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
FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “Parents in Vail, Arizona just took over the school board — all according to the rules. Voted in a whole new board, and immediately removed the mask mandate.” Politifact rating: False (The school board in Vail, Ariz., was not ousted.) No, parents didn’t oust a school board in Vail, Arizona |
FALSE | Claim by the Wall Street Journal article: “‘Unsettled’ Review: The ‘Consensus’ On Climate”
Climate Feedback rating: Very Low Scientific Credibility |
MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Ron DeSantis (R): “If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Crime went up in the selected time periods, but there’s no proof that it happened as a direct result of budget cuts.)
|
FALSE | Claim via Social Media: COVID-19 vaccines cause menstrual problems in women; vaccinated people are causing health problems in unvaccinated people around them
Health Feedback rating: Unsupported (Insufficient evidence) |
TRUE | Claim via Social Media: A video of former president Donald Trump shows him complaining about 2020 election results from Mar-a-Lago in April 2021.
Snopes.com rating: True Is This an April 2021 Video of Trump Complaining About 2020 Election Results? |
FALSE | (International: New Zealand) New Zealand’s government requests censorship of social media comments on Radio New Zealand’s pages
AFP Fact Check rating: False New Zealand did not tell broadcaster to ‘censor’ anti-government comments on its social media |
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.
or
Left vs. Right Bias: How we rate the bias of media sources
Be the first to comment on "The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 5/6/2021"