The Latest Fact Checks from the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) 06/20/2020

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 Trump: President Trump tweeted a video on Thursday night bearing the CNN logo purporting to show CNN’s misleading coverage of a viral video of two toddlers of different races happily playing together: The Dispatch rating: False President Trump Tweets a Video Decrying ‘Fake News.’ The Video Itself Was Manipulated.
	Claim by Jeanette Kowalik: “Our health department, our city and our county declared racism as a public health crisis last year.” Politifact rating: True Milwaukee was among first to declare racism a public health crisis
	Claim by The Guardian: “Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows” Climate Feedback rating: Low Scientific Credibility Article in The Guardian misleads readers about sensitivity of climate models by narrowly focusing on single study
	Claim by Donald Trump: Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth. Politifact rating: Pants on Fire Donald Trump’s Pants on Fire claim that nobody had heard of Juneteenth
	Claim via Social Media: Posts shared on Facebook and Instagram claim that Derek Chauvin was “a registered Democrat, working for a Democrat police chief… in a Democrat controlled city, in a Democrat controlled state” and that he was “protected by a Democrat controlled union.” Reuters Fact Check rating: Mostly False Fact check: Derek Chauvin is not a registered Democrat, among other claims
	(International: Nigeria) Claim:“ Nigerian politician hospitalised after court removed his party’s chairman AFP Fact Check rating: False This is an old photo taken during a blood donation

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

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