As of snapshot 27745 under ledger-default@0.3.0. Counts by assessment state, descriptive only: no topic is scored.
4 Contradicted1 Leans supported2 Not assessed48 Supported3 Unresolved
| Claim | Type | Assessment |
|---|
| In that study, GPT-4-derived predictions were strongly correlated with observed treatment effects at a level similar to pooled human forecasts, but systematically overestimated effect sizes. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| A 2026 study evaluated LLM predictions using an archive of 70 preregistered US survey experiments containing 469 experimental effects and 119,330 participants. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| The exploratory clinical-trial social-media comparison reported a Jaccard similarity coefficient of 0.159 between the Bluesky and Twitter/X discussion datasets. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In an exploratory comparison of clinical-trial discussions, Bluesky discourse was more cohesive and research-oriented with more specialized vocabulary, whereas Twitter/X discourse was more fragmented and event-driven. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In two reported experiments on dark cultural heritage communication, advertising appeal type affected willingness to support heritage preservation through emotional arousal and self-construal, with effects that were not fully consistent across verbal and behavioral outcomes. | CAUSAL | Supported |
| In the reported study, higher media literacy was associated with improved detection of political deepfakes and reduced liking and sharing intentions. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In a study of 1,124 participants from the United Kingdom, Slovenia, and Italy, high-plausibility political deepfakes were less likely to be detected and received more positive evaluations than low-plausibility deepfakes. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| Readers should take out paid memberships with the independent journalists and writers they trust. | NORMATIVE | Not assessed |
| Trump announced the press ban because he knows the only way to hide his poor polling and his presidential failures is to stop the media from reporting the truth. | CAUSAL | Unresolved |
| Nicolle Wallace said Trump wants people to be afraid to cover him aggressively and that this seems to be the intent of the ban. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Reporters Without Borders said press access is not a privilege for journalists but a right. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The Freedom of the Press Foundation said it is difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than banning news outlets from the People's House for criticizing the government, and that the attacks show how scared Trump is of an informed public. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Representative Jim McGovern said fascist and communist governments limit press access to favorable outlets, persecute journalists and suppress truthful reporting, and that Trump's administration is doing all of that. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Heinrich's statement said Trump described his own planned action in the Oval Office as a ban on the free press, and that press protection does not depend on whether the president likes an outlet's coverage, agrees with its reporting, or approves of its questions. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Jacqui Heinrich is president of the White House Correspondents' Association and a Fox News reporter. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| In China the Communist Party controls all media, there is no independent press, and the Chinese people have no access to information about their own country unless the government has approved it. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Trump compared the United States' treatment of the press to China's. | INTERPRETIVE | Supported |
| Trump replied that he did not know about that, that he thinks the United States is repressive also, that the country gets fake news, and that it does not repress but they write fake news. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| AFP's Danny Kemp asked Trump what signal the ban sent given Xi Jinping's White House visit in the coming weeks and China's record on journalists. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Trump made his remark praising Breitbart in response to being asked which outlets cover him fairly. | OBSERVATIONAL | Contradicted |
| Steve Bannon once described Breitbart as the platform for the alt-right. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Breitbart News is co-owned by the Mercer family. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| During the September 18, 2026 Oval Office event Trump held up printouts from Breitbart News and pointed to them. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| On September 19, 2026 reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access to White House grounds following Trump's announced ban. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Asked what the ban would mean in practice, including whether badges would be taken or the outlets barred from the pool, Trump did not specify. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Trump named the New York Times and the Washington Post as potential future targets and said the White House would probably stop displaying those papers. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump said it was a very simple ban, that he did not want the outlets in his office or at the White House, that the ban would go as far as you can, and that he would love it if they straightened themselves out. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The same reporter repeated the question about the ban, and Trump then said "Oh, the ban on the free press, right?" | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Asked what the ban would look like, Trump said he was involved in many bans and had more bans going than any human being. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Truth Social announcement included a parenthetical saying MS NOW recently changed its name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Truth Social announcement said media outlets should not be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when covering the President, the Trump Administration or the United States. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The Soviet Union's newspaper named Truth printed only what the Kremlin approved, and journalists who refused to go along with the propaganda were imprisoned or killed. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Trump's end goal is complete control of everything Americans see and hear. | INTERPRETIVE | Unresolved |
| A federal judge forced Trump's White House to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press credential in 2018. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| After a reporter noted that the First Amendment protects freedom of the press, Trump replied "Thank you for telling me that." | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The September 18, 2026 Oval Office session was a press conference Trump held to announce the press ban. | OBSERVATIONAL | Contradicted |
| Trump's aim in banning news outlets is complete control of what Americans see and hear. | INTERPRETIVE | Unresolved |
| On September 19, 2026 journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were kept off White House grounds, and the outlets then sued on First Amendment grounds. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Trump cut off NBC's Kelly O'Donnell with "Not you" before she finished a follow-up question and pointed to a different reporter. | OBSERVATIONAL | Contradicted |
| WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich said Trump described his own planned action as a ban on the free press, and that the Constitution protects press freedom from government interference. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Sanders also said the president is right to support the First Amendment and right to ask that the press be honest and fair. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it is hard to argue against a free press while standing in the Oval Office asking the president questions. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Asked about Xi Jinping's visit and China's record on journalists, Trump said he did not know about that and that the United States is repressive also. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Asked what the ban means in practice, Trump replied "which ban?" and said he has more bans going than any human being. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump called the New York Times and Washington Post fake news and said those papers would probably no longer be displayed in the White House. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Breitbart remark came in answer to a question about whether the ban would survive a court challenge, not a question about which outlets cover him fairly. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump said he does not get fair press, that he gets it from Breitbart and a little from Fox, and that Fox has the worst polls in the business. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump said a court should not allow fake news to be written day after day, and that what a court allows depends on the judge. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Asked whether he was trying to intimidate the press, Trump said he dislikes dishonest press, told the reporter she was terrible, and said he likes to see honest press. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump used the phrase "ban on the free press" while restating a reporter's question about what the ban would look like, not while announcing it. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| In the Oval Office on September 18, 2026, Trump referred to his own action as the ban on the free press. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Truth Social post announcing the ban also asserted that the US government paid Politico an illegal $8 million subscription. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| On September 18, 2026, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that CNN, MS NOW and Politico were barred from the White House, saying other outlets would follow. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Van Jones was a CNN political commentator in 2024. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Some AI researchers are adopting doomer positions in order to stay publicly relevant as the field outpaces them. | INTERPRETIVE | Leans supported |
| Public discussion should give as much attention to the probability of abundance as it gives to the probability of doom. | NORMATIVE | Not assessed |
| OpenAI knew about the German wiki incident for a considerable time and chose not to disclose it publicly. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| The Moonshots podcast publishes two episodes per week. | OBSERVATIONAL | Contradicted |
Galedra