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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The British Government clinical trial tested six treatment options as part of its RECOVERY trial. One of these was dexamethosone.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210122124229/https://www.recoverytrial.net/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210122124229/https://www.recoverytrial.net/" } ], "question": "What research has been conducted into the effectiveness of dexamethosone as a COVID-19 treatment?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Dexamethasone reduced deaths by one-third in ventilated patients (rate ratio 0.65 [95% confidence interval 0.48 to 0.88]; p=0.0003) and by one fifth in other patients receiving oxygen only (0.80 [0.67 to 0.96]; p=0.0021). There was no benefit among those patients who did not require respiratory support (1.22 [0.86 to 1.75]; p=0.14).\n\nBased on these results, 1 death would be prevented by treatment of around 8 ventilated patients or around 25 patients requiring oxygen alone.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501211449/https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/low-cost-dexamethasone-reduces-death-by-up-to-one-third-in-hospitalised-patients-with-severe-respiratory-complications-of-covid-19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/low-cost-dexamethasone-reduces-death-by-up-to-one-third-in-hospitalised-patients-with-severe-respiratory-complications-of-covid-19" } ], "question": "What did the government's RECOVERY trial find out about the effectiveness of dexamethosone as a COVID-19 treatment?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Department of Health on Wednesday advised the public to be cautious in interpreting the preliminary study findings that steroid drug dexamethasone can reduce the risk of the sickest patients dying from coronavirus disease.\n\nDOH expressed concern that this discovery might lead people to ‘think it is a magic pill for COVID-19.’", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211129171735/https://www.cnn.ph/news/2020/6/17/DOH-steroid-not-magic-pill-coronavirus-disease.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211129171735/https://www.cnn.ph/news/2020/6/17/DOH-steroid-not-magic-pill-coronavirus-disease.html" } ], "question": "What have medical professionals said about the use of dexamethasone against the coronavirus?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "17/06/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was the claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The health official reiterated that there is still no proven cure for and vaccine against COVID-19.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211129171735/https://www.cnn.ph/news/2020/6/17/DOH-steroid-not-magic-pill-coronavirus-disease.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211129171735/https://www.cnn.ph/news/2020/6/17/DOH-steroid-not-magic-pill-coronavirus-disease.html" } ], "question": "Is there an FDA-approved cure for COVID-19 as of June 17, 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "As an anti-inflammatory medication. \n\nDexamethasone relieves inflammation in various parts of the body. It is used specifically to decrease swelling (edema), associated with tumors of the spine and brain, and to treat eye inflammation.\n\nTo treat or prevent allergic reactions.\n\nAs treatment of certain kinds of autoimmune diseases, skin conditions, asthma and other lung conditions.\n\nAs treatment for a variety of cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. \n\nTo treat nausea and vomiting associated with some chemotherapy drugs.\n\nUsed to stimulate appetite in cancer patients with severe appetite problems. \n\nAlso used to replace steroids in conditions of adrenal insufficiency (low production of needed steroids produced by the adrenal glands).", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131010/https://chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/dexamethasone.aspx", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/dexamethasone.aspx" } ], "question": "What is dexamethasone used for?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19. This is an extremely welcome result. The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment, so dexamethasone should now become standard of care in these patients. Dexamethasone is inexpensive, on the shelf, and can be used immediately to save lives worldwide.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501211504/https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-06-16-dexamethasone-reduces-death-hospitalised-patients-severe-respiratory-complications", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-06-16-dexamethasone-reduces-death-hospitalised-patients-severe-respiratory-complications" } ], "question": "Can dexamethasone be used to treat COVID-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Dexamethasone is a low-cost drug.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131043/https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/uk-approves-dexamethasone/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/uk-approves-dexamethasone/" } ], "question": "Is dexamethasone a low-cost drug?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What was Aunt Jemima Model Nancy Greens Net worth at her time of death?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Despite her \"lifetime contract,\" she portrayed the role for no more than 20 years", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210222194152/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Green", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210222194152/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Green" } ], "question": "How long did Nancy Green portray Aunt Jemima ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In 1910, at age 76, Green was still working as a residential housekeeper according to the census.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210222194152/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Green", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210222194152/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Green" } ], "question": "Did Nancy Green have any other jobs after her role as Aunt Jemima?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Madam C.J. Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was the first black millionaire.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131123/https://www.thecourierdaily.com/nancy-green-millionaire-aunt-jemima-net-worth/21065/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thecourierdaily.com/nancy-green-millionaire-aunt-jemima-net-worth/21065/" } ], "question": "Was Aunt Jemima Model Nancy Greens the first black millionaire?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "NO! She did not get paid for modelling as Aunt Jemima", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131123/https://www.thecourierdaily.com/nancy-green-millionaire-aunt-jemima-net-worth/21065/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thecourierdaily.com/nancy-green-millionaire-aunt-jemima-net-worth/21065/" } ], "question": "Was Nancy Green aka Aunt Jemima a millionaire?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No, she only did modeling as Aunt Jemima", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131123/https://www.thecourierdaily.com/nancy-green-millionaire-aunt-jemima-net-worth/21065/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thecourierdaily.com/nancy-green-millionaire-aunt-jemima-net-worth/21065/" } ], "question": "Did she own the rights to the Aunt Jemima pancake mix?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The tradition started in 1866 in Texas and spread to nearby states.\n\nThe Civil Rights movement infused Juneteenth with new energy.\n\nToday, 47 states recognize the day.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123023700/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/18/donald-trump/donald-trumps-pants-fire-claim-nobody-had-heard-ju/#sources", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123023700/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/18/donald-trump/donald-trumps-pants-fire-claim-nobody-had-heard-ju/#sources" } ], "question": "What is Jointh?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The tradition started in 1866 in Texas and spread to nearby states.\n\nThe Civil Rights movement infused Juneteenth with new energy.\n\nToday, 47 states recognize the day.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123023700/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/18/donald-trump/donald-trumps-pants-fire-claim-nobody-had-heard-ju/#sources", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123023700/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/18/donald-trump/donald-trumps-pants-fire-claim-nobody-had-heard-ju/#sources" }, { "answer": "Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the freedom of the slaves in the United States. The name Juneteenth is a combination of the words June and nineteenth. The day is also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131338/https://www.goldenwestcollege.edu/rising/juneteenth/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.goldenwestcollege.edu/rising/juneteenth/index.html" } ], "question": "What is Juneteenth?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of African American freedom, marking the ending of slavery in the U.S. \nIt commemorates the week in June 1865 that Major Gen. Gordon Granger led the Union soldiers to Galveston, Texas, declaring the war was over and the enslaved could go free. \nWhile President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation officially freed slaves more than two years earlier, it was the surrender of General Lee in April 1865 and Granger’s arrival with the troops that created a force strong enough to overcome Texas’ resistance to the executive order to free slaves. \nThe culmination of Granger’s trip led to his June 19 reading of the proclamation, coined as “Juneteenth” — the day the freed slaves and their families recounted memories, reassured each other of a newly-promised future and gathered in prayer.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131518/https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/2010/06/the_story_behind_juneteenth_th.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/2010/06/the_story_behind_juneteenth_th.html" } ], "question": "Where does Juneteenth stem from?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Today, if Americans have any knowledge at all about commemorations of the end of U.S. slavery, their reference point is generally Juneteenth.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308041205/https://blog.oup.com/2007/06/juneteenth/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308041205/https://blog.oup.com/2007/06/juneteenth/" } ], "question": "Do Americans know about Juneteenth?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In 1980, Texas became the first state to recognize June 19 as a state holiday, which it did with legislation.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230430023218/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/juneteenth", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/juneteenth" } ], "question": "When did Juneteenth first become a state holiday?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "As of 2020, 48 states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation recognizing Juneteenth as a state holiday or as a day of observance.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230430060505/https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R44865.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R44865.pdf" } ], "question": "Is Juneteenth recognized as a state holiday in other U.S. states?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The annual celebration began to spread throughout Texas and surrounding states. However, it became less popular in the early 1900's. It became popular once again in the 1950's and 1960's. In 1980 it became an official state holiday in Texas. There is currently a movement to get the day recognized on a national level.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131338/https://www.goldenwestcollege.edu/rising/juneteenth/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.goldenwestcollege.edu/rising/juneteenth/index.html" } ], "question": "When did Juneteenth become prominent within U.S. states?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Myanmar plans to launch its first satellite in 2021, using Japanese technology.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131743/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2" } ], "question": "Is Myanmar going to launch a satellite?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The satellite will be an earth observation satellite.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131743/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2" } ], "question": "Will Myanmar's new satellite give the people of Myanmar free internet access?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere\nGoal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture\nGoal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages\nGoal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all\nGoal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls\nGoal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all\nGoal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all\nGoal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all\nGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation\nGoal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries\nGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable\nGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns\nGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*\nGoal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development\nGoal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss\nGoal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels\nGoal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210113070614/https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210113070614/https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" } ], "question": "What are the UN mission goals" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations, established in 1948. The constitution of WHO was signed by 61 countries in 1946, which has increased to a total of 164 countries in 2016.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230330180022/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/world-health-organisation", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/World-Health-Organisation" } ], "question": "What is the World Health Organisation?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "An Italian doctor Alberto Zangrillo has suggested that it has become weaker and practically no longer exists in Italy.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510131904/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-virus-idUSKBN2370OQ", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-virus-idUSKBN2370OQ" } ], "question": "Has anyone indicated that Covid-19 has become weaker and less lethal at any point?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "They have responded directly regarding the Italian doctors claims in a press conference video and clarified that they do not believe it is less potent or significantly weaker by stating, \n\n\"We need to be exceptionally careful not to create a sense that, all of a sudden, the virus, by its own volition, has now decided to be less pathogenic. It is not the case at all,\" WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan tells a virtual press briefing.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201224225212/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz3LwWPKFP8", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201224225212/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz3LwWPKFP8" } ], "question": "Has WHO responded to claims by the Italian doctor?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was this claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Claim states the cure was brought out by the government.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210630025241im_/https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/bodyeditor/202006/pic_1_4-x563.png?rP43.JNW3Tv70mv8RpJ0ln_WIY7bf_QJ", "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210630025241im_/https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/bodyeditor/202006/pic_1_4-x563.png?rP43.JNW3Tv70mv8RpJ0ln_WIY7bf_QJ" } ], "question": "Does the claim say the cure is backed by the government of Tanzania?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "On May 3, the Tanzanian health ministry issued a statement clarifying that no medicine to cure Covid-19 is available as of now.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200508144140/https://twitter.com/wizara_afyatz/status/1256868393443098624", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200508144140/https://twitter.com/wizara_afyatz/status/1256868393443098624" } ], "question": "Has the Tanzanian government confirmed this Covid cure?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200826053906/https://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/birth-certificatelongform", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200826053906/https://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/birth-certificatelongform" } ], "question": "Where was former President Barack Obama born, according to his birth certificate?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "A Hawaii Department of Health official, Loretta Fuddy, confirmed Obama's \"long form\" birth certificate as part of the state's effort to put to rest questions about whether he was really born in the United States.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200704061115/https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/us/hawaii-health-director-obama-birth/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200704061115/https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/us/hawaii-health-director-obama-birth/index.html" } ], "question": "Has the Hawaii Department of Health verified the authenticity of Barack Obama's birth certificate?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210724112009mp_/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-korea-south-korea-dmz_n_5ee86976c5b6da4ae60d594a", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210724112009mp_/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-korea-south-korea-dmz_n_5ee86976c5b6da4ae60d594a" } ], "question": "Was the North Korean and South Korean Liaison office blown up" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Dr Denis Mukwege said he was quitting a special Commission for fighting Covid-19 in South Kivu, citing lack of facilitation from the government.\nIn a resignation note publicised on Wednesday, Dr Mukwege said the lack of laboratories for testing for the virus had frustrated the team’s work.