The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 09/25/2020

Each day Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, we review each fact check for accuracy before publishing. (D. Van Zandt)

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

	Claim via Social Media: A clip of Joe Biden shows him reading a response to an interview question from a teleprompter, saying “I lost that line.” PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire No, Biden wasn’t reading pre-written response to question in Telemundo interview
	Claim by Viral Post: a “man in a van” wrapped a $100 bill and a red ribbon around the door handle of a woman’s parked car in an attempted sex trafficking abduction at Northgate Shopping Center in Revere, Massachusetts. Check Your Fact rating: False FACT CHECK: Are Women Being Targeted By Human Traffickers With $100 At A Massachusetts Shopping Mall?
	Claim by William Barr (R): “Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.” PolitiFact rating: False COVID-19 rules second only to slavery on civil liberties intrusions? Barr gets it wrong
	Claim by Rachel Maddow: achieving herd immunity would kill roughly 6.4 million Americans. Check Your Fact rating: False Fact-Checking Rachel Maddow’s Math On Potential COVID-19 Herd Immunity Deaths
	Claim by Li-Meng Yan: “[G]enetic evidence within the Spike gene of SARS-Cov-2 genome […] does exist and suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 genome should be a product of genetic manipulation”; “The characteristics and pathogenic effects of SARS-CoV-2 are unprecedented” Health Feedback rating: Incorrect The virus causing COVID-19 most likely evolved in natural wildlife populations before spreading to humans
	(International: Philippines) Claim: Philippine VP Robredo demands P4 trillion budget for 2021 AFP Fact Check rating: False False Facebook posts claim Philippine vice president demanded multi-billion dollar budget for her office in 2021

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

---

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