copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in a June 27 speech that China has the largest navy in the world. (Nikki Haley, 2023-06-27)
Evidence (2023-08-24): NIKKI HALEY (R), 2024 PRESDIENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I don’t care about polls. What I care about the fact is that no one is telling the American people the truth. The truth is that Biden didn’t do this to us. Our Republicans did this to us too. When they passed that $2.2 trillion COVID stimulus bill, they left us with 90 million people on Medicaid, 42 million people on food stamps. [...] BAIER: But, Governor Burgum, China has the biggest navy in the world, the biggest army in the world. Now they have warships — warships off the coast of Alaska. [...] List of Speakers - FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, R-IND., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - FORMER GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE, R-N.J., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - FORMER GOV. NIKKI HALEY, R-S.C., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - VIVEK RAMASWAMY, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - FORMER GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON, R-ARK., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - GOV. RON DESANTIS, R-FLA., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - GOV. DOUG BURGUM, R-N.D., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - SEN. TIM SCOTT, R-S.C., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - MARTHA MACCALLUM, CO-MODERATOR - BRET BAIER, CO-MODERATOR
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in a June 27 speech that China has the largest navy in the world. (Nikki Haley, 2023-06-27)
Evidence (2023-11-08): HALEY: China has the largest naval fleet in the world. They have 350 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades. China has built up their military. It's not just land, air, and sea. They're doing cyber, they're doing artificial intelligence, they're doing space. America needs to modernize our military. We need to do everything we can. The first thing is you go and you make sure you have the backs of Ukraine. That's why the Taiwanese want us to support Ukraine because they know that sends the biggest message to China.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in a June 27 speech that China has the largest navy in the world. (Nikki Haley, 2023-06-27)
Evidence (2023-06-27): GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley outlined her foreign policy approach to counter Beijing in a hard-line speech Tuesday, criticizing both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden before deeming China the "most dangerous foreign threat we’ve faced since the Second World War." [...] NIKKI HALEY SAYS BIDEN, HARRIS ‘ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH’ AFTER ATTEMPTED RUSSIAN COUP "We and our allies should give Taiwan everything it needs to defend itself. We should make sure the American naval presence in the Taiwan Strait remains strong. And we should let China know now that an invasion of Taiwan would not just be met with a few slap-on-the-wrist sanctions. It would mean a full-blown economic decoupling that would massively damage China," Haley said, putting herself in direct contrast with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who testified earlier this month that decoupling with China would be a "big mistake" for the U.S. [...] She took concern over the Chinese navy, which was the same size as the U.S. Navy less than 10 years ago but now is the largest fleet in the world with 340 ships and has plans to hit 400 in the next two years.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in a June 27 speech that China has the largest navy in the world. (Nikki Haley, 2023-06-27)
Evidence (2023-11-27): A winnowing field of Republican presidential candidates are working feverishly to close the polling gap between themselves and Donald Trump -- among them is former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, whose support has steadily ticked up as an alternative to the former president. [...] Veteran Iowa strategist David Kochel said that Haley's emergence in the race as "the Trump alternative that has the most momentum" owes, in part, to the first three GOP debates. She gave performances that were widely well-received, including by likely primary voters who responded to a series of 538/Washington Post/Ipsos polls. (DeSantis got high marks in those post-debate polls, too.)
