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 by Viral image: Photo shows Tom Hanks after “wife Rita exposed his condition after he was spotted in a bad state. Tom will spend the remainder of his life in and out of hospitals.”
PolitiFact rating: False (From a movie set) Photos show Tom Hanks in a movie, not after a health diagnosis |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Johnson & Johnson vaccine not effective in older adults
USA Today rating: False Fact check: False claim about effectiveness of J&J COVID-19 vaccine |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: 86% of children in Pfizer trial reported adverse reactions
Lead Stories rating: False |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Former U.S. President Donald Trump wore his pants backwards during the June 2021 North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greenville, North Carolina.
Snopes.com rating: False |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: President Joe Biden wants to extend high school by four years
USA Today rating: False Fact check: Biden plan wouldn’t add four years to high school |
| BLATANT LIE |
(International: India): Photo shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting Nita Ambani
BOOM Live rating: False |
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.
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