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510132029/https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/africa/Nobel-laureate-resigns-from-DR-Congo-Covid19-team/4552902-5574618-eh61jtz/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/africa/Nobel-laureate-resigns-from-DR-Congo-Covid19-team/4552902-5574618-eh61jtz/index.html" } ], "question": "Why did Dr Denis Mukwege resign from the Congolese government’s Coronavirus Response (Taskforce) Team?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "2019 stats show the top 3 U.S cities for homicide rate are, \n- St. Louis\n- Baltimore\n- Detroit", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230430053803/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate" } ], "question": "What are the U.S top 3 cities for violent rime as of 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Gov. Mike Parson (MO)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510132138/https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/japan-korea-apec/japan/us-japan-trade-agreement-negotiations/what-they-are-saying/gov-mike-parson", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/japan-korea-apec/japan/us-japan-trade-agreement-negotiations/what-they-are-saying/gov-mike-parson" } ], "question": "Who was the governor of U.S city St. Louis?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Republican.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230407215550/https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=3839314", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=3839314" } ], "question": "Is Gov. Mike Parson a republican or democrat?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Larry Hogan is an American businessman and politician and the 62nd Governor of Maryland", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510132218/https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/larry-hogan-29773.php", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/larry-hogan-29773.php" } ], "question": "Who was the Governor of Baltimore in 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Republican.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510132218/https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/larry-hogan-29773.php", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/larry-hogan-29773.php" } ], "question": "Is Gov Larry Hogan a republican or democrat?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Gretchen Whitmer", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230503222606/https://ballotpedia.org/Gretchen_Whitmer", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Gretchen_Whitmer" } ], "question": "Who was the Governor of Detroit in 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Democratic Party", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230503222606/https://ballotpedia.org/Gretchen_Whitmer", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Gretchen_Whitmer" } ], "question": "Is Gov Gretchen Whitmer a republican or democrat?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Teh top 5 are Detroit, St Louis, Oakland, Cleveland and New Orleans.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510132309/https://money.cnn.com/gallery/real_estate/2013/01/23/dangerous-cities/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://money.cnn.com/gallery/real_estate/2013/01/23/dangerous-cities/index.html" } ], "question": "What are the most dangerous cities in the USA?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "They are a mix of both.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510132418/https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/" } ], "question": "Are Detroit, St Louis, Oakland, Cleveland and New Orleans Republican or Democrat?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "An earth observation satellite", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721114148/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721114148/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2" } ], "question": "What kind of satellite is being built by Myanmar" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "It will be used to raise productivity in agriculture, as well as to prevent and reduce damage from disasters and monitor environmental pollution", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721114148/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721114148/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense/Myanmar-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-2021-with-Japan-s-help2" } ], "question": "Is the satellite supposed to also deliver free internet access to the people of Myanmar" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Myanmar citizens to get free phone internet when its own satellite using Japan’s technology is launched.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://perma.cc/A2D8-T6JS", "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://perma.cc/A2D8-T6JS" } ], "question": "What was the reason the claim says Myanmar citizens are to get free phone internet?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University, was launching what it called a 'micro satellite'", "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Was Myanmar launching a satellite at the time of the claim (2020)" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No it will only give images, its not a communication satellite.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Was the satellite going to provide free mobile internet to myanmar citizens?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The official Global Times accounts have NEVER reported the exact casualties on the Chinese side. The Global Times CANNOT confirm the number at the moment.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230210103346/https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1272818278348410880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1272818278348410880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" }, { "answer": "Chinese side didn’t release number of PLA casualties in clash with Indian soldiers. My understanding is the Chinese side doesn’t want people of the two countries to compare the casualties number so to avoid stoking public mood. This is goodwill from Beijing.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230224213433/https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1272901941140561924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1272901941140561924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" }, { "answer": "Accounts of the situation have NEVER reported the exact casualties on the Chinese side.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230210103346/https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1272818278348410880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1272818278348410880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "Did five Chinese soldiers die in a border dispute with India in June 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Based on what I know, Chinese side also suffered casualties in the Galwan Valley physical clash. I want to tell the Indian side, don’t be arrogant and misread China’s restraint as being weak. China doesn’t want to have a clash with India, but we don’t fear it.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211008040325/https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1272818023225626624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211008040325/https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1272818023225626624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "Were there any Chinese casualties in a border dispute with India in June 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "June 16th 2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What was the date of the claim?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "no casualties of this magnitude have occurred since 1967.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/three-indian-soldiers-killed-in-rare-clash-on-china-india-border/2020/06/16/13c11c46-afa5-11ea-98b5-279a6479a1e4_story.html" } ], "question": "Where there any boarder disputes reported before the time of the claim at the china/India boarder which involved deaths of solders?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "in the Galwan Valley", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211008040325/https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1272818023225626624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211008040325/https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1272818023225626624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "Where did the clash take place?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in the clash,\nand \nGlobal Times, said there had been Chinese casualties in the clash, but he did not specify whether there were any deaths .", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/three-indian-soldiers-killed-in-rare-clash-on-china-india-border/2020/06/16/13c11c46-afa5-11ea-98b5-279a6479a1e4_story.html" } ], "question": "Were any solders confirmed killed in the galwan valley clash?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The BSA have said they are committed to act against racial injustice.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721125425im_/https://images-prod.misbar.com/articlebody/investigation_l5728qiir.jpg", "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721125425im_/https://images-prod.misbar.com/articlebody/investigation_l5728qiir.jpg" } ], "question": "What is the Boy Scouts of Americas stance on racial injustice?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Donald Trump", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210703153205/https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-vote-by-mail-absentee/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210703153205/https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-vote-by-mail-absentee/index.html" } ], "question": "Who made this claim about the potential for theft of mail in ballots?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Trump voted earlier this year, in a no-excuse absentee vote state -- meaning that a voter can request an absentee ballot (aka one you fill out at home and mail back to the election authority) without offering any excuse for why they want to do so.\nWhich is what Trump did. Being president is a more than full-time job, and he couldn't make time to travel to Florida to cast a vote in person. So he voted absentee.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210703153205/https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-vote-by-mail-absentee/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210703153205/https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-vote-by-mail-absentee/index.html" } ], "question": "Has Donald Trump voted by mail in ballot?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Numerous safeguards are included in the absentee voting process. Absentee ballots are sent only to registered voters who request them using an official N.C. Absentee Ballot Request Form before the deadline. The request must be signed and include identifying information about the voter, including date of birth and driver’s license number or last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number. Voters must vote their ballot in the presence of two witnesses or a notary, and those witnesses must sign the absentee return envelope certifying that the voter marked their ballot and is the registered voter submitting the marked ballot.\n\nOnly the voter or their near relative or legal guardian may return the ballot. Upon return, the county board of elections reviews the absentee envelope to ensure compliance with the legal requirements. Once the ballot is accepted, that voter is marked in the system as having voted in that election.\n\nData on who has requested absentee ballots is now confidential until Election Day. Criminal penalties have been increased for absentee voting fraud-related offenses. Many people are watching our absentee voting process, including candidates, political parties, county boards of elections, and political and data scientists. If there are anomalies or questionable activities, they will be identified by or reported to election officials.\n\nFinally, the State Board of Elections has an Investigations Division that investigates credible allegations of elections fraud and refers cases to prosecutors when warranted by the evidence. The State Board also conducts several post-election audits which will catch inconsistencies that can then be investigated by the board or the Investigations Division.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230419011138/https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-mail/faq-voting-mail", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-mail/faq-voting-mail#Howsecureisabsentee-by-mailvoting-795" } ], "question": "How secure is mail in voting (absentee ballot voteing)?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "If someone has voted an absentee ballot and then shows up to vote in person, the check-in system will alert the poll worker that the person has already voted. Voting twice in the same election is a crime and is investigated by the State Board and referred to prosecutors when warranted by the evidence", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230419011138/https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-mail/faq-voting-mail", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-mail/faq-voting-mail#Whatpreventssomeonefromvotingabsenteeandthenvotingagainin-person-797" } ], "question": "What prevents someone from voting absentee and then voting again in-person?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "a voter must be able to personally mark their own ballot and sign their name to the completed ballot security envelope and have a reason to request an absentee vote-by-mail ballot:\n\nYou have a specific, reasonable expectation that you will be absent from the county on Election Day during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open (6 am until 6 pm).\nYou have a disability.\nYou are at least 65 years of age.\nYou will have official election duties outside of your voting precinct.\nYou are scheduled to work at your regular place of employment during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.\nYou will be confined due to illness or injury or you will be caring for an individual confined due to illness or injury during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.\nYou are prevented from voting because of a religious discipline or religious holiday during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.\nYou are a participant in the state's address confidentiality program.\nYou are a member of the military or a public safety officer.\nYou are a \"serious sex offender\" as defined in Indiana Code 35-42-4-14(a).\nYou are prevented from voting due to the unavailability of transportation to the polls.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230411002231/https://www.in.gov/sos/elections/voter-information/ways-to-vote/absentee-voting/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.in.gov/sos/elections/voter-information/ways-to-vote/absentee-voting/" } ], "question": "What are permissible reasons for absentee voting" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Each state in the US has its own rules as regards absentee voting and where its permitted, the rules and requirements are not so different from each other", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230419013247/https://www.vote.org/absentee-voting-rules/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vote.org/absentee-voting-rules/" } ], "question": "Are there other processes involved in absentee voting asides the States recognized laws" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "An official statement from the Boy Scouts of America states the following: The Boy Scouts of America stands with Black families and the Black community because we believe that Black Lives Matter. This is not a political issue; it is a human rights issue and one we all have a duty to address.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210709160907mp_/https://scoutingwire.org/bsas-commitment-to-act-against-racial-injustice/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210709160907mp_/https://scoutingwire.org/bsas-commitment-to-act-against-racial-injustice/" } ], "question": "Are the Boy Scouts actively supporting Black lives matter?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "An official statement from the Boy Scouts of America states the following: Introducing a specific diversity and inclusion merit badge that will be required for the rank of Eagle Scout. It will build on components within existing merit badges, including the American Cultures and Citizenship in the Community merit badges, which require Scouts to learn about and engage with other groups and cultures to increase understanding and spur positive action.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210709160907mp_/https://scoutingwire.org/bsas-commitment-to-act-against-racial-injustice/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210709160907mp_/https://scoutingwire.org/bsas-commitment-to-act-against-racial-injustice/" } ], "question": "Do Boy Scouts have to earn a diversity badge?" } ]

