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 JB Pritzker (D): “You can’t actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits.
Politifact rating: False (States can use money from the American Rescue Plan Act to restore their unemployment funds to pre-pandemic levels.) States can use ARPA money to replenish unemployment funds, contrary to Pritzker’s claim |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: The Arizona election audit has found 275,000 potentially fraudulent votes in one county
USA Today rating: False Fact check: Arizona audit hasn’t found 275,000 fraudulent votes |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: The non-vaccinated don’t get tested, so the increase in COVID-19 cases is made up or due to the vaccinated
Health Feedback rating: Inaccurate In the US new COVID-19 cases are concentrated in areas with low vaccination rate |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Image: claims PayDay candy bars is changing its name because the current name is “offensive to those who don’t work.”
Check Your Fact rating: False |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: A table shows “the PLANNED COVID-19 VARIANTS” and “when they will be ‘released’ to the media.”
FactCheck.org rating: False |
| FALSE | (International: France): A photo shared on social media shows a huge crowd in Paris protesting France’s COVID-19 countermeasures on July 24, 2021.
Australian Associated Press rating: False |
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