#fact-checked

Fact-Checked ⚠️:

This girl isn't Palestinian, nor is she trapped under rubble due to an Israeli airstrike.

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Maybe there were some big budget cuts in recent years? Doesn’t look like it:

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So, even after adjusting for inflation, the NSF has 4x the budget it had when it built the darned thing. This points away from the problem being “not enough money.”

During a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC on Tuesday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for drastic reform of the international asylum system, claiming it is no longer fit for purpose. She suggested that the majority of migrants were exploiting the current laws in order to choose where they wanted to live, rather than seeking shelter due to persecution or war. Ms Braverman also said that being gay or a woman should not be enough to qualify for refugee status – seeking to draw a distinction between persecution and discrimination. Railing at the current “outdated” system, she described the number of displaced people in the world an “epoch-defining challenge” that threatened the future of Western civilisation. Ms Braverman also refused to rule out leaving the 1951 Refugee Convention, and said international leaders had “collectively failed” to modernise global migration laws. Here, i breaks down some of the key claims, facts and figures from the speech.

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Of the eight statements examined here, only one was true, two were false and four misleading, i.e. lies in my book. The jury's out on the last one, but it will turn out to be false.

Michelle Obama’s DNC address fact-checked by AP over ‘distorted’ immigration talking point

Michelle Obama’s children in ‘cages’ claim is misleading, AP says.

The Associated Press fact-checked Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech after she condemned Trump for using “cages” to house migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border while failing to note that the same facilities were used, and actually built, during her husband’s administration.

“Michelle Obama assailed…