[ "Position Statement", "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No, that's not true: The post is a letter written in 2016 and addressed to the Republican National Committee by someone who claims to be an 80-year-old who is responding to a fundraiser solicitation.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Did comedian Steve Harvey write a post titled \"How I Feel About Trump\" ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Who wrote how I feel about Donald Trump?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Did Steve Harvey appreciate Donald Trump’s ‘Raccoons’ on Facebook?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "June 10th 2020", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When did Pelosi Gift a Folded flag to George Floyds Brother?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes, United States Congressman Dennis Ross gave an American Flag flown over the Capitol in honour of the new school during a grand opening ceremony for Citrus Ridge: A Civics Academy in Davenport, Fl on Friday December 9, 2016.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210814105334/https://www.theledger.com/photogallery/LK/20161209/PHOTOGALLERY/120909993/PH/1", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210814105334/https://www.theledger.com/photogallery/LK/20161209/PHOTOGALLERY/120909993/PH/1" }, { "answer": "Yes on Friday 15th December 2018 Republican Rep. Roger Williams of Texas gifted two folded, encased flags from the Capitol to two new schools in his district the first being \nRoy J. Smith Middle School and the second being Alice W. Douse Elementary School, both in Killeen", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210324065213/https://kdhnews.com/news/education/this-gift-represents-our-country-flags-flown-at-u-s-capitol-arrive-in-killeen/article_38434f74-e204-11e7-924f-934f3a3b5714.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210324065213/https://kdhnews.com/news/education/this-gift-represents-our-country-flags-flown-at-u-s-capitol-arrive-in-killeen/article_38434f74-e204-11e7-924f-934f3a3b5714.html" } ], "question": "Has a folded flag been gifted to any non military personnel prior to June 10th 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Is there rules against gifting a U.S. flag?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "United States Congressman Dennis Ross gave an American Flag flown over the Capitol in honor of the new school during a grand opening ceremony for Citrus Ridge: A Civics Academy in Davenport, Fl on Friday December 9, 2016.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210814105334/https://www.theledger.com/photogallery/LK/20161209/PHOTOGALLERY/120909993/PH/1", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210814105334/https://www.theledger.com/photogallery/LK/20161209/PHOTOGALLERY/120909993/PH/1" }, { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "First at Roy J. Smith Middle School and then at Alice W. Douse Elementary School, both in Killeen, field representative Don Nicholas of U.S. Rep. Roger Williams’ office made delivery of folded, cased flags to the schools.\n\nThe flags each flew over the U.S. Capitol building on Sept. 11. An official certificate verified the flags’ authenticity.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210324065213/https://kdhnews.com/news/education/this-gift-represents-our-country-flags-flown-at-u-s-capitol-arrive-in-killeen/article_38434f74-e204-11e7-924f-934f3a3b5714.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210324065213/https://kdhnews.com/news/education/this-gift-represents-our-country-flags-flown-at-u-s-capitol-arrive-in-killeen/article_38434f74-e204-11e7-924f-934f3a3b5714.html" } ], "question": "Has a US flag ever been given as a gift by a member of Congress before?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "There is no mention of this in the United States Flag Code.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230430025838/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code" } ], "question": "Is the gift of folded U.S. flags only for fall veterans?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "2 dead, 5 injured in drive-by shooting in Edgewood neighbourhood on Saturday, June 13, 2020", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173008/https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-police-2-dead-5-injured-in-drive-by-shooting-in-edgewood-neighborhood", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-police-2-dead-5-injured-in-drive-by-shooting-in-edgewood-neighborhood" } ], "question": "Was there a drive-by shooting reported in Atlanta on Saturday, June 13, 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A description of the shooter is not available according to the news report.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173008/https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-police-2-dead-5-injured-in-drive-by-shooting-in-edgewood-neighborhood", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-police-2-dead-5-injured-in-drive-by-shooting-in-edgewood-neighborhood" } ], "question": "Who carried out the drive- by shooting?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What evidence is there that the shooter(s) were white supremacists?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Did the Trump campaign make posts on craigslist for support" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "It finally held on June 20 after being initially scheduled for June 19", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230417095609/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-delays-tulsa-rally-had-been-planned-juneteenth-n1230991", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-delays-tulsa-rally-had-been-planned-juneteenth-n1230991" } ], "question": "When did the Trump rally in Tulsa hold" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "All India Council for Technical Education", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "http://www.aicte-india.org/office/chennai" } ], "question": "What is AICTE?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "On June 5, 2020, AICTE tweeted that: Students are forwarding grievances related to conduct of semester exams. AICTE has already endorsed UGC guidelines for its approved institutions. Aggrieved students to address their concerns to university bodies who shall take judicious call based on the prevailing local situations.\n\n#Students are forwarding grievances related to conduct of semester exams. #AICTE has already endorsed UGC guidelines for its approved institutions. Aggrieved students to address their concerns to university bodies who shall take judicious call based on prevailing local situation", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134105/https://twitter.com/AICTE_INDIA/status/1268872835935567873", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/AICTE_INDIA/status/1268872835935567873" } ], "question": "What was the survey meant to be about?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "there was no Google form released by AICTE as mentioned in the viral post. Instead, aggrieved students had been asked to address their concerns to university bodies. the form is not on their site", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "http://www.aicte-india.org/office/chennai" } ], "question": "Did they issue a survey for this?" } ]

[ "Position Statement", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There are \"no plans\" for another lockdown in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted today, rejecting speculation spurred by a spike in coronavirus cases in the capital. Mr Kejriwal put out the clarification shortly after an all-party meeting called by Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the virus strategy for Delhi and its neighbouring areas.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134207/https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-arvind-kejriwal-says-no-lockdown-plans-in-delhi-amid-speculation-2246534", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-arvind-kejriwal-says-no-lockdown-plans-in-delhi-amid-speculation-2246534" } ], "question": "Was there a further lockdown in Delhi starting June 18, 2020 to contain the spread of COVID-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "June 15, 2020.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134207/https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-arvind-kejriwal-says-no-lockdown-plans-in-delhi-amid-speculation-2246534", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-arvind-kejriwal-says-no-lockdown-plans-in-delhi-amid-speculation-2246534" } ], "question": "What was the date of article stating there will not be another lockdown in June?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Mexico was one of the countries that had the lowest level of covid-19 testing [0.4]", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210126013605/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/these-are-the-oecd-countries-testing-most-for-covid-19/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210126013605/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/these-are-the-oecd-countries-testing-most-for-covid-19/" } ], "question": "what was Mexico's efforts towards the covid 19 pandemic" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Between March 18 and May 12, 4,577 death certificates were issued in Mexico City in which the words Covid-19, or coronavirus or Sars Cov 2, appear as the cause of death, confirmed or probable; that is, 3 times more deaths related to the pandemic than those reported by official figures.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123234158/https://contralacorrupcion.mx/muertes-coronavirus-cdmx/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123234158/https://contralacorrupcion.mx/muertes-coronavirus-cdmx/" } ], "question": "How many deaths were recorded in Mexico City after the claim was made" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "14/06/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was this claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "15/03/2018", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134445/https://pagesix.com/2018/03/15/matt-damon-moving-family-to-australia-because-of-trump/?_ga=2.40792994.1852433949.1521134911-1876752281.1497557429", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://pagesix.com/2018/03/15/matt-damon-moving-family-to-australia-because-of-trump/?_ga=2.40792994.1852433949.1521134911-1876752281.1497557429" } ], "question": "When was this claim first reported?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "But Damon spokeswoman Jennifer Allen told the Associated Press that while Damon had visited Australia a lot recently he had not bought a home there.\n\nAllen, who repeatedly ignored requests for comment from Page Six, told the Associated Press, “He’s not moving out of the U.S.” She did not comment about Damon’s feelings about the president.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134445/https://pagesix.com/2018/03/15/matt-damon-moving-family-to-australia-because-of-trump/?_ga=2.40792994.1852433949.1521134911-1876752281.1497557429", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://pagesix.com/2018/03/15/matt-damon-moving-family-to-australia-because-of-trump/?_ga=2.40792994.1852433949.1521134911-1876752281.1497557429" } ], "question": "Did Matt Damon respond to this claim?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Los Angeles", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134637/https://people.com/celebrity/star-tracks-monday-june-1-2020/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://people.com/celebrity/star-tracks-monday-june-1-2020/" } ], "question": "Where was Matt Damon living in June 2020?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes on May 20th 2019.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134740/https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/05/20/abele-signs-resolution-declaring-racism-public-health-crisis/3741809002/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/05/20/abele-signs-resolution-declaring-racism-public-health-crisis/3741809002/" } ], "question": "In 2019, Did the Milwaukee health department officially declare racism as a public health crisis ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Officials signed the ordinance one year after Milwaukee County passes a first-of-kind resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis in May 2019.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510134829/https://www.racialequityalliance.org/2020/05/26/milwaukee-county-passes-ordinance-on-racial-equity/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.racialequityalliance.org/2020/05/26/milwaukee-county-passes-ordinance-on-racial-equity/" } ], "question": "Did Milwaukee declared racism as a public health crisis in 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Milwaukee, both the city and county, passed resolutions last summer that were seen as important steps in addressing decades of race-based inequality.\n\n“We declared racism as a public health issue,” said Kowalik, the city’s health commissioner. “It frames not only how we do our work but how transparent we are about how things are going. It impacts how we manage an outbreak", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510051941/https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate" } ], "question": "Why did Milwaukee declare racism as a public health crisis in 2019 ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "For the first time since the first lockdown was announced on March 24, the government for the first time moved towards unlocking the country, with easing of several restrictions in non-containment areas. As per the government, like the nationwide lockdown, the unlocking will also be done in three parts. The guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Saturday comprised guidelines for phase 1 of resumption of economic activities across states. These guidelines will come into effect from June 1, 2020, and will be effective till June 30, 2020.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135019/https://www.businesstoday.in/coronavirus/story/lockdown-5-fifth-phase-coronavirus-lockdown-june-1-all-you-need-unlock-1-259814-2020-05-31", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.businesstoday.in/coronavirus/story/lockdown-5-fifth-phase-coronavirus-lockdown-june-1-all-you-need-unlock-1-259814-2020-05-31" } ], "question": "What lockdown measures has India announced for June 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Press Information Bureau (PIB), in a tweet, clarified that the government has no such plans as of yet. There is no such plan under consideration. Please beware of rumour mongers.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135120/https://twitter.com/PIBFactCheck/status/1272164436053094400?s=19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/PIBFactCheck/status/1272164436053094400?s=19" } ], "question": "Was there a complete lockdown plan in Delhi NCR by the Ministry of Home Affairs, from June 18 onwards for four weeks ?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Sarah Huckabee Sanders", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135146/https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1159217203042037761", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1159217203042037761" } ], "question": "What is the official twitter handle of Sarah Huckabee" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "It was made from a now suspended account that bore the name Sarah Hucklebee", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210820004144/https://twitter.com/account/suspended", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210820004144/https://twitter.com/account/suspended" } ], "question": "Which account was conspiratorial tweet made for" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The account is still active", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230509144141/https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee" } ], "question": "Is Sarah Huckabee's twitter account still active" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "It stated Sarah Hucklebee which is incorrect", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135306/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D10158624993130663%26set%3Da.90771730662%26type%3D3", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158624993130663&set=a.90771730662&type=3" } ], "question": "Was the twitter account that the claim was made from spelt correctly?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Derek Chauvin, a now former Minneapolis police officer, was charged with third-degree murder in connection to the death of George Floyd.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230420203105/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wife-derek-chauvin-officer-charged-murder-george-floyds/story?id=70965676", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/wife-derek-chauvin-officer-charged-murder-george-floyds/story?id=70965676" } ], "question": "Was a police officer charged with killing George Floyd?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin can receive $ 1 million in pension benefits. Even if he was found guilty of murdering George Floyd", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135333/https://voi.id/en/news/7210/derek-chauvin-retirement-benefit-rights-george-floyd-killer-cop", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://voi.id/en/news/7210/derek-chauvin-retirement-benefit-rights-george-floyd-killer-cop" }, { "answer": "The Minnesota Public Employee Pension Association confirmed that Chauvin, 44, remains eligible to apply for his pension from the age of 50,", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135333/https://voi.id/en/news/7210/derek-chauvin-retirement-benefit-rights-george-floyd-killer-cop", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://voi.id/en/news/7210/derek-chauvin-retirement-benefit-rights-george-floyd-killer-cop" } ], "question": "Is ex-officer Derek Chauvin still eligible for an officers pension?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The presence of Confederate flags have been banned from all NASCAR events, races and properties effective immediately, stock car racing's governing body announced Wednesday.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210114071440/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2020/06/10/nascar-bans-confederate-flag-all-races-events-and-properties/5337579002/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210114071440/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2020/06/10/nascar-bans-confederate-flag-all-races-events-and-properties/5337579002/" } ], "question": "What has the NASCAR authority decided to do concerning confederate flags" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "bustaroll.org", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200910145412/https://bustatroll.org/2020/06/13/dont-gas-me-bro/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200910145412/https://bustatroll.org/2020/06/13/dont-gas-me-bro/" } ], "question": "Where was this claim published?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The site is no longer online but it was a satire website.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135453/https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bustatroll-org/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bustatroll-org/" } ], "question": "What is bustaroll?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "On June 8, WHO technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove said, “We are constantly looking at this data and we’re trying to get more information from countries to truly answer this question. It still appears to be rare that an asymptomatic individual actually transmits onward.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135539/https://twitter.com/sanghaviharsh/status/1271875849843871747", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/sanghaviharsh/status/1271875849843871747" } ], "question": "What did WHO say about asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "WHO did not have the data to back up their statement", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210618231643/https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/09/who-comments-asymptomatic-spread-covid-19/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210618231643/https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/09/who-comments-asymptomatic-spread-covid-19/" } ], "question": "what data does WHO have to ascertain that asymptomatic patients dont need isolation" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

