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: Says Ivanka Trump was targeted in the Florida condominium building collapse.
PolitiFact rating: False No cause yet for condo collapse near Miami, no evidence Ivanka Trump targeted |
| FALSE | Claim by Real America’s voice: Stacey Abrams Owns 16% Of A Firm That Counted Votes In Fulton County, Georgia
Lead Stories rating: False Fact Check: Stacey Abrams Does NOT Own 16% Of A Firm That Counted Votes In Fulton County, Georgia
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| FALSE | Claim by Joe Biden (D): “The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
PolitiFact rating: False Joe Biden gets history wrong on the Second Amendment limiting gun ownership |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Image: Laurel Hubbard suffered a “testicle injury” that prevents her from competing in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics
Check Your Fact rating: False |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Hal Turner Show: Says the U.S. government caused the coronavirus pandemic because it sent mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates to university researchers weeks before the COVID-19 outbreak.
PolitiFact rating: False Scientists developing mRNA vaccines before outbreak isn’t evidence COVID-19 pandemic was created |
| TRUE | (International: Japan): BLM apparel and other political expression are banned at the Olympics
USA Today rating: True Fact check: Olympic athletes barred from staging protests at Tokyo Games |
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