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
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media – Melissa Tate: “100 Sailors at sea. All vaxxed. All with COVID (seven) weeks following deployment.”
Politifact rating: Mostly True (numbers are accurate) MBFC rating: True (Politifact adds additional information that is not necessary to fact check the claim – She said it and it was accurate, end of fact check.) Facebook post omits context about COVID outbreak aboard British naval ships |
| FALSE | Claim by Joe Biden (D): President Joe Biden claimed that the U.S. does not have troops in Syria. Newsweek rating: False (U.S. continues to maintain about 900 troops in Syria) Fact check: Does the U.S. have no troops in Syria, as Joe Biden claims? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden intentionally “let it fall apart” in Afghanistan because he “wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (More conspiracy nonsense from Kirk) Charlie Kirk baselessly claims Biden intentionally let Afghanistan fall to alter US population |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Image: Fox News Reported that former President Donald Trump will return to office Aug. 22. Check Your Fact rating: False (Fox was mocking conspiracy theorists) FACT CHECK: Did Fox News Report Donald Trump Will Be Reinstated As President In August? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: 229 Christian missionaries have been sentenced to death tomorrow afternoon by the Afghan Islamists
Lead Stories rating: False (Recycled Hoax) Fact Check: Prayer Request For 229 Christian Missionaries Is NOT Based On A Verified Current Event |
| FALSE | (International: United Kingdom): Claim by The Conservative Woman: The current Covid vaccines are obsolete as they do not cover the new variants.
Full Fact rating: False. (All the vaccines mentioned have shown efficacy against the main Covid-19 variants, albeit to varying degrees.) Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work – Full Fact |
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