Greetings Innovators,
Webinar: Meet world renowned journalist Diane Francis and the automated fact checking experts from Full Fact. You'll have a chance to ask them any questions. I will be moderating, looking forward to seeing you there! Register here for the webinar on 13 October at 11am EDT.
Practise claims: Below are this week's practise claims. You can view the complete list of claims we have released here.
- Donald Trump "was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.’"
- USA has the lowest self employment rate in the OECD countries.
- The Forbes billionaires are richer than Japan.
- Income inequality is 0.396 in the United States.
- There are more unemployed white women than there are unemployed black women in the US workforce.
- In america, white women are nearly half as likely to be unemployed than black women.
- Rep. Betty McCollum voted to pass the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014.
- Barack Obama sponsored the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008.
- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are married.
- Donald Trump is the next president of the United States of America.
- Texas has 37 electoral votes.
- Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the chairman for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Warmly,
Kyla