The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 11/06/2020 – Election Conspiracies Edition

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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/Other

	Claim by Eric Trump: A person is on film “burning 80 Trump ballots.” Politifact rating: False Eric Trump retweets video falsely claiming man burned 80 Trump ballots
	Claim via Social Media: If Joe Biden wins the election are there people planning on mass murdering POC and LGBTQ+ people? Lead Stories rating: False Fact Check: There Is NO Proof People Are Planning On Mass Murder Of POC And LGBTQ+ People If Biden Wins
	Claim by Social media posts: “Voter Fraud in Michigan – Massive Dump of Over 200,000 Ballots for Biden All the Sudden Appear Overnight.” FactCheck.org rating: False Clerical Error Prompts Unfounded Claims About Michigan Results
	Claim via Social Media: Arizona poll workers passed out Sharpie pens to voters to prevent their votes from registering The Dispatch Fact Check rating: False Did Arizona Poll Workers Give Out Sharpies To Prevent Votes From Being Registered?
	Claim via Social Media: “Now that it’s even, Nevada decides to stop counting and is now not going to count anything until TOMORROW! What?!” PolitiFact rating: False No, Nevada did not stop counting ballots
	Claim by Donald Trump (R): “Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!… The Washington Post rating: False Analysis | Bogus ‘vote fraud’ claims proliferate on social media
	Claim by Sean Hannity: “NOT A JOKE: Ilhan Omar Tells Residents ‘You Don’t Have to be Registered to Vote’ in Minnesota.” PolitiFact rating: False Sean Hannity falsely suggests Ilhan Omar encouraged voter fraud. She didn’t Hannity.com rating
	Claim by 100percentfedup: An image shows “what appears to be an official ballot box being taken away from a polling location by an unidentified civilian.” PolitiFact rating: False Fact-checking a misleading photo caption about a Philadelphia ballot box 100PercentFedUp Rating

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