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
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Anthony Fauci’s wife has “a secret plan to put psych drugs in drinking water” to get people vaccinated.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire A professor’s ideas are wrongly recast as a nefarious federal plot |
| FALSE | Claim by Lauren Boebert (R): Texas has reported no COVID deaths since March 2
The Dispatch Fact Check rating: False (wrong by 3,650 deaths) Is It True That Texas Has Reported No COVID Deaths Since Lifting Pandemic Restrictions? |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Joe Biden (D): “We used to invest more in research and development than any country in the world and China was … number nine. We now are number eight and China is number one.”
FactCheck.org rating: Mostly False (We are still #8, but China is not #1, they rank 9th) China Closes Gap with U.S. on R&D Investments, But Hasn’t Caught Up |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Moderna vaccine has poisonous SM-102 chemical in it
USA Today rating: False |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Arizona ballots were shredded and burned in a chicken farm fire.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire Fowl play? Social media users falsely claim Arizona ballots were destroyed in chicken farm fire |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): Manny Pacquiao has been removed by President Rodrigo Duterte from PDP-Laban
VERA Files rating: False |
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