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[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "12/06/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was the claim made" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "One was posted on August 10, 2018", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210207213731/https://perma.cc/JZ87-PW65", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210207213731/https://perma.cc/JZ87-PW65" } ], "question": "When was an image used in the claim first published" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "resident Donald Trump held up a Bible during a photo opportunity in front of St. John's Episcopal Church in the midst of ongoing protests over racial inequality", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308233537/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-religion/mainstream-us-religious-leaders-criticize-trump-after-church-photo-idUSKBN23A03W", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308233537/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-religion/mainstream-us-religious-leaders-criticize-trump-after-church-photo-idUSKBN23A03W" } ], "question": "Did Donald Trump take a photo of him holding a Bible?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, said, “The symbolism of him holding a Bible … as a prop and standing in front of our church as a backdrop when everything that he has said is antithetical to the teachings of our traditions and what we stand for as a church — I was horrified,”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230426093232/https://religionnews.com/2020/06/02/ahead-of-trump-bible-photo-op-police-forcibly-expel-priest-from-st-johns-church-near-white-house/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://religionnews.com/2020/06/02/ahead-of-trump-bible-photo-op-police-forcibly-expel-priest-from-st-johns-church-near-white-house/" } ], "question": "Was Donald Trump Criticized by Christians for his photo of him holding a bible?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Only the Mainstream U.S. Protestant and Catholic leaders criticized President Donald Trump", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308233537/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-religion/mainstream-us-religious-leaders-criticize-trump-after-church-photo-idUSKBN23A03W", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308233537/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-religion/mainstream-us-religious-leaders-criticize-trump-after-church-photo-idUSKBN23A03W" } ], "question": "Could some Christians have agreed and thought the photo was Beutiful?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The annual real GDP in 2018 grew by 1.91%, which was more than double the growth rate recorded in 2017 which stood at 0.82%. In the first quarter of 2019, real GDP grew by 2.10% indicating a faster pace of expansion on a quarterly basis. In the second quarter of 2019, Nigeria’s real GDP at basic prices grew by 2.12% on a year on year basis. Growth accelerated further in the third and fourth quarters by 2.28% and 2.55%. The steady increase in quarterly growth resulted in an annual growth rate of 2.27% for 2019, compared to 1.91% in 2018 on a year on year basis.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135620/https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/elibrary/read/1007", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/elibrary/read/1007" } ], "question": "How much was the growth of the GDP in Nigeria between 2018 and 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In the first quarter of 2020, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 1.87%(year-on-year) in real terms. This performance was recorded against the backdrop of significant global disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 public health crisis, a sharp fall in oil prices and restricted international trade.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510135705/https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/elibrary/read/1100", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/elibrary/read/1100" } ], "question": "What was the GDP in Nigeria in the first quarter of 2020?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "to reduce the types of calls that officers respond to and reallocate police funding toward other community services.\n\nKailee Scales, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, said the group was calling for a \"divestment in police in order to support more teachers, mental health and restorative services, community resilience departments, social workers, and government resource liaisons.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230324082048/https://apnews.com/article/american-protests-police-donald-trump-ap-top-news-crime-157539e98d2b6a546ca5ecdf4f88f098", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://apnews.com/article/american-protests-police-donald-trump-ap-top-news-crime-157539e98d2b6a546ca5ecdf4f88f098" } ], "question": "What do activists mean by \"defund the police\"" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "While some do want to eliminate the police departments, most want to reallocate funding", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230324082048/https://apnews.com/article/american-protests-police-donald-trump-ap-top-news-crime-157539e98d2b6a546ca5ecdf4f88f098", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://apnews.com/article/american-protests-police-donald-trump-ap-top-news-crime-157539e98d2b6a546ca5ecdf4f88f098" } ], "question": "Does this mean breaking up the police force?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The movement was born in 2013, after the man who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was cleared of his murder. A Californian activist, Alicia Garza, responded to the jury’s decision on Facebook with a post that ended: “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.” The hashtag was born, and continued to grow in prominence with each new incident and protest.\n\nThe formal organization that sprung from the protests started with the goal of highlighting the disproportionate number of incidences in which a police officer killed a member of the black community. But it soon gained international recognition, after the death of Michael Brown in Missouri a year later.\n\nBlack Lives Matter now describes itself as a “chapter-based national organization working for the validity of black life”. It has developed to include the issues of black women and LGBT communities, undocumented black people and black people with disabilities.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230331051341/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/black-lives-matter-movement-explained/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/black-lives-matter-movement-explained/" } ], "question": "What is Black Lives Matter?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "A spokesperson said: \"It has recently come to our attention at the African Community Edinburgh, the organisers of the Black Lives Matter protest at Holyrood Park, that posters and flyers have been produced with the heading 'shoot whites on sight, silence is violence' claiming to be from Black Lives Matter. \n\n\"We categorically deny that these were created on our behalf and we denounce such hate speech.\n\n\"We are not affiliated with Antifa, or any political party, as we are a grassroots network mobilised to bring attention to the plight of black people worldwide in order to end institutionalised racism, state sanctioned violence and anti-black and brown racism.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210116115108/https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/fake-kill-white-flyers-edinburgh-18423128", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210116115108/https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/fake-kill-white-flyers-edinburgh-18423128" } ], "question": "Has Black Lives Matter given any comments on alledged images with text attacking white people?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Is there any reports of Black Lives Matter antagonising white people with racial attacks?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The economy exited the recession in the second quarter of 2017 when it grew by 0.6% in real terms, according to the NBS. The recovery was driven by the performance of four economic activities: oil, agriculture, manufacturing and trade.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173815/https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/reports/nigeria/2017-report/economy/onwards-and-upwards-growth-has-begun-to-pick-up-following-the-recession-in-2016", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/overview/onwards-and-upwards-growth-has-begun-pick-following-recession-2016#:~:text=The%20economy%20exited%20the%20recession,%2C%20agriculture%2C%20manufacturing%20and%20trade." } ], "question": "Did Nigeria come out of recession in 2017?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Please see graph.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230409185147/https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NGA/nigeria/gdp-growth-rate", "source_medium": "Other", "source_url": "https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NGA/nigeria/gdp-growth-rate" } ], "question": "Since 2017 has Nigeria's GDP gone up in 11 quarters?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nigerian economy grows by 2.27% in 2019", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230314163420/https://nairametrics.com/2020/02/24/nigerian-economy-grows-by-2-27-post-highest-quarterly-growth-since-2016-recession/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nairametrics.com/2020/02/24/nigerian-economy-grows-by-2-27-post-highest-quarterly-growth-since-2016-recession/" } ], "question": "What was Nigeria's GDP in 2019" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What was Nigeria's GDP in 2018" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nigeria Records 1.87% Growth in Q1", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140052/https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/05/25/nigeria-records-1-87-growth-in-q1/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/05/25/nigeria-records-1-87-growth-in-q1/" } ], "question": "Nigeria's GDP in Q1 of 2020" } ]

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[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "At least 18 countries had positive growth rates in the first quarter of 2020, but only two – Chile and Russia – grew when compared to the last quarter of 2019", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210128065406/https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryName=350", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210128065406/https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryName=350" } ], "question": "Did any country not suffer a decline in their economy due to the Covid pandemic?" } ]

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[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "For Sesame seeds Nigeria exported $160.54 million in 2020 and $129.5 million which gives a difference of $31 million", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What was the total increase between 2019 and 2020 in the sesame seed export n Nigeria" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "$182.94 million in 2020 and $106.4 million in 2019 which gives a difference of $76.54 million", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What is the total increase in the export of Cocoa in Nigeria between 2019 and 2020" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No there were no openings at the time", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210717004129/https://www.who.int/about/scamalert/en/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210717004129/https://www.who.int/about/scamalert/en/" } ], "question": "Were there Job openings at WHO during the pandemic" } ]

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[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The economies with the most notable improvement in\nDoing Business 2020 are Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain,\nTajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, China, India, and Nigeria.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210114100519/http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/688761571934946384/pdf/Doing-Business-2020-Comparing-Business-Regulation-in-190-Economies.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210114100519/http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/688761571934946384/pdf/Doing-Business-2020-Comparing-Business-Regulation-in-190-Economies.pdf" } ], "question": "What economies are are improving as regards ease of doing business" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "10th", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210114100519/http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/688761571934946384/pdf/Doing-Business-2020-Comparing-Business-Regulation-in-190-Economies.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210114100519/http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/688761571934946384/pdf/Doing-Business-2020-Comparing-Business-Regulation-in-190-Economies.pdf" } ], "question": "What rank is Nigeria amongst these improving economies" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "$33.42 Billion.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210119191359/https://www.cbn.gov.ng/intops/reserve.asp", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210119191359/https://www.cbn.gov.ng/intops/reserve.asp" } ], "question": "What was Nigeria's External reserve on 29th April 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "$36.59 Billion", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210119191359/https://www.cbn.gov.ng/intops/reserve.asp", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210119191359/https://www.cbn.gov.ng/intops/reserve.asp" } ], "question": "What was Nigeria's external reserve on 29th May 2020?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What does “when the looting starts, the shooting starts\" mean?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What is the saying “when the looting starts, the shooting starts\" linked to?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Looters target gun stores to steal guns.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230327160234/https://www.foxnews.com/us/rioters-target-loot-gun-stores", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.foxnews.com/us/rioters-target-loot-gun-stores" } ], "question": "Are guns used during looting?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The “looting/shooting” phrase is traced back to Walter Headley, police chief of Miami from 1948 until his death in November 1968. In a press conference on Dec. 27, 1967, commenting on a new “get tough” policy he planned to institute to police the city’s black neighborhoods, Headley said: “We haven’t had any serious problems with civil uprising and looting because I’ve let the world filter down that when the looting starts, the shooting starts. These are my orders: Not three days after, but now. This is war. I meant it, every bit of it.”", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140142/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-looting-shooting-racist-history.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-looting-shooting-racist-history.html" } ], "question": "What is the history behind 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts'?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "After backlash, President Donald Trump, clarified that “Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. … I didn’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means.”", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140142/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-looting-shooting-racist-history.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-looting-shooting-racist-history.html" } ], "question": "Did Donald Trump mean Walter Headley version of the saying 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes Trump did say that statement.\nWhen the looting starts, the shooting starts, phrase means two things, 1) If there’s looting, there’s probably going to be shooting.\n2) It should not be taken as a threat, that’s just a fact, because that’s what happens. \nAn example to this incident is that in 1967 , the African American men took advantage of the civil rights campaign and did a series of robberies \nin the African american community of Liberty city. At that time the police chiefs picked up this statement where the looting starts, the shooting starts . \nThis phrase aimed to instill fear in African Americans. Trump’s use of the slogan retains that power, Pauley said, \"while simultaneously communicating a tough, law-and-order ethos to his supporters.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230427173351/https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts" } ], "question": "Did Trump say that when the looting starts, the shooting starts and what are the two things it means ?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The perscription was confirmed fake by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and the signature forged", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200715175955im_/https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/747457553940942849/1583985012/1500x500", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200715175955im_/https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/747457553940942849/1583985012/1500x500" } ], "question": "Does a prescription written by Dr Raj Kamal Agarwal prescribe medicine to prevent or cure COVID-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "As of June 22, 2020, the World Health Organization maintains that “there are no medicines that have been shown to prevent or cure” COVID-19.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201030020652/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201030020652/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses" } ], "question": "At the time of the claim were any medicines available to prevent or cure covid 19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "No, Doctor never gave any such prescription and was confirmed fake by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. The hospital even falsified the claim on twitter.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140307/https://twitter.com/sgrhindia/status/1271114974199336960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1271114974199336960%7Ctwgr%5E58c4d4823b90ff6b4c66752d998db86470237ecb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthelogicalindian.com%2Ffact-check%2Fsir-ganga-ram-hospital-sgrhi-delhi-covid-19-icmr-21668", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/sgrhindia/status/1271114974199336960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1271114974199336960%7Ctwgr%5E58c4d4823b90ff6b4c66752d998db86470237ecb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthelogicalindian.com%2Ffact-check%2Fsir-ganga-ram-hospital-sgrhi-delhi-covid-19-icmr-21668" } ], "question": "Did a prescription written by Dr Raj Kamal Agarwal prescribe medicine to prevent or cure COVID-19?