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There is a straightforward but nuanced answer: yes—paid protesters exist in specific, documented cases and commercial services sometimes organize compensated participants—but sweeping claims that most...
Claims that protesters are paid are real and documented in some cases — companies that hire people for staged crowds exist and former participants have described being paid to attend events . However,...
Paid agitators — people who are paid to join, lead, or inflame demonstrations — exist as a real phenomenon in some places and historical moments, but the prevalence, organization, and impact of paid a...
The gruesome anecdote that Joseph Stalin plucked a live chicken to demonstrate how easily people can be controlled most likely did not occur as a literal event; it first surfaces decades after Stalin’...
The question cannot be answered with a single precise number because "Caucasian" has multiple historical and modern meanings and no authoritative, internationally consistent statistics for 2025 label ...
Multiple recent claims assert that rioters or protesters are being paid; evidence shows in the Philippines’ Sept. 21 Mendiola unrest, while U.S. and international protest funding claims are mixed, oft...
Attempting to bribe a teacher to avoid detention or improve grades is both widely reported as a real phenomenon and treated as misconduct by schools and, in some contexts, by law; anti-corruption repo...
Scientific surveys and narrative reviews identify several types of honey—most notably —as candidates that may support brain health via antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and neuroprotective mechanisms. E...
Modern ethnic Turks trace their deep linguistic and cultural roots to Turkic-speaking peoples of Central and East Asia who expanded westward across the Eurasian steppe, while the core genetic and demo...
Yes — protesters can be paid without automatically compromising the legitimacy of their cause, but legitimacy is fragile and determined as much by perception, transparency and scale as by who signs th...
Most reputable sources agree European bison (Bison bonasus) have recovered from extinction in the wild to number in the thousands, but exact totals vary widely by definition: some counts report roughl...
Fifteen independent countries emerged from the Soviet Union when it dissolved in 1991: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajik...