Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
67/100
New York Post's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
5
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
WASHINGTON — Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed bristled Wednesday when questioned during a network news segment about whether he lied when he claimed his family didn’t have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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family → bristle → Brotherhood
During a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” El-Sayed emphatically said “no” when pressed about the Brotherhood, which has been linked to terror organizations like Hamas.
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which → say → Hamas
Following the interview, El-Sayed’s Republican foe Mike Rogers cited 2012 tweets by the Democrat’s half-sister, University of Chicago Professor Eman Abdelhadi, who claimed their mother was a Brotherhood activist while a student in Egypt.
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mother → follow → Egypt
“Are you serious?” El-Sayed responded when “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas pressed him on the matter.
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Llamas → respond → matter
“I have no ties.
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I → have → ties
We have no ties.”
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We → have → ties
“I have never had these conversations with my mother.
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I → have → mother
I wasn’t raised by my mother,” he added.
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he → raise → mother
“You’re using hearsay evidence from a tweet.
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You → use → tweet
It’s not serious.
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It → ’ → ?
It’s just not serious.”
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It → ’ → ?
After Llamas noted that El-Sayed has zinged President Trump for not being truthful, the visibly agitated candidate fired back: “Are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?
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I → note → Trump
I’m telling you I was not.”
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I → tell → you
The Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, began as a religious and social organization before entering the political arena following World War II and the founding of Israel — gaining support and influence following Israel’s defeat of Arab nations in the 1967 Six-Day War.
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Brotherhood → found → War
Hamas was established in 1987 from Brotherhood-affiliated charities and other social institutions in the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas → establish → Strip
The Brotherhood’s leaders insist it renounced violence decades ago and seeks to set up Islamic rule through elections and other peaceful means.
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it → insist → elections
The Muslim Brotherhood has been designated a terrorist organization by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia — though not the US.
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Brotherhood → designate → Egypt
“Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect,” Abdelhadi posted on X June 24, 2012, asfirst reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
“My family has long been MB, but I’ve always felt that it has navigated the political sphere poorly/destructively,” she later wrote that same day.
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she → have → sphere
El-Sayed was listed as Abdelhadi’s guardian at the time of her marriage, which was conducted in 2016 in accordance with Islamic Sharia law, according to the Free Beacon.
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which → list → Beacon
The outlet also reported that El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, served on the committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which also has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
Additionally, El-Sayed’s birth mother, Fatten El-Komy, once worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department designated as a terrorist organization in 2004 for supporting Al Qaeda and Hamas.
El-Komy was never implicated as a co-conspirator or charged with a crime.
El-Sayed’s parents divorced when he was young, and he was raised by his father and stepmother.
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he → report → father
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