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nigeria battled recession in the year 2016", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210130082541/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37228741", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210130082541/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37228741" } ], "question": "has Nigeria battled recession" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In the second quarter of 2017, there was 0.72% GDP growth.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220305104135/https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/NBS%20GDP%20Q4%202017%20FULL%20REPORT_.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/NBS%20GDP%20Q4%202017%20FULL%20REPORT_.pdf" } ], "question": "When did Nigeria see its first sign of recovery from the recession?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The fourth quarter of 2016 was at -1.73% GDP", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220305104135/https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/NBS%20GDP%20Q4%202017%20FULL%20REPORT_.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/NBS%20GDP%20Q4%202017%20FULL%20REPORT_.pdf" } ], "question": "What was the last quarter for 2016 GDP in Nigeria?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Q1- 1.95\nQ2- 1.50\nQ3- 1.81\nQ4- 2.38", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230328105327/https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/assets/pdf/nigeria-economic-alert-q4-2020-gdp.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/assets/pdf/nigeria-economic-alert-q4-2020-gdp.pdf" } ], "question": "What were all the quarterly GDP percentages for 2018 in Nigeria?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Q1 - 2.10\nQ2 -2.12 \nQ3 - 2.28 \nQ4 - 2.55", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230328105327/https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/assets/pdf/nigeria-economic-alert-q4-2020-gdp.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/assets/pdf/nigeria-economic-alert-q4-2020-gdp.pdf" } ], "question": "What were all the quarterly GDP percentages for 2019 in Nigeria?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "1.87", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230328105327/https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/assets/pdf/nigeria-economic-alert-q4-2020-gdp.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/assets/pdf/nigeria-economic-alert-q4-2020-gdp.pdf" } ], "question": "What was the first quarter for 2020 GDP in Nigeria?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "12/06/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was this claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Q1- 0.91%\nQ2- 0.72%\nQ3- 1.40%\nQ4- 1.92%", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220305104135/https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/NBS%20GDP%20Q4%202017%20FULL%20REPORT_.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/NBS%20GDP%20Q4%202017%20FULL%20REPORT_.pdf" } ], "question": "What were all the quarterly GDP percentages for 2017 in Nigeria?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Doing Business 2020 ranks Nigeria in 10th place. It said the country had improved the ease of starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting electricity, cross-border trading and enforcing contracts.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210130082541/http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/688761571934946384/pdf/Doing-Business-2020-Comparing-Business-Regulation-in-190-Economies.pdf#page=20", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210130082541/http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/688761571934946384/pdf/Doing-Business-2020-Comparing-Business-Regulation-in-190-Economies.pdf#page=20" } ], "question": "What is Nigeria'S postion in the ranking of reforming countries" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "business ranking", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What rating topic is this claim based on?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Unless the Speaker, for the convenience of\nthe House otherwise directs, the House shall\nmeet at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday and at 2.30\np.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but\nmore than one sitting may be directed during the same day.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230852/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Standing-Orders-Kenya-Parliament-4th-Edition.pdf#page=60", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230852/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Standing-Orders-Kenya-Parliament-4th-Edition.pdf#page=60" } ], "question": "On what days of the week does the Kenyan parliament sit?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "(c) to meet on any other day, in order to\ntransact business.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230852/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Standing-Orders-Kenya-Parliament-4th-Edition.pdf#page=60", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230852/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Standing-Orders-Kenya-Parliament-4th-Edition.pdf#page=60" } ], "question": "Do parliament sit on other days of the week?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "5 days (Monday to Friday and do not sit on public holidays)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How many days does the Kenyan judiciary sit in a week?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "During public holidays, the judicial staff may be required to \"perform certain essential duties.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230635/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judiciary-HR-MANUAL.pdf#page=57", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230635/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judiciary-HR-MANUAL.pdf#page=57" } ], "question": "Can the Kenyan judicial staff be called in to work on public holidays?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "During presidential election petition hearings in 2013 and in 2017, the judiciary sat on Saturday and Sunday.", "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Has the Kenyan judiciary ever sat on Saturday and Sunday?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "\"Courts do not usually sit on Saturday or Sunday unless they have express permission from the chief justice in writing, and that has to be under exceptional circumstances,\" Catherine Wambui", "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Does the Kenyan judiciary usually sit on Saturday and Sunday?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In late November 1781 between 132 to 142 African people were dumped overboard of the ship called \"Zong\" to drown because ships’ supplies were running low. They were drowned because the insurance would pay for an “accident,” but not if the slaves were allowed to starve.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140521/https://limerick1914.medium.com/how-the-african-victims-of-the-zong-massacre-were-replaced-with-irish-slaves-2574dac1fc55", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://limerick1914.medium.com/how-the-african-victims-of-the-zong-massacre-were-replaced-with-irish-slaves-2574dac1fc55" } ], "question": "Was there a recorded incident in 18th century where 100 slaves were dumped overboard due to ship supplies running low?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No, there were only Africans with the crew.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140521/https://limerick1914.medium.com/how-the-african-victims-of-the-zong-massacre-were-replaced-with-irish-slaves-2574dac1fc55", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://limerick1914.medium.com/how-the-african-victims-of-the-zong-massacre-were-replaced-with-irish-slaves-2574dac1fc55" } ], "question": "Were there Irish slaves on the Zong?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "2018/19 financial year shows the judiciary had 5,584 employees on 30 June 2019. These were 153 judges, 546 magistrates and 4,885 other employees including registrars, legal researchers, law clerks and court assistants.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220721124655/https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/CJ-David-Maraga-Speech-Jan23-2020.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/CJ-David-Maraga-Speech-Jan23-2020.pdf" } ], "question": "Does Kenya's Judiciary has almost 7,000 employees?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Judiciary of Kenya is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in Kenya.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140610/https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/09/how-kenya-cleaned-up-its-courts/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/09/how-kenya-cleaned-up-its-courts/" } ], "question": "What is the kenyan Judiciary?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "he judiciary had 5,584 employees on 30 June 2019. These were 153 judges, 546 magistrates and 4,885 other employees including registrars, legal researchers, law clerks and court assistants.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127234136/https://africacheck.org//wp-content/uploads/2020/06/State-of-the-Judiciary-Report-2018-19.pdf#page=240", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127234136/https://africacheck.org//wp-content/uploads/2020/06/State-of-the-Judiciary-Report-2018-19.pdf#page=240" } ], "question": "How many employees does the Kenyan Judiciary have?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "KSh37.3 billion", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140647/https://www.rsm.global/kenya/insights/sector-insights/kenya-budget-highlights-2020-2021", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.rsm.global/kenya/insights/sector-insights/kenya-budget-highlights-2020-2021" } ], "question": "What was the proposed funding to parliament by the finance minister?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "KSh18.1 billion", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140647/https://www.rsm.global/kenya/insights/sector-insights/kenya-budget-highlights-2020-2021", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.rsm.global/kenya/insights/sector-insights/kenya-budget-highlights-2020-2021" } ], "question": "How much was paid to the Judiciary?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "48%", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140647/https://www.rsm.global/kenya/insights/sector-insights/kenya-budget-highlights-2020-2021", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.rsm.global/kenya/insights/sector-insights/kenya-budget-highlights-2020-2021" } ], "question": "How much does this work out as the parliaments allocation?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "722 days", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20221225210623/https://media.snopes.com/2018/08/legleitnersentencing.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://media.snopes.com/2018/08/legleitnersentencing.pdf" } ], "question": "What prison sentence did Chase Legleitner receive for armed robbery?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "26 years", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140759/https://media.snopes.com/2018/08/lloydsentencing.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://media.snopes.com/2018/08/lloydsentencing.pdf" } ], "question": "What prison sentence did Lamar Lloyd receive for armed robbery?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Did British writer and former communist Philip Spratt, write that \n''in 1939. Gujarat, though economically advanced, is culturally a backward province… . Bengal in contrast is economically backward but culturally advanced'' ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "the state of Gujarat was only formed in May1,1960,", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140923/https://dgfasli.gov.in/en/book-page/background-information-about-state-gujarat", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://dgfasli.gov.in/en/book-page/background-information-about-state-gujarat" } ], "question": "Could Philip Spratt have made a reference to Gujarat in 1939?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Irish scholar Liam Hogan has been tracking and debunking this reincarnated meme since he first saw it in 2013. Last year, Hogan published an impressive five-part series exposing the myth and provided a detailed historical analysis of the origins and evolution of the meme.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230417144339/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/19/how-myth-irish-slaves-became-favorite-meme-racists-online", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/19/how-myth-irish-slaves-became-favorite-meme-racists-online" } ], "question": "In the 1600's were there Irish slaves in the US?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "According to the BAC 2020-21 report, the estimated budget for debt repayments is Ksh904.7 billion.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173909/http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf" } ], "question": "How much money has been set aside for debt repayment in Kenya?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The development budget was approved by the budget committee at KSh637.6 billion.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173909/http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf" } ], "question": "How much money has been budgeted for development expenditures in Kenya?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The committee claimed that the expense of debt financing “actually consumes more financial resources than development expenditure for which the debt is obtained”,", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173909/http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf" } ], "question": "Is the amount set aside for repayment of debt in Kenya much higher than all the money that Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani is putting together for development expenditure?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar Michael Pelletier did announce in April that the U.S. would allocate $2.5 million in health assistance to Madagascar to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200615213406/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afW5Zq6fcFk&feature=youtu.be", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200615213406/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afW5Zq6fcFk&feature=youtu.be" } ], "question": "Did the US approve $2.5m in aid for Madagascar?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "There is no mention of this in the video.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200615213406/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afW5Zq6fcFk&feature=youtu.be", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200615213406/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afW5Zq6fcFk&feature=youtu.be" } ], "question": "Does the announcement mention the funds are to be used for Herbal medicine?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Madagascar: $2.5 million in health assistance to address the outbreak by strengthening laboratory capacity for diagnostics; deploying mobile laboratories for decentralized diagnosis; improving regional and District surveillance, including data systems and the training of community health volunteers in contact-tracing; promoting risk-communications and community-engagement activities, including a staffed hotline, mass-media campaigns and prevention messages; the training of health professionals infection and prevention control training, procurement of essential health commodities, and improvements in waste management", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200618024924/https://www.state.gov/update-the-united-states-continues-to-lead-the-global-response-to-covid-19/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200618024924/https://www.state.gov/update-the-united-states-continues-to-lead-the-global-response-to-covid-19/" } ], "question": "What is the purpose of the funds?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "As early as 1526, enslaved Africans were part of a Spanish expedition to establish an outpost on the North American coast in present-day South Carolina", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210208022014/https://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacy-of-1619-rethinking-the-history-of-africans-in-early-america/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210208022014/https://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacy-of-1619-rethinking-the-history-of-africans-in-early-america/" }, { "answer": "As early as 1526, enslaved Africans were part of a Spanish expedition to establish an outpost on the North American coast in present-day South Carolina", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210208022014/https://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacy-of-1619-rethinking-the-history-of-africans-in-early-america/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210208022014/https://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacy-of-1619-rethinking-the-history-of-africans-in-early-america/" } ], "question": "What year did the first slave ships arrive in the American colonies?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "between 1610 and 1619 no record of white children or white slaves being shipped to the American colonies appears in The Library of Congress records.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210206182458/https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/articles-and-essays/virginia-records-timeline-1553-to-1743/1610-to-1619/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210206182458/https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/articles-and-essays/virginia-records-timeline-1553-to-1743/1610-to-1619/" } ], "question": "Were any white slaves recorded as being sent to American colonies around 1619?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The most common form of forced labor in the history of civilization is slavery. Servitude is the general term used to describe all types of forced labor. It is derived from the Latin noun servus, which really means “slave,” though it is recognizable as the source of “servant” as well. Throughout the ancient world, anyone who functioned as a servant was usually a slave.\n\nIn the kind of servitude called slavery, the laborer is considered property. He or she can be bought and sold like any other commodity. The origins of slavery are unknown, but it probably emerged as an economic necessity or convenience when people began to establish permanent communities based on agriculture.