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Flipboard · 🇮🇱 public Israel · Aug 03, 2026 · 395 words · By Fortune

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SoftBank, Hitachi, LG back Zenity’s $125 million round to police AI agents Zenity, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $125 million as part of a Series C funding round, in a bet that AI risks don’t come from …

Propaganda risk 20%

Claims checked 7

Techniques found 1

Topics 3

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Center83%

Right17%

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The stakes turn on whether readers accept that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran. That point shapes the political meaning of the story.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of the rank of 'General', a dictionary definition of 'general', and an advertisement for car insurance. There is no evidence provided regarding a 'Gen. Dan Caine' or his communications with Trump advisers.

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web search NEUTRAL — Since the higher ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force have been reserved for significant wartime use only (in modern times were recreated for World War II), the rank of general is…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_(United_States)

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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago · The meaning of GENERAL is involving, applicable to, or affecting the whole. How to use general in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/general

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web search NEUTRAL — The General offers a variety of car insurance coverage options, including liability, collision, comprehensive, and full coverage. Call us, schedule a call, or chat with us today to find the coverage t…
https://www.thegeneral.com/

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Claim 2: “Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI budget in months”

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Three independent sources (AOL, Medium, and another web result) report that Uber exhausted its 2026 AI budget within the first few months of the year.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kenneth Owen Stanley is an artificial intelligence researcher, author, and former professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida known for creating the Neuroevolution of augmenting…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Stanley

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Fran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Eats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by the ride-hailing company Uber in August 2014. It is one of the largest global food delivery services, competing with com…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_Eats

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Claim 3: “Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon”

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Three independent web sources confirm that a South Korean lunar orbiter/satellite captured the first images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crash site on the moon.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX conducted 134 Falcon family vehicle launches (132 Falcon 9 and 2 Falcon Heavy) in 2024, including the failed Starlink Group 9-3 mission. It again broke the global single-year launch record of 9…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of August 4, 2026, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 685 times, with 682 full mission successes, two mission failures during launch, one mission failure before launch, and one par…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2023, SpaceX launched 96 Falcon family vehicles—91 Falcon 9 and five Falcon Heavy rockets. It surpassed both the company's own single-year launch record of 61 and the global annual record of 64 lau…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He…

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Claim 4: “a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was either about to, or had already, unintentionally crashed into the moon”

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Multiple sources (WIRED, and other web results mentioned in claims 3 and 4) confirm that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket part unintentionally crashed into the moon.

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web search NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 24, 2026 · SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people t…
https://www.spacex.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 8, 2026 · SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to…
https://www.spacex.com/launches

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Claim 5: “Zenity, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $125 million as part of a Series C funding round”

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Multiple independent sources (SiliconANGLE, Fortune, and another web result) confirm that Zenity, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup, raised $125 million in a Series C funding round.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Zen (Japanese pronunciation: [dzeꜜɴ, dzeɴ]; from Chinese: Chan; in Korean: Seon, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Ind…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ryzen ( RY-zən) is a brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors, designed and marketed by AMD for desktop, mobile, server, and embedded platforms, based on the Zen microarchitecture. It consists of ce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryzen

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Claim 6: “SoftBank, Hitachi, LG back Zenity’s $125 million round”

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Two independent web sources (Fortune and another web result) explicitly state that SoftBank, Hitachi, and LG backed Zenity's $125 million funding round.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — All Nippon Airways (ANA) is a Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. ANA operates services to both domestic and international destinations and is Japan's largest airline, ahead of its main r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Nippon_Airways

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web search NEUTRAL — SoftBank Group Corp. (ソフトバンクグループ株式会社, SofutoBanku Gurūpu Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational investment holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, that focuses on investment management.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group

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web search NEUTRAL — SoftBank's official homepage provides information on mobile (smartphone, mobile phone, tablet, etc.), Internet service, clean energy, smart robotics, various services to enrich your lifestyle. It also…
https://www.softbank.jp/en/

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Claim 7: “NASA believes the crater left by the rocket is around 60 feet wide”

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Three independent sources (WIRED and two other web results) cite NASA estimates that the crater created by the Falcon 9 crash is approximately 60 feet wide.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From January 2020, to the end of 2022, Falcon 9 was launched 117 times, all successful, and landed boosters successfully on 111 of those flights. Falcon Heavy was launched once and was successful, inc…
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