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
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Viral image: The federal infrastructure bill includes “a pilot program for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee, which is basically a long-term plan to make it too expensive to drive a car.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (The infrastructure bill includes a provision for a pilot program to test the use of a fee that would charge motorists based on the number of miles they drive. Enacting such a fee would require separate legislation.) Per-mile fee would be tested, but no proof plan is aimed at making cars obsolete |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Masks don’t work; prisoners were released instead of being given masks
Health Feedback rating: Inaccurate (Masks are effective – Prisoners were released because conditions in U.S. jails and prisons, where physical distancing is virtually impossible, promote the spread of COVID-19.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: CDC test adds influenza cases to COVID-19 tally
USA Today rating: False Fact check: CDC test doesn’t conflate COVID-19 virus with influenza |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: There’s more evidence of UFOs being real than the COVID-19 vaccine being healthy for you
USA Today rating: False Fact check: Chet Hanks video makes false claim about vaccine safety, UFOs |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Military Times shows vaccine recipients had an astronomical amount of heart disease.
Lead Stories rating: False (Fake screenshot – Military Times is a credible low biased source.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
(International: India): Modi govt has rescued 800 people from Kabul by IAC C-17 aircraft
Alt News rating: False Photo from 2013 viral as Modi govt rescues 800 Indians by IAF C-17 aircraft |
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