copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2021-01-13): Last year, following the murder of George Floyd by police and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, the Vermont ice cream maker and Unilever subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s issued perhaps the strongest corporate statement on the matter. Its headline was We Must Dismantle White Supremacy. Why Ben & Jerry’s Speaks Out [...] How does a large company with a diverse customer base choose when and how to take a prominent stand on highly politicized current events? An interview with Matthew McCarthy, Ben & Jerry’s CEO, and Christopher Miller, head of global activism strategy, on its swift and strong responses to the murder of George Floyd and the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, why it believes in multi-issue corporate activism and advice for organizations that want to become better social advocates.
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2024-10-06): On January 7, 2021, Ben & Jerry's released a Tweet calling for the resignation, impeachment, and invoking of the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump following the January 6 United States Capitol attack, saying, "Yesterday was not a protest — it was a riot to uphold white supremacy."[105] [...] In 2023, Ben & Jerry's received criticism for posting a tweet on Independence Day, claiming that the United States was founded on "stolen Indigenous land" and that Mount Rushmore should be returned to the Lakota people.[126][127] In reply, the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation expressed interest in acquiring the Ben & Jerry's headquarters in Vermont, which is located on historical Abenaki territory.[128] [...] - ^ Howard, Brooke Leigh (July 5, 2023). "Ben & Jerry's July 4 Tweet Goes Off Like a Busted Firework". The Daily Beast. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2023-01-26): The row generated days of media coverage in the UK on the Government’s policies regarding people seeking asylum, and also some concern within Unilever that the tweets could be seen as disrespectful of a sitting government official. Ben & Jerry’s believes that as advocates for progressive social change we sometimes must respectfully call-out those with the power and authority to make the changes we support. After internal consultations, Unilever senior management reaffirmed that Ben & Jerry’s has the autonomy and independence to speak truth to power and challenge the policies of leaders when they run counter to our values. [...] Even though we have long championed racial equity through our activism, Ben & Jerry’s remains an overwhelmingly white company. For too long, the linked prosperity we have aspired to create as a business for our workforce and value chain partners has largely left out Black and Brown people because we had not yet done the work required to dismantle white supremacy within our company.
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2020-06-11): Diahann Carroll* June 11, 2020 at 11:29 am Yeah, Ben & Jerry’s has been about this life long before it became "cool," and they got a lot of shit for it, too. Now these same people who used to complain about their donations to black charities are hashtagging about black lives mattering, and it’s laughable. If these companies really give a damn, move in silence and do the work without trying to get public accolades. lmgtfy* June 11, 2020 at 11:36 am ben & jerrys has significantly contributed to the subjugation of palestine and its people (a simple google search will show as much) [...] zora* June 11, 2020 at 3:29 pm Oh no, NONE of these companies think they are virtue signaling. That’s the thing, white supremacy is so deeply ingrained. Any individual in a company writing these statements is completely genuine in thinking this is the right thing to do, it just hasn’t occurred that there is a much more deeply-rooted problem that they haven’t even noticed.
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2022-02-28): [63]. Id. at 16-19. For context, people of color make up more than 40 percent of the United States population. Population Estimates, July 1, 2022 (V2022), U.S. Census Bureau, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045222 [https://perma.cc/L2CB-4PJZ].
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2023-01-25): The United States is a mixture of nationalities, backgrounds, cultures, and identities. This mixture has been shaped through many decades of immigration from people across many lands and by their interactions with their new environments. The US population is often referred to as consisting of majority and minority groups. The majority consists of non-Hispanic White people. The minority consists of other races, ethnicities, and communities. From a marketing standpoint, companies have historically treated the majority segment as the mainstream market. Conversely, the minority segment has been treated as a subgroup of consumers, or the multicultural market. [...] These multicultural consumers also feel relatively well connected to the broader Black community and prioritize social activities that offer support to the group as a whole. To show solidarity with the BLM movement, popular ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s (see Figure 8.14) named one of its flavors "Justice ReMix’d" to raise awareness of racism and criminal justice reform. The company worked with the Advancement Project national office to advocate for social change and civil rights. Ben & Jerry’s also enacted a multipoint corporate plan challenging other companies to champion the cause and join the conversation about racial inequalities.