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-07): The video is from April 2023, a month and a half before the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-15): Social media users have been sharing a video of a dam flooding, implying that it was kept open by Ukraine in order to make the situation in Kherson worse. One tweet claims that the video shows Ukraine keeping the "gates at Dnipro HDD open (video)." "Ukraine keeps the gates at Dnipro HDD open (video) and the water streams southward. The already undermined remnants of the Novo Kakhovka dam risk to totally collapse from the water pressure and later on, the flooding of Kherson oblast are worsened," the tweet partially reads. [...] The clip is from April, reported by local outlets at the time, and shows high water levels due to spring floods. pic.twitter.com/k5cQiwnNih — Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) June 9, 2023 "This video is being shared widely by pro-Kremlin accounts as evidence that Ukraine was responsible for the damage to the Nova Kakhovka dam by keeping its gates open. The clip is from April, reported by local outlets at the time, and shows high water levels due to spring floods," Sardarizadeh tweeted.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-07): Ukraine dam: Hundreds of thousands without drinking water, says Zelensky [...] One of the photos showed a flooded port and industrial area in the regional capital Kherson, which is under Ukrainian control. [...] Russia says Ukraine carried out the attack on the dam to detract from what Moscow says are Kyiv's failures of its counter-offensive and to deprive Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russian in 2014 - of fresh water.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-08): At the start of the clip shared on Twitter, Carlson also claimed that Ukraine's government had once considered destroying the Kakhovka Dam. [...] However, that context is then used to introduce the claim that the Ukrainian government had considered destroying the dam, using the Washington Post article as his only source beyond that. [...] Carlson's claim that the Ukrainian government had considered destroying the dam is based on an article which does state that it was targeted late in 2022 by Ukrainian forces in a test strike.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-19): The dam’s destruction led to deadly flooding, endangered crops in the world’s breadbasket, threatened drinking water supplies for thousands and unleashed an environmental catastrophe. Ukrainian commanders say it also scuppered some of their plans to take Russian positions in a counteroffensive that is now in its early stages.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-06): Destruction of dam 'another blow to the well-being of children of Ukraine,' UNICEF says [...] Video: Dam in Ukraine destroyed, unleashing massive surge of water [...] Russian-installed officials said evacuations near the dam have begun and that waters would reach critical levels within hours. Ukrainian officials urged residents of at least 10 villages and parts of the city of Kherson to gather essential documents and pets, turn off appliances and flee to safety.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-08): Ukraine dam: Dislodged mines a major concern as residents flee Kherson [...] Then last year, invading Russian forces were accused by Ukraine of planting the dam with explosives, which the Kremlin denied.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-06): Ukraine’s authorities said Tuesday afternoon that 17,000 people need to be evacuated from the right bank and 25,000 from the Russian-occupied left bank because of the risk of flooding from the dam breach. The figures could not be independently verified.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-12): I don't know who's responsible for destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, but if you do what you can to worsen the situation and destroy the remnants of the dam, you're the prime suspect, not the victim. Ukraine keeps the gates at Dnipro… pic.twitter.com/WmQK2h0eZh— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 7, 2023 Some users claimed that the Ukrainian government "decided to purposefully drown their own citizens", keeping the gates at the river open and that it was a "clear indication that Ukraine on purpose worsen the situation and are also a clear indication that Ukraine was the original culprit." The same information was also reposted on various websites and forums outside of Twitter. [...] This video is being shared widely by pro-Kremlin accounts as evidence that Ukraine was responsible for the damage to the Nova Kakhovka dam by keeping its gates open.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-06): Ukraine dam: Thousands flee floods after dam collapse near Nova Kakhovka [...] One local resident Andriy, who lives close to the dam - which was seized by Russian forces shortly after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 - said he believed Russia wanted to "drown" his city. [...] However, a Russian official claims Ukraine carried out the attack on the dam to detract from what they said were the failures of its counter-offensive and to deprive Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russian in 2014 - of fresh water.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-09): KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Exclusive drone footage of the collapsed Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages under Russian occupation showed the ruined structure falling into the flooded river, hundreds of submerged homes, greenhouses, even a church — and no evidence of an attack from above, as Russia alleges. [...] Ukraine in turn has alleged that Russian forces, who controlled the dam, blew it up from within. The AP images offered a limited snapshot, making it difficult to categorically rule out any scenario. The dam had been weakened by months of Russian neglect and water had been washing over it for weeks. [...] Ukraine has warned since last October that the hydroelectric dam was mined by Russian forces, and accused them of touching off an explosion that has turned the downstream areas into a waterlogged wasteland. Russia said Ukraine hit the dam with a missile. Experts have said the structure was in disrepair, which could also have led to its collapse.