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230317174012/https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/slavery-and-serfdom/277088", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/slavery-and-serfdom/277088" } ], "question": "What is the difference between slavery and servitude?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "White workers were not under slavery but indentured servitude. Indentured servitude was used as a form of contract labor in the British colonies of North America. Large numbers of German, English, and Scottish colonists arrived in North America as indentured servants. Some of them had been convicted criminals at home. The shortage of labor in the colonies occasionally led to people being kidnapped in Europe and transported to the Americas as indentured servants. The normal term of a contract was from four to seven years, after which the servant became free. This kind of contract was one means by which people too poor to come to the colonies were able to pay for their transportation. Contracts were often made with ship captains who, upon arrival in North America, sold the contracts to someone else.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230317174012/https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/slavery-and-serfdom/277088", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/slavery-and-serfdom/277088" } ], "question": "Were white workers in American colonies called slaves?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A law enacted in 1723 provided that for someone standing accused of manslaughter to be acquitted he\nhad only to show that the slain victim was Irish. Anglo- Norman priests granted absolution on the grounds\nthat it was ‘no more sin to kill an Irishman than a dog or any other brute’.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20221206172731/http://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/white_cargo_-_the_forgotten_history_of_britains_white_slaves_in_america__~_2007.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/white_cargo_-_the_forgotten_history_of_britains_white_slaves_in_america__~_2007.pdf" } ], "question": "Was it equally sinful to kill a dog as an Irishman in 1619" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A law enacted in 1723 provided that for someone standing accused of manslaughter to be acquitted he\nhad only to show that the slain victim was Irish. Anglo- Norman priests granted absolution on the grounds\nthat it was ‘no more sin to kill an Irishman than a dog or any other brute’.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20221206172731/http://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/white_cargo_-_the_forgotten_history_of_britains_white_slaves_in_america__~_2007.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/white_cargo_-_the_forgotten_history_of_britains_white_slaves_in_america__~_2007.pdf" }, { "answer": "A law enacted in 1723 provided that for someone standing accused of manslaughter to be acquitted he\nhad only to show that the slain victim was Irish. Anglo- Norman priests granted absolution on the grounds\nthat it was ‘no more sin to kill an Irishman than a dog or any other brute’.\n\nThis was over 100 years after the year stated in the claim.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20221206172731/http://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/white_cargo_-_the_forgotten_history_of_britains_white_slaves_in_america__~_2007.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/white_cargo_-_the_forgotten_history_of_britains_white_slaves_in_america__~_2007.pdf" } ], "question": "Was it equally sinful to kill a dog as an Irishman in 1619?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "5 days (Monday to Friday and do not sit on public holidays)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How many days does the Kenyan judiciary sit in a week?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "During public holidays, the judicial staff may be required to \"perform certain essential duties.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230635/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judiciary-HR-MANUAL.pdf#page=57", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230635/https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judiciary-HR-MANUAL.pdf#page=57" } ], "question": "Can judicial staff be called in to work on public holidays?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "During presidential election petition hearings in 2013 and in 2017, the judiciary sat on Saturday and Sunday.", "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Has the judiciary ever sat on Saturday and Sunday?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "“Courts do not usually sit on Saturday or Sunday unless they have express permission from the chief justice in writing, and that has to be under exceptional circumstances,” Catherine Wambui", "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Do the judiciary usually sit on Saturday and Sunday?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What are Kenyan law courts normal opening hours?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The country’s debt is rising at an alarming level and there is need to manage the same to protect the current and future generations", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510141537/https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/Bill-sets-stage-for-agency-to-manage-public-debt/3946234-5583150-14gcrhg/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/Bill-sets-stage-for-agency-to-manage-public-debt/3946234-5583150-14gcrhg/index.html" } ], "question": "Is there an issue with debt in Kenya?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Has money been set aside for debt repayment and how much is it?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In a 2020/21 financial report from the national assembly's budget committee, the budget for debt repayment is estimated at Ksh904.7 billion.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173909/http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf" } ], "question": "How much has been budgeted for debt repayment?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The committee said in the 2020/21 financial report that the cost of debt financing \"actually consumes more financial resources than development expenditure for which the debt is obtained.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173909/http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf" } ], "question": "What did the budget committee say regarding the repayment of debt being much higher than all the money Yatani is putting together for development expenditures?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "KSh637.6 billion was approved by the budget committee as the development budget.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515173909/http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2020-06/REPORT%20OF%20BAC%202020-21.pdf" } ], "question": "How much money was approved for development projects by the budget committee?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Mapping Police Violence project does not record instances of “people who were killed by a civilian driver or crashed without being hit directly by police during a police pursuit”. South Africa, on the other hand, records all deaths due to collisions “while being pursued by police”.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210720220224/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210720220224/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/" } ], "question": "Do police officers kill more people in South Africa or in America?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A common theory suggests that cancer is caused by a deficiency in vitamin B17", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510141819/https://dspace.alquds.edu/items/91627728-f818-4a12-9697-d0c4e642d2c6", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://dspace.alquds.edu/items/91627728-f818-4a12-9697-d0c4e642d2c6" } ], "question": "What can a Vitamin B17 deficiency cause on the body?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Vitamin B17 (Amygdalin, Nitrilosides, or laetrile) – A substance found in a number of seeds, sprouts, beans, tubers and grains. While toxic in large quantities, proponents claim that it is effective in cancer treatment and prevention", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510141855/https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/B_vitamins", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/B_vitamins" } ], "question": "What do proponents of vitamin B17 suggest it can help with?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230220072256/https://www.gov.za/about-government/contact-directory/departments/departments/independent-police-investigative", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.gov.za/about-government/contact-directory/departments/departments/independent-police-investigative" } ], "question": "What is the name of the department investigating the police service in South Africa?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "217 cases of torture and 3,661 cases of assault", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230420133920/https://www.ipid.gov.za/sites/default/files/documents/IPID_AR_2017_WEB_0.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://www.ipid.gov.za/sites/default/files/documents/IPID_AR_2017_WEB_0.pdf#page=39" } ], "question": "In their annual report, how many cases of torture and assault were reported against the police in 2018?" } ]

[ "Position Statement", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, the number of U.S. troops in Germany has been steadily reduced from about 200,000.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142003/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-military-trump/trumps-troop-cut-in-germany-blindsided-senior-u-s-officials-idUSKBN23G0BE?il=0", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-military-trump/trumps-troop-cut-in-germany-blindsided-senior-u-s-officials-idUSKBN23G0BE?il=0" } ], "question": "Are U.S military troops stationed in Germany?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Trump decided to remove 9,500 troops from Germany, one of America’s strongest allies, reducing the number there to 25,000 from 34,500, a senior U.S. official said in 2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142003/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-military-trump/trumps-troop-cut-in-germany-blindsided-senior-u-s-officials-idUSKBN23G0BE?il=0", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-military-trump/trumps-troop-cut-in-germany-blindsided-senior-u-s-officials-idUSKBN23G0BE?il=0" } ], "question": "Did Donald Trump want to remove more military troops from Germany in 2020?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "558 people", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210509043903/http://www.ipid.gov.za/sites/default/files/documents/IPID_AR_2017_WEB_0.pdf#page=43", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210509043903/http://www.ipid.gov.za/sites/default/files/documents/IPID_AR_2017_WEB_0.pdf#page=43" } ], "question": "How many people were killed by the South African police in 2018" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "201 people", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210509043903/http://www.ipid.gov.za/sites/default/files/documents/IPID_AR_2017_WEB_0.pdf#page=39", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210509043903/http://www.ipid.gov.za/sites/default/files/documents/IPID_AR_2017_WEB_0.pdf#page=39" } ], "question": "How many people died in police custody in 2018" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "17.6", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230410034842/https://www.bls.gov/news.release/flex2.t01.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/flex2.t01.htm" }, { "answer": "19.7%", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201227063336/https://www.bls.gov/news.release/flex2.t01.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201227063336/https://www.bls.gov/news.release/flex2.t01.htm" } ], "question": "What percentage of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home during COVID-19 ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Before the crisis hit, many Black and Latino workers held jobs done outside the home. Only 35.4 percent of Black adults and 25.2 percent of Latino adults reported they can do part of their work remotely, compared with 43.4 percent of white adults. Though reporting somewhat higher averages, these estimates largely correspond with earlier US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data on racial and ethnic differences in the ability to work from home.\n\nDifferences in who can telework could indicate who’s at higher risk of losing a job, hours, or income. But despite multiple sources showing Black and Latino adults are less able to work from home compared with white adults, families of nonelderly Black adults experienced only minimally higher rates of job loss.\n\nBlack workers in particular are disproportionately employed in many of the jobs considered “essential,” suggesting Black workers may experience less drastic job losses than would be expected.\nTable: risky jobs", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230308143054/https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/how-covid-19-affecting-black-and-latino-families-employment-and-financial-well-being", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/how-covid-19-affecting-black-and-latino-families-employment-and-financial-well-being" } ], "question": "Did COVID-19 Affected Black/African Americans ?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Grape Seed Extract is derived from the oil that comes from ground red wine grapes. The extract contains a substance called proanthocyanidin which has antioxidant activities.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230322185243/https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/grape-seed", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/grape-seed" } ], "question": "What ingredient in grape seeds is purported to cure cancer?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Although it has antioxidant properties, grape seed has not been shown to treat or prevent cancer.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230322185243/https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/grape-seed", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/grape-seed" }, { "answer": "The following article states:\n\n2009 Sep; 139(9): 1806S–1812S.\ndoi: 10.3945/jn.109.106864\nPMCID: PMC2728696\nPMID: 19640973\nAnticancer and Cancer Chemopreventive Potential of Grape Seed Extract and Other Grape-Based Products\n\nOverall, completed studies from various scientific groups conclude that both grapes and grape-based products are excellent sources of various anticancer agents and their regular consumption should thus be beneficial to the general population.\n\nApart from the anticancer and chemopreventive efficacy of GSE against skin, colorectal, prostate, and breast cancers discussed above in detail, anticancer efficacy of this extract has also been observed against human lung cancer A427, A549, and H1299 cells, human gastric adenocarcinoma CRL-1739 cells, oral squamous cell carcinoma", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230426220802/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728696/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728696/" } ], "question": "Is proanthocyanidin a proven cancer cure?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Amygdalin is a plant substance found in raw nuts, bitter almonds, as well as apricot and cherry seeds.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142243/https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile" } ], "question": "What ingredient in bitter almonds is purported to cure cancer?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Laetrile is a man-made form of amygdalin, a plant substance found in some nuts, plants and seeds of fruit.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142243/https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile" } ], "question": "What is laetrile?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Laetrile has been used as an anti cancer agent since the 1800’s. It is used either on its own or as part of a programme. This might include following a particular diet, high dose vitamin supplements and pancreatic enzymes.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142243/https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile" } ], "question": "Why do people with cancer use laetrile?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Although, more recent studies have shown that laetrile can kill cancer cells in certain cancer types there is not enough reliable scientific evidence to show that laetrile or amygdalin can treat cancer. Despite this, it still gets promoted as an alternative cancer treatment.\n\nThere is not enough reliable evidence that it works.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142243/https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile" } ], "question": "Is laetrile a proven cancer cure?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "When we searched on the Internet to check the claim attributed to the WHO, we found that WHO had no records on linking cancer to vitamin B17 or deficiency. With grapes as the content of the claim, we found several research articles from authentic sources declaring there is no proven scientific research that consuming grapes would treat cancer.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142243/https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/laetrile" } ], "question": "Does consuming grapes cures cancer as it contains vitamin B17 ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Democrats have won six out of the last twelve presidential elections, winning in the presidential elections of 1976 (with 39th President Jimmy Carter, 1977–1981), 1992 and 1996 (with 42nd President Bill Clinton, 1993–2001), 2008 and 2012 (with 44th President Barack Obama, 2009–2017), and 2020 (with 46th President Joe Biden, 2021–present).", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230314194124/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Democratic_Party_(United_States)", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Democratic_Party_(United_States)#:~:text=Democrats%20have%20won%20six%20out,2020%20(with%2046th%20President%20Joe" } ], "question": "Who won the presidential elections from the democratic party in the USA?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Second place after Hillary Clinton.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230502221226/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-more-than-40-years-of-early-primary-polls-tell-us-about-2020-part-2/", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-more-than-40-years-of-early-primary-polls-tell-us-about-2020-part-2/" } ], "question": "Where did Barack Obama rank in the polls leading up to the presidential elections in 2008?