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2024-01-22): The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement tweeted "Following years of #BDS campaigns @benandjerrys has announced it will end sales of its ice cream in Israel's illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land. We warmly welcome their decision but call on Ben & Jerry's to end all operations in apartheid Israel."
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2024-07-01): Times of change are times of challenge. It is estimated that by 2030, 40 percent of all Americans will belong to various racial minorities. Already the global economy requires unprecedented grasp of diverse viewpoints and cultural traditions. I don't want future college students to suffer the cultural and social impoverishment that afflicted my generation. If history has taught us anything in this remarkable century, it is the notion of America as a work in progress.
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2020-07-28): Mr. Jeffries. That is a lie. Reclaiming my time. [...] Mr. Jeffries. That is exactly what he said. That is what the American people heard, and you know it and you can't defend it. [...] Mr. Jeffries. The answer is 150,000 Americans are dead. It has been a failure of epic proportions. In fact, Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic has been the worst failure of any President in American history, and the American people have paid the price.
Claim: Ben and Jerry’s tweeted that they were happy white people will soon be the minority in America (Viral post, 2023-07-17)
Evidence (2020-01-30): And within moments the entire world could see it. And it forced white Americans to see things that their eyes never would have seen. [...] It spoke to real worries and frustrations that had been coaxed and had caramelized over the course of a decade across America, where white Americans were truly convinced they were losing their country, and the only opportunity they had to stop it was to elect this man who says he was going to do something about it.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2023-05-23): The claim neither appears on CNN’s website nor its verified social media accounts. A CNN spokesperson denied the outlet had reported that Cheney endorsed DeSantis in an email to Check Your Fact.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2023-05-30): A post shared on Twitter claims CNN reported former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney endorsed Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in the 2024 election. [...] "LIZ CHENEY ENDORSES RON DESANTIS FOR PRESIDENT – CNN," the Twitter post, viewed over 130,000 times, purports. The claim is false. CNN has neither published an article on its website nor a statement via its verified social media accounts reporting Cheney endorsed DeSantis for president in the 2024 election. Likewise, the claim is not referenced on the Republican Florida Governor’s website or verified social media accounts.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-09-20): Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has responded to rumors she might be selected for Kamala Harris' cabinet if the Democrat wins the presidency in November. [...] Cheney is a vocal Donald Trump critic who lost her seat in Wyoming after supporting his second impeachment and serving as vice chair on the January 6 House Select Committee.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2022-08-20): Liz Cheney has her sights set on Donald Trump. [...] In reality, Cheney knows she has little-to-no chance of winning a GOP presidential primary. Not only did she lose her House primary by more than 30 points, but her approval with Republicans nationally has nosedived since she has taken her strong stance against Trump. [...] But that's hardly true. While Cheney won't be a congresswoman next year and probably won't be president, either, she's not going away.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2022-09-25): Liz Cheney did not hold back when slamming both former President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in an interview this weekend at the Texas Tribune Festival. Cheney, who vowed to campaign against election-denying candidates in the November election, declared that if Trump becomes the 2024 GOP presidential nominee, then "I won’t be a Republican." Trump supporters might dismiss Cheney as someone whose words carry little weight after being roundly defeated in her House primary in August. But keep in mind that the Wyoming representative still received nearly 30% of the vote against her Trump-backed opponent. [...] Obviously, today Cheney has become known as a fierce critic of Trump and other election deniers. In fact, during her interview Saturday, she vowed to campaign against Kari Lake, Arizona’s election-denying GOP gubernatorial candidate whom Trump has endorsed.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney spoke at a campaign stop in Ripon, Wisconsin, after endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-09-07): Former Vice President and influential Republican Dick Cheney released a statement announcing his endorsement of Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris for President. Speaking out against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, Cheney said that he can "never be trusted with power again." [...] Harris was asked about the Cheneys’ endorsement while on the campaign trail, visiting a spice shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She said she was "honored" to have their endorsement, and that it represented the opportunity to "turn the page" on partisan divisiveness. [...] Meanwhile, on Sunday, Sept. 8, Senator Bernie Sanders—a former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination—appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, where he was asked by host Kristen Welker about the Cheneys' support of Harris. "What I think Dick and Liz Cheney are saying is that in this existential moment in American history, it's not just issues," Sanders said. "Cheney and I agree on nothing, no issues. But what we do believe in is that the United States should retain its democratic foundations."
