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 Facebook posts: “U.S. hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths, leaked documents reveal.” PolitiFact rating: False ‘Leaked documents’ don’t prove US hospitals preparing for 96 million coronavirus cases |
| Claim via Social Media: An image shared on Facebook claims former Vice President Joe Biden leaked the identities of special operations SEAL Team 6 who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Check Your Fact rating: False FACT CHECK: DID JOE BIDEN LEAK THE IDENTITIES OF SEAL TEAM 6? |
| Claim by Joe Biden: The World Health Organization “offered the [coronavirus] testing kits that they have available” but “we refused them.” FactCheck.org rating: False |
| Claim by TRUMP: “And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA has been so great. They — they’ve gone through the approval process. It’s been approved.”
AP Fact Check rating: False |
| The claim: Wisconsin is the only state where all Republicans voted against the coronavirus bill. USA Today Fact Check rating: True Fact check: Is Wisconsin the only state whose Republicans all opposed coronavirus bill? |
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Claim by Social Media users, YouTube videos: Video captures panic buying due to Coronavirus fears in Germany, shows large crowds outside a supermarket.
BOOM rating: False
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Claim by Multiple sources: UNHCR says refugees in Malaysia are resisting COVID-19 tests
AFP Fact Check rating: False
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Claim by WhatsApp users: Audio clip with man claiming ‘complete lockdown’ of India from April to June
Times of India rating: False
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