The code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network IFCN at Poynter is a series of commitments organizations abide by to promote excellence in fact-checking. The following fact checks come from IFCN fact checkers. (D. Van Zandt)
| Claim by Elizabeth Warren: “Everyone on this stage except Amy (Klobuchar) and me is either a billionaire or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly True Elizabeth Warren largely right about rivals’ reliance on super PACs |
| Claim by Joe Biden: President Donald Trump has “yet once to condemn white supremacy, the neo-Nazis.”
FactCheck.org rating: False |
| Claim by Facebook posts: Says George Soros was an “SS in the National Socialist German Workers Party. Nazi Party.” PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire |
| Claim by Gavin McInnis: Is the left-wing, anti-fascist protest movement known as “Antifa” responsible for the deaths of at least 16 people?
Lead Stories rating: False |
| Claim by Andrew Saul: “The coronavirus pandemic can be dramatically slowed, or stopped completely, with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C.” FactCheck.org rating: False |
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Claim by President Ramaphosa: “There are currently almost one million students who are enrolled in higher education, up from 500,000 in 1994.”
Africa Check rating: Correct
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Claim by Various users of social media: BJP lost 36 seats with a margin of less than 2,000 votes in Delhi
BOOM FACT Check rating: False
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Claim by Multiple sources: This video shows an explosion in Wuhan in late January 2020
AFP Fact Check rating: False
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