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2021-05-14): Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, whose criticism of former President Trump led to her ouster from House Republican leadership, said Friday that her role as a member of Congress obligated her to oppose the widespread lie of fraud in the 2020 election. [...] Cheney has dropped some hints about her next steps as they relate to shaping the future of the party, confirming that she will run for reelection for her US House seat next year while also not ruling out a run for president. [...] Rep. Liz Cheney told House Republicans in private on Wednesday that it’s time to reject former President Trump’s big lie that he won the election because failing to do so will "make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy."
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-09-04): Watch Liz Cheney endorse Kamala Harris for president Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, she said during remarks at Duke University. CNN's Kasie Hunt discusses with her panel.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-10-04): What we covered here • On the campaign trail: Kamala Harris campaigned with GOP former Rep. Liz Cheney at an event in battleground Wisconsin, where Cheney touted her endorsement of the vice president and slammed former President Donald Trump while urging voters to defeat him on November 5. Earlier today, Trump campaigned in the key state of Michigan and criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene. He also slammed Cheney as she rallied with Harris.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2022-08-08): Liz Cheney says she would find it ‘very difficult’ to support Ron DeSantis for president [...] That hesitance is due to Mr DeSantis’s outspoken embrace of Donald Trump, Ms Cheney said, which she called "dangerous" given the revelations about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and non-response to the mob attack on Congress which he himself had inspired. [...] Liz CheneyRon DeSantisDonald Trump
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2022-09-12): No one I talked with thinks Cheney could come anywhere close to winning the GOP nomination behind an anti-Trump message. The widespread success of Trump-endorsed candidates, almost all of whom overtly echo his lies about the 2020 election, in this year’s GOP primaries has made clear that the former president remains the party’s dominant figure (despite occasional losses for his picks). With Cheney’s defeat yesterday, four of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 attack on the Capitol have now been ousted in primaries, and four others have retired; only two have survived to face voters in November. "Trump continues to own a majority share of the Republican Party and the GOP has remade itself in his image," Sarah Longwell, founder of the Republican Accountability Project, a group critical of Trump, told me in an email. [...] But even those sympathetic to Cheney recognize that the 2024 primaries may offer only so much opportunity to change the party’s direction. Many of them view Trump’s strongest competitor in early polls, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, as little improvement over Trump in his commitment to a pluralistic democracy; Cheney recently told The New York Times that DeSantis has aligned himself so closely with Trump that she would find it "very difficult" to support him in 2024 either.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday said she is "proudly" casting her vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin, invoking the events of January 6, 2021, and touting her endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee in the crucial battleground state. [...] "Well, Liz Cheney lost for Congress. She was terrible. Liz Cheney is a stupid war hawk, all she wants to do is shoot missiles at people. I really think it hurts. I think frankly if Kamala – I think they hurt each other. I think they are so bad, both of them," Trump said. Cheney’s zealous opposition to Trump and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election – including her vote to impeach him – eventually led the House GOP to oust her as conference chair and replace her with a top Trump ally, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik. Cheney went on to serve as vice chair of the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-09-04): Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, she said during remarks at Duke University, according to audio obtained by CNN. [...] The Harris campaign highlighted Cheney’s endorsement Wednesday night and pointed to other Republicans who have backed her, including former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan. [...] Cheney, who is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and a vocal critic of Trump, previously told CNN she is committed to doing what’s necessary to stop the former president from returning to the White House.