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Second place.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142508/https://news.gallup.com/poll/10120/history-shows-january-frontrunner-often-does-win-democratic-nomination.aspx", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://news.gallup.com/poll/10120/history-shows-january-frontrunner-often-does-win-democratic-nomination.aspx" } ], "question": "Where did Bill Clinton rank in the polls leading up to the presidential elections in 1992?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Fourth place.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142508/https://news.gallup.com/poll/10120/history-shows-january-frontrunner-often-does-win-democratic-nomination.aspx", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://news.gallup.com/poll/10120/history-shows-january-frontrunner-often-does-win-democratic-nomination.aspx" } ], "question": "Where did Jimmy Carter rank in the polls leading up to the presidential elections in 1976?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In April and May 2020, posts claimed that there had been no COVID-19 deaths in Israel.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210624090150im_/https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/bodyeditor/202006/image_1_0-x452.png?msTa.1OU.80gUV_ctu34f9UwYH_ti4ec", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210624090150im_/https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/bodyeditor/202006/image_1_0-x452.png?msTa.1OU.80gUV_ctu34f9UwYH_ti4ec" } ], "question": "When were social posts saying that there had been no deaths from COVID-19 in Israel because a drink of hot water with lemon and baking powder has been proven to kill the COVID-19 virus." }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "On 16 March 2020... the Israeli health system, which serves a population of 8.7 million people, was facing 255 cases of confirmed infection with the causative coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and 5 COVID-19-related deaths.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230314210724/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0927-z", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0927-z" } ], "question": "How many deaths did Israel attribute to COVID-19 by May 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Experts say drinking lemon and baking soda won’t ward off COVID-19, nor has any other herbal remedy been proven to help", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142627/https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-an-herbal-cure-has-not-spared-israelis-from-the-coronavirus/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-an-herbal-cure-has-not-spared-israelis-from-the-coronavirus/" } ], "question": "What do the media say about the lemon and bicarbonate of soda hot tea drink's ability to kill the COVID-19 virus?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "No results for \"\"we wont be rebuilding Walmarts in cities without police\" (from Walmart on twitter)", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140151/https://twitter.com/login", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/search?q=%22we%20wont%20be%20rebuilding%20Walmarts%20in%20cities%20without%20police%22%20(from%3AWalmart)&src=typed_query" } ], "question": "Did Walmart tweet \"We wont be Rebuilding Walmarts in Cities without police\"" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A facebook post from Facebook user M. Cody Clifton", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200909211847/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157247843507011&set=a.376354472010&type=3&theater", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200909211847/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157247843507011&set=a.376354472010&type=3&theater" } ], "question": "What tweet does the claim refer to?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "False, the tweet appears to be fabricated", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200909211847/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157247843507011&set=a.376354472010&type=3&theater", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200909211847/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157247843507011&set=a.376354472010&type=3&theater" } ], "question": "Is the post from Facebook user M. Cody Clifton confirmed real?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "June 9th 2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What is the date of the claim?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "North Korea announced around the 9th of June that North Korea said it was suspending contact in anger at activist defectors who have fled to the South", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210722054124/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-says-it-has-severed-all-communication-south-korea-n1228146", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210722054124/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-says-it-has-severed-all-communication-south-korea-n1228146" } ], "question": "Did North Korea declare it was cutting communication with South Korea around June 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "South Korea confirmed that North Korea did not answer its military hotline for the first time since it was restored in 2018, according to a defense ministry spokeswoman.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421134909mp_/https://survivalupdate.com/north-korea-has-severed-all-communication-with-south-korea/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421134909mp_/https://survivalupdate.com/north-korea-has-severed-all-communication-with-south-korea/" } ], "question": "Did North Korea actually stop communicating with South Korea as it announced it would?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The horses were rehomed in 2011 after their owner Lynn Boggs had passed on in Ohio", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200810153143/https://heatherclemenceau.wordpress.com/tag/lynn-boggs/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200810153143/https://heatherclemenceau.wordpress.com/tag/lynn-boggs/" } ], "question": "When and why were the 52 horses being rehom" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Vitamin D may strengthen the immune system, particularly of people whose Vitamin D levels are low", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419170759/https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/former-cdc-chief-tom-frieden-coronavirus-risk-may-be-reduced-with-vitamin-d", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419170759/https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/former-cdc-chief-tom-frieden-coronavirus-risk-may-be-reduced-with-vitamin-d" }, { "answer": "Vitamin D supplements might protect against respiratory infections - particularly in patients who were very vitamin D deficient.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210423071426/https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210423071426/https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583" } ], "question": "How can Vitamin D help reduce COVID-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "We found no clinical evidence on vitamin D in COVID-19. There was no evidence related to vitamin D deficiency predisposing to COVID-19, nor were there studies of supplementation for preventing or treating COVID-19.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419170802/https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/vitamin-d-a-rapid-review-of-the-evidence-for-treatment-or-prevention-in-covid-19/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419170802/https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/vitamin-d-a-rapid-review-of-the-evidence-for-treatment-or-prevention-in-covid-19/" } ], "question": "Is there evidence to suggest that vitamin D could prevent or treat COVID-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "“There are many crackpot claims about miracle cures floating around,” he wrote, “but the science supports the possibility – although not the proof – that Vitamin D may strengthen the immune system, particularly of people whose Vitamin D levels are low.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419170759/https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/former-cdc-chief-tom-frieden-coronavirus-risk-may-be-reduced-with-vitamin-d", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419170759/https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/former-cdc-chief-tom-frieden-coronavirus-risk-may-be-reduced-with-vitamin-d" } ], "question": "Could vitamin D help decrease the chance of covid 19?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Admission to universities, colleges and higher secondary schools in Assam will be free during the current academic year to ensure there is no additional burden on parents already affected by the coronavirus lockdown, Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. He said there will be no hidden costs.\n\n“Students from the higher secondary to the postgraduate level, including medical, engineering and polytechnic students, will be admitted to institutes for free,” Sarma told reporters, a day after results for Class 10 state board examinations were announced only on online platforms.\n\nThe prospectus and admission forms will be free and available online.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142845/https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/admission-to-assam-educational-institutes-to-be-free-in-2020-21-academic-year-says-himanta-biwsa/story-QjPdBeQ4P0YE6ZlEa1odQP.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/admission-to-assam-educational-institutes-to-be-free-in-2020-21-academic-year-says-himanta-biwsa/story-QjPdBeQ4P0YE6ZlEa1odQP.html" } ], "question": "What did the Assam government decide regarding educational admission fees at the time of the claim?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "#AssamEduCare Extremely pleased to share GOA has made ALL admissions - from HS upto PG level including medical, engineering, polytechnic for academic year 2020-21 - absolutely free. Under stress due to #COVID19, this shall be big relief to families. All prospectus will be free.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142932/https://twitter.com/himantabiswa/status/1269618835738333185", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/himantabiswa/status/1269618835738333185" } ], "question": "What did the Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma publish on his twitter account regarding this claim?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "\"No colleges are allowed to charge any student for anything. No Saraswati Puja charges, no excursion fees, no prospectus fees. If any colleges are found charging students for anything during the admission, strict actions will be taken against them,\" informed Sarma.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143047/https://www.barakbulletin.com/en_US/assam-government-announces-100-free-admission-in-colleges-decision-taken-with-covid-in-mind/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.barakbulletin.com/en_US/assam-government-announces-100-free-admission-in-colleges-decision-taken-with-covid-in-mind/" } ], "question": "What was the The Education Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma quoted as saying on June 7, 2020 in the Barack Bulletin." } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "From April 1st 2020 to may 27th over 71,000 people had died of covid in the U.S.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230325121819/https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/04/21/coronavirus-updates-how-covid-19-unfolded-u-s-timeline/2990956001/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/04/21/coronavirus-updates-how-covid-19-unfolded-u-s-timeline/2990956001/" }, { "answer": "71,000 people had died of covid in the U.S between April 1st, to may 27th 2020", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230325121819/https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/04/21/coronavirus-updates-how-covid-19-unfolded-u-s-timeline/2990956001/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/04/21/coronavirus-updates-how-covid-19-unfolded-u-s-timeline/2990956001/" } ], "question": "How many Covid 19 deaths were counted between April and may 2020 in the U.S?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Drug overdose deaths were 62,172 in 2019", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501111330/https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/data-details/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/data-details/" }, { "answer": "62,172 for 2019", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501111330/https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/data-details/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/data-details/" } ], "question": "How many drug overdose deaths were reported in the U.S. in 2019" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In 2018, 67,367 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210301055034/https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210301055034/https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html" }, { "answer": "67,367 for 2018", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210301055034/https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210301055034/https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html" } ], "question": "How many drug overdose deaths were reported in the U.S. in 2018?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "higher as is claimed.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230503110736/https://web2.0calc.com/", "source_medium": "Other", "source_url": "https://web2.0calc.com/" } ], "question": "Is 71,000 covid deaths higher than the 62,172 overdose death's in 2019 ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Higher as is claimed.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230503110736/https://web2.0calc.com/", "source_medium": "Other", "source_url": "https://web2.0calc.com/" } ], "question": "Is 71,000 covid deaths higher than the 67,367 overdose death's in 2018 ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "They used pepper balls.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308115721/https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/6_2_20_statement_from_acting_chief_monahan.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308115721/https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/6_2_20_statement_from_acting_chief_monahan.htm" } ], "question": "Did the Federal Police use chemical irritants to clear the area by DC church?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A pepper ball is typically a projectile filled with pepper spray, usually launched from a device similar to a pistol. Police often carry them on their utility belts. According to a company that manufactures pepper balls, they are designed to create a 12-foot cloud with an irritant designed to affect the eyes, nose and throat of the people who are hit by the cloud.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143159/https://www.whio.com/news/local/what-are-pepper-balls-used-police-disperse-students/2uiSBgUySxwuXgOJ5VjkOJ/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.whio.com/news/local/what-are-pepper-balls-used-police-disperse-students/2uiSBgUySxwuXgOJ5VjkOJ/" } ], "question": "How is a pepper ball used by the Police?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "...highly irritating\npepper powder.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210327211057/https://oig.justice.gov/reports/plus/e0903/final.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210327211057/https://oig.justice.gov/reports/plus/e0903/final.pdf" } ], "question": "What does a pepper ball contain?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes, but it was taken out of context.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143242/https://twitter.com/r0bato/status/1034644837881049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/r0bato/status/1034644837881049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "Did LeBron James say \" I don't want nothing to do with white people. I don't believe that they want anything to do with me. I don't want no, It's me and my boys\"" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "...landing interviews with some of the world’s most prominent figures, including Malcom X, Fidel Castro, The Beatles, Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmy Hoffa, George Wallace, Henry Miller and Cassisus Clay. This was just in the first three years. The magazine would go on to interview President Jimmy Carter, among many others.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143308/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/" } ], "question": "According to Forbes magazine, who has had interviews published in Playboy?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "But many will be surprised to learn that the first head-of-state to appear in Playboy’s controversial pages was not Castro or Carter, but Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister and most prominent founding father alongside Mahatma Gandhi.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143308/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/" } ], "question": "Was Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister included in the list of interviewees?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The same issue of the magazine carried an “editor’s note” on Page 3, which stated, “after the rest of the magazine had gone to press, we received word from the Indian Embassy in Washington that our interview with PM Nehru was not, in fact, the result of an exclusive, personal conversation with the head of the Indian state, but simply a gathering together of public pronouncements made by the Prime Minister in various speeches, statements, etc., over the past several years.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143308/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/" } ], "question": "What was the subsequent retraction in the same issue of Playboy about this interview?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Although disputing the Indian Embassy’s assertion the editor's note concluded:\n\n...an official refutation from the Indian Government must be respected, and since our attempts to reach the supposed interviewer for further clarification have proved unsuccessful, editorial integrity requires that we print this statement.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143308/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/" } ], "question": "What was the final assessment in the same editor’s note?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "More than 50 years later, no definitive investigation has ever been undertaken to determine whether the interview was actually ever conducted.