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The Narrative Networks Podcast
Using AI we explore the concept of modeling influence pathways. We'll be transcribing and analyzing over 50,000 podcasts and sharing our findings along the way.
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The Narrative Networks PodcastFact-check: Matt Walsh’s “68 IQ Somali scammers” and the refugee-camp score behind it
On The Matt Walsh Show, Ep. 1714 (8 January 2026), Matt Walsh said Renee Good "gave her life in the commission of a crime to protect 68 IQ Somali scammers."…
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“Almost 100% Muslim”: How a Ward Turns Into a City — fact-checking Relatable Ep 1285
Claim: some cities in Europe, especially the UK, are "almost, it seems 100% Muslim" because of mass migration. Verdict: false (truth score 0.05). We fact-check…
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“Turbo Cancer” on PBD Podcast #748: A Real Colon Cancer Trend Gets a New Culprit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! False (truth score 0.05): on PBD Podcast #748 (27 Feb…
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Fact-check: the “White Genocide” book Bannon’s War Room plugged
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Fact-check of Bannon's War Room, Episode 5754…
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Hepatitis B birth dose: how a talking point became federal policy, then got frozen in court
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On The Steve Deace Show ("Did We WIN in Minnesota?"…
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Steven Crowder’s “Of No Benefit” Claim and the Civilizational Ledger: A Fact-Check
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Steven Crowder said that majority non-white countries…
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“Thugs With an IQ of 80”: Fact-checking the d’Escufon clip played on Verdict with Ted Cruz
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! False (truth score 0.03): the claim that France was…
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“City to City, Coast to Coast”: Checking an Islamic-takeover claim from Chicks on the Right
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Claim: an "Islamic takeover of the United States" is…
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“Not a Conspiracy Theory, a Policy”: How a Forecast Became a Plot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Claim: "The Great Replacement is not a conspiracy…
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Who signs an ICE home-entry warrant? Fact-checking Vance’s ‘administrative law judges’ claim
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! False (truth score 0.10): JD Vance said ICE warrants…
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Replaced in the Pews: Fact-checking the Catholic-bishops version of the Great Replacement
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Claim: there is a deliberate effort to "ethnically…
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Matt Walsh says courts go easy on non-white fraudsters. Our verdict: false
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Verdict: false (truth score 0.10, confidence 0.75). On…
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“Not a Pollutant”: ToddCast’s CO2 Claim, the Boulder Climate Case, and a Fake Science Verdict
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! False (truth score 0.05): a guest on ToddCast Podcast…
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“Stop Calling It Autism”: How a Diagnosis Gets Renamed After a Theory
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Claim: autism is a vaccine brain injury and should be…
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“They Assassinated Charlie Kirk”: Fact-Checking a Collective-Plot Claim on Bannon’s War Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Claim: "It's why they assassinated Charlie Kirk…
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Sixty-Three Percent of Nothing: How a 40-Year Deportation Docket Became “Last Year’s Murders”
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Claim: "63% of the murders last year in America" were…
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Megyn Kelly, the Cornell case, and the claim that delayed rape reports are regret: false
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On The Megyn Kelly Show, Ep. 1409 (30 September 2026)…
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Seven Million Gone? Fact-checking Michael Knowles on a 2.3-million drop that tripled
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Verdict: false (truth score 0.10). On The Michael…
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Twenty-Five Million to Zero: How a Release Statistic Became a Border That Doesn’t Exist
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Claim: illegal immigration went from 25 million…
The Narrative Networks PodcastFive Times What? Trump’s tariff windfall claim, aired on the Mark Levin Podcast
