Latest Checks

FINANCE · May 24, 2026

The Bank of Russia is selling gold in exchange for Chinese yuan.

MOSTLY BS

FINANCE · May 24, 2026

The Bank of Russia is selling gold reserves to prevent the ruble from collapsing.

SOME BS

FINANCE · May 24, 2026

The Bank of Russia has sold 28 tonnes of gold since the start of 2026.

HARDLY BS

GENERAL · May 24, 2026

A 2020 publication authored by Kowalski and coauthors reported that adolescents often lack empathy and awareness of the harm caused by their online actions.

MOSTLY BS

SCIENCE · May 24, 2026

Glow-in-the-dark luminous pearls store energy absorbed from sunlight, and their afterglow occurs because electrons trapped at lattice defects are slowly released and recombine, emitting light.

NOT BS

POLITICS · May 24, 2026

China became a State Party to the Arms Trade Treaty in 2020.

NOT BS

SCIENCE · May 24, 2026

Electrical resistance in microbial fuel cell circuits can be analyzed using Ohm's law (V = I·R).

NOT BS

SCIENCE · May 23, 2026

Every semialgebraic function defined on the unit interval [0,1] is real analytic on [0,1] except possibly at finitely many points.

NOT BS

POLITICS · May 23, 2026

Bulgaria has provided no direct military or financial support to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

TOTAL BS

GENERAL · May 23, 2026

Studying or practicing Kabbalah causes people to become wealthier.

TOTAL BS

POLITICS · May 23, 2026

Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Mossad.

TOTAL BS

POLITICS · May 23, 2026

Peru is on track to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality).

TOTAL BS

SCIENCE · May 23, 2026

Chemists often refer to the color of an ion in aqueous solution (the ion plus its hydration shell) as "the color of the ion" for ease of communication, rather than explicitly saying "the color of the ion plus water."

HARDLY BS

SCIENCE · May 23, 2026

If a topological space X is second countable, then every open cover of X has a countable subcover (i.e., X is Lindelöf).

NOT BS

SCIENCE · May 22, 2026

The formula of the mortar used in construction in the Roman Empire is still unknown.

TOTAL BS

FINANCE · May 22, 2026

The top 1 percent of US taxpayers pay approximately 40 percent of all federal income tax revenue.

NOT BS

POLITICS · May 22, 2026

The suspension of USAID funding has caused deaths among populations dependent on its aid programs.

NOT BS

LEGAL · May 22, 2026

The Australian Consumer Law requires that consumer goods be safe, durable, match their description, and work as expected.

NOT BS

POLITICS · May 21, 2026

Rumen Radev is a pro-Russian political leader.

SOME BS

GENERAL · May 21, 2026

A man was rescued after being stuck inside a movie theater wall void for about ten hours and was then arrested.

NOT BS