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Topic: 2020-election

The America.gov chatbot dodged political questions, then answered them again

Verdicts: 2 True, 3 Mostly True, 2 Mixed, 2 Unproven, 2 Misleading

America.gov’s chatbot swapped fact-checks for refusals on Sept. 30, then answered again within hours. Nothing shows who changed it or why, and TNR misstated a CBO figure.

The Arizona Voter Data Breach and the 2020 Election Security Claim

Verdicts: 1 True, 2 Mostly True, 1 Misleading

A real confession and real non-prosecution, but framing voter-roll scraping as proof the election was insecure inverts what CISA’s security claim actually covered.

Trump’s July 16 Election Speech: What the Declassified Documents Do — and Don’t — Show

Verdicts: 1 Misleading

Trump’s primetime speech happened and his quotes are accurately characterized, but his central framing — that documents prove China compromised U.S. voter data — overstates what was released…

Trump’s Election Declassification Posts: Three Truth Social Claims Checked

Verdicts: 3 Misleading

All three posts are Misleading. The declassified documents are authentic and the whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/ page is live, but the ‘covered up’ narrative, the ‘largest compromise in history’…

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