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: the U.S. is taking in over $200 billion in tariffs, "5 times more than ever before" and four…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“It Turns Out to Be True”: How Butler Got Declared Solved Without New Evidence
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. The Kuhner Report, "Can Trump Beat the Media?" (22 Sep 2026, 29:49): "Butler was an inside job……
The Narrative Networks Podcast“Hundreds, Not Thousands”: A Bongino Guest’s 1948 Displacement Figure, Fact-Checked
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest on The Dan Bongino Show (Ep. 2603, "What Is Really Happening Here?", 25 September 2026) said…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThe Door Logs That Never Were: How a Satire Page Put Elizabeth Warren at Biden’s Autopen
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. The Kuhner Report ("Are Sanctuary Cities Losing Steam?", 29 Sep 2026, at 10:29) said West Wing door…
The Narrative Networks PodcastDid Iran, China and Russia fund BLM? What the July 2026 declassified documents actually say
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: On The Benny Show episode "What Trump Secretly Just Did With Spanish World Cup Champions Will…
The Narrative Networks PodcastFact-check: Ted Cruz’s “communist and Islamist takeover” of the Democratic Party
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: Sen. Ted Cruz, guesting on the P.A.S. Report ("Ted Cruz on Clarence Thomas, Socialism, and…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“Not Even True”: Fact-checking Buck Sexton’s climate aside inside an AI doom episode
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: current climate change is not unprecedented, which Buck Sexton called "not even true."…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThree a Day: Fact-checking the claim of ‘three or four terrorist acts’ a day in Europe
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: "In Europe. Every single day, we have 3 or 4 terrorist acts." Verdict: false (truth score…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“Mostly Not Knowingly”: A Prophecy Show’s Vaccine–Autism Claim, Fact-Checked
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: vaccines cause autism, neurological harm and autoimmune disorders. Verdict: mostly-false…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThe Phantom Paperwork: How “Antifa Did January 6” Survived Five Years of Debunks
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: Federal filings show that "numbers" of the January 6 rioters imprisoned for assaulting…
The Narrative Networks PodcastTimcast IRL says no multiethnic democracy has ever succeeded. Verdict: false (0.1)
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A panelist on Timcast IRL said there has never been a single successful multiracial or multiethnic…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThe War on Poverty Fact-Check: $22 Trillion and a Measure That Cannot See It
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Verdict: mostly-false. Truth score 0.25, confidence 0.85. The $22 trillion is real. "Have we even…
The Narrative Networks PodcastDennis Prager’s “only one on earth” claim about Israel
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Dennis Prager called Israel "a country, the only one on earth, targeted for complete eradication, by…
The Narrative Networks PodcastFact-check: “We know she married her brother” — Mullin on Ilhan Omar
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the…
The Narrative Networks PodcastTimothy Gordon’s “Or Go To Hell”: Fact-Checking a True Verse With a False Ending
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Timothy Gordon told listeners "a wife has to obey her husband or go to hell." We rate that…
The Narrative Networks PodcastFact-Check: Timcast IRL’s Nutrition Theory of Postpartum Psychosis
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Five days after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, a Timcast IRL panelist told the audience that…
The Narrative Networks PodcastDid H-1Bs Rise ‘Multi 100%’ Under Biden? Louder with Crowder Claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Louder with Crowder said there was "a multi 100% increase in H1 B's" under Biden. We rate it…
The Narrative Networks PodcastTed Cruz’s “as a consequence”: a real crime drop, an inflated number
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Verdict: mixed. Truth score 0.35. Ted Cruz's murder figure is close to the FBI's; his overdose…
The Narrative Networks PodcastPBD #852 Said Trump Was “Never Charged With Anything”
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. PBD Podcast #852 said Donald Trump has been accused of a great deal and "never charged with…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“Statistically Never Happens”: Michael Knowles on Police Killings
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles says police killings of innocent Black people "statistically never happens." We rate…
The Narrative Networks PodcastIs Mamdani “Explicitly a Communist”? Fact-Checking Ted Cruz on the P.A.S. Report
