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: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome “is absolutely a side effect of vaccination.”
Polititfact rating: False (the opposite – studies show that receiving recommended immunizations can lower an infant’s risk of SIDS.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: “In a now deleted Telegram post, former President Trump congratulated the Navy Seals on a ‘perfect beautiful whack’” in Haiti.
Politifact rating: False Donald Trump did not congratulate Navy SEALs on Haiti assassination |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Florida condo collapse from explosives is Another 9/11
Lead Stories rating: False |
| TRUE | Claim: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter are the longest-married couple among all the presidents in U.S. history.
Snopes.com rating: True Are Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter the Longest-Married Couple in Presidential History? |
| FALSE | Claim by Tucker Carlson: “In Texas, the power companies have automatically raised the temperature of people’s thermostats in the middle of a heatwave without their permission.”
Politifact rating: False Tucker Carlson distorts Texas’ smart thermostat energy conservation programs |
| FALSE | (International: Uganda): Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was “airlifted to Germany” after contracting COVID-19
Check Your Fact rating: False FACT CHECK: Was Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ‘Airlifted To Germany’? |
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