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Republican Liz Cheney endorses Kamala Harris for president was Dkr4188 now Dkr1999 for your first year, equivalent to Dkr166.58 per month. Make up your own mind. Build robust opinions with the FT’s trusted journalism. Take this offer before 24 October.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-09-05): Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney announced Wednesday that she will support Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. [...] Cheney had said she would not support Trump in the 2024 election, and she considered running for president herself. But she had not gone as far as endorsing the Democratic nominee. In May 2023, Cheney finished third among Utah Republican voters in a hypothetical poll of Republican presidential candidates, behind Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2020-12-07): The Honorable Liz Cheney, a Representative in Congress From the
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2024-09-26): - ^ Steck, Em; Kaczynski, Andrew; Olivia, Alafriz (February 26, 2023). "Ron DeSantis wanted to send weapons to Ukraine when he was a congressman – as a presidential hopeful he questions US involvement". CNN politics (Digital). Retrieved March 4, 2023. [...] - ^ "NRA Endorses Ron DeSantis for Governor of Florida". nrapvf.org. NRA-PVF. September 7, 2018. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2023. [...] - ^ DeSantis, Ron (June 1, 2021). Fairness in Women's Sports. Rumble (Videotape).
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2022-11-10): Slotkin, a moderate Michigan Democrat, earned the first Democratic endorsement of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy. Cheney previously said that she would work against certain Republican candidates who she views as a threat to democracy after the Republican primary to Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman. [...] DePerno, who gained Trump’s endorsement, has espoused debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election results in Michigan.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2023-03-17): The ideal choice for a Lincoln Project-based third-party run is Rep. Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. The Cheney surname is well known, and she gained a great deal of national visibility and respect during the congressional January 6 insurrection investigation and hearings. She is the most well-known and politically talented of the Never Trumper elected officials. [...] While Cheney is vehemently anti-Trump, with a voting record that aligned with Trump 91% of the time, she is not so moderate that she would tempt many liberals or left-leaning independents to vote for her instead of Biden.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2022-01-14): "Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis’s booster status, and I can now reveal it. He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up," she wrote on Twitter.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2023-06-05): On Monday, Newsom, a Democrat, called GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is also running for president, a "small, pathetic man" in a tweet, apparently referring to his alleged role in the first flight.
Claim: purports CNN reported Liz Cheney endorsed Ron DeSantis for president (Post, 2023-05-23)
Evidence (2023-12-26): Despite the evidence that Trump was ready to destroy American democracy to stay in power, his rivals for the Republican nomination have largely only attacked him obliquely for causing the most traumatic election in modern American history in 2020. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, for instance, said last month that she disagreed with Trump’s recent remark that his political opponents were "vermin" — another comment that drew analogies with Nazi rhetoric. "It’s the chaos of it all, right? I think he means well. But the chaos has got to stop," she told voters in Iowa. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has largely faulted Trump for not living up to his promises to the Make America Great Again movement in his first term and has claimed he’d be a better implementor of such policies. In a CNN town hall this month, DeSantis did step up his attacks on the ex-president — but mostly over policy on abortion, immigration and the economy.
Claim: WEF posted that climate change is affecting 'attractive places the state wants to purchase' (Viral Post, 2023-08-21)
Evidence (2023-08-21): The claim is inaccurate. The post shown stems from a satirical account impersonating the WEF.
Claim: WEF posted that climate change is affecting 'attractive places the state wants to purchase' (Viral Post, 2023-08-21)
Evidence (2023-08-28): FACT CHECK: Did The WEF Say Climate Change Is Affecting ‘Attractive Locations The State Wishes To Purchase’? A post shared on Instagram allegedly shows an X post from the World Economic Forum (WEF) saying climate change is affecting land purchases. [...] The Instagram post purports the WEF is worried about climate change affecting the purchase of land at a discount. The post shares a screenshot of an alleged X post from the WEF.