 4.7/10 97 rated true or mostly true 188 rated false or misleading
“Agenda 21 is a United Nations plot to undermine the U.S.”
The evidence does not support the claim. Agenda 21 is an aspirational, non-binding UN action plan on sustainable development, and no credible source shows it gives the UN authority to override U.S. sovereignty or secretly subvert the country. Much of the "plot" narrative comes from conspiracy framing, political rhetoric, or fake documents rather than Agenda 21's actual text.
“Agenda 21 is a United Nations action plan on sustainable development.”
UN and other institutional records identify Agenda 21 as a UN-adopted programme or plan of action for sustainable development from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Describing it as a United Nations action plan is accurate. The main caveat is that it is voluntary and non-binding, not a treaty.
“Nationalism as an ideology is equivalent to Nazism (National Socialism).”
The claim is not supported by the evidence because it collapses a broad ideology into one extreme historical variant. Nationalism describes many different forms of political identity and self-determination, while Nazism specifically added racial supremacy, antisemitism, dictatorship, and genocide. Calling them equivalent erases those distinctions and misstates both concepts.
“Jair Bolsonaro mocked victims of COVID-19 in a public statement while serving as President of Brazil.”
The available evidence strongly supports that Bolsonaro publicly belittled COVID-19 suffering while serving as president. Reputable reports quote him telling Brazilians to stop “whining” and responding to rising deaths with “So what?”, remarks widely understood as contemptuous toward victims and mourners. The main caveat is wording: the record more directly shows callous dismissal than explicit, literal mockery.
“In Colombia, the student movement known as the “Séptima Papeleta” and broader citizen participation led to the creation of a new national Constitution in 1991 that is more democratic, participatory, and focused on human rights than the prior Constitution.”
The claim is broadly supported by the historical record. The Séptima Papeleta student movement and wider citizen mobilization were pivotal catalysts for the process that produced the 1991 Constitution, and that Constitution clearly expanded democratic participation and human-rights protections compared with the 1886 charter. The main caveat is that formal adoption also depended on institutional decisions, court rulings, and political bargaining.
“The United States Small Business Administration publishes a public, searchable list of Paycheck Protection Program loan recipients.”
SBA does publicly release PPP recipient data, including named loan-level records. But the evidence more clearly shows downloadable datasets and open-data files than an SBA-run public search tool or recipient directory. A reader could reasonably expect a built-in SBA name search, and that expectation is not well supported by the strongest sources.
“Ole Gunnar Solskjær said that Mohamed Salah has not done enough yet to be considered a legend and that Salah does not compare to wingers like Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo in that position.”
The evidence does not support the claim that Ole Gunnar Solskjær said this. Credible sourcing in the record points instead to Ryan Giggs making the relevant Salah comparison, while the items tying the quote to Solskjær are unverified, paraphrased, or low-reliability. The added detail that Solskjær specifically contrasted Salah with Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo as wingers is unsupported.
“The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission recommended that the Scottish Government further examine the pros and cons of compulsory containment of cats in certain parts of Scotland.”
The evidence supports this wording. Official Scottish Government documents state that SAWC recommended further examination of the pros and cons of compulsory cat containment in certain parts of Scotland. The important nuance is that SAWC recommended studying the option, not adopting compulsory containment or a general ban on pet cats.
“The City of Cape Town ordered the closure of a mosque in Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, because of complaints from Jewish residents or Jewish organizations.”
The evidence does not support this allegation. Available reporting and official City material show no documented City order closing a mosque in Sea Point, and the cited mosque-related disputes concern other neighborhoods such as Salt River or Bo-Kaap. Those cases involved noise-complaint procedures or notices, not a Sea Point closure, and none of the sources identify Jewish residents or Jewish organizations as the cause.
“Donald Trump posted on Truth Social using the phrase "suckers and losers."”
Reliable reporting indicates Trump did publish a Truth Social post that included the phrase “suckers and losers.” The key caveat is that he appears to have used the words while attributing them to Democrats/Biden, not as his own fresh description of service members in that specific post. That distinction affects framing but does not erase the core fact that the phrase appeared in his post.
