Latest Checks

SCIENCE · Jun 6, 2026

In a vacuum, heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects.

TOTAL BS

SCIENCE · Jun 6, 2026

A scheme is equivalent to a Zariski sheaf on the category of affine schemes that is locally representable by affine schemes.

HARDLY BS

POLITICS · Jun 6, 2026

China's Belt and Road Initiative refers to two components: an overland route (the Silk Road Economic Belt) and a maritime route (the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road).

NOT BS

GENERAL · Jun 6, 2026

A lavender festival took place in General Toshevo, Bulgaria, in 2025.

NOT BS

POLITICS · Jun 6, 2026

North Yorkshire Police suspended Luke Salmons for six months after he questioned and criticised Islam during a diversity training session.

HARDLY BS

LEGAL · Jun 6, 2026

Mississippi state agencies are legally required to report transgender people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if their identification documents list a sex different from their sex assigned at birth.

TOTAL BS

GENERAL · Jun 5, 2026

N'Golo Kanté is divorced.

TOTAL BS

SCIENCE · Jun 5, 2026

The Isle of Man's average electricity demand is about 40 MW (approximately 1 GWh per day).

NOT BS

FINANCE · Jun 5, 2026

On the Isle of Man, electricity that is priced at about 1.5 pence per kilowatt-hour at the point of production would cost consumers about 6–7 pence per kilowatt-hour.

TOTAL BS

LEGAL · Jun 5, 2026

New York State enacted a law that removed the terms "mother" and "father" from New York State birth certificates and replaced them with gender-neutral parental labels.

TOTAL BS

TECH · Jun 5, 2026

Artificial intelligence is projected to contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, including about $6.6 trillion from productivity gains and $9.1 trillion from consumption-side effects, representing a 14% increase in global GDP versus a scenario without AI.

HARDLY BS

FINANCE · Jun 5, 2026

In the United Kingdom, 25% of pensioners are millionaires.

MOSTLY BS

GENERAL · Jun 4, 2026

A child called 911 to report that there was a monster under his brother's bed.

NOT BS

GENERAL · Jun 4, 2026

Jay Chou's songs contain collectivist lyrical themes that are clear examples of collectivism in C-pop storytelling.

MOSTLY BS

HEALTH · Jun 4, 2026

Fruit remains in the human stomach for only about 15 minutes after being eaten.

TOTAL BS

POLITICS · Jun 4, 2026

Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in the 1990s for helping defraud the Brazilian state by channeling state resources to himself and his associates.

HARDLY BS

LEGAL · Jun 4, 2026

Brazilian citizens can obtain Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis) under current Italian law.

HARDLY BS

GENERAL · Jun 4, 2026

In association football, a match decided by a penalty shoot-out after being level at the end of extra time is officially recorded as a draw, with the shoot-out used only to determine which team advances or wins the title.

NOT BS

POLITICS · Jun 4, 2026

Trumpism is a neo-fascist political ideology or movement.

SOME BS

GENERAL · Jun 4, 2026

Publishing a research paper about factual disagreement in frontier AI models can be considered a conflict of interest for an AI fact-checking company.

NOT BS