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-07): Ukraine dam: Hundreds of thousands without drinking water, says Zelensky - Published [...] One of the photos showed a flooded port and industrial area in the regional capital Kherson, which is under Ukrainian control. [...] Russia says Ukraine carried out the attack on the dam to detract from what Moscow says are Kyiv's failures of its counter-offensive and to deprive Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russian in 2014 - of fresh water.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-08): Ukrainian dam breach: What’s happening and what’s at stake [...] The head of national hydroelectric company Ukrhydroenergo, Ihor Syrota, said authorities were holding water in upstream reservoirs to compensate in part for the loss of the dam. [...] Ukraine’s Defense Ministry tweeted a video showing a drone — presumably one of its own — dropping a bottle of water to a woman in a rooftop window in Oleshky. "The Ukrainian military will never leave civilians behind," it said.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2024-06-03): The residents of Oleshky in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine could not identify many of those they buried after a catastrophic dam collapse in June sent water coursing through their homes and shattered their lives. The bodies were too bloated and discolored, volunteer rescuers and health workers said. They described seeing faces that resembled rubber masks, frozen in that last frenzied gasp for air. But to those secretly keeping count of the drowned, Yurii Bilyi was no stranger. [...] Russia, which didn’t respond to questions for this article, has said 59 people drowned in the territory it controls, roughly 408 square kilometers (160 square miles) of flooded areas. But in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky alone, which Ukrainian military officials estimate had a population of 16,000 at the time of the flooding, the number is at least in the hundreds. An exact figure for the dead — in Oleshky, the occupied area’s most populous town before the war, and beyond — may never be known, even if Ukrainian forces retake the territory and are able to investigate on the ground. [...] "A lot of people drowned," said Svitlana, the head nurse at the Oleshky District Multidisciplinary Hospital, the city’s main primary health center, which later transformed into a shelter for people forced out of their homes. The putrefaction of flesh caused many corpses to inflate. "People were floating around the city like balloons."
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims to show a dam kept open by Ukraine to drown its own citizens. (Viral Video, 2023-06-07)
Evidence (2023-06-08): Ukraine dam: Maps and before and after images reveal scale of disaster - Published
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2023-05-30): Pelosi’s comments were directed at Republicans during a 2017 press briefing while she served as the House Minority Leader. Pelosi’s spokesperson confirmed she accused Republicans, not Democrats, of using the “wrap-up smear” tactic in an email to Check Your Fact.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2018-10-08): Shocking video from 2017 shows @NancyPelosi describing the Democrat attack plan called the "Wrap-up Smear" ??? (the technique used against Justice Brett Kavanaugh)#movingUSforward ?? pic.twitter.com/oVhK4cuoTw — THE SCOOP (@TheScoop_US) October 8, 2018 [...] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi revealed a shady tried-and-true Democrat demonization tactic in 2017 called the "wrap-up smear." [...] In fact, this wasn't the first time Pelosi brought up the term "wrap-up smear" specifically to describe Republican political tactics. In this 6 March 2017 exchange between Pelosi and CNN news anchor Jake Tapper, she claimed President Trump used such a smear tactic against former president Barack Obama:
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2024-07-27): DETROW: Nancy Pelosi is herself 84 years old. That's older than President Biden. She's no longer in House leadership, and yet she remains a highly effective leader within the Democratic Party. NPR political correspondent Susan Davis has followed Pelosi's career. Hey, Sue. [...] DETROW: So regardless of the exact details of who Pelosi called when, I think these past few weeks have really underscored how singularly powerful she remains within the Democratic Party, even though she's not minority leader anymore. [...] And like you said, when you gasped when you heard it, I was in an email exchange with a Democratic staffer on the Hill, and they were basically saying, look. Like, it's over. He's staying in the race. Like, we're just going to have to deal with it. And then immediately was like, never mind. Someone just sent me what Nancy Pelosi said on "Morning Joe." The door's back open again.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2024-08-11): Pelosi described the comment as "spontaneous," but acknowledged that some responded to it by saying, as she put it, "Oh, my God, you gave us space, you gave us space." And she conceded Biden may think that the "statement unleashed something." Yet, who believes that the greatest political tactician of our era was a bystander to the most shocking presidential campaign episode in memory?
