The Latest Fact Checks from the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) 05/08/2020

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 Joe Biden: “I did not” help to write a 2005 bankruptcy law, but worked to improve the bill because a Republican president was expected to sign it. FactCheck.org rating: Spins the Facts FactChecking the March Democratic Debate
	Claim via Social Media: An image shared on Facebook claims Democratic lawmakers attempted to put a provision banning the Pledge of Allegiance in one of the coronavirus relief bills. Check Your Fact rating: False FACT CHECK: DID DEMOCRATS TRY TO PUT A BAN ON THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE INTO A CORONAVIRUS RELIEF BILL?
	Claim by Donald Trump: The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s revised model projecting 134,000 COVID-19 deaths by August “assumes no mitigation.” FactCheck.org rating: False Trump Falsely Claims COVID-19 Death Projection Assumes ‘No Mitigation’
	Claim by the Lincoln Project: “Trump bailed out Wall Street, but not Main Street.” Politifact rating: False Lincoln Project’s “Mourning in America” ad critical of Trump misleads on bailouts
	Claim by Laura Ingraham: “There was no real scientific basis for believing that” social distancing would be necessary, “since it had never been studied.” Politifact rating: False Laura Ingraham wrong about ‘no real scientific basis’ for social distancing
	(International: Australia) Claim: A Facebook post is claiming “hidden” rules could allow workplaces and supermarkets to bar people who haven’t installed the Australian government’s COVIDSafe app on their phone. Australian Associated Press rating: False COVIDSafe app regulations say you can’t be barred from work or the shops for not downloading

Disclaimer: We are providing links to fact checks by the IFCN. If you do not agree with a fact check, please directly contact the source of that fact check.

Claim Codes: Red = Fact Check on a Right Claim, Blue = Fact Check on a Left Claim, Black = Not Political

---

Do you appreciate our work? Please consider one of the following ways to sustain us.

MBFC Ad-Free 

or

MBFC Donation

---

---

---

Left vs. Right Bias: How we rate the bias of media sources