“In South Africa, many people move from rural areas to urban areas to seek a better standard of living and quality of life.”
Evidence from South Africa-specific research shows that rural-to-urban migration is often motivated by hopes for better jobs, income, education, and services. That supports the claim’s core message. However, migration is also frequently driven by hardship, is often temporary or circular, and many migrants end up in precarious urban conditions, so improved quality of life is an aspiration rather than a typical guaranteed result.
“In most countries classified as democracies, the legal maximum term length for the national parliament or lower house is three or four years.”
Available comparative evidence points the other way. The best source, IPU PARLINE, says lower-house terms are almost all four or five years, with three-year terms rare. Because many democracies have five-year legal maxima, the claim that most democracies fall into the three-or-four-year group is not supported.
“In a democracy, individuals have rights including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and the right to criticize government actions.”
The statement accurately describes core civil liberties widely associated with democratic government. Constitutional, human-rights, and civic-education sources support speech, religion, press freedom, and criticism of government as standard democratic rights. The main caveat is that these rights are not absolute and are protected unevenly across different democracies.
“The Majlis Agama Islam Melaka (MAIM) document titled "Polisi Keselamatan Agama dan Keharmonian Kaum" (2020) states that spreading inaccurate information or information that tends toward slander against a religion or an ethnic group violates Islamic values and threatens social stability.”
Available evidence does not verify that MAIM issued a 2020 document with that title or that it contains the stated passage. The sources support a broader Islamic norm against slander and harmful misinformation, but they do not prove this specific MAIM attribution. Without the actual MAIM text or a reliable official citation, the claim is not supported.
“In a 2019 study, Aaron Flaaen and Justin Pierce found that U.S. industries facing higher input costs from tariffs, including steel-consuming manufacturers, experienced net employment losses rather than gains.”
The claim accurately reflects the study’s main finding: industries more exposed to tariff-related input-cost increases saw employment decline on net, rather than rise. Flaaen and Pierce found that the negative input-cost and retaliation effects outweighed the smaller employment gains from import protection. The wording is slightly compressed because the 2019 paper was a Federal Reserve working paper at the time, and “steel-consuming manufacturers” is an example rather than the paper’s formal category.
“United States households that purchased Japanese-brand vehicles faced higher prices starting in 2018 because of United States tariffs affecting United States–Japan automotive trade.”
The evidence does not support the claim’s stated cause. No new Japan-targeted U.S. automotive tariffs took effect in 2018, and the later U.S.-Japan deal did not newly raise tariffs on Japanese cars. Broad steel and aluminum tariffs may have affected some costs indirectly, but that is not the same as higher prices caused by tariffs on U.S.-Japan automotive trade.
“Between 2018 and 2025, the United States imposed Section 232 tariffs of 25% on steel imports from Japan.”
The core assertion is supported: the United States imposed a 25% Section 232 tariff on steel from Japan starting in 2018. The main caveat is that, from April 2022, Japan received a tariff-rate quota allowing specified volumes to enter duty-free, with the 25% duty generally applying to over-quota imports. So the claim is accurate in broad terms, but it overstates continuity if read as applying to all Japanese steel throughout the entire period.
“The United States imposed Section 232 tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on aluminium imports on national security grounds.”
The statement accurately describes the original 2018 Section 232 action. Official U.S. sources show the tariffs were imposed on national security grounds at 25% for steel and 10% for aluminum. Later changes raised and modified those rates, but they do not undo the historical fact stated here.
“In 2021, North Korea had the highest prevalence of modern slavery in the world.”
The best available global estimate places North Korea highest for modern-slavery prevalence in 2021. That conclusion comes from Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index, the main source on this topic. But the figure is modelled under major data limitations because North Korea is highly closed, so the claim is better understood as a leading estimate than as a directly verified fact.
“In the May 2026 United Kingdom local council elections, two Reform UK local council candidates died before election day but still appeared on the ballot as candidates.”
The evidence does not support this account. The best-documented May 2026 Reform UK case resulted in the poll being cancelled and rerun after the candidate’s death, which cuts against the claim that deceased candidates still appeared on the ballot. The only support for “two” such cases is an unspecific secondary assertion without identifying details or official corroboration.