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Pelosi once told Washington Post Columnist Karen Tumulty, "Nobody ever gives away power. If you want to achieve that, you go for it. But when you get it, you must use it." Recalling her early days of volunteering with the Democratic party, Pelosi says she never planned on becoming involved in politics.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2024-09-20): Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she believes Vice President Kamala Harris won an open primary to be the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential election. Pelosi made the comments earlier this week during an interview for a "Principals Live" event hosted by Semafor’s Kadia Goba. [...] Goba attempted to comment after Pelosi said Harris won an open primary, but Pelosi continued. The audience then applauded Pelosi’s comment, and Goba never continued with what she was trying to say.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2021-01-25): Here’s why you shouldn’t believe these claims: The video takes Pelosi out of context and misleadingly captions her remarks, making it seem like she’s explaining a political tactic called the "wrap-up smear" that she and other Democrats have deployed in the past. "It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy," Pelosi says in the clip, which has been viewed on YouTube more than 60,000 times. "You demonize, and then you — we call it the wrap-up smear. You want to talk about politics? It’s called the wrap-up smear. You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it, and then you write it, and they’ll say ‘See, it’s reported in the press that this, this, this and this,’ so they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it’s called a wrap-up smear. ‘Now I’m going to merchandise the press’s report on the smear that we made.’ It’s a tactic, and it’s self-evident." [...] This was not the first time that Pelosi spoke disapprovingly of the "wrap-up smear." In a March 6, 2017, interview on CNN, Pelosi accused Trump of using "wrap-up smears" against former President Barack Obama.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2018-10-12): Q: Did Nancy Pelosi describe how the Democrats use a tactic called the "wrap-up smear" to attack political opponents? [...] A clip of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi explaining a political tactic called a "wrap-up smear" has been widely circulated recently. The problem is, it has been taken out of context. [...] Turning Point USA. "WOW… Nancy Pelosi ACTUALLY Outlines The "Wrap-Up Smear" The Left Used To Try & Destroy Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh…" Facebook. 9 Oct 2018.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2023-06-09): "It's called the wrap-up smear," Pelosi says in the video. "You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest and then you merchandise it. And then you write it and if they see it's reported in the press that this, this, this and this." [...] She continued by accusing the Republican Party of using smear tactics, in particular the "wrap-up smear," against Democrats instead of focusing on their own accomplishments. [...] This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Video misrepresents Nancy Pelosi quote on 'wrap-up smear' | Fact check
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2024-06-10): Newly released video footage from Jan. 6, 2021, has reignited conservatives’ long-standing claims that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bears the blame for the National Guard’s delayed response to the U.S. Capitol attack. [...] Social media users across X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok reshared the footage and made a slightly different claim: that the video shows Pelosi, D-Calif., saying "she takes responsibility for not having the National Guard" at the Capitol that day. [...] In response to the newly released footage, Pelosi said in a June 10 MSNBC interview that former President Donald Trump and "his toadies do not want to face the facts. They’re trying to do revisionist history."
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2022-10-14): Nancy Pelosi is an extremely effective politician, so it’s a bit odd that some people were so surprised at her authoritative response to the breaching of the Capitol on Jan. 6, footage of which was televised for the first time at a Jan. 6 committee hearing on Thursday.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2024-08-21): A pin that some Democrats are wearing at the convention depicts Pelosi as "The Godmother," marionette strings and all. Whether meant as a compliment or an insult, the image speaks to the "make- him-an-offer-he-can't refuse" tactics used to dump Biden in favor of Harris. [...] Pelosi, in a recent interview with the New Yorker, said, "I’ve never been that impressed with his [Biden’s] political operation," though she did not specify whom she meant.
Claim: claims Nancy Pelosi purportedly made a comment about how the Democratic Party uses a tactic called the 'wrap-up smear' (Video, 2023-05-30)
Evidence (2022-11-17): But Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will no longer lead the Democrats in the House of Representatives, saying the time had come "for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus". [...] In viral terms, her big moment was her sarcastic #PelosiClap during Mr Trump's State of the Union speech a month after she took office. It still lives on as a popular gif.