The Latest Fact Checks from the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) 03/01/2020
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 Bernie Sanders: “30,000 Americans die each year because they can’t get to a doctor when they should.”
PolitiFact rating: Half True |
| Claim via Social Media: In 2018, 10,150 Americans were killed by illegal immigrants, while 194 Americans were killed in mass shootings.
Reuters rating: False |
| Claim by Facebook posts: Mitt Romney’s father “U.S. Senator George Romney, was a liberal Republican who had ties to Saul Alinsky, yes, the same dude who wrote the book, Rules For Radicals and dedicated to Satan.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False In an attack on Mitt Romney’s father, post exaggerates link to Saul Alinsky and Satan |
| Claim by the Daily Mail: “Breakthrough as scientists create a new cowpox-style virus that can kill EVERY type of cancer”
Science Feedback rating: Low Scientific Credibility |
| Claim by Committee to Defend the President: Suggests former President Barack Obama criticized his former vice president, Joe Biden, for lying to African American communities.
FactCheck.org rating: False |
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Claim by Multiple sources: This photo shows troops burying victims of a massacre in Cameroon on February 14, 2020
AFP Fact Check rating: False –
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Claim by Mwebantu Zambia: Zambia police station gassed in attack
AFP Fact Check rating: False
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Claim by Multiple sources: Detective Roman Musyoki probing corruption case in Kenya murdered
AFP Fact Check rating: False
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