The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 7/05/2021

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 beforeitsnews.com: COVID-19 PCR Tests Do Not Detect The Virus Lead Stories rating: False Fact Check: Announcement By Reiner Fuellmich Does NOT Prove COVID-19 PCR Tests Do Not Detect The Virus Before It’s News Rating
MOSTLY FALSE	Claim by Peter Feigin: Says people are moving to Milwaukee “in record numbers” PolitiFact rating: Mostly False Yes, Milwaukee saw population growth during the pandemic. But hard to tell if it’s ‘record numbers’
NO EVIDENCE	Claim via Social Media: “5 commercial pilots in India just died after being vaxxed in May.” FactCheck.org rating: Unsupported Unsubstantiated Claims Follow Deaths of British and Indian Airline Pilots
FALSE	Claim: A photograph shows former boxer Mike Tyson wearing a shirt that says “I believe in God, not in vaccines.” Snopes.com rating: False Mike Tyson’s Anti-Vaccine Shirt Photo Is Fake
MOSTLY FALSE	Claim by Conservative Commentator Liz Wheeler: A “peer reviewed, scientific study showed that the COVID-19 vaccine causes two deaths for every three lives it saves.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Four days after publishing the study, the journal that published it posted a notice raising serious questions about the study.) Journal discredits study it published claiming a COVID-19 vaccine causes deaths
FALSE	(International: Israel): Israel started 10G testing in Gaza FACTLY rating: False No, Israel did not start 10G testing in Gaza

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