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Are the 'luteal uglies' a real thing? | Flipboard

Flipboard · · 308 words · By Bbc Co Uk
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What to know about Are the 'luteal uglies' a real thing?

"Is it just me or am I the ugliest person alive?" a woman in her early 30s asks the camera on TikTok, accompanied by the caption "POV: Girls in their luteal phase." The video has 2.4 million views and hundreds of comments.

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Claims checked 5
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Coverage spectrum

Coverage gap: Low Left coverage
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Center75%
Right25%

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What happened

"Is it just me or am I the ugliest person alive?" a woman in her early 30s asks the camera on TikTok, accompanied by the caption "POV: Girls in their luteal phase." The video has 2.4 million views and hundreds of comments.

Why it matters

The stakes turn on whether readers accept that The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted. That point shapes the political meaning of the story.

Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted”
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Multiple sources explicitly name the 'Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee' as the body that held the vote regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An American national security policy, homeland security is "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_security
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is the chief oversight committee of the United States Senate. It has jurisdiction over matters related to the Departmen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), formed in March 1941 as the "Truman Committee," is the oldest subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Homeland_…
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Claim 2: “A woman in her early 30s asks the camera on TikTok, accompanied by the caption "POV: Girls in their luteal phase." The video has 2.4 million views and hundreds of comments.”
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The claim is corroborated by multiple independent sources, including a cross-reference from Flipboard and reports from BBC News and another web source, all confirming the specific caption, the view count (2.4 million), and the content of the TikTok video.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alt TikTok (or 2020 Alt) was an online youth subculture and internet community that emerged on TikTok in 2020. Alt TikTok users (also known as alt girls, alt boys, or alt kids) emerged as primarily LG…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_TikTok
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Libs of TikTok is the username of various American anti-LGBTQ and far-right social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik ( KHAH-yə RY-chik), a former real estate agent. Raichik uses the accounts to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TikTok is a Chinese social networking service and short-form online video platform. It hosts user-submitted videos, which range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed through…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
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Claim 3: “Senate Republicans moved to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that a US Senate committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress following a hearing.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mehmet Cengiz Oz ( mə-MET JENG-ghiz oz; Turkish: [mehˈmet dʒeɲˈɟiz øz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz ( ), is an American television presenter, physician, author, educator, and governmen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Randal Howard Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the chair of the Senat…
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Claim 4: “A 2021 law requires boards for school districts and charter schools in Nevada to provide menstrual products at no cost to pupils in the bathrooms of”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm the existence of a 2021 Nevada law (specifically AB224) requiring school districts and charter schools to provide free menstrual products in bathrooms for students in grades 4-12.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Reno (, REE-noh) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border. It is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe County. Sitting in the High …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno,_Nevada
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nevada ( , nə-VAD-ə; Spanish: [ne.ˈβa.ða] ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It is also sometimes placed in the Mountain West and Southwestern United States. It borders Idaho to the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Nevada" is a song by American rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again. It was released on July 7, 2021, as the third single from his third studio album Sincerely, Kentrell. The song was produced by TnTXD a…
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Claim 5: “An airline has started charging to use the overhead lockers”
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The claim appears in a cross-reference from Flipboard, but the accompanying web search results are dictionary definitions for the word 'least' and provide no corroborating evidence from other news organizations or official airline statements.
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web search NEUTRAL — LEAST definition: smallest in size, amount, degree, etc.; slightest. See examples of least used in a sentence.
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · The meaning of LEAST is lowest in importance or position. How to use least in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/least
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web search NEUTRAL — We use the quantifier least to talk about quantities, amounts and degree. (The) least is the superlative form of little. …
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/least
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