Jake Tapper
The Lead
21
verdicts published
Verdict Distribution: 21 published verdicts
13
True
62%
8
Mostly True
38%
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False
held
ⓘ “Mostly True” verdicts reflect claims accurate in substance but qualified by the reviewer with meaningful caveats. Both “True” and “Mostly True” count toward the accuracy rate. During the True/Mostly True-only publication phase, only verdict counts are shown publicly. Misleading and False verdicts are withheld from public display pending advisory board launch.
Published verdicts
TRUE
Louisiana Republicans are delaying the primaries for House races originally set for May 16th, even though early voting was set to begin Saturday and overseas ballots and mail ballots had already been sent out.
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TRUE
Maine's Governor Janet Mills suspended her Democratic Senate primary campaign, citing a lack of financial resources.
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MOSTLY TRUE
Graham Platner has a tattoo from 2007 that he has acknowledged is a Totenkopf Nazi symbol that he has since had covered up.
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TRUE
Eight states have now approved changes to their congressional maps.
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TRUE
An AI chatbot provided detailed instructions to a microbiologist on how to modify a virus to create a superbug resistant to every known treatment and how to release it for maximum casualties.
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MOSTLY TRUE
The Florida State University shooting resulted in two people killed and seven others wounded.
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MOSTLY TRUE
Phoenix Eichner asked ChatGPT about the safety mechanism on a Remington 12 gauge shotgun on April 17th, 2025, and later that same day carried out a mass shooting at Florida State University.
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TRUE
Only one person has been approved for President Trump's Gold Card Visa program, which costs $1 million, despite claims of $1.3 billion in applications within days of launch.
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TRUE
American journalist Shelley Kittleson was kidnapped by a pro-Iran militia in Iraq on March 31st and released a week later.
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MOSTLY TRUE
This marks King Charles's 19th trip to the United States and his first formal state visit as the British monarch.
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TRUE
A U.S. Special Forces soldier was charged with making more than $400,000 from an online prediction market by betting on the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using insider information.
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MOSTLY TRUE
It has been 87 years since a royal garden party was held at this location, with the last one in 1939 hosted by Queen Elizabeth and her father King George VI.
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MOSTLY TRUE
The attempted assassination of President Trump occurred two days before this broadcast at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night.
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TRUE
The suspect in the assassination attempt, 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen, had his first appearance in federal court today.
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TRUE
The suspect was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, discharging a firearm during a violent crime, and transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce.
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MOSTLY TRUE
The suspect left California for Washington, D.C. by train on Tuesday, before Jimmy Kimmel told a joke on Thursday night.
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TRUE
A round trip train ticket from New York to New Jersey for the World Cup will cost $150.
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TRUE
New Jersey Transit is limiting the sale of train tickets to 40,000 per match.
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TRUE
A federal prosecutor was removed from the investigation into John Brennan.
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MOSTLY TRUE
A New York Times poll shows 57 percent of respondents do not approve of how President Trump is handling his presidency.
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TRUE
Iran announced it had reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic following a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
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