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: “Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip were found guilty in the disappearance of 10 native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (The alleged arrest warrant originated from an unrecognized court and conspiracy website.) Queen Elizabeth did not kidnap 10 children from a Canadian school |
| FALSE | Claim by Joe Biden (D): Vaccinated people won’t get Covid-19.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (Vaccinated people can get Covid-19; however, symptoms are much less and rarely deadly) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral image: “Arizona and Georgia now have the proof,” Joe Biden is “not our elected president!”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (crackpot conspiracy theories) Proof has not emerged to change Joe Biden’s election or his wins in Ariz., Ga. |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): In Maricopa County, Arizona, “all the access logs to the machines were wiped, and the election server was hacked during the [2020] election.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (No Evidence) |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Joe Biden (D): “Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (Biden is citing a figure that has been offered publicly on at least two occasions by the director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. ) Fact-checking Joe Biden’s figure on unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths |
| FALSE | (International: Thailand): A “vaxxed” or vaccinated Thai vlogger died
VERA Files rating: False VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video FALSELY claims Thai livestreamer died from vaccine – Vera Files |
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