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Ted Cruz told the P.A.S. Report that Zohran Mamdani "wants to seize the means of production" and "is…
The Narrative Networks PodcastFact-check: “40 recorded cases in human history” of postpartum psychosis
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A podcast claimed there have been "like 40 recorded cases in human history" of postpartum psychosis…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThe Smithsonian Exhibit That Doesn’t Exist Yet
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Kevin Roberts says the Smithsonian's women's history museum has a planned exhibit celebrating male…
The Narrative Networks PodcastTimcast IRL: “The Allies Didn’t Know” — Holocaust Denial’s Oldest Shrug
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A Timcast IRL panelist relayed a YouTube argument that Allied bombing starved the camps and that the…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“Leaving Aside, There Is No Genocide” — Fact-Checking Four Words
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Verdict: mostly-false. Truth score 0.20, confidence 0.75. The Michael Knowles Show, 29 August 2026…
The Narrative Networks PodcastMichael Knowles Says Measles Was “Like the Chicken Pox”
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles described measles in passing as a disease "which used to be not that big a deal…
The Narrative Networks PodcastMatt Walsh Says Somalia Is ‘Too Primitive to Draw the Blueprint.’ A 1269 Mosque Says Otherwise
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Matt Walsh said Somalia has no Mall of America because Somalis are "too primitive to draw the…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“More Trade With China Than Anyone” - mostly-false: Census Puts China Third at 6.6%
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. On the PBD Podcast (26 Aug 2026), guest Roman Yampolskiy said the US has more economic trade with…
The Narrative Networks PodcastLouder with Crowder’s “lower IQ” claim about Indians
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. At 53:04 on Louder with Crowder, the answer to "don't immigrants make us better?" is: "They poop in…
The Narrative Networks PodcastLet’s Call It Fifteen: Crowder’s “12 to 20 Million” Border Claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Louder with Crowder said 12 to 20 million people entered the US illegally under Biden in three…
The Narrative Networks PodcastFact-check: Michael Knowles’s $17 trillion investment claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles said the first part of the Trump administration delivered "$17 trillion, new…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThe Permanent Majority That Wasn’t: Fact-Checking Michael Knowles
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles said Democrats wanted mass migration to manufacture a permanent electoral majority…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“Every Single Time”: Matt Walsh’s Universal Lynching Claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Matt Walsh said every claimed lynching "turns out to be a completely fake story." We rated it false…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThe 84 Percent: how 86 anonymous answers became “the experts agree”
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Matt Walsh told his audience that anonymous surveys show more than 80% of experts agree genes play a…
The Narrative Networks Podcast“They Set It Up That Way”: The Claim That Every Blue-State Election Is Stolen
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest on The Benny Show said elections are stolen "every election in most of the Democratic…
The Narrative Networks PodcastMichael Knowles’s “particularly violent” claim about trans Americans
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles told his audience "we know that the transvestite community is particularly violent."…
The Narrative Networks PodcastThe Blood Ledger: Fact-Checking the Decolonization Death Toll
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Timcast IRL, 18 August 2026, at 31:38: "far more blood was shed in like literally the 10 years of…
The Narrative Networks PodcastSomething Horrible Happened: How a Murder Became a Diagnosis
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest on The Benny Show said transgender people are "mentally ill," "not born that way," and that…
The Narrative Networks PodcastA Dispute For Another Time: How “Franken Stole It” Stopped Being An Argument
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In 2008, Al Franken beat Norm Coleman by 312 votes out of nearly 2.9 million. A Daily Wire…
The Narrative Networks PodcastBen Shapiro Ep. 2484: ‘Three Ways Islam Will Conquer the West’
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Ben Shapiro's show played a line from Ben Shapiro's movie: "three ways Islam will conquer the West."…
The Narrative Networks PodcastFact-Check: Timcast IRL’s ‘400,000 Fraudulent Michigan Voter Files’
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Timcast IRL, 12 August 2026: Michigan has "some 400,000 fraudulent voter files," and Elissa Slotkin…