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143308/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/10/03/the-curious-connection-between-playboy-and-jawaharlal-nehru-indias-first-prime-minister/" } ], "question": "Was there ever any verification that a personal interview actually took place?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There was no currently available vaccine for COVID-19.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230314185633/https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/key-messages-and-actions-for-covid-19-prevention-and-control-in-schools-march-2020.pdf?sfvrsn=baf81d52_4", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/key-messages-and-actions-for-covid-19-prevention-and-control-in-schools-march-2020.pdf?sfvrsn=baf81d52_4" } ], "question": "Was there any cure for COVID 19 at the time the claim was made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Does pigeon membrane have medicinal qualities?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Thyro care Lab has not been sealed.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140151/https://twitter.com/login", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThyrocareLab?src=hashtag_click" } ], "question": "Has the Thyro care Lab been sealed up?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Thane Municipal Corporation has asked Thyrocare labs to stop testing coronavirus swab samples of suspect patients \nafter the civic body allegedly found irregularities in the in the test results from the private lab", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230418204457/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus/news/tmc-halts-thyrocare-covid-19-testing-in-thane/articleshow/75903033.cms", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus/news/tmc-halts-thyrocare-covid-19-testing-in-thane/articleshow/75903033.cms" } ], "question": "Has Thyro care Lab stopped preforming covid testing on people because of false positives in their testing?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Although Thyrocare was told to discontinue COVID testing there is no evidence that the lab was closed.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230418204457/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus/news/tmc-halts-thyrocare-covid-19-testing-in-thane/articleshow/75903033.cms", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus/news/tmc-halts-thyrocare-covid-19-testing-in-thane/articleshow/75903033.cms" } ], "question": "Despite the false positive tests was the Thane lab ever actually closed by the Thane Municipal Corporation?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Hundreds of U.S. utilities are now running such tests as part of studies, and the current decline in cases will give public health systems time to get effective wastewater surveillance programs in place. After all, Finland is testing water in 28 sites every week, the Netherlands in 37, and Germany in 20 per day, said microbiologist Gertjan Medema of KWR, a water research institute in the Netherlands. Wastewater surveillance can provide “an early warning tool to see if cases are rising again,” he said.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210727094808/https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/05/how-world-can-avoid-screwing-covid-19-response-again/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210727094808/https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/05/how-world-can-avoid-screwing-covid-19-response-again/" } ], "question": "Are the authorities testing water as part of their campaign to detect Covid levels?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Research in the Netherlands, France, Australia and elsewhere has found signs that the virus that causes COVID-19 can be detected in sewage, and many countries are beginning to sample wastewater to track the disease.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230221010621/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-sewage/italy-sewage-study-suggests-covid-19-was-there-in-december-2019-idUSKBN23Q1J9", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-sewage/italy-sewage-study-suggests-covid-19-was-there-in-december-2019-idUSKBN23Q1J9" } ], "question": "Has research been done in other countries ?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Camphor is highly toxic. While it is readily absorbed from the skin most toxic exposure is from ingestion\nCommon substances containing camphor include:\nVicks inhaler\nRubs including Dencorub, Tiger balm, Emu oils, Vicks VapoRub\nMothballs (some mothballs instead contain naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene)\nThe Victorian Poisons Information Centre does not recommend the use of camphor, as it has no proven health benefits, and is unsafe in houses (refer to info sheet in discharge section).", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230309175840/https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Camphor_poisoning/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Camphor_poisoning/" } ], "question": "Does camphor have any health benefits?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "People use holy basil for anxiety, stress, diabetes, high cholesterol, and many other conditions, but there is no good scientific evidence to support any of these uses.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230508222214/https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1101/holy-basil", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1101/holy-basil" } ], "question": "Does basil have any health benefits?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Twitter post said that possible phishing attack is sponsored by the Chinese Army.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143726/https://taxguru.in/corporate-law/advisory-potential-cyber-offensive-attack-chinese-army.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://taxguru.in/corporate-law/advisory-potential-cyber-offensive-attack-chinese-army.html" } ], "question": "What was the CERT-In warning about?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Who is sponsoring the potential phishing attacks?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes, a twitter post shows a warning", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201231162955im_/https://newsmeter.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DG-CISF-tweet.png", "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201231162955im_/https://newsmeter.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DG-CISF-tweet.png" } ], "question": "Was there a warning about an attack from Chinese cyberwarriors" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Who is sponsoring this attack" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "the story is 100% fake, fabricated, may be for an agenda only best known to those that started the spreading the fake news.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200630163650/https://twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1269244115780284416", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200630163650/https://twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1269244115780284416" } ], "question": "Did the Nigerians presidents government have anything to say about the claim?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "His campaign issued a statement saying, “Joe Biden is committed to achieving a 100% clean energy economy and net-zero emissions by 2050. He supports eliminating subsidies for coal and gas and deploying carbon capture sequestration technology to create economic benefits for multiple industries and significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230406001156/https://energynow.com/2019/08/biden-clarifies-fossil-fuel-policy-after-debate-campaign-update/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://energynow.com/2019/08/biden-clarifies-fossil-fuel-policy-after-debate-campaign-update/" } ], "question": "What does the Biden administration say about fossil fuels?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The plan is a long term plan to encourage the movement away from fossil fuels and towards more sustainable energy sources. \"he will demand that Congress enacts legislation in the first year of his presidency that: 1) establishes an enforcement mechanism that includes milestone targets no later than the end of his first term in 2025, 2) makes a historic investment in clean energy and climate research and innovation, 3) incentivizes the rapid deployment of clean energy innovations across the economy, especially in communities most impacted by climate change.\"", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210507140304/https://joebiden.com/climate-plan/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210507140304/https://joebiden.com/climate-plan/" } ], "question": "Does Biden's statement mean fossil fuels will be eliminated during the Biden administration?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A spokesman for Mr. Biden’s campaign clarified that the former vice president wouldn’t ban fracking, which is now commonly used to produce natural gas and oil in key states with blue-collar voters like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. He was referring only to his stated policy to ban new permits for oil and gas drilling on federal land and offshore, the spokesman added.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230410201926/https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-aims-for-tricky-balance-on-fracking-11584396925", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-aims-for-tricky-balance-on-fracking-11584396925" } ], "question": "Does the Biden campaign say anything specifically about fracking?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Italy's health ministry - At present, there is no specific treatment for the disease caused by the new coronavirus.\n\nTreatment remains mainly based on a symptomatic approach, providing supportive therapies (e.g. oxygen therapy, fluid management) to infected people, which can nevertheless be highly effective.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://perma.cc/A4CR-W3CZ", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://perma.cc/A4CR-W3CZ" } ], "question": "What is the government advice on treatments for Covid? (at the time of the claim)" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "2016", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230418232159/https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-timeline", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-timeline" } ], "question": "When was Donald Trump elected President of the United States?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "November 2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501071104/https://www.sos.la.gov/ElectionsAndVoting/GetElectionInformation/ReviewTypesOfElections/Pages/default.aspx", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.sos.la.gov/ElectionsAndVoting/GetElectionInformation/ReviewTypesOfElections/Pages/default.aspx" } ], "question": "When is the next US Presidential Election?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "He was dragged into the scandal in 2015, when Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed that she was forced to have underage sex with the duke in 2001.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510144022/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/08/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/08/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein" } ], "question": "Was prince Andrew accused of paedophilia?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The pair formed a close friendship through the late 90s and early 2000s.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510144050/https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-connections-videos-flights-2019-8?r=US&IR=T", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-connections-videos-flights-2019-8?r=US&IR=T#epstein-and-andrew-were-reportedly-introduced-in-the-1990s-by-ghislaine-maxwell-epsteins-then-girlfriend-and-accused-madam-1" } ], "question": "Was prince Andrew extremely close with Jeffrey Epstein?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Only Epstein was convicted of sex crimes and registered as a sex offender in 2008,", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510144050/https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-connections-videos-flights-2019-8?r=US&IR=T", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-connections-videos-flights-2019-8?r=US&IR=T#according-to-a-2011-vanity-fair-article-andrew-even-told-a-friend-who-objected-against-his-friendship-with-epstein-that-they-were-such-a-puritan-and-that-he-was-going-to-be-loyal-to-him-3" } ], "question": "Was Prince Andrew convicted of any sex crimes against children?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Research on Sars – a close relative of Covid-19 – found that exposing the virus to UVA for 15 minutes had no impact on how infectious it was.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200920195907/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200920195907/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light" } ], "question": "Will exposure to UV rays from the sun kill the novel coronavirus" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "UV radiation can cause skin irritation and damage your eyes", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200921160343/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200921160343/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters" } ], "question": "What has the WHO said about the use of UV rays to either disinfect or try to kill the virus" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "It is a virus also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 \n(SARS-CoV-2)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201125183732/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201125183732/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it" } ], "question": "Is COVID-19 a bacterium or virus" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The virus is genetically related to the coronavirus responsible for the SARS outbreak of 2003", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201125183732/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201125183732/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it" } ], "question": "What is the closest genetic relative of the coronavirus" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Adrenochrome is a chemical compound produced by the oxidation of adrenaline (epinephrine). It was the subject of limited research from the 1950s through to the 1970s as a potential cause of schizophrenia.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230503173359/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome" } ], "question": "What is adrenochrome?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Where is Adrenochrome produced?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What pharmaceutical companies produce Adrenochrome?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What pharmaceutical companies produce Adrenochrome in Wuhan?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In passing the CARES Act of 2020, Congress created something new under the sun: a Treasury fund of some $454 billion that must be invested in Federal Reserve (Fed) created emergency facilities. America has never seen anything like it. This explainer walks through what this new fund is, what it isn't, and what the public can expect from these resources as they are deployed.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510144237/https://www.brookings.edu/research/explaining-the-new-fed-treasury-emergency-fund/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.brookings.edu/research/explaining-the-new-fed-treasury-emergency-fund/" } ], "question": "Did the Federal reserve merge with the Treasury Department?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "William C. Dudley became the 10th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on January 27, 2009. In that capacity, he served as the vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the group responsible for formulating the nation's monetary policy.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230413143602/https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/dudley.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/dudley.html" } ], "question": "Who is the Chairman for the global banking system?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No the number was 20,000 based on:\n\nThe convoy comes ahead of this spring's Defender-Europe 20, a massive multinational exercise to which the US is shipping 20,000 troops and much of their gear — the largest deployment of US-based forces to Europe in 25 years.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201227232416/https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-convoy-taking-army-to-defender-europe-20-logistics-exercise-2020-3?r=US&IR=T", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201227232416/https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-convoy-taking-army-to-defender-europe-20-logistics-exercise-2020-3?r=US&IR=T" } ], "question": "Were 30,000 troops deployed to Europe in early 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "This is unknown, A video showing the troops does not show them wearing masks or mention hand sanitizer.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510144512/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxubfBxqZc", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxubfBxqZc" } ], "question": "Did the 20,000 troops have masks and hand sanitizer?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No, 600 cartel members were arrested from the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201203104709/https://www.independent.co.uk//news/world/americas/project-python-mexican-drug-cartel-us-arrest-a9398116.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201203104709/https://www.independent.co.uk//news/world/americas/project-python-mexican-drug-cartel-us-arrest-a9398116.html" } ], "question": "Were 600 cartels arrested ?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "On March 15, 2020, Saudi Arabia’s official government news agency announced the new arrests, stating that the Saudi state corruption watchdog had criminally investigated 674 state employees and ordered the detention of 298 for “financial and administrative corruption, consisting of bribery crimes, embezzlement and waste of public money, misuse of employment powers, and administrative misuse.” Among those detained are current and retired military officers, health officials, security officers under the Interior Ministry, and judges. The statement said that the acts of corruption amounted to 379 million Saudi Riyals ($101 million).", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230410091200/https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/17/saudi-arabia-new-mass-corruption-arrests", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/17/saudi-arabia-new-mass-corruption-arrests" } ], "question": "Were there 298 arrests in Saudi Arabia in 2020?" } ]