Below, you can find a list of the the sixteen controversial issues used in this work. The issues were selected according to whether they are the object of a current controversy in the United States of America.

Besides the topics we give a description of the used issues in Table 1. Table 2 outlines example statements and the questions used for quality assurance during annotation.

The columns of both tables are used as references in the survey for generating assertions and the survey for judging assertions.