Verdicts:- Nasdaq 100 in a technical correction, Dow a little up: incorrect — Dow fell 572 points; Nasdaq closed ~8% below its Oct 6 record, short of a 10% correction.- China's CSI 300 in bear territory, down 12 straight weeks: correct — Reuters: 12th straight weekly fall, ~15% lost over 12 weeks.- Binance hack of $6.3 billion, biggest exchange theft ever: correct — Binance ~$6.3B, TRM Labs ~$6.36B, ~$3B frozen.- Altman: people should not run AI at home, RAM better in data centers: partly supported — he called local inference "quite terrible" for allocation; he did not say people should not own computers.- Intel tanked almost 29%: correct — down 28.58%, worst day since 1974 (AP/CNBC).- Lula lost Brazil's first round, then 11 million mystery votes: incorrect — Lula won round one 48.43% to 43.20%; both men gained votes in the runoff.- Trump indicted on 91 charges: correct — 91 felony counts across four 2023 cases; "thousand years" is rhetorical.- Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions to get out the vote: correct — over $400M from Zuckerberg and Chan in 2020, largely via CTCL.- Facebook fired 40,000 fact checkers: incorrect — Meta ended the US program in Jan 2025 with about ten US partner organizations, not 40,000.- YouTube paid Trump $50 million for the ban: incorrect — court filings show $24.5M ($22M to the Trust for the National Mall, $2.5M to others).- Altman told Congress he had no OpenAI equity: correct — 2023 Senate testimony; later equity figures were only rough estimates on the show.- Tusk-led coup at Poland's tribunal: partly supported — events confirmed; "coup" is the opposition's label, disputed by Tusk's government.- 40,000 Ceuta crossers will become citizens, head to mainland Spain: partly supported, misleading — the surge was 60,000-72,000, but most returned; only ~2,500-11,000 stayed.- NED set up in 1983 as a privatized CIA: correct in substance — Weinstein's 1991 Post quote matches; "privatized CIA" is critics' wording.- 14,000 USAID staff terminated: correct in substance — ~13,600 staff in Jan 2025, down to 241 by Apr 2026; AP counted ~14,000 with contractors.- Kalshi: Talarico 72%, Paxton 28%: partly supported — Kalshi published 66-67% Oct 28, 70% Oct 30, Paxton ~30%.- Religious notice: Christian-morality discussion, Jesus vs. Pilate — no scientific evidence for divine claims about Jesus or a god behind Christian morality.Tracker: 145 claims — 56 supported, 58 partly supported/misleading, 17 contradicted, 13 unresolved, 1 prediction pending.Sources: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/2026103010975/nasdaq-composite-falls-530-this-month-to-2543700-data-talk https://coinpaper.com/38121/china-s-stocks-extend-12-week-losing-streak-as-ai-selloff-spreads-worldwide https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/10/29/potential-multi-billion-binance-hack-hitting-crypto-markets?ref=blockhead.co https://www.europesays.com/3342400/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Brazilian_presidential_election https://legalhelp.us/how-many-felonies-does-trump-have-convictions-and-pending-cases/ https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1045519 https://lab.imedd.org/en/meta-is-ending-its-third-party-fact-checking-partnership-with-us-partners-heres-how-that-program-works/ https://themunicheye.com/youtube-settles-trump-account-suspension-24-5-million-26845 https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/europe/poland-protests-president-karol-nawrocki-flies-home-hnk-intl?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_meta https://www.air1.com/faith/news/trending/overwhelming-60-000-migrants-enter-tiny-spanish-enclave-looking-for-better-life-58782 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Weinstein https://legis1.com/news/usaid-programs-state-absorbed-but-lacks https://news.kalshi.com/p/talarico-texas-senate-odds-new-high-70-percent-early-votingIndependent fact-check review for reporting and commentary purposes only